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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 612-628, July 2026.
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
wiley   +1 more source

Animism: Respecting the Living World

open access: yes, 2005
'Animism' is now an accepted term for describing ways in which humans engage with some other-than-human neighbours (e.g. animals, plants, rocks, clouds), on the understanding that the category 'person' includes more than humans.
Harvey, Graham, Harvey, Graham,
core  

Cultivating Creative Potential: A Constraints‐Based Framework for Movement Exploration Instructions

open access: yesThe Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT How constraints affect individuals' creative potential interests many scientific fields. Education, especially after 2000, actively supports creativity promotion, with creativity occupying a prominent place in Physical Education (PE) curricula of many countries.
E. Konstantinidou
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Flood Disasters: Environmental Memory and Adaptation in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 2, June 2026.
This article explores three questions. First, why does New Zealand have widespread flooding hazards? Second, why are these persistent, with little seemingly learned from the memory of earlier events? And third, beyond reiterating conventional solutions, what examples of alternatives or adaptations are being developed in different places?
Eric Pawson
wiley   +1 more source

Le parti pris des choses : sur quelques apories onto-épistémiques du New Materialism

open access: yesSocio-anthropologie
The theoretical movement known as New Materialism, which emerged in the early 2000s, saw not only the return of ontology, but also the affirmation of a materialism in which all oppositions and contradictions would dissolve.
Charles Wolfe
doaj   +1 more source

Bakteriopolis: Introducing Microbes to Society

open access: yesMicrobial Biotechnology, Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2026.
Bakteriopolis is a travelling exhibition that brings the invisible microbial world into public spaces. The project is accompanied by a broad communication strategy to engage diverse audiences. ABSTRACT Microorganisms, while being fundamental to life on Earth, are often associated with negative perceptions and global crises.
Lena Friebel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Revival of Animism in the 21st Century

open access: yes, 2023
The academic concept of “animism” has a long and complicated history. Born from a colonial setting around 1900, it was used to identify premodern or “primitive” understandings of certain nonhuman entities or objects as being alive, ensouled, and agentic.
von Stuckrad, Kocku; id_orcid
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The Ethical Life of Educational Policy: Physical Education Teachers as Phronimoi

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the ethical dimension of educational policy. Policy‐as‐practice scholarship tends to emphasize teachers as purposeful agents involved in problem‐solving and the creative interpretation and reassembling of educational discourses.
Adriano De Francesco
wiley   +1 more source

The Animism of Modern Property

open access: yes, 2022
In 1842, Karl Marx denounced a new law prohibiting the poor from pilfering fallen wood in the forests of the Rhineland. He saw in this apparently local case a major transformation of modern societies.
Monique David-Ménard
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