War’s Perpetuity: Disabled Bodies of War and the Exoskeleton of Equality [PDF]
, 2018 This paper responds to battlefield technologies that enhance the endurance and capacities of the wearer, known as exoskeletons. Following the argument that exoskeleton technology is set to provide equality for bodies on the battlefield in the near future,
Heathcote, Gina
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Esboços, 2021 Once hailed as the pinnacle of evolutionary progress, the human subject has more recently been under severe attack due to the destructive potential that has been unleashed by humans, especially in the last two hundred years.
Gönül Bakay
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The Ontology of Technology Beyond Anthropocentrism and Determinism: The Role of Technologies in the Constitution of the (post)Anthropocene World [PDF]
, 2022 Because climate change can be seen as the blind spot of contemporary philosophy of technology, while the destructive side effects of technological progress are no longer deniable, this article reflects on the role of technologies in the constitution of ...
Blok, Vincent
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Victorian Studies in the Anthropocene: An Interview with Claire Colebrook
19, 2018 In this interview, Claire Colebrook discusses the implications of the Anthropocene for Victorian literature — and, by extension, for the field of Victorian studies — as well as literary history and critical theory more broadly.
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Breathing in the Anthropocene: Thinking Through Scale with Containment Technologies [PDF]
, 2019 Thinking at the scale of the Anthropocene highlights the significant burden on all life imposed by the residues of industrialization as well as continued pollution.
Kenner, Alison +2 more
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A Pet-ficação da natureza ou a idéia da physis no antropoceno.
Perspectiva Filosófica, 2022 My paper deals with the topic “Physis in a post-Heideggerianphilosophy of technology”, by interpreting it as two topics or questions. By doing so, I have the opportunity to present two related sides of my philosophical work. The first side consists in a
Agostino Cera
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Eco-Geologies of Queer Desire: Elizabeth Bishop’s Love Poetry and Charles Darwin’s Beagle Geology Travel Narratives [PDF]
, 2016 This essay explores the impact of Charles Darwin’s often poetic, largely geological travel narratives – the Diary and Voyage of the Beagle – on Elizabeth Bishop’s queered travel poems “Crusoe in England”(1976) and “Vague Poem”(circa 1973), in the context
Cassandra Laity, Iovino
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Resilience Gentrification: Environmental Privilege in an Age of Coastal Climate Disasters
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021 Climate change is exacerbating storms at the same time that humans are increasingly settling in areas most affected by such storms. In theory, post-disaster recovery offers opportunities to rebuild for sustainable development.
Kenneth A. Gould +3 more
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The motif of the “lost paradise” in blockbuster films set in the post-apocalypse [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2023 Considering that mythology and storytelling are an integral part of the human experience, in this paper we will take a look at contemporary iterations of certain archetypal myths.
Žakula Sonja, Matić Uroš
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Readiness for School, Time and Ethics in Educational Practice [PDF]
, 2019 ‘Taking time seriously’ is an enduring human concern and questions about the nature of time bear heavily on the meaning of childhood. In the context of the continuing debates on readiness for school, ‘taking time seriously’ has contributed to policies on
Bates, Agnieszka
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