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This article argues that Antonin Artaud's theory of the theatre of cruelty, elaborated in The Theatre and Its Double, and the procedures of Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegranates (1969) bear a crucial affinity.
Alexander Dickow
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Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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“This Obscure and Enigmatic Concept”. Philosophy of Cruelty in Nietzsche, Freud, and Beyond
This essay traces Derrida’s interrogation of Nietzsche and Freud’s concept of cruelty and his attempt to think the beyond that this concept necessarily presupposes.
Mauro Senatore
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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A War of Words: Framing the Austrian Civil War through the Language of the Combatants
Abstract The Austrian civil war was a four‐day conflict in 1934 between the largest left‐wing paramilitary, the Schutzbund, and government forces aligned with the largest right‐wing paramilitary group, the Heimwehr. The Schutzbund was quickly and brutally suppressed through the use of overwhelming force, armoured vehicles and even artillery deployment ...
Jenna Byers
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ALCOHOLISM AND CRUELTY TO CHILDREN* [PDF]
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The social life of money for children
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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Abstract Sharp force trauma has been the leading cause of homicide in England and Wales for more than a decade. Experimental research on sharp force trauma frequently relies on animal bone as a substitute for human remains, yet their ethical acceptability and comparability to human bone remain contested.
Beth Lawrence +2 more
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The reason behind prohibition of usury [PDF]
Usury is prohibited in Islam and other divine religions. However, the financial system which is common in today's world, especially in West, is founded on the basis of usury. In effect, it is the features present in usurious loans that seduce uncommitted
yahya Alavi
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