Quantum of Solace, the latest chapter in the redefined 007 series, is jam-packed with curiosities.  Yet one motif sticks out among them: the scrambled message concerning environmentalism and what it means to be involved in a ‘green’ economy.
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All too often the blank is ignored. Perhaps from disinterest or boredom, maybe from the legitimate claim that such things have no substance, the blank has been subjugated by the sweeping authority of facts, symbols, and straightforward representations. In short, the blank is slave to the dominion of stuff, the dominion of things.

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Democracy in many ways is a loaded term, an ambiguous word with multifarious interpretations. But in all its incarnations and formulations there is a specific commonality that can, perhaps, best define what we mean – that democracy is nothing more than the activation of individual political beings in place of political subjects. (more…)