As a result of the agreement signed in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944, the US dollar became a reserve currency, because, in layperson’s terms, gold was difficult and dangerous to store. Since then, the US dollar has been a standard around the world.
Acceleration is a physical term, the word that translates from Latin roughly as "speeding up". Accelerationism is the idea in political and social theory that capitalism, or some processes associated with it, and technological change should be "accelerated" and drastically intensified to create radical social change.
The 1940s and 1950s are the time when the film noir (“dark film”) genre took flight in American cinema. There was a lot in the backdrop of those films: the Great Depression of the 1930s, World War II, the turbulent, anxious, unreliable, treacherous atmosphere of the Cold War, German expressionism, social problems, gangster films, the traumatized psyche of men returning from the war, Auschwitz, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the changing traditional role of women in society…
If we don’t start to unravel where this expanding global anti-intellectual, anti-scientific rhetoric comes from, we may find ourselves in a very difficult situation in a time when the world
Today, radio has been replaced by social media, and in an age of open sources, there is a need for patient, hard-thinking people who can do serious research to get rid of jeers and giggles. There is a need for more than just biting retorts and well-thought-out remarks: someone must seriously analyze the posts and speeches of agitators and populists.
To get into T.S. Eliot's poetics, we first need to take a quick look at the representatives of the New Criticism regarded as one of the main movements in the twentieth-century American literary criticism, the philosophical and aesthetic systems on which they based their views, Francis Herbert Bradley’s idealist philosophy, and some thoughts of the French symbolists Jules Laforgue and Stéphane Mallarmé.