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KhosraviNik, M (ed.) (2023). Social media and society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse
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Addressing ‘the Cultural Level of an Average European’ (Kafka)
No full textSeveral times during Oliver Frljić’s 2019 production of Kafka’s Report to an Academy, at Berlin’s Gorki Theater, the question ‘are you afraid of Jews?’ is posed. This essay will explore what Kafka’s parables make it possible to ‘remember’ theatrically, through the haunting of the past by the future. Here, perhaps, the question as to what we might be afraid of concerns the idea of European citizenship, as it is repeatedly impugned by the social stigmatisation — and worse — of different communities. In a context where authoritarian populism is a major political force, and with the European memory of laws that fail to provide for a universal condition of citizenship, the question of anti-Semitism, as of Islamophobia, might be rephrased in terms of the politics of ‘majorities’ and ‘minorities’ — and theatrically posed as: ‘Are you afraid of democracy?
Georges Banu. 2021. Les récits d’Horatio. Portraits et aveux des maîtres du théâtre européen (Paris: Actes Sud-Papiers, Le Temps du Théâtre)
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We Are All Bodies of Water: Su Rita Natálio, idrofemminismo e spillover
No full textEverything begins in a dried-up well. In the waterless depths, a copy of the book that Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig had published in 1976 is found: Brouillon pour un dictionnaire des amantes. Rita Natálio, choreographer, researcher, activist, and non-binary lesbian from Portugal, takes this discovery as a starting point to explore in her latest lecture-performance the forms in which lovers – or what she calls ‘Spillovers’ – manifest themselves, make alliances, and where matter flows and vibrates, or settles and waits, like Wittig and Zeid’s pages in the well’s depths. The essay follows and analyzes the critical genealogies activated by Natálio in this performance, in which the artist assembles a dizzying path between feminist and queer epistemologies, cultural studies, postcolonial theories, biopolitics, and environmental activism, through a hybrid operation between public production of knowledge and affective and sensual contagion of bodies
Iskrena Yordanova and José Camões (eds.). 2022. Eighteenth-Century Theatre Capitals from Lisbon to St. Petersburg (Wien: Hollitzer)
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Daniel Gamper. 2021. La Parole Migliori: Della Libera Espressione (Rome: Treccani)
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War Profiteering and Armed Conflicts: Examining Applicable Aspects of International Law
No full textThe proliferation of armed conflicts is perhaps the biggest challenge of the 21st Century international system. These conflicts have become a monumental lucrative industry, where parties external to the fighting, i.e., third parties, smile to the bank, from proceeds made on major deals in defence contracts and arms sales. In the process, they leave behind a trail of civilian fatalities. Notwithstanding the extensive literature on armed conflicts, the scholarly focus on the accountability framework related to war profiteering remains limited. This article examines the applicability of certain aspects of international law, in particular, human rights and humanitarian law, to war profiteering and highlights the fact that the current framework doesn’t sufficiently deal with the problem. It submits that the danger that war profiteering poses to world peace and security is one that must be taken seriously. In the absence of clear guidance under these regimes of international law, the article stresses the need to address the problem in a manner that responds adequately, especially with respect to determining a specific accountability framework
Personality, self-appraisals, and body conscious emotions as predictors of symptoms of body dysmorphia and restrictive disordered eating
No full textAnorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder are often co-morbid and relate to distortions in the perception of self-appearance. It has been proposed that they should be placed in a new body image disorders category in the DSM. Dimensional perspectives suggest that clinical and sub-clinical manifestations of these psychopathologies reside on the same continuum. We explored the correlates of sub-clinical restrictive disordered eating, and sub-clinical body dysmorphia in 396 participants. Our online study tested how sub-clinical restrictive disordered eating, and body dysmorphia relate to self-perceived attractiveness, self-esteem, body-shame, body-pride, authentic and hubristic pride, and personality as described in revised reinforcement sensitivity theory. Body dysmorphia shared significantly stronger positive correlations than restrictive disordered eating with behavioral inhibition sensitivity, body-shame, and body-guilt, and significantly stronger negative correlations with self-esteem, and self-perceived attractiveness. Restrictive disordered eating and body dysmorphia were negatively correlated with authentic and hubristic pride. Hierarchical regression showed that reinforcement sensitivity explained more variance in body dysmorphia than in restrictive disordered eating (Model 1). Self-esteem and self-perceived attractiveness explained more of the additional variance in body dysmorphia than in restrictive disordered eating (Model 2), as did the addition of body-shame, body-pride, authentic and hubristic pride (Model 3). Sub-clinical restrictive disordered eating and body dysmorphia relate to several constructs that may be important in understanding the development and/or maintenance of two proposed body image disorders: anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder