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Microbes have consistently coexisted with humans and have profoundly influenced their daily practices. Accompanied by the new materialists' rethinking of the ontology and epistemology of nonhuman matter, and based on the 'Object Oriented Ontology' proposed by Harman, this paper attempt to reinterpret the dynamic relationship between viruses, human bodies, and cities in the process of movement. By reinterpreting the communication patterns between human bodies and viruses, as well as the topological networks between human bodies and cities, this study aimed to reveal the biosocial attributes of cities from the perspective of transcending anthropocentrism. "The findings indicate that (1) symptoms and attitudes towards viruses are embodied communication processes between the human body and the virus and that the outcome of embodied communication is influenced by temporal and spatial dimensions. This finding contributes to the reshaping of the humanity-virus relationship, prompting humanity to value the agency of viruses and to confront how viruses coexist and cohabit in the human body and urban spaces; (2) The mobilities of viruses cross boundaries and scales between a human body and cities. By focusing on the mobilities of viruses between extended bodies to explore the interactions between bodies and cities, this study reveals the mobilities and biosocial properties of the city; that is, the city is viewed as a topological biosocial network that transcends boundaries. Using the mask as an example, this study reveals how the extended body affects and alters material connections-that is, how social, policy, and cultural meanings are embedded in the construction and reconstruction of urban topological networks -and how the network of relationships attached to the body creates connections to better cope with the impacts of viral mobilities. Overall, based on the concepts of embodied communication' and an extended body, the results of this study provide new perspectives on micro-mobilities in human geography, enriching the dynamics of the relationship between cities and bodies. First, it re-examines the dichotomy between health and disease as a dynamic relational process by understanding the relationship between humans and viruses from a geographic perspective so that health study pays attention to the dynamics of other elements in the relational network. Second, the findings also expand the connotation and application of the concept of the 'extended body,' enriching the understanding of the dynamic relationship between the body and the city, and revealing the interactions between macro-socio-cultural politics and micro-body behavioral practices in the context of viral pandemics. Viewing the relational nature and attributes of the city through the prism of microbial mobility, draws our attention towards how a city is formed through connections between human and nonhuman matter and exhibits that this relational space is constantly fluid. This turn of thinking, which reflects the connotations and extents of space in a network-nested manner, has inspired geographers to pay attention to the complex network of relationships between people and spaces, where humans, microbes, and cities are seen as a collection of complex relationships. Therefore, the object of urban governance is not limited to humanity but should also be concerned with other nonhuman matters, and the relationships generated between people and nonhuman matters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Microbes have consistently coexisted with humans and have profoundly influenced their daily practices. Accompanied by the new materialists' rethinking of the ontology and epistemology of nonhuman matter, and based on the 'Object Oriented Ontology' proposed by Harman, this paper attempt to reinterpret the dynamic relationship between viruses, human bodies, and cities in the process of movement. By reinterpreting the communication patterns between human bodies and viruses, as well as the topological networks between human bodies and cities, this study aimed to reveal the biosocial attributes of cities from the perspective of transcending anthropocentrism." The findings indicate that (1) symptoms and attitudes towards viruses are embodied communication processes between the human body and the virus and that the outcome of embodied communication is influenced by temporal and spatial dimensions. This finding contributes to the reshaping of the humanity-virus relationship, prompting humanity to value the agency of viruses and to confront how viruses coexist and cohabit in the human body and urban spaces; (2) The mobilities of viruses cross boundaries and scales between a human body and cities. By focusing on the mobilities of viruses between extended bodies to explore the interactions between bodies and cities, this study reveals the mobilities and biosocial properties of the city; that is, the city is viewed as a topological biosocial network that transcends boundaries. Using the mask as an example, this study reveals how the extended body affects and alters material connections–that is, how social, policy, and cultural meanings are embedded in the construction and reconstruction of urban topological networks–and how the network of relationships attached to the body creates connections to better cope with the impacts of viral mobilities. Overall, based on the concepts of embodied communication' and an extended body, the results of this study provide new perspectives on micro-mobilities in human geography, enriching the dynamics of the relationship between cities and bodies. First, it re-examines the dichotomy between health and disease as a dynamic relational process by understanding the relationship between humans and viruses from a geographic perspective so that health study pays attention to the dynamics of other elements in the relational network. Second, the findings also expand the connotation and application of the concept of the 'extended body,' enriching the understanding of the dynamic relationship between the body and the city, and revealing the interactions between macro-socio-cultural politics and micro-body behavioral practices in the context of viral pandemics. Viewing the relational nature and attributes of the city through the prism of microbial mobility, draws our attention towards how a city is formed through connections between human and nonhuman matter and exhibits that this relational space is constantly fluid. This turn of thinking, which reflects the connotations and extents of space in a network-nested manner, has inspired geographers to pay attention to the complex network of relationships between people and spaces, where humans, microbes, and cities are seen as a collection of complex relationships. Therefore, the object of urban governance is not limited to humanity but should also be concerned with other nonhuman matters, and the relationships generated between people and nonhuman matters.

