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Apocalyptic Collapse and the Absurd in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2020 This article analyzes the way Kurt Vonnegut develops an aesthetics of the grotesque to examine the irresistible attraction humankind feels for self-destruction.
Ruth Fialho
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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L’idiota Puškin e il saggio Stalin. Aneddotica e strategie di demitizzazione in Charms e Prigov
eSamizdat, 2023 The avant-garde literary group OBĖRIU, with its poetics of the absurd, alogism and grotesque, had a great influence on later Soviet Russian literature and on neo-avant-garde movements as well. This paper investigates the connection between OBĖRIU and the
Alice Bravin
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Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd: Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage
, 2015 Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment.
Finburgh, Clare
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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KIERKEGAARD’IN FELSEFESİNDE VAROLUŞUN AŞAMALARI VE İNANAN BİR VARLIK OLARAK İNSAN
Felsefe Dünyası, 2019 Bu makalede Kierkegaard’ın insan anlayışı incelenmektedir. Onun felsefesi, genel itibariyle modern felsefenin zirve noktası kabul edilen aydınlanma felsefesinin ve onun akılcılığının bir eleştirisi niteliğindedir.
Ferhat Akdemir
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Taking Absurd Theories Seriously 3 essays on Rational Choice Theory and Welfare Analysis [PDF]
The effects of public policies on the welfare of different groups in society are in many cases unclear. Economists often study such effects through welfare analyses based on a mathematical model of an individual decision maker.
Røgeberg, Ole Jørgen
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Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between visibility and politicization. Drawing on empirical evidence from urban mobilization campaigns across Russia, we counter the existing literature on theories of the post‐political and liminality by identifying four dimensions of visibility—publicity in urban space, objects of urban contestation,
Valeria Rumiantseva, Liubov Chernysheva
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser +2 more
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