Outposts. Design inventories for a possible future between biology and the artefact by Vincenzo Moschetti

“…It is not a question of deciphering a possible and renewed domestication of the ‘forests’, but rather of a preferable use of the devices – as revealed by Agamben – for identifying how architecture can place itself within a completely autonomous organism. The essay makes use of the examples offered by Giorgini’s Casa Esagono in Baratti and Perugini’s Casa Albero in Fregene, together with the more recent Horizontal Skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron, to manifest a preferable advance, parallel to that of forests which, according to the evidence available, will continue to expand in the future and within which it is desirable, if not necessary, to ‘work’ using the figure of the outpost.…”
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Study of the conceptual metaphors in Persian proverbs by محمد رضایی, نرجس مقیمی

“…Since the proverbs, the most common and widely considered part of literature, review them, according to the theory of conceptual metaphor, promote understanding provides cultural and intellectual foundations. In this essay, we have surveyed both historical and new attitudes to the metaphors and compared them with each other. …”
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Call for Papers: Demography Prize for Young Researches 2016/2017 by IF and FRFG

“… The Stuttgart-based Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) and the London-based Intergenerational Foundation (IF) jointly award the biennial Demography Prize, endowed with EUR 10,000 (ten thousand euros) in total prize-money, to essay-writers who address political and demographic issues pertaining to the field of intergenerational justice. …”
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The War Game et Who Bombed Birmingham ?  : usage politique du mode réflexif by Georges Fournier

“…Through the analysis of reflexivity to be found in The War Game and Who Bombed Birmingham? this essay will try to show how filmmakers purported to arouse the awareness of television viewers to the subjectivity inherent in the filmic material and in particular in television journalism.…”
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Ewolucja poglądów Juliana Haynesa Stewarda na temat ekologii kulturowej by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…Steward had been working on the concept for about forty years and used that approach in both his theoretical and field works, the version of cultural ecology presented in his most famous work Theory of Culture Change (1955) is significantly different than the form of the approach published in 1968. The goal of this essay is to present evolution in Steward’s understanding of cultural ecology, and to show the differences between the two main versions of the approach, the main difference between them is the disaperence of cultural core and three procedures - ideas which were the basis of the earlier form of cultural ecology. …”
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Reincarnating Shakespeare’s sister: Virginia Woolf and the “uncircumscribed spirit” of fiction by Naomi TOTH

“…In order to explore the relationship between the fictional, the spiritual, and the feminine in Virginia Woolf’s thought, two of her important essay-manifestos, “Modern Fiction” (1919/1925) and A Room of One’s Own (1928), are read here in parallel. …”
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Notes on the Modern Greek Literary Model (From Its Beginnings to the 1930s) by Fotiny Christakoudy-Konstantinidou

“…A central focus is placed on the developmental framework of national literature proposed by Georgios Theotokas (1905–1966) in his seminal essay “The Free Spirit” (1929). Original title in Bulgarian: Бележки върху новогръцкия литературен модел (от неговите начала до 30-те години на XX в.).…”
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Dualités et discours du présent dans L’Énigme de Givreuse de Rosny aîné. by Clément Hummel

“…Beyond this plot, L’Énigme de Givreuse allows his author to experiment a new narrative form merging fiction and essay.…”
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DZENBUDIZMO FENOMENOLOGIJA by Algis Mickūnas

“…The latter is constituted by two mutually exclusive and mutually referring structures: permanence and flux. This essay extricates these structures and their correlations at the level of their mutual constitution as they appear in Zen and its practice. …”
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Application Analysis of the Language Model by Cai Bochao

“…But at the same time, they may have problems about privacy, decision affectivity, ethics, and unemployment. This essay will hopefully provide a suggestion for the use and specification of LMs that will come later. …”
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Les Montand-Signoret jouent Arthur Miller. La première française des Sorcières de Salem by Julie Vatain-Corfdir

“…It was not uncommon at the time for renowned French artists to champion American art on stage – though perhaps their presence was also meant to compensate for any flaws, in the eye of critics who readily hinted at Europe’s superiority in terms of drama. This essay explores the French cast and crew’s interpretation of Miller’s play, and the conception of it which they presented to Parisian audiences. …”
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«Pasa la vida»: Cartografías Urbanas de Madrid en la Post-Transición (1982-1994) by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega

“…This essay analyzes representations of the everyday in the Madrid cityscape from the beginning of the 1980s until the mid 1990s. …”
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Down the River, Out to Sea: Mobility, Immobility, and Creole Identity in New Orleans Regionalist Fiction (1880-1910) by Amy Doherty Mohr

“…This essay examines the meaning of mobility in New Orleans regionalist fiction, focusing on Creoles of Color, including Honoré, f.m.c. …”
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Satirical Frame of Mind: Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and the Literary Engagement with 9/11 by Katherina Dodou

“…Prompted by debates on the role of comedy in the USA after 9/11, the essay explores the use of satire as one important narrative strategy that emerged in the subgenre of the American 9/11 novel. …”
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Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Lifes and Artistic Ingenio in Early Modern Toledo by Carmen Ripollés

“…This essay brings new light on the creation and early reception of the still lifes of the Toledan painter Juan Sánchez Cotán. …”
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Portrayal of Yorùbá Socio-cultural Heritage in the Practice of the Kegite Movement in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions by Hezekiah Olufemi Adeosun

“… This essay examines some aspects of the Yorùbá socio-cultural heritage portrayed in the practice of the Kegite Movement in Nigerian tertiary institutions. …”
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Del amor al odio… Las críticas soviéticas al maoísmo. Un primer balance by Jaime Ortega Reyna, Ricardo Yanuel Fuentes

“…Thus, the objective of our essay is to briefly present an analysis of the various works published in the Soviet Union criticizing Maoism to understand the vision that the Soviets built and projected on the Chinese and their ideas around the world.…”
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¿Hacia una Nueva Arquitectura Financiera Regional? Problemas y perspectivas de la cooperación monetaria en el ALBA-TCP by Benzi, D., Guayasamín, T., Vergara, M.

“…Later, we analyze the origins, processes and effects of mechanisms implemented within the ALBA-TCP, such as the ALBA Bank and the SUCRE. Finally, the essay concludes by presenting both potential and limitations of these experiences within a regional and global scenario marked by a high degree of uncertainty that, paradoxically so far, seems to delay and inhibit rather than consolidate the strengthening of a New Regional Financial Architecture.…”
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L’affaire Richard Millet ou la critique radicale de la société multiculturelle by Ivan Jaffrin

“…This article aims at analyzing the so-called “Richard Millet affair”, which developed after the publishing of his essay Éloge littéraire d’Anders Breivik, by putting it into the perspective of another scandal, that occurred twelve years before, namely the “Renaud Camus affair”. …”
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Spinoza’s ‘Infinite Modes’ Reconsidered by Kristin Primus

“…My two principal aims in this essay are interconnected. One aim is to provide a new interpretation of the ‘infinite modes’ in Spinoza’s Ethics. …”
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