LORD CLARK OF SALTWOOD, who was ennobled by Harold Wilson in 1969 after the triumph of his epic television series "Civilisation", became known more familiarly as Lord Clark of Civilisation.
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It was the opposite of the French idea of civilisation.
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Civilizations reworks Kenneth Clark's famous BBC documentary series Civilisation (1969).
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It remains a dream of what an ideal civilisation can create.
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Travel led Melville to question the concepts of "savagery" and "civilisation".
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It was the savage, suicidal turning of a civilisation on itself.
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There are no canals on Mars, and certainly no dying civilisation.
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The House of Commons is the "fullest fountain of advancing civilisation".
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This "slave morality", Nietzsche thought, was behind all of Western civilisation.
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Chernobyl is also a monument to the extinction of Soviet civilisation.
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Again, it is a damning verdict of the so-called European civilisation.
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This is the law that civilisation has followed up to our days.
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Fawcett becomes more convinced that the epitome of their civilisation is nearby.
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The reality is that the organising principle of civilisation is maximising consumption.
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They fought for freedom, civilisation or liberty, some fought "to end war".
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Now we see populist rage destroying our institutions and debasing our civilisation.
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It's hotter now than any time in the history of human civilisation.
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Depression, it was said, was a Westernised disease, a product of civilisation.
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The church entrusted it to the Musée de la civilisation for safekeeping.
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AS THE second world war raged, Western intellectuals wondered if civilisation could recover.
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JERRY BROWN, California's governor, is once again pondering the decline of Western civilisation.
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The fading Fratesi and Mancini headstones stand like hieroglyphs of a lost civilisation.
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The Polish Bishops' Conference calls non-heterosexual arrangements "completely alien to European civilisation".
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Signs of civilisation are restricted to electricity pylons and the odd rundown farmhouse.
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Human civilisation is only six thousand years old and evolution is a lie.
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This is less a clash of civilisations than a clash within a civilisation.
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It is an embarrassment to civilisation broadly, and to progressive America in particular.
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Antarctica, though, is within a few hours' flight of civilisation and more hospitable climes.
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All that stuff aside, sex was also the beginning of civilisation, the life force.
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No country plays up the idea of representing a civilisation more than China does.
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Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.
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The city is striving for "the transformation from industrial...to ecological civilisation", it says.
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More than any of that, however, I dread that our civilisation is growing numb.
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To do anything less is cruel and not consistent with the values of Western civilisation.
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In recent decades, the idea of "Western civilisation" has found few fans on American campuses.
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The idea that HBS is responsible for the ills of Western civilisation is far-fetched.
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What ought to be the basis for Western civilisation after the decline of religious faith?
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This is why science and technology have been so critical in the history of civilisation.
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For some six centuries before 1941, Lithuania was a centre of Jewish civilisation and learning.
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Ben Shapiro: What is eroding is the fundamental principles upon which the civilisation is based.
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In these precious few seconds of footage, Löw has drawn back the curtains of civilisation.
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Nous partageons la douleur mais nous vous remercions aussi de ce cadeau à la civilisation.
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These discoveries underline that ancient Peru was one of the half-dozen cradles of civilisation.
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It is pro-civilisation — speaking out in favor of civilized behavior and against state brutality.
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Yet today Western civilisation faces a crisis of confidence, a hollowing out of the liberal order.
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It might be the saviour not merely of a row of shirts, but of human civilisation.
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Like stone pyramids, they seem a relic of history, a lost art from a fallen civilisation.
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However, the first civilisation to ply the black slave trade on a large scale was Islamic.
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It should fit the complexity of human existence and civilisation, and not the other way round.
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All this is not so much a clash of civilisations as a war within Arab civilisation.
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Like Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, Ways of Seeing is now considered a classic art history TV series.
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SINCE the dawn of civilisation, people have used yeast to leaven bread, ferment wine and brew beer.
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"At such times," Judge Shaw observed, "the glaze of civilisation and culture shows very thin in spots."
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The Babylonians were the first civilisation to leave records of new-year festivities, some 4,000 years ago.
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She ridicules his masculinity, hoping to crack his veneer of civilisation and unleash the violent brute inside.
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"WHAT IS CIVILISATION?" asked Kenneth Clark 50 years ago in the seminal BBC series on the subject.
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They kidnapped, tortured and killed thousands of Argentines whom they saw as a threat to western civilisation.
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Athens, the fountainhead of Western civilisation and the most open society in ancient Greece, had a wall.
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"Governor seeks to force world's most famous hermit to abandon taiga home 100 km from civilisation" 4.
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Regulars and newbies all ensured that as far as possible a basic level of civilisation was maintained.
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Elle l'a décrit comme "un homme attaché aux valeurs", notamment à "l'héritage chrétien de la civilisation européenne".