In order to clarify law enforcement functions, the article analyzes the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine, Laws of Ukraine: «On National Security of Ukraine», «On the Legal Regime of Martial Law», «On the Defense of Ukraine», «On Military-Civil Administrations», Decree of the President of Ukraine. About the Comprehensive strategic plan for the reform of law enforcement agencies as part of the security and defense sector of Ukraine for 2023-2027 and scientific opinions, the category «law enforcement function of the state» was investigated. It was established that in the Ukrainian state there is a significant number of law enforcement agencies, as well as other state agencies, which, in addition to the performance of the main tasks, are entrusted with the performance of certain law enforcement functions. Attention is drawn to the fact that legislative acts in general do not provide a final idea of which bodies should be considered law enforcement. Attention is drawn to the fact that after February 24, 2022, Ukraine was subjected to full-scale military aggression by the Russian Federation, as a result of which a martial law regime was introduced in the country, which provides for a special legal regime and which limited the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens, and the law enforcement functions of the state, its law enforcement officers bodies was significantly expanded in order to ensure national security, territorial integrity of the state. It was established that under the influence of an external factor, namely military aggression, the law enforcement internal function of the state underwent significant changes, which in turn affected the activities of all state bodies, including law enforcement agencies. The conclusions emphasize that the lack of a normative definition of the system of law enforcement bodies affects the implementation of law enforcement functions, inhibits the activity of law enforcement bodies, which in general negatively affects the law enforcement function of the state, and therefore the state needs to define the system of law enforcement bodies, which in general will have a positive effect on the implementation of law enforcement functions of the state. Thus, the author's vision of the law enforcement function is given in the article and the author's recognition of the concept of «law enforcement function of the state» is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the emergence of ideas about corporeal hechos [facts] in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Caribbean. The establishment of facts around the human flesh in the early modern Caribbean and their circulation occurred in multiple social and cultural spaces but was prominent in the world of slave trading. This development depended on the creation of categories for the fixation of the flesh in the public discourse that appeared in governmental, judicial, and private records in locales in Europe and the Americas. At the same time, the development of this Caribbean tradition of facts required the circulation of these ideas and categories as inscribed in procedures of tacit knowledge related to bodies, practices that were evident in the work of slave-trading communities in the region. The creation of bodily facts emerged, in the end, from techniques that inscribed human bodies in accounts and transactions of all sorts moving across the Atlantic.

Special issue 'The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations', guest edited by Andrea Ford and Julia Swallow.

