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In NLR 44, March-April 2007
Cihan Tugal analyses the paradoxes of Islamism in Turkey, arguing that
Erdogan’s AKP has been the agent of a classic passive revolution—an instance
of ‘Americanization with Muslim characteristics’ on NATO’s eastern rim.
Russia redux?
Vladimir Popov provides a balance-sheet of Russia’s post-Soviet fortunes,
placing the devastating collapse of the 1990s and recent revival under Putin
in comparative context.
Responding to Popov, Tony Wood examines the geographical and social
distribution of Russia’s recent economic growth and asks, whom will Putin’s
‘stabilization’ benefit?
Also in NLR 44:
Forrest Hylton on the makeover of Medellín—transformed from murder capital
to corporate boom town in the space of a decade.
Peter Wollen traces the dialectic of the gaze from Hegel to Hitchcock;
vision and voyeurism in psychoanalysis, philosophy and cinema.
Sven Lütticken finds antecedents for the contemporary image wars in Judaic
and Protestant bans on idolatry.
Stephen Graham surveys the emerging network of US military training
facilities—slum simulacra designed to replicate the alleyways of the global
South.
Book Reviews:
* Henry Zhao on Jean-François Billeter, Contre François Jullien.
France’s celebrity popularizer of Chinese philosophy assailed for his
political occlusions.
* Barry Schwabsky on Kirk Varnedoe, Pictures of Nothing. Valedictory
Stateside view of abstract art from MoMA’s former chief curator.
* Christopher Brooke on Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler, eds, The
Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. Enlightenment
thinking in France, Germany, England, Scotland and America, as seen by the
heirs of Pocock and Skinner.
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