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Last year, Quebec's Musée de la Civilisation used facial recognition software to match users with ancient sculptures.
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It remained on view in Ottowa until 2013, when the Musée de la civilisation requested its return.
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Instead of being the source of society's ills, the values of Western civilisation are part of the cure.
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Now Mr Xi claims that Chinese civilisation "has developed in an unbroken line from ancient to modern times".
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Roads in the north are vulnerable to the El Niño flooding that helped to end the Mochica civilisation.
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The ancient concept of tianxia, or "all under heaven", put China at the heart of power and civilisation.
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Or as Xi Jinping, China's ruler, says, a civilisation "carries the soul of a country on its back".
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"Our civilisation has developed in an unbroken line from ancient to modern times," Mr Xi declared in 2012.
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Much is known about the material culture of this elusive civilisation, but far more remains to be discovered.
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Our civilisation, science and laws have all been forged by people who followed new paths outside received wisdom.
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As Mr. Stourton's "Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and 'Civilisation'" demonstrates, this man led a big, busy, chaotic life.
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Captions hail their mission to bring "high civilisation" to the benighted natives, who gaze up gratefully at their mentors.
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In Chinese mythology, civilisation dates from the efforts by the Emperor Yu to tame the floods 21960,21960 years ago.
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But civilisation is adaptable and resilient and some forms of self-interested human optimism do seem hard to crack.
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Published in 1970, the book held that by 20163 "the culture and civilisation of the American Indian was destroyed".
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And the dominance of plants, although it is still overwhelming, was far greater before the start of human civilisation.
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Its fertile basin was the cradle of Chinese civilisation and, in an epithet often given the river, its "sorrow".
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Awkwardly for the Communist Party, Shen Yun also claims to promote, through traditional dance, China's 5,000-year-old civilisation.
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The Gweagal shield was previously featured in the British Museum's BP-sponsored exhibition Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation in 2015.
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Burke saw them as the embodiment of collective wisdom and the bulwarks of civilisation, standing between decency and anarchy.
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Their vehicles are cobbled together from the husks of our now devastated civilisation, beasts of twisted metal, belching out smog.
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"The experience of being persecuted gave us a tendency to separate ourselves, almost to create our own civilisation," he says.
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It is, first and foremost, a civilisation-state, a concept that the West has not begun to try and understand.
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Meanwhile that enlightened community of Web-users, that civilisation of the Mind, seemed slow to form, to say the least.
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Lord John Browne, author of "Make, Think, Imagine", on how advancements in engineering and artificial intelligence will eventually affect civilisation.
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By focusing on the power of capital, we emphasised growth for a long while now, with many benefits for civilisation.
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In Orwell's view, the book targets "the implied aims of industrial civilisation" as a whole, rather than any particular society.
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Xi Jinping, the president, told the visiting Donald Trump, his American counterpart, that China's is the world's oldest continuous civilisation.
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What used to be called "the Whig theory of history" saw civilisation steadily moving in a more open, liberal direction.
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More than 4,000 years ago landowners in Akkad, an early Mesopotamian civilisation, hired local managers to look after their farms.
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Perhaps this is how we are most comfortable thinking about Afghanistan: a once-great civilisation victimised by decades of war.
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Mr Putin did everything he could to underline the concert's message that Russia is leading the fight for Western civilisation.
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Or do they actually believe that Russia exemplifies a new civilisation—free of the decadence and weakness of the West?
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"Le premier être humain à jeter une insulte plutôt qu'une pierre est le fondateur de la civilisation" aurait dit Freud.
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"I like telling untold stories and I feel that about this civilisation, not much has been said," Gowariker told Reuters.
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They were inspired by the sailors of the ancient civilisation of Carthage, located close to the present-day Tunisian capital.
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In light of our iconoclastic approach to heritage and culture, is the concept of civilisation fit for the contemporary world?
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Yet, it seemed an inescapable feature of Roman civilisation; its foundational curse, a recurrent phenomenon like the eruptions of a volcano.
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Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the state president of Greece, hailed the relics as a reminder of Greek Christianity's founding role in European civilisation.
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In 1969 he was the tweedy, droll and learned host of "Civilisation," a 13-part BBC documentary that he also wrote.
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More people have been lifted out of poverty over the past 30 years than in the entire history of human civilisation.
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Many Byzantine churches have survived but few traces exist of the secular aspects of that civilisation: the Venizelos finds are unique.
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Unlike Civilisation, it was a low-budget production, but it took full advantage of these limits by constantly challenging the viewer.
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The argument I'm making is not that civilisation was suddenly brought into being at one moment in time and then progress stopped.
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According to Fernand Braudel's "A History of Civilisation", this mostly took place between Niger and Darfur, via Arab markets in east Africa.
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Mr Morgen compares it to the moon landing, one of "the most profound intersections of wilderness and civilisation that has ever happened".
