Open issue 4 in pdf Introduction: Meanings of Matter / 1 PART I: CULTURE Rajae El Morabet Belhaj, “Taking on … More
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Introduction. Meanings of Matter
By Zeno Grootenboer, Eloise Huai-Yung Huang, Rajae El Morabet Belhaj, Nicolas Turner Open article in pdf Those of us in … More
Taking on the Black Trauma of Vietnam. Spike Lee and Da 5 Bloods
By Rajae el Morabet Belhaj We fought an immoral war that wasn’t oursfor rights we didn’t have. Paul, Da 5 Bloods … More
Matter as a Tool of Critique: The Grotesque Anthropomorphic Animal Representation of Samurai in Visual Art during Japan’s Bakumatsu Period
By Zeno Grootenboer Open article in pdf During the twelfth century, Toba Sōjō, a Japanese Buddhist priest, painted four scrolls … More
Experiences that Matter. Evaluating and Remembering in Kazuo Ishiguro´s An Artist of the Floating World
By Eloise Huai-Yung Huang Open review in pdf Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel An Artist of the Floating World tells the story … More
Following Psychylustro. An (Imaginary) Travelogue Through the Matter of the City
By Rebecca Billi Open travelogue in pdf Looking for Psychylustro (2014), Katherine Grosse’s monumental public artwork alongside the railway tracks in Philadelphia, … More
What’s the Matter with Arctic Alaska?
By Mikko Pekkonen We got our very own share of the oil profits—each and every Alaskan. How can you be … More
What Is the Matter with Water? An Interview with Rosanne van der Voet
By Rik J. Janssen, co-authored with Nicolas Turner Open interview in pdf The roots of the humanities lie in the … More
Religiosity, Identity, and Non-material Politics in Brazil. The Role of Evangelical Christianity in the 2018 Presidential Campaign of Jair Bolsonaro
By Nicolás Vargas Varillas Open article in pdf According to the newspaper A Folha de São Paulo, approximately 26% of … More
Mao Zedong´s Dialectical Materialism. A Matter of Translation
By Berkant Isaev Open article in pdf In this paper I examine Mao Zedong’s translation of the concept of dialectical … More
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Rajae el Morabet Belhaj is a Research Master student in History and a Master student in North American Studies at … More
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Whole issue Open in pdf Introduction: Sense(s) / 1 PART I: SENSE-MAKING Oscar Man, “The Sense(s) of Law: Sensationality and Sense-making of Legal … More
Introduction: Sense(s)
Open in pdf In March 20, 2023, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its “final warning” that governments must … More
On Making Sense of Tradition: The Preservation of the Kakunodate Samurai District and the Portrayal of Traditional Japan
by Martijn Rem Photo: Travel to Tohoku, “Kakunodate Bukeyashiki” Open article in pdf Heritage wasn’t only about the past—though it … More
Escaping the Eyes of Empire: Diverting and Embracing Disease Photography
By Emma Cardol Photo: WHO / Penny Hubley and John Hubley Open article in pdf Depicting Africa as a continent … More
Trivial or Valid? On Class Conflict and Envy in Prime Video’s Cochina Envidia
by Verónica Copello-Duque Photo: Prime Video Open review in pdf The Colombian mini-series Cochina Envidia was released in late 2022 … More
How Siona Verbal Aspect Structures Stories: Narratological Experience and a Sense of Suspense
by Jelle Christiaans Open article in pdf Humans not only experience the world through their senses but also have a … More
The (Un)Reality of Abuse in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House (2019)
by Athena Stefanakou Open article in pdf Carmen Maria Machado’s 2019 memoir In the Dream House recounts a story of same-sex psychological … More
Interview with Piet Devos: “We Are All Multisensory Beings”
by Paulina Bastián Alvarado and Mahtab Fazlali Open interview in pdf To the writer, literary scholar, and lecturer Dr. Piet … More
“Of Course I Have a Self Here”: Migration, In-Betweenness, and Sense of Self in the Narrative Art of Lucia Berlin*
by Paulina Bastián Alvarado Open article in pdf When people migrate and experience intercultural contact, they often find themselves performing … More