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“Here Lies the Possibility of Bodies Turning Elemental”:
This paper explores the (non)representational aesthetics and politics of Serpent Rain, a 2016 Black feminist film inspired by the recovery of a Danish-Norwegian slave ship. Despite ample historical evidence, Scandinavia’s involvement in the transatlantic
Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang
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The aim of the analysis is to present the film (Late Afternoon) by Gilles Renard as a study of melancholy. Both the plot and the cinematographic means used to shape the form of this short film correspond with the theoretical texts by Julia Kristeva and ...
Franciszek Drąg
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Feminist Aesthetics of Resistance
This chapter claims resistance as an aesthetic and affective category that is elementary to feminism. Inspired by Michael Taussig’s (2020) definition of the shamanic as “the skilled revelation of skilled concealment,” the chapter explores the role of the aesthetic concealment and revelation of affect in examples of heteronormativity from film and TV ...
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Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel
ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
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Artivism, Feminist Aesthetics and Production of Subjectivity
Given the growing subjective serialization and biopolitics capture of bodies, of the aesthetic desires and practices, it is increasingly necessary to think about the inventive expansion of our subjective territory as a form of resistance and creation. It
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939) stands in the tradition of African American use of the biblical musings that aims to relativize and yet uphold a new version of the sacred story under the gaze of a black woman that manipulates and ...
Cucarella-Ramon, Vicent
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Abstract This paper presents the case of Margaret Macdonald's (1903–1956) posthumous treatment of Susan Stebbing (1885–1943). After Stebbing's death, Macdonald—her Ph.D. student and collaborator—wrote an early history of analytic philosophy in which Stebbing's work is credited to Bertrand Russell (specifically, her account of ‘directional analysis ...
Peter West
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Part of the people or apart from the people?
Barbie (2023) is both a feminist and a metaphysical film. It is a story of ideas regarding girls and their fantasies and the relation of the two vis-à-vis each other.
clinton peter verdonschot
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Homo Nationalis and the Moralisation of Belonging: Rethinking National Identity in Austria
ABSTRACT This article examines how national identity and belonging in contemporary Austria are articulated through moral rather than ideological vocabularies. Analysing presidential, party, media and social media discourse surrounding the 2025 National Day, it conceptualises the homo nationalis as the moral citizen who embodies the nation's virtues of ...
Markus Rheindorf
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