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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Architected materials for artificial reefs to increase storm energy dissipation. [PDF]

open access: yesPNAS Nexus
Ronglan E   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Late Soviet Intellectual Cult(ure): Merab Mamardashvili’s Strategy of Self‐Presentation

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyzes Merab Konstantinovich Mamardashvili’s philosophical strategy in the context of late and post‐Soviet intellectual culture. It focuses on How I Understand Philosophy (1990), a collection of Mamardashvili’s works and interviews that had a significant impact on the reception of his thought and the shaping of his intellectual ...
Egor Sokolov
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrodynamic advantages of swimming by salp chains. [PDF]

open access: yesJ R Soc Interface, 2017
Sutherland KR, Weihs D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
wiley   +1 more source

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