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Fossil Hegemony and Capitalist Realism in Tropic of Orange
ABSTRACT This article examines Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1997) through the lens of Mark Fisher's influential concept ‘capitalist realism’. Scholars of petrofiction have pointed to a political ambivalence in the representation of fossil fuels, where a better understanding of fossil capital can overwhelm as much as galvanize.
Claire Ravenscroft
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
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Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
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Social inequality in shaman associations in Indonesia has gained media attention. Shamanism is a popular profession in Indonesian society. This study aims to (1) describe the forms of actor partiality domination in the cnn.com and okezone news portals ...
Qurrota Neina +2 more
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: This paper examines the unique relationship between shamans and the special psychoactive plants valued in their cultures. The use of Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) in Huichol Indian culture of Mexico, and coca (Erythroxyum coca var.
Stacy B. Schaefer
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Prehistoric psychotropic consumption in Andean Chilean mummies [PDF]
Hallucinogenic plants are often regarded as the main source of psychoactive drugs in antiquity to reach deep altered states of consciousness^1,2^. Many researchers believe this was particularly true during the Tiwanaku empire expansion, circa (500-1000 A.
Bernardo T. Arriaza +2 more
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Shamans and plant sacraments: maintaining indigenous traditions and identity in a globalized world
: This paper examines the unique relationship shamans have with special psychoactive plants valued in their cultures. In particular the use of peyote (Lophophora williamsii) in Huichol Indian culture of Mexico, and coca (Erythroxylim coca) in the ...
Stacy B. Schaefer
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El gran pago de Mulsina o el arte de mover las montañas
The local geography as it is perceived during protective rituals carried out on Taquile, a small island in Lake Titicaca, provides important data about the organization and perception of a sacred area as it is viewed by members of this insular and ...
Xavier Bellenger
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The Misunderstanding between Schizophrenia and Clairaudience [PDF]
This research focuses on Schizophrenia and Clairaudience that is part of doctoral research for a Doctorate of Metaphysical Sciences at the University of Metaphysics. The mental illness known as Schizophrenia has been known for centuries.
Richardson, Philippa Sue
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“Eric, you no longer have an Americano soul,” my Avá-Guaraní sister told me as my 2006-2007 fieldwork was ending. In 2005, her mother became my ritual sponsor in the naming/ensouling ritual, mitã karaí, identifying me as “Yvyrajú”, indicating the tree ...
Eric Michael Kelley
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