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In "Die Welt von Gestern", Stefan Zweig defined nationalism as "the basic pestilence" that has destroyed a great deal of European civilisation.
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Presenting them in a simple timeline would highlight their changes over time but distract from their contribution to both civilisation and culture.
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This held that the original Aryans were in fact Indians, who carried their Indo-European language and superior civilisation to the West.
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It is obvious to anyone who sees the direction of our technological civilisation that we need more international co-operation, not less.
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The idea of an "Oriental despotism" based on a "hydraulic civilisation" was advanced in the 1950s by Karl Wittfogel, a Marxist historian.
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Whereas civilisation was centered on commerce, luxury, and urbanity, Kultur infused local ties and traditions with fervent spirituality, and idealized the Volk.
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Barring some calamity that ends our technological civilisation without entirely finishing us off, we're not going to be coming this way again.
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He was born in Ulster in 1660 and died at 92 with a cunning plan to leave a permanent mark on human civilisation.
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China's president, Xi Jinping, said it would be "foolish" to regard one's own civilisation as superior and "disastrous" to attempt to remould another.
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Apparent failures of integration, from sexual assaults in Cologne to terrorist attacks in France, seemed to vindicate Mr Orban's clash-of-civilisation warnings.
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But those who took over after communism collapsed in 1991 treated Soviet civilisation as a postmodernist playground, a source of caricatures and puns.
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"People will shoot and defend themselves," says Harry Verhoeven, an academic and the author of a book, "Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan".
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An extensive DNA study confirms what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have always believed: they're the oldest living civilisation on the planet.
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This is the great work of civilisation, from explanations of nature through science to expectations that justice will be delivered through the law.
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Some Syrian Armenians argue that they have a duty to return: their diaspora forms an important branch of Armenian civilisation, and must be preserved.
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" Russia, on the other hand, was a "state civilisation reinforced by the Russian people, the Russian language, Russian culture and the Russian Orthodox church.
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Mowgli seeks "the proper balance between the claims of civilisation and the claims of the wild", a favourite theme of the New England Transcendentalists.
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However, he says most of his foreign clients want a safe investment location rather than a bolthole in case of the breakdown of civilisation.
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Set under an elegantly arched ceiling, "Host" creates a powerful encounter between human "civilisation" and the elemental substances out of which life originally emerged.
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ONCE, HAINAN WAS an alien, pestilential land, beyond the edge of civilisation, to which mandarins who had fallen foul of the emperor were banished.
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Still, the scheme will baffle anyone who sees property rights as the foundation of law, even of civilisation, and as crucial to individual flourishing.
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They are a routine part of the job—a means of recognising and supporting the indispensable role of the arts in a great civilisation.
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ON FEBRUARY 23rd 1969 Kenneth Clark, a British art historian and museum director, told the nation's television viewers that he could not define civilisation.
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There was much to be admired, even if his fogeyish views led the newly ennobled presenter to be mocked as 'Lord Clark of "Civilisation".
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Half of British people, and 60% of Conservatives, believe that Islam poses a serious threat to Western civilisation, according to a poll by YouGov.
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Under way is a return of sorts to earlier, celestial concepts of power and civilisation under which China sat at the heart of things.
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Ms Schulman's finest novel yet is an examination of sexual relations, the "careful theatre" of civilisation, and humanity's responsibilities in a rapidly changing world.
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"Bonfire" dwelt on how thin the veneer of civilisation had become: take one wrong turn and a glittering career can be turned to dust.
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Alongside a set of "grillz" (replaceable blingy retainers adored by celebrities, pictured below) there is a tooth from Mayan civilisation encrusted delicately with jade.
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Given that men built the internet, along with the rest of modern civilisation, I think it's only fair that they get to keep it.
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"This technology can secure the last evidence of our civilisation: all we've learnt will not be forgotten," Professor Peter Kazansky said in a statement.
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Even more pointed is "The Western, Christian Civilisation", a sculpture from 1965 by León Ferrari of Argentina, showing Jesus crucified on an American bomber.
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The Nubian people are descended from an ancient African civilisation that once ruled a large empire, including all of Egypt for a brief period.
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Far from fleeing the onslaught of civilisation, the Lakota's hot pursuit of beaver and buffalo drew colonial traders into the West in their wake.
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"The consequences of such a conflict would be catastrophic and represent in my opinion the single biggest threat to human civilisation today," Stepanov said.
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On the website of Quebec's Musée de la Civilisation, facial recognition software will match your visage with a 2,000-year-old work of art.
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Chinese civilisation was an "open system" that had continuously had exchanges and learned from other cultures, including Buddhism, Marxism and Islam, Xi told the forum.
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In many ways, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are grappling with an old question: why has Arab civilisation fallen into such an abject state?
