Bush versus Bin Laden in Time by Johann de Wet

“…The structural analysis focuses on the identification of the binary oppositions at play, uncovering the cultural code predominant at Time through its viewpoint and essay columns. It was found that the cultural code translates into: the United States and the Western World are the beacons of democracy and freedom, while Islam (more specifically Muslim fundamentalists) represents authoritarianism, repression and bondage. …”
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Jean-Philippe Toussaint : un minimalisme dantesque by Claire Olivier

“…This is why, referring to the title of Toussaint’s 2017 essay, we have chosen to speak of a “Dante Made in China”, thus displaying the very contemporary character of the Dantesque motif. …”
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Polyphonic Echoes of Memory: Between Revolutions (2023), an Affective Epistolary Film by Yasaman Baghban

“…This study uses Bakhtinian methods to examine how the essay film Between Revolutions (Între revoluţii, Vlad Petri, 2023) portrays the polyphonic nature of memory and trauma in narratives about revolutions, focusing on two women’s experiences in Romania and Iran through the epistolary form. …”
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Tamactún-Acalán: interpretación de una hegemonía política maya de los siglos xiv-xvi by Andrés Ciudad Ruiz, Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo

“…Recently, new interpretations have posited the development of hegemonic states retaining many structural features of the preceding formations, but also exhibiting a territorial organization fastering the subordination of several autonomous territories under a same authority. This essay applies this last interpretation to the understanding of the political-territorial structure of the Mactun of Tamactún-Acalán in the 14th-16th centuries A.D., and tests its validity for other regions of the Maya Lowlands, from the beginning of the Classic period to the arrival of the Spaniards, highlighting the parallelisms with other political systems found in Mesoamerica at the time immediately preceding the Conquest.…”
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Social Personalism, Its Implications for Education and Implementation in Society by Sławomir Chrost

“…The human-person, colloquially speaking, needs other people to grow, and needs interpersonal relationships to ‘give and take.’ The purpose of this essay is to outline the theoretical underpinnings of social personalism, its implications for pedagogy and selected examples of how it is cultivated in practice. …”
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Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

“… Following my earlier collaboration with Martin Prozesky, my essay links with three major concerns in Prozesky’s work as he has engaged with a radical critique of religious traditions and structures in the South African context of the end of apartheid: the involvement of dominant religious traditions in sustaining power structures and inequality; the nexus between religious beliefs and organizations and violence; and the failure of many ‘religions’ to meet the needs of serious seekers after meaning and truth. …”
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C. McGinn. Is Romantic Self-Love Possible? / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay examines the metaphysical possibility of romantic self-love. …”
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Territories of Equivalence by Clare Louise Lyster

“…Mechanisation transformed space, in particular the household into an efficient machine, with industrial components and standardised dimensions (from the bathtub to the streamlined kitchen), while military manufacturing efficiencies and emerging technologies allowed consumer goods (from TV sets to Tupperware) to fill the middle class suburban home in the post-war era. This essay contemplates how logisticalisation, the latest incarnation of capitalist production, is permeating the design and conception of contemporary space through an exploration of the gadgets and objects that are increasingly used by the public as portals to the larger world of logistical flow. …”
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Funding for research on cryptococcal disease: an analysis based on the G-finder report by Iraine Duarte, Marcio L. Rodrigues

“…With reduced support for research, new therapies are unlikely to emerge. In this essay, we used the Policy Cures/G-finder platform as a reference database for funding research on cryptococcal disease. …”
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Finding provenance, seeking context by Peter Mark

“…If one of the aims of art history is to understand better the original meaning of the works studied, then an historical methodology is absolutely essential to the identification and interpretation of precolonial objects. This essay focuses on 16th- and 17th-century ivory carvings identified as ‘Luso-African’. …”
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The Dark Knight’s Dystopian Vision: Batman, Risk, and American National Identity by Jeanne Cortiel, Laura Oehme

“…This essay argues that Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again (2001-02) are grounded in a specific type of anticipatory consciousness that we read as risk consciousness. …”
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Fatigue, Indolence And The There Is, Or, The Temporal Logic Of Collage In Donald Barthelme’s Snow White by Zuzanna Ładyga

“…The essay examines Donald Barthelme’s Snow White’s from the perspective of the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. …”
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Politik Hukum Penanggulangan Bencana by Zuzi Kurnia Ramadhani, Rangga Prayitno, Radiyan Rahim, Yumai Wendra

“…Both kinds of the problems should be, according the writer, properly addressed by using legal approaches. This essay arguesthat legal politic sofnatural disaster handlingis the construction law and the legal establish menton disaster management. in substance, this legal politics provide a paradigm shift in disaster management. …”
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Ackee and saltfish vs. amalá con quimbombó? A note on Sidney Mintz’ contribution to the historical anthropology of African American cultures by Stephan Palmié

“…In the spirit of Sidney Mintz’ contribution to African American historical anthropology, this essay examines theories allocating differential explanatory weight to African cultural continuities and New World social conditions in the historical development of African American cultures through the lens of a set of culinary allegories built around two Caribbean dishes. …”
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Negative Anthropology by Stephan Trüby

“…[i] The interim findings of the project were presented in ‘Rechte Räume: Bericht einer Europareise’ (Right-wing spaces: report on a journey through Europe), ARCH+ 235 (2019), an issue that was guest-curated by IGmA, as well as in my 2020 essay collection Rechte Räume: Politische Essays und Gespräche (Right-wing spaces: political essays and conversations).   …”
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“Grim old London welcomed me back”: Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Second Foray into Europe by Leslie PETTY

“…This essay explores how Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s extended travel in Europe in the late 1880s and early 90s was a catalyst for an evolution in her intellectual and activist development. …”
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A Night at the Pictures : A Christmas Carol et la séduction du simulacra by Florent Christol

“…Indeed, A Christmas Carol can be read as an essay on the potential intermingling of novel and romance. …”
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Poetry as Pagan Pilgrimage: the ‘Animative Impulse’ of Thomas Hardy’s Verse by Laurence Estanove

“…All Hardy critics have noted how the poet-novelist’s works often dramatize a constant oscillation between the Pagan and the Christian. This essay proposes to observe once again how the two traditions seep into each other, but chooses to focus specifically on Hardy’s verse and to examine this in the light of the poet’s agnosticism and of his appropriation of some folkloristic and positivistic ideas. …”
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Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary by Martyna Bryla

“…As prominent émigrés like Czesław Miłosz explained the region to the Western intellectual public, native-born authors like Philip Roth contributed to shaping the Eastern European literary canon in the US by promoting Kafka, Konwicki, Kundera and other undeniably great if predominantly male authors. In this essay, I take a closer look at the imaginative geographies of the European East in the texts by John Updike, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Patricia Hampl, and Eva Hoffman. …”
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Shakespeare en prison : le cas d’Avignon by Florence March

“…This essay offers to explore the structural link between three historical counter-spaces : prison, Shakespeare’s Elizabethan public theatre and the Avignon Festival. …”
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