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The Influence of Life Events on Young Consumers’ Compulsive Shopping Tendencies [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Emerging Trends in Marketing and Management, 2023
This research aims to uncover which life events (if any) might increase young consumers’ tendencies toward compulsive shopping. Existing literature suggests that stressful events can trigger addictive behaviors, including compulsive buying, with ...
Natasha Nagel, Monica M. Popa Sârghie
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Metaphysics or Metaphors for the Anthropocene? Scientific Naturalism and the Agency of Things

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2018
In this paper, I provide the outlines of an alternative metaphilosophical orientation for Continental philosophy, namely, a form of scientific naturalism that has proximate roots in the work of Bachelard and Althusser.
Gamez Patrick
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D. H. Lawrence and the Avoidance of Darwinian Tragedy

open access: yesÉtudes Lawrenciennes, 2021
Darwin’s theories helped both to destroy D. H. Lawrence’s early Christianity, and to shape the latter’s beliefs in the primacy of the organic, of non-rational forces, and of the animality of man – even though Lawrence soon saw materialism as begging more
Catherine Brown
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HOW NON-HUMAN THINGS MAKE US (LESS)HUMAN: POSTHUMANISM IN YOKO OGAWA’S THE MEMORY POLICE (1994) [PDF]

open access: yesTranscultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
If you cannot identify objects around you, their significance, your bonds with them, your history together, are you still who you are? Yoko Ogawa conceptualizes an answer to this question in The Memory Police (1994), experimenting with a dystopian world ...
Ola Elgohary
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Hail to thee, blithe spirit! A critical study of bird agency among bird owners in China

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
IntroductionIn contemporary China, human-animal interactions remain predominantly influenced by anthropocentric ideologies. This phenomenon is especially pronounced concerning non-mammalian species beyond common pets like cats and dogs.
Ziyi Wong
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How do data come to matter? Living and becoming with personal data

open access: yesBig Data & Society, 2018
Humans have become increasingly datafied with the use of digital technologies that generate information with and about their bodies and everyday lives.
Deborah Lupton
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Bio art bez natury. O sztuce Marka Wodzisławskiego

open access: yesMiejsce
Critiques of the Anthropocene and the interest in posthumanism and new materialism are imbuing bio art practices with new meanings. A primary example of this shift is the increasingly acclaimed yet still relatively obscure practice of Marek Wodzisławski (
Łukasz Mojsak
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La composante darwinienne et la philosophie de Bergson dans la poésie de Thomas Hardy

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2010
This article addresses the affinities between Henri Bergson's philosophy and Thomas Hardy's poetry. Both draw upon Charles Darwin's theories of natural science : Hardy was greatly influenced by them, whereas Bergson transmuted Darwinism as his élan vital
Ilaria Mallozi
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How much do we need – What is the limitation of wants and where do we end up with unfulfilled desires?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Science Annals, 2023
Background and Aim of Study: The paper considers the significance of recognizing the limitations of our wants and the consequences of unfulfilled desires.
M. P. Bhandari
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Spatiotemporal and quantitative analyses of phosphoinositides – fluorescent probe—and mass spectrometry‐based approaches

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Fluorescent probes allow dynamic visualization of phosphoinositides in living cells (left), whereas mass spectrometry provides high‐sensitivity, isomer‐resolved quantitation (right). Their synergistic use captures complementary aspects of lipid signaling. This review illustrates how these approaches reveal the spatiotemporal regulation and quantitative
Hiroaki Kajiho   +3 more
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