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This article explores the conceptualization of the body among former Congolese soldiers living as refugees in Johannesburg. The article draws on extensive fieldwork in Johannesburg, South Africa and employs the concept of deterritorialization and reterritorialization to explain the bodies of those who have decided to join the Congolese Army. The article reveals the complex ways in which the army manipulates soldiers' bodies to generate diverse lines of connection, coalition, and removal (or disconnection). We support that the soldiers' bodies are not necessarily owned by the country, but that soldiers' bodies become owned by military institutions, who employ nationalist rhetoric to justify their existence and actions. The act of joining the army could be considered a way of cutting ties with civilian life and joining a new world in which the individual is socialized into military culture. Through initiation, the soldier's body is reterritorialized; it becomes a national asset. While this study focuses on former Congolese soldiers, it has broader relevance, giving insight into how soldiers perceive their body shifting from individual possession to be reterritorialized as the body of the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her acclaimed science fiction trilogy Xenogenesis, Octavia E. Butler presents a narrative of interspecies coexistence involving humans and the alien Oankali. This coexistence is facilitated by living entities known as Lo, which serve as dynamic architectures mediating positive, mutualistic interactions between the two species. These entities offer a valuable framework for analysing architectures that seek to integrate the other. In this article, we propose to extend existing debates on interspecies co-design practices and link them to the concept of xenoarchitecture. Furthermore, we propose the Interspecies Interaction Protocols (IIP) to regulate human/other-than-human interactions in built environments. To demonstrate that xenoarchitecture's interspecies mediating vision can be applied to non-fictional real-world architecture, we project ideas from Butler's onto three unusual examples of buildings that achieve this human/other-than-human mediation: the library at the National Palace of Mafra and Coimbra University's Joanina Library, both located in Portugal, and the Karni Mata temple, located in Rajasthan, India. These case studies illustrate positive IIPs that facilitate mutualistic coexistence between humans and two other species, bats and rats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deficits in facial identity recognition and its association with poor social functioning are well documented in schizophrenia, but none of these studies have assessed the role of the body in these processes. Recent research in healthy populations shows that the body is also an important source of information in identity recognition, and the current study aimed to thoroughly examine identity recognition from both faces and bodies in schizophrenia. Sixty-five individuals with schizophrenia and forty-nine healthy controls completed three conditions of an identity matching task in which they attempted to match unidentified persons in unedited photos of faces and bodies, edited photos showing faces only, or edited photos showing bodies only. Results revealed global deficits in identity recognition in individuals with schizophrenia (ηp2 = 0.068), but both groups showed better recognition from bodies alone as compared to faces alone (ηp2 = 0.573), suggesting that the ability to extract useful information from bodies when identifying persons may remain partially preserved in schizophrenia. Further research is necessary to understand the relationship between face/body processing, identity recognition, and functional outcomes in individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.

Dominant conceptions of education are strongly framed by narratives of ‘power-over’ materials, context, and processes, especially where digital and technological applications reduce complexities between humans, materials, and environments. The separation of knowledge, tools, and bodies in ‘disciplinary bounded’, ‘copyrighted’, and ‘patented’ spaces create a disconnect from our need for sustainable relationships, whereby the future is not given but ‘in-the-making’ (Haraway 2016). Drawing on music and science – as examples of distinct disciplines, often siloed and separated in education – this paper advances nuanced understandings of how post human conceptions of ‘thing-power’[1] (the power of all bodies including materials) and ‘making-with’ (whereby everything makes each other capable) contribute to the affective encounters of materialities within the classroom. By foregrounding the sensing body as a means to touch and be ‘touched’ by the world, we uniquely contribute to methodologies that illuminate the relational intensity of material sensation as part of coming to ‘know’. In doing so, we engage with the performative work of these materialities and re-define the ‘digital’ beyond the delivery of pre-planned learning pathways. [1] The hyphening of words - such as with ‘power-over’, ‘making-with’ and ‘thing-power’ – is a posthumanist practice which invites new forms of engaging, reseeing, and thinking about the word.

