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The Non-Human as Such: On Men, Animals, and Barbers
The article investigates a dialectic that, through the work of negation, paradoxically brings the non-human as ‘anything but human’ back to the human. It shows how and why, throughout the criticism of all forms of anthropocentrism, the human being still ...
Oxana Timofeeva
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O presente texto desenvolve o conceito de materialismo dialético no pensamento de Slavoj Žižek radicalizando o aspecto da finitude humana em finitude ontológica. Para Žižek, isso corresponde à passagem de Kant a Hegel.
Fernando Facó de Assis Fonseca
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Izvrševanje in utemeljevanje, objektivni in subjektivni podatki – vzporednica? [PDF]
Performance and Elaboration of Reasons, Objective and Subjective Data – a Parallel? - Objective data are distinguished from subjective data based on formulating the expressivity of human performance and its traces, whereby subjective data result from ...
Boris Zizek
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Global law and human rights: Marxist reflections. How can a political account of human rights avoid Eurocentrism? [PDF]
My recent book The Degradation of the International Legal Order? attempts a political account of human rights, and engages with the work of China Miéville and Susan Marks, as well as the extraordinary opus of Alain Badiou. The book has been well received.
Bowring, Bill
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The Politics of Death:On Life after the ‘End of History'. [PDF]
In this paper, the most recent writings by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour are brought into dialog by examining what light they shed on contemporary debates concerning “end of life” decisions.
Palladino, Paolo
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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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Six political philosophies in search of a virus: critical perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic [PDF]
The Coronavirus (Covid-19) poses interesting questions for social and political thought. These include the nature and limits of the ethical responsibility of the state, personal liberty and collective interests, human dignity, and state surveillance.
Delanty, Gerard
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ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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Psychological Capital and Core Self-Evaluations in the Workplace: Impacts on Well-Being [PDF]
The uncertainty of today’s working environment, including prevalence of temporary employment conditions in many industries, has affected the psychological well-being of people in the workforce.
Gibson, Annita, Hicks, Richard E.
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