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Last year his government issued a "white paper", setting out plans to promote it and noting its "positive impact on the progress of human civilisation".
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It's a site in Turkey that was built by an ancient civilisation that was wiped out, and they were far more advanced than we are.
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They are descended from an ancient African civilisation that ruled over an empire stretching, at its height, across the north-east corner of the continent.
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Egypt's Museum of Islamic Art houses artefacts charting more than 1,300 years of Muslim civilisation in Egypt and includes pieces from throughout the Muslim world.
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Because the ancient Chinese people relied on it for survival, the 5,464 km (3,395 mile) long river is regarded as the birthplace of Chinese civilisation.
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British civilisation is based on respect for private property: the requisition of such property last occurred during the two world wars and was followed by compensation.
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Others believe in the importance of creating an educated minority—Samuel Taylor Coleridge called it a "clerisy"—that can preserve high civilisation in a democratic society.
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And he was right that civilisation is a delicate construct that requires skilful—and sometimes cynical—statecraft if it is to be saved from self-destruction. ■
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Viewers no longer want to be told the meaning of civilisation, as Kenneth Clark, an art historian, did in a famous documentary series of the 1960s.
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Some, such as climate catastrophe, are fairly widespread, some are more unusual—the need for civilisation to be backed up to another planet, just in case.
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In May 2018, in a speech calling on China to build an "ecological civilisation", Mr Xi expressed confidence that strict enforcement of the law would help.
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Revisiting Duino in the 1990s, Mr Bassett found Rilke's interiors uninhabited, its contents dispersed at auction, and it seemed that an entire civilisation was for sale.
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China's sense of itself as a glorious civilisation encompasses a long history, a vast geography, a huge population and the incorporation of lesser cultures and peoples.
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This era saw the rise of great entrepreneurs who refashioned the material basis of civilisation with the discovery of efficient methods of producing steel and oil.
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Archaeology, meanwhile, indicates that a sophisticated urban civilisation had flourished in the Indus Valley around a thousand years earlier, but had collapsed before the Vedic Age.
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These were places which have been recognised over the centuries as an important locus of prayer and pilgrimage, and as testimonies to a once-great civilisation.
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Cautious optimism is not something for a civilisation to aspire to – yet search it on Google and you'll receive 30,700 results from the last month alone.
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For those who think it is because Western civilisation has proved superior, the remedy is to adopt Western norms of secularism, rationalism and, above all, democracy.
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They invite human beings to reinhabit their bodies and overcome their alienation from nature, which in his view all civilisation, even that of classical Hellas, has inflicted.
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It was what Nadine Gordimer, in an essay accompanying Goldblatt's photographs 25 years later, would call "the black man's baptism by darkness and dust into Western civilisation".
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Visitors to Zhongnanhai, the leadership compound in Beijing, are rarely spared a lecture on how, uniquely, China is an "ancient civilisation with over 5,000 years of history".
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The record—designed to play to plants to help them grow—somehow sounds both primitive, and a product of a much more advanced civilisation than our own.
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This outlook combined fierce individualism and egalitarianism; as Patty Limerick, of the University of Colorado, puts it, the pioneers were at once advancing civilisation and rejecting it.
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Our civilisation, you say, rests on certainties such as the understanding of nature through science and the delivery of justice through law, and not on the unexpected.
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The tip would lead Mr Alva to discover the intact tomb of a ruler of the Mochica (or Moche) civilisation, whom he dubbed the Lord of Sipán.
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This species uses them to power its civilisation, taking mere decades to fill the air with carbon that took hundreds of millions of years to accumulate underground.
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For the French, wine is not just a drink or source of alcohol: it is a mark of civilisation, a subject of scholarship, a way of life.
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Orban says a large influx into Hungary of mostly Muslim migrants, many fleeing conflicts in the Middle East, since 2015 poses a threat to Europe's Christian civilisation.
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The endangered Sentinelese People of the Andaman Islands are well-known for their refusal to assimilate with modern civilisation and their steadfast, often violent resistance to outsiders.
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Only then can we save the concept of "Western civilisation" and spread its benefits of freedom and prosperity—not just for people in the West, but for everyone.
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A depressing amount of English literature is an extended version of Cyril Connolly's complaint that England is "a dying civilisation—decadent but in such a damned dull way".
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A larger problem is that the written word's tentacles have reached so deeply into the collective consciousness of mankind that they have become almost synonymous with civilisation itself.
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Yet perhaps a civilisation masquerading as a state, as Pye called China, helps explain the modern autocratic state's durability in the face of many predictions of its demise.
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We will no doubt have to hear such analogies until someone finally outshines Messi, which may well mean the end of time or the fall of human civilisation.
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BP's apparent influence on exhibition content emerges in emails leading up to last year's opening of a show it sponsored at the British Museum, Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation.
