(Rachel Wyman) Lecture 2 will examine the end of the ‘Global Age’, also commonly referred to as the ‘globalist’ paradigm, using Sir Ian Kershaw’s The Global Age: Europe 1950 – 2017 (2019) as the main text.
The Paradigm Shift
Oligarchy & Institutional Power [Paradigm Shift Ep3 Syllabus]
(Adam Riva) Lecture 3 focuses on Global Oligarchy Theory, which, while originating from within the alternative media sphere, has now been confirmed as a reality by scientific studies; the ‘Global Age’ is fast becoming known as an age of oligarchy. I will outline the migration of this system to America from Europe, most markedly during the post-WWII period, arguing that this system has clearly been purposefully designed – in-line with the re-development of American society and culture – to create the exact ‘Global Age’ system that we have now.
Paradigms Within Paradigms [The Paradigm Shift Ep1 Syllabus]
(Adam Riva) Lecture 1 will discuss the theoretical framework for this course, as well as paradigms. As the paradigm concept is highly abstract and cross-disciplinary in nature, we will look at concrete definitions from the work of physicist-turned-philosopher-of-science Thomas Kuhn, how the term has developed over time, as well as how the scientific paradigm concept has been applied within the social sciences.