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    ’90s “It Girls”: Britpop at the Postfeminist Intermezzo

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    In considering the Britpop genre of music and its moment of popularity in the mid/late-1990s, the few female-fronted Britpop groups created space for more compelling articulations of existential matters than were to be found in standard Britpop fare. This article argues these articulations are most appropriately read as arising from a moment of feminist thought in transition: a premature “victory,” under the sign of postfeminism, in which the struggles of Second Wave feminists could be seen to have delivered equality. This moment results in an encroaching and contested sense of entry into maturity, and a loss of youth. The groups examined in this article—Elastica, Echobelly and particularly Sleeper—articulate something of the lived condition of postfeminism and a sense of its concerns and uncertainties (emotional, ethical, existential) in this short-lived period. Additionally, the article tracks the development in the movement from the “wild child,” “It Girl” of the early 1990s through the figure of the ladette (which found a resonance in female-fronted Britpop groups), and thereafter to the emergence of a sexualized celebrity feminism, under the sign of Third Wave feminism

    Mídia, fabricação do consenso e poder : análise das narrativas da Al Jazeera e Sputnik News sobre o conflito da Síria como instrumento da política externa do Catar e da Federação Russa

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    O estudo analisa a relação entre mídia e poder, baseando-se na releitura de Robert Cox da visão de Gramsci sobre a hegemonia. Nesta perspectiva, a disputa ideológica é um elemento a explorar para obter poder político. A tese investiga como o Catar e a Federação Russa utilizam a Al Jazeera e o Sputnik News, veículos de comunicação transnacional criados por eles, para atingir seus objetivos de política externa. O argumento é que, ao propor narrativas alternativas àquelas que dominam o noticiário internacional, podem desafiar o consenso, construído com auxílio da grande mídia global. O corpus analisado é composto por reportagens retiradas dos sites em inglês da Al Jazeera e do Sputnik News sobre a guerra da Síria, comparado com material de igual teor da BBC e CNN, emissoras de TV com tradição em noticiário internacional. A análise textual segue metodologia mista, inspirada na Análise de Conteúdo e na Análise de Discurso de linha francesa, para identificar repetições, excessos, omissões... e, por meio delas, aspectos ideológicos presentes nos textos. A pesquisa aponta como cada veículo de comunicação noticia a guerra da Síria. Conclui que a cobertura da Al Jazeera apresenta narrativas semelhantes às da BBC e CNN, e que acompanham a evolução da política externa catari durante o conflito sírio, no qual o Catar se colocou ao lado da oposição. Por outro lado, a cobertura do Sputnik News é a que mais se distancia das outras três emissoras, abrindo maior espaço para o governo sírio e russo, que eram aliados, defenderem suas ações. São identificadas variações na narrativa ao longo do tempo, que acompanham a política russa diante da guerra da Síria. A tese identifica ainda que os veículos de comunicação exploram discursivamente valores como direitos humanos, democracia e a liderança dos EUA no sistema internacional (ideias que compõem o consenso sob o qual a ordem mundial vigente se constituiu), também em consonância com objetivos de política externa.The study analyzes the relationship between media and power based on Robert Cox's rereading of Gramsci's view of hegemony. In this perspective, the ideological dispute is an element to explore to obtain political power. The thesis investigates how Qatar and the Russian Federation use Al Jazeera and Sputnik News, transnational communication vehicles created by them, to achieve their foreign policy objectives. The argument is that, by proposing alternative narratives to those that dominate the international news, they can challenge the consensus built with the help of the big global media. The corpus analyzed is composed of reports taken from the English sites of Al Jazeera and Sputnik News about the Syrian war, compared with news from the BBC and CNN websites, TV stations with a tradition in international journalism. The textual analysis follows a mixed methodology, inspired by Content Analysis and Discourse Analysis of the French line, to identify repetitions, excesses, omissions ..., and through them, ideological aspects present in the texts. The research shows how each communication vehicle reports the war in Syria. It concludes that Al Jazeera's coverage presents narratives similar to those of the BBC and CNN, which follow the evolution of Qatari foreign policy during the Syrian conflict, in which Qatar sided with the opposition. The coverage of Sputnik News is the most distant from the other three media outlets, opening up more space for the Syrian and Russian governments, who were allies, to defend their actions. Variations in the narrative over time accompanied Russian foreign policy. The thesis also identifies that media outlets discursively explore values such as human rights, democracy, and US leadership in the international system (ideas that make up the consensus under which ground the current world order), also in line with foreign policy objectives

    Designs of Blackness

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    Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings—each literary-critical and comparative while at the same time offering cultural and historical context. This carefully re-edited version of the 1998 publication opens with an estimation of earliest African American voice in the names of Phillis Wheatley and her contemporaries. It then takes up the huge span of autobiography from Frederick Douglass through to Maya Angelou. "Harlem on My Mind," which follows, sets out the literary contours of America’s premier black city. Womanism, Alice Walker’s presiding term, is given full due in an analysis of fiction from Harriet E. Wilson to Toni Morrison. Richard Wright is approached not as some regulation "realist" but as a more inward, at times near-surreal, author. Decadology has its risks but the 1940s has rarely been approached as a unique era of war and peace and especially in African American texts. Beat Generation work usually adheres to Ginsberg and Kerouac, but black Beat writing invites its own chapter in the names of Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans and Bob Kaufman. The 1960s has long become a mythic change-decade, and in few greater respects than as a black theatre both of the stage and politics. In Leon Forrest African America had a figure of the postmodern turn: his work is explored in its own right and for how it takes its place in the context of other reflexive black fiction. "African American Fictions of Passing" unpacks the whole deceptive trope of "race" in writing from Williams Wells Brown through to Charles Johnson. The two newly added chapters pursue African American literary achievement into the Obama-Trump century, fiction from Octavia Butler to Darryl Pinkney, poetry from Rita Dove to Kevin Young