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The Western edifice of science and knowledge bolstered and fed off the upward spiral of prosperity, enabling our civilisation to fund healthcare, education, infrastructure and other trappings of modernity.
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Schiaparelli had intended the former, but the ambiguity spawned the romantic idea that Mars was home to a dying civilisation desperately piping water from the planet's polar ice caps.
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To use a computer analogy, memetic evolution provided "thinking tools"—a bit like smartphone apps—which transformed humans into comprehending, intelligent designers, triggering an explosion of civilisation and technology.
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The purpose of SpaceX is to make humanity an interplanetary species, and thus safe from global catastrophe, by providing it with the means to build a civilisation on Mars.
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Give people a "creative space" and a latte, however, and they will start weaving quilts, writing poems, composing rap songs and otherwise adding to the store of human civilisation.
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The five allegorical paintings of "The Course of Empire" (pictured) depict the same imaginary landscape, each representing a different stage of civilisation, in sequence of the times of day.
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Modern civilisation has not shown much restraint in the use of technologies which make extracting resources from the earth or the seas easier, as the current overfishing crisis shows.
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"High Noon" (1950), "Shane" (1953) and "The Searchers" (1956) all charted the end of the Wild West, the arrival of civilisation and the hero's final walk into the sunset.
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What they advocate is not a restoration of "the Middle Ages", she says, but merely a return to the values "that European civilisation held in the 19th and 20th centuries".
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Three months before an election, Mr Wilders can pose as a victim of an illiberal law and a politically correct elite who, he claims, are letting Islam undermine Dutch civilisation.
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He was repelled by the slums, the open defecation (picking his fastidious way through butts and twists of human excrement), and by the failure of Indian civilisation to defend itself.
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He contrasted this with an ethnically defined version of Russia as "a state civilisation held together by the Russian people, the Russian language, Russian culture and the Russian Orthodox Church".
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"We are in the midst of a civilisation-warping crisis of public trust, and the president's allegations today demand the thorough and dispassionate attention of serious patriots," wrote Mr Sasse.
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About half the population apparently thought Islam posed a "threat to Western civilisation" while a quarter regarded it as a "dangerous" religion because of its perceived capacity to incite violence.
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Hank tries to make him understand that, once they are back in civilisation, the very powers that have allowed them to survive will be a source of shame and embarrassment.
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W.W. Norton; 256 pages; $26.95 and £18.99 RECONSTRUCTION, AMERICA'S reckoning with how to rejig a civilisation after slavery, is usually dated from 19653, when the civil war ended, to 1877.
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A single Cimrman play is composed of two sections: the first is a faux-academic seminar analysing his contributions to civilisation, and the second a single act related to an adventure.
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The same day Stephen Miller, an adviser to Mr Trump, said the president's criticisms of America differed from those of his critics because he was defending the "principles of Western civilisation".
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Perhaps the most enduring fantasy, that Jews are plotting to dominate the world and destroy civilisation, was popularised by the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", a tsarist forgery from 1903.
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"The 5,000-year-old history of civilisation is essentially the history of the enslavement of women," wrote the now-imprisoned Mr Ocalan, whose ideas are also embraced by Syria's Kurdish leaders.
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To do so, 16 artists based in New York—the undisputed capital of the contemporary art world—were tasked with capturing lofty concepts of Greek civilisation such as "empathy" and "polyphony".
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What a relief it must be that such a horribly areligious nation will now attempt to cut itself entirely from civilisation and return to its natural state of cannibalistic, racist barbarism.
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Orban, in power since 2010, has led eastern European resistance to EU plans to share out some of the large numbers of mostly Muslim migrants, who he says threaten Europe's Christian civilisation.
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In the 19th century Percival Lowell, an American astronomer, popularised the idea that there were canals criss-crossing the Martian surface, carrying water from the poles to feed a thirsty desert civilisation.
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Earlier this year, Ginane Makki Bacho, a Lebanese artist, held an exhibition in Beirut featuring over 200 sculptures made of welded scrap-metal ("Civilisation" at Agial Art Gallery, Beirut, is pictured top).
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MVLL: I wrote an essay about this called "The Civilisation of the Spectacle" about pseudo-democratisation, in which culture disappears in the end, where it all becomes gossip, a farce, a circus.
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With the advent of arable and animal agriculture, fishing alone, of the three ancient ways of obtaining food—the other two being hunting and plant foraging—has remained vital to human civilisation.
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Mr Baudet has warned of the "homeopathic dilution" of the Dutch people, and his apocalyptic speeches accuse an elite "cartel" of all the other parties of bringing Dutch civilisation to its knees.
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Humans shaping the future "Like no other force on the planet, ice ages have shaped the global environment and thereby determined the development of human civilisation," said PIK director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber.
