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Exploring Utilitarian Myths and Power Discourse in Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Metropolis is a science-fiction and silent film written by Thea von Harbou and directed by Fritz Lang. Originally premiered in 1927, the film footage remained missing for many years until its discovery and reassembly in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2008. The restored version portrays the tumultuous fate of Freder, the son of the all-powerful businessman Fredersen, within a highly industrialized city. The film mainly deals, in a dystopian manner, with the devastating mechanisms of highly utilitarian societies and sheds light on the challenges posed by a largely rationalized, fascist regime in a pre-World War II context. Fritz Lang's Metropolis delves into a ''semiotics of 'Loss'' (Grayson/Scheurer 2021: 43) featuring transhumanist aspects, which are constitutive parts of an illusionary teleology of total control over human nature. All these narrative elements articulate simultaneously the critical discourse of the Austrian film director. They vividly highlight totalitarian ideologies in a visionary and allegorical manner, exposing their control and power mechanisms (cf. Foucault 1966/2005: 414), which constitute the main subject of the present article. The aim is to deconstruct utilitarian myths as ideology (cf. Rosen 2003: 42) and discourse of power as well.
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مستقبل القوة
يعرض هذا العدد لثلاث مقالات مختارة نشرت في بعض الدوريات العالمية، تبحث جميعها في مستقبل القوة والقيادة الأمريكية للعالم. في المقالة الأولى، بعنوان (مستقبل القوة الأمريكية)، يرى جوزيف ناي أن القوة في يومنا هذا موزعة بنمط يشبه لعبة شطرنج معقدة ثلاثية الأبعاد ؛ فعلى رقعة الشطرنج العليا، نجد القوة العسكرية الأحادية القطب إلى حد كبير، ومن المحتمل أن تحتفظ الولايات المتحدة بتفوقها بعض الوقت، أما على رقعة الشطرنج الوسطى، فقد ظلت القوة الاقتصادية المتعددة الأقطاب أكثر من عقد، واللاعبون الرئيسيون، هم : الولايات المتحدة وأوروبا واليابان والصين، إلى جانب آخرين لهم أهمية آخذة في التزايد، وأما رقعة الشطرنج السفلى، فهي مجال العلاقات العابرة للحدود الوطنية، وتشمل أطرافا فاعلين ليسوا دولا؛ كالمصرفيين الذين يحولون الأموال إلكترونيا، والإرهابيين الذين يتاجرون في الأسلحة، والقراصنة الذين يهددون الأمن الإلكتروني، والتحديات التي هي ؛ من قبيل : الأوبئة وتغير المناخ. وعلى هذه الرقعة السفلى، نجد القوة منتشرة على نطاق واسع، بحيث يغدو من غير المعقول التحدث عن الأحادية القطبية أو تعدد القطبية أو السيطرة.
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The Role of Diseases and Epidemics in Political, Economic, and Social Transformations in 19th. Century Morocco
This study focuses on a theme that belongs to history but relies considerably on the tools of sociology in general and the sociology of demography in particular. Indeed, diseases and epidemics in Morocco in the 19th century significantly affected the social aspects and, as a result, caused considerable demographic haemorrhages and tribal migrations. It also placed the power in place in the face of challenges that threatened its symbolic, religious and political status, and as a result, the economic field underwent several transformations. In other words, Morocco found itself faced with a natural force and a turbulent and tense internal situation, so the sultans of Morocco were forced to intervene to restore stability in the light of a fragile social situation and the emergence of opposition movements stemming from tribes and brotherhoods (Zawaya), in which loyalties change according to circumstances and contexts. The study of diseases and epidemics in Morocco in the 19th century will help us to understand the state of social, economic, and political formation and to follow and understand its transformations. Therefore, the object of our work calls for a socio-historical approach making it possible to follow the transformations, understand their nature, and trace trajectories. It will also help to understand what Morocco experienced at the beginning of the 20th century regarding disintegration and imperial penetration, which paved the way for the imposition of protection and its inclusion in later colonized countries.
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The Course of the Real Estate Tax Dispute and its Procedures in Algerian Legislation
The tax legislator has approved a way for the taxpayer to resort to whenever he feels that his rights have been lost, whenever it becomes clear to him that the tax is considered illegal or deviates from the law. It is binding the taxpayer to go through a mandatory procedure that is bypassed in other administrative disputes, which is a condition for filing a prior administrative grievance with the competent tax administration, which gives this administration the possibility of settling it administratively and amicably before bringing the case before the judicial authorities. This stage is known as the administrative settlement, followed by another stage in which when the complaint becomes useless and results in rejection, the complainant resorts to the administrative judiciary. of the taxpayer's requests, and it is called the judicial settlement.
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التفويض والحلول والإنابة في مباشرة الاختصاصات : دراسة مقارنة : مصر-الإمارات-الكويت
يتناول كتاب (التفويض والحلول والإنابة في مباشرة الإختصاصات : دراسة مقارنة : مصر-الإمارات-الكويت) والذي قام بتأليفه (عليوة فتح الباب) في حوالي (273) صفحة من القطع المتوسط موضوع (التفويض) مستعرضا المحتويات التالية : الفصل الأول : التفويض في مباشرة الاختصاصات، التفويض في مباشرة الاختصاصات، المبادئ العامة للتفويض، الفصل الثالث : الإنابة في مباشر الاختصاصات، المبادئ العامة في الإنابة.
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Power Transition Theory Along Ethnic Lines
Objective: Through the lens of power transition theory, this research internationalizes critical race theory to help determine the extent states are either satisfied or dissatisfied on Organski's power-based hierarchy regarding the international political order. Methods: After highlighting the theoretical scotoma in terms of factoring in ethnicity as an explanatory variable in the study of international politics, we examined with empirical analysis dyadic trends in UN voting behavior from 1946 to 2021 using the Stata statistical program. The voting behavior is used as a proxy for state satisfaction along ethnic lines vis-à-vis the dominant state. In addition to the quantitative methodology, we also included two case studies of Japan and South Africa. The studies showed how ethnicity influenced transition between the satisfied and dissatisfied camps on the international power based hierarchy in the recent past. Results: Results indicated that ethnic background was an important correlate of satisfaction and dissatisfaction on the international powerbased hierarchy.
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