In the American imagination, Alaska represents the “Last Frontier,” an immense and natural wonderland unspoiled by mass market industry and urbanism. One of the State’s leading economic drivers, mass tourism, harnesses this picture, especially regarding its alleged “pristineness,” for marketing purposes. Concepts of Alaska’s “pristine” natural environment is an integrant that harkens back to American…

…how the human spirit could doubt heaven in seeing the earth, and how could it reject the terrestrial law in seeing heaven? You are astonished that Humanity could remain so long imprisoned in this formidable circle; ah! I am even more surprised that he could leave it. The following translated passage from the French philosopher…

The Marginalist Revolution in Italy Marginalist economics first reached Italy as a “complete intruder” according to the economic historian Paul Barucci. The Italian economist Francesco Ferrara’s acclaimed journal, the Biblioteca dell’Economista, translated marginalist pioneers Léon Walras and William Stanley Jevons first in the 1870s, introducing a generation of economists like Maffeo Pantaleoni and Vilfredo Pareto to…

“Anchorage – All-American City” reads a sign hanging over Anchorage’s downtown main drag while President Eisenhower, riding in a convertible, stands and waves at the surrounding crowd of Alaskans. Once “synonymous with gold and glamor of the Yukon and Klondike; the home of sourdoughs and Eskimos” according to Eisenhower, Alaska was now “no longer an…

“The problem consists in this: that our doctrine necessitates a new criticism of the sources of history” declared the Italian philosopher Antonio Labriola in his renowned Essais sur la conception matérialiste de l’histoire of 1897. Labriola was the “most faithful interpreter of Marxist thought” and the “most profound of Italy’s socialist thinkers” according to Benito…

“Now, if, in the infinite, all these particular things are not differentiated, are not divided into species, it necessarily follows that they have no number: the universe, therefore, is one and immobile… the universe is in all things and all things are in the universe, we in it and it in us: thus, everything coincides…

            The German Bauhaus art institute and Italian Domus periodical offered what might reflect total opposite programs in the 1920s and 1930s – technological and scientific art in the Bauhaus and a language of emotion in Domus. The founding architects of each – Walter Gropius and Giovanni Ponti respectively – both inherited modernist theories in…

Introduction Few areas of study have come to parallel such a vast scope of phenomena and methodological approaches – from the most microscopic biographies to the largest transnational world-systems – as studies of colonialism, colonial collaboration, and resistance. A long way has come since George Shepperson and Thomas Price’s paradigmatic Independent African (1952), the unforgettable…

…[t]his competition, which is the meaning of all modern life, is profoundly expressed in architecture and the applied arts which, forming the environment in which we live and work, are the spiritual and material figure of our civilization V Triennale di Milano 1933 Mario Sironi’s exhibition poster for the 1933 V Triennale di Milano encapsulated…