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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
wiley   +1 more source

The scope of the global history of science: an essay on James Poskett's Horizons. [PDF]

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
Serrano-Juarez JD, Becerra-Bressant B, Ornelas-Cruces M, Gutierrez-Gaytan NS, Galvan D, Granados-Riveros L, Villegas-Lopez T, Villela-González MA.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality: Stiegler, Vice, and Radical Human Enhancement

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
wiley   +1 more source

Making science of things: Objects and knowledge in, between, and beyond the sciences. [PDF]

Hist Sci
Fernando T, Penaloza-Patzak B.
europepmc   +1 more source

One‐more‐vertex Next‐Event Estimation with Hierarchical Geometry Sampling

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Robust next‐event estimation (NEE) remains a challenge in scenes characterized by sparse or small‐scale geometry where indirect illumination is the primary transport mechanism. In these scenes, traditional path construction, which relies on local directional sampling, often fails to find intersections with the sparse geometry, and standard NEE
Jorge Garcia‐Pueyo, Nestor Monzon, Adrian Jarabo, Adolfo Muñoz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sense and the science of nineteenth-century environmental determinism. [PDF]

Hist Sci
Penaloza-Patzak B.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Do You Realise People Are Dying There?!’: Ukrainian Adolescents Reflecting on Death During Wartime

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how Ukrainian refugee adolescents in Romania think and speak about death and loss amid war and displacement. While contemporary Western societies display an unprecedented visibility of death, they continue to exclude children from genuine conversations about mortality, maintaining a protective silence.
Adriana Teodorescu, Alina Bărbuță
wiley   +1 more source

Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas, Verneri Valasmo, Varpu Mehto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

In the Absence of God’s Plan

Lexicon Philosophicum
Between the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX centuries in Russia rose to prominence a most peculiar philosophical and religious trend, later identified as “Cosmism”, which sought, among other things, to reframe mankind’s purpose and goals on a
Pietro Restaneo
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