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Generational time and multilinear form in the climate change novel
No full textDrawing on New Formalism and econarratology, this essay considers the potential of narrative multilinearity in fostering new modes of thinking about generational relations in times of ecological crisis. The starting point is that climate change puts considerable pressure on the forms of generational thinking embedded in Western modernity. The multilinear novels I consider speak to this challenge on a formal level, by revisiting the traditional template of the ‘family saga’, with its multigenerational, temporally distributed structure. The article’s archive includes contemporary novels by James Bradley (Clade), Hanya Yanagihara (To Paradise), and Namwali Serpell (The Old Drift). In different ways and to different degrees, these works reimagine conventionally anthropocentric ideas of generation and kinship, opening them up to entanglements with the nonhuman
Plotting the nonhuman : the geometry of desire in contemporary 'lab lit'
No full textConsider the expression “love triangle:” the triangle is a spatial metaphor that captures the relationship between three individuals. The novels examined in this chapter—Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across the Table and Jeanette Winterson's Gut Symmetries (both published in 1997)—foreground geometrical forms by comparing the characters' relationship to a chain and a triangle respectively. Both novels belong to the genre of “lab lit,” realist fiction centering on scientists and exploring levels of reality beyond the human scale. The chapter's claim is that Lethem and Winterson use spatial abstraction as a probe into a world of nonhuman things and processes
Dziecięce umysły na końcu świata:Translation of: Caracciolo, Marco "Child Minds at the End of the World" (2022)
No full textNiniejszy artykuł skupia się na przybliżeniach doświadczeń dzieci w literaturze pięknej, która przywołuje scenariusze postapokaliptyczne. Analizuje on trzy współczesne powieści wywodzące się z trzech różnych kontekstów geograficzno-kulturowych, które oddają dziecięce doświadczenia w obliczu upadku społeczeństwa na skutek katastrofy – Emisariusza [The Emissary] Yoko Tawady, Annę [Anna] Niccolò Ammanitiego oraz Nową Dzicz [The New Wilderness] Diane Cook. Poprzez fokalizację przyjmującą perspektywę dziecka, wymienione utwory sugerują różnorodne znaczenia i podkreślają wagę doświadczeń cielesnych, materialności oraz ponownego zauroczenia światem, w zestawieniu z niepewnościami kryzysu klimatycznego. Omówienie literatury ukazuje, że środki stylistyczne w fikcji klimatycznej pełnią kluczową rolę w tworzeniu afektywnej trajektorii, która komplikuje rozumienie naszej wspólnej przyszłości przez dorosłych czytelników. Przedstawione uważne czytania [close readings] powieści łączą ekokrytykę i studia nad dzieckiem, mówiąc o znaczeniu figury dziecka w humanistyce środowiskowej. Nawet w literaturze dla dorosłych, integracja dziecięcych perspektyw w obliczu końca świata jest ważna kulturowo, ponieważ kwestionuje i decentralizuje ona nasze rozumienie kryzysu ekologicznego jako ukształtowanego wyłącznie przez dorosły (i adultystyczny) niepokój dotyczący rodzicielstwa.Słowa kluczowe: studia nad dzieckiem, narratologia, zmiany klimatu, przyszłość, niepewnoś
Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: Comparison of the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons with the 2013 Arms Trade Treaty
No full textThe contribution compares the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(NPT) with the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the UN treaty dealing with the international trade of conventional weapons. Both treaties aim to contribute to international and regional peace, security and stability, avoiding conflicts and reducing human suffering. None of them is a disarmament treaty in the strict sense: NPT has a non-proliferation scope; ATT does not prohibit the production nor the international trade in conventional arms but aims to establish common international standards for the regulation of the international trade and fight against illicit trade in conventional arms. The contribution analyzes similarities and differences between NPT and ATT focusing on three key issues: universality, non-discrimination, confidence building measures (CBMs) and effectiveness through strong control systems
Metodo per il recupero dell'energia di frenatura dei treni alimentati in corrente continua con tensione superiore a 1.000V
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
EU Ambivalence on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation: Opacity and Obsolescence of the EURATOM Treaty
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