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Anthropophagy as a paradigm of extreme violence. Reflections on Romanian dystopias (V. Beneș, Gheorghe Săsărman and Ligia Pârvulescu) [PDF]
Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și LiteraturăMy study examines the way in which manhunt and anthropophagy function in Romanian dystopias as narrative devices of total violence, exploring not only their anthropological filiations, but also their political and cultural meanings, by relating them to ...
Emanuela ILIE
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British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract Business schools are often criticized for reproducing growth‐oriented norms, but alternative pedagogies remain difficult to normalize. Drawing on Butler's theory of subversive performativity, this study examines how art‐based pedagogy enables academics to challenge growth logics in business schools by transforming their identities over time ...
Sylvain Bureau +3 more
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História da Historiografia, 2023 This article proposes a revision of the idea of the End of History as pictured by Francis Fukuyama regarding its categorization as both a utopia and a dystopia.
Antenor Savoldi Jr
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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Utopia Becomes Dystopia: Imperium by Christian Kracht [PDF]
In ironic and often scandalous formulations, Christian Kracht’s novel Imperium describes the attempt to realise the religious and social revolutionary ideal of August Engelhardt’s nudist and vegan utopia in a ‘new world’, namely on the island of Kabakon ...
Esposito, Gianluca
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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, 2022 Takes an innovative approach to categorising the dystopian genreProvides the first comprehensive stylistic analysis of 21st century dystopian literatureIncludes a discussion of dystopia across evolving and emerging platforms such as video games, digital ...
Norledge, Jessica
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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Elements of Dystopian Fiction in the Modern Lithuanian Prose
Respectus Philologicus, 2015 The theoretical problems and practical analysis of utopia and its subgenre dystopia are widely known in the global cultural discourse. Nevertheless, these analyses still remains almost terra incognita in the studies of Lithuanian prose.
Lina Buividavičiūtė
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