Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop by John O. JORDAN

“…The essay gives a brief history of the term “soundscape,” surveys the current state of research on Dickens and sound, proposes a simple taxonomy of Dickensian sound effects, and analyzes various uses to which sound is put in this “noisy” novel.…”
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“love : necessity : anti-fa”: Hostile Environments and Necropolitics in Nat Raha’s Of Sirens, Body & Faultlines and Jay Bernard’s Surge by Juha Virtanen

“…The UK’s legislation on immigration in the 2010s has been defined by a hostile environment. This essay traces the ways in which two poets in the UK have responded to, and intervened in, this violent political climate. …”
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The Book of Repetition: Rachel Cusk and Maternal Subjectivity by Clare HANSON

“…This essay discusses Cusk’s representation of maternal subjectivity in the context of an Anglo-American post-feminist culture which construes motherhood simultaneously as an individual choice and a social responsibility. …”
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Telephones, Narrative, Algorithms: Untimely Meditations on Kafka by Ansgar K. Mohnkern

“…This essay traces Kafka’s writings as documents of a technological consciousness both a century ago and today. …”
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Pandemic Fictions: Covid-19 and the Cultures of Dystopia by Sean Mark

“…The essay argues that it is the loss of impulses and discourses that challenge the status quo that marks the truly dystopian aspect of the pandemic. …”
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Slowness and Renewed Perception: Revisiting Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) with Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…After presenting these various works and the intersemiotic reflexion they activate in DeLillo’s novel, the essay examines the deceptive simplicity of this brief text, in terms of syntax and diegetic structure (including the film-related framing device). …”
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'Jami Chadiba Nahin' (We Will Not Leave this Land): Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics by Ananya Mishra

“…This is a reflective essay on materiality and imagination of Indigenous land ethics as expressed in global Indigenous writing.  …”
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Militanza, “impegno” e critica sociale dell’antropologia sulla base di intense etnografie. Le intenzioni trasformative e i giudizi politici dell’antropologo by Antonino Colajanni

“…The essay is devoted to an historical analysis of the progressive engagement of anthropological studies on the contemporary world with its difficult and conflictual situations. …”
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A Translation and Literary Analysis of Adebayo Faleti’s Poem: Ojo Ilayefun” by Ayodele Solomon Oyewale

“…The essay employs the hermeneutics model to undertake a literary analysis of the poem, which serves as the primary data for the study. …”
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Presence africaine and the emergence of african film criticism by Ntongela Masilela

“… The essay was written in celebration of' the centennial year (1995) of the birth or the cinema. …”
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Poetry in the Age of New Sound Technology: Mallarmé to Tennyson by Francis O’Gorman

“…The essay concludes with Alfred Tennyson's life-long interest in the meanings of sound. …”
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Where is meaning when form is gone? Knowledge representation on the Web by Terrence A. Brooks

“…This essay argues that legacy methods of knowledge represenation do not transfer well to a Web environment. …”
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Forms of Indigenous Labor on New Spain’s Northern Frontiers: The Cases of New Mexico and California (17th–18th Centuries) by David Rex Galindo

“… This essay discusses various forms of Hispanic-Indigenous labor relations on New Spain’s northern frontiers, with a focus on 17th-century New Mexico and late colonial California. …”
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Whose Voice? Tim Crouch’s The Author and Active Listening on the Contemporary Stage by Vicky Angelaki

“…The essay discusses Tim Crouch’s recent play The Author (2009) in the context of active listening, audience participation, response and responsibility in contemporary theatre. …”
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Les Compagnons de la théorie (de la science-fiction) by Irène Langlet

“…Review-essay of 3 Companions and an Oxford Handbook to Science Fiction (2003-2014).…”
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“A Cormorant of Libraries”: The Future-Past of Susan Howe’s “Melville’s Marginalia” by Mark Tardi

“…In his influential essay “The Translator as the Creator of the Canon,” Jerzy Jarniewicz outlines the characteristics of what he identifies as “but two of the most interesting species” of translator, the ambassador and the legislator. …”
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A Surgery Issue: Cutting through the Architectural Fabric by Athina Angelopoulou

“…This essay examines the material ontologies of surgical trans-modifications. …”
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Science-Fiction et Empire by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay (Jr.)

“…This essay makes a preliminary attempt to construct a cognitive map of sf as a creature of imperialism and inspired by a world-view of technoscientific Empire. …”
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Epistemic Injustice in the Criminal Trial by Federico Picinali

“… Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Rachel Herdy, Tareeq Jalloh and Abenaa Owusu-Bempah have each written a paper commenting on my essay ‘Evidential Reasoning, Testimonial Injustice and the Fairness of the Criminal Trial’, which appeared in Quaestio Facti in 2024. …”
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Just(ice) Smiling? Masks and Masking in the Occupy-Wall Street Protests by Andreas Beer

“…The essay analyzes concepts of social justice, which were influential during the US-American Occupy protests of 2011. …”
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