This article discusses the key existential stakes of implementing biometrics in human lifeworlds. In this pursuit, we offer a problematization and reinvention of central values often taken for granted within the "ethical turn" of AI development and discourse, such as autonomy, agency, privacy and integrity, as we revisit basic questions about what it means to be human and embodied. Within a framework of existential media studies, we introduce an existential ethics of care—through a conversation between existentialism, virtue ethics, a feminist ethics of care and post-humanist ethics—aiming to deepen and nuance our understanding of the human behind "human-centered" AI directives. The key argument is that biometrics implicates humans through unprecedented forms of objectification, through which the existential body—the relational, intimate and frail human being—is at risk. We interrogate these risks as they become visible at three sites where embodied humans are challenged by biometrics, and thus where the existential body is challenged by the biometric body. This occurs through reductionism (biometric passports nailing bodies to identities, removing human judgment and compromising agency at the AI border), enforced transparency (smart home assistants surveying human intimacies and invading intimate spaces in the bedroom) and the breaching of bodily integrity (chipping bodies to capture sensory data, challenging the very concept of bodily integrity through self-invasive biohacking). Our existential ethics of care is importantly not a solutionist list of principles or suggestions, but a manifesto for a way of thinking about the ethical challenges of living with biometrics in today's world, by raising the right questions. We argue that a revitalized discussion of the basic existential stakes within human lived experience is needed and should serve as the foundation on which comprehensive frameworks can be built to address the complexities and prospects for ethical machines, responsible biometrics and AI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article we claim that there is a pluralistic ontological perspectivism inherent to Baruch Spinoza's philosophy. The relationship between his general theory of the composition of bodies and the concepts of affection, immanence, power, and multitudo is essential for the constitution of this notion. The aim of this analysis is the inner foundation of the concept of points of view: it is impossible to think of it as an epistemological feature of an isolated individual, but it is also not possible to unify it by means of a common property. Consequently, Spinozist ontological perspectivism implies a pluralistic theory of points of view which circumvents the problems posed by the closure of the One-All model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diseases such as SARS, Ebola, Covid-19, and many others have swept across the world recently at pandemic and epidemic levels. These have impacted people regardless of ethnicity, while at the same time exposing glaring inequalities in treatment, separating those who can afford medical attention from those who cannot. These inequalities are due, in the main, to social and economic factors that were abundantly laid bare in mass media coverage. In the early 20th century, by contrast, disease and its treatment served to promote the colonialist agenda, with writers using physical and psychological depictions of the colonised body’s diseases in order to advance its fabricated “othering”. Among such colonial writers was Hugh Clifford (1866-1941), Resident and Governor in Malaya during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Documenting his experiences in Malaya in his short stories, Clifford constructed particular ontological realities regarding Malayan subjects for his European audiences, promoting a fabricated perception of their “difference”. In his short story “A Daughter of the Muhammadans”, published in his 1916 collection The Further Side of Silence, Clifford investigates the visually striking corruption of leprosy, juxtaposed against the wholesome, affectionate nature of Minah, the female Malayan subject. Based on the context of medicinal advancements, I will be proposing that Clifford’s physical and psychological depictions of the Malayan body’s diseases led to its constructed “othering”, especially through the furtherance of stereotypes of the Malayan subject that are inherent in his work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If we love the work of a writer whose politics, personal behaviour and character can be shown to be alarming, disgusting or dangerous - if she, he (or they) is racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, a child-molester or an advocate of selective murder - should we continue to admire their prose? This is the central question that has preoccupied my thinking about neo-Victorian biographical fictions. In this essay, I examine the tensions between three modes of writing: history, biography, and fiction and address the question of neo-Victorian critical ethics. I then proceed to discuss two biographical fictions of Victorian writers, written at the beginning of the twenty-first century in very different literary registers. The first text is Colm Tóibín's The Master (2004), which dramatises the later writing years of Henry James. The second text is Kate Roiphe's Still She Haunts Me (2001), which reinterprets the relationship between Charles Dodgson, the Oxford don who became Lewis Carroll, and his child Muse, Alice Liddell. Neither of these novels were consciously written as neo-Victorian biographical fictions, yet both address the question of biographical ethics and judgements. Do we write to defend the writers we love against all comers, or to judge them in the light of contemporary morals and literary aesthetics? Or are we simply rewriting them in our own image? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

School placement plays a critical and complex role in the professional development of student teachers. When universities and schools shut their doors and moved all teaching activities online in March 2020, initial teacher education (ITE) providers across Ireland had to implement emergency alternative practicum supports in order to ensure that students could complete their ITE programmes. Many initial teacher education providers across Ireland introduced professional online conversations as an alternative approach to professional practice supervision. It is easy to view this response to the COVID-19 crisis in purely deficit terms. For obvious reasons, no sensible teacher educator would advocate for abandoning school visits and replacing them with online professional conversations. Nonetheless, emergency measures arguably brought about affordances to the delivery of teacher education, which are deserving of consideration and may help to inform future practice. In this paper, we draw on our recent experience of ITE emergency practicum supervision to explore assumptions and tensions inherent in traditional teacher education practices. We reflect on how we enacted and experienced professional student–tutor conversations without the normally preceding classroom observations and interrogate normalised assumptions about the value and purpose of classroom observation. Our reflections are infused with ideas gleaned from philosophy and sociological theory and are underpinned by a theoretical formulation which we call "negative education". "Negative education" refers to the learning that takes place as a consequence of deprivation. In these terms, we come to examine the negotiation of power and relationships in different learning environments. We explore the benefits of "zooming out", to disseminate power, and show how this helps to engage with the broader aspects of teaching which are so easily overlooked by both tutors and students during "normal" school visits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The exhibition Strange Weather took place at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, from April 14 to August 14, 2022. Strange Weather provides a survey of the relationship between history, bodies, and the environment through artworks that span from 1970 to 2020. This exhibition showcases a range of mediums, from painting to installation, to draw attention to the impact of trauma on humans and land. This review explores how the MAH’s recent exhibition acknowledges hard truths within history through art and forces viewers to consider moments that have shaped our current social and political environment.

