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Journal of Contemporary Humanism
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Issue 6 (Winter 2017)

  • Glen Phillips / Creativity

    HARD BITTEN (or, on Making Poetry Great Again)

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  • Nicolò Panzeri / Visual Art

    Sătŭra

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  • Alessandra Sarchi / Creativity

    The Swimmer

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  • Melinda Smith / Creativity

    The other manual | Considering Lake Canobolas | There will be

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  • Luis Ramos / Criticism

    Art as Cultural Diplomacy: The Politics of Exhibiting Mexico’s Revolutionary Modernism in MEXIQUE 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco et les avant-gardes

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  • Sophie Curzon-Siggers / Creativity

    vocali in scambio | canto dei plurali | catalogo degli acquai

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  • Nathan Shepherdson / Creativity

    a ladder cannot be convinced to climb down from itself | red-prayered | pear | peach

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  • Justin Randolph Thompson / Criticism

    Question the Answers…all of them

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  • Renata Carloni / Criticism

    Note sulla questione del genere nella lingua Italiana

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  • Matteo Sansone / Criticism

    Pierrot: A Silent Witness of Changing Times

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HARD BITTEN (or, on Making Poetry Great Again)

Creativity

Glen Phillips

Issue 6 (Winter 2017)

Media bites proliferate like malarial mosquito bites— from playschool we have passed to the play place of our kitchens which rule a world where bedrooms merely twitter. Twice bitten you might say when another sound-bite …

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Question the Answers…all of them

Criticism

Justin Randolph Thompson

Issue 6 (Winter 2017)

I am deeply happy to contribute to this cause, which must concern everyone who stands for freedom progressive democracy and for humanity. Today the artist cannot hold himself aloof. Through the destruction in certain countries …

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The other manual | Considering Lake Canobolas | There will be

Creativity

Melinda Smith

Issue 6 (Winter 2017)

The other manual check your equipment for signs of wear and procure back-ups if needed bolt as many doors as possible (or wedge chairs under the handles) there is the note of course – a …

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Note sulla questione del genere nella lingua Italiana

Criticism

Renata Carloni

Issue 6 (Winter 2017)

1. Una nota personale Mi si permetta di iniziare con una breve nota di carattere personale-politico per spiegare come è nato il mio interesse a questo tema. Negli anni Settanta ho partecipato al movimento delle …

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Current Issue

  • STEFANO ADAMO | When Democracy turns against itself: Populism and the myth of direct democracy
  • MAGDA BOGIN | Excerpt from Suppose It Begins Here
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  • FRANCESCO LEVY | Azimuths of Celestial Bodies
  • ERIK LINDNER | I remember | A stairway leads into the sea | Ostend | If I’m lost for words
  • NADIA MIFSUD | autunno 1 | no, non è vero che la terra è tonda (per S.) | esilio/asilo per suleiman
  • NICOLE ROBINSON | The Privilege of Watching Neighborhood Baseball | What the Bones Say | America, 2017
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  • MARNIE RORHOLM | Cultural Visibility of the Pink Triangle: Examining Gay Germany through a Global Leadership Lens
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  • BRADLY DEVER TREADAWAY | Booked for Safekeeping: A multi-generational exploration of Community Policing and Mental Illness

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About the journal

Deadline for the forthcoming issue: April 30.

The recent authoritarian turn in global politics—from Brazil to the United States and from Turkey to the Philippines– has caused great consternation in the humanities and social sciences. Coupled with the resurgence of old and new racisms and an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment, this shift has prompted scholars to rethink previously held assumptions about democracy in the twenty-first- century. Probing its underlying causes, scholars across disciplines are calling into question the intellectual foundations of modern democracy—foundations rooted in renaissance humanism and enlightenment political thought. To quote one observer, is the age of humanism over?

In other words, has the rational subject of renaissance humanism and enlightenment modernity given way to a new subject defined by unbridled market values and commodified human relations? Or rather, does the current proliferation of authoritarian and neoliberal state actors merely signal the dark underside of the philosophical discourse of modernity as others have previously suggested? Similarly, are we witnessing the birth pangs of a new world order characterized by overt forms of domination? Alternately, how can a renewed and critical understanding of the humanist and enlightenment philosophical traditions serve to confront the virulent forms of violence and exclusion that characterize the shifting geopolitical landscape? In short, what are the philosophical and literary resources available to artists and intellectuals seeking to grapple with the erosion of democratic norms in contemporary modes of governance?

Voyages: Journal of Contemporary Humanism seeks to become a forum for debate on these questions, asking whether this pessimism is justified, where its sources and logic stem from, and most importantly, how humanism, past and present, can serve as a vehicle for resolving the problems facing the world today.

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