The deist beliefs of the founding fathers are reflected in the architecture, symbolism, and currency design that incorporates the imagery of ancient Greece and Rome from the very beginning of the nation. This art was meant to break away from strict Christian dogma which had troubled Europe before the American Revolution. In this respect America had pagan foundations but not in the sense of being godless or heretical.

 
The structuralist psychologist Jacques Lacan held that the unconscious is shaped like a language and follows the same structural characteristics. It is an elaboration on Freud that looks at the combination of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real and how it deals with desire as an inherent lack within the individual.

 
Roger Ebert has come out with his list of the best movies of 2005. Some have been nominated for a Golden Globe, which is not as vital as other film festival awards since TV and movies are blended together. There is a very good chance that many of these movies will be nominated for an Oscar and of course this is the time that many movies that are eventually nominated are released in theatres.

 
The thought of the philosophers Deleuze and Guattari look at how order stratifies reality for the sake of control but desire always is able to break through this order in various flows. Order creates binary oppositions such as form and substance that are then crossed through by subversive forces that deemphasize static organization in favor of constant movement and change.

 
With the completion of the Star Wars sestology, one can not only appreciate the saga in chronological order but also understand its techniques in regards to narrative and plot. Seen as a whole there is an underlying them of the conflict between order and chaos that is more in depth than the action and special effects.

 
The basis of state power can be determined not only by its structure of laws and the consensus of the people, but also by the overriding idea of state power that stratifies society. It is a form of control that establishes sovereignty, reenforces it, and captures all forms of life to make it function toward reproducing the overall system.

 
Deconstruction in architecture uses various methods to unearth contradictions and displacements in form in order to make the resident of the building aware of the structure and its design. One of the most important sensibilities evoked is that of the uncanny which is a discomfort upon perceiving what was previously repressed. The uncanny is vital to the full appreciation of deconstructive architecture as an art form.

 
The artist Theo Jansen uses plastic tubing to create unusual moving art that uses no motor or energy besides wind power or pulling on a rope. His artwork resembles alien creatures as they slowly but steadily move in a flowing walking pattern.

 
National Bolshevism is a strange movement that actually merges elements of communism and fascism. It shifts the class struggle that is inherently international toward a struggle between superior and lower nations that praises the unique character of a national identity. It poses universalism or internaitonal tendencies as the real enemy and is willing to maintain class differences in one nation in order to sustain that nation as a whole. This means that its obsession with power is truly a type of fascism that uses the rhetoric of communism.

 
Fredric Jameson is a theorist who has succinctly described postmodernism as the cultural stage made possible by late capitalism. It is characterized by a lack of depth and increased simulation that is caused by the commodification of culture. Not only does this affect the present but it erases the foundation of the past in order to recycle past styles and images without any link to its orginal context.