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(Post) modern Islamic philosophy: challenges and perspectives
Safet Bektovic
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations·2012·2 citations
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View paper →Strange circus: Eisenstein’s sex drawings
Joan Neuberger
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema·2012·2 citations
Sergei Eisenstein made drawings more or less constantly from the time he was a child until the end of his life, with only a short break in the 1920s when he was making his first films. Among the thousands of preserved drawings is a large collection depicting people (and animals, and various anthropomorphized features of sexual anatomy) having sex. Rarely discussed or analysed, the sex drawings are usually seen in a purely biographical context, but they were thematically and aesthetically fundamental to Eisenstein’s artistic and theoretical writing, which explores the diverse ways that perception, consciousness and creativity originate in the body. Far from being only ‘the return of the repressed’, Eisenstein used the drawing process as a laboratory to examine the often violent extremes of desire as he was developing his ideas on the wellsprings of artistic creativity in the body’s inner divisions and the human wish for connection and ecstatic transcendence and transformation.
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View paper →Inappropriate inspectors: Impoliteness and overpoliteness in Ian Rankin’s and Andrea Camilleri’s crime series
Annick Paternoster
Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics·2012·5 citations
<jats:p> This article explores evaluations of impoliteness and over-politeness in crime novel dialogues, in reference to the Pragmatics of Politeness and the Discursive Model (Locher and Watts, 2005; Watts, 2003, 2005, 2010). Metapragmatic comments, in which dialogue participants evaluate the ongoing communicative behaviour, offer important insights into the values and social norms that make up interaction. Literary dialogues, as opposed to naturally occurring conversations, have the advantage of offering numerous metapragmatic comments. This study examines police investigator dialogues that contain metapragmatic comments of impoliteness and over-politeness, concentrating on two maverick figures, Ian Rankin’s Edinburgh-based John Rebus and Andrea Camilleri’s Sicilian Salvo Montalbano, both of whose fractiousness in regards to procedural rules extends to social norms as well. The first part of the analysis looks at impoliteness, confirming the image of the maverick for whom impoliteness is fairly stereotypical. The determining factor is police rank: I find frequent institutional, that is, legitimized, and unchallenged impoliteness by those who are higher in rank. Secondly, I look at instances of over-politeness. The inspector, who readily uses insincere politeness in order to manipulate a suspect or a witness, is sceptical when evaluating politeness in others. By not commenting on impoliteness and through extensive negative evaluations of politeness, the narrator creates a protagonist who has become disenchanted with politeness and uses impoliteness as if it were normal, appropriate behaviour. </jats:p>
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View paper →The Sahara Wall: Status and Prospects
Said Saddiki
Journal of Borderlands Studies·2012·4 citations
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View paper →Coping With Death and Loss: Confucian Perspectives and the Use of Rituals
Biao Chen
Pastoral Psychology·2012·18 citations
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View paper →From the Margins of Latin American Feminism: Indigenous and Lesbian Feminisms
Ángela Ixkic Bastian Duarte
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society·2012·50 citations
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View paper →Frontal pseudoalopecia in history: Part 1—Fashionable forms
Angel Fernandez-Flores
Clinics in Dermatology·2012·14 citations
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View paper →Chtoucas pour les groupes réductifs et paramétrisation de Langlands globale
Vincent Lafforgue
arXiv·2012
For any reductive group G over a global function field, we use the cohomology of G-shtukas with multiple modifications and the geometric Satake equivalence to prove the global Langlands correspondence for G in the "automorphic to Galois" direction. Moreover we obtain a canonical decomposition of the spaces of cuspidal automorphic forms indexed by global Langlands parameters. The proof does not rely at all on the Arthur-Selberg trace formula.
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View paper →The Huge Differences Between Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts Coffee Drinkers - CivicScience
John Dick
CivicScience·2012
Ok. Enough of the politics. Let's look at something more polarizing - Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts? Who fits the profile?
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View paper →How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner - DaedTech
Unknown Author
DaedTech·2012
In this post, I describe the phenomenon of the so-called expert beginner -- someone with mediocre skill who thinks he's an expert.
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View paper →L’état de stress post-traumatique comme conséquence de l’interaction entre une susceptibilité génétique individuelle, un évènement traumatogène et un contexte social
Y. Auxéméry
L'Encéphale·2012·79 citations
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View paper →Ontology and indigeneity: on the political ontology of heterogeneous assemblages
Mario Blaser
cultural geographies·2012·247 citations
<jats:p> The first challenge faced by a project that seeks to bring concerns with ontology and indigeneity into a conversation is to sort out the various (and possibly divergent) projects that are being mobilized when the former term is used, not the least because what do we mean by ontology impinges upon how we can conceive indigeneity. In this article I play a counterpoint between two ‘ontological’ projects: one in geography, that foregrounds a reality conceived as an always-emergent assemblage of human and non-humans and troubles the politics that such assemblages imply. The other in ethnographic theory, that foregrounds that we are not only dealing with a shifting ontology, a (re)animated world, but also with multiple ontologies, a multiplicity of worlds animated in different ways. Thus, if the heterogeneity of always emerging assemblages troubles the political, the very heterogeneity of these heterogeneous assemblages troubles it even more. What kinds of politics and what kinds of knowledges does this troubling demand? I advance the notion of political ontology as a possible venue to explore this question. </jats:p>
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