East meets West: Yosuke Matsuda on growing Square Enix's global empire The CEO tells GamesIndustry.biz how a blend of Western and Japanese games, … The concerns of the first book are those of centralized power and legitimacy. With the bizarre exception of the Maccabean revolt against Antiochus IV, there's no intervention in the belief systems of local populations. What I try to do in the book is match those actions that express a desire for finitude, for bringing this time system to an end, with apocalyptic literature that is being written contemporaneous to those actions in the same regions—in Babylonia, Judea, and also in Iran, but interestingly not in the Greek cities of the empire. Author Interview: On Barak on Powering Empire and the story of coal in the Middle East October 08, 2020 Author On Barak argues in Powering Empire that we cannot promote worldwide decarbonization without first understanding the history of the globalization of carbon energy. 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My claim is that actually, and ultimately, it's the common environment of the Seleucid Empire that provokes these common responses. First, you could give the temporal location of an event by reference to an annual year of office—say, something happened in the year of the Roman consuls X and Y. Literary Hub. In this system, time was characteristically empty, generic, and homogeneous. Similar things take place in Iran where a dynasty, which might have initially begun as a vassal dynasty of the Seleucids but eventually tries to assert autonomy frames itself in the older anti-Greek imagery and violence of the Achaemenid Empire, the predecessor to the Hellenistic kingdoms. This year one, my book argues, piggybacks on the Babylonian creation myth, the Enûma Eliš, which is about the arrival of the god and the foundation of the city of Babylon. In modern scholarship, it has been vulnerable to exoticization, and viewed as the sick man of the Hellenistic world, subject to continuous territorial contraction before finally being subsumed into the Roman and Parthian Empires in the mid-late 2nd century BCE. MILSTEIN: Could you tell me a little about your books and how they relate to each other? The Seleucid Empire was one of the four empires that arose in the wake of the death of Alexander in 323 BCE. I've rushed with open arms into this anachronism, because I think precisely this—that there is a conceit of modernity that modernity is doing things for the first time. By studying the history of the Middle East, and the elitist manipulation of it, we can perhaps predict what is to come after this last final push of the American Empire.--I. Third, and most commonly, you just count the event by the reign of the king. MILSTEIN: Can we talk about some of what accompanied these indigenous revolts against Seleucid time, like ancestralizing narratives and ancestralizing violence? So there is this, I call it Altneuland, borrowing from Herzl's programmatic title (an old new land)—it is a kind of reentry into history by these local populations, which is paradoxically done by a revival of the past in a self-ancestralizing way. Starship Empire PAX East 2015 Interview and Hands-On, WAKFU - Pandalucia - The Real Bamboo Expansion Trailer, League Animation Workshop - Zed: Death Mark, War of Conquest fulfills 1/3 of Kickstarter Goal in 24 hours, Interview with GUNNAR President Scott Sorensen. In the cases of Babylonia and Judea, which are the two big bodies of data that have survived for us, we have good evidence of this; and if you compare these cases to the preceding regimes in either Babylonia or Judea under the Achaemenids or under the Ptolemies, there is this turn towards what I would say is a concern with historicality in each place. But the claim in the book is that ultimately this concern is a distinct, provoked response to the strange new temporal regime established by the Seleucid Empire, which rendered their past much more problematic. MILSTEIN: So you can conduct a kind of Horizontverschmelzung [fusion of horizons] of Seleucid time and the time of modernity on the basis that the origins of our concepts, our temporal concepts, somehow lie in the Seleucid past? So I was keen to suggest that this Seleucid time was, in historical terms, a conjunctural phenomenon—that this new Seleucid time is in fact the result of Babylonian technologies. It has been explained as a kind of intellectual historical derivation of ideas: the Jews and the Babylonians are borrowing it from the Iranians, or vice versa. No better way to get ready for your interview. KOSMIN: Maybe it's best to begin with the systems that existed before the Seleucid Empire, just to make the radical character of the Seleucid system evident. I think that what I'm calling total history 2: these complete histories of the world—seen as if from outside—total, complete, and with something like the aesthetic of the miniature. There's an evident danger of orientalism in an argument like this—that a sense of history and a transcendent rational enlightened time only emerges in the Near East as a result of the arrival of the Greeks. About Scoop Empire (ScoopEmpire.com): “ We are your urban online hub for all that is new, hip, enticing and funk in the Middle East. KOSMIN: One of the claims is that if the Seleucids essentially cut off pre-Seleucid history, these local or indigenous populations undertook acts of self-assertion in the kind of political spaces that opened up as the Seleucids were disappearing. So it's a site of kind of imperial exploitation, one that necessarily operates within the Seleucid temporal regime in terms of its dating practices and so on. The Middle East expert discusses the future of political Islam and the resurgence of al-Qaeda. KOSMIN: Right. Empire East Land Holdings, Inc. 10/F Alliance Global Tower 36th st cor 11th Ave Uptown, BGC, Philippines , 1635 Social Links: Jobs 3; Overview; Credit and Collection Assistant. KOSMIN: I would say that the dominant model of Western time that we have is a contemporary empty