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Hard Touch: Gore Capitalism and Teresa Margolles’s Soft Interventions
This text approaches Teresa Margolles’s textile works through the lens of gore capitalism, a concept theorized in Sayak Valencia’s important 2018 book.
Julia
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Statements such as ‘This house is too expensive for me to buy’, ‘Jim is old enough to join the Navy’, and similar and related statements, have to do with excess and sufficiency. They are connected in meaning systematically enough to sustain their own local logic.
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The impact of excess choice on deferment of decisions to volunteer [PDF]
Excess choice has previously been shown to have detrimental effects on decisions about consumer products. As the number of options increases, people are more likely to put off making an active choice (i.e., defer) and show less satisfaction with any ...
Lauren S. Carroll +2 more
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Affect Theory with Literature and Art: Between and Beyond Representation.
This paper maps the intersection of affect theory with literature and art through the revision of the question of representation and its crisis, which has been central in theorizing literary and art concerns.
Sandra Moyano Ariza
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Distribution of Civil Liability Based on the Amount of Fault in Multiplicity of Accidental Causes from the Perspective of the Jurisprudence of Ahl al-Bayt [PDF]
The distribution of liability is one of the most complex discussions related to civil liability. It is difficult to know the contribution of each multiple causes (grounds), because of the fact that there are usually multiple means involved in the ...
Saied Hassan Vahdati Shobeiri +1 more
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This “visual essay” was written in response to an invitation to write a thousand word essay accompanied by one image. It addresses the definition, by the author, of architecture as an act of contingent excess. Without disagreeing with George Bataille’s understanding of excess as waste, I argue that, in the case of architecture, the excess displayed in ...
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Melodrama and the Production of Empathy in Manuel Puig’s El Beso de la mujer araña
Manuel Puig’s 1974 novel, El Beso de la mujer araña, investigates how empathy can be incrementally learned through a melodramatic storytelling pratice and, eventually, mobilized to effect political and social change.
Irina Popescu
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Airports, the essential hubs of global travel, have to cater for the increasing demands for air travel, with growing passenger numbers and the associated growth in resource consumption.
Anne van der Tuin-Rademaker +5 more
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Of the many symbolisms attributed to the monkey among the ancient Nahuas those related to excess and transgression stand out, as these qualities characterize for the most part the essence of this mammal.
Jaime Echeverría García
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