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Neo‐Slavery as Instrumentalization: Amazon, Surrogate Motherhood, and Mobile Phones
Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 97-105, March 2026.ABSTRACT Despite being perceived as a remnant of the past, slavery persists in today's increasingly economized and biopoliticized world. To thematize the actuality of slavery, we initially return to Aristotle's discussion/justification of slavery as instrumentalization of human beings. Then we revisit Plato's allegory of the cave through three distinct
Bülent Diken +2 more
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Deixa o velho Platão franzir seu olho austero ou Queerificando Baudelaire
Viso, 2019 As flores do mal (1857) correspondem ao monumento, por excelência, do ambivalente gênio baudelairiano. Escritos ao longo de vinte e sete anos, os 166 poemas reunidos nesta compilação antológica expressam, segundo Benjamin, o canto de cisne do último ...
Aléxia Bretas
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1023-1040, December 2025.Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) are often considered as marginalized urban territories that must be better integrated into the nation‐state to obtain legitimacy under the Rule of Law. Based on years of fieldwork in one of the largest shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro (Rocinha), this article suggests that the absence of a (normative) liberal apparatus in ...
Moises Lino e Silva
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“I would gladly write only for the dead”: success and reception in Baudelaire
Texto Poético, 2019 This article seeks to approach the themes of success and reception of and in Charles Baudelaire’s work. Concerning reception, it is about the author’s perspective, his expectations regarding his work and the reader of the nineteenth century.
Gilles Jean Abes
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 796-806, December 2025.ABSTRACT Many artists in Europe now turn to online crowdfunding to fund their creative practices against the backdrop of cuts in state‐funded subsidies for the arts. Based on an ethnographic analysis of online crowdfunding in the Netherlands, I suggest that this neoliberal context requires artists to cultivate occupational subjectivities and practices ...
Eitan Wilf
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ZWEIGS SAMMLUNG | SAMMLUNG ZWEIG: LITERARY PROVENANCE AND THE STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTIONS IN BRITAIN
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 456-479, October 2025.ABSTRACT Libraries and archives increasingly have to face questions concerning the origins and transmission paths of their holdings. Based on acquisition records as well as private and institutional correspondence, this article traces the history of book and autograph collections formerly owned by Austrian writer and collector Stefan Zweig which are ...
Stefanie Hundehege
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Литературный фактThis article focuses on the literary, political, philosophical, and musical dialogue between Dostoevsky and his ardent admirer Thomas Mann, primarily between the novels Demons and Doctor Faustus.
Alexandre F. Stroev
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Baudelaire Laboratory. Brief History of a Project by Walter Benjamin
Aisthesis, 2020 The article intends to retrace, from a historical-philological point of view, the main steps of Walter Benjamin’s unfinished research and works, conducted during his later years, dedicated to Charles Baudelaire.
Marina Montanelli
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The Rhythmic and the Metronomic: On Charlie Chaplin's Gait
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Matthew Beaumont
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German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 544-566, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines Anna Maria Ortese's collection of journalistic reportages and short stories, Silenzio a Milano (Silence in Milan, 1958), and Ingeborg Bachmann's speech ‘Ein Ort für Zufälle’ (17 October 1964). It focuses on their topophobic images of Milan and West Berlin, the anxious representations of these post‐1945 urban landscapes ...
Roberto Interdonato
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