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As would befit spacecraft coming from an alien civilisation with highly sophisticated technology, HM6 Alien Nation is completely transparent, being formed entirely of sapphire crystal with reinforcing elements in Grade-5 titanium.
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Cyberpunk inspired cinema—The Terminator and The Matrix (to name two obvious examples)—spoke candidly to a latent fear that, as we embraced technocratic civilisation, we would inadvertently turn the controls over entirely.
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The book recounts a conversation between More and one Raphael Hythloday, a sailor whose surname means "a pedlar of nonsense", and who brings news of an eccentric, egalitarian civilisation on a faraway island.
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The English writer referred to the "lost" ways of the ancient Italian civilisation in his letters; in poems he imagined the people as "long-nosed, sensitive-footed, subtly-smiling", yet "evasive and different".
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THE domestication of wheat and other staple crops in the Levant some 10,000 years ago allowed for persistent settlement above a level of mere subsistence—one possible definition of the beginning of civilisation.
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But we can resist this confusion by recognising that we don't need the ICS's imprimatur to appreciate that we are indeed waving goodbye to Earth as we have known it throughout human civilisation.
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An alien civilisation just a few hundred years more advanced than Earth's would have the technology to detect the radio and television signals that human beings have inadvertently sent into space for decades.
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It tells the story of Earth's first contact with an alien civilisation, the Trisolarans, whose planet is stuck in climatic chaos as it oscillates wildly between the three stars in its stellar system.
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Mr Modi's strident brand of Hindu nationalism, which pictures Pakistan less as a strategic opponent than a threat to civilisation, puts him at the fringe even of his own Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Some suggest they would have come from afar, perhaps being war captives (as was usually the case with sacrificial victims of the later, Aztec civilisation) or tribute of some sort from conquered lands.
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The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée de la civilisation are currently seeking the necessary funds to buy the work together, and plan to share the painting, according to Ottawa Citizen.
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Western civilisation is a great artifice: a liberal framework that enshrines property rights, allowing us to restrain most forms of tribalism, participate in free markets and prosper by serving others regardless of their identities.
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Before the music began, he appeared in a live broadcast on a video screen behind the stage to express "hope that our contemporary civilisation will be relieved from the horrible disease of international terrorism".
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"We think AI is going to have a massive effect on the future of civilisation, and we're trying to take the set of actions that will steer that to a good future," he says.
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The desire for young men to climb that hierarchy, to strive with each other for approval and dominance, is an aspect of casual culture which long predates Adidas, football, and most likely civilisation itself.
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The different plot lines overlap and interweave as the three characters move haltingly to Calais, while, just out of sight in France, lurks the greatest catastrophe ever to hit Western civilisation: the Black Death.
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Crawling on the jungle floor, he picked up these simple fragments with amazement; he saw in them signs of an intelligent civilisation that his contemporaries thought could not possibly exist in such a hostile environment.
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Western civilisation has become a space-age utopia in which all nations are in harmony, and the scientific knowledge we've gleaned from the aliens allows us to zip to the moon and back in minutes.
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Shirtless Trudeau is the face of a liberalized personality cult, packaged for a pliant media and sold to a generation of shallow, narcissistic Millennials who love selfies more than the noble customs of Western civilisation.
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There is some irony in Philip, who has been by the queen's side throughout her 65 years on the throne, being considered a god by a primitive community thousands of miles away from London's civilisation.
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A discussion of Anders Breivik's slaughter of 77 Norwegians in 2011 is disappointingly brief; rather than using the episode to drive home his point that the foundations of civilisation are dangerously fragile, Mr Knausgaard moves on.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This comes quite close to stating that we substitute art for religion – a reasonable argument, perhaps, but it draws attention to one of the main contrasts between Civilisation and Civilisations.
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Relegating it to a human-interest story—a Bangladeshi displaced by rising sea levels, say—downplays its civilisation-wide significance; sticking to scary forecasts—200m climate refugees by 2050, the UN warns—diminishes its visceral relevance.
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Here he is admirably sharp with his fellow academics who are so bent on presenting Western civilisation as a history of oppression that they risk undermining any residual faith that their students might have in democracy.
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By 1997, as she marked 50 years as a nun, the Oxford-educated Sister Wendy had made three television series, the most successful BBC arts programs since "Civilisation," the art historian Kenneth Clark's landmark 267 documentaries.
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THE ONGOING struggle within Western civilisation over who is a boy and who is a girl took another small twist in September with the leak of new guidelines for English and Welsh schools regarding transgender pupils.
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To reduce this risk and protect human civilisation, a massive global mobilisation of resources is needed in the coming decade to build a zero-emissions industrial system and set in train the restoration of a safe climate.
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"Religions in our country, the endemic ones and those from abroad, have become deeply embedded in the Chinese civilisation, whose history covers more than 5,000 years," Xi said while visiting a mosque in Ningxia's regional capital Yinchuan.
