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Edward Curtin: Nostalgic for the future

By Severine Renard on February 14, 2022 Civilisation and philosophy, CULTURE, Essays - broadly, Ethics and values, Future world - imagination/real, PEACE, World future

Edward Curtin February 11, 2022 Despite its pedigree as a fundamental element in civilization’s greatest stories, nostalgia has come to be associated with treacly sentimentality, defeatism, and spurious spiritual inclinations. Homer, Vergil, Dante, the Biblical writers, and their ilk would demur, of course, but they have been dead for a few years, so progress’s mantra […]

A conversation at the edge of the human future

By Severine Renard on October 16, 2020 Conflict - violence and war, Development worldwide, Future world - imagination/real, Middle East conflict formation, Nuclear dangers, Richard Falk, Security, TFF BLOG, TFF global posts 2020, Thinking, Violence prevention & early warning, World future, WORLD ORDER - FUTURES

Richard FalkTFF Associate October 16, 2020 Introduction Below is a long interview from Konrad Stachnio with Richard Falk – TFF Associate – on a wide-ranging set of questions, which stretched by knowledge past its breaking point, especially in assessing where the technological innovations on the horizons will lead us. It is one of 17 conversations […]