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Everyone knows it. We are facing a global environmental crisis of extinction-level proportions driven by carbonizing fossil capitalism. In May 2021 the International Energy Agency (IEA) released it most...
Figure 1: Catalogue from Shakespeare's First Folio (1623; STC 22273). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Shelf mark PFORZ 905 PFZ.
Ha ha ha, no, in between the many examples of silence in writing (classic and other), in dialogues, in public exchanges as well as in intersubjective conversations, comes speech: words and paragraphs...
UN Secretary General António Guterres has described our efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change as “a damning indictment of failed climate leadership”. Its consequences, he notes, include...
Antisemitism is on the rise throughout the world, and it increasingly wraps itself in moral indignation, particularly in its anti-Zionist mode, to create the illusion of legitimacy, as it delegitimizes...
Throughout world history, people have marshaled a wide variety of tools to forge new political orders. Some relied on the power of the gun, summoning soldiers and mercenaries to coerce compliance.1 Others...
As we take stock nationally of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and economy of the UK, we would do well to think about the many people who have not made a good recovery from the SARS-CoV-2...
In 1573, the warlord Oda Nobunaga (1534-82) was determined to conquer the territories of rival military leaders and build a polity, which he referred to as the tenka or “all under heaven” (often translated...
Many sentences which contain non-finite elements (e.g. ‘John is easy to please’ and ‘Flying planes can be dangerous’) are tricky. As a student, you may find them ambiguous. As a teacher, you may...
One of the most enriching aspects of working on Clara Schumann Studies was the opportunity to rethink and listen afresh to Schumann’s rich and varied contributions to musical culture in the nineteenth...
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In song, the refrain—a portion of text and music repeated between stanzas—gives singers and listeners an opportunity to join together on the most memorable and predictable part of a song. As any singer...
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