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Was the Inca Economy Based on “Protomoney”? Or, Why Accounting Systems Should Not Be Conflated With Concepts of Exchange Value

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
wiley   +1 more source

Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820

open access: yesHistory, Volume 110, Issue 393, Page 588-605, December 2025.
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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Overcoming Title 42 and the 2022‐3 Venezuelan Migrant Expulsion Spectacle: A Border Securocracy Case Study

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 53, Issue 6, December 2025.
ABSTRACT On October 12, 2022, the Biden administration abruptly changed course and announced that Venezuelan refugees would be immediately subject to Title 42—the policy that effectively means that those migrants would be summarily forced to return, or expelled, to Mexico.
Terence Michael Garrett   +1 more
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Baudrillard on Simulations: an Exegesis and a Critique [PDF]

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This paper is an attempt to explain, apply, and ultimately to point to certain limitations of, Baudrillard’s idea that ours is the age of simulations. As the concept has not always been clearly discussed in the literature, early sections of the paper are
Stanley Raffel
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GERÇEKLİK, İKTİDAR VE BEDEN KAVRAMLARI IŞIĞINDA MATRIX FİLMİ

open access: yesSelçuk İletişim, 2019
Gerçekliğin ne olduğu sorusu insanlık tarihinden bu yana düşünürleri meşgul etmiştir. Bu arayış, sanatın pek çok kolunda olduğu gibi sinemada da yansıma bulmuştur.
Fatma Öztat
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Hybrid Professional Becoming: Shaping and applying empirical theory to understand English teacher professional identity beyond the binary

open access: yesReview of Education, Volume 13, Issue 2, August 2025.
Abstract This article introduces Hybrid Professional Becoming as a critical approach in English language teaching, challenging the native English‐speaking teachers and non‐native English‐speaking teachers (NEST–NNEST) binary. Grounded in postcolonial theory and a comprehensive literature review, the approach weaves together critical reflection, desire,
Nashid Nigar, Alex Kostogriz
wiley   +1 more source

International Journal of Baudrillard Studies

open access: yes, 2014
Special Issue: Baudrillard and WarPublished versionSpecial Issue: Baudrillard and ...
Artrip, Ryan E., Debrix, François
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El gusto por lo extremado: un análisis crítico de Baudrillard y Derrida sobre el terror y el terrorismo

open access: yesIsegoría, 2012
Baudrillard interpreta el «nuevo terrorismo» como un intercambio simbólico de regalo y contra-regalo: la muerte del terrorista es un contra-regalo irrefutable que rompe el círculo coercitivo de las relaciones sociales «impuestas» por el sistema global. A
Camil Ungureanu
doaj   +1 more source

The Spectacularization of NGOs Accountability in Disaster Situations: Evidence From the 2015 Nepal's Earthquakes

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 490-507, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Drawing on Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, this article aims to extend our understanding of the way in which certain non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) spectacularize their performance in the context of disaster situations and the continued co‐existence of a multiplicity of accountabilities, with reference to the 2015 Nepal ...
Pawan Adhikari   +4 more
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Baudrillard`s The Agony of Power

open access: yes, 2022
For Baudrillard, absolute Evil today comes from an excess of Good, of technologcial development, of totalitarian morality, of the desire to do Good without opposition. The attempt to force the world into a globalized and integrated society merely has the opposite effect of generating an ideological “Axis of Evil” in the form of terrorism. But there can
openaire   +2 more sources

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