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Climate Fiction and the Limits of Representation: Scale, Agency and Futurity
ABSTRACT This special issue examines the limits of representation in climate fiction. Rather than treating such limits as mere narrative failures to be overcome, the essays understand them in two related ways. They concern both the difficulties of rendering climate change apprehensible and intelligible and the limits of representation as the principal ...
Caleb Ferrari, Lenka Filipova
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Parution de l'ouvrage de Mary Manjikian, Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End, Lexington Books, mars 2012. Présentation de l'éditeur : Mary Manjikian’s Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End advances the thesis that only ...
SMinne
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The ambassadors of nil: Notes on the zombie apocalypse
It is hardly necessary to begin with what has become a common invocation: “we live in Gothic times.” As the observation is commonplace, so are many of the commentaries on why this is the case, which more often than not fall back on some version of the ...
Warwick, A., Cunningham, D.I.
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ABSTRACT This study explores how 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Alberta, Canada—the country's most Conservative province—mobilize queer joy as a form of resistance amid rising anti‐queer and anti‐trans policies under a settler colonial, cisheteropatriarchal regime. Drawing from youth‐produced collages, we demonstrate that this visual arts‐based participatory method
JJ Wright, Gillian Robinson
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This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
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African apocalypse: the story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a twentieth century South African prophet
Book synopsis: The devastating influenza epidemic of 1918 ripped through southern Africa. In its aftermath, revivalist and millenarian movements sprouted. Prophets appeared bearing messages of resistance, redemption, and renewal.
Sapire, Hilary, Edgar, R.
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“So, why involve ourselves in apocalypse? Perhaps the answer must be that we are already involved in apocalypse, involved in such many-layered and multivalent complexities of image and reality, of judgment and hope, and of illusion and disillusionment ...
Catherine Keller
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To avoid antibiotic apocalypse, we need to diagnose infections faster
Taylor, C. (2016). To avoid antibiotic apocalypse, we need to diagnose infections faster. The Conversation.
Taylor, Clare
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Who Identifies as a “Prepper” in the United States?
ABSTRACT Objective Americans increasingly face hazards that threaten health, safety, and property, and personal emergency preparedness is on the rise. Yet little research examines who identifies as a prepper. Existing studies typically define prepping in terms of stockpiling resources or belief in collapse scenarios rather than as a social identity ...
Casey A. Klofstad +4 more
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