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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Complexity and Contradiction in Native American Surrealism [PDF]

, 2013
: “Native American Surrealism” may be a contradiction in terms. If “surrealism” is a European creation, then joining it with “Native American” suggests an oxymoron. European surrealism was, however, based in part on Native expression. So “Native American

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Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng, Rebecca E. Olson, Sally Staton   +2 more
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Transitions in the Avant-garde

Groundings, 2010
Written on the cusp between two movements, El Incongruente by Ramon Gómez de la Serna eloquently illustrates the transition between Dada and Surrealism. Utilising key Dadaist principles – such as the renunciation of logic, chance combinations of chapters
Emma Wadsworth-Jones
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Dream-work: Surrealism and Revolutionary Subjectivity in André Breton and Georges Bataille

Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 2021
This paper explores a polemic between André Breton and Georges Bataille around the question of the politics of the avant-garde. Focussing on texts composed in the late 1920s, principally Breton’s Second Manifesto of Surrealism and Bataille’s ‘The “Old ...
Rory Dufficy
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Integration on the surreals

Advances in Mathematics
This substantially revised version of the paper is forthcoming in Advances in ...
Costin, Ovidiu, Ehrlich, Philip
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The Innocence of Imagination?

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract According to a widely held view both within and outside philosophy, imagination is innocent in the sense that it does not influence what we think and do. Hence, we can let our imagination wander anywhere. There are two ways of pushing back against this ‘innocence of imagination’ claim.
Bence Nanay
wiley   +1 more source

Surrealism and Ethnography: Introduction [PDF]

, 2008
: This introduction constitutes a review of and commentary on the various feature articles in the "Surrealism and Ethnography" special ...

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The Classroom as a Work of Art

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This article is the product of a project that stems from an educational environment, challenges it, and aims to transcend its boundaries. Within the project, the ordinary flow of a classroom was intervened with through play, and ways to reunite students – who are often perceived as ‘surpluses’ within the current education system – were ...
Veli Aras Yalçınkaya
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Surrealism and Photography [PDF]

, 2008
: In keeping with the first two issues of the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas, this third issue aims to broaden the horizon of critical concerns to which the publication is dedicated, turning our attention here to photographic contributions to the

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