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‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
wiley   +1 more source

The neurobiology of altered states of consciousness induced by drumming and other rhythmic sound patterns

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
Rhythmic auditory stimulation has been used across cultures to alter consciousness, yet its neural basis remains unclear. Our review suggests that rhythmic sounds induce absorption and relaxation. We propose that thalamo‐cortical entrainment to low‐frequency rhythms underlie these effects, paralleling mechanisms in psychedelic and psychotic states.
Raquel Aparicio‐Terrés   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Auditory change detection in musically trained adolescents and young adults: An EEG–fMRI study

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
Electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were used to examine auditory deviance detection in musically trained and untrained 16–20‐year‐olds. Participants passively listened to a sequence of major chord standards and minor chord deviants during separate EEG and fMRI sessions.
Vesa Putkinen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“The piano that no longer plays”—The impact of intersecting traumas on narrative identity in Herta Müller's novel Atemschaukel

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I analyze the intersecting traumas that appear in Herta Müller's novel Atemschaukel (2008), and their effect on the main character's narrative identity, through the perspective of feminist trauma studies and narrative hermeneutics.
Liisa Merivuori
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay focuses on Iris Murdoch's final book of philosophy, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, and Anton Chekhov's final and greatest play, Three Sisters. The essay uses Murdoch's ideas to present a new reading of Three Sisters as a working‐out of a metaphysics by which people find the breaks, the limits, of their pictures of the world and ...
Ross Collin
wiley   +1 more source

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