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Summary: "A Blueprint for Survival begins in wildfire season, charting a long-distance relationship against the increasing urgency of climate change in the boreal, then shifts to a long sequence, "Seeds," which thinks about forms of resistance, survival, and emergence in the context of the sixth mass extinction. Each seed functions as blueprint, whether simple human-made tool or complex organism driven by its DNA to adapt to and respond to our current existential threat, each showing a different way of being in the world: lentil, snowdrop, chinook salmon, codex, tardigrade, honeybee, "the beautiful cell.""-- Provided by publisher.

Affect, the archive, and the Minerva Press

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Conference paper presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, Ontario (April, 2024).

The problem with competition in early modern England

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Presented at the Research Café on May 9, 2024.

Charlotte Montefiore, Marion Hartog, and Jewish women's periodical publishing

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Amid the robust market in Victorian Anglo-Jewish periodicals, only two were edited by women: Charlotte Montefiore's Cheap Jewish Library: Dedicated to the Working Classes (1841–49) and Marion Hartog's Jewish Sabbath Journal: A Penny and Moral Magazine for the Young (1855). Their contrasting fortunes reveal the challenges of female editorship of religious periodicals and clarify implicit Anglo-Jewish attitudes about the parameters of Jewish identity. Intolerance toward women's theological interventions and a preference for framing the identity of British Jews in nationalist terms within a wider international Jewish public sphere determined the fates of these two women-edited periodicals.

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In an 1886 piece of travel journalism written for the London-based periodical The Jewish Chronicle, the Anglo-Jewish writer Amy Levy records some brief, witty observations on the history and current conditions of the Jewish ghetto at Florence. By writing from the narrative perspective of a self-identifying English Jew, Levy addresses in “The Ghetto at Florence” a history of Jewish exclusion and confinement represented by the ghetto, while also using this site to engage her complex attitudes towards Jewishness in the mid-1880s, in London. Rather than an accurate history of place, however, what is foregrounded in her article is self-reflexivity about ways of seeing and the effects of memory. This paper examines her uses of imaginative representation, race science, and the photographic gaze to attempt a tactile and affective encounter with the ghetto. In occupying a vexed space between extreme openness to imagined historical resonances alongside ironic detachment from the inadequacies of the present moment, she embodies the characteristically isolated subjectivity of the flâneur. She does so while contemplating the role of Jewishness in using the past to make sense of modern identity.

Comics are the new everyday aesthetic and socio-cultural paradigm

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Much of our daily interaction with electronic devices is dominated by the same process for reading and interpreting that we apply when engaging with comics. In fact, most of our engagement with the World Wide Web and the construction of that space is based upon the spatial and organizational design principles, the combination of words and images, found most often in comics. Nearly every computer-based interface we encounter, with some exceptions, owes a great deal to the design elements common to comics and comic book production. At the same time, much of the socio-cultural construction of digital making–app development, industrial design, corporate structures, and digital dogma–is a reflection of those practices common to the early socio-cultural paradigms of comic book production.

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Alongside her meditations on Jewish practice and history, Grace Aguilar (1816–47) also wrote stories devoid of Jewish content and advised her female readers to ‘look to [their] English Bibles’. Consequently, contemporaries and critics have claimed that her work assimilates Evangelical literary models. The trope of women’s reading in her fiction, however, and the theorisation of this practice in The Spirit of Judaism (1842) indicates that for Aguilar, valorising women’s capacity for textual interpretation works to defend against apostasy, thus improving the status of the Jews in Protestant England.

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