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Economics

Microeconomics vs Macroeconomics
Game Theory
Malthusian Theory
AD-AS Model
Circular Economy

Feminist Theory

Waves of Feminism
Marxist Feminism
Ecofeminism
Black Feminism
Radical Feminism

Philosophy

Ontology
Phenomenology
Existentialism
Materialism
Absurdism

Critical Theory

Judith Butler & Gender Performativity
Time-Space Compression
Posthumanism
The Culture Industry
Commodity Fetishism

Ethics

Kantian Ethics
AI Ethics
Utilitarianism
Consequentialism
Virtue Ethics

Media & Art

Avant Garde
The Gothic
Afrofuturism
The Male Gaze
Surrealism

Key Concepts

Postcolonialism
Neocolonialism
Modernity
Postmodernism
Debord's The Spectacle

Politics & History

Capitalism
Fascism
Socialism
Communism
Sectarianism

Ancient Philosophy

Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Aristotle's Four Causes
Stoicism
Epistemology
Plato's Theory of Forms

Sociology

Fordism
Gentrification
Transnationalism
Critical Race Theory
World Systems Theory

Literary Theory

Utopia vs. Dystopia
Carnivalesque
Narratology
Speculative Fiction
Magical Realism

Film Studies

The Male Gaze
German Expressionism
Blaxploitation
French New Wave
Italian Neorealism

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Economics

Microeconomics vs Macroeconomics
Game Theory
Malthusian Theory
AD-AS Model
Circular Economy

Feminist Theory

Waves of Feminism
Marxist Feminism
Ecofeminism
Black Feminism
Radical Feminism

Philosophy

Ontology
Phenomenology
Existentialism
Materialism
Absurdism

Critical Theory

Judith Butler & Gender Performativity
Time-Space Compression
Posthumanism
The Culture Industry
Commodity Fetishism

Ethics

Kantian Ethics
AI Ethics
Utilitarianism
Consequentialism
Virtue Ethics

Media & Art

Avant Garde
The Gothic
Afrofuturism
The Male Gaze
Surrealism

Key Concepts

Postcolonialism
Neocolonialism
Modernity
Postmodernism
Debord's The Spectacle

Politics & History

Capitalism
Fascism
Socialism
Communism
Sectarianism

Ancient Philosophy

Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Aristotle's Four Causes
Stoicism
Epistemology
Plato's Theory of Forms

Sociology

Fordism
Gentrification
Transnationalism
Critical Race Theory
World Systems Theory

Literary Theory

Utopia vs. Dystopia
Carnivalesque
Narratology
Speculative Fiction
Magical Realism

Film Studies

The Male Gaze
German Expressionism
Blaxploitation
French New Wave
Italian Neorealism

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