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Immortality as Body Horror in T. Kingfisher’s 'What Moves the Dead'
No full textIn T. Kingfisher’s novel What Moves the Dead, a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the fungus, mentioned briefly in the original, becomes a direct threat to the characters. This fungus embodies ecoand body horror elements, especially due to its characteristics of sentience and absorption. This essay examines how the fungus’ influence over minds, bodily autonomy, life, and death turns immortality into a source of body horror. The unknown nature of the fungus and its spread add to the overall horror of the narrative.In T. Kingfishers Roman What Moves the Dead, einer Nacherzählung von Edgar Allan Poes Kurzgeschichte „Der Untergang des Hauses Usher“, wird der im Original kurz erwähnte Fungus zu einer direkten Bedrohung für die Figuren. Dieser Fungus verkörpert Elemente des Öko- und des Körperhorrors, insbesondere durch seine Bewusstseins- und Absorptionseigenschaften. Dieses Essay untersucht, wie der Einfluss des Fungus auf Verstand, körperliche Autonomie, Leben und Tod die Unsterblichkeit in eine Quelle von Körperhorror verwandelt. Die unbekannte Natur des Pilzes und seine Ausbreitung verstärken den Gesamtschrecken der Erzählung
Post-Trump Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels
No full textAs an almost exclusively female-dominated medium, the popular romance novel has, throughout its history, allowed women writers to “amplify their political voice” (Teo, 2016, p. 102), especially when they could not actively participate in politics. Commonly, writers fashion storylines that reflect and process concerns from the real world in a fictional context. Using the Regency Romance as an example and based on Jayashree Kamblé’s theory that romance novels have a shared DNA that evolves in response to social and cultural influences, this paper first defines the figure of the romance hero in the pre-Trump era to segue into analysing selected novels published by Tessa Dare in 2011 (A night to surrender) and Sarah MacLean in 2012 (A rogue by any other name). This figure is then compared and contrasted with the incarnations of the hero in these authors’ publications from 2017 (The day of the duchess by MacLean) and 2019 (The wallflower wager by Dare) to map how his phenotype has evolved to reflect a shift in cultural perceptions regarding sex and sexual power dynamics. As I intend to show, in the wake of the 2016 US presidential election and the “#MeToo” movement, the new hero’s phenotype differs specifically in the expression of gendered power and sexuality. He is less forceful than his predecessors and places heavy emphasis on the heroine’s enthusiastic consent and pleasure.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (1040
Hostility on Twitter in the Aftermath of Terror Attacks
No full textThis study investigates the relationship between major Jihadist terror attacks and manifestations of ethno-religious hostility on social media. Analyzing approximately 4.5 million time-stamped Tweets from 1.2 million users across five European countries, the study focuses on content discussing migration and related topics in the weeks before and after ten significant terror attacks. The findings show a notable and robust increase in hostile Tweets after an attack. An interrupted time series analysis demonstrates a 10% point surge at the time of the attack, followed by a gradual decline. Accordingly, the impact of such attacks on online hostility diminishes approximately seven days after the event. Further analyses reveal that while attacks have the strongest effect on Tweets about Muslims and Islam, the attacks also increase hostility in Tweets about migration in general. We find that the overall attack effect is driven by both intra-user changes in Tweeting and changes in the composition of users posting after an attack. The findings underscore the importance of understanding the interplay between terrorist events and online discourse, shedding light on the dynamics of ethno-religious hostility in the digital realm.Open access funding provided by Tel Aviv University.Tel Aviv Universit
A Qualitative Analysis of Published Materials from the Period of the Pandemic
No full textThis study is an analysis of the international debate on open science that took place during the pandemic. It addresses the question, how did the COVID-19 pandemic impact the debate on open science? The study takes the form of a qualitative analysis of a large corpus of key articles, editorials, blogs and thought pieces about the impact of COVID on open science, published during the pandemic in English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. The findings show that many authors believed that it was clear that the experience of the pandemic had illustrated or strengthened the case for open science, with language such as a “stress test”, “catalyst”, “revolution” or “tipping point” frequently used. It was commonly believed that open science had played a positive role in the response to the pandemic, creating a clear ‘line of sight’ between open science and societal benefits. Whilst the arguments about open science deployed in the debate were not substantially new, the focuses of debate changed in some key respects. There was much less attention given to business models for open access and critical perspectives on open science, but open data sharing, preprinting, information quality and misinformation became most prominent in debates. There were also moves to reframe open science conceptually, particularly in connecting science with society and addressing broader questions of equity
Theresa May and Boris Johnson Compared
No full textThis article explores and compares the political leadership of two successive British Prime Ministers, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, in their handling of the domestic politics of Brexit. Despite some similar dilemmas at the beginning of their premierships, their leadership delivered very different outcomes. The key argument developed here, using Richard Heffernan’s power resources model, is that the explanation for these outcomes does not only arise from a different political context and circumstances under which each prime minister pursued their Brexit policy. Rather Johnson, unlike May, made skilful use of the power resources at his command. He possessed more personal power resources and drew upon the available institutional power resources more effectively than May. As a result, unlike May, he was able to be predominant in his government’s Brexit policy. While we demonstrate the continued analytical value of Heffernan’s model, we also point to its limitations and suggest how it can be revised.Open access publishing supported by the National Technical Library in Prague.Masaryk Universit
