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Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality: Stiegler, Vice, and Radical Human Enhancement

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
wiley   +1 more source

Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
wiley   +1 more source

The aesthetic sublime of megaproject structures: A framework and a research agenda

open access: yesEuropean Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The physical structures of megaprojects—such as mega‐canals, metros, railway lines, bridges, tunnels, and iconic opera houses—hold a profound capacity to generate aesthetic experiences with enduring societal impact. Yet, research on megaprojects has predominantly focused on functionality and economic rationale with aesthetics being pushed to ...
Federica De Molli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“And I have no face, I have wanted to efface myself” Sylvia Plath’s Autothanatography or Death Writing

open access: yesE-REA, 2017
Plath’s work has often been described as an auto/biographical account of her death wish, and for some, her 1963 suicide was the evidence confirming her obsession for the morbid.
Nicolas Pierre BOILEAU
doaj   +1 more source

Quebracho in Melancholia [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1886
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openaire   +1 more source

Phenotypic Variability in Slow‐Wave Sleep in Depression: Associations With Clinical Profiles and Disorder Severity

open access: yesJournal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Slow‐wave sleep (SWS; stage N3) is often reported as reduced in depression, yet variability across depressive phenotypes remains poorly characterised. This study aimed to determine whether N3 architecture—proportion, duration, and latency—identifies clinically distinct profiles in major depressive episode (MDE).
Antoine Salmeron   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

More Science Than Art: The First Botanical Garden in Portugal (c. 1650)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gabriel Grisley, a German physician, came to Portugal and founded a garden near the Xabregas River in Lisbon, during the 1610s under the Spanish kings' rule. In view of the utility a botanic garden represented for the kingdom, he was able to obtain a royal privilege from King João IV during the Restauration War against the Spanish (1640–1668).
Ana Duarte Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Freud, Orzeszkowa i zimowe epifanie

open access: yesTeksty Drugie, 2016
Review: Melancholia i poznanie: ‘Autobiografie’ Elizy Orzeszkowej [Melancholia and Understanding: Eliza Orzeszkowa’s ‘Autobiographies’], ed.
Małgorzata Czermińska
doaj  

Conceito e diagnóstico

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Psychiatry, 1999
Este artigo revê o conceito de depressão e a nosologia contemporânea dos estados depressivos e seus diferentes subtipos. São discutidos aspectos relativos ao curso (formas agudas vs crônicas da doença, padrão sazonal), características fenomenológicas ...
José Alberto Del Porto
doaj   +1 more source

Pollution and Haunted Eco‐Histories: Silent Hill and Silent Horrors in Centralia, Pennsylvania

open access: yesPopular Culture Review, Volume 37, Issue 2, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Centralia is a former mining town and borough in Northeastern Pennsylvania, whose population has been steadily declining since the Mine Fire of 1962—a fire that still burns today. The “horrors” of living in Centralia are reflected in horror media set in postindustrial mining towns like Silent Hill.
Maz Jardon
wiley   +1 more source

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