Yes correct.. exhibit 1. as evidence is that many in the current cabinet serving under Johnson contributed to a dubious anthology of post Thatcherite drivel the title “Britania Unchained” tells you all you need to know about post imperial arrogance a nd delusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Unchained Worth a visit just for the cover.. David Garcia On 2 Sep 2019, at 14:14, Morlock Elloi <morlockel...@gmail.com> wrote: > An interesting proposition: it's about terminal illusions of grandeur. > Abstract below, full text at > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-923X.12739?af=R > > >> Since 2016, the UK government has outlined plans for ‘Global Britain’ >> as a framework for post‐Brexit foreign policy. Some criticise the idea >> as a vision of ‘Empire 2.0’, but it is rarely made clear exactly what >> form it takes or what its wider political implications are. This >> article argues that Global Britain constitutes not just an idea or a >> slogan, but a foreign policy narrative and, more specifically, the >> narrative of empire. Indeed, to appear reasonable its grand ambitions >> require pre‐existing knowledges of past imperial ‘successes’ and >> accepting images of empire among the British public. Yet Global >> Britain lacks efficacy: as a domestic rather than an international >> narrative, by being inherently regressive in its worldview, and for >> contradicting the preferences of international partners on which the >> UK heavily relies. These narrative flaws, it is argued, make Global >> Britain an actively problematic, rather than merely ineffective, >> component of UK foreign policy. > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
