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...Louise Knops In the latest wave of climate change activism, affects and time are everywhere. Most recent works have focused on these dimensions separately, the intersection between time and affectivity underexplored. This author argues that focusing on affects and emotions is crucial to understand...

...Debra Thompson Black Lives Matter (BLM) has evoked a range of emotional responses from its supporters and critics. The vast majority of BLM protests have been peaceful demonstrations focused on the disruption of public spaces, everyday errands, and white indifference toward black suffering. Still...

... are attainable in a context of juridical suspension? Can exile become grounds for an articulation of rights that overcomes the political, juridical, and emotive national frame as the only space for existing in the world? The article suggests understanding Palestinian refugees’ political subjectivity in Lebanon...

... debates continue over the embryo's status as life, new forms of disposition practices such as compassionate transfer are developing in response to the emotional experience of embryo loss. As a death scene in progress, we take the measure of its fabrication, considering its form, significance, and legal...

..., negating theism does “positive” productive and creative work, energizing a different kind of affirmation. Nuances in rhetoric, emotional color, and practical engagement with religious cultures and institutions create distinctions among atheists, secular humanists, and naturalists that are more than merely...

... force; according to Daniel Lord Smail, it has to be considered an addicted brain. A subjectivity without being for the former, an emotional and dependent biological and symbolic entity for the latter. As an in-between solution, this essay proposes a rereading of the concept of “mentality” proposed...

... widely shared experiences of natural systems, the global impact of climate change, and the acute emotional response people feel to the loss or change of ecosystems. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 climate change environmental aesthetics ecoacoustic acoustic ecology soundscape...

...Nat Raha The affects of transfeminine life and their relationship to the material conditions undergirding such life are undertheorized in transgender studies and queer studies. This creative and critical essay conceptualizes transfeminine brokenness through negative experiences and emotions...

... moment in the overarching argument of The Authoritarian Personality . But, as I hope to show, Adorno’s subtle engagement with this psychoanalytic referent for psychic and emotional energy invested in a person or thing can serve as a resource for making sense of the pathways of prejudice that fascism...

...: The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this im­ personality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious...

... of that relationship, expressing it finally so clearly that more Early Novels of Robert Penn Warren 487 than the briefest summary here would appear repetitious. It is of greater interest, perhaps, to observe how this theme, with its intellec­ tual, emotional, and sensuous implications, shapes the structure...

... Hamlet down to a normal emotional temperature literally comeddling his blood and judgment in order to make the feverish events which follow all that more spectacular. It would be interesting to know at what point in his thinking Shakespeare added Horatio to the play. By nature, confidants in drama...

...: The key word is and, with its renewable promise of continuity (158). Much of the criticism of Hemingway s use of coordination is aesthetic, dealing with rhythms, intensities, emotional effects. Some critics, however, deal with philosophical ramifications of such a style. Grebstein: Anything that smacks...

... Culture At this introductory juncture of an issue focused on the emotive purchase and resonance of sport, the reader is probably expecting me to provide a pithy personal observation...

..., then, stands in Eliot for the dark, the irrationally physical, the merely instinctive forces of emotion, animal emotion, the horror of succumbing to which pervades his early poetry. Con­ rad s Mr. Kurtz, it will be remembered, allowed himself to become the victim of just such a horror. So significant for Eliot...

... University Press 2025 affect psychedelic Indigenous emotion aesthetic Again arose the unshakable conviction that whatever beauty was inside me was likewise inside every human being. How could it be reached without the aid of a drug? Certainly I did not know the answer.” —Adelle Davis...

... of poetry which has as its basis the wrongs of the poor, or the utterance of the broader emotional surges of humanity, may have an undying place in literature but it cannot be the basis of a separate art. The distinct social message or sermon, no matter how right or much needed it may be, is only...

... beyond the ordinary. In response to this, there is a strain of American writing which attempts to create great emotional impact by the use of an elaborate rhetoric, to sup­ ply by formal, aesthetic means what the familiar uniformity of the culture denies. Melville, Whitman, Wolfe, and Faulkner try...

... and/or physiological stimuli. He agrees with Dr. Johnson: Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed in the same way. The function of the reflex is to dissipate harmlessly certain self-assertive or aggressive emotions along with the physiological reactions which they automati­ cally...

... to a perfor­ mance he had attended in Moscow the previous year? Rather than encouraging passivity, he ar­ gued, theater should refunction the spectator s emotions to produce both emotional identifi­ cation and critical reflection and thus force audience members to consider the drama s unre­ solved...