NARRATIVES OF VIOLENCE: The White ImagiNation and the Making of Black Masculinity in â•œCity of Godâ•š

The Dependency of Colorimetric Characteristics of Black Fabrics to the Whiteness Attribute of Substrate

In this paper the effect of whiteness attribute of white substrates on blackness property of black coated fabrics is investigated. To this aim, four cotton fabrics with different whiteness and tint attributes are used as white substrates. To prepare a set of black samples, various concentrations of four color pigments, i.e., red, green, blue and yellow, were mixed with the black one and applied...

Responsible Integration of Biological and Psychosocial Models: Comments on â•œGenetic Associations with Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Hazardous Drinking Men in Batterer Intervention Programsâ•š

Explaining the Level of Human Thought in the Parallel Civilizations Based on Formal Structure and Visual Imagination Formed in Mythical Narratives

Myth, like any other form of narrative, has an undeniable role in visual imagination based on the foundations of mythical thought. Ernst Cassirer, by recovering the fundamental principles of mythical thought, brings against them to the foundations of contemporary rational thought and defines the fundamental features of mythical thought as compared to modern rational thought. He also believes t...

Debating sustainable development in global climate change policy: The â•œCancÃon agreementsