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The King's many bodies: the self-deconstruction of law's hierarchy [PDF]

, 2006
The article connects two strands of the recent sociolegal debate: (1) the empirical discovery of new forms of spontaneous law in die Course of globalization, and (2) the emergence of deconstructive theories of law that undermine the law's hierarchy.
Teubner, Gunther
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Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
wiley   +1 more source

Caveat Emptor:On Time, Death and History in Late Modernity [PDF]

, 2004
This article focuses on 'revivalism' and 'resurrectionism'. While the former is a sociological label for contemporary rituals of dying and death, the latter is a label for contemporary practices of historiographical representation.
Palladino, Paolo
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Existentialism and the Anthropocene: An Appraisal of Two Humanisms

Lagoonscapes
This paper reframes environmental problems, moving from a crisis of habitability to a problem of ethics, and thus suggests the possibility of creating grounded, subjective politics within the seemingly intractable Anthropocene.
Pillai, Rahul
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The Historicity of the A Priori [PDF]

, 2012
De Mul’s central thesis is that Dilthey’s Critique of Historical Reason can be understood as a radicalization of Kant’s recognition of the contingency and finitude of human ...
Stolorow, Robert D.
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Cosmopolitics, ethnoontologies and other epistemologies. Anthropology as ethnographical theory

Cuadernos de Antropología Social, 2017
In this paper I propose to explore the possibility of practicing an anthropology that –in the most radical way as possible-does not discredit our participants’ practices and thoughts.
Marcio Goldman
doaj  

A Transcendental and Eco-critical Reading of Sunil Sharma’s Political Novel The Minotaur

Creative Saplings, 2022
Sunil Sharma is in the vanguard of the contemporary fiction written in Indian English today. He has an enormous output of short fiction and poetry as well. Basically, a Marxist-text, but multi-layered, scholars are finding his novel highly relevant to assess the power -and wealth-driven modern societies.
openaire   +1 more source

“The trash is ruining the picture”: social media, sustainability, and the semiotics of pristine nature

Social Semiotics
Images of improperly-discarded waste offer a case for examining the broader politics of “pristine nature.” As a global visual register in which the environment is depicted without human impact, an historicization of pristine nature reveals how it was ...
Sean P. Smith
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Rebuilding the Frankfurt School's Bridge From Theory to Practice: Jürgen Habermas's Rehabilitation of Critical Theory

Constellations, EarlyView.
Peter J. Verovšek
wiley   +1 more source

PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
wiley   +1 more source