More than ever, tension among forces of cosmopolitan democracy, religious traditionalism and militaristic order roil the Middle East.
Mr. Iyer, who isn't particularly known for his large-ensemble music, suggested in the concert's program notes that big-band jazz can be seen as hierarchical systems with "militaristic order"; with this project, he's after "transparency" and a more collective model.
Standing in militaristic order, the differences in the typically male and typically female bodies are the only markers distinguishing them from one another.
Although Ocupa MinC members aren't all necessarily fans of Rousseff, many see her as a victim of a "House of Cards -style shadow plot long in the making, concocted by those who want to reinstate the militaristic "order and progress," the slogan of Brazil's past that's still splashed across the national flag.
The references are fleeting but not subliminal: prostitutes, hands tied behind their backs, are recalled in images of bondage, women in red dresses are objects of desire, and dancers attached to wires march in militaristic drills to orders barked in German and then collapse like broken marionettes.
His cult of personality + ideology that scapegoats blackness + militaristic sense of order = the American bent toward fascism that's become all too obvious lately.
The Japanese also saw the need to industrialize their economy, so they elevated their then-largely powerless emperor Meiji in order to get rid of the Tokugawa shogunate, the warlords who ran the militaristic feudal society.
The latter theme led post-World War II critics to compare Anderson's militaristic approach to homosocial order and the fascists of the War's Axis powers.
The Wall Street crash marked the end of the always fragile prosperity of the previous decade and paved the way for fascism's rise: British dithering, French internal feuding and the Roosevelt administration's need to combat economic depression at home allowed militaristic revisionist powers to rearrange the Versailles order.
Pittman also peppers his work with references to the mechanics and varieties of vision: microscopic, reflected, focused and aimed; spectatorship of a cultural order and that of a militaristic bent (surveillance).
