This paper proposes the concept of the “death-image” as a point of convergence between the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze. While Cavell and Deleuze are rarely brought together—given Cavell’s emphasis on...
This article explores the ethical and ontological intersection of film theory in the works of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, focusing on the philosophical tension between the cinematic image and the cliché. The ethical foundations of cinem...
With regard to film, and especially to the film genre, which is one of the most powerful systems of sensemaking in popular culture ever, the relation of sense and nonsense has to be rethought. The article examines the possibility of nonsense in its o...
This essay explores a philosophical tradition that Stanley Cavell has traced out and which he emphasizes as being American inasmuch as it is arises out of the thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It then investigates how the poems...
In this paper, I discuss the importance of practices of disidentification and imagination for democratic progress and change. To this end, I bring together certain aspects of Stanley Cavell’s and Richard Rorty’s reflections on democracy,...
This essay aims to give an overview of the topic ethics and literature in Stanley Cavell’s complete oeuvre. It argues that Cavell’s preoccupation with literature is, from beginning to end, primarily ethical, even though he takes his point...
This article rereads Stanley Cavell’s philosophy of film through a metaphorical constellation of exile, diaspora, and reinhabitation. These terms name neither the spectator’s historical identity nor an equivalence between film viewing and...
This paper addresses the possibility of using the Wittgensteinian conception of “forms of life” (“Lebensformen”) as a potentially transformative philosophical framework that responds to contemporary challenges. These challenge...
Background/Objectives: Pertussis, caused by Bordetella pertussis, remains a global health problem, despite high vaccine coverage. In countries with high acellular pertussis vaccine (aPV) coverage, pertactin-negative B. pertussis strains emerged due t...
The notion of forms of life points to a crucial aspect of Wittgenstein’s philosophical approach that challenges an influential line in the philosophical tradition. He portrays intellectual activities in terms of a cohesion of things held togeth...
In order to see how the wisdom of American pragmatism can be usefully used in response to the crisis of humanities and of democracy and education, the purpose of this paper is to explore elements in Dewey’s thoughts that tend to be hidden in its fami...
This article reconsiders Yasujiro Ozu’s An Autumn Afternoon (1962) as a cinematic “anti-testament”, a final film that eschews resolution, culmination, or closure in favour of subtle continuity, repetition, and quiet disappearance. S...
In his swan song A Tale of the Wind (1988), Joris Ivens undertakes the seemingly impossible task of capturing the invisible—the wind—on film. At the same time, the film looks back over the director’s own career, in a spirit that is...
The article starts from Gilles Deleuze’s assumption of film being a philosophy in its own right and applies it to the horror genre. It reads Stanley Cavell’s concept of genre, Timothy Jay Walker’s work on the Horror of the Other (1)...
18 April 2020
Social adversity can significantly influence the wellbeing of mothers and their children. Maternal health may be improved through strengthened support networks and better health literacy. Health improvement at the population level requires optimizing...
Electrocardiogram (ECG)-gated contrast-enhanced computed tomography angiography (CTA) is the reference method for follow-up of ascending aortic aneurysms but delivers substantially higher radiation doses than ECG-gated non-contrast CT (NCCT). NCCT ca...
Nowadays, cryopreservation of gametes and embryos is a fundamental, integral, and indispensable part of infertility treatment or fertility preservation. Cryopreservation is not only needed for the policy of single embryo transfer and cryopreservation...
This paper aims to bring together the appeal to the ordinary in the ethics of care and the ‘destruction’ or philosophical subversion which Wittgenstein references in his Philosophical Investigations: Where does our investigation get its i...
Background: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most prevalent peripheral nerve entrapment neuropathy, with rising incidence in aging populations. Uncertainty persists regarding the efficacy and safety of carpal tunnel release (CTR) in patients aged...
Volatile anesthetics, while increasingly utilized in intensive care medicine, are associated with significant renal adverse effects. A critical safety concern—particularly with sevoflurane—involves its potential impact on renal function....
The accuracy of multibeam echosounder bathymetric measurement depends on the accuracy of the data of the sound speed layers within the water column. This is necessary for the correct modeling of ray bending. It is assumed that the sound speed layers...
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is now the standard of care for patients with locally advanced breast cancer (BC). TIL scoring is prognostic and adds predictive value to the residual cancer burden evaluation after NAC. However, NAC induces changes in...
The chapter that John Dewey dedicates to consideration of play and work in the curriculum in Democracy and Education echoes his thoughts on the same subject in How We Think, which preceded Democracy and Education by six years. Dewey closes How We Thi...
7 April 2020
It is widely recognized that public health interventions benefit from community engagement and leadership, yet there are challenges to evaluating complex, community-led interventions assuming hierarchies of evidence derived from laboratory experiment...
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most lethal types of cancer with a dismal prognosis. The five-year survival rate has not changed significantly in over 40 years. Current first-line treatments only offer a modest increase in...