· Fear of leftist tendencies 2001-9/11 collapse of Twin Towers of World Trade Center in NY Collapse of WTC.Symbolic collapse of capitalism. Subsequent 'war of terror','resurrection of history'.Shift of ideological and symbolic hostility of the West-new enemy: not Marxism but Islam.Effects on British Society: · Consensus politics-Tony Blair 1997 · First labour PM in 20 y. Responses of different ethnic groups · Monica Ali. Brick Lane (2003) · Nadeem Aslam, Kamila Shamsie- i became a moslem on 9/11 Literature of second- and third-generation immigrants from former colonies. 22. Nadeem Aslam's politics, language and characters. Cultural hybridity as predicament and site for dialogue and development. Language-English setting, 21st c reality: racist attacks. Politics.Between English and Islamic culture Characters: defy conventions
The literature of the 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants serves to give voice to the cultural “other” and is aimed at fighting clichés, such as those that emerged after the 9/11 attack. Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Andrea Levy, Nadeem Aslam, etc. Realist literature of the millennium: new fears and anxieties regarding the turn of the millennium, blurring of boundaries between fiction and reality, a reduction of the contrast between high and low (both in culture and literature), the importance of the
They have created detailed modeling guidelines to convey the level of detail for models during different design phases. The guidelines are in Finnish language and cover general principles of modeling in construction projects, architectural design, structural design and in building services design. In 2007 a survey conducted in Finland revealed that 93% of architecture firms and 60% of engineering firms were using BIM to some extent in their projects (Wong, Wong & Nadeem, 2009). Several private organizations like Skanska Oy, Tekes, and the Association of Finnish Contractors are actively promoting the implementation of BIM along with Senate Properties. Research programs and universities in Finland are running several programs involving BIM. For example, VTT and Tampere University of Technology are investigating industrial processes with the support of an Open Virtual Building Environment.