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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 88–95.
Published: 01 January 2013
... “around” and “on both sides” may reveal that the very fuzziness of ambi is precisely what is required to grasp the chaotic complexity of the environment. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 4 AMBIGUITY, AMBIENCE, AMBIVALENCE...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 155.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Marilyn Strathern West Paige , Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 ), 195 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 1 5 5Paige West, Dispossession...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 216.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Alexander Nehamas Douglas Mao, Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 332 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints’ Stories...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 455–456.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Thibault De Meyer [email protected] Francesca Michelini and Kristian Köchy , eds., Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy: Life, Environments, Anthropology ( London : Routledge , 2021 ), 248 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Jakob von Uexküll...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 283–291.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and digital texts, not in terms of their supposedly shared narrative content (not in terms of their content at all) but, rather, formally—in terms of how they model complex systems, how both video games and digital-text environments work by creating networked environments for the production, reproduction...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 532–551.
Published: 01 August 2010
... narrative as is conceivable. Describing the environment of a single English parish, White's text places stillness on exhibit as an indication of commitment to an ethics of self-unregarding attentiveness. But the stillness of Selborne , King argues, is a conspicuous stillness—a practice of being still...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 46–54.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., and that more recently those concerns have merged in a more focused way in her attention to ecological issues. The impulse to fix philosophy and the environment depends in her work mainly on further linguistic statements and declarations, and on occasional overt rejections of traditional political remedies...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 337–362.
Published: 01 April 2014
... environments, both anthropology and STS currently experience heightened levels of uncertainty about theories and methods, means and ends. In this context, the emergence and vigor of a number hybrid positions, eschewing traditional separations between facts and values, the conceptual and the empirical...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 151–154.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Debbora Battaglia These comments on Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's article, “Zeno and the Art of Anthropology,” emphasize, first, his engagement with ideas of Gilles Deleuze that open to the political dimension of Amerindian perspectivism and to a “multinatural” understanding of human-to-environment...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 373–394.
Published: 01 August 2009
... environment over eponym. The critical literature on the text has focused primarily on the formal or psychological bases of such practice in order to argue that Adams is behind, and thus exempt from, the book's paradoxical self-effacements. But for Adams the rationale for the impersonal, evacuated form...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 197–207.
Published: 01 April 2009
... generally. For both Jain and Advaita Vedantic ascetic traditions, the material world, and particularly the body, are the primary obstacles to spiritual development. We deal with the social, physical, and environmental implications of such a worldview, rather than with the practice or the phenomenology...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 367–403.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., visible, possible, text this makes that environment the text. given the to external of source a The role of quotation marks is to recognize the usage (incorporation, repetition...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 75–82.
Published: 01 January 2017
..., Samuel environment. relatetheir to mals ani that way the in situated bipedis human the and animals between difference fundamental to Herder,the According environment. immediate the of influence the from ofdetachment adegree requires so Doing ideas. discrete communicates language...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 124.
Published: 01 January 2015
... remotelythe with nature- is astonishingly how confirmed inadvertently has biology molecular What amistake. is uniqueness for human search The genes. the in anything than psychology determining in effective muchmore are Environments nature. overputative offavor nurture outright...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 January 2015
... remotelythe with nature- is astonishingly how confirmed inadvertently has biology molecular What amistake. is uniqueness for human search The genes. the in anything than psychology determining in effective muchmore are Environments nature. overputative offavor nurture outright...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (2): 324–331.
Published: 01 April 2008
... mediocre ones get caught in them. get ones caught in mediocre while traps, the all by slip talents Great rules. no are There environments. all ephemeral layer, of the language he writes he language the of layer, ephemeral...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 January 2015
... remotelythe with nature- is astonishingly how confirmed inadvertently has biology molecular What amistake. is uniqueness for human search The genes. the in anything than psychology determining in effective muchmore are Environments nature. overputative offavor nurture outright...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 515–516.
Published: 01 September 2015
...   —  “inclination” or “environment.” Ever since Aristotle, mankind mankind or “environment.” EverAristotle, since “inclination” klima...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 January 2004
... support to fresh and radical modes of creative writing that were making themselves felt in the futurist environment of the Russian avant-garde and the largely surrealist milieu of Czechoslovakia. Thinking about literature, in other words, altered radically...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 251–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
... complexity charts a straight line from monad to man, except that “nature is forced to submit her works to the influence of their environment, and this environment everywhere produces variations in them.” 10 Thus, for Lamarck, evolution, or descent with modification, is not entirely the result...