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As the 100th anniversary of the movement approaches, the party will have to perform intellectual contortions as both a convert to the virtues of China's ancient civilisation and as the notional torchbearer of the May 4th spirit.
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Parts of Syria and Iraq are under the control of a terrorist group which boasts of its determination to destroy traces of any world-view or civilisation other than its own ultra-zealous form of Sunnni Islam.
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Mr Isho, 57, runs a company that makes gadgets for "preppers", as survivalists preparing for the possible collapse of Western civilisation are known, but still devotes 300 hours a month to the posse, mostly patrolling by night.
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"Sicily: Culture and Conquest", one of the legacies of Neil MacGregor, the former director, looks beyond Sicily's recent tribulations to the many reinventions of an island that has been part of every important civilisation of the Mediterranean.
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Instead of being the source of society's ills, the values of Western civilisation are a part of the cure For most of history, the average worker earned $1-3 a day – even at the peak of Roman prosperity.
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It sheds some light on an otherwise Dark Age: what exactly happened between the collapse of a great, palace-based civilisation around 1150BC and the emergence of city-states from 800BC onwards is one of Greek history's riddles.
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Pair it with the Best of Throbbing Gristle Volumes 1 & 2 tapes, put out in 1976 and 1977, respectively for a perfect taste of what the group were all about before they became fully fledged wreckers of civilisation.
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It encourages people to value the quality of narratives over the desirability of outcomes; to indulge in unrealistic assessments of their own potential; and to set too little store by one of the greatest achievements of civilisation: predictability.
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In her book, "Moscow, the Fourth Rome", Katerina Clark, a historian, writes that Moscow aspired to form the centre of a new civilisation, attracting Western intellectuals and claiming to be the only legitimate heir to the world's greatest artists.
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For all the differences between Tories and Labour the governing class used to share a common sense of cultural values: they might disagree about who got what but they agreed about the virtues of Western (and particularly English) civilisation.
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Internet users showed similar disdain for the censors on the anniversary on December 26th of the birth of Mao Zedong ("He wreaked greater destruction on human civilisation than any other villain," one businessman told his more than 106,000 followers).
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Speaking after the meeting Mr Tusk declared that Britain's departure could ultimately leave the EU stronger than ever—quite a turnaround for someone who before the vote had warned that Brexit could bring about the collapse of Western civilisation.
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The Sentinelese people of the Andaman Islands fired arrows at 27-year-old John Allen Chau and left his dead body on the beach of North Sentinel Island, where they have lived untouched by modern civilisation for thousands of years.
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Since the September 11th attacks, the American far right has developed a fascination with the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—in particular, with the idea of the West as a united civilisation that was fending off a challenge from the East.
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"Throughout civilisation gold has been viewed as a well-established safe haven used to store value by all cultures in all ages across the word and has never gone to zero in recorded history," he told CNBC in an email.
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"IN THE beginning was the Word…" That stirring opening of the Gospel of St John could easily serve as the thesis of Martin Puchner's "The Written World", an episodic history of human civilisation as shaped by and told through its literature.
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Al-Ula, the site of an ancient civilisation in a remote northwestern corner of the country, is part of plans by the world's top crude exporter to diversify its economy away from oil and open up after decades of reclusion.
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His lobbying for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, and his Hindu-nationalist plotline of India as a resurgent ancient civilisation that must reclaim its place at the world's top table, are part of the same campaign.
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If AI is set to change civilisation by using data to make better decisions, most of the historical data-sets about, say, jet-engine performance or clothing supply chains belong to established firms, beyond the reach of Amazon and Facebook.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has celebrated the completion of leader Kim Jong Un's signature construction project, a new city near the sacred mountain where his family claims its roots, with state media on Tuesday calling it the "epitome of modern civilisation".
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Barely a year ago, with the wounds from the refugee crisis still gaping, Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, could be heard warning that a British vote to quit the EU threatened to bring about the collapse of western civilisation.
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What is clear, though, is that Horace and his successors are not only wrong (they must be, or civilisation would have collapsed into the mud long ago), but that, over recent years, youth has actually been improving, at least in some respects.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Quebec's Musée de la Civilisation is currently searching for participants to feature in its upcoming exhibition My 2,000-Year-Old Double, which takes a pretty entertaining, very 21st-century approach to exploring the faces of ancient sculpture.
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In a speech that recalled his inaugural address, when he invoked the prospect of "American carnage," Mr Trump asked whether we have the courage to protect our borders and to preserve our civilisation in the face of "those who would subvert and destroy it".
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"It is the potential end of human civilisation as we know it," Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, told an audience of students and academics in London last week, referring to the risk of allowing climate change to spiral out of control.
