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Historical psychology, utopian dreams and other fool’s errands [PDF]
, 2008 Copyright 2008 @ the author. Originally published open access by Birmingham University.
Hubble, N
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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
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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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Information et contre-révolution [PDF]
Studia GilsonianaInformation has been omnipresent and all-powerful for almost two centuries, and now possesses sophisticated and invasive means of imposing itself and creating opinion. It was crucial in the Enlightenment and in the preparation of the French Revolution by
P. Jean-François Thomas s.j.
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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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Tracing the Flâneur: The Intertextual Origins of an Emblematic Figure of Modernity
Open Cultural StudiesThis article presents an intertextual analysis of the origins of the flâneur, tracing his literary evolution from early nineteenth-century attestations to Baudelaire’s Le Peintre de la vie moderne (1863).
Castigliano Federico
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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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A note on the bicategory of Landau-Ginzburg models (ℒ𝒢K) [PDF]
Surveys in Mathematics and its ApplicationsThe bicategory of Landau-Ginzburg models denoted by ℒ𝒢K possesses adjoints and this helps in explaining a certain duality that exists in the setting of Landau-Ginzburg models in terms of some specified relations. The construction of ℒ𝒢K is reminiscent of,
Yves Baudelaire Fomatati
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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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