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Yearly Archives: 2025

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  • 23 Apr 2025
    Jennifer Rowsell, Samuel Sandor

    Adolescence and The Siren Call of Screens: Towards humanised screen life

    It is rare that a television show becomes truly ubiquitous, but since its release, Adolescence has been talked of almost everywhere in the UK – even Parliament (March 22nd, 2025). Indeed, the series was eventually deemed so important that it was made free to view in all schools. Adolescence is chilling on many levels, but […]

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  • 23 Apr 2025
    Maddalena Alvi

    A book about the European Art Market and the First World War

    ‘What about looting? Was there looting during the First World War?’ – I smile at the question from the young man who eagerly awaits confirmation of his supposition.  There’s some habit in my answer because after a quickly interjected ‘how interesting!’, this is the standard question I get whenever I mention that I wrote a […]

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  • 22 Apr 2025
    Peter Carruthers

    Illusions of Intentionality

    When philosophers write about and explain actions they focus almost exclusively on so-called “intentional actions.” These are actions that are done for reasons, selected in the light of one’s beliefs and desires. But this narrow focus misses out vast swathes of human action, including habitual, speeded, skilled, and directly emotion-caused actions. Why? In part, it […]

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  • 22 Apr 2025
    Marie-Louise Lillywhite

    Paradise Painters: Images and Agency in the Age of the Reformations

    As the diminutive early Christian saint Giustina teeters between life and death in Paolo Veronese’s painting depicting her martyrdom, her gaze sets itself upon one of the most spectacular scenes of the heavens painted in all of the Renaissance. A massive altarpiece, the largest of the painter’s career, in it the skies have opened to […]

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  • 21 Apr 2025
    Michael Johnston, Oguzhan Dincer

    Fifty Shades of Corruption ?

    Americans hear a lot about corruption these days, with prominent figures claiming (and many citizens agreeing) that our governments suffer major waste, fraud, and abuse. Major changes are taking place, based on that justification, that will affect American society and  much of the world. We do have corruption problems, but not necessarily the ones we […]

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  • 14 Apr 2025
    Patriann Smith

    Sans “White Gaze”: From the Transgressive Multilingual Radiance of a Franco-Malian Pop Star to the Transnational Englishes of Innocent Caribbean Youth

    In July 2024, amidst the global attraction of a Paris 2024 Olympics with eugenicist roots historically designed in part to prove the athletic superiority of Europeans racialized as white, Aya Nakamura, the then most streamed female Francophone pop artist in the world, found herself “at the center of France’s culture wars.” A single-parent immigrant mother […]

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  • 11 Apr 2025
    Christoph Schuringa

    What does it mean that Marx was a philosopher?

    Karl Marx (1818–1883) began as a philosopher. But his subsequent relationship to philosophy, as his career developed, has been a subject of dispute. In my book, Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy, I offer a new interpretation of this relationship which fundamentally recasts Marx’s contribution to philosophy. It is clear enough that Marx was […]

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  • 11 Apr 2025
    Thomas Gidney

    An ‘anomaly among anomalies’ or an international norm? How Britain inserted its colonies into the League of Nations.

    In the hit 2018 film ‘Black Panther’ a scene at the United Nations (UN) revealed a flag proudly flying the Welsh dragon among the litany of other UN member states. Although probably a mix-up in the props department, the presence of Wales in the UN, at least in the Marvel Universe, prompted a minor debate […]

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