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The Dialectics of Crisis: The Romanticised Apocalypse in J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World and Lars von Trier’s

open access: yesDiffractions, 2013
The theme of the apocalyptic is often portrayed through films and literature in a pessimistic manner. The crisis of the end of the world, unsurprisingly, is culturally and societally deemed as the ultimate manifestation of catastrophe.
Siobhan Lyons
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Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels

open access: yesAngles, 2021
Investigating the novels that deal with a pandemic apocalypse, this study highlights the dystopian elements preceding and following the end of the world.
Munir Ahmed Al-Aghberi
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The Byzantine apocalyptic tradition a fourteenth-century Serbian version of the Apocalypse of Anastasia [PDF]

open access: yesBalcanica, 2011
Early translations of the Apocalypse of Anastasia into Old Church Slavonic appear in several versions incorporated into miscellanies of the zbornik (collection) type. These texts belong to various genres of religious prose and are usually assembled in
Marjanović-Dušanić Smilja
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Rethinking Climate Change on the Role of Human Power Generation, Alternative Perspectives, Potential Solutions, and a Plea for Action

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
All energy matters Let us broaden the discussion on solutions to climate change. Greenhouse gases have upset the delicate equilibrium of the Earth's energy balance. Consequently, all sources of heat affect the temperature of the Earth. Although the amount of additional heat generated by humans is a fraction of that produced by the sun, it is generated ...
Martin Bertau   +2 more
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Unnoticed apocalypse: the science fiction politics of urban crisis

open access: yes, 2013
The slogan ‘capitalism is crisis’ is one that has recently circulated swiftly around the global Occupy movement. From Schumpeter to Marx himself, the notion that the economic cycles instituted by capitalism require periodic crises as a condition of ...
Warwick, A., Cunningham, D.I.
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HEGESIPPUS AND THE APOCALYPSE [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Theological Studies, 1907
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openaire   +1 more source

Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Anthony Davies: Apocalypse Now [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
1000-word text to accompany an exhibition of Anthony Davies' "Apocalypse Now" woodcut prints, Aratoi: Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, December ...
Hanfling, Edward
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Revelation 20:1–10 within the overall paradigm theological thrust of John’s Apocalypse

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2019
Revelation 20:1–10 has been discussed and debated from the earliest of times within Christian circles. The question has always been whether Revelation 20 ‘occurs’ after the return of Jesus Christ or whether it is to be appreciated as having a unique ...
Martin H. Pohlmann
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