time of one thing after another, but which contains within it fossils or traces or the dynamics of a Judeo-Christian providential time that has a clear beginning and a clear end, with a kind of unidirectional time's arrow-like movement from one to the other. The site called Tel Kedesh in northern Israel is another one of these Seleucid fiscal archives oriented to the timeline. So you have the year one and there is evidence that one of the Seleucid kings, we're not sure which, founds a Temple of Day One in Babylon to commemorate ritually this big angle of time. When the US Became a Rogue State in the Middle East. How did they make the land Seleucid?" Smashing Interviews Magazine. Thank you Empire East for building a condo in New Manila. START NOW Request More Information Schedule a Webinar Cancelation Request ECIC Prep Checklist Member Courseware Schedule a Top Off Emerald Coast Interview Consulting provides a winning edge to help you successfully navigate the challenging interview process. For this whole system to work no intervention from the state is required. ... European travelers began to enjoy increased access to international destinations, and the Ottoman Empire was a particular favorite for many. Expelled from his Babylonian satrapy in 316 BCE, Seleucus had spent the intervening years in Ptolemy's Egypt, and was returning to Babylon now to reclaim his former territories. The mysterious choice to antedate the empire is resolved through a consideration of the cuneiform tablets left by Babylonian scribes, who specialized in astronomical rhythm and dynastic transition. Another surprise hit in the indie scene at PAX East came from a single developer reaching for the stars with an exciting free to play science fiction mmorpg. It's an atmosphere that's difficult to describe, as weakness in one part of the empire encourages revolt in other parts. The number 173, in this example, is a Seleucid Era year, and that number is the authorizing device of that lead weight. So you see that both in weaponized fighting against the Seleucids, which occurs simultaneously in different places, as well as in textual revolt in Persia and Judea. My argument, as we've seen, is that the Seleucid world generates this sense of the now and the before—it temporalizes indigenous practices as traditional, or pre-Seleucid, or old; it introduces practices as new, therefore creating a sense of what belongs in a Seleucid temporal world and what doesn't. Further, this open futurity, which basically goes on and on forever, has taken the containment out of the world, generating a crisis of historical meaning, and in each place you see responses that are somewhat politically oriented in terms of revaluing their own local pasts. Both the consul system and these so called year dates have a narrow reach, because they are products of a kind of scribal listing system. But they share a lot of common not because someone in Persia is reading the book of Daniel, but because populations are moving in and sharing these ideas, and there are interregional convergences in the response to the Seleucid empire. The Middle East remains a mysterious place that defies Western understanding because of its complexity and the stubborn refusal of so many to accept broad generalisations about it. I think it's no accident that this Seleucid time system was born in Babylon and probably—though there's no evidence of this—there was Babylonian temporal expertise behind it. Something you can contain, look at, rotate in your hand, examine, and find the meaning of, are also sort of enchanted, dialogical. There are obvious tensions that result from these conflicting agendas. Yesterday at noon, IronZog, developer of War of Conquest started a Kickstarter to raise 7000 dollars to finish the development of the game. His enthronement, actually takes place in year 6 or 7, and he later establishes year 1 on his return to Babylon in 311 BCE and it is called the epoch. The inaugural date was thus what Kosmin calls a "conjunctural phenomenon," a precise grafting of the beginning of Seleucid time onto the ritual time of Babylonian cosmogony. KOSMIN: At least in the study of antiquity the majority of writings about time deal with the most explicit, elite textual genres: they're a form of intellectual history—philosophy, theology, things like that. To ritualize the creation, the king would lead a procession out of the city, journeying three days to the foot of the steppe before returning. Good Location. But, there are many ways in which this Seleucid temporal regime anticipates or echoes later phenomena. The price is very reasonable. So Seleucus I establishes a "year one" of his rule, retrospectively. I think there are also two other kinds of comparison going on in this book. The beginning of the Babylonian calendrical year was the occasion for the akītu ceremony, a festival which, in the cosmogonic and conceptual lexicon of the Enûma Eliš Babylonian creation myth, legitimized the co-rule of the god Marduk and the temporal ruler of the city. There might be comparable temple seizures in Asia Minor, or there might be similar things going on in the Greek mainland, but that's a different level of comparison by historians. ... Interview, Tewhida Ben Sheikh Huston, Perdita. 