#academic text

[multapohja966]

hey does anyone have that academic quote about how heterosexual male culture is only straight in the sense that they engage in sex with women, but all their love, admiration and companionship is reserved to other men aka you could word it as homoromantic. I need it for somethin

[the-picture-of-eve]

Matter fell from grace during the twentieth century. It became mortal. Very soon after that it was murdered, exploded at its core, torn to shreds, blown to smithereens. The smallest of smallest bits, the heart of the atom, was broken apart with a violence that made the earth and the gods quake. In an instant, in a flash of light brighter than a thousand suns, the distance between Heaven and Earth was obliterated – not merely imaginatively crossed by Newton’s natural theophilosophy, but physically crossed out by a mushroom cloud reaching into the stratosphere. ‘I am become death, the destroyer of worlds’.

Karen Barad in ‘Troubling Time/s and Ecologies of Nothingness: Re-Turning, Re-Membering, and Facing the Incalculable’, p. 64.

[megnolia-harrison]

It's either: Read academic text: wish I'd lose the ability to read

Or

Read academic text: lose my ability to read

No in between 🤷🏾‍♀️

[deducemyheart]

My linguistics textbook attempting to explain the phenomenon that is memes is actually hilarious

[thosefunnyones]

[vegan-childrens-stories]

Book Review: Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era, by Sarat Colling

Book Review: Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era, by Sarat Colling

Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era is an academic text book filled with examples of animal resistance. These individuals’ stories will profoundly touch the reader’s heart and prove that the billions of people* kept by mainstream society as slaves, and murdered when they are no longer useful, are as desperate to escape their bonds as any of us would be in their situation. * I define…

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[ufedhin]

Representation and Perception: The Dilettanti and their Portraits

Representation and Perception: The Dilettanti and their Portraits

The Society of Dilettanti, a dining society that originated in the 18th century, influenced history on such a scale that aftereffects can still be seen and felt today.

Trying try to describe this Society in only a few words would be a naïve attempt to summarize a group of people who differed greatly in some aspects of their personalities, education, attitudes, and generations. Nevertheless,…

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[ufedhin]

On viral women and the exploitation of news values in online news discourse

On viral women and the exploitation of news values in online news discourse

1. Introduction

Especially in recent years, online media has become increasingly influential in how audiences receive and perceive news stories. This, of course, can be traced back to the increasing numbers of people that use the internet on a regular basis and the increasing number of people that can be reached that way. It seems that with an ever-growing audience, in order to reach even more…

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