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Putin and Dugin

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Genders and Zodiacs

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Flat truths and flat lies. The Trump-Thunberg Syndrom

Blog: What I think why Westerners join the Islamic State

Interview with T. Botz-Bornstein in Transcultural Studies

The New Geography of Eastern Europe. Peace Magazine

Short Story: ‘In Germany all Trains go from Left to Right.’

"The Futurist Aesthetics of ISIS." Aesthetics and Culture

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Parasite - The Book

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So You Want to Submit an Academic Article? (6 min)

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Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture and the Work of Bela Tarr

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On Werckmeister Harmonies.

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The Monstrous Darkness of Tomorrow. Promotional video

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The Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism

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Do You Know What Philosophy Is?

China and America: Culture and Civilization. Part 1 Part 2

Cairo Book Fair 2019 introducing '"Deculturation"

The End of Liberalism.

Kitsch and Bullshit

"Islamic Futurism."

Lecture at Virginia Commonwealth University April 2019

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Conference in Kuwait

"Tracking Global Wokeism"

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"Unity between East and West" At GUST, Kuwait.Feb. 7-9 2019.

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Helsinki Conference 2018: The development of the Pietila Ministry in Kuwait

Chronique d'une vie dans une université noire aux Etats-Unis (in French). Le Monde blog 2007-2009.

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