« Never Meet Your Heroes ». Généalogie cinématographique et matrice science-fictionnelle dans The Boys by Thomas Carrier-Lafleur, Baptiste Creps

“…Similarly, the authors will show how the use of the science- fictional imaginary, notably through the use of the film-matrix Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981), composes a clear genealogical source while, at the same time, The Boys renews its relationship to cinephilic memory and to media and political criticism in a formal synthesis of New Hollywood.…”
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Les nouveaux intellectuels religieux saoudiens : le Wahhabisme en question by Stéphane Lacroix

“…We will finally examine the limits of this critique: while the regime can, if it suits its temporary interests, tolerate, and even encourage, a degree of religious criticism, it cannot let this criticism turn into what many of these intellectuals consider as its natural corollary, i.e. political criticism.…”
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Le Désert comme scène de l’avoir lieu : Robert Smithson et Noah Purifoy by Antonia Rigaud

“…This article discusses two iconic desert interventions : Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Art Museum, in order to bring forward the art history debates of the time, moving away from formalist criticism towards more socio-political criticism. By confronting the way these two artists conceive of sculpture in the desert, this article seeks to cross perspectives and to explore what a contextual reading of Purifoy’s work can bring to our reading of Smithson’s and, conversely, how a formalist criticism of Smithson’s art can help bring Purifoy away from the marginal space he has too long been assigned.…”
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Local Culture: Curation as an Ethnographic Process in the Contemporary Cuban Art Scene by Celia Irina González

“…In concrete terms, the study centres on an exhibition called Cultura Autóctona, with the objective of understanding the contemporary Cuban art scene and its repercussions for the production of practices involved in its politically critical social context. The design of the exhibition and curation process has contributed elements to the current debate within visual anthropology: understanding of the image as a process of inter-relation, more than of description.…”
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Un Wanderer insolite cherche son chemin by Arlette Kosch

“…Behind the humour in the foreground of this caricature can be discerned not only literary banter but also structural and political criticisms that turn this strange wanderer into the personification of a possible change in the social paradigm.…”
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Examining the Collection "Akhar e Shahnameh" by Mehdi Akhavan Sales from the Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis by Bahador Bagheri, Mohamad Rezaie, Ali Mollamohammadi

“…"Critical Discourse Analysis" is a scientific and interdisciplinary approach that is rooted in critical linguistics and its main purpose is to study the use of language in society and politics. Critical discourse analysis deals with literature as communication texts through stylistics, literary criticism, and text analysis studies. …”
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Transmedial presence of verbal texts in architecture and public space. Between informativity and emotivity by Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska

“…They range from informational and explanatory, to devotional, to political–critical, to – in the end – poetic, experimental, creative, funny, and ironical. …”
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An Analysis of Lexical Coherence in Fereydoun Tavallali’s Al-Tafasil from the perspective of functional Linguistics by Gholamreza Salimi, Zahra Rafie, Alireza Biaban Navard Sarvestani

“…Tavallali has thus deepened the internal coherence of the text with an enhancement of musicality and tone and has aligned the language with his political, critical and revolutionary goals.…”
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