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Windy Metropolis—Part 1: Animation as method

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Based on fieldwork in Stuttgart from 2022 to 2025, the animation Wind Witnesses is a fictionalization of the sweeping wave of microclimate protests in the 2000s, demanding the protection of fresh air corridors (Frischluftschneisen) as nonhuman entities threatened by the conversion of ostensibly empty spaces into buildings. This companion essay
Indrawan Prabaharyaka
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Entropy of a Quasi-de Sitter Spacetime and the Role of Specific Heat. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Luongo O, Azizinia M, Boshkayev K.
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Pluriversal Terrain: Rethinking More‐Than‐Human Borders in the Himalaya

Area, Volume 58, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT In the Himalaya, border‐making, as a key territorial practice, is entangled with terrain, necessitating a more‐than‐human understanding of borders. The Himalayan terrain actively shapes geopolitical borderlands, while also being understood within certain Indigenous ontologies as the abode of deities whose power is revered and invoked through ...
Yanzheng Li
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Could dark energy be changing over time? [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Mann A.
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The Affective Afterlife of the “Smelly Immigrant” Trope: Contested Scents, “Race,” and Olfactory Contact Zones in Berlin

City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes the notion of “olfactory contact zones” to investigate the role of odors and scents and the affects they give rise to in Berlin's urban publics. Drawing on the notion of the “afterlife” of racialised violence, it shows how tropes of the “smelly immigrant,” anchored in European antisemitism and colonial history, live on ...
Claudia Liebelt
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Relativistic Diffusing Particles, Entropy and Varying Cosmological Constants. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Haba Z.
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The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
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Strained encounters of the anthropogene: preservation and extinction in Tatsuaki Ishiguro's 'It is with the Deepest Sincerity that I Offer Prayers'. [PDF]

Med Humanit
Choksey L.
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Climate Fiction and the Limits of Representation: Scale, Agency and Futurity

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This special issue examines the limits of representation in climate fiction. Rather than treating such limits as mere narrative failures to be overcome, the essays understand them in two related ways. They concern both the difficulties of rendering climate change apprehensible and intelligible and the limits of representation as the principal ...
Caleb Ferrari, Lenka Filipova
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A gas-enshrouded and gas-reddened black hole at cosmic dawn. [PDF]

Nature
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