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The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice (2008)
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This article is a discussion about the development of media practice both as a creative endeavour and as the collaborative interaction with audiences. It argues that innovations in media practice are dependent on the relationships between practitione... Read More about The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice.

‘Exactitude is truth’: Representing the British military through commissioned artworks (2008)
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The work of ‘regimental artists’ is often derided for being jingoistic, irrelevant and predicated on anachronistic representational strategies rooted in high-Victorian battle painting. Despite their marginal status, a core of professional painters to... Read More about ‘Exactitude is truth’: Representing the British military through commissioned artworks.

Transgenerational epigenetics, or the spectral history of the flesh. A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics (2008)
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Recent advances in the field of genetics, more specifically the substantiation of epigenetic inheritance, have expanded our understanding of genetic transmission. We will try to demonstrate here that a Merleau-Pontian approach to some of these recent... Read More about Transgenerational epigenetics, or the spectral history of the flesh. A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics.

Representativeness and humanitarian intervention (2007)
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A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities (2007)
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This article plays a game with Jean Baudrillard's thought and the intellectual traditions on which it draws. Or rather, it plays Baudrillard's game but with a cheat code. The game or program here is the hyperreality of the contemporary world-Baudrill... Read More about A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities.

A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information (2007)
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Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography ce... Read More about A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information.

Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush (2007)
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This article develops a feminist critical approach capable of responding to the uniquely pessimistic portrayal of female friendship in Crush (Alison Maclean 1992, NZ). Crush questions the possibility of supportive or empathetic relationships, disclos... Read More about Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush.

Sex with the City: Urban spaces, sexual encounters and erotic spectacle in Tsukamoto Shinya's Rokugatsu no Hebi - A Snake of June (2003) (2007)
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Contested memories: Contested site': Newfoundland and its unique heritage on the Western front (2007)
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The Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is a 16.5 hectare (40 acre) tract of preserved battleground dedicated primarily to the memory of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment, who suffered an extremely high percentage of casualties during the first day of t... Read More about Contested memories: Contested site': Newfoundland and its unique heritage on the Western front.

A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change (2007)
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This paper posits that certain "qualificatory" semantic primes are recruited to serve face-management needs in a metonymic Meaning1>Meaning2 relationship at what Traugott and Dasher (2002) have called the inter-subjective, non-truth-conditional, proc... Read More about A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change.

Temporal finitude and finitude of possibility: The double meaning of death in being and time (2007)
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The confusion surrounding Heidegger's account of death in Being and Time has led to severe criticisms, some of which dismiss his analysis as incoherent and obtuse. I argue that Heidegger's critics err by equating Heidegger's concept of death with our... Read More about Temporal finitude and finitude of possibility: The double meaning of death in being and time.

Globalising liberalism or multiculturalism? The Durban agenda and the role of local human rights education in the implementation of global norms (2007)
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Symbolic reparation, heritage and political transition in South Africa's eastern cape (2007)
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This article first examines the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendation of symbolic reparation for apartheid, and its effect on South African heritage. Second, it considers the relationship between public history and civic nation buildin... Read More about Symbolic reparation, heritage and political transition in South Africa's eastern cape.

After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad (2007)
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This article focuses on the civilian return to Leningrad after the end of the Blockade and in the immediate post-war period. It examines how the authorities tried to control movement back to the city but proved to be overwhelmed by vast numbers of ci... Read More about After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad.

Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence (2007)
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This publication is an important contribution to language contact theory. Taking a typological perspective to contact-induced change, the authors investigate the ways in which grammatical structures from one language can be integrated into another. T... Read More about Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence.

The socialist revolutionary party, Ukraine, and Russian national identity in the 1920s (2007)
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Set in stone? Statues and slavery in London (2007)
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This article examines public monuments in London and their relationship to slavery and abolition, a topic that has attracted remarkably little empirical research. It argues that a significant proportion of the individuals commemorated by public statu... Read More about Set in stone? Statues and slavery in London.

Human needs: A realist perspective (2007)
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Humanitarian intervention and international law: The moral significance of an intervener's legal status (2007)
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Gendered (non)participants?  What constructions of citizenship tell us about democratic governance in the twenty-first century (2007)
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A review of political regimes at the end of the twentieth century is undoubtedly marked by many notable and substantive changes, in which the model of 'liberal democracy' became the norm. Yet, what also emerged was an evident gap between the eligibil... Read More about Gendered (non)participants?  What constructions of citizenship tell us about democratic governance in the twenty-first century.