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Negotiating the inhuman: Bakhtin, materiality and the instrumentalization of climate change [PDF]
, 2013 The article argues that the work of literary theorist Mikhail M. Bakhtin presents a starting point for thinking about the instrumentalization of climate change.
Adam B. +31 more
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Je to Pavlov? Či snad Canguilhem? Ke genealogii československé socialistické defektologie [PDF]
Historie - Otázky - Problémy, 2023 This study examines the sources Miloš Sovák’s socialist defectology drew on. Sovák’s concept of defectology, published in 1953, was based on the doctrine of I. P.
Jan Randák
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Experiments and Research Programmes. Revisiting Vitalism/Non-Vitalism Debate in Early Twentieth Century [PDF]
Argument, 2012 Debates in the philosophy of science typically take place around issues such as realism and theory change. Recently, the debate has been reformulated to bring in the role of experiments in the context of theory change.
Bijoy MUKHERJEE
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, 2018 In a straightforward meta-level shift of focus, we use design patterns as a medium and process for capturing insight about the process of design. We survey mainstream design genres, and draw conclusions about how they can help inform the design of ...
Corneli, Joseph +6 more
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Specimen poetics: botany, reanimation, and the Romantic collection [PDF]
, 2017 This essay argues that the modern literary anthology—and specifically its aspiration to delimit both aesthetic merit and historical representativeness—emerged as a response to changes in eighteenth-century botanical collecting, description, and ...
Porter, Dahlia
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Ján Smrek (Condemned to Eternal Thirst/Odsúdený k večitej žízni) [PDF]
Slovenska Literatura, 2007 The aim of the study is to determine a specific place of Jan Smrek´s debut in the context of his poetry and to point out its organic connection with the following collections of poems, although typologically and aesthetically different from the first one
Michal Habaj
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K. I. CHUKOVSKY-TRANSLATOR: A PORTRAIT AND A SELF-PORTRAIT IN THE METATEXT
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 Among numerous creative achievements of the outstanding master of the Russian word K.I. Chukovsky the important place is taken by his work «Translation art» («High art»). In the field of the translation he is known as a translator whose main principle of
A. A. Agajanjan
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The Meanings of ‘Life’:Biology and Biography in the Work of J.S. Haldane (1860-1936) [PDF]
, 2011 In the course of his somewhat unorthodox career in science, the physiologist John Scott Haldane occasionally turned to biography to portray the aims and values that he associated with such a career.
Sturdy, Steven
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Plastic Memories of the Anthropocene
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2021 Plastic has become a ubiquitous material on planet Earth. I use Bennett’s term, thing-power, to analyse various aspects of plastic’s onto-materiality.
Daniel Clinci
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From Structure to Function in Open Ionic Channels [PDF]
, 1999 We consider a simple working hypothesis that all permeation properties of open ionic channels can be predicted by understanding electrodiffusion in fixed structures, without invoking conformation changes, or changes in chemical bonds. We know, of course,
Bob Eisenberg +2 more
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