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When property becomes rent

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 45-56, February 2026.
Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
wiley   +1 more source

The normalization of the cyborg: from futuristic artistic expression of mutilation to daily aesthetic beauty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The concept of mutilation as a permanent scarring of the integrity of the body has been overcome by the representation in visual culture of the cyborg, the bionic human and the genetically and bionically engineered mutant. Mutants with bionic prosthetics
Aceti, Lanfranco
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Opportunities of patient‐derived organoids in drug development

open access: yesBritish Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 183, Issue 4, Page 939-944, February 2026.
Various model systems are utilised during drug development starting from basic research, moving to preclinical research and development for clinical applications in order to identify new drugs to improve human health. However, there are characteristics of humans that are not captured by established models.
Antonia Büning, Elena Reckzeh
wiley   +1 more source

Materials chemistry and the futurist eco-friendly applications of nanocellulose: Status and prospect

open access: yesJournal of Saudi Chemical Society, 2018
Raghvendra Kumar Mishra   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bohemians and Gentlemen. The representation of artists in British society 1850-1950 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
How do we understand the artist; how do we imagine he or she lives? Is our view formed by visiting exhibitions or artists' studios, reading criticism, biography or novels, looking at self-portraits and photographs, watching films?
Dakers, Caroline
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Becoming-Speed: Futurism’s Conflicts with Subjectivity and Motion

open access: yesArt Vision
The futurist myth of speed was constructed around the possibility of a new subjectivity emanating from the altered sensations of a subject in motion. This myth of speed along with that of machinery emanated from an obsession with technological progress ...
Ekin Pınar
doaj   +1 more source

Toward a Library Renaissance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
For centuries, librarians have tried to safeguard information, sometimes in the face of destruction. Think of the great Library of Alexandria, the burning of which symbolizes the irretrievable loss of knowledge.
Serrat, Olivier
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The Internet of Things Connectivity Binge: What are the Implications? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Despite wide concern about cyberattacks, outages and privacy violations, most experts believe the Internet of Things will continue to expand successfully the next few years, tying machines to machines and linking people to valuable resources, services ...
Janna Anderson, Lee Rainie
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