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The only pre-Roman urban civilisation on the Italian peninsula, Etruscan city-states in Tuscany, western Umbria and Lazio flourished as centres of culture and commerce from approximately the tenth to the first century BC, when they were defeated and assimilated into the Roman Republic.
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I genuinely think, and explain in the book, that if we detected any "signal" it would be unlikely to be a "civilisation" but far more likely to be a single electronic brain so different from us that we'd have no conception of its motives.
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As an argument in favour, the timeline of Earth would display 4 billion years of unintelligent life, a few millennia at most of a technological civilisation, and then billions of years of posthuman evolution of electronic intelligences that do not need a planetary environment.
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We are definitely dealing not with the clash of civilisations (the Christian west versus radicalised Islam), but with a clash within each civilisation: in the Christian space it is the US and western Europe against Russia, in the Muslim space it is Sunnis against Shias.
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Back then, numerous industrialists, including William Lever in Britain, J.N. Tata in India and Milton Hershey in America, founded company towns that were intended, at a minimum, to combat the evils of industrial civilisation and, on occasion, to create a new kind of human being.
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As the chords of the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra filled the Roman amphitheatre of Palmyra, an ancient city that was an IS stronghold until March, the music's message was clear: there is civilisation and there is barbarism; stand with Russia on the side of the good.
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Hungary has made hostility to immigration the main plank of its campaign for European elections in May, putting up billboards accusing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and U.S. billionaire George Soros of plotting to destroy European civilisation by bringing in masses of Muslims.
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With just weeks before Brexit and the loss of preferential trading terms between Britain and the European Union, Mr Gardner and a party of his members were in Florence to commemorate a pan-European trade in cloth that helped lay the foundations of Western civilisation.
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LONDON (Reuters) - One of the world's earliest cities has been brought back to life in one of Bollywood's newest films, "Mohenjo Daro", which re-imagines life in 2016 B.C. in an Indus Valley civilisation whose walls, streets and citadel can still be seen today.
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I think there is a general misunderstanding of what is political and what is personal because the two are so intertwined, so I think it's very important to put emphasis on this aspect of what "political" actually means and how society can change and how civilisation progresses.
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It's all relative of course and one man's basic level of civilisation is another man's drug-fuelled rollercoaster of mayhem, but the near-spotless record of Club Magnus says something about the good-naturedness to be found in the kind of people who really enjoy the disco.
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Swift's tales of these encounters, and subsequent ones with the virtuous Houyhnhnms and odious Yahoos, were in fact satires designed to remind his contemporaries that the world is not "just what we are told it is on our own bit of earth…no civilisation has a freehold on 'normality'".
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If we detected any manifestly artificial transmission from deep space it would far more likely come from an electronic intelligence descended from an organic civilisation that had long been superseded (as may happen to humans in the far future) and be neither aggressive nor conveying any meaningful message.
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There is so much of the progress of civilisation, in the last century or more, that has resulted from curiosity driven research—research that is intended to fill in the gaps in the basic structure (of scientific knowledge) that provides the underpinning for the applied research that comes later.
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The research carried out at The Leverhulme Centre in Cambridge will be "crucial to the future of our civilisation and of our species" according to Hawking, and will see philosophers, psychologists, lawyers and computer scientists work together to look at the implications of everything from smartphones to robots and military drones.
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""If Silicon Valley's inhabitants were thinking critically and were not so obsessed with gender and race, they would recognise their own hypocrisy and realise that building the wall isn't, for most Americans, a matter of race or even of economics — but rather a last-ditch attempt to rescue western civilisation from oblivion.
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"It's not a case of making ourselves known to a civilisation for the first time, if they get our signal they have already detected our leakage," Vakoch told Wired UK.In any case, this poll seems to leave out the crucial question of what the original extraterrestrial message would have said in the first place.
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Mr. Berger's intention was to upend what he saw as centuries of elitist critical tradition that evaluated artworks mostly formally, ignoring their social and political context, and the series came to be seen as an assault on the historian Kenneth Clark's lofty "Civilisation," the landmark 1969 BBC series about the glories of Western art.
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Even allowing for that, though, the European dark ages, during which Spain was occupied by the Visigoths, are clearly visible in the record—as is the point when civilisation starts to return with the rise of the Frankish state that, under Charlemagne, became the "Holy Roman Empire", and with the takeover of Spain by the Umayyad caliphate.
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As nations with authoritarian ideologies and imperial tendencies increasingly look to secure power and influence on the world stage, the original commitment by all NATO allies to "safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of [its] peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law" remains the glue that binds the Alliance together.
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Mr Weyl's healthy federation of platforms, like the mostly amiable and high minded United Federation of Planets which is responsible for the USS Enterprise, is a hope, not a certainty—one that needs an engaged political process to bring it into being if it is to set off in search of new life, and new civilisation. ■
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