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Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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Gotland was linked with the Goths in the thirteenth- century De proprietatibus rerum of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, an English Franciscan, according to which the Goths originated in Sweden – for which the old name was Gothia – and from the island of Gotland.
Per Stobaeus
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Olbia in the Hunnic Time. A Historical Perspective
In this paper, the author presents the historical background of the period of functioning of the site of Olbia in the Gothic and Hunnic periods. He presents the most important studies on the Goths and Huns in recent decades, reconstructs the course of ...
Alfred Twardecki
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other
ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
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A comparison between two migrations in the Byzantine Empire: the Goths and the Pechenegs
The study compares from several points of view two migratory movements across the Lower Danube: the Tervingi Goths in 376 and the Pechenegs in 1045-1047.
Alexandru Madgearu
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‘Man You’ve Been a Naughty Boy, You Let your Face Grow long’ On the celebration of negative affect in adolescence [PDF]
In this paper the authors explore the phenomena of positive attitudes towards negative affect among young adolescent as reflected in the appearance and behaviours of ‘radical peer crowds’, such as Punks, Goths and Emos.
Paul Cooper, Michalis Kakos
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Barbarzyńcy w "Vita sancti Severini"
One of the major hagiographic sources of the Late Antiquity, Vita Sancti Severini, written by an abbey of the Lucullanum monastery, Eugippius, is also an excellent basis to explore the national and cultural contexts of living the Romans and the ...
Wojciech Dutka
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Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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The Last Period of the History of Olbia: the First Gothic Town
Olbia’s archaeological materials show that after the departure of the Roman garrison and local residents, the city was briefly abandoned (270s – early 280s AD). Then a new barbarian population appeared. It had clear signs of the Cherniakhiv culture, the
Boris Magomedov
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North of the Rhine and Danube Rivers there lived people known to the Romans as Germans, and often called the barbarians. One of the meanings of the word barbarian refers to people who are uncivilized in the sense that they are primarily pastoral and ...
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