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AbstractThere are five sections in this article. In the first, we discuss about the importance of afterlife. Section two considers the possibility of survival from the standpoint of mind-body dualism and section three deals with the possibility of survival on a materialistic view. Section four addre...

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In this essay, we track back and forth between Lauren Berlant’s and Raymond Williams’ work to assemble a purposefully compact genealogy of mediation that also pays attention to how mediation intersects with and often redraws many taken-for-granted understandings of affect, ideology, aesthetics and...

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Higher education, academic work, and gender relations in academia have, as a result of higher education reforms over the past three decades, become increasingly defined by capitalist logics and purposes. My empirical investigations of gender in academia for the past decade have, to a large extent, d...

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The history of the Theory of Evolution has been told a number of times by historians, philosophers, professors, writers, scientists and so on. However, many of these versions differ from or even contradict one another. In this article, the history of the Theory of Evolution is retold according to a...

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The denotative and theoretical indeterminacy make the sense of touch an ambiguous concept to work with. While materiality and relationality, traditionally assigned in philosophical discourses and acknowledged through scientific research, are considered as the inherent dimensions of touch, the paper...

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Introduction. In the current conditions of the crisis of capitalism and liberal values, it is steadily increasing the relevance of the problem of choosing the way of development of society is steadily increasing. The aim of the paper is to analyze the ideas of Marxism and to identify the possibiliti...

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The article presents the contemporary feminist stream of new materialism, and compares and contracts it with the linguistic branch of poststructuralism which has been criticized by new materialism for neglecting matter. The paper first discusses points of departure these two streams share, specifica...

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Consumer concerns about the natural environment have increased tremendously due to rising environmental challenges. However, globalisation – with its increase in the production and consumption of commodities – has increased participation in global consumer culture, adversely affecting the environmen...

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This paper re-examines consciousness through Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and contemporary neo-materialism, arguing that traditional views overstate its importance and that retreating to the subconscious is inadequate. Using a moth infestation metaphor, it highlights the interconnectedness of sentient a...

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What can hybridity teach us? The answer I posit is–like water–to embrace movement in all its forms. We are currently experiencing the sixth mass extinction event on earth and yet few scholars give prolonged attention to how we are to sustainably move our human inheritances forward on this increasing...

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My contribution to this investigation of science fiction theatre focuses on the early stage adaptations of Frankenstein. Synonymous with unethical scientificity, this narrative is identified as influencing later ’anti-science fiction’ narratives (Stableford 2006, 19). After the publication of Mary S...

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The paper deals with the impact and influence of atheistic anthropocentrism on society and the environment. This impact is conducted through agents of atheistic anthropocentrism or social deviations: relativism, hedonism, consumerism, and materialism. The authors have researched conceptual analysis...

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This article analyzes Leonora Carrington’s Down Below from a double perspective. First, we want to offer an interpretative framework, in order to contextualize Carrington's literary production within the Surrealist avant-garde. Furthermore, the article examines the literary geographies of Carri...

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In what ways, to what ends, and with what violent consequences does the offshore mediate the onshore in late capitalism? This question is the (silent) spur for the essay that follows. In it I consider the interimplicated violences of labor and mediation in two contemporary maritime films: Leviathan...

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Without any allusion to the times when philosophy was an intellectual dominant of university education, there is no way to consider the present stage of philosophy in universities satisfying. It is supplanted to a distant periphery at a modern university and ends up in a deep shadow of science. As i...

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Munir Niazi was a well knowned modern urdu poet. This article<br />deals with man as a subject of his poetry. He exposes the materialistic<br />selfish man of machine era. In his Ghazals, sensitive man, despite ostensible charms of metropolitian life, has been depicted as burdened with f...

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In the classical economists’ surplus approach retrieved by Sraffa (1951; 1960) and Garegnani ([1960] 2024), institutions regulate the material basis of society and, in particular, the extraction and distribution of the social surplus. In this regard, classical theory provides a material anchor, alt...

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The article is devoted to literary and philosophical heritage of the Russian thinker K. N. Leontiev. The authors analyze the artistic, journalistic, philosophical texts, and letters by Leontiev, the unity of his religious, aesthetic and socio- philosophical ideas is revealed. Genre extensive coverag...

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Starting from an examination of vital energy in two essays by Virginia Woolf—‘The Death of the Moth’ and ‘Evening over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car’, both initially published in the posthumous collection The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)—this article establishes that ‘life’ is conc...

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This article examines the phenomenon of labour alienation in the digital age from the perspective of historical materialism, taking the contradiction between modern productive forces (Artificial Intelligence - AI, Big Data, automation, and the platform economy) and capitalist production relation...

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