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Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 5, Page 936-961, October 2025.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
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The Figure of the Knot and the Inertia of Hypermobile Territoriality

Population, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 6, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Contemporary spatialities shaped by mobility have often been conceptualised as open, fluid, and unstable—places, territories, or identities that risk dissolution in the primacy of process over form. However, this emphasis on relational flows has been criticised for overlooking the material and affective dimensions of space: its inertia ...
Brouck Jennifer
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Different atmospheres : of Sloterdijk, China, and site [PDF]

This paper begins with an appreciation and critique of the remarkable work of Peter Sloterdijk which makes it possible to open up a number of issues concerning philosophy and its relation to the social sciences and humanities, most particularly ...
Thrift, N. J.
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Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 454-473, June 2025.
Abstract This article critically assesses the impact of political and moral positions within contemporary anthropology. Re‐examining ideas of advocacy and the ethical within the discipline, it argues for an alternative political anthropology that focuses on perpetration rather than victimhood, offenders rather than the offended.
Trine Mygind Korsby, Henrik Vigh
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“Living in the City, You Can End Up With the City Living in You”: Urban Struggles and Mental Health in Accra, Ghana

City &Society, Volume 37, Issue 1, April 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the intersection of city life and mental health in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews and focus group discussions, it explores how urban precarity, infrastructural violence, and uncertainty in a rapidly shifting world contribute to mental distress.
Josiane Carine Tantchou
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Peter Sloterdijk: la técnica como ejercicio ontológico

Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía, 2021
En este trabajo, se discute la relación entre la ontología de las esferas y el papel de la técnica en el pensamiento de Sloterdijk, considerando la idea de ejercicio como forma de equipamiento inmunológico.
Leopoldo Tillería Aqueveque
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Insurgent envelopment: The emergency blanket and scenes of exposure at border zones

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 49, Issue 4, December 2024.
Short Abstract By focusing on the emergency blanket, this paper offers an account of how the geographies of exposure are mediated materially, aesthetically, and politically by forms of envelopment. Highlighting how the emergency blanket is deployed as a device of minimal comfort at border zones, the paper examines artistic works that repurpose this ...
Derek McCormack
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Review Essays

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1991
Awareness and Amnesia: Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction , by Malcolm Bowie. Mary Lydon The Modernist Novel in Spain. Transparent Simulacra: Spanish Fiction 1902-1906 , by Robert Spires.
Various Authors
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El relato histórico-filosófico de la globalización como herramienta para la reflexión literaria. De un concepto operativo a un estudio de caso

Literatura: Teoría, Historia, Crítica, 2020
La convención sobre el uso del término “globalización” ha llegado a automatizarlo y desvincularlo de los procesos históricos que lo explican. El filósofo alemán Peter Sloterdijk propone un concepto más amplio e históricamente revisado de globalización ...
José Luis Gómez Vázquez
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Imagine, predict or perform? Reclaiming the future in sociology beyond scientism and catastrophism

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 319-335, September 2024.
Abstract In this article I examine and criticize some mainstream views of the future within scholarly debates, mainly in social science. The goal is to review the strategies sociology is following to include the future as a theme of its own reflections. Such strategies also reveal relevant aspects of the society in which they are developed.
Andrea M. Maccarini
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