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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City
Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
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The Soviet export of sleep therapy to the Eastern Bloc countries after the Pavlovian session in 1950. [PDF]
Popova K.
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Talking therapies for anxiety and depression in people affected by dementia: A scoping meta‐review
Abstract Background Symptoms of anxiety and depression are common in people affected by dementia (people with dementia and family carers). There are many reviews of psychological interventions to reduce stress and distress in people with dementia and family carers, but little cross‐fertilisation with the evidence base underpinning NHS Talking Therapies
Georgina Charlesworth +2 more
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Contingent Grounding Physicalism
ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
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Piaget as scientific diplomat: Exchanges between the Geneva School and Soviet psychologists during the 1950s-60s. [PDF]
García LN, Tau R, Ratcliff MJ.
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ABSTRACT I develop and defend a sense‐datum theory of perception. My theory follows the spirit of classic sense‐datum theories: I argue that what it is to have a perceptual experience is to be acquainted with some sense‐data, where sense‐data are private particulars that have all the properties they appear to have, that are common to both perception ...
Andrew Y. Lee
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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The Effects of Value Conflicts on Stress in Chinese College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model. [PDF]
Ren X, Xu H, Yue T, Wang T.
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