Abstract: This is a reply to the comments by Daniel Bella, Lorina Buhr, Andrea Blättler, and Ivo Eichhorn. The individual responses attempt to identify the main challenges of the pieces and sketch answers to questions or elaborations on issues raised.

Abstract: This is the introduction to the Special Issue Intersubjective Readings of Spinoza. Critical Comments on Martin Lenz’ Socializing Minds: Intersubjectivity in Early Modern Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press 2022. It provides an overview of the topic that the papers in this issue are centered around as well as an outline of main theses of the pertinent book and acknowledgments for the related workshop.

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A central question in affective science and one that is relevant for its clinical applications is how emotions provided by different stimuli are experienced and represented in the brain. Following the traditional view emotional signals are recognized with the help of emotion concepts that are typically used in descriptions of mental states and emotional experiences, irrespective of the sensory modality. This perspective motivated the search for abstract representations of emotions in the brain, shared across variations in stimulus type (face, body, voice) and sensory origin (visual, auditory). On the other hand, emotion signals like for example an aggressive gesture, trigger rapid automatic behavioral responses and this may take place before or independently of full abstract representation of the emotion. This pleads in favor specific emotion signals that may trigger rapid adaptative behavior only by mobilizing modality and stimulus specific brain representations without relying on higher order abstract emotion categories. To test this hypothesis, we presented participants with naturalistic dynamic emotion expressions of the face, the whole body, or the voice in a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) study. To focus on automatic emotion processing and sidestep explicit concept-based emotion recognition, participants performed an unrelated target detection task presented in a different sensory modality than the stimulus. By using multivariate analyses to assess neural activity patterns in response to the different stimulus types, we reveal a stimulus category and modality specific brain organization of affective signals. Our findings are consistent with the notion that under ecological conditions emotion expressions of the face, body and voice may have different functional roles in triggering rapid adaptive behavior, even if when viewed from an abstract conceptual vantage point, they may all exemplify the same emotion. This has implications for a neuroethologically grounded emotion research program that should start from detailed behavioral observations of how face, body, and voice expressions function in naturalistic contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A central question in affective science and one that is relevant for its clinical applications is how emotions provided by different stimuli are experienced and represented in the brain. Following the traditional view emotional signals are recognized with the help of emotion concepts that are typically used in descriptions of mental states and emotional experiences, irrespective of the sensory modality. This perspective motivated the search for abstract representations of emotions in the brain, shared across variations in stimulus type (face, body, voice) and sensory origin (visual, auditory). On the other hand, emotion signals like for example an aggressive gesture, trigger rapid automatic behavioral responses and this may take place before or independently of full abstract representation of the emotion. This pleads in favor specific emotion signals that may trigger rapid adaptative behavior only by mobilizing modality and stimulus specific brain representations without relying on higher order abstract emotion categories. To test this hypothesis, we presented participants with naturalistic dynamic emotion expressions of the face, the whole body, or the voice in a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) study. To focus on automatic emotion processing and sidestep explicit concept-based emotion recognition, participants performed an unrelated target detection task presented in a different sensory modality than the stimulus. By using multivariate analyses to assess neural activity patterns in response to the different stimulus types, we reveal a stimulus category and modality specific brain organization of affective signals. Our findings are consistent with the notion that under ecological conditions emotion expressions of the face, body and voice may have different functional roles in triggering rapid adaptive behavior, even if when viewed from an abstract conceptual vantage point, they may all exemplify the same emotion. This has implications for a neuroethologically grounded emotion research program that should start from detailed behavioral observations of how face, body, and voice expressions function in naturalistic contexts.

