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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Discourse and Identity in a Corpus of Lesbian Erotica [PDF]
Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2007 This article uses corpus linguistic methodologies to explore representations of lesbian desires and identities in a corpus of lesbian erotica from the 1980s and 1990s. We provide a critical examination of the ways in which "lesbian gender," power, and desire are represented, (re-)produced, and enacted, often in ways that challenge hegemonic discourses ...
Morrish, L, Sauntson, H
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and aims Alcohol‐related content on social media, particularly user‐generated content (UGC), is an increasingly normal feature of young people's digital lives and has been linked to increased alcohol use; however, a critical gap remains in understanding how different subgroups of young people are exposed to and engage with such ...
Alessandro Crocetti +7 more
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San Sebastián y la erótica del cuerpo sufriente
StoaResumen: En este artículo se desplegará la tensión entre la potencia erótica del cuerpo herido de San Sebastián y su función como imagen devocional. Tomando como centro del análisis las representaciones del santo en el contexto contrarreformista, y en ...
Miranda Bonfil
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background The current debate raises the question of whether “smartphone addiction” really exists and whether the phenomenon can be considered as a distinct, clinically relevant disorder. This question is examined from three perspectives: 1) the terminology and definition of the problematic behaviour, 2) the evidence of clinical relevance, the
Elisa Wegmann +2 more
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Tracing Digital Foodwork in the Transnational Family Across Southeast Asia
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While increasing scholarly interest in ‘digital foodscapes’ has highlighted the politics of food‐based capitalism and the digitalisation of food in urban contexts, less attention has been paid to the everyday digital practices around foodwork in transnational households connecting migrants and their left‐behind families. The failure to account
Kristel Acedera +2 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Una nuova morale erotica. Lettura di Manon Lescaut
, 2023 Si analizza il romanzo di Prévost per mostrare come il contraddittorio comportamento della protagonista sia ispirato da una nuova morale erotica che sovverte quella ...
Francesco Fiorentino
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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression
Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
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Sexual and relational challenges in men and women affected by prostate cancer: a Project SEXUS study
BJU International, EarlyView.Objectives To examine, in a nationally representative Danish study, a comprehensive range of sexual characteristics, dysfunctions and relational challenges among men with prostate cancer (PCa) aged ≥50 years and women married to such men, compared with unaffected men and women.
Ingrid Josefine Lundorff +4 more
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