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Horror and Evil

Etnoantropološki problemi / Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, 2016
This paper deals with the relationship between the real and the unreal in horror literature. Its basic premise is that the concept of evil in horror stories stems from liminal content which is the product of the authors' subjective experiences of reality.
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Annäherung an das Politische im Horror - Teil 1

, 2019
"The horror, the horror". Zur (Un-)Fassbarkeit des Horrors. von Arno Görgen Im folgenden Essay soll versucht werden, Horror (unabhängig vom Medium) als Idee konzeptionell einzuhegen, zu definieren und festzustellen, inwiefern sich im Horror ...
Eugen Pfister
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Czarne cierpienie, dekontekstualizacja i problemy współczesnego horroru rasowego

Studia Filmoznawcze
This article examines the problematic issues surrounding horror films that have addressed race since the release of Get Out. The article outlines the significance of Jordan Peele’s feature film debut, considering context of black horror, as well as the ...
Dominik Langiewicz
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Australasian horror

, 2010
This Australasian horror special issue is an important step forward in putting Australian and New Zealand horror movies on the map of film and cinema studies as a subject worthy of intellectual debate. The journal issue is the first devoted solely to the
Ryan, Mark David
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“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the horrors of the Holocaust and its connections to eugenics were revealed to the world, many post‐war population geneticists sought to establish rhetorical distance from the Nazi's state‐led campaigns, without abandoning their belief that actively shaping the population's genetics would produce a prosperous society.
Christopher R. Donohue, Ian A. Myles
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Horror in the Andes

, 2018
Horror in the Andes is a film about three friends and their journey making a horror movie in the small town of Ayacucho in the Peruvian Andes. This documentary film is based on research conducted by Martha-Cecilia Dietrich at the University of Bern.
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
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When Universities Turn Carceral: Between Academic Freedom and Elimination

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Gil Rothschild Elyassi
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P4s Are Either Unhelpful or Unnecessary. Proposing a Better AI‐Powered Solution to Predict Patients' Preferences

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Personalized Patient Preference Predictor (P4) has been proposed as an AI tool to aid surrogate decision‐making when incapacitated patients lack advance directives. Unlike population‐level Patient Preference Predictors (PPPs), which infer preferences from demographic correlations, P4s fine‐tune large language models (LLMs) on a patient's ...
Beatrice Marchegiani
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The Anthropology of Horror: Theoretical Challenges and Epistemological Potential

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
From a disciplinary angle, horror could be viewed as a more imaginative, illegitimate brother of anthropology, or rather, its more poetic, kindred soul.
Marko Pišev
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