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Ancestrofuturism: Enchantment, Confluence, Vital Energy, and Living Writing

In this Case Study, Afro-Brazilian oral and literary traditions are introduced to an English-speaking audience through the lens of ancestrofuturism—a framework that bridges ancestral wisdom and future imaginaries—to demonstrate how Afro-Indigenous cosmologies resist necropolitical violence by redefining temporality, culture, and identity. Through the prism of Ailton Krenak’s ancestrofuturism, this Case Study examines the film Bacurau…

Provenance-by-Design for Humanities Databases

This insight uses gender data as a case study to examine practices of representing provenance information in digital humanities databases. It argues that, in the development of FAIR-compliant database systems, the emphasis on reusability and interoperability should not overshadow interpretability. This insight suggests that a “provenance-by-design” approach should be used by digital humanities projects, researchers,…

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Phantom Pregnancy and Phenomenology in Decameron viii. 3 and ix. 3

This insight explores two stories from Boccaccio’s Decameron, both featuring the character of Calandrino, through the lens of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. It argues that the comedy of both tales relies upon a disjuncture between what Merleau-Ponty terms the ‘lived body’ and the ‘objective body’. This phenomenological conception of embodiment is then used to explore the ways…

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