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Three new species and a new genus of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from Baltic amber
Full text linkIn the present paper a new fossil and extinct genus and three new species of soldier beetles (Family Cantharidae) from Baltic amber are described: Groehnionycha yantarnyca gen. et sp. nov.; Podistra (s. str.) carstengroehni sp. nov.; Malthodes (s. str.) camerinii sp. nov. It is the second Malthodes with some abdominal cuticular vesicles extruded. The new taxa are also compared with all fossil species
The Protector: The Deity Bes and Household Worship in Ancient Egypt
No full textThis issue of SourceLab features artifacts drawn from the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). This edition presents a figurine of Bes, an ancient Egyptian deity, along with explanatory commentary on the practice of household worship.
This publication is part of the digital documentary edition series SourceLab, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our Editorial Board conducts rigorous peer-review of every edition
Growing Up in the Apocalypse: Identity Formation and Narrative Focalization in Yokohama kaidashi kikō
Full text linkHitoshi Ashinano’s award-winning manga Yokohama Shopping Log (Yokohama kaidashi kikō) is a unique coming-of-age story for several reasons. Its focalizing character, the immortal robot Alpha, watches a young boy named Takahiro come of age in a post-apocalyptic, climate-ravaged world where the sea levels have risen and humanity is in its twilight. Through a consideration of the images and narrative maneuvers Ashinano makes in the manga, I argue that he presents a Bildungsroman that uses ecological cataclysm to engender and offer new pathways for personal development, staging Takahiro’s development in a world and setting that ought to preclude it. Through Alpha’s focalizing of Takahiro’s life and maturation, the reader is made to reckon with two seemingly contradictory flows of time, the linear progress model of modern time and the cyclical nature of deep time, played out through the burgeoning relationship between the manga’s two main characters. By the end of the manga, the positive, teleological thrust of the Bildungsroman gives way to an ambivalent and wistful way of living through time, a poignant note in the long history of the genre that is achieved through the silent moments made possible by Ashinano’s choice of medium and fictional setting.
Skateboards and Motorbikes: Supreme’s Adoption of Akira
Full text linkThis essay examines how Supreme reimagines skate culture and subculture through its adoption of Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Akira. In doing so, this paper argues that Supreme manufactures subculture via reimagining established subcultural texts to further their concept of marginality– hypermasculine angry youth who rally against the mainstream by indulging in radical street skating/racing and dangerous drug use. By examining the relationship between Supreme and Akira, this paper offers an academic interpretation of a prominent understudied brand and a reading of Akira to suggest what the manga can mean in the current era of subculture.
Петровские “навигаторы” в Италии: взгляд из Флоренции
Full text linkThis article is dedicated to a reconsideration of the Italian documents published by E. F. Shmurlo, which describe the visit of the so-called Russian “navigators” or “volunteers” sent to Venice by Peter the Great (1697-1698). To these must be added the far less known records preserved in Florence State Archive (ASFi), including the correspondence with the Grand Duke of Tuscany’s secretary of the Florentine merchant Alessandro Guasconi, and the postmaster Matteo Del Teglia, both based in Venice. These sources provide new details about Italian reactions to the arrival in Venice of such a large group of Muscovites, and about the widespread hypotheses on the Tsar’s real intentions in sending so many aristocrats to Italy. Of all the stol’niki, Petr Alekseevich Golitsyn develeped a personal relationship with the Grand Duke Cosimo III Medici, with whom for some time he entertained a correspondence in Italian. This special connection was originally favoured by the Guasconi brothers, one of whom, Francesco, was established in Moscow. He seems to have been on good terms with Boris Alekseevich Golitsyn, whose brother Petr he specially recommended to Cosimo III; and Petr Golitsyn demonstrated good diplomatic skill in satisfying the Duke’s curiosity about Muscovy and the exotic peoples subject to the Tsar’s rule
The Subversive Path: Art Toward the Neganthropocene
Full text linkThis study examines Chinese contemporary art and technology projects that evoke imaginative and multi-sensory responses to environmental issues by harnessing the subversive potential of contemporary media. Specifically, it argues that these artistic practices can illuminate alternative approaches to practicing the Neganthropocene—a concept introduced by Bernard Stiegler to encourage a collective shift in perspective—while fostering shared affect and a sense of care in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene. The Neganthropocene embodies an act of will, desire, and revolutionary breakthrough from within the system. This study focuses on how the artists’ subversive uses of contemporary media embody and expand Neganthropocenic thinking in creative practices, emphasizing the interdependence of ecosystems in their technological mediations. These artists promote care, or “cooperative intelligence” in Stiegler’s sense, and vulnerability of our beings, highlighting transindividuation between human, technics, and nature. The essay identifies three approaches—manifesting the Symbiocene, materializing the inhuman nature, and addressing the other-than-human—as ways of “doing” the Neganthropocene and reconciling the technological with the ecological. Through this analysis, the study sheds light on a transformative shift in collective perspective and offers insights into navigating the challenges posed by the Anthropocene in contemporary art experiences
Sabotage, Implementation, and Expanded Geo-engineering: An Interview with Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne on Collaborative Practice
Full text linkTega Brain and Sam Lavigne have made more critical interventions into fossil fuel capitalism than possibly any other artists or climate activists working with digital media today. In transforming digital tools away from their intended commercial use, they have calculated carbon offsets based on pipeline disruption (Offset, 2023–ongoing), made botnets that swarm climate change news articles (Synthetic Messenger, 2021), and redistributed grant funding to incarcerated climate activists (Fragile States, 2022). In addition to their visual projects, Brain and Lavigne have both published widely on their work, from creative re-envisionings of the LaTex white paper to more formal statements on their theories and methods (“All That Is Air Melts Into Air,” e-flux Architecture, 2024). In this interview with the guest editors of the “Media and Climate” special issue, Brain and Lavigne discuss the aforementioned projects, as well as how their practices are informed by data activism, alternative methods for technology under capitalism, and providing models and interventions that reach beyond the art world
О проблеме доказательств в историческом исследовании,или Подозревал ли Петр I патриарха Адриана в связях с мятежными стрельцами?
Full text linkAuthor’s response to E. N. Trefilov’s review of E. V. Akel’ev, Russkii Misopogon: Petr I, bradobritie i desiat’ millionov “moskovitov,” Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022. 624 p. ISBN: 978-5-4448-1928-9.
On the Problem of Evidence in Historical Research,
or, Did Peter I Suspect Patriarch Adrian of Having Connections with the Rebel Strel’tsy