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The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
wiley   +1 more source

“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
wiley   +1 more source

The Last Line

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Beci Carver
wiley   +1 more source

Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
wiley   +1 more source

Danielboek as apokaliptiek

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2001
The tales in the Book of Daniel (Dan 1-6) do not have typical apocalyptic features. The tales form part of a book that also includes visions (Dan 7-12) that exhibit definite apocalyptic features.
M. Nel
doaj   +1 more source

Politics and Justice: Aristotle, Rawls, and the Case for Realism in Political Theory

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aristotle's analysis of stasis in Book V of the Politics offers a striking example of “distinctively political thought,” as advocated by Bernard Williams's political realism, and in contrast to the moralist approach exemplified by John Rawls. Aristotle identifies disputes over justice, driven by partial and conflicting conceptions of equality,
Paul Sagar
wiley   +1 more source

There’s a Basilisk in the Bathwater: AI and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Religions
Deciding what to make of secular, religious, and spiritual speculations about AI and digital technologies can be overwhelming, and focusing on the extreme utopic or dystopic outcomes may be obscuring the larger facts.
Avery Isbrücker
doaj   +1 more source

The End as Enjambment: Critical Inquiries Beyond the End…

Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2015
This introduction investigates the proliferation of ends in late 20th century and early 21st century fiction, theory, and culture. By investigating some characteristics of ‘ends’ I reflect upon some of the aporias of the concept of the end. I conclude by
Sebastian Huber
doaj   +1 more source

Whose Digital Future? Civil Society and Alternative Imaginaries in Transnational Digital Governance

Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article investigates different visions of digital futures, examining how desired futures are discursively constructed within civil society in transnational digital governance. The analysis builds on discourse theory and a growing body of research on imaginaries in digital governance.
Outi Puukko
wiley   +1 more source

Impossible Dreaming: On Speculative Education Fiction and Hopeful Learning Futures. [PDF]

Postdigit Sci Educ, 2022
Houlden S, Veletsianos G.
europepmc   +1 more source