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2026-05-17 11:20 UTC
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us although hardly an original thought on my behalf, I think Gramsci describes the phenomenon well* in one of his letters from prison under the Italian Fascist government:
"When the old world is dead, the new world slow to be born. And in the contrast of light and dark monsters are born".
My albeit poor translation.
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@wnd@fosstodon.org 2026-05-17 11:27
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us (Original text: “Il vecchio mondo sta morendo, quello nuovo tarda a comparire. E in questo chiaroscuro* nascono i mostri.” * chiaroscuro is a technique that highlights dark and light. A British example is the work of Joseph Wright of Derby. For example "A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery". 2/n
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us 2026-05-17 12:39
@wnd@fosstodon.org I've always liked a bit of Gramsci, and back in my academic career I was often lumped in with (not necessarily to my liking) with the Neo-Gramscians, a group of International Relations & International Political Economy scholars who focussed on the political realm ion ideas (as I did myself)