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Animal Teachers: Nonhuman Pedagogy and the Question of Deceit
Abstract Animals as “teachers” of human children and adults is a recurring theme in children's literature, in anthropological accounts of “feral children,” as well as in contemporary practices of animal‐assisted pedagogy, philosophical research, wildlife documentaries, and popular culture.
Helena Pedersen
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Mediaeval ideas of “parody” and comic poems by Jean Molinet (Part 1) [PDF]
The concept of "parody" in the context of the Middle Ages is marked by the influence of studies on intertextuality. Following G. Genette, medievalists view it as one of its categories and sometimes even equate it with intertextuality itself.
Ludmilla Evdokimova
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Interpreting Barth's Eschatology: An Eco‐Theological Reappraisal
Abstract Critical eco‐theologians do not consider Karl Barth's theology of creation helpful in addressing the contemporary ecological crisis. In this article, I explore a way to interpret Barth's theology that could lead to a fruitful eco‐theological perspective.
Othniël de Jong
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History as Story and Parody in Julian Barnes’s the Noise of Time
This article analyses Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time, a postmodernist parody of the Russian communist world, and shows that historical truth is turned into a story which is remembered with bitter irony and which offers various interpretations.
Catană Elisabeta Simona
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The Irony of Liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
ABSTRACT The 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vividly portrays the tragic consequences of repressive psychiatric authority. The film was—and remains—one of the most memorable and well‐known products of anti‐psychiatry sentiment. Opponents of American psychiatry from the time period of Cuckoo's Nest objected to what they saw as social control ...
Laura Hirshbein
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Abstract In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the Mokuhanga technique, a traditional Japanese printmaking method, and its contemporary evolution. This article explores the history of this discipline, its technical uniqueness, and its resurgence in the current context, with particular attention to its development in Spain.
Macarena Moreno Moreno
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From the Ground to the Stars: The Vertical Politics of the EU Drone Wall and Airspace Defence
Abstract This research note analyses the European Commission's Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 as a manifestation of a new spatial and technological logic of European defence: the vertical territorialisation of security. Moving beyond traditional perimeter‐based understandings of territorial defence, the Roadmap constructs a multi‐layered continuum ...
Justinas Lingevicius +2 more
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Family Representation in Contemporary Turkish Cinema: A Longitudinal Corpus Analysis, 1996–2024
ABSTRACT Family has long occupied a central place in contemporary cinema in Turkey, yet existing scholarship has largely examined its representation through close readings of selected films or specific themes. This article adopts a different perspective by analyzing family representations across a longitudinal corpus of 850 films produced between 1996 ...
Defne Tüzün +7 more
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PARODY AS ONTOLOGIC AND GNOSEOLOGIC PROBLEM OF RUSSIAN (S.-PETERSBURG) AVANT-GARDE IN 1920S
The article explains why the thinkers of Russian avant-garde suggested and developed a theory of parody in 1920s. The cultural and politic context of the avant-garde’s theory of parody is analyzed.
Сергій Троіцький
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Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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