Narrative Analysis

In Part One, two Beckettian clowns staring in a film-played, Chit and Chat, have been abducted from a film set in Santa Fe, NM. In Part Two, the actors have been returned to Earth and now face time in an ICU, then hypnotherapy ordered by their Director to probe their experiences on ship. The topics range far and wide in these often comic discussions amongst Director, Playwright, and medical stuff. In Part Three, the actors are interviewed on podcast WTF! by a sci-fi expert Hamish located in Madrid, NM. Intertextuality and wordplay are the norm in these interactions.

Resumo: Este artigo tem como tema o estilo narrativo de David Lean, abordando aspectos de seu trabalho na direção, na edição e na roteirização de seus lmes, especialmente aqueles que mais marcaram sua carreira internacional, como Lawrence da Arábia, Doutor Jivago e Passagem para a Índia.

На основе материалов РГИА выявлены устойчивые нарративы о мироточении в народной традиции населения Российской империи в XVIII–XIX вв. и прослежено их влияние на формирование концепта чуда в обыденном религиозном сознании. Отмечено, что в XVIII в.
массовое возникновение нарративов о мироточении зафиксировано на юго-западе Российской империи и имело почти эпидемический характер. Описано отношение Синода к мироточению икон. Отмечено, что миро или другая жидкость, появляющаяся на иконе, рассматривались как проявление святыни и для верующих были достаточным доказательством чудес. Делается вывод, что истечение жидкости из иконы не только визуально подтверждало возможности
иконического образа создать чудо, но также позволяло верующим лично принимать участие в этом священном действии.

Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse suivante : Pour citer l' article : Sabina CASTELLANETA « Le corps d'Hécube et l' esprit d'Hector : respect et honte dans le vingtdeuxième chant de l'Iliade », dans Julie LE GAC et Silvia MOSTACCIO (éd.), « La honte », Bellica. Guerre, histoire et sociétés, vol. 1, n°1, 2024, p. 19-33 [En ligne : dhecube-et-lesprit-dhector-respect-et-honte-dans-le-vingt-deuxieme-chant-de-liliade/].

Serialized TV shows are built on complex storylines that can be hard to track and evolve in ways that defy straightforward analysis. This paper introduces a multi-agent system designed to extract and analyze these narrative arcs. Tested on the first season of Grey's Anatomy (ABC 2005-), the system identifies three types of arcs: Anthology (self-contained), Soap (relationship-focused), and Genre-Specific (strictly related to the series' genre). Episodic progressions of these arcs are stored in both relational and semantic (vectorial) databases, enabling structured analysis and comparison. To bridge the gap between automation and critical interpretation, the system is paired with a graphical interface that allows for human refinement using tools to enhance and visualize the data. The system performed strongly in identifying Anthology Arcs and character entities, but its reliance on textual paratexts (such as episode summaries) revealed limitations in recognizing overlapping arcs and subtler dynamics. This approach highlights the potential of combining computational and human expertise in narrative analysis. Beyond television, it offers promise for serialized written formats, where the narrative resides entirely in the text. Future work will explore the integration of multimodal inputs, such as dialogue and visuals, and expand testing across a wider range of genres to refine the system further.

Storytelling has arisen as a critical tactic in brand building: establishing emotional relationships between people and goods; improving brand figure; and even affecting customer behavior in a harsh marketplace. Then this study tries to probe how brands are made stronger by stories from worldwide critical theory and recent statistical analysis (2023-2025); with different examples of these theme points such as message, conflict, characters and plot. Major patterns include: fundamental research findings applied to real life experiments, computer simulation and artificial intelligence of (although not limited to) Chinese Language projects, and illustrations from all walks of life for instance the social entrepreneurs in Indonesia. Some findings illustrate how storytelling serves to forge emotional connections and set brands apart from competitors; but there are still questions in cross-cultural applications and measurable results. Looking ahead, narratives driven by AI and longitudinal research will also have to adapt to changing digital environments. Thus, this investigation serves to underscore the revolutionary potential of storytelling in modern industry.

El objetivo del presente artículo es señalar cómo a través del reduccionismo de los individuos a sus cuerpos se han generado daños iatrogénicos que no solamente afectan a individuos particulares sino también al entorno en el que habitan. Esta serie de daños se incrementa cuando se trata el caso del trastorno mental. Mediante una crítica a la normalización del reduccionis-mo en el campo disciplinar de la psicología se destacan las implicaciones éticas  sobre  las  personas,  tales  como  el  despojo  del  mundo  de  la  vida  y  la  subestimación  de  la  experiencia  subjetiva-existencial  del  paciente.  Fi-nalmente se propone que el análisis del trastorno desde la psicopatología fenomenológica puede ser una respuesta que mejore la calidad de vida de las personas ya que ésta no reduce su capacidad significativa.

