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Disconsolate Suffering: Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism and the Ambivalence of Humanitarian Witnessing

open access: yesThe Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Through a close reading of Joe Sacco's seminal work of graphic journalism, Palestine, this article argues that Sacco unsettles the consoling effects of mass media by disrupting dominant narratives of difference, otherness, and spectacularized violence.
Bryant Scott
wiley   +1 more source

Disavowal. Distinction and Repetition: Alain Badiou and the Radical Tradition of Antisemitism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
My focus in this chapter on the militant French philosopher, Alain Badiou, emerges from my work into the various ways that the Shoah has been incorporated into antisemitic ways of thinking.
Seymour, D.
core  

Artificial Creativity and Human Fragility

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critiques the widespread assumption that generative AI systems exhibit genuine artistic creativity. While such systems can produce novel and aesthetically appealing outputs, assessments based solely on results obscure fundamental differences between human and artificial agents.
Johanna Merz
wiley   +1 more source

Menorah Review (No. 33, Winter, 1995) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Current Feminist Critiques -- Ideological Passion -- The Voices of Silent Dialogues -- The Covenantal Relationship: Ethical Implications -- The Perennial Shylock -- Talmud -- Book ...

core   +1 more source

Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

Menorah Review (No. 17, Fall, 1989) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Proposal for Peace -- The Eternal Thou -- A Conversation Elicited by Peter Gay\u27s Book -- Book ...

core   +1 more source

Home‐Making Through Deathscapes or How to Circumvent the Contradictions of Nationalism: The Case of Polish Far‐Right Activists in Britain

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this ...
Rafal Soborski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Practices of Cultural Nationalism. Alfonso Pacifici and the Jewish Renaissance in Italy (1910-1916)

open access: yesQuest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2015
This essay focuses on Alfonso Pacifici, leader at the forefront of the Jewish cultural revival movement in Italy in the first decades of the XX century.
Sara Airoldi
doaj  

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