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Theatricality and performativity : writings on texture from Plato's cave to urban activism
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ISBN: 9783319732251 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book defines theatricality and performativity through metaphors of texture and weaving, drawn mainly from anthropologist Tim Ingold and philosopher Stephen C.

Plato's Dreams Realized : Surveillance and Citizen Rights, from KGB to FBI
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ISBN: 9786611398156 1281398152 0875864961 9780875864969 9780875864945 9780875864952 9780875865300 9780875865324 0875865321 1281398160 9781281398161 9786611398163 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : Algora Publishing,

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Surveillance of private citizens is increasing in the US and abroad. This book explores the frontiers of legal theory within the United States with regards to modern surveillance and its effects on human rights. Alexander Avakov briefly shares his personal experiences, first in the Soviet Union with the KGB and then with the American national security state, outlines various ways in which surveillance of citizens is increasing, then examines the bases of our expectations of liberty, from Plato to the US Constitution. America, he shows, declared high-minded legal ideals but has consistently che

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