This article historicises restrictive migration governance by tracing the narrative strategies that enabled immigration restriction in Britain and France from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. Drawing on parliamentary debates, media coverage and public statements, it identifies five key narratives – ‘invasion’, ‘difference’, ‘humanitarian’, ‘oil-shock’ and ‘crisis’ – and analyses how they operated at distinct stages of policymaking: agenda-setting, policy formulation, decision-making, implementation and evaluation. The article demonstrates that these immigration narratives were not spontaneous reflections of public opinion but strategically crafted tools of governance, adapted to institutional contexts in Britain and France. It shows that emotive threat frames initiated restrictions, humanitarian narratives legitimised them as moral protection and economic crisis narratives entrenched them as a technical necessity. This sequencing enabled cross-party convergence and the institutionalisation of restrictive immigration policies. A key finding is that the economic crises of the 1970s, including the Nixon shock and oil shocks, did not originate restrictive narratives but reinforced a path-dependent trajectory already under way. The article reveals how elite actors transformed complex post-colonial migration questions into politically actionable frames, contributing to understanding contemporary restrictions in the Global North.

Objective: The aim was to examine how intergenerational family relations shape entrepreneurial identity in migrant households in Italy. Background: Economic approaches to migrant entrepreneurship often overlook intra-family identity work and moral negotiation. This study interprets intergenerational tensions through Rindova et al.'s (2009) "entrepreneuring as emancipation" and Kulshrestha et al.'s (2024) typology of causeÀ/effect-driven and sameness/otherness-oriented identities. Method: A narrative-comparative design was employed in six Italian cities, involving 27 participants from 11 countries, with data collected through repeated individual and joint parent-child interviews and analyzed using thematic and narrative identity approaches. Results: First-generation entrepreneurs construct legitimacy through legality, stability, and incremental provision for kin, framing small business ownership as a redemptive escape from precarity. Second-generation actors partially recast entrepreneurship around aspiration, autonomy, managerial control, and sectoral rupture; some normalize informal or illicit circuits as strategic adaptation to exclusion. Legitimacy and risk are negotiated within parentchild interactions and further racialized in external labor markets and regulatory arenas. Conclusion: Entrepreneurial identity in migrant families constitutes a contested moral field produced through intergenerational negotiation rather than a linear pathway to integration.

В статье рассматривается институциональное противостояние внутри международного исламского движения «Таблиги Джамаат» * и его влияние на религиозное пространство Кыргызстана. Основной акцент сделан на том, что данное противоречие следует понимать не только как внутреннее разногласие между группами последователей, но, прежде всего, как кризис преемственности, управления и легитимности в транснациональном религиозном движении. Раскол анализируется через призму борьбы за право определять высший авторитет, механизмы принятия решений и нормативный порядок внутри джамаата, а также через процессы перераспределения символического влияния и религиозной легитимности в условиях глобальной фрагментации общины. Теоретическую основу исследования составляют концепции рутинизации харизмы М. Вебера и символического капитала П. Бурдье. Их применение позволяет показать, каким образом личная репутация духовных лидеров после их смерти превращается в предмет институциональной конкуренции, а религиозные практики, такие как машвара, хуруж и поддержание связи с марказами, становятся не только формами благочестия, но и ресурсами легитимации власти. Особое внимание уделяется трансформации механизмов религиозного авторитета в условиях отсутствия единого признанного центра управления. Рассматривается формирование двух основных направлений внутри движения: линии Низамуддина, связанной с историческим центром в Дели и фигурой Мауляны Саада Кандхлави, и линии международной Шуры, ориентированной на коллегиальную модель руководства и центр в Райвинде. Особое внимание уделяется тому, как масштабное размежевание после 2014-2015 гг. отразилось на Кыргызстане, где «Таблиги Джамаат» * имеет наиболее устойчивое присутствие среди стран постсоветской Центральной Азии. На основе полевых наблюдений и анализа религиозных практик делается вывод, что в Кыргызстане размежевание пока сохраняет преимущественно латентный характер, однако уже влияет на маршруты религиозной мобильности, локальные иерархии и способы признания авторитета. Исследование показывает, что кыргызстанский случай важен для понимания того, как глобальные исламские сети адаптируются к постсоветскому религиозному и правовому контексту. Ключевые слова: «Таблиги Джамаат» * , Кыргызстан, институциональный раскол, религиозные сети, ислам, даават, машвара, символический капитал. Для цитирования: Мурзахалилов К.С. Институциональный раскол «Таблиги Джамаат»: структурный кризис транснациональной сети // Постсоветские исследования. 2026. Т. 9. № 4. С. 464-479. *1 Здесь и далее упоминается организация, признанная террористической и экстремистской; запрещена в России.

