"The Bald Soprano" by Eugene Ionesco is an example of the absurdist style of theatre. Disrupting the cohesion of a regular play, his works sought to experiment with the medium and create a lasting form of art.

 
In light of the Sept. 11th attacks, it appears that evil as a concept has returned to modern thought. Instead of being a universal classification in opposition to a univeral good, where the world is split in a binary fashion, evil is rather the obstruction of truth as it emerges from particular circumstances. It blocks the understanding of truth and creates a false sense of morality that supercedes the individual's act of finding the truth.

 
The fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War was described as "The End Of History" where liberal democracy and capitalism would be the prevalent mode of nations. Now that there is the issue of terrorism and the political use of Islam, history seems to be more apparent than ever. The particular Western characteristics of democracy become universal through technolgical development, but it also instigates pluralist changes that can cause alienation in the globalized system. Terrorism is the result of this alienation, but it may not be cured by the spread of Western democracy and free markets.

 
It can be argued that Mao was individualist in his practice of communism. Both individualism and the dialectical materialism of communism do away with transcendental absolutes in favor of the determinations of matter. In individualism it is the state of nature that guarantees freedoms and rights, while dialectical materialism has the inevitability of history and the development or changes of matter within it. In the practice of his regime, Mao also imitated individualist practices such as allowing people to critique the staus quo which is considered a healthy process for individual reason and its relation to the state.

 
Here is a project where various theorists and artists have collaborated to write about various concepts related to war. Their goal is to expand the discussion of war as a phenomenon in order to create valid criticisms that explore many of its assumptions beyond mere violence and peace.