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| | soundstudiesblog.com
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| | In her recent biography of Roland Barthes, Tiphaine Samoyault describes the quality of his speech through what Barthes had called the "grain of the voice," a quality that "bears witness to a past able to act in the present, a continued memory, a recollecting forwards" (13). The voice, and perhaps most importantly, its potentialities, has...
| | henryjenkins.org
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| | Pop Junctions is pleased to be able to provide a preview extract and discount for Henry Jenkins' new book, Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Post-War America, published by NYU Press. Where the Wild Things Were centers on the exploding, contentious national conversation about the nature of childhood and parenting in the postwar US emblematized by Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. Renowned scholar Henry Jenkins demonstrates that the language that shaped a growing field of advice literature for parents also informed the period's fictions-in film, television, comics, children's books, and elsewhere-produced for and consumed by children. In particular, Jenkins demonstrates, the era's emblematic child was the boy in the striped shirt: ...
| | imotiv8.uk
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| | Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Biology The growth of philosophical interest in biology over the past fifty years reflects the increasing prominence of the biological sciences in the same period. There is now an extensive literature on many different biological topics, and it would be impossible to summarize this body of work in this single [...]
| | carnegieendowment.org
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| This shift opens space for African countries to develop their energy systems by engaging with international partners in pragmatic ways that were not possible under the previous paradigm.