Utopian Literature and Science by Patrick Parrinder is an elaborate addition to the discussion about the connection between science and utopianism. It traces the complex relationship between the two from Bacon's New Atlantis to twentieth-century utopian science fiction. The book argues that in classical utopias, science is either unnecessary or precarious and, thus, usually censored and controlled. In modern utopias, however, the connection between the two is complex. While science is essential to the formation of any modern utopia, its presence (...) within this form of utopia remains unsettling and illustrates utopian contradictions, imperfections, and undesirability. The book proves this argument by pointing out the... (shrink)

This study examines the criticisms of the religious radical thought that emerged in the Islamic world after the sixties as an anomaly of the mainstream Islamism and the Islamic movement, directed against mainstream Islamism and Islamists, especially the Ikhwan-i Muslimin. The fact that both schools of thought react to the problems concerning the Islamic world and Muslim society with theo-political sensitivity, causes these two schools to be included in the same category under the definition of "political Islam" from time to (...) time. The main objective of this article is to try to demonstrate that both schools are in complete opposition on many issues through the criticisms of the jihadi salafi ideologues like Omar Abdurrahman, Ayman al-Zavahiri, Abu Muhammed al-Makdîsî, Abu Musab al-Surî and Abu Yahya al-Libi against mainstream Islamists by examining the primary texts of religious radicalism. In this study, these criticisms are examined under three main headings: "In the Context of the Relationship between Religion and Politics", "In the Context of the Relationship between Religion and Law" and "In the Context of the Problem of Islamization Method and the Relationship with the Other". (shrink)

Depuis une dizaine d'années, l'organisation professionnelle International Press Telecommunications Council élaborent des taxinomies destinées à permettre la classification des nouvelles, avec des dispositifs appropriés de métadonnées, que peuvent reconnaître aussi bien les ordinateurs que «les agents humains», à savoir les journalistes. Une étude de cas, la couverture de la mort d'Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, en Irak, en 2006, exemplifie certaines des questions ainsi explorées.For ten years, the professional organization International Press Telecommunications Council develop taxonomies to enable the classification of new (...) devices with appropriate metadata that can recognize both the computers that "human agents", ie journalists. A case study, the coverage of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq in 2006 and exemplifies some of the issues explored. (shrink)