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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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Women and Alcohol Consumption in Fascist Italy
Abstract This article examines discourses and practices around women's drinking in Fascist Italy. The history of alcohol production and consumption in Italy during the fascist dictatorship has only recently received attention; alcohol's gendered dimensions, especially women's drinking, have been hitherto overlooked. While the production of legislation,
Kate Ferris
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Abstract This research brings in the voice of underserved and underrepresented women of various racial or ethnic origins and social classes, who have differing buying powers, sexual orientations, body shapes, and physical appearances, into the conversation of fashion diversity.
Lena Cavusoglu, Deniz Atik
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ABSTRACT Throughout the world, 785 million people lack a basic drinking‐water service and at least 2 billion people consume contaminated drinking water. At the same time, numerous global water charities fronted by ‘caring’, politicized celebrity figures — dubbed the ‘high priests’ of global development by the authors of this article — have sought to ...
Filippo Menga, Michael K. Goodman
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THE ENDLESS ACCUMULATION OF HISTORY IN FINANCIAL TIMES
ABSTRACT This essay engages with Amin Samman's incisive 2019 text, History in Financial Times, which unfolds a philosophy of history for contemporary “financial times.” I turn first to Samman's concept of the strange loops of financial history, and so to the historical turn initiated by the subprime crisis of 2008.
C. N. Biltoft
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Point of View of Jean Baudrillard on the Philosophy of Cinema Survival [PDF]
Jean Baudrillard the postmodern social theorist adopted a philosophical approach for explanation of the contemporary world. Baudrillard refers to the current state of affairs in the world as “Hyperreality” and believes that today the simulacra are more ...
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Jean Baudrillard: Simulakranes fremrykning
"La précession des simulacres”, in: Traverses nr.10, februar 1978, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1978, s.3-37. Tema: “le simulacre”. Oversat fra fransk af Carsten Juhl. – Siden udgivet med enkelte tilføjelser som den første
Jean Baudrillard, Carsten Juhl
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(Hi)story‐Telling: An Introduction to Italian Alternate and Counterfactual History
History, Volume 108, Issue 382, Page 355-364, September 2023.
Adriano Vinale
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The consumer society and the (false) myth of mass democratisation [PDF]
About fifty years from its first publication in 1970, La société de consommation. Ses mythes ses structures (Paris Denoël) confirms itself as a lucid analysis of the meanings at the basis of the consumption dynamics within contemporary society.
MARCHETTI, Maria Cristina
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Negailestingasis socialinis diagnostikas Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007)
Mercilless Social Diagnosis: Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) Jovilė Kotryna Barevičiūtė >
Jovilė Kotryna Barevičiūtė
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