Hollow institutions: Merleau‐Ponty and the possibility of coordinated action
Abstract This article addresses the phenomenon of political powerlessness, understood—following Hannah Arendt—as the separation of “words and deeds,” a condition in which words become “empty” and actions lose their overall intelligibility, increasingly relying on coercion. I take up Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology of institution to explore this condition.
Daniil Koloskov
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Positive impact of sleep on recall of multiplication facts. [PDF]
Spiller J, Gilmore C.
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From spatial perception to referential meaning: convergent image schemas in the music of and texts about Beethoven's piano sonatas. [PDF]
Antović M, Jovanović VŽ, Popović M.
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Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu
Short Abstract By examining contemporary Tuvaluan climate diplomacy, this article advocates for a greater engagement with feminist geopolitics to interrogate the embodied practices of climate diplomacy. It focuses on how human bodies – the UN Secretary General, Tuvaluan children, and the Foreign Minister of Tuvalu – have been used in contemporary ...
Liam Saddington
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Robust Direction of Arrival and Polarization Parameter Estimation in Mutual Coupling Scenario with Non-Collocated Crossed Dipole Arrays. [PDF]
Chen W, Lan X, Wang X.
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Zone-wise occupancy schedules developed using Time Use Survey data for building energy performance simulations. [PDF]
Sood D+6 more
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The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
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Randomised controlled trial of music listening combined with progressive muscle relaxation for mood management in women receiving chemotherapy for cancer. [PDF]
Nguyen KT+7 more
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Direction of Arrival Method for L-Shaped Array with RF Switch: An Embedded Implementation Perspective. [PDF]
Troccoli T+6 more
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English
Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
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