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Utopias e distopias urbanas nas telas do cinema
Aqui a intenção é pensar como nosso ruminar sobre o futuro humano nos remete para os imensos espaços de concreto das metrópoles contemporâneas e, ao mesmo tempo, como suas representações, utópicas e distópicas, produzidas pela sétima arte, podem nos ...
Marcos Antônio de Menezes
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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En tres reescrituras de algunos pasajes de la Collatio Alexandri cum Dindimo per litteras facta, contenidas respectivamente en el Libro de los ejemplos por a.b.c., el Cancionero d’Herberay des Essarts y el Libro de las maravillas del mundo de Mandevilla,
Victoria Béguelin-Argimón
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The social life of money for children
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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Utopias and Dystopias as Cybernetic Information Systems: Envisioning the Posthuman Neuropolity [PDF]
While it is possible to understand utopias and dystopias as particular kinds of sociopolitical systems, in this text we argue that utopias and dystopias can also be understood as particular kinds of information systems in which data is received, stored ...
Gladden, Matthew E.
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The Hour that Never Comes and the Time that Remains
Abstract This essay proposes a symbolic and clinical investigation of psychic temporality through two archetypal experiences of time: the hour that never comes and the time that remains. Drawing on analytical psychology, trauma theory and aesthetic philosophy, text explores how certain forms of suffering resist chronological resolution and persist as ...
Daniel Françoli Yago
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Amitav Ghosh and the Aesthetic Turn in Postcolonial Studies [PDF]
This essay explores the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies in light of the literary works of Indo-Burmese author Amitav Ghosh. While a renewed interest in aesthetic theories is apparent throughout the humanities in the past decade, it is ...
Su, John
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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