ABSTRACTS
Introduction
The Ideology and Morphology
of the Elite
Who belongs to the elite?
What is the elite like? How many kinds of elite are there? What is their
dirty? Do they fulfil their duty? Some questions by way of an introduction.
Symbol
The Grail
Freemasonry
The distinct meanings of
the Grail and the symbols of freemasonry as guide-posts on the different
ways to the long desired human perfection.
Elite and Society
Lajos Eff:
What Seems to Be a Plot?
Facts and symptoms behind
the appearance of a conspiracy. Thoughts on the mission and responsibility
of the upper class.
Christopher Lasch:
The Revolt of the Elites
and the Betrayal of Democracy
In his last work Christopher
Lasch argues that democracy today is threatened not by the masses, as José
Ortega y Gasset (The Revolt of the Masses) had said, but by the elites.
Extracts from the book.
György Egely:
Second Type War
Vision of a hidden, bloodless
but not less devastating form of war taking place nowadays.
Eva Bogdán:
The New Clothes of the
Emperor. Do the Chosen Always Keep their Secret?
Secrets about the elites,
their origin, activity and interests and the interaction between them and
mass society.
Csaba Vass:
Mr. Szelényi and the
Intellectuals Reigning in No Way
Study on the global colonization
going on these days and the defection of the clerks. On the basis of the
classic work written by Iván Szelényi and György Konrád the author analyses
the social stratification in Hungary with especial regard to the interconnection
between economy, political power and the origin and role of the elites.
Katalin, Mitró:
When I Was a Child Butter
Was Much Better
Thoughts on development
and progress based on Feyerabend's propositions.
László Bóna:
The Dregs of the Elite
and the Elite of the Dregs
The markets of misery in
Budapest on the borderland between existence and non-existence, as the
mirrors of wealth.
Gábor Tulok Mángorló:
Elite-Nursery
The new generation and the
founding fathers. Revolution and collapse at the weekly magazine 'Hungarian
Orange'.
Elite and Economy
Gabriella Józsa:
Endgames
The economic background
of an international political game with the result that the rich are growing
richer and the poor are growing poorer.
Ulrich Duchrow:
The Ideology of the Global
Dominance of Finance and the Media's Role
'The goal of global capitalism
is the accumulation of money via (supposedly) self-regulating markets.
This is why money is at the centre of the ideology. It is shrouded in secrecy
and treated as the Holy of Holies.' Extract from the book entitled 'Alternatives
to Global Capitalism' by Ulrich Duchrow.
Zoltán Ariel Mitev:
Tobacco
The Influence of advertising
on tobacco consumption.
Elite and Environment
László Hollós:
Eco-elite
Is there an eco-elite in
Hungary? Who and why beiongs to this elite? What is the role of them? Inquiry
among the representatives of the Hungarian environmental movement.
Elite and Culture
Eszter Götz:
Thought son Initiation
Why are the eternal rituals
of initiation indispensable to the wholeness of human life in its every
period?
György Szegő:
Secession
Symbols of life, fertility,
death and rebirth in the secessionist architecture of Budapest at the turn,
of the century. Extracts from the book just published, entitled 'Creation
and Metamorphosis' written by György Szegő.
The Women's Three Wishes
-- Skin, Fur and Jewel Can Come True on One Spot
Selections from the September
1993 and April 1996 issues of the monthly magazine 'Elite'
Consumption
Thoughts on the concept
and nature of consumption. Extract from the book entitled. 'The System
of the Objects' by jean Baudrillard.
Transculture in the Lagoon
Report on an exhibition
of the Venetian Biennial Festival. The reality of life and death at the
end the millennium in the mirror of visual art.
Pattern Language
Holy Ground
'What is a church or temple?
It is a place of worship, spirit, contemplation, of course. But above all,
from a human point of view, it is a gateway. A person comes into the world
through the church. He leaves it through the church. And, at each of the
important thresholds of his life, he once again steps through the church.'
Extract from the book entitled 'Pattern Language'.
World-Watch-Video
The task and the solutions.
Compositions written by
the students of applied arts on the subject of sacred places.
Ways and Ways out
Imre Lázár:
'Eco-city-state' and
Its Neighbourhood
Politics, ecopolitics and
political ecology. Essay on the place and role of ecopolitics in the political
ecosystem. The dream of 'Manor-house Hungary' the network of the strong
and healthy local communities as a strategy for Human survival |