    Postmodern Classicism: A Practice-Based Investigation

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    This thesis establishes a critical framework for a grassroots literary genre, postmodern classicism (pomoclassicism), which was founded by myself and Stephen Spencer II circa 2010. Postmodernism here signifies the intellectual and cultural concerns which were tantamount at the latter half of the twentieth century, and by extension, classical writing simply refers to that which was apparently before the postmodern, in a heuristic sliding scale oriented around canonicity and nostalgia. A portfolio of creative writing accompanies critical efforts at engaging with and describing the foundational assumptions of the western canon, from which much of the creative work is appropriated. My research writing is grounded in a reformulation of the early modern notion of canonical literature (circa 1700): ‘eternal life’ through literary preservation, which is itself the paradoxical material upon which the ‘canon’ is founded. This theme is taken up in the oeuvre of Goethe. Goethe’s writing relies on the paradoxical reconciliation of opposites known to the author as ‘polarity, ’ and influences how Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Kafka understand canonical literature itself. Goethe, Nietzsche, and Kafka’s use of appropriation has influenced my own creative work, which includes redaction writing, erasure, and other forms of narrative appropriation. Kafka will be shown to have taken up the theme of ‘polarity’ in his own literary writing, as examined by Benjamin and Deleuze and Guattari. Finally, I will draw upon the critical writing of Sabina Spielrein, whose concepts of simultaneous creation and destruction and erotic fusion are the conceptual core of my own poetic approach, and who provides a Nietzschean critique of the early modern notion of ‘eternity.

    'A way of life': practising place in the small press

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    This thesis is a study of place in the practice and publications of three small presses: Moschatel Press, Coracle Press and Corbel Stone Press. Practice is central to my approach, both in situating place as something practised, unfinished and ongoing, and in the repetitive everyday acts that make running a press ‘a way of life’. I examine the ways in which small press practice shapes and responds to a variety of places. Beginning with the home, the thesis moves gradually outwards to larger-scale spaces: the local area, public spaces, the wider landscape. The thesis is founded upon the press model as one of collaboration, both between artists, and with the places they inhabit. Chapter One establishes the domestic space as central to the activities and publications of the press. The home is a site of production enmeshed with the everyday, and is the intended habitat of many small press pieces. I trace the influence of domestic intimacy and tactility across small press poetics, and the importance of ‘the domestic scale’ is foregrounded throughout the thesis. Chapter Two is an exploration of small press localness. I build upon the domestic chapter to examine how the local is shaped by its relationship to the home. I frame small press localness as distinctly embodied, examining the charting of local places on foot and the gathering of texts and objects by hand. Chapter Three examines site-specific work, exploring the presence of small press pieces in public, communal spaces. I focus particularly upon the hospital-based works of Thomas A Clark, and how they provoke questions around attention, contemplation and care. The chapter closes by reflecting upon how these pieces facilitate thinking about the more- than-human. Chapter Four sustains a focus upon the more-than-human to explore the small press relationship with the wider landscape. The chapter scrutinises an ambivalent attitude towards books as a means of relating to and recording landscapes. I consider work across deep timescales and study the embodied landscape-based practices of Corbel Stone Press, such as burial and the leaving of offerings

    University of Nebraska-Lincoln Agricultural Research Division 121st Annual Report. July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007.

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    Our Mission..... 4 Foreword..... 5 Research Highlights..... 6 Faculty Awards and Recognitions....14 Graduate Student Awards and Recognitions...17 Undergraduate Honors Student Research Program...22 Variety and Germplasm Releases....23 Patents.....24 Administration.....25 Administrative Personnel....25 Organizational Chart....26 Administrative Units....27 IANR Research Facilities....28 Faculty.....29 Agricultural/Natural Resources Units....30 Education and Human Sciences Departments...39 Off-Campus Research Centers....40 Interdisciplinary Activities....41 Visiting Scientists/Research Associates....42 Research Projects.....47 Agricultural/Natural Resources Units....47 Education and Human Sciences Departments...52 Off-Campus Research Centers....52 Interdisciplinary Activities....53 Publications.....55 Agricultural/Natural Resources Units....60 Education and Human Sciences Departments...82 Off-Campus Research Centers....85 Research Expenditures....8

    Challenges and perspectives of hate speech research

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    This book is the result of a conference that could not take place. It is a collection of 26 texts that address and discuss the latest developments in international hate speech research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. This includes case studies from Brazil, Lebanon, Poland, Nigeria, and India, theoretical introductions to the concepts of hate speech, dangerous speech, incivility, toxicity, extreme speech, and dark participation, as well as reflections on methodological challenges such as scraping, annotation, datafication, implicity, explainability, and machine learning. As such, it provides a much-needed forum for cross-national and cross-disciplinary conversations in what is currently a very vibrant field of research

    24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)

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