Culture and Ideas
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Melancholy and Hope in the Anthropocene: Keats’ Negative Capability, Barad’s Agential Realism, and the Politics of Possibilities
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Amid environmental crisis, rethinking our relationship to nature and resilience may provide a realistic basis for hope.
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AI’s Material Infrastructure: An Urban Planning Challenge for the Digital Age
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AI is only as competent or equitable as its supporting infrastructure. A reimagining of cities and space is needed.
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Review: The Making of Public Space by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre
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The book inquires into how certain events come to be politicised in contemporary liberal democracies by focusing on the individual and their experience of the public sphere.
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Home Is Where the Trauma Is: Artistic Explorations of Generational Trauma
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Questions of German identity and the memories of the Holocaust intersect in Spiegelman’s Maus.
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Reappraising a controversial figure: Ross Carroll’s Edmund Burke
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The book explores the complexities of a figure who was very much a man of his time, whilst also being out of fit with it in a number of ways.
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Towards a Narrative of the Global Environment
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Building a more sustainable society depends on upending how we talk about nature.
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The Political Consequences of the Politicians Who Cried Looter
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When lies and gross exaggerations are allowed to flourish there can be devastating consequences, particularly amid crisis.
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Constructing National Narratives: The Tin Drum as Ironic History
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The far-right has soured on Germany’s self-critical view of its history in place since the end of the Second World War.
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The Politics of Climate Fiction: Why We Don’t Talk About What Is Killing the Planet
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Plenty of post-apocalyptic climate fictions are quiet are the cause of disaster. This oversight has real-life consequences for our planet’s future.
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Aesthetic Engagement and the Politics of Affiliation: The Case of Allusion in Autumn
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Does literature intrinsically have any political and ethical import? Not directly, but it can help inspire political action.