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Public Care for Children in (Post)Socialist European Films: On the Side of Sons and Stepdaughters of the Nation?

Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 87-104, March 2024.
Abstract This article explores the multifaceted role of films that disseminate critical views on public care for children in terms of their epistemic sensitivity towards the main challenges of constructing discursive practices around children and their subjectivity.
Victoria Shmidt
wiley   +1 more source

A man, burning : communicative suffering and the ethics of images [PDF]

, 2015
This paper assumes a relationship among life, death and power in order to underline the following: under certain conditions, self-sacrifice—or the form of death broadly associated with self-immolation—has the power to mobilise political life.
Stamenkovic, Marko
core  

\u3ci\u3eIt Follows\u3c/i\u3e: Precarity, Thanatopolitics, and the Ambient Horror Film [PDF]

, 2017
In the 2014 horror film It Follows, a teenage woman is terrorized by a fatal curse that passes from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. The subject of the curse is relentlessly pursued by vacant-minded assassins that take the form of friends, loved ...
Kelly, Casey Ryan
core  

Três teses sobre a agricultura de plantação

e-cadernos ces
In this essay I propose three theses on plantation agriculture. I start by arguing that plantation agriculture has intrinsically thanatopolitical purposes and effects, which lead to the proliferation of biological and cultural death.
João Aldeia
doaj   +1 more source

A Marxist Transhumanism?

New Proposals, 2022
ranshumanism is a philosophical, cultural and political revolutionary movement. It proposes a radical trans- formation of the human being and the society in which it develops.
Santiago Javier Armesilla Conde
doaj  

Multiple Frames: Remarks on the Framing of Borders and Migration

On_Culture
This _Essay attempts a preliminary framing of what we can understand by the work of ‘framing’ in the context of borders and migration and its inherent tensions.
Heidrun Friese
doaj   +1 more source

The communication of horrorism: a typology of ISIS online death videos [PDF]

, 2018
In this article, the authors theorize the communicative logic of ISIS online death videos—from the burning and shooting of individual hostages to mass battleground executions.
Lilie Chouliaraki, Chouliaraki, Lilie, Angelos Kissas, Kissas, Angelos   +3 more
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Imagining Interwar Sound and Space: Film Music and Cultural Memory in the Post-Yugoslav Context

INSAM
In recent decades, the interwar period has emerged as a fertile ground for artistic imagination, inspiring a growing body of works across literature, visual arts, and film.
Marija Golubović
doaj   +1 more source

A thanatopolitical visualisation of accounting history: Giorgio Agamben and Nazi Germany

Accounting History, 2021
The extensive measures taken to destroy a people are facilitated by a complex matrix of interrelated actors and practices, yet there remains an underdeveloped implication of accounting in the wider moral and political imperatives. The purpose of this article is to introduce a thanatopolitical visualisation of accounting history adapted from the work of
openaire   +3 more sources

What is Extinction? Ecopolitics of the End [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Routledge Open Research
In recent years, extinction has become something of a buzzword used to portray the state of consciousness of the epoch. Its definition as a concept, however, heavily oscillates between naturalistic, speculative, ethical and critical connotations. The aim
Gregorio Tenti
doaj   +1 more source