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Deconstructing Depth: Proximity and Contemplation in Déjà Vu

Film-Philosophy, 2018
This article interrogates the persistence of critical frameworks informed by depth-models of hermeneutics, and the repercussions the equation of “depth” with meaningfulness has for the appreciation of the “shallow” aesthetics of post-classical action ...
Matt Denny
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“I’d Rather Be in Afghanistan”: Antinomies of \u3cem\u3eBattle: Los Angeles\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2014
This article reads Battle: Los Angeles (2011) against the grain to argue that the film possesses an antiwar undertow running unexpectedly counter to its surface-level pro-military politics. The article uses the antinomy structuring Battle: Los Angeles as
Canavan, Gerry
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The Cancelled Future: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Urban Crisis of Imagination

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1872-1891, September 2025.
Abstract In an era defined by capitalist realism, our collective ability to imagine futures beyond neoliberal frameworks has been profoundly constrained, giving rise to “cancelled futures”. This imaginative paralysis is particularly evident in urban planning, where gentrification has homogenised urban spaces and created displacement.
Christophe Davis
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Passages de frontières et référence surréaliste dans Cette chère humanité

ReS Futurae, 2014
Dans le premier roman du cycle de « L’Europe après la pluie », Cette chère humanité (1976, Prix Apollo), l'Europe s'est matériellement fermée au reste du monde.
Cédric Chauvin
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Critical criticism’s critique: 13 theses, or, it is all rubbish [PDF]

, 2011
Book synopsis: Well this is it: the end, last gasp, final straw; in short, the concluding dark volume in a series of books some idiot called ‘critical inventions.’ Let us be like wry Oscar Wilde, said the idiot, and dream of the critic as artist, or at ...
Leslie, Esther
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Pastiche [PDF]

, 2014
The term "pastiche" originally means a "pasty" or "pie" dish containing several different ingredients. It has come to be used synonymously with a variety of terms whose meanings are rarely fixed with clarity: parody, montage, quotation, allusion, irony ...
Weiser, Peg Zeglin Brand
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Apuntes sobre la metáfora en Fredric Jameson y en Richard Rorty [PDF]

, 2016
En la novela titulada Los nombres, de Don DeLillo, al igual que sucede en todas las novelas del autor estadounidense, se evidencian muchos de los grandes problemas que la contemporaneidad afronta, pero entre todos ellos aflora de manera paulatina la ...
Duque García, Nacho
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Utopianism and Plato's Republic

Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper criticises the two prominent interpretations of utopianism in Plato's Republic. The traditional argues that it is mere utopianism, seriously proposing that Kallipolis is, in fact, the ideal city. The ironic argues that the Republic is a critique of the ability for reason to reconstruct human nature and is, therefore, a dire warning ...
R. Austin Kippes
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Los nuevos decorados del arte

Calle 14: Revista de Investigación en el Campo del Arte, 2016
El presente artículo pasa revista y analiza algunas de las tesis que Jean François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson y Jean Baudrillard construyeron para dar cuenta de las consecuencias de la llamada crisis de la modernidad y sus repercusiones en el arte.
Carlos Fajardo Fajardo
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“Time(‐space) Out of Joint: Franz Kafka's Disrupted Chronotopes”

The German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 3, Page 173-190, Summer 2025.
Abstract This article introduces a new approach to spatial anomalies in Franz Kafka's work by examining them through Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the literary chronotope, situating it within the broader framework of Bakhtin's earlier ideas on answerability, responsibility, and the ethics of the act.
Asif Rahamim
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