New Babylon (Left Behind)
New Babylon may refer to: *Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BC–539 BC), a period of Mesopotamian history that is also known as the Chaldean Dynasty *New Babylon (Constant Nieuwenhuys), the anti-capitalist city designed in 1950 by artist-architect Constant Nieuwenhuys * New Babylon (''Left Behind''), a fictional city depicted in the 1995 ''Left Behind'' series of books * centre in The Hague *''The New Babylon'', a 1929 film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg *Whore of Babylon Babylon the Great, commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and place of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. Her full title is stated in Revelation 17 (verse 5) as "Mystery, Babylon the Gr ...

Neo-Babylonian Empire
The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the List of kings of Babylon, King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 612 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire, Achaemenid Persian Empire in 539 BC, marking the collapse of the Chaldean dynasty less than a century after its founding. The defeat of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and subsequent transfer of power to Babylon marked the first time that the city, and Lower Mesopotamia, southern Mesopotamia in general, had risen to dominate the ancient Near East since the collapse of the Old Babylonian Empire (under Hammurabi) nearly a thousand years earlier. The period of Neo-Babylonian rule thus saw unprecedented economic and population growth throughout Babylonia, as well as a renaissance of cult ...
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New Babylon (Constant Nieuwenhuys)
New Babylon is an anti-capitalist city perceived and designed in 1959-74 as a future potentiality by visual artist Constant Nieuwenhuys.Henri Lefebvre on the Situationist InternationalInterviewconducted and translated 1983 by Kristin Ross. Printed in October 79, Winter 1997 Origin of the name Initially known as ''Dériville'' (from "ville dérivée", literally, "drift city"), it was later renamed ''New Babylon''. Henri Lefebvre explained: "a New Babylon -- a provocative name, since in the Christian tradition Babylon is a figure of evil. New Babylon was to be the figure of good that took the name of the cursed city and transformed itself into the city of the future." Goal and rationale The goal was the creating of alternative life experiences, called "situations", Sarah Williams Goldhagen explained: n the 1950s, Constanthad already been working for years on his "New Babylon" series of paintings, sketches, texts, and architectural models describing the shape of a post-revolutionar ...
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New Babylon (Left Behind)
New Babylon may refer to: *Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BC–539 BC), a period of Mesopotamian history that is also known as the Chaldean Dynasty *New Babylon (Constant Nieuwenhuys), the anti-capitalist city designed in 1950 by artist-architect Constant Nieuwenhuys * New Babylon (''Left Behind''), a fictional city depicted in the 1995 ''Left Behind'' series of books * centre in The Hague *''The New Babylon'', a 1929 film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg *Whore of Babylon Babylon the Great, commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and place of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. Her full title is stated in Revelation 17 (verse 5) as "Mystery, Babylon the Gr ...

The New Babylon
''The New Babylon'' (russian: Новый Вавилон, Novyy Vavilon alt. title: russian: Штурм неба, Shturm neba) is a 1929 silent historical drama film written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film deals with the 1871 Paris Commune and the events leading to it, and follows the encounter and tragic fate of two lovers separated by the barricades of the Commune. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his first film score for this movie. In the fifth reel of the score he quotes the revolutionary anthem, "La Marseillaise" (representing the Commune), juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous " Can-can" from Offenbach's ''Orpheus in the Underworld''. Footage from ''The New Babylon'' was included in Guy Debord's feature film ''The Society of the Spectacle'' (1973). Kozintsev and Trauberg found some of their inspiration in Karl Marx's ''The Civil War in France'' and ''The Class Struggle in France, 1848-50''. Background As one of the directors, Leo ...
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