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The polemics of idol worship in John Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria have been interpreted by previous scholars as either the author’s engagement with the Lollard image controversy or a political critique of Henry VI. This essay, however,
Yun Ni
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This essay explores the process linked to the desecration and subsequent rebuilding of monuments erected on the French Riviera to commemorate the British monarchs who had a positive influence on the development of Menton, Cannes and Nice as coastal ...
Gilles TEULIÉ
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No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism
ABSTRACT A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel partial defence of political iconoclasm as a protest strategy for environmental activists. I focus on Just Stop Oil's attack on van Gogh's Sunflowers.
A. M. Hilder Jarvis
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Back Again to the Future: A New Era for Cerebroprotection
Cerebroprotection is a fresh framework for designing neurological therapy that targets glia and vascular cells, in addition to neurons. In the future, successful cerebroprotection will involve targeting all elements of the neurovascular unit. Preclinical trials must include functional outcomes, as well as lesion morphometry.
Patrick Lyden
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The Ethics of Blindness and the Postmodern Sublime: Levinas and Lyotard
The excerpt below is the final chapter of M. Jay’s “Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought” concerning the long-term confrontment “iconoclasm vs visual imaginary” within modern European culture.
M. .. Jay, A. V. Khazina, F. V. Nicolai
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Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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Staging Uncivility, Or, The Performative Politics of Radical Decolonial Iconoclasm
In this article I reflect on the deployment of crass vandalism in contemporary decolonial and anti-racist struggles, as exemplified by the recent activist campaign against Belgium’s colonialist patrimony.
Matthias Pauwels
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Effectively Maintained Inequality in Canada Revisited
ABSTRACT The mass expansion of higher education (HE) systems during the 20th century pushed social scientists to theorize how high participation systems continued to reproduce inequalities across socio‐economic lines. One popular theory in sociology, dubbed effectively maintained inequality (EMI), suggests that families from the upper economic strata ...
Roger Pizarro Milian, David Zarifa
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Collaborative diffusion: The dynamics of policy output in COVID‐19 interstate compacts
Abstract Interstate compacts are formal structures through which multiple states work together towards a common goal or shared agenda. Previous research on compacts focuses almost exclusively on the decision to join the compact, leaving questions on post‐formation diffusion patterns unexplored.
Isaac Pollert +4 more
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