AMERICA IN THE WORLD AFTER HEGEMONY by A. Y. Borisov

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Les Méta-Barons, des cyborgs subversifs ? by Adrien Cascarino

“…These discourses are often criticized as shifting towards hubris, contempt for the body, or even denial of death and finiteness. …”
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‘Some strange monster of the isle’: l’hybride dans The Tempest by Pascale Drouet

“…Finally, the hybrid as revealing hubris, Prospero’s “Promethean attitude” (Hadot’s term) and the irreducible quality of the hybrid are examined.…”
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Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-African Ideal: Debates and Contestations by Garth L le Pere

“…The inconvenient truths bear no hubris and arrogance by the author but are in essence meant to be at once emancipatory and provocative. …”
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The Falklands War on the British Screen: Plural Memories of an Occulted War by Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet

“…This filmography can be interpreted as a form of repentance for what is now often perceived as an upsurge of postcolonial hubris and raises the question of how to remember a war that is anything but heroic.…”
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A Better Model for Socio-economic Governance? by Bryn Jones, Peter Nisbet

“…Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is now actively promoted as a form of socio-economic governance between market forces and state controls; to solve problems of social disintegration and business hubris. Critical aspects of CSR practice in transnational food manufacturing corporations are examined here to test the wider suitability of CSR as a systemic remedy for the socio-environmental problems associated with market economies. …”
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Cli-fi Young Adult et imaginaire urbain : (re)configurations génériques by Natacha Levet

“…Through this symbol of adult hubris, the opposition between kids and adults renews, according to the dystopian model (Bazin, 2019). …”
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ANIMAIS EM SUA NATUREZA: um estudo de caso acerca das atitudes públicas em relação a animais, modificação genética e ‘natureza’ by Phil Macnaghten

“…O artigo conclui que as pessoas rejeitam animais GM como algo “contra a natureza” e que essas preocupações refletem um desconforto maior quanto à ciência, à modernidade tecnológica e sobre hubris. …”
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Ombres et lumières croisées : l’appropriation prométhéenne de la lumière dans les peintures de Wright of Derby (1734-97) et John Martin (1789-1854) by Muriel Adrien

“…Beneath the terrestrial, and even telluric topoï that flatter human hubris, the privileged place of pictorial representations is the pandemonium, domain of Lucifer, the light-carrying angel but also the ruler of the kingdom of shades. …”
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À la recherche de l’immortalité : intelligence artificielle, vie artificielle et post-humanisme dans La Cité des permutants de Greg Egan. by Ross Farnell

“…L’exemple de vie artificielle développé dans le roman renverse le regard (numérique) logocentrique et destitue le post-humain du centre en révélant l’hubris des Copies. Là où le post-humain cybernétique chancelle, les paradigmes non-humains de vie artificielle parviennent, grâce au caractère énactif de leur évolution, à s’adapter pour potentiellement survivre à l’immortalité. …”
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