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In continental Europe, legal discourses around abortion have traditionally been loaded with meta-legal considerations. The increasing transition from a system based on causes of depenalisation to a time-frame system has lightened these considerations, through the recognition of abortion as a legal right. Yet this has not been accompanied by the recognition of a constitutional right to reproductive self-determination, as seminal Roe v. Wade did in the United States in 1973. The Spanish Constitutional Court’s Decision 44/2023 has recognised this right. It has done so one year after Roe was overruled by Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, leaving the regulation of abortion in the hands of states as part of their democratic mandate. Against this, Spanish Constitutional Decision 44/2023 couches access to abortion within the right to democratic self-determination in matters of intimate citizenship, thus creating a space where democratic coexistence can rely on an agreement to disagree. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este artículo se detiene en el análisis de contenido desde una perspectiva interseccional de dos series de televisión del presente siglo, como son Lost (Perdidos, –Abrams, Lieber y Lindelof 2004-2010–) y Yellowjackets (Lyle y Nickerson, 2021-presente). Se eligen porque parten de premisas similares: tras un accidente de avión, y sin la espera de un rescate, un grupo tiene que organizarse para sobrevivir en un ambiente hostil. En este sentido, nos interesa conocer, ¿cómo se imagina la nueva sociedad?, ¿se repiten los sistemas de dominación de las sociedades de origen o se crean nuevas fórmulas? Por otro lado, ambas narraciones cuentan con diferencias considerables en cuanto a contexto, producción y reparto que nos llevan a inquirir: ¿Dónde se pone el foco cuando las personas protagonistas (no) forman parte del sujeto político normativo?, ¿aquellas marcadas como otras se representan desde otras formas de hacer? Como conclusiones, destacar que Yellowjackets introduce miradas no hegemónicas que permiten incluir papeles que rehúyen de estereotipos y roles, así como temáticas feminizadas invisibilizadas. Sin embargo, este cambio no permite superar la parálisis melancólica individual y colectiva que atraviesa a ambas producciones, repitiendo las estructuras de poder y dominación que dinamitan una oportunidad de avanzar hacia una sociedad utópica. This article looks at the content analysis from an intersectional perspective of two television series of the present century: Lost (Abrams, Lieber y Lindelof 2004-2010) and Yellowjackets(Lyle y Nickerson, 2021-present). They are chosen because they startfrom similar premises: after a plane crash, and without the expectation of a rescue, a group has to organise itself to survive in a hostile environment. In this sense, we are interested in knowing how the new society is imagined: are the systems of domination of the original societies repeated or are new formulas created? Furthermore, both narratives have considerable differences in terms of context, production and casting that lead us to ask: Where is the focus placed when the protagonists are (not) part of the normative political subject? Are these people marked as others represented from other ways of doing? As conclusions, it is worth highlighting that Yellowjackets introduces non-hegemonic gazes that allow for the inclusion of roles that shun stereotypes and roles, as well as feminised themes that have been made invisible. However, this change does not allow us to overcome the individual and collective melancholic paralysis that runs through both productions, repeating the structures of power and domination that dynamite an opportunity to advance towards a utopian society.

Over the past several years, the dick pic has been featured prominently in the media and popular discourse. To date, much of the literature on dick pics has focused on what is more commonly known as the “unsolicited dick pic.” Such a perspective has led to dick pics being characterized, almost universally, as an outcome of men’s aggressive heterosexuality and misogynistic tendencies, and thus, the dick pic is seen as a way to make women feel uncomfortable and threatened in a variety of public and digital spaces. Likewise, psychological research has framed the sending of dick pics as only coming from narcissistic men, and that dick pics are the contemporary, digital form of the sexual pathology of flashing and exhibitionism. In this paper, we seek to open, or at least broaden, the conversation about the meanings and understandings of the dick pic, especially outside and beyond the framings of violence and pathology, or rather, what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick might understand as the paranoid reading of the dick pic. We do so by examining three social media sites that post and comment on dick pics. Accordingly, in this article, we seek to provide a reparative reading of the dick pic, specifically considering questions of desire, intimacy, the erotic, and vulnerability. Our approach to this study, thus, is to draw on queer theory to deconstruct and understand the phenomenon of the dick pic.

