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Rituals of writing otherwise

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Drawing on theories of ritual as performative and transformative, this flash tip offers practical suggestions and examples for creating a ritual of writing otherwise, including companion texts, sensory and material cues to frame the ritual practice, writing collectively, and attitudes we might articulate and cultivate.
Madelyn Prevost
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Counting Cosmic Cycles: Past Big Crunches, Future Recurrence Limits, and the Age of the Quantum Memory Matrix Universe. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Neukart F, Marx E, Vinokur V.
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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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Fractal nature of galaxy clustering in the updated CfA redshift catalog. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Macek WM, Wójcik D.
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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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Preface to the Special Issue: Quantum Probability and Randomness V. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Khrennikov A, Svozil K.
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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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Spectral interlocutions and the politics of unfinished: Buddhism, haunting, and memory in Karunatilaka's <i>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida</i>. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Humphry NM, I A.
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Beyond Connection: Paradoxes of Psychedelic Resonance in Late Modernity

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the enduring suspicion that psychedelic experiences are antithetical to the structural dynamic of modern societies through Hartmut Rosa's concepts of ‘resonance’ and ‘social acceleration’. Rosa's theoretical framework is particularly generative for studying the social meaning of contemporary psychedelia because it enables a
Mateo Sanchez Petrement
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