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‘I Just Want It to Be Done, Done, Done!’ Food Tracking Apps, Affects, and Agential Capacities

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2018
Food-tracking apps constitute a major category of the thousands of food-related apps now available. They are promoted as helping users monitor and measure their food consumption to improve their health or to lose weight.
Deborah Lupton
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Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Loss and rejection are central to prison life, yet how they crystallize into a more general sense of abandonment remains under‐theorized. Drawing on 64 interviews with men held in prolonged self‐isolation or serving indeterminate forvaring sentences in Denmark, we conceptualize abandonment not simply as hardship but as suffering plus ...
Frederik Rom Taxhjelm, Julie Laursen
wiley   +1 more source

Discovering the Non-self: The Construction of Language, Trance, and Space

Body, Space & Technology Journal, 2013
We might conceive of a Language Acquisition Device (LAD) as a useful abstraction, whether taking it as fact or not. An LAD is understood for grammars of languages, but can also be applied easily to music theory and mythology.
Judson Wright
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The world is an unjust place: The impact of lifetime adversity on belief in conspiracy theories

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Conspiracy mentality ‐ the tendency to view important events as the product of secret plots by powerful groups ‐ is known to arise from collective victimization and discrimination. Yet less is understood about how adversities such as illness, financial loss, or trauma, unrelated to social identity, foster such beliefs.
Daniel Jolley, Anna Maughan, Laura E. R. Blackie   +2 more
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SELFHOOD AT THE FRAGILE BORDER OF (AB)NORMALITY

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2016
Selfhood at the Fragile Border of (Ab)normality. We will attempt to briefly examine the phenomenological aspects of the ontic and ontological appearance of normal selfhood and psychopathological manifestations.
Attila KOVÁCS
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Hypostases of the Artist in Anuradha Roy’s The Earthspinner

Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2022
Tackling existential crevasses, Anuradha Roy’s latest novel, The Earthspinner, invites to pondering and multifaceted analysis in what we see as a plea for building metaphorical bridges in a world where the coordinates were long ago decided, where ...
Nicolae Cristina
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Nonhuman Pedagogical Relations: Towards Conceptual Limits

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the pedagogical relation as a relation to a nonhuman educator, wherein the educatee is a member of the Homo sapiens species. My aim is to clarify the extent to which a nonhuman‐human relation can be understood as pedagogical.
Silas C. Krabbe
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Infrastructuring AI and Robotics for Health and Everyday Life: Visions and Practices in a Japanese National Moonshot Research and Development Project. [PDF]

Sociol Health Illn
ABSTRACT This article examines how emerging infrastructural AI and robotics for health and everyday life are proposed and negotiated, drawing on ethnographic research within the Japanese Awareness AI Project. The project envisages distributed assistance relying on continuous measurement of bodily states, aiming to make technological systems recede into
Shimizu H.
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‘A Perpetually Disintegrating Synthesis’: Sartre on Bad Faith, Good Faith, and the Projects of Selfhood

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract An oft‐overlooked aspect of Sartre’s concept of selfhood is his rejection of good faith and sincerity as normative ideals. We argue that Sartre’s paradoxical treatment of good faith – claiming both that it is a manifestation of bad faith and the antithesis of it – holds a key to understanding Sartre’s account of selfhood.
Mark A. Wrathall, Wanda von Knobelsdorff
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Selfhood and Individuality in Dōgen’s Thought

Religions
The article addresses one of the central issues of Buddhist thought, the status of selfhood and individuality, as they are discussed in the work of the Japanese Zen thinker Dōgen (1200–1253).
Rein Raud
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