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Vernacular Virtual: Toward a Philippine New Materialist Poetics
This essay turns to and through the Philippine vernacular in order to open up the possibility of a new materialist regard of literature, one that specifically stems from the Philippine tropics.
Christian Jil Benitez
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ABSTRACT Background B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and while most children in high‐resource settings are cured, therapy carries risks for long‐term toxicities. Understanding parents’ concerns about these late effects is essential to guide anticipatory support and inform evolving therapeutic approaches ...
Kellee N. Parker +7 more
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Notes on Metallic Affect: Metallurgy and New Materialism
This paper follows Theodore Wertime, twentieth century historian of metallurgy, spy turned survivalist. Wertime's fascination with metallurgy is related to the Smith in Deleuze and Guattari and the mythical Alchemist of Mircea Eliade's work; also ...
Alex Casper Cline
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Measuring people’s values Orientation for Materialism has been a popular area for the research in social sciences since 1990’s. Among the plethora of materialism scales, perhaps Marsha Richins and Scott Dawson formulated scale for measuring materialism ...
Muhammad Rehan Masoom +1 more
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Into the Woods: Toward a Material Poetics of the Tropical Forest in Philippine Literature
This study considers how the tropical forest as a material and discursive space mediates the ways in which history is imagined in Philippine literary texts and literary production. Mobilizing ideas from new materialism, material poetics, and tropicality,
Glenn Diaz
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ABSTRACT Introduction Cognitive impairment and exercise intolerance are common in dialysis patients. Cerebral perfusion and oxygenation play a major role in both cognitive function and exercise execution; HD session per se aggravates cerebral ischemia in this population. This study aimed to compare cerebral oxygenation and perfusion at rest and in mild
Marieta P. Theodorakopoulou +10 more
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The Invisible and the “Matter” of Memory: A New Materialist Approach to Countermonumental Aesthetics [PDF]
Taking a new materialist perspective, the article looks at the artistic installation entitled 2146 Stones Against Racism (created in 1993 by Jochen Gerz in Saarbrücken, Germany) as an example of countermonumental project dedicated ...
Dorota Golańska
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Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi +5 more
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In this poetic inquiry into spaces, the author draws on New Materialism to explore how spaces are both material and conceptual. Based on diverse inspiration, from Bachelard to Barad, the author looks at our role as both subjects and creators of everyday
Wade Tillett
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This introductory article shows how the prism of fragility can be used as a way to conceptually and empirically further the research work that has foregrounded the material part of human societies by focusing on the agency of artifacts and the strength ...
Jérôme Denis, David Pontille
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