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Area, Volume 57, Issue 4, December 2025.Short Abstract This paper considers the potential of participatory methods to address the methodological difficulties surrounding the historical geographies of dance, and moving bodies, within archival research. Exploring the historical geographies of tap dance across the circum‐Atlantic, it advocates a dual approach which combines more‐than ...
Lucy Thompson
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Who laughs? A moment of laughter in Shortbus [PDF]
, 2008 In his essay On Laughter, first published in France in 1900, Henri Bergson suggested that “our laughter is always the laughter of the group” (2003:5). With this observation in mind, I have to ask: who laughs when we watch a movie?
Yeatman, Bevin
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Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music
Area, Volume 57, Issue 4, December 2025.Abstract Attention has emerged as an important issue in the social sciences and humanities in recent years. Much influential work characterises our era as one in which our attention is increasingly placed under stress, seeking to unpack the consequences of such a state of affairs for our capacities to think.
George Burdon
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Supernormalising Nothing from the Hyperbolic Nihil to the Ordinary Supernothing
Open Philosophy, 2023 This essay connects the mystical concept of “supernothing” with Bergson’s notion of the image of nothingness as a movement in the making. I do this also with respect to the film The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020) – which explicitly cites Gorgias’s four ...
Ó Maoilearca John
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Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines the political and cultural contexts of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. These two League of Nations bodies were charged with fostering international
Laqua, Daniel
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Perpetual Present: Henri Bergson and Atemporal Duration
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2019 The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that adjusting Stump and Kretzmann’s “atemporal duration” with la durée, a key concept in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (1859–1941), can respond to the most significant objections aimed at Stump and Kretzmann’s ...
Matyáš Moravec
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Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016 This is the English translation of a speech Bergson made at Lycée Henri-IV on July 30, 1892. This is an interesting text because it anticipates Bergson’s last book, his The Two Sources of Morality and Religion.
Henri Bergson
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Memory grids: Forgetting East Berlin in Krass Clement’s Photobook Venten på i går. Auf Gestern warten (2012) [PDF]
, 2015 Memory grids: Forgetting East Berlin in Krass Clement’s Photobook Venten på i går. Auf Gestern warten (2012)In the article, I argue that by means of qualities intrinsic to the medium of the photobook, the renowned Danish photographer Krass Clement (b ...
Mrozewicz, Anna Estera
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The End of Time or Time Reborn? Henri Bergson and the Metaphysics of Time in Contemporary Cosmology
Philosophy and Cosmology, 2018 In this paper, I evaluate the work of two contemporary cosmologists, Julian Barbour and Lee Smolin, through the lens of Henri Bergson’s metaphysics of time.
Paula Marchesini
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Henri Bergson y la mística judía. Un acercamiento a la discusión
Perseitas, 2018 El escrito plantea la relación entre la mística según Bergson y su relación con la mística judía. Si bien el propio Bergson afirma que el misticismo más acabado se presenta en el cristianismo, una revisión al fundamento de optimismo sobre la creación en ...
Alejandro Peña Arroyave
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