Is Every Theory about Photography a Critical Action? Looking at the Book “Photography: A Critical Introduction” by Mohammad Khodadadi Motarjemzadeh

“…This essay is trying to analyze and review the book, according to determined measures. …”
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Trasversal territories. Rural and industrial small towns in Sicily and Spain by Guido Cimadomo, Renzo Lecardane, María Isabel Alba Dorado

“…Although very different from each other in terms of topographical location, traditions and cultural and linguistic specificities, it is possible to find constants of criticality and potential. This essay illustrates new readings and settles meanings to initiate a collaborative work in Sicily and Spain along the Trasversale Sicula and in the mining landscape of the Minas de La Reunión in the province of Seville. …”
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Participation as “attingere” and Saint Thomas’ commentary on John 6:57 by Johannes von Voorst

“…Saint Thomas Aquinas’ notion of participation is developed by Cornelio Fabro with the notion of ‘attingere’. In this essay I address the importance of ‘participare’ as attingere by uncovering it in Aquinas’ commentary on John 6:57. …”
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A Critique of the Book "A Selection of Masterpieces of Arabic Literature in the First Abbasid Period " by Mohsen Seifi, Mahvash Hassanpoor

“…The study of the book shows that this work, while having concessions, is free of defects. This essay aims to observe the principles of critique, using a descriptive-analytic method to determine the extent of adherence of the author to the standards and rules of writing the critiques.  …”
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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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L’évolution de la philanthropie juive française à l’époque contemporaine (1791-1939) : un essai de synthèse by Laura Hobson Faure

“…This review essay traces the evolution of French Jewish philanthropy from the emancipation of the French Jewish population through the interwar period. …”
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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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Des mages à Florence au Quattrocento. Autour de la fête de l’Épiphanie de 1443 by Pauline Duclos-Grenet

“…However, it is in Florence by the late Middle Ages that the production of meaning is the most powerful. The purpose of this essay is to draw the frame of this phenomenon and to understand how it pervades the minds of the period, through the urban rituals and pictural representations which structure the Florentine society. …”
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Des lieux pour un « non-lieu » : Le camp algérien Paul-Cazelles et Hocine Kahouadji, militant FLN by Susan Slyomovics

“…Although French prison camps in Algeria varied, this essay concentrates on Camp Paul-Cazelles located in Ain Ousseras, 195 km south of Algiers. …”
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Apophasis, Abnegation, and Liturgy by David W. Fagerberg

“…This apophaticism feels like a wave that washes away every cataphatic sand castle we build. In this essay, I would like to change the street address of apophaticism to the house of liturgy. …”
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Des esclaves et des bêtes : fables de la sauvagerie en Amérique dans Letters from an American Farmer, de St John de Crèvecoeur by Agnès Derail-Imbert

“…In the sequel to this philosophical essay, the narrator resumes his naturalist account with the description of local reptiles, whose murderous behavior hardly fails to evoke slavery, as if servitude and the violence it entails were merely a law of nature. …”
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A Model of Influential Factors in Franchise Operations by Helder de Souza Aguiar, Marcos Roberto Luppe, Paulo Tromboni de Souza Nascimento

“…The objective of this theoretical essay was to construct a model of those factors that might at any time have an influence on the operation of a franchise unit. …”
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When “Things Fall Apart”: Thinking Through Absurdity with Arendt and Aseyev by Cana Beverage

“…War often occasions such moments, not just because of the moral and political turmoil that accompanies it or the physical damage it inflicts upon people and their environments, but also because of its absurdity; this latter feature, the absurdity of war, is captured by Stanislav Aseyev, a Donetsk-born Ukrainian writer, in his books In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas and The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. In this essay, I argue that Aseyev’s reflections on Russian occupation, imprisonment, and torture demonstrate both the special value of Arendt’s “thinking” for those enduring war and violence and reveal a pre-moral-political capacity of “thinking” latent but never explicit in Arendt’s work: the power to cope with the absurd qua absurd.…”
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“Charles Dickens walked past here”: Dickensian Topography and the Idea of Fellowship by Malcolm ANDREWS

“…The essay explores the idea of Dickensian topography, in relation both to Dickens’s own preoccupation with topographical specificity in the novels and to the practices of literary tourism in “Dickens Country.” …”
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“A Made Up Thing” Full of Depth: The Queer Belonging of Robert Duncan and New Narrative by Robin Tremblay-McGaw

“…This essay argues that Robert Duncan’s conception of his poet self as “a made up thing and at the same time a depth in which my being is” from The Years as Catches links his poetics to his sexuality and that Duncan, at the center of the San Francisco Bay Area “poetry wars,” becomes a source of grand permission in “queer belonging” for New Narrative writers, specifically Robert Glück and Bruce Boone. …”
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Beneficiation Experiment of a Carbonate Fluorite Ore in Guizhou by Jian Huang, Wei Peng, Wubin Li, Zhenjie Wang, Anrong Liu

“…This is an essay in the field of mineral processing engineering. …”
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Le moment Atlantique de la dynastie des Winthrop au XVIIe siècle by Lauric Henneton

“…Using the case of the Winthrop dynasty, this essay explores the successive stages of an Anglo-American family’s expansion in an Atlantic world that was still nascent in the mid-17th century. …”
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Unlocking the Potential of Chest MRI: Strategies for Establishing a Successful Practice by Kyubin Kim, Kun-Il Kim, Ji Won Lee, Yeon Joo Jeong

“…Despite the technical hurdles posed by cardiac and respiratory motion, advancements in sequence and scan techniques have enabled high-quality chest MRI examinations to be conducted across diverse clinical settings. This pictorial essay aims to offer comprehensive resources and strategies for radiologists to integrate chest MRI into clinical practice and to overcome its present challenges.…”
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Pathology of Editing in Persian Literature Books of High School by Mohammad Reza Pashaei, Saeed Ghasemi

“…According to the title of the article, the purpose of this essay is the expression of some problems and shortcomings in the field of editing Persian textbooks of the High school as a statistical society. …”
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