The frontier of "the exotic": a reflection on its meaning in society and art.teporce
The concepto of "the exotic" has an anthropological history: it is mainly a way of seeing the world, and might turn into a base for prejudice or wonder.
Interesting biographies related with Prehistory in the Iberian Peninsulasalvafuentes8
In this presentation, I explain the most interesting things about Habis, Gargoris, Arganthonios and Hamilcar Barca, four importante characters of Prehistory in the Iberian Peninsula.
Nation-state, nationalism, instruments of capitalism (1ª part)GRAZIA TANTA
Capitalism, to consolidate itself, created the nation-state, endowed it with tentacle and repressive state apparatus and a discriminatory ideology when not racist, the nationalism. As a process, capitalism has globalized, without losing the use of its instruments of accumulation and social management; even with the preponderance of the financial system as the main element of capital creation (fictitious), capitalism is the responsible for climate aggression. And there is no solution for the planet and humanity within capitalism and using its usual instruments - nation-state, state, nationalism, political classes.
Summary
1. How capitalism created the nation-state
2 - Nationalism as an instrument of ideological control
3 - To each nation a nation-state?
4. Capitalism magnifies the nation-state in its process of consolidation.
5 - The capitalist globalization reconfigures the role of the nation-state
5 .1 - Some segments taken from the domain of nation-states
6 - The State, local manager of the stratification of the Human beings
The frontier of "the exotic": a reflection on its meaning in society and art.teporce
The concepto of "the exotic" has an anthropological history: it is mainly a way of seeing the world, and might turn into a base for prejudice or wonder.
Interesting biographies related with Prehistory in the Iberian Peninsulasalvafuentes8
In this presentation, I explain the most interesting things about Habis, Gargoris, Arganthonios and Hamilcar Barca, four importante characters of Prehistory in the Iberian Peninsula.
Nation-state, nationalism, instruments of capitalism (1ª part)GRAZIA TANTA
Capitalism, to consolidate itself, created the nation-state, endowed it with tentacle and repressive state apparatus and a discriminatory ideology when not racist, the nationalism. As a process, capitalism has globalized, without losing the use of its instruments of accumulation and social management; even with the preponderance of the financial system as the main element of capital creation (fictitious), capitalism is the responsible for climate aggression. And there is no solution for the planet and humanity within capitalism and using its usual instruments - nation-state, state, nationalism, political classes.
Summary
1. How capitalism created the nation-state
2 - Nationalism as an instrument of ideological control
3 - To each nation a nation-state?
4. Capitalism magnifies the nation-state in its process of consolidation.
5 - The capitalist globalization reconfigures the role of the nation-state
5 .1 - Some segments taken from the domain of nation-states
6 - The State, local manager of the stratification of the Human beings
These are the slides from a talk "Analysis of mass SQL injection attacks" held at FSec 2012 conference (Croatia / Varazdin 21st September 2012) by Miroslav Stampar
These are the slides from a talk "DNS exfiltration using sqlmap" held at PHDays 2012 conference (Russia / Moscow 30th–31st May 2012) by Miroslav Stampar.
These are the slides from a talk "Spot the Web Vulnerability" held at Hacktivity 2012 conference (Hungary / Budapest 12th–13th October 2012) by Miroslav Stampar.
W7L3European Age of ExplorationA World Map from Alberto Cantin.docxmelbruce90096
W7L3
European Age of Exploration
A World Map from Alberto Cantino, 1502
When we last left Europe, the Islamic trading influences had sparked a revolution of ideas in Italy that began to spread across the cultural centers of European kingdoms. The Italian Renaissance slowly spread across Europe, bringing new innovations in technology, art, music, scientific understanding, mathematics, and medicine. In turn these ideas had sparked the Reformation. However, by the sixteenth century, as the Reformation picked up steam and began spreading radical religious ideas throughout Christendom, already some European kingdoms had begun applying Renaissance inventions to new economic opportunities: Exploration.
