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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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Channelling meaning from the margins
Henry Peacham is a unique figure in the sphere of English emblematics at the beginning of the 17th century. His collection of emblems, Minerva Britanna, published in 1612, is a testimony of the author’s singularity.
Cezara Bobeica
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Le présent ouvrage est le fruit d'une collaboration entre spécialistes du théâtre, musicologues et historiens de l'art. Il jette un éclairage inédit et pluridisciplinaire sur Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-1797), acteur essentiel du renouvellement dramatique de la seconde moitié du xviii e siècle.
Le Blanc, Judith +2 more
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Mehmed Uzun as a Representative of Modern Kurdish Narrative
This article is dedicated to the analysis of Mehmed Uzun’s initial Two novels, Tu (1985) and Mirina Kalekî Rind (1987). It focuses on Mehmed Uzun as a representative of modern Kurdish narrative.
Chiad A. Abdulkarim, Ismael Saeed
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From a theoretical perspective based on the Theory of Argumentation in Language (Théorie de l’Argumentation dans la Langue – TAL) and the Theory of Polyphony (Théorie de la Polyphonie Énonciative – TPE), the present study describes and analyses ...
María Marta García Negroni +1 more
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
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D’un Swing à l’autre : errances et transparences d’un titre
In 2005 and 2006 two novels were published bearing the same title, Swing: the first one (with the subtitle A Mystery) is the work of Rupert Holmes, a British-American composer, playwright and novelist, whereas the second was written by Jean-Yves Chaperon,
Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud
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