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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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Sociologisk ForskningCombining crip theory and existential media studies, the purpose of this theoretical essay is to critically interrogate a biometric palm-reading device that turns the hand into a means for payment – connecting its datafied veins to one’s assets – by ...
Amanda Lagerkvist +2 more
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“Son tutti morti”. Human Extinction and the Apocalyptic Imaginary in Giacomo Leopardi
Cahiers d’Études ItaliennesThis article investigates the speculations on and depictions of human extinction in Giacomo Leopardi’s writings, with particular emphasis on the Operette morali (1824–1832).
Sabrina Ferri
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Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano +3 more
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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Визуальная теологияAt present, eschatological and apocalyptic issues are acting as a stable driver for the development of popular religious discourse. At the same time, marginal groups of religious people are actively using apocalyptic semantics on the Internet to develop ...
Vladimir Lebedev / Владимир Юрьевич Лебедев +1 more
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English Evangelical Historians on the Origins of “the Reformation”
Etudes Epistémè, 2017 Although Luther’s protest of indulgences in 1517 is often considered to be the point of origin for “the Reformation”, first- and second-generation English evangelicals understood that origin differently.
Susan Royal
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Introduction to the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2018 https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue13/Editors-Introduction-for-NANO-Special-Issue-13-The-Anthropocenehttps://nanocrit.com/issues/issue13/Editors-Introduction-for-NANO-Special-Issue-13-The-AnthropoceneAccepted ...
Krieg, Brandon, Wiggins, Kyle
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Creation and New Creation in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature [PDF]
, 2009 While creation imagery in general is common in the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish literature, this essay will focus on imagery of new creation and what it implies about the former creation.1 It surveys the diversity of thought about new creation to ...
Todd Hanneken
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