The presence of patronage throughout royal courts had encouraged a stability of economies. This stability was called mercantilism – the economic doctrine that assumes government control of foreign trade is the most important element of ensuring prosperity for a given state. The idea is that trading partners need each other to prosper, so trading states are less likely to war with each other over minor details, lest that diminishes trade. The downside to mercantilism is that it can foster an atmosphere of such extreme competition between two or more states that other states end up falling prey to that intense rivalry. This is exactly what happened with cultures in Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and Mesoamerica. But the immediacy of stability caused by mercantilism contributed to the standing atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and increasing centralized governments to lead expeditions outside of European domains.
Portugal
The Portuguese had regained control over the Kingdom of Portugal in 1415, when conquering Christian forces had expelled the occupying Moors. Spain still had some years of fighting left to regain control over the remaining Iberian Peninsula, but Portugal began to set its affairs in order and set its sights on increased trade. Playing a key role in this development was Prince Henry the Navigator.
Prince Henry the Navigator extended Portuguese trade ports throughout the coasts of Africa and into India
Prince Henry was very religious and thought that exploring the African coastline might benefit Portugal in economic glory while benefitting African through conversion from mostly Islamic beliefs to Christian ideas. He established a navigation school to increase the knowledge of sailors. New techniques in ship-building allowed for longer journeys with more gods on board. He also spread the idea that courtly chivalrous honor could be achieved through behaviors off the battle-field. In addition to military glory, he thought, knightly behavior could be earned through intellectual exploration, religious piety and missionary work, and the adventure of journeying to places unknown. In the early 1400s, Portuguese sailors began sailing into ports along the African coast. They were there not as conquerors, but as traders.
And so, Portugues.
2The Darkness of Colonialism in The New World from A Short Acc.docxrhetttrevannion
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The Darkness of Colonialism in The New World from A Short Account of The Destruction of The Indies de las casas Bartolome.
“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.” Barack Obama.
During the Spanish invasion of the indies, there was a social reformer and historian with Spanish descent known as Bartolome who was writing at this time around the 16th century. A Short Account of The Destruction of The Indies paints the picture vividly. In addition to a commentary that was sarcastic on the brutally exercised on the Hispaniola natives by the colonizers from Spain, he also gives us the readers the reason behind the motivation of the Spain colonizers behavior. The account by Bartolome acts as a reflection of the Spanish empires imperial policies and also as an observation for the colonizer's practices. This was clearly depicted by Bartolome as it brought out the clear picture maybe because he was a Spanish historian that made most out of the writing skills he had or just maybe he was after social reform. Across the writing of The Destruction of The Indies, Bartolome brings the attention crown of the Spanish to the suffering caused and the carnages the empire citizens committed to the natives. Focusing on that Casa is able to utilize a sense of rhetoric that is aimed to bring out sympathy of the persons reading, that is aimed to the natives in addition to the sense of the horror of how the natives were treated by the Spaniards. Casa is able to paint a picture right from the beginning about the nature of the natives that is in the preface; the natives are harmless and simple according to Casa. He further depicts them as, “the simplest people in the world… without guilt or malice… never quarrelsome or belligerent and they harbor no grudges…indeed notions of revenge and hatred are quite foreign to them”.
On the opposite Casa describes Spaniards as "ravening wolves" who pounced on the natives like savage lions or tigers who had not eaten meat for several days. This depicts a clear comparison between the savagery of the Spanish empire and the natives who were helpless, where this comparison is vivid throughout the document. Comparison examples are given frequently before and after the population of the native’s levels once the Spaniards have occupied the area. In the document he states that when the Spanish set their foot on the land of the natives, the population was 3 million. Currently only 200 survived in Hispaniola or even worse not even a single person survives on the Bahamas Islands. Casa employs the use of concrete numbers to depict the population decline which directly implies the number of deaths that occurred. Casa uses this to give the document a sense of authority whereby the numbers give it a stressed official nature. These numbers also give a clear picture of the Spanish savagery and cruelty to the natives, Casa elaborates the different ways in which the locals were being cleared whit a rough idea of the col.