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The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments
ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
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Este artículo explora el concepto de “indexación” y “archivo afectivo”con vistas a articular las maneras en que la falta en tanto afecto se ha constituído históricamente en la poesía de la generación NN en Chile.
Paula Cucurella
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Do large language models (“LLMs”) think? Daniel Stoljar and Zhihe Vincent Zhang have recently developed an argument from rationality for the claim that LLMs do not think. We contend, however, that the argument from rationality not only falters, but leaves open an intriguing possibility: that LLMs engage only in arational, associative forms of thinking ...
Joseph Gottlieb +2 more
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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This paper interprets Chris Kraus’s novel Torpor (2006) as an experiment in what could be coined an ‘anthropology of unhappiness’. Drawing on Lauren Berlant’s concept of cruel optimism and Sara Ahmed’s critique of happiness as a normative ideal, the ...
Bartelmus Martin
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ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
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ABSTRACT How should you decide what to do? Orthodox decision theory offers attractively simple advice: Do whatever has the most expected value. In what follows, I argue that this is not always good advice for agents like us. Agents like us are susceptible to error: Sometimes, we do not succeed at doing what is recommended by the advice we are trying to
Sam Carter
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The optimist may be secretly envied, but he is publicly despised. His pronouncements are regarded as expressions of simple-minded blindness or as cynical propaganda. Optimism is not regarded as intellectually respectable. It was not always so: there have
Maggie Boden (4460329)
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