Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe keyword-thermodynamics By turns a memoir

By turns a memoir

rather than as something encouraged and perpetuated by elites

computer games and cyberspace—Stallabrass works out to wider aspects of the culture which affect everybody

to stop them ‘getting under our feet’

the development of spectacle—architecture and the rise of global cities

Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe keyword-thermodynamics By turns a memoirShortly after the hostilities of the Iraq War were declared to have come to an end, the renowned philosopher Jurgen Habermas, with the endorsement of Jacques Derrida, published a manifesto invoking the notion of a core Europe, distinct from both the British and the new European candidates for EU membership, and defined above all by its secular, Enlightenment and social democratic traditions. A key component of the manifesto was its insistence on the