Integrating Vanguard Visions to Therapeutic Consent
No full textDrawing on the sociology of expectations, this paper inquires what objects, promises, and audiences are invoked in two examples of biotechnology discourse on organoids, MCELS (Multicellular Engineered Living Systems) in the USA and REBIRTH (From REgenerative BIology to Reconstructive THerapy) in Germany, and how that affects therapeutic consent. Therapeutic consent discussion in the literature has been focusing on singular discourse on the objects of biotechnology. This paper focuses on making of organoids embedded in two very large research projects of biotechnology in two comparative cases to fill the gap between cultures of imaginations and discourses. The paper claims that (a) both projects are connected through shared objects within vanguard visions joined through a discourse coalition. The discourse coalitions that are making them further can be connected at the object level both by the low expectations and the techno-scientific imaginaries that are more relevant to public imagination by nested frameworks of vanguard visions and sociotechnical imaginaries. This connection is necessary for the object to be considered within the research and development of the object, whereas when the research programme is finished and the object itself is delivered, the low expectation and the calibration thereafter is dependent on this network (b) When the object [organoid] itself is a research object and a part of a discourse coalition is and an applied healthcare object at the same time, lowering of expectations and recalibration of the higher expectations are necessary for debates around consent as enabling conditions of consent in the very first place.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (1038
A Review and Future Research Agenda
No full textThis study aims to comprehensively review scientific journal articles related to the adjustment of international employees within the management and business domain from 1990 to 2022. The study seeks to identify trends and patterns in research topics and to propose a future research agenda. To achieve this, we analysed 222 articles from the Web of Science Core Collection database through two main steps: (1) a bibliometric analysis to track the field’s evolution over time and (2) a content analysis of abstracts to examine covered topics and pinpoint research gaps. Our findings indicate that the theory surrounding the adjustment of international employees is still in the process of maturation, with several potential areas for future research emerging. The analysis reveals that factors influencing adjustment are the most extensively researched for assigned expatriates, leaving other international employees relatively under-researched. Moreover, quantitative research emerged as the most prevalent methodological approach among the included studies. Most study samples predominantly consisted of individuals moving between Asia, Europe, and North America, underscoring the significance of Africa—characterised by substantial migration flows within the region—as a focal point for future adjustment research. Moreover, individual-, organisation-, and country-related antecedents of international employees’ anticipatory and in-country adjustments were analysed to present conclusions for future research. This study supplements the domains of international human resource management and international business by identifying research priorities concerning the adjustment of international employees and outlining an agenda for further research
Reproduction and Racial Superiority in Theosophical Feminist Writings
No full textThe goddess Isis continues to be an influential figure for the notion of the Divine Feminine in contemporary esoteric and popular thought. However, looking back into the history of modern esotericism, the image of the goddess Isis has been used by Theosophists such as Florence Farr and Frances Swiney to argue for their feminist and more importantly eugenic interpretations of the power of that goddess. This article examines the writings of these two Theosophists together to highlight the eugenics aspects of their vision of Isis as the perfect mother and the superwoman. Through this, Isis became a symbol for a specific gendered aspect of religious eugenics by changing the meaning of the Divine Feminine. This is one of the roots of contemporary Isis interpretations leading to a prevalent idea of fertility and the gendered divine
Evidence From the Language 0–5 Project
No full textA strong predictor of children's language is performance on non‐word repetition (NWR) tasks. However, the basis of this relationship remains unknown. Some suggest that NWR tasks measure phonological working memory, which then affects language growth. Others argue that children's knowledge of language/language experience affects NWR performance. A complicating factor is that most studies focus on school‐aged children, who have already mastered key language skills. Here, we present a new NWR task for English‐learning 2‐year‐olds, use it to assess the effect of NWR performance on concurrent and later vocabulary development, and compare the children's performance with that of an experience‐based computational model (CLASSIC). The new NWR task produced reliable results; replicating wordlikeness effects, word‐length effects, and the relationship with concurrent and later language ability we see in older children. The model also simulated all effects, suggesting that the relationship between vocabulary and NWR performance can be explained by language experience‐/knowledge‐based theories.A one‐page Accessible Summary of this article in nontechnical language is freely available in the Supporting Information online and at https://www.oasis-database.org/Economic and Social Research Council 10.13039/50110000026