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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Czas ciągły i dyskretny a istnienie zawisłe i niezawisłe

Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia
This article serves as a polemical gloss to Marek Rosiak’s paper ‟Metafizyka genezy: Arystoteles i Whitehead”. The primary dispute concerns Alfred North Whitehead’s postulation of discrete time, which the author argues is an a priori metaphysical ...
Marcin Jancewicz
doaj   +1 more source

Review of "Art as Revolt: Thinking Politics Through Immanent Aesthetics," edited by David Fancy and Hans Skott-Myhre (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Lateral, 2021
The entanglements of “the aesthetic” and the political-economic have long been addressed in the areas of philosophy, cultural studies, and media theory.
Sean T. Leavey
doaj   +1 more source

Immanant preserving and immanant converting maps

Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2006
An immanant, associated to an irreducible complex character \(\chi\) of symmetric group \(S_n\), is a function \(d_\chi:M_n({\mathbb F})\to {\mathbb F}\), defined by \[ d_\chi(A):=\sum_{\sigma\in S_n}\chi(\sigma)\prod^n_{i=1}a_{i\sigma(i)} \qquad\forall A=(a_{ij})\in M_n({\mathbb F}).
Purificação Coelho, M., Antónia Duffner, M.   +1 more
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

Immanence/Imminence. Thinking About Immanence and Individuation

, 2014
The aim of this article is to compare the concept of Immanence, or rather, the definition of “plane of Immanence” as described and invented by Deleuze (and Deleuze and Guattari) with the concept of Individuation (in Simondon, but also within a long philosophical tradition from medieval philosophy to Leibniz, as discussed also by Deleuze, as it is well ...
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COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent, Tular Sudarmadi, Bakti Setiawan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source