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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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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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Matter on the Move: the Poetics and Politics of Human and Nonhuman Migration in Ruth Padel's The Mara Crossing

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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Feminism and Finitude

Technophany, 2023
This essay examines the ideological parallels between the transhuman pursuit for immortality and xenofeminism’s call for biological manipulation. Paying particular attention to the patriarchal legacy of technoscience, I identify eugenic principles ...
Alessandra Mularoni
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Matter, consciousness and the Anthropocene : vital materialism and historical materialism encounter panpsychism [PDF]

, 2021
The ways in which social theorists conceptualise the material world influences their approach to conceiving and addressing the environmental challenges of the Anthropocene.
Gaudry, Justin
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A Relational Ecology of Photographic Practices [PDF]

Avant, 2017
This paper proposes a relational history of media artifacts, which decentralizes the dominance of the photographer or filmmaker as the absolute author of the work.
Jacqui Knight
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Marine Entanglements: Tropical Materialism and Hydrographic Imaginary in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
In the epoch of the Anthropocene the environment is predominantly characterised by innumerable entanglements of matter. According to materialist theorist Jane Bennett, matter acts as a ‘distributive agency’ that intertwines itself with a “multiplicity ...
Sanchar Sarkar, Swarnalatha Rangarajan
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The (Processed) Vegetal Body and Blood of the Markan Messiah

Religions, 2018
Although the Eucharist is attested four times (Matthew 26:26⁻29; Mark 14:22⁻25; Luke 22:15⁻20; 1 Corinthians 11:23⁻26) in the New Testament, only two (Luke and 1 Corinthians) out of the four instances bespeak of commemorating this
Dong Hyeon Jeong
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Surveillance Entanglements: Digital Data Flows and Ageing Bodies in Motion in the Danish Welfare State

Anthropology & Aging, 2019
In recent years, new forms of self-tracking technologies, advanced algorithms and quantified measurements have increasingly become part of interventions targeting the physical improvement of elderly bodies.
Nete Schwennesen
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