This article describes some of the techniques museums use to represent the suffering body in exhibitions. Some display human remains, but much more common, especially in Western museums, are stand-ins for the body. Manikins take many forms, including the wax museum’s hyperrealistic representations, the history museum’s neutral grey figures and the expressionistic figures that represent enslaved people in many recent exhibits. Symbolic objects or artefacts from the lives of victims can serve as counterweights to telling the story of their deaths. Photographs can show horror and the machinery of death, focus attention on individual lives or recreate communities. The absence of the body can call attention to its suffering. All of these techniques can be useful for museums trying to display and teach traumatic histories, but must be used with care and caution.

Fat, in the context of dissection, is a nuisance, an obstruction to anatomical order and orientation. Yet it makes up a large part of the human body, and in the practice of dissection becomes one of the most prominent materials in the room, as it sticks to gloves and spreads through the dissection hall, making chairs greasy and instruments slippery. In this article I explore the role and significance of fat tissue in anatomical dissection for medical students. In anatomy, fat remains largely an excess material; something superfluous, insignificant, left-over when the body is turned into an anatomical body consisting of muscles, nerves, blood vessels, and bones, cleaned and displayable. But fat is also something which appears in experience as excessive, omnipresent, proliferating, and resistant to attempts to keep it in order. Much anthropological work within dissection practices has described the process of ‘cleaning’ the bodies, but often—mirroring medicine—these accounts follow the becoming of the anatomical body and leave the fat behind. In this article, I try to ‘stick with’ the fat and suggest that fat tissue, as an embodiment or material manifestation of the more-than-anatomical-body, may tell us something about bodies, subjectivity, scientific order, and dissection.

There are many different anthropological traditions of material culture studies in Europe, as well as beyond. And yet the materialities of age and ageing nevertheless tend to be neglected in anthropological studies of ageing-related matters. Through a range of case studies, this special issue of AJEC addresses this gap. The articles consider a diversity of theories, methodologies and empirical approaches to better understanding European landscapes of care and pressing gerontological concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

School placement plays a critical and complex role in the professional development of student teachers. When universities and schools shut their doors and moved all teaching activities online in March 2020, initial teacher education (ITE) providers across Ireland had to implement emergency alternative practicum supports in order to ensure that students could complete their ITE programmes. Many initial teacher education providers across Ireland introduced professional online conversations as an alternative approach to professional practice supervision. It is easy to view this response to the COVID-19 crisis in purely deficit terms. For obvious reasons, no sensible teacher educator would advocate for abandoning school visits and replacing them with online professional conversations. Nonetheless, emergency measures arguably brought about affordances to the delivery of teacher education, which are deserving of consideration and may help to inform future practice. In this paper, we draw on our recent experience of ITE emergency practicum supervision to explore assumptions and tensions inherent in traditional teacher education practices. We reflect on how we enacted and experienced professional student–tutor conversations without the normally preceding classroom observations and interrogate normalised assumptions about the value and purpose of classroom observation. Our reflections are infused with ideas gleaned from philosophy and sociological theory and are underpinned by a theoretical formulation which we call “negative education”. “Negative education” refers to the learning that takes place as a consequence of deprivation. In these terms, we come to examine the negotiation of power and relationships in different learning environments. We explore the benefits of “zooming out”, to disseminate power, and show how this helps to engage with the broader aspects of teaching which are so easily overlooked by both tutors and students during “normal” school visits.

AI and archive: a foucaltian approach The aim of the essay is to investigate AI with an archaeological approach: so, we consider data as speech events and algorithms as discourses, which have own rules of formation of the objects. Then, with a genealogical approach, we consider the power effects of the sentences of AI on Selves and their bodies.

A poem about the stigma imposed on female bodies. Stigma which renders women prisoners in their own bodies. A poem of empowerment in which women can begin to reclaim what belongs to them, and no one else. Poetry written through a sex positive lens.

A song to Sana in (becoming) sea is a love letter to my unborn son. As a piece that works through grief, it recognises that grief as embodiment is a series of processes of accumulation, as well as of weaving and attuning to multiple human and more-than-human beings and bodies of water. Drawing upon Michrochimerism, or the fate of travelling cells from mother to son, this piece is constructed of seven citations that dwell on Astrida Neimanis’s “becoming bodies of water”. It speaks to the multiplicity of entanglements and the impossibility of separation, as Katherine McKittrick reminds us: “what I know, where I know from, who I know from, and why I cannot possibly know.”

