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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, by Ethan Warren

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
When the actor Phillip Baker Hall was approached by a twenty-two-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson with the script for his first short film, Cigarettes & Coffee (1993), he claims to have wondered to himself, “Who was the first actor in the seventeenth ...
Nivedita Nair
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers, by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2019
At a time when the issue of authorship—and of the closely related notion of auteurism—can be seen to be waning in some ways in academic film studies, as new concerns and new areas of research continue to come to the fore, and older disciplinary concerns ...
Arash Kamali Sarvestani
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal 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
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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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Gore vidal's early Hollywood: history, fiction and film Gore vidal's early Hollywood: history, fiction and film

Ilha do Desterro, 2008
Although Gore Vidal has both worked as a Hollywood screenwriter and written criticism on Film—in this regard, he is perhaps best known for a sustained attack on the auteur theory of the magisterial director—I am concerned in this paper mainly with his ...
Thomas LaBorie Burns
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Quand expérimentation rime avec science-fiction : le cas de 2001, l’Odyssée de l’espace (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

ReS Futurae
This article questions the alleged incompatibility between science fiction and experimental film form, an assumption notably derived from Simon Spiegel’s theory of estrangement, by examining the case of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)—a ...
Vincent Jaunas
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"Vicios privados, beneficios públicos" o la diestra administración del legislador utilitarista

Lecturas de Economía, 2009
Este artículo explora la conexión entre Bernard Mandeville y Jeremy entham. La complementariedad entre ellos se evidencia en dos puntos: primero, el sentido enunciativo del principio de la utilidad, axioma fundamental del utilitarismo de Bentham, reposa ...
Jimena Hurtado
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Genreanalyse und Film : eine Arbeitsbibliographie [PDF]

, 2010
Die Bibliographie listet Artikel zur allgemeinen Problematik der Genres in Filmtheorie und -geschichte auf. Dabei werden auch einige allgemeine poetologische Arbeiten zum Generischen aufgeführt.
Wulff, Hans Jürgen
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