In the late 1940s & early 1950s, economic historian Harold Innis (1894-1952), Canada's preeminent scholar of the 20th century, helped inaugurate media studies (a field now under media imperialism), yet his work remains obscure...
jämförelse mellan Chile 1974 och Usa 2011: "Suppose that al Qaeda had not just blown up the World Trade Center, but suppose that they’d bombed the White House, killed the president, established a military dictatorship, killed maybe fifty to a hundred thou
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical. It was used to show inadequacy of the then-popular probabilistic models of gramma
»Die üble Geißel des Terrorismus«: Realität, Konstruktion, Abhilfe. Vortrag von Noam Chomsky anläßlich der Verleihung des Erich-Fromm-Preises 2010 (Teil I).
Noam Chomsky is perhaps the United States’ best-known anarchist. There’s a certain irony to this, however; for just as St. Augustine once prayed, “Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet,” Chomsky’s aim is in effect anarchy, but not yet. Chomsky’s reason for the “not yet” is that a powerful central government is currently necessary as a bulwark against the power of the corporate elite; thus it will not be safe to abolish or even scale b