Abstract. The article examines literary texts as empirical material for investigating the system of values of a given society at a particular synchronic stage, since works of fiction provide a comprehensive representation of the overall content of cultural discourse. The study is classified as a theoretical and methodological review, the aim of which is to describe the methods for analysing value systems in literary texts. The author considers literary discourse not only as an aesthetic phenomenon, but also as a socially and culturally significant source within which moral conflicts, normative ideas, models of appropriate behaviour, and hierarchies of meaning are represented. The aim of the article is to systematise and characterise text-centred methods of analysing values and value systems in artistic discourse, outlining their analytical possibilities and limitations. The research defines the semantic scope and differentiates between the key concepts of the study (“values”, “value orientations”, “value system”, “value attitudes”), and outlines the specific features of applying such methods of axiological analysis of literary texts as content analysis, discourse analysis, narrative analysis, sentiment analysis. It has been established that the principal approaches to the cultural interpretation of literary texts include the principles of cognitive-cultural orientation and axiological orientation. Discourse analysis is particularly relevant for examining texts as elements of social reality rather than as autonomous aesthetic artefacts, as well as for analysing the interaction between spoken and written texts and their audiences.
The author concludes that no single method provides a complete and selfsufficient reconstruction of the value system of a literary text. The most productive approach is their integration within a unified text-centred framework, where quantitative identification of evaluative patterns is complemented by discursive, narrative and hermeneutic interpretation.

La década de 1980 fue clave para la consolidación de la industria de los videojuegos. La diversificación de plataformas y títulos existentes, pero también lo
temprano de la época, hacen que este periodo pueda ser estudiado de manera amplia. En el presente texto se abordarán las referencias a la cultura mexicana en los videojuegos de esta época, considerando estos no sólo como productos tecnológicos, sino como dispositivos culturales, cuyo objetivo principal es ser consumidos por el público.
De esta manera, el texto se distancia de los estudios que se limitan a la experiencia lúdica y se centra en el aspecto de la representación y narrativa de sus contenidos. Durante esta búsqueda fueron localizados más de cuarenta títulos con referencias a México, muchos de ellos centrados en temáticas prehispánicas y que representan una visión
exótica y estereotipada de estas culturas. Pese a estar situados en nuestro país, estos juegos nunca fueron pensados para el público mexicano. Los protagonistas de la gran mayoría de estos títulos son hombres blancos que buscan tesoros en ruinas prehispánicas en medio de la jungla. Finalmente, se dedican algunas reflexiones sobre los posibles futuros caminos para construir una historia de los videojuegos en México.

Les chapitres 3 et 4 donnent les deux aspects du désert dans l'AT :-Le domaine du diable (Mt 4). Cf Dt 8,15.-Le domaine où se Dieu se révèle (Mt 3-Baptême de Jésus). Cf Os 2,15-17 Le mot hébreu pour dire « désert » est MiDeBar et le mot « parler » à l'infinitif de l'intensif est MiDaBér. Désert et parole de Dieu vont ensemble dans la même racine. Ce que me semble illustrer Mt 4. Une citation d'Audrey Fallous pour illustrer cela : « On sent bien que ce pouvoir des mots, l'homme ne l'invente pas, il le retrouve seulement après l'épreuve du désert, c'est-à-dire l'annulation de tout a priori, le déconditionnement, la déprogrammation. Le désert, est cet espace qui est absence d'espace, qui fonctionne comme le silence dont la Parole a besoin pour se nourrir pour se construire, pour s'élaborer » (Désert et langage : condition de la liberté ?).

La dimension symbolique du langage est une donnée fondamentale du quatrième évangile : les récits johanniques renvoient, au-delà de leur sens littéral, vers une signification plus profonde, plus théologique pourrait-on dire. Ainsi, chez Jean, les miracles sont désignés comme des « signes » (cf. Jn 20,30-31) : c'est dire qu'au-delà du prodige, ils orientent vers Celui qui les accomplit, qu'ils « signalent » son identité.

La Transfiguration (Marc 9,2-13) 1. Genre littéraire Ce récit surprend dans la trame de l'évangile. Il paraît décalé par rapport au contexte. Marc vient de nous révéler la fin tragique du Fils de l'homme et, juste après, il en décrit une manifestation surnaturelle pour le moins étonnante. Sans doute ce récit at -il eu une existence indépendante de la narration évangélique. En témoigne l'attestation de 2 P 1,16. À quel genre littéraire appartient ce récit ? Il a parfois été considéré comme une « rétroprojection » pascale. Nous aurions affaire à un récit pascal d'apparition du Ressuscité sur une montagne, que l'évangéliste aurait « antidaté » pour des raisons que l'exégèse se doit alors de comprendre. Si l'hypothèse est séduisante (surtout à cause du constat de l'absence de récit de résurrection chez Marc), elle est invérifiable et toujours contestée par une partie des exégètes. Les autres hypothèses proposées sont très diverses et aucune ne semble emporter l'adhésion : scène d'intronisation, vision prophétique, vision apocalyptique, théophanie, midrash ou encore récit cultuel. Il est évidemment difficile de trancher. Faut-il insister sur l'élément de transformation (métamorphose), de vision, de nuée ou d'audition ? Selon les cas, on répondra différemment à la question du genre littéraire et, partant, à celle de la signification originelle du récit. Une chose est certaine, le profond enracinement du récit dans la tradition du Sinaï. On peut énumérer les principaux motifs du récit dont on trouve la trace, en particulier, dans le livre de l'Exode : la montagne (Ex 24,1.12-13) ; les « six jours » (Ex 24,16) ; les trois personnes qui accompagnent (Ex 24,1.9) ; la nuée et la voix (Ex 24,15-17) ; le motif de la crainte (Ex 24,30). Nous aurions ainsi, derrière notre récit, la tradition du Sinaï relative à Moïse médiateur de la Loi. Mais la voix divine et la présence d'Élie orientent également vers une lecture messianique du récit. On est alors proche des traditions apocalyptiques (la nuée et la voix ainsi que la vision elle-même du Transfiguré rappellent les apocalypses). Au final, aucune explication ne permet d'intégrer tous les éléments d'un récit qui échappe à tout emprisonnement dans un cadre trop étroit.

