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From Medieval Utopia to Modern Dystopia
The rich vocabulary of medieval Islamic apocalyptic and eschatological compilations is familiar to modern Arab writers, yet influenced by modern...
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Techno-naturans vs. Terraforming. The Technique-Nature Relationship in Ernst Bloch, Gilles Deleuze, and Benjamin Bratton
Vis-à-vis the technocratic and productivist notion of technology implemented by hegemonic modernity, the materialism of Ernst Bloch, Gilles Deleuze,...
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Sumak Kawsay as Decolonial Post-utopia
The search for alternatives to development and beyond has become increasingly more frequent, especially in the face of the avalanche of evidence that...
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Challenging Dystopia with Laughter: Yan Lianke’s Inversion of Political Slogans in Serve the People!
While dystopian literature tends to be dark and ominous, Yan Lianke’s (b.1958) numerous satires of revolutionary politics and corruption in the...
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From Modern Feminist Utopias to Feminist Post-utopia: Biopolitics and Women’s Emancipation
The fundamental principle of modernity on which the utopian stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are based, biopolitics as an...
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Between Utopia and Reality (Modern Transhumanism Theories and Posthumanism)
Trans- and post-humanism associate the realization of their ideas with the development of modern technologies and especially convergent (NBICS)...
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Post-apocalyptic Critical Dystopias: Killing the Minotaur in the Labyrinth
Contemporary series of books and movies for teenagers and young adults, such as The Giver by Lois Lowry, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, The...
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Spain, Munich, Auschwitz: The Role of Historical Analogies in the Protest Movements in Europe Against the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992–1995
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 led to an important and multifaceted civil society mobilization throughout Europe. Historical...
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Constructing the History of Working-Class Neighbourhoods: Communicative and Cognitive Reference to the Past in Conflicts Over Urban Redevelopment in West-German Cities in the 1970s and 1980s
This article analyses how activists turned memories and history into a resource in conflicts over urban redevelopment during the 1970s and 1980s. It...
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Language, Settings, and Networks for Early Modern Private Conversations
This chapter introduces the research area by proposing the angle of privacy to analyse the subject of everyday conversations in early modern Europe....
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An Agenda-Setting History
Following the survey of the book and the main historical stages of the history of the human sciences in the modern university outlined in the preface...
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“Unnecessary Conversations”: Talking Sex in the Early Modern Polish Village
This chapter shows us how early modern Polish peasants used to discuss sex. Despite the rules of decorum, conversations about sex were still...
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“The Secret Sin That One Commits by Thought Alone”: Confession as Private and Public in Seventeenth-Century France
Investigating the theological implications of confessions as private conversations, this chapter delves into the debate between the Jesuit Denis...
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When Private Speech Goes Public: Libertinage, Crypto-Judaic Conversations, and the Private Literary World of Jean Fontanier 1621
This chapter explores the exceptional role of private conversations in the trial of Jean Fontanier, who stood accused of having written and taught...
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Camilla Herculiana (Erculiani): Private Practices of Knowledge Production
This chapter analyses the paratextual and epistolary rhetorical strategies connected with private practices of knowledge production used by the...
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“We Take Care of Our Own”: Talking about ‘Disability’ in Early Modern Netherlandish Households
This chapter investigates how people in the Netherlands talked about disability, poverty, and charity in the privacy of their homes in the sixteenth...
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Talking Privately in Utopia: Ideals of Silence and Dissimulation in Smeeks’ Krinke Kesmes (1708)
This chapter shows how reading a utopia from the perspective of social knowledge production can furnish new understanding of the practice of private...
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“Alone Amongst Ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist, Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–1597)
This chapter examines the diarist Hermann von Weinsberg’s descriptions of everyday conversations, which are incredibly revealing of the notions of...
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Mussolini’s Great Defender: Carlo Silvestri
Carlo Silvestri had been an important figure during the 1924–1925 Matteotti investigation. He was an editor at Corriere della Sera, but a few days...