Previous functional imaging studies demonstrated body-selective patches in the primate visual temporal cortex, comparing activations to static bodies and static images of other categories. However, the use of static instead of dynamic displays of moving bodies may have underestimated the extent of the body patch network. Indeed, body dynamics provide information about action and emotion and may be processed in patches not activated by static images. Thus, to map with fMRI the full extent of the macaque body patch system in the visual temporal cortex, we employed dynamic displays of natural-acting monkey bodies, dynamic monkey faces, objects, and scrambled versions of these videos, all presented during fixation. We found nine body patches in the visual temporal cortex, starting posteriorly in the superior temporal sulcus (STS) and ending anteriorly in the temporal pole. Unlike for static images, body patches were present consistently in both the lower and upper banks of the STS. Overall, body patches showed a higher activation by dynamic displays than by matched static images, which, for identical stimulus displays, was less the case for the neighboring face patches. These data provide the groundwork for future single-unit recording studies to reveal the spatiotemporal features the neurons of these body patches encode. These fMRI findings suggest that dynamics have a stronger contribution to population responses in body than face patches.

This work exposes a theoretical-methodological proposal in gender, feminist, and queer keys, to address an iconographic study of anthropomorphic vessels. The pieces assigned to the Condorhuasi style, which make up the collections of the Institute of Archaeology and Museum of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Miguel Lillo Institute -IAM (FCNeIML-UNT)-, are taken as a case study. The proposed methodology is aimed at identifying, differentiating, and recording the presence/absence of sexual phenotypic indicators, as well as bodily acts and the identity elements associated with them. Among the specimens studied, masculine, feminine and feminized figures were identified, which were conceived, in turn, as supporting bodies that carry individual and group identities and, in some cases, combined identities. Likewise, this study also includes an instance of comparison between the iconic components and/or referents registered in the supporting bodies, with similar objects, registered in archaeological and ethnographic contexts of the Argentine Northwest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses, based on journalistic discourses published in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and in the digital magazine AzMina, how productions of meanings about female sexuality still suffer from logics that incur in norms and silencing regarding topics considered taboo. At the same time, the text reflects on journalistic dynamics differentiated between a traditional vehicle and another designated as alternative, which is projected in the ways in which agendas are approached and in the distinction of the respective speeches. As theoretical supports, Discourse Analysis, spiral of silence, newsworthiness criteria and social construction of reality are discussed, in addition to themes related to symbolic violence linked to women’s sexuality, choices regarding their own bodies and the stereotypes that orbit this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Dominant conceptions of education are strongly framed by narratives of 'power-over' materials, context, and processes, especially where digital and technological applications reduce complexities between humans, materials, and environments. The separation of knowledge, tools, and bodies in 'disciplinary bounded', 'copyrighted', and 'patented' spaces create a disconnect from our need for sustainable relationships, whereby the future is not given but 'in-the-making' (Haraway 2016). Drawing on music and science -- as examples of distinct disciplines, often siloed and separated in education -- this paper advances nuanced understandings of how post human conceptions of 'thing-power'1 (the power of all bodies including materials) and 'making-with' (whereby everything makes each other capable) contribute to the affective encounters of materialities within the classroom. By foregrounding the sensing body as a means to touch and be 'touched' by the world, we uniquely contribute to methodologies that illuminate the relational intensity of material sensation as part of coming to 'know'. In doing so, we engage with the performative work of these materialities and re-define the 'digital' beyond the delivery of pre-planned learning pathways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article contributes empirical knowledge about the shifting ways in which the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF) has articulated and addressed 'the uniform issue', that is, matters concerning servicewomen's access to adequate uniforms and other equipment, since the 1980s. Drawing on analytical tools employed within post-structural policy analysis, we demonstrate how 'the uniform issue' has gone from being articulated as a problem for servicewomen, and to be solved by servicewomen, to a problem for the SAF in its pursuit to become an attractive employer and a legitimate public authority. By shedding light on how 'the uniform issue' has been problematized in shifting ways since Swedish women first were allowed to serve in all military positions, this article also contributes important insights into broader scholarly debates about workplace discrimination, gender equality, and gendered occupational identities in military work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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