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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 150-166, March 2026.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

Spiritual relaxation to reduce dysmenorrhea: a quasy experimental

open access: yesMedisains, 2020
Background: The dysmenorrhea prevalence is still reported high in the world. Several previous studies discovered that deep breathing relaxation effectively reduced dysmenorrhea.
Qurota A'yun, Mukhoirotin Mukhoirotin
doaj   +1 more source

Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Le cauchemar de l’égalitarisme : commensuration, autonomie et imagination

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 7-27, March 2026.
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 35-68, March 2026.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
wiley   +1 more source

Spiritualist Writing Machines: Telegraphy, Typtology, Typewriting

open access: yescommunication +1, 2015
This paper examines how religious concepts both reflected and informed the development of new technologies for encoding, transmitting, and printing written information.
Anthony Enns
doaj   +1 more source

Medicine and the Spiritual Self: Reflections

open access: yesSouth African Family Practice, 1993
No abstract available.
C. Trevor Modlin
doaj   +1 more source

ABOUT HOLINESS AND PIETY IN MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE

open access: yesКонцепт: философия, религия, культура, 2019
These chapters are taken from monographies of N. Uspenskaya “East – West – Russia: the protheses of culture interaction”. In these chapters the author touches the themes of holiness and piety, faith and national conciseness, spirituality and intercourse ...
N. A. Uspenskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 113-133, February 2026.
This paper explores the embodied experience of 25 women who are former cult members. By delving into the stories of three protagonists, we examine how these women engaged with and possibly redefined the cult's socially constructed notion of womanhood.
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Michal Morag
wiley   +1 more source

How to Change Minds Ethically: Doxastic Vulnerability, Epistemic Harm Reduction, and the Role of Therapists in Psychedelic Therapy

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 178-198, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic concerns. This article examines the epistemic status of psychedelic experiences and suggests a skeptical attitude towards beliefs formed under ...
Jan Christoph Bublitz
wiley   +1 more source

Painting as Communication with the Deceased and Other Non-Human Beings

open access: yesStudia Mythologica Slavica
The article examines painting as a practice of relating to the dead and other non-human beings in contemporary and historical contexts. Drawing on vernacular religion, it approaches these relationships not as fixed beliefs system but as experiences ...
Tomaž Simetinger
doaj   +1 more source

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