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Before Mnemosyne: Wilhelmine Cultural History Exhibitions and the Genesis of Warburg's Picture Atlas. [PDF]

Ber Wiss
Abstract Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, left unfinished in 1929, has attracted significant interest in recent decades. This essay offers a new interpretation of Warburg's “picture atlas,” not in relation to modernist collage and photomontage, but as an heir to scientific pedagogical exhibitions of the late Wilhelmine period.
Vollgraff M.
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Marécages, une pollution par essence? Conditions d'une écopoétique des marais et autres zones humides au XXe siècle

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract To expose the pollution of marshes and swamps, whether by hydrocarbons or other contaminants, the French or Francophone author of the twentieth century must first confront a literary tradition that equates stagnant water with a volatile poison and, more broadly, wetlands with toxic environments. In his article “Wetland Gloom and Wetland Glory,”
François Sagot
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Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai Revendiquer la parenté par le « cœur filial » : travailleurs migrants du care dans Shanghai vieillissante

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 132-149, March 2026.
Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
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«Différant des Autres», Espacements et Temporalités Spectrales

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT That night that he agreed to our suggestion that we accompany him outside, for the whole night or until the overflow has passed, M seemed to be in direct contact with all the layers of astronomy, inhabiting all temporalities simultaneously. Outside, lying/sitting on the picnic table, in the pitch‐black darkness of the night in the woods, under
Amélie‐Anne Mailhot
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Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 319-331, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to sociolinguistic scholarship on register formations, digital technology, and labor by analyzing technofuturist registers—historically inherited, typified, and socially shared modes of speaking about technology. These registers create distinct modes of feeling, relating, idealizing, and desiring technology and its ...
Alfonso Del Percio
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Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves: An introduction

Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract Interrogating what constitutes “good parenting” captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse ...
Heike Drotbohm, Konstanze N'Guessan
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Making beautiful babies: Performative parenting, parental determinism, and personhood in Côte d'Ivoire

Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract According to the notion of “parental determinism,” parents are paradoxically imagined as both powerful actors and in need of expert guidance and supervision. Subsequent research in different world regions problematizes the links between parental competence, child development, and societal ills.
Konstanze N'Guessan
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The Imaginary Museum: Researching Imagination Through Practices of the Imaginary

International Journal of Art &Design Education, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 328-339, May 2025.
Abstract In this paper we explore the idea of an equity of imagination in the context of learning in the art museum. We mean by this a shared mental space in which artworks and publics are afforded mutual agency and power to generate meaning, with opportunities to conjure new meanings for shifting and changing contexts.
Kathryn Cutler‐MacKenzie, Anna Cutler
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Neoliberalism's Imagined Futures: Sustainability as Colonialism in Eco‐City Design

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 714-733, March 2025.
Abstract This article examines the architectural tropes used in designs which are concurrently branded as sustainable and futuristic, offering a critique of techno‐solutionist architectures that have been promoted by the European Union, World Expos, and forward‐looking design pedagogy.
Maxim Tvorun‐Dunn
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L'architectonique processuelle de la condition territoriale de l'être humain – Esquisse d'une conceptualisation des territorialisation, déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation

Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 69, Issue 2, Summer / été 2025.
Résumé Les géographes usent généralement de la notion de territorialisation pour évoquer ou réfléchir sur le processus par lequel l'être humain est en relation avec le monde et y fait sa place à partir du territoire qu'il crée ou recherche. Ils emploient les notions connexes de déterritorialisation et reterritorialisation pour évoquer ou réfléchir sur ...
Mario Bédard
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