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Spectral Ecologies: Sintering More‐Than‐Human Pasts to Less‐Than‐Certain Futures
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do we mourn the loss of more‐than‐human beings, and what becomes of them when they are gone? This commentary examines two installations in Spectral Remix, an art exhibition at the 2025 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Suraiya Luecke
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Etudes Epistémè, 2015 Seventeenth-century English character-books were popular collections of short essays cataloguing the different types or “characters” of the city. These octavo or duodecimo pamphlets belonged neither to the field of theology nor to that of medical studies.
Claire Labarbe
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Bioethics, 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
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Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2020 This article considers the relationship between depressed affect, a long-term refugee situation, and poetry among Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Zuzanna Olszewska
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A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin
Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
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British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) of psychological constructs enables examination of between‐person differences and within‐person fluctuations across timescales: across days and within days. Research has mostly focused on between/within‐person levels and on affect dynamics, leaving potential within‐person timescale distinctions and self ...
Marcos Ross‐Adelman +6 more
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Burton's Anatomy and the Intellectual Traditions of Melancholy
Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2012 This article discusses the ways in which Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) inherited and transformed the various European traditions of thinking about melancholy. It divides these traditions into four categories—medical, natural-philosophical,
Angus Gowland
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Canada's Ethics Commissioner and the Watchdog Model of Ethics Enforcement
Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Despite notable progress, the OECD recently noted that conflict of interest regulation still suffers from poor implementation and how to ensure effective enforcement of ethics rules remains an important challenge. One popular but under‐examined approach is to rely on an ethics watchdog: an independent agency with few powers that can ...
Luc Juillet
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Melancholy in Hollywood westerns, 1939-1962 [PDF]
This thesis uses the concept of melancholy to extend and develop the critical understanding of the Western genre. It focuses on the various ways in which Westerns made in Hollywood between 1939 and 1962 can be said to express melancholy.
Falconer, Peter
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