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A Vital Challenge to Materialism
Philosophy, 2016 AbstractLife poses a threat to materialism. To understand the phenomena of animate nature, we make use of a teleological form of explanation that is peculiar to biology, of explanations in terms of what I call the ‘vital categories’ – and this holds even for accounts of underlying physico-chemical ‘mechanisms’.
Jesse M Mulder
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Perspektivenwechsel der Politischen Ökologie – Back to the roots! [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2022 Grown from radical geography roots, political ecology (PE) emerged half a century ago and is now a diverse, scientifically mature field. In German speaking countries, geographical PE was introduced with a time delay of twenty years.
H. J. Geist
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Speculating the Symbio: Possibilities for Multispecies and Multi-Entity World Making in Childhood
Journal of Childhood Studies, 2022 In this paper, I attempt to interrupt conventional analyses of childhood and instead illustrate the importance of diverse stories around child-nature relations.
Shelley O'Brien
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Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2022 This article considers the performative aspects of environmental narratives, based on the example of the cultural image of the plastic bag. In contemporary culture, disposable plastic bags have become a symbol of the collective guilt related to the role ...
Sylwia Mieczkowska
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Vibrant Matter, Actants and the Limits of Human Agency in Saramago’s The Stone Raft
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 This paper focuses on José Saramago’s novel The Stone Raft, set during an imaginary geo(il)logical event, the separation of the Iberian Peninsula from the European mainland. This event brings together a group of human and non-human protagonists, who seem
Catherine Macmıllan
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Left Hegelian Variations: on the Matter of Revolution in Marx. Bloch and Althusser
Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2020 Although Ernst Bloch is often understood as an abstract, aesthetic philosopher of hope, his doctrine of concrete utopia is underpinned by an idiosyncratic, vital materialist ontology. Against many of Bloch’s critics, this article explains and defends his
Loren Goldman
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How Does Personality Trait Affect Online Financial Service Use of College Students in China?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Online financial service is an essential part of consumption services provided by companies in modern society. It is vital to figure out the underlying mechanisms that influence online financial service use of college students in China, which is seldom ...
Xiuyuan Gong, Xiaofeng Zheng, Qinqin Li
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Mapping presentations of crafts in the Danish heritage industry
FORMakademisk, 2023 In this paper, I present the methodological and theoretical deliberations behind a mapping of how crafts are presented in the Danish cultural heritage industry.
Josefine Bill
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Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2018 Cet article s'attachera à explorer l'interface poreuse entre l'humain et le non humain dans le recueil de poèmes et d'essais The Mara Crossing (2012) du poète britannique Ruth Padel, recueil qui raconte le phénomène migratoire du point de vue du sujet ...
Maria Tang
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Inextinguishable Fibres: Demolition and the Vital Materialisms of Asbestos [PDF]
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2010 This paper forwards a performative reading of asbestos in economies of disposal. It argues that materials need to be thought through transformative states, not just stable states, and that materials’ performativity varies according to material states.
Gregson, N., Watkins, H., Calestani, M.
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