THE HUMANITIES AS CONTRADICTION: AGAINST THE NEW ENCLOSURES

The Humanities as Contradiction: Against the New Enclosures

This essay begins by Band File surveying our current moment in the humanities, diagnosing the language of crisis that frames much of the discourse about them.It argues that the crisis is a manufactured economic one not a symbolic one.The problems with many recent proposals—such as the new aestheticism, surface reading, and postcritique—

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Application of the Theory of Critical Distance (TCD) to the Breakage of Cardboard Cutting Blades in Al7075 Alloy

The study presented in this paper was undertaken in response to two instances of unexpected blade breakage in the cutting blade used in a Carton Wrap machine (CW).Failure of the Al7075 alloy blade occurred at an indentation during typical operational loading conditions.Subsequent metallographic examinations of the fractured samples confirmed that b

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Violations of Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion by the Russian Federation as the Occupying Power in Crimea

Considering modern weaponization of media and extensive experience of Russia in employing the propaganda machine, further attacks and trespasses against the freedom of expression and freedom of religion in order to suppress dissent in the occupied territory are to be expected.In accordance with the reports of international organizations and non-gov

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Squeezed Interstitial Water and Soil Properties in Pleistocene Blue Clays under Different Natural Environments

Studies dating almost a century relate clay properties with the structure of the diffuse double layer (DDL), where the charged surfaces of clay crystal behave like an electric capacitor, whose dielectric is the interstitial fluid.The intensity of the inner electric field relates to the concentration and type of ions in the DDL.Other important impli

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