Este artículo emprende un análisis narratológico de una obra clave en la Transición Española, La prima Angélica (Carlos Saura, 1974), a partir de dos ejes expresivos no estudiados hasta la fecha: el flashback y la metalepsis. De la asociación entre ambas figuras acuñamos una noción que las aglutina: el flashback metaléptico. Nuestro propósito es dilucidar las singularidades formales y los efectos semánticos concretos que estos dos recursos originan en el discurso memorístico inferido en este título: confieren a las imágenes un estatuto de falibilidad, además de un carácter reflexivo sobre los procesos mentales del sujeto productor de las remembranzas. Asimismo, queda subrayado el poder transfigurador de las facultades imaginativas, que generan en el espectador un cierto nivel de incertidumbre acerca de los límites entre realidad e imaginación, pero también entre pasado y presente. Por último, estas anomalías esclarecen las distorsiones psicológicas del personaje principal a causa de la represión educativa y emocional sufrida durante su infancia.

Boundaries, as described by , are cultural conventions that separate what is close-on "our side" of the boundary-from what is distant and potentially unapproachable, risky, and problematic. As such, boundaries are partly about distancing practices that have consequences. Indeed, our side of the boundary means us (insiders) as opposed to the Other (outsiders), and crossings such boundaries may pose risks and lead to various problems. Boundaries, therefore, matter. This view has also been taken on board by sport and exercise psychology professionals who, in both research and applied work, operate within and across boundaries. For example, talking about sports injury, signaled that boundaries and the ways psychologists may, in certain circumstances, overstep them are of some relevance to the field of

В книге исследуется, как философское наследие Иммануила Канта стало ключевым интеллектуальным ресурсом для главных поворотов в философии XX в.: исторического, лингвистического, спекулятивного и др. Авторы показывают, что критика Канта не только задала рамки современной рациональности, но и продолжает сохранять баланс между универсальными притязаниями разума и вызовами историзма, релятивизма и языковой обусловленности. Анализируется, как кантовская критика разума стала точкой отсчета для неокантианства, герменевтики, аналитической философии и спекулятивного реализма. Отдельное внимание уделяется диалогу Канта с философами
Античности и Нового времени, рецепции его идей в русской философии. Рассматриваются синтетические априорные суждения,  трансцендентальный схематизм, «коперниканский переворот» и конструктивистские интерпретации кантовской гносеологии, а также исследуется незавершенный поворот от силы к праву, проблематика прогресса и нормативных идеалов в политической философии Канта.
Адресована философам, историкам, культурологам и всем, кто интересуется судьбами европейской рациональности.

Plants are protagonists in the life of Ancient Near Eastern societies, as clearly shown by textual sources and iconography. Often described and interpreted as additional decorative elements or filling motifs, on the contrary, plants define a specific world and environment which not only is affected by the human agency but actually affects human life and condition. The present communication analyses the human-arboreal interplay starting from a different approach and perspective centred on the function and role of plants in the actions, interpretations, and affordances they cause and offer, not exclusively as the result of actions, decisions, and choices of humans.

Studies on mildly impaired speakers with aphasia conducted over the past 30 years have emphasized the clinical  importance of the study of discourse production (Doyle et al. 1998, Armstrong 2000, Olness & Ulatowska 2002,  Wright et al. 2005, Olness et al. 2010, Stark 2010). Since people with aphasia experience particular difficulties in  their everyday communication, the study of their abilities at the discourse level is a natural and objective method  for assessing the communicative effectiveness of these individuals in their everyday life. Moreover, the study of  discourse production can contribute to a more accurate identification of the communication impairments of  speakers with aphasia, as well as to the evaluation of their response to treatment. Among the various discourse  types, narrative discourse has attracted more attention in aphasia research, mainly because the abstract narrative
schema provides an objective framework for the analysis of speakers’ spoken and written productions and their  comparison to healthy controls. Different assessment tools including a variety of measures and elicitation tasks for narrative discourse production have been applied in aphasia research. This paper presents a comprehensive battery for the elicitation and evaluation of narrative discourse in Greek, which can serve as a valid and reliable assessment tool of narrative and communication abilities of speakers with aphasia, but also as a tool for planning effective treatment.

