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Humanities, Volume 11, Issue 1

February 2022 - 30 articles

Cover Story: Are we living in the end times? It is easy to get that impression when you read books, watch films, or follow the news today. What do these apocalyptic narratives tell us about our relationship with death? A peculiarity within climate discourse is that humankind is given a position that is both external and internal to the problems described. On one hand, there is an all-encompassing apocalyptic mood, while on the other, the message is that we must “save the climate”. Death almost appears as something we had overcome—until the pandemic arrived. The article “Narrating the End of the World” discusses the philosophers Martin Hägglund and Roy Scranton, before turning to Hermann Broch’s novel The Death of Virgil (1945), for an alternative to today’s apocalyptic narratives. Maybe the end of the world is something that takes place all the time? View this paper
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,662 Views
16 Pages

Performance as Intersectional Resistance: Power, Polyphony and Processes of Abolition

  • Omid Tofighian,
  • Rachael Swain,
  • Dalisa Pigram,
  • Bhenji Ra,
  • Chandler Connell,
  • Emmanuel James Brown,
  • Feras Shaheen,
  • Issa El Assaad,
  • Luke Currie-Richardson and
  • Miranda Wheen
  • + 2 authors

17 February 2022

Australia’s brutal carceral-border regime is a colonial system of intertwining systems of oppression that combine the prison-industrial complex and the border-industrial complex. It is a violent and multidimensional regime that includes an expanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,762 Views
12 Pages

11 February 2022

This essay traces out the importance of the poetic and creative use of language to Merleau-Ponty’s ontology. Why Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment inevitably had to turn towards a poetic use of language and to see the overlap be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,995 Views
12 Pages

10 February 2022

As with other twenty-first-century rewritings of fairytales, Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron complicates the classic ‘Cinderella’ fairytale narrative popularized by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm for new audiences, queering a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,852 Views
15 Pages

7 February 2022

This essay utilizes Helen Tiffin’s idea of canonical counter-discourse to read the Medusa poems of Shara McCallum and Dorothea Smartt, two female Caribbean poets. Essentially, canonical counter-discourse involves authors rewriting works or givi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,591 Views
13 Pages

21 January 2022

There is a widespread narrative today that, due to climate change, we are living in the end of times. What does this apocalyptic narrative tell us about our relation to death? A peculiarity with the climate discourse is that “we”, i.e., m...

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