Fakecraft by Paul Christopher Johnson

“… The essay defines and explores the dimensions of ‘fakecraft’. …”
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Direito, política, autoritarismo e democracia no Brasil: da Revolução de 30 à promulgação da Constituição da República de 1988 by Cristiano Paixão

“…There were authoritarian and democratic constitutions in Brazilian politic and legal history. The focus of this essay will be on 1930-1945 and 1964-1988 periods. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “New School of Biographies” and Eighteenth-century Life-Writing: a Sense of Kinship by Maryam Thirriard

“…This resulted in her 1927 essay “The New Biography” in which she praises Harold Nicolson as well as Lytton Strachey for making it new. …”
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Data Reshaped: Literalism in the Age of Digital Design and Architectural Fabrication by Eran Neuman

“…This essay examines the recent shift in the perception of literalism in architecture as a result of the advent of digital media and the emergence of digital design processes. …”
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D. A. Ọbasá: The Man and the Significance of his Cultural Activism by Adekemi Agnes Taiwo

“…The essay traces Obasa’s history; right from his birth to the period he became a renowned Yorùbá intellectual. …”
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Rejuvenescence American Style: Longevity, Aging, The US Tradition of Rejecting the Old & the US Baby Boom Generation Now by John Dean

“…This Cultural History essay’s focus is age, aging, longevity and the consciousness of a generation in contemporary United States and the verifiable foundations of these issues: how age is real and artificial both. …”
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The Zone in Reverse by Francesco Sebregondi

“…This essay proposes a reconstruction of the problem of logistics as seen through the prism of Gaza. …”
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Un General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) non molto general by Elena Bougleux

“…Before analyzing the technical merits of what is still possible to do and how to do it in compliance with current regulations, the essay discusses to what extent the concept of data as understood by the GDPR fits the case of our discipline. …”
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Does Locke Have an Akrasia Problem? by Samuel C. Rickless

“…Starting in the second edition of the Essay, Locke becomes interested in the phenomenon of akrasia, or weakness of will. …”
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‘Diaphaneitè’ Pater’s Enigmatic Term by Morito Uemura

“…This paper asserts that Pater’s essay title, ‘Diaphaneitè’, a modified version of the French word, enables one to trace the possible presence of Victor Hugo in Pater’s earliest essay. …”
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‘Echoes from Home’: The Personalist Ground of Newman’s Ecclesiology. Affection as the Key to Newman’s Intellectual Discernment on the Issue of Church by Dr Robert C. Christie

“…The groundwork for the Essay was laid in Newman’s final University Sermon written almost two years earlier (February 2, 1843). …”
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W.S. Merwin’s Search for Walt Whitman, Whoever He Was by Ed Folsom

“…This essay recounts the author’s decades-long conversations with W.S. …”
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Adapting Yorùbá Epistemology in Educational Theory and Practice in Nigeria by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…Second, the essay deploys the African art-centered investigations of the role of the senses in relating with art, understood as paradigmatic of navigating the world. …”
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I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary by Abimbola Adelakun

“…  This essay will study how the Yorùbá conceptualize “ọ̀tá” or the enemy, a trope that recurs in various cultural phenomena such as music, prayers, and other social rituals. …”
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Aporia of Participatory Planning: Framing Local Action in the Entrepreneurial City by Ryan Love

“…In this first section of the essay, Adorno's analysis of the Culture Industry is reconsidered alongside Berger’s and Bourdieu's critical sociology. …”
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Feminist Mothers and Daughters in Top Girls and Yerma by Florentina Gümüş

“…Through feminist theories of motherhood, this essay discusses the mother-daughter relationship, a dominant feature of two British plays, Top Girls (1982/1991) by Caryl Churchill and Yerma (2017) by Simon Stone, the latter being an adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s (1934/1968) play with the same title. …”
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Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“… The essay investigates the application of cosmotechnics in architecture through a case study of a large international construction venture, the Zambia World Bank Education Project. …”
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The Floor is not the Ground by George Papam Papamattheakis

“…Space structure is defined by logistics-influenced ‘functional diagrams’ and is reduced to mere transitory settings. This essay is an effort to challenge the contemporary ‘fulfilment’-influenced, network-based perception of human transportation spaces, towards, instead, a relational, and effectively political, understanding of them. …”
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Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá by Michael O. Afolayan

“… This essay critically explores the semantic, phonological and philosophical implications of the sound “kọ” (build) in the Yorùbá proverb  ́ Ọmọ tí a kò kọ́ ni yóò gbé ilé tí a kọ́ tà (the child that is not taught will eventually sell the house that is built). …”
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George Eliot’s ‘Greek Vocabulary’ Notebook (c. 1873) as Commodity and Rare Artefact by Linda K. Hughes

“…The material object on which this essay focuses, a notebook bound in leather (originally with blank pages), is one of thousands sold by stationers and others in the later decades of the nineteenth century. …”
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