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Environmental innocence and slow violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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Cecire, Natalia
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Un/Learning Adult Frames of Reference in Death Enquiries: Thinking~With a Picturebook, Philosophical Animism and Ontological Tact

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories

open access: yesRelations, 2016
Our existence, the existence of our species and its cognitive evolution, is far from being pure and confined within secure margins. Starting from mitochondria and all the way up, the human is constantly mixed with the nonhuman.
Serenella Iovino   +2 more
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P. P. S. OBVERSION: IS A REAL HUMAN BEING WRITTEN?

open access: yesВісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Філософія, філософські перипетії, 2020
This article considers the state of human beings in a post-postmodern conditions and focuses on obversion as one version of posthuman reality in polyversion, which is lusciousness. Obversion is regarded as a logical and at the same time dynamic figure of
Nataliia V. Zahurska
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Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The unbearable trauma of being : death, hope, and (in)humanity in the work of Cormac McCarthy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
For as long as the self-christened homo sapiens has roamed the Earth, various mythologies and their respective afterlives have followed without fail.
Dent, Kelly
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Considering students' basic psychological needs in feedback processes in the teaching of Swedish

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study investigated how teachers of Swedish as a second language in Finland perceive they enhance their students' language learning by considering the students' basic psychological needs in feedback processes. This study was conducted in a context where most students were disinclined to study Swedish.
Toni Mäkipää, Sara Karhu
wiley   +1 more source

The days of the human may be numbered : theorizing cyberfeminist metaphors ; rereading Kleist’s "Gliedermann" as Cyborg ; as "Ghost in the Shell" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A lot has already been written on Heinrich von Kleist's "Über das Marionettentheater" ("On the Marionette Theater"). I will engage in a reading that is based on deconstructivist approaches as well as on queer- and cyberfeminist-thoughtboth of which ...
Babka, Anna
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Processing (Post)humanism, Mediating Desire: Technology in the Works of Three Border Playwrights [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
New electronic technology, such as personal video cameras, videotape players, and the internet, has increasingly sparked interest from Northern Mexican border authors across genres. In Juan Ríos’s Generación Atari, Francisco J.
Fallon, Paul
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
wiley   +1 more source

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