300: Rise of an Empire Interview. of 1 year experience Makati; Full … Find the latest movie news from Empire, the world’s biggest movie destination. Yet, I also think that the comparative gaze inheres in the ancient actors, in indigenous populations. Get behind them now on Kickstarter to reserve some sweet goodies for you at launch! But we’ll let Bruno explain that all to you best in our Dev Preview. MILSTEIN: Looking at your book as an example of comparativism (vis-à-vis something to which all these various people are tethered) and then looking at it synchronically but across a wide geographical space, in a huge empire that holds within it some peoples who often aren't studied together, there is something remarkable in the fact that people in such disparate places, as disparate as Aï Khanoum, Armenia, and Judea are from each other, could have so much in common and react in common ways. Shacknews 8/10 But this isn’t a simple 2D piloting game, it gets far more advanced when you look at the player driven economy and ability to micromanage your own crew to support your ship, or even send them onto other ships to hijack their operations. This is at least how our narratives record it, but there is also some good evidence to sustain it materially as well. I think that's a new phenomenon and I think it's really a phenomenon of connectivity and borrowing to a certain extent. What about the other side of the coin 09 June 2014. It is how a kind of unitary system exists in market trade—you can trust the weights and measures going on in the market. There's the danger that it ties itself into some really pernicious narratives about the Semitic world and the Greek world, which have a long backstory and which continue to have troubling consequences in the field of Classics. Empire Literary is a full-service literary agency located in Manhattan. There is a familiar claim in post-antique history writing that one of the characteristics of modernity was "Western, empty, post-Enlightenment time" liberating itself from this enclosed providentialist time, but, as I said, still carrying on many of its dynamics. It occupied an enormous landmass, taking over roughly the territory of the Achaemenids, whom Alexander had beaten out at the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BCE. 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We offer a 24 hour, 7 days a week, 365 days a year service to all our clients. To borrow from Chakrabarty, this is also a distinction between a sort of closed history, which for Chakrabarty would be the history of capital, which are all the logical antecedents of capital that lead up to capital, and the excess, the remainder, the countervailing things, the more dialogical and enchanted history. The automated calendar is especially important. That's a long-winded answer to say it exists at the level of historical analysis, but also more substantively at the level of historical actors. What is the distinction between regnal and dynastic dating, for instance, and total history 1 and total history 2? How should we understand Seleucid time vis-à-vis our received notions of Judeo-Christian time or Western time? It is an inference to claim what kind of interior sense of historicality derives from living in a world of relational dates for the first time when no one explicitly says so; but my claim is this: it has a radical effect on how people orient themselves in the world. So, if you're in the 40th year of King Nebuchadnezzer III, who dies in his 43rd regnal year, how do you imagine a year 200 years in the future? You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. We recently had a few moments to chat with GUNNAR president Scott Sorensen about GUNNAR glasses, and their Coke Esports Partnership. An example of history 1 is an amazing text, which survives only in fragments from Babylonia, written by a priest named Berossus. Empire's executive director discusses plans for the Middle East and DWC. His most recent book, Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire, explores the time of this empire, which he argues was radically new and can be characterized as linear, empty, and homogeneous. If we know about it, then you should. Find the latest film reviews, news and celebrity interviews from Empire, the world's biggest movie destination. October 5, 2020. This is apocalyptic literature that, similarly, is about undermining the royal Seleucid control over temporality and bringing the Seleucid timeline to a close. But when it came time to date the inception of imperial time, to inaugurate the "epoch," the date chosen was not 305, but 311 BCE. In all these apocalypses, which are the first apocalypses, you get a sequence of empires or periods, which include the Seleucids as the last regime, and then they're followed by the reign of God, or heaven, or divinity of some kind. ... but this is just a nickname for a major empire and should not be confused with the regular Satan. One of the new genres of durational time thinking that you get across the Seleucid Empire in different places, most visibly in Babylonia and Judea, are what I call total histories, which are accountings of the history of the world from the beginning—total history 1 is from the beginning up to, but stopping at, the coming of the Seleucids. So the two together are a project of categorical history, accounts of imperial space and indigenous time. He's a Babylonian priest, who writes a history of Babylonia in Greek from the beginning of the world, the creation of the world, up to the coming of Alexander the Great. Tom Norton. 2. It is not one of close reading; it's one of inference from accumulation of evidence. This is both an effect of the structures of the Seleucid Empire and an effect of a kind of nonimperial connectivity encouraged in the Hellenistic world more generally. The book is making a really bold claim in saying that these two fundamental modes of thinking about durational time are invented with the Seleucids. Welcome to Empire Group. It's got the same temporal texture. It's no accident that we begin to see the writing of history as if from a sort of point of Archimedes in time. This has never happened before. MILSTEIN: Could you speak briefly about the epoch? He would go on to establish the extensive Seleucid Empire. Please note that based on your settings, not all functions of the website may be available. If you're in Seleucid year 100, you are confident what 100 years, 200 years, or 1000 years in the future looks like. This region had been connected before: it was all unified under the Achaemenids. They bring history to a close. 2013 Legendary Pictures Funding LLC. We specialise in providing world-class, professional services throughout the UK and around the globe, with clients in the USA, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.