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Sisters on the Soapbox: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Her Female Free Speech Allies’ Lessons for Contemporary Women Labor Activists

Humanities, 2018
At a moment when U.S. labor seems its most weak and vulnerable, a wave of teacher strikes and demonstrations led and carried out primarily by women shows promise of revitalizing the movement.
Mary Anne Trasciatti
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Abu Ghraib and the Temporal Logic of Interruption

Journal of Contemporary Poetics, 2020
On April 28, 2004, CBS News broadcasted the first photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib Detention Centre. These photos, a censored fraction of more than two hundred photographs and nineteen videos taken at the detention centre, render in colour all
Laura Sparks
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The reconfiguration of Natura and Ars in cartesian rhetoric and the epistemological reflections in the prize questions of the french academies [PDF]

, 2018
This article discusses the change in the relationship between natura and ars that occurred when Cartesian language theories penetrated conceptions of rhetoric in France during the 17th century.
Urmann, Martin
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Games of archiving queerly : Artefact collection and defining queer romance in ​Gone Home and ​Life is Strange

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2019
The medium of video games often fails to depict queerness with positive representations. To combat the harmful stereotypes or optional queerness in the medium, I advocate for an application of queer archival methodologies to define and locate queerness ...
Renee Ann Drouin
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Is it Possible to Represent the Sexual Relation in Cinema?

Language and Psychoanalysis, 2022
This article offers a reflection on the Lacanian theory of the representation of the sexual relation in film. It draws on the Lacanian logic of sexuation and its interpretation by Joan Copjec and Slavoj Žižek, analyzing what the author calls the ...
Matthew Flisfeder, Anthony Ballas
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The Rhetoric and Reality of Anthropomorphism in Artificial Intelligence

Minds and Machines, 2019
Artificial intelligence (AI) has historically been conceptualized in anthropomorphic terms. Some algorithms deploy biomimetic designs in a deliberate attempt to effect a sort of digital isomorphism of the human brain.
David Watson
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Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams\u27s The Open Space of Democracy [PDF]

, 2015
This essay aims to break through an impasse in scholarship about the uses and limits of invitational rhetoric for social change. After analyzing the arguments about invitational approaches to communication, the essay focuses on a case (concerning freedom
Swiencicki, Jill
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Access and Advocacy: Text & Data Mining and DMCA §1201

Digital Studies
Significant work in DH has focused on access, labor, and infrastructure. They fundamentally shape the field, from who is included to what we study (for example, see Graban et al 2019, McGrail et al 2022, and Losh and Wernimont 2018). Often less discussed
Lauren Tilton, Quinn Dombrowski
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Readapting Pandemic Premediation and Propaganda: Soderbergh’s Contagion amid COVID-19

Arts, 2020
Steven Soderbergh’s pandemic thriller Contagion (2011) was trending strongly on streaming services in the US in the early days of COVID-19 restrictions, where the fiction took on an unforeseen afterlife amid a real pandemic.
Kevin C. Moore
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The City of Man and the critique of fascism: The perspective of Hermann Broch

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2020
The City of Man initiative, with a conscious reference to Saint Augustine’s De civitate Dei, wanted to build a system after the First World War that would ensure free and unfettered human development.
Jakub Z. Lichański
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