Pós-colonialidade, pós-escravismo, bioficção e con(tra)temporaneidade by Denise Carrascosa

“…This critical essay promotes a connection between the contemporary concept from the literary theory field named “biofiction”, the post-colonial theory and the issue of Africa n - diasporic subjetivization, from the Brazilian historical experience and intellectual possibility of speech, crisscrossed with a symptomatic study of the last novels written by Toni Morrison, Home (2012), and Jamaica Kincaid, See now then ( 2013), as well as of the novel A question of power (1970) by Bessie Head. …”
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Archetypes and Responsive Smiles: Classical Statues and American Artists in Rome by Andrea Mariani

“…The essay analyzes the ambivalent response of some major Anglo-American artists and writers to the Roman cultural context, focusing, in particular, on their reaction to classical and neoclassical sculpture. …”
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The Tennis Shoe Army and Leviathan: Relics and Specters of Big Government in The Road by Robert Pirro

“…To the extent that parallels can be drawn between the novel’s presentation of a tennis shoe army on the march, which resembles dream-like processions in other McCarthy novels, and Thomas Hobbes’ vision of an absolutist government as Leviathan, this essay argues that The Road can be seen as conveying an aversion to the impersonal rule of the bureaucratic state.…”
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Spirituality, theology and the critical mind by P. G. R. de Villiers

“… This essay investigates aspects of the critical nature of spirituality as a discipline. …”
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Six Open Debates on Sumak Kawsay by Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara

“…This essay tries to shed light on six open debates about sumak kawsay, its meaning, translation, origin, cultural referent, relation with development, and destination. …”
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Changing Perspectives on the Problems of Democracy, 1970 to 2020: An Organizational Approach by László Bruszt

“…In this short essay, originally presented at the Center on Organizational Innovation’s COI@25 25th Anniversary Conference, I discuss a number of predominant perspectives on the singular problems posed by liberal democratic polity over the last 50 years. …”
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Entre les deux mon cœur balance : citoyens américains … mais toujours mexicains ? by Isabelle Vagnoux

“…Relying on a number of interviews with immigrants, organizations and Mexican diplomats, this paper will attempt to determine why a growing number of Mexican legal permanent residents (LPRs) now choose to take the plunge and to become U.S. citizens. This essay concludes on an evaluation of the ambivalent ties the newly-naturalized develop with both countries.…”
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A questão da paixão como condição para a fé no itinerário da obra Temor e tremor by Nicoly Andrade

“…Kierkegaard’s literary production, the purpose of this essay is to outline the concept of passion set forth in Fear and Trembling as a necessary condition for the realization of the dialectical movements that make possible the development of faith. …”
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“Frizioni famigliari”. Lavoratori, salute e conflitti in un’area industriale siciliana by Andrea Filippo Ravenda

“…The essay focuses on local conflicts related to the presence of an oil refining plant in Milazzo, north-western Sicily. …”
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Las prácticas indígenas de pesca en la Amazonia, según la descripción de Spix y Martius by Pablo Diener

“…This article deals with this brief illustrated essay’s gestation, in light of these two naturalists’ works.…”
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Adaptive Buenos Aires. Architecture between diversity and demand of modernity by Francesco Casalbordino

“…In the 21st century, the processes linked to globalization bring significant changes to the way humans inhabit places influencing architectural design. The following essay presents the city of Buenos Aires as an example of Resilience towards cultural diversity and the demand for modernity proper to a global city. …”
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Amnesia of Death: The Unsettled Endings of the Dead Who Don’t Know They’re Dead by Richard Hardack

“…In this essay, I try to explicate the recent prominence of texts and films that feature protagonists whose memories have been erased, and particularly who don’t remember their own histories, and especially the paradoxical fact that they have died. …”
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The Deer Hunter : essai de topologie imaginaire américaine by Jacques Pothier

“…This essay centers on Michael Cimino’s film on the Vietnam War to explore how the mythology of space in the American imagination is revisited at the end of the twentieth century. …”
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If Music is Ongoing Experience, What Might Music Theory Be? . A Suggestion from the Drastic by Christopher F. Hasty

“…The complexity or messiness of such production may seem an impediment to understanding music – it would seem to lead to the vagaries of the merely subjective, to mere appearance, or to a hopeless relativism that would in the end leave us speechless. In this essay I will take the creativity of experiencing and all the complexity that comes with it as a positive fact that might lure us to think about time and process in music. …”
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O conceito de região em três registros. Exemplificando com o Nordeste brasileiro by José William Vesentini

“…This essay is a reflection on regionalization which makes use of Northeast Brazil as an example. …”
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Oltre il sinfonismo musicale čajkovskiano. Note di studio sui processi compositivi di Petipa ne “La bella addormentata” by Marta Mele

“…After having retraced the history of this ballet and after having reread the studies on Pyotr Tchaikovsky's musical symphonism, the author of the essay aims to delve deeper into the substance of the purely choreographic symphonism created by Marius Petipa. …”
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Festa, spazio, territorio by Alessandra Broccolini

“…In order to answer these questions, the essay seeks to explore the festivity-territory-inhabitation relation through the spatial analysis of a specific ethnographic case, the feast of the Madonna del Monte di Marta (Viterbo, Lazio), broadening the gaze from the inhabited space of the town-city, where the feast is often (but not always) produced in its ceremonial moments, to the entire territory that the feast encompasses and helps to define, both in the construction of a ‘sense of place’ and in the experience and practical action of the same. …”
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Brentano on Space by Leslie Kavanaugh

“…Phenomenology would completely change the direction of how philosophy constituted its problems – the relation between the “physical” and the “psychic”, the inter-relatedness of all things, the relation of our body to space and time, as well as how phenomena “appear” to consciousness. This essay briefly sketches out this geneology, and explicates the importance of Brentano's thought on the issues of space-time-continuum.…”
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Design and microalgae. Sustainable systems for cities by Pier Paolo Peruccio, Maurizio Vrenna

“…In recent years various interventions have involved the use of living organisms and biomaterials even in an urban context. This essay analyzes those projects that have entailed the use of microalgae, tracing their limits and possibilities. …”
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Zur Metapher der Metasprache aus translationswissenschaftlicher Sicht am Beispiel der „Geschichte der neueren Sprachwissenschaft“ von Gerhard Helbig by Paweł Bąk

“…The topic of the article is the conduit metaphor of the metalanguage as a problem of translation. The essay is a continuation of a cycle of studies on the metaphor in meta-linguistic discourses. …”
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