Stories are an important part of organizational life that scholars have studied from many different perspectives. In this paper, we contribute a new way of exploring the meaning of stories. We use a concept from classical rhetoric, the enthymeme, to help reveal the particular underlying "logic" contained in the story form, and we show that the construction of this logic accounts, in part, for the engaging nature of the stories. We show that storytellers use enthymemes in the construction of their stories and also that scholars can use enthymemes to analyze stories). Understanding the enthymeme and its use in the story form enables interpreters to disentangle the argument often embedded in a story and to surface meanings that are implicit and powerful. In this paper, we focus attention on and examine such implicit meanings in four organizational stories of change in two city administrations, in order to illustrate the role of enthymeme in organizational rhetoric.

La cumbia villera ocupa un lugar relevante en los debates sobre cultura popular y representación social en la Argentina contemporánea. Sus letras han sido interpretadas con frecuencia de manera literal o moralizante. Este libro propone un desplazamiento analítico: abordarlas como prácticas discursivas en las que se articulan actores, acciones, evaluaciones y relaciones sociales.

La investigación se apoya en una contextualización histórica y social que sitúa la emergencia de la cumbia villera en procesos más amplios de transformación cultural, con el objetivo de comprender los modos en que estas producciones construyen sentido desde el plano discursivo.
Desde un enfoque que integra análisis del discurso, antropología social y análisis de redes, el texto examina cómo las letras configuran entramados relacionales relativamente estables, en los que se distribuyen posiciones identitarias y se organizan vínculos entre distintos colectivos sociales. El análisis reticular permite modelizar estas configuraciones y detectar regularidades estructurales que no resultan visibles desde lecturas centradas exclusivamente en el contenido temático.

Tejashwari Singh, a marginal but ethically significant character in Harinder Sikka's Calling Sehmat (2018), undergoes the psychological dilemma and quiet sacrifices, etc., which are examined via the critical lenses of feminism, trauma studies, and nationalism. By and large, the major of critical readings focused on the protagonist Sehmat Khan as an espionage heroine during the 1971 India -Pakistan War. This paper deliberately highlights the maternal figure whose emotional fortitude enables the achievement of the nationalist goal. Tejashwari Singh, who grew up in material comfort in Delhi and was born into a rich Punjabi Hindu family. She foregoes privilege to marry Hidayat Khan, a Kashmiri Muslim who is secretly working as an Indian spy. Mother anxiety, widowhood, loneliness, long-term psychological trauma, and physical assault are the hallmarks of her lived experience. Drawing upon feminist and trauma theorists, the paper argues that Tejashwari Singh embodies a form of moral nationalism in which personal happiness is subordinated to the survival of the nation. This paper concludes that the novel Calling Sehmat is not only an espionage narrative but a great reminder of women’s invisible sacrifices in nationalist goals.

John 7:1-13, which is composed of two passages serves as an introduction to the fourth major section of the gospel of John (7:1–11:53). Chapters 7–8 could be read as a whole as they include a unity of time (the Feast of the Booths), place (the Temple) and action (Jesus’ teaching). In 7:1-13 one finds Jesus on his way to the Temple for the Feast of Booths. In the first passage (7:1-9) the brothers of Jesus encourage Jesus to go to the feast, but Jesus refuses. In the second passage, he goes «as if in secret» (7:10-13). In this
paper, one finds an interpretation to Jesus’ change in mind, especially through a detailed analysis of the glory of God in the Johannine corpus and the use of the word kairos.

The Old Testament prophets spoke to a world craving meaning, much like ours today. They called out Israel’s wrongs – broken relationships with God, people, nature and themselves – while presenting a vision of ‘shalom’: true flourishing. They showed how sin disrupts life and how God longs to restore it. Their words resonate with questions of flourishing in the contemporary world, especially Charles Taylor’s understanding of ‘fullness’. In a Christian reading of the prophets, they point to Jesus as the answer to our deepest desires for connection and wholeness in a fragmented world. This paper invites the Church to draw more deeply on the prophets and their message to commend the gospel in an age when many look for ‘fullness’ but cannot find it.

Este ensayo parte de una inquietud que me ha acompañado durante varios años de docencia y de trabajo con profesores de educación básica en la región de Puno. ¿Por qué muchos docentes, a pesar de manejar muy bien las técnicas didácticas, muestran tantas dificultades para cuestionar el conocimiento que enseñan? A lo largo del texto, intento mostrar que la formación inicial de profesores ha priorizado los aspectos procedimentales en desmedro de una reflexión seria sobre qué es el conocimiento, cómo se construye y cuáles son sus límites. Apoyándome en autores como Bachelard, Kuhn, Freire y Morin, sostengo que esta ausencia de pensamiento epistemológico genera profesionales eficientes desde el punto de vista técnico, pero frágiles a la hora de tomar postura frente a los contenidos que imparten. Propongo, entonces, recuperar ciertas categorías como el error, la duda y la ruptura epistemológica como ejes formativos. Si no formamos profesores capaces de pensar por sí mismos sobre lo que saben, difícilmente podremos tener una escuela que forme estudiantes críticos.

Current efforts to promote STEAM (STEM + Arts) education focus predominantly on how partnering with the arts provides a range of benefits to STEM students. Here we take a different IJEA Vol. 16 No. 15 http://www.ijea.org/v16n15/ 2 approach and focus on what art and art education students stand to gain from collaborating with STEM students. Drawing on a variety of student field texts, we present three visual-verbal, constructed narratives of art education students who, in the context of a transdisciplinary design studio, were challenged to experiment with collaborative forms of creative thinking. Their stories point to STEAM as an opportunity for art students to question the notion of the ‘lone artist,’ reflect upon the tension between product and process, and expand disciplinary-based understandings of creative thinking. These potential benefits align with contemporary visual arts practices that strive to move beyond the individual and embrace dialogue, collaborative action, and int...

the concept of system was only possible when memories began to be seen simultaneously and no longer as a continuous succession of memories that form the history of the world. This text aims to articulate the two concepts through the theoretical interweaving of different sources. The result is that the approach reveals both the advantages and disadvantages of systemic thinking in relation to applied social sciences and human sciences in general.

Často sa stáva, že keď človek stojí pred novým, a to úplne novým, dostáva sa do zvláštnej paralýzy. Niečo podobné sa deje aj pri stretnutí s novým v umení. Pri veľkých dielach sa zdá, akoby pretekali významom a obklopovali nás. Stoja pred nami ako výzva na zmenu myslenia, pretože predchádzajúce pojmy a kategórie nám nestačia. Cieľom tohto textu bude pomenovať a pochopiť tento vzťah medzi tým, čo nás akoby zastihlo nepripravených, čiže pred novou skúsenosťou s umeleckým dielom, a medzi jeho "percipientom". A keďže sa tento text bude snažiť pohybovať čisto na poli fenomenológie, zameriame sa primárne na túto skúsenosť, presnejšie-na interpretačnú skúsenosť. takéto radikálne a transformujúce stretnutie budeme chápať ako udalosť. táto štúdia sa zároveň bude snažiť problematizovať sebachápanie človeka v zmysle pevnej subjektivity, čo je tradícia pochádzajúca minimálne z novovekej filozofie, pričom jej najvýraznejším predstaviteľom bol René Descartes. táto tradícia pritom bola živá ešte vo filozofii Edmunda Husserla a do istej miery aj u raného Martina Heideggera a Hansa-Georga Gadamera. Práve voči nim (a Descartovi a Kantovi) sa čiastočne vyhraňovala vplyvná skupina neskorších fenomenológov (medzi nimi aj samotný Heidegger, ale až vo fáze po obrate), Henri Maldiney, spomínaný Jean-Luc Marion a Claude Romano. Títo fenomenológovia sa snažili vo svojich dielach oživiť opak-čiže presah významu neseného udalosťou, ktorá konštituuje myslenie človeka. Zameriame sa teda na reflexiu obratu v hermeneutickej fenomenológii, ktorý súvisí s pojmom udalosť, a práve cez tento pojem sa pokúsime diskutovať s hermeneutickou interpretačnou skúsenosťou Hansa-Georga Gadamera (ktorý vychádza práve z raného Heideggera).

Objectives The beliefs and expectations people bring into mindfulness practice can affect the measurement outcomes of interventions. The aim of this mixed-method study was to examine the key beliefs in the powers of mindfulness—understood as non-judgmental awareness of the present moment—to transform the individual and the society, and to develop and validate the Belief in the Powers of Mindfulness Scale (BPMS). Method In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with mindfulness meditators (n = 32), including follow-up interviews (n = 22). Qualitative data were analysed through a thematic narrative approach. Participants (n = 458) completed a questionnaire that included the new scale. Results Participants’ key beliefs were thematically analysed in three transformation themes: interpersonal relationships and compassion, peace and violence, and the inner world—themes were encapsulated in the BPMS. Ideas presented in each theme were undergirded by a host of ideologies, epistemi...

Este artigo analisa o uso do Facebook por líderes da oposição política em três regimes autoritários africanos: Adalberto Costa Júnior (Angola), Venâncio Mondlane (Moçambique) e Bobi Wine (Uganda). Os três líderes concorreram em processos eleitorais recentes, autoproclamaram-se vencedores com base em contagens paralelas e apoio popular massivo, mas não ascenderam ao poder em contextos marcados por governos instalados desde a independência e pelo controle estatal das instituições democráticas. A pesquisa examina como o Facebook se constitui simultaneamente como espaço de mobilização política e arena de cidadania digital em ambientes onde a mídia tradicional encontra-se sob severas restrições. Através de uma abordagem comparativa fundamentada nos conceitos de esfera pública digital, contrapúblicos subalternos, autoritarismo digital e comunicação política em rede, o estudo demonstra que as redes sociais, particularmente o Facebook, emergem como instrumentos estratégicos de resistência democrática, permitindo aos líderes oposicionistas contornar a censura estatal, estabelecer comunicação direta com os cidadãos e construir narrativas políticas alternativas aos discursos oficiais. A análise revela as especificidades contextuais de cada país em termos de participação digital, engajamento cívico e estratégias de repressão governamental, evidenciando tanto as potencialidades emancipatórias quanto às limitações estruturais das plataformas digitais como espaços de contestação política em regimes autoritários africanos.

Palavras-chave: Redes sociais. Oposição política. Autoritarismo. África. Facebook. Cidadania digital.

Preface by Richard Dolan. 

High Strangeness is a radical work. It weaves together threads from the fields of history, religion, psychology, physics, and philosophy in an attempt to provide an objective understanding of our reality. Its subject is controversial, having been blindly accepted by some and categorically denied and derided by others, both of which groups seem to lack the attitude of healthy skepticism, critical thought, and open scientific inquiry that befits a true philosopher.  Knight-Jadczyk proposes a multilevel perspective of the universe, challenging the widely held unilevel worldview. Put simply, our natural conceptual understanding of the world is conditioned by our species-specific perceptual apparatus and the experience of everyday life. It operates as if the world is simply as we see and experience it; if we do not see something and thus cannot subject it to analysis, then it must not exist. Intrinsic to this natural worldview is the perception of time as strictly linear. We see reality on a single “level”—the visible universe—that changes and evolves over time (evolution being a process whereby matter becomes more complex and increasingly more conscious). This view is in opposition to that of a multilevel universe that is experienced subjectively, i.e., according to the perceptual limits of a specific unit of consciousness. Hyperdimensional physics posits “higher” levels of reality than those perceptible to us, and time that is non-linear. Levels, as such, are not temporal stages—they are not necessarily related to, or limited to, periods of time—they exist simultaneously.

The article focuses on the analysis of the concept of multimodality in the context of zombiecentric stories. The article attempts to indicate the variety of narrative techniques in works a priori perceived as belonging to a lower aesthetic category due to their common (though unfounded) inclusion in the horror genre. Various aspects of multimodality, expressed in the visual dimension (e.g. typographic or illustrative) or in the use of focalization, were subjected to close analysis. These aesthetic procedures are employed not only to depart from the cliché plot schemas of zombie pandemic, but are also used for worldbuilding as tools enabling construction of credible and deeply immersive communications. The high creative competence of the authors of zombie-centric narratives attests to the research potential these texts have to offer.

This study examines the problem of visibility shaped under conditions of political repression in Iranian cinema within the framework of Gilles Deleuze’s “time-image” approach and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “crisis of representation” discussions. Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation (2011) and Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Tehran (2015) were analyzed using a theoretically grounded comparative thematic analysis method. The study argues that cinema produced under a regime of repression is not merely composed of a homogeneous oppositional language, but offers multi-layered responses oscillating between poetic ambiguity and direct political disclosure. The findings reveal that Farhadi, through his “open image” approach, structures the gaps created by censorship as a space of ethical ambiguity and repositions the silence of middle-class characters before the law within the scope of the concept of “ethical subalternity.” Conversely, it is observed that Panahi, employing a “meta-reality” strategy that consciously blurs the boundaries between documentary and fiction, transforms the camera into a recording apparatus functioning in a context where the law is suspended. In this framework, it is concluded that both directors develop forms of counter-representation that challenge the regime of singular truth imposed by the state, established on different planes but complementing each other.

This article proposes an interdisciplinary reflection between the philosophy of consciousness and the foundations of quantum mechanics, starting from the premise of the fundamental non-existence of linear time. Through the analysis of Hugh Everett's Interpretation of Many Worlds and the concept of the arrow of time as an emergent phenomenon, it explores how human consciousness navigates a multiverse of constant ramifications. Under the gaze of the architecture of thought, the study concludes that ethics and presence become the pillars of anchorage in a cosmos where all possibilities coexist simultaneously.

This paper sheds light on the interactive process in which religious practitioners work to achieve states that appear to contradict individual agency. Drawing on ethnographic studies of Buddhist meditation retreats and Torah study in a Haredi yeshiva, we track the delicate balance between 'doing religion' (active engagement) and 'being done by religion" (experiencing religious forces as taking over). In Torah study, students move from vigorous textual debate to submission to 'divine thinking' through group partnerships. In Buddhist meditation, practitioners shift from conscious bodily performance to passive synchronization, enabling embodied submission to 'ultimate reality.' Both cases reveal how practitioners create interactive spaces where religious submission unfolds as both deeply personal and transcendently powerful. The paradox at the heart of this process, that practitioners must exercise agency to achieve states that appear to negate it, illuminates how religious doctrines become personalized through embodied practice, offering insights into the accomplished nature of religious experience.

This paper explores the transformation of human attention into a strategic resource in the digital age. It argues that modern societies are increasingly organised around emotional engagement, algorithmic stimulation, and perceptual competition rather than traditional structures of geography or industry. The paper introduces the distinction between signal and noise as a framework for understanding informational instability in the age of artificial intelligence, social media, and infinite content distribution. It further examines how AI systems accelerate narrative production, emotional amplification, and cognitive fragmentation while simultaneously creating unprecedented educational opportunities. Ultimately, the paper argues that clarity, filtering ability, and cognitive discipline may become the defining human advantages of the twenty-first century.

يُعدّ كتاب آن-ليندا أميرة أوغستن “نضال جنوب اليمن من أجل الاستقلال: أجيال من المقاومة” دراسةً إثنوغرافيةً رصينةً وموثّقةً توثيقاً دقيقاً، تتناول واحدةً من أقلّ الحركات السياسية المعاصرة في العالم العربي حظّاً من البحث والدراسة. وُلد هذا العمل من رحم انخراطٍ استمرّ عقداً من الزمن مع الحركة النضالية في جنوب اليمن (الحراك الجنوبي)، وتجذّر في السيرة الثقافية المزدوجة للمؤلفة الألمانية-الجنوبية. يستقصي الكتابُ سؤالاً محورياً: لماذا ينخرط شبابٌ جنوبيون لم يعيشوا تجربة جمهورية اليمن الديمقراطية الشعبية (1967-1990) في نضالٍ سياسي باسمها وفي سبيل استعادتها؟ وتحاول أوغستن الإجابة عن هذا السؤال المركزي من خلال تطوير مفهوم نظري أصيل تُسمّيه “المقاومة عبر الأجيال”، وهي آليةٌ تنتقل عبرها سرديةٌ مضادة للواقع المفروض بالقوة من جيلٍ إلى آخر، فتُحيي حركةَ استقلالٍ وتُغذّيها حتى تشتعل. والحصيلةُ عملٌ غنيٌّ يجمع بين الجرأة المنهجية والعمق النظري، ويُسهم إسهاماً ملموساً في علم الاجتماع السياسي ونظرية الحركات الاجتماعية ودراسات الشرق الأوسط، وإن ظلّ - من وجهة نظر الباحثين - مفتوحاً على تساؤلاتٍ جدية حول الموقع البحثي ونطاق الدراسة وتوازنها التحليلي.

Dans sa migrance à l’écran, le texte littéraire se fond dans un nouveau système de signification où le signe linguistique se transforme en un signe double, iconique et sonore, donnant ainsi naissance à une nouvelle création. Comment, à partir de cette définition moderne  de l’adaptation cinématographique peut-on théoriser le transfert de la métaphore littéraire au cinéma en sachant que le fait métaphorique est un élément incontournable de l’écriture narrative et un aspect fondamental de la mise à l’écran du récit littéraire.
Mots-clé : littérature, cinéma, stylistique, transposition.

Our civilization’s interference in nature is the source of numerous ecological problems. This study will employ a genealogical methodology to examine the “man’s dominion over nature” approach, which is deeply rooted in Western culture. The underlying aim of genealogical research is to understand contemporary reality by means of the reinterpretation of the past. Through this new interpretation, we will reveal the deep religious and cultural foundations, grounded in Judeo-Christian monotheism, of the pro-dominion attitude to nature. This article’s genealogical-exegetical analysis of central religious texts aims to contribute to our cultural understanding of the present. Deeply rooted constructs, originating in religious life, tend to remain in the culture even after its secularization. Following our examining the roots of the concept and the mental constructs that it created, we will turn to consider the first cracks in this ancient narrative. A close consideration of the development ...

This article examines how migrants who traveled the Balkan Route use joint revenge fantasizing to make sense of border violence and reassign criminality to state actors. Based on minimally structured group conversations recorded in Trieste, Italy, it analyzes joint fantasizing as a collective narrative practice rather than an incidental expression of shared frustration. It identifies three mechanism families-symbolic reversal of hierarchies, collective moral tribunal, and contained transgressive catharsis-that show how imagined counter-violence may function as "impossible harm": morally saturated yet structurally blocked from enactment. Revenge fantasies among structurally marginalized groups are conceptualized as harm-related storytelling that exposes and contests state and border violence. Joint revenge fantasizing emerges as a mode of impossible harm through which migrants symbolically reassign criminality to state actors while keeping counter-violence in the imaginative realm. In this way, the article extends narrative criminology beyond its offender-centered, event-focused inheritance by foregrounding imagination, interaction, and lived narrative practices in contexts of border violence.

The mother-daughter relationship constitutes a central thematic concern in the works of numerous contemporary female Persian fiction writers, including Mahshid Amirshāhi’s tetralogy, Mothers and Daughters (1998-2010), Belgheis Soleimāni’s Those Mothers, These Daughters (2018), and the fiction of Ghazāleh Alizādeh, Zoyā Pirzād, Faribā Vafi, and Atieh Attārzādeh, among others. Although mother has long been a prominent and venerated figure in Persian literary tradition - dating back to the Shāhnāmeh - what is noteworthy in these contemporary works is the representation of motherhood from the daughter’s perspective. In the present study, I investigate how this narrative shift enables women writers to engage in critical self-reflection, rethink and re-envision motherhood, revisit history, and articulate socio-cultural transformations by “thinking back through [their] mothers”, to borrow Virginia Woolf’s phrase from A Room of One’s Own. My study investigates how Iranian women writers depict and respond to the ambivalent interplay of identification and differentiation between mother and daughter. Extending the inquiry from thematic analysis to questions of form, I further explore how the dynamics of the mother-daughter encounters challenge conventional narrative structures and contribute to the development of distinctive poetics in contemporary Persian women’s fiction.