Fear in the medical and literary imagination, medieval to modern: Dreadful passions

“…This coherent and fascinating collection will appeal to medical historians, literary critics, cultural theorists, medical humanities’ scholars and historians of the emotions.…”

What Was Life? Answers from Three Limit Biologies by Helmreich, Stefan

“…Proliferating reproductive technologies, along with genomic reshufflings of biomatter in such practices as cloning, have unwound the facts of life.1 Biotechnology, biodiversity, bioprospecting, biosecurity, biotransfer, and molecularized biopolitics draw novel lines of property and protection around organisms and their elements.2 From cultural theorists and historians of science we learn that life itself, consolidated as the object of biology around 1800, has morphed as material components of living things—cells and genes—that are rearranged and dispersed, and frozen, amplified, and exchanged within and across laboratories.3 Writers in philosophy, rhetoric, and cultural studies, meanwhile, claim that, as life has become the target of digital simulation and bioinformatic representation, it has become virtual, mediated, and multiple.4…”
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World Englishes and linguistic landscapes by Bolton, Kingsley

“…The study of English and other languages in urban public signage has drawn the attention of anthropologists, cultural theorists, and various scholars in sociolinguistics, many of whom have contributed to a body of research on the topic of ‘linguistic landscapes’. …”
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The Global Reach of a New Discourse by Wang, Jing

“…How can responsible cultural theorists talk about different national cultural policies relationally? …”
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Can we count on you at a distance? The impact of culture on formation of swift trust within global virtual teams by Zakaria, Norhayati, Mohd Yusof, Shafiz Affendi

“…Next, we look at the concept of in-group vs. out-group based on relevant cultural dimensions from cross-cultural theorists such as Hall (1976), Hofstede (1980), and Trompenaars (1994). …”
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What is the impact of collaborative working between teachers on their classroom practice? by Marshall, J

“…<p>Socio-cultural theorists and empirical studies suggest teachers increase their expertise through collaborative learning in environments with specific modi operandi and ways of thinking. …”

An overview of Stuart Hall’s encoding and decoding theory with film communication by Yuting, Xie, Yasin, Megat Al Imran, Shekh Alsagoff, Syed Agil, Lay, Hoon Ang

“…British scholar Stuart Hall is the father of contemporary cultural studies, as well as one of the media and cultural theorists and critics. His famous theory of “encoding and decoding” (1973) plays a significant role in film and television studies. …”

SACRED ART OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES: BLOOMING OR WILTING? by Grażyna Ryba

“…In connection with the modifications of criteria for assessing a work of art, postulated in the last decades of the twentieth century by philosophers and culture theorists associated with postmodernism and aimed at rethinking that approach to art, one may also perhaps propose changes that would allow including a wider range of artistic phenomena associated with religious than previously considered. …”
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From Masotopia to Thigmotaxis: the Tame of Paradoxal Spaces by Konstantin A. Ocheretyany

“…The article is intended for media philosophers, anthropologists, urbanists and digital culture theorists.…”
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Grids: Re-considering Infrastructural Politics of Urban Space by Daria A. Kolesnikova

“…The article is intended for media philosophers, anthropologists, urbanists and digital culture theorists.…”
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Atmospheric Moon River by Matthew Rader

“…The poem also draws a line from the first erotic love poem in English to the work of cultural theorists such as Michel Foucault and Judith Butler and “classic” Hollywood cinema.   …”
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Dripping pink and blue by Darlene Clover, Nancy Taber, Kathy Sanford

“… In response to calls by feminist cultural theorists to develop means to unmask patriarchy, the system of power that lies at the heart of museums that maintain problematic hierarchical binaries of masculinity and femininity, we designed the Feminist Museum Hack. …”
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Spatial Language of Dissent in New Delhi: Public Space, Protests, and the National Capital (c. 1947–2022) by HARLEEN KAUR

“…The same will be done by bridging the gap between spatial and socio-cultural theorists to study the capital city beyond its architectural grandeur and theoretical claims about public space. …”
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From Theory to Practice: What does the Metaphor of Scaffolding Mean to Educators Today? by Irina Verenikina

“…In spite of a number of limitations of the metaphor, that have been discussed by socio-cultural theorists (e. g., Stone, 2001), it remains highly popular among educators. …”
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From enclosure to embrace : punitive isolation and network culture by Rockwood, Jason Willis Krider

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René Girard and Mimetic Theory by Paul Gifford

“…René Girard is not a theologian; he is best described as fundamental anthropologist and culture theorist. His versatile system of hermeneutical and heuristic thinking is known to its author as ‘the Mimetic Theory’. …”
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The politics of knowledge that leads elsewhere by Henry, U

“…</p> <p>I disembark from the recent field of expanded academia and the 'educational turn' in art and curating, approbated by cultural theorists and artists since the mid 1990's. While addressing the current crisis in neoliberal education and its direct link to cognitive capitalism's knowledge enclosures, in which the doctorate in art was fiercely debated, these modes of emancipatory educational 'turning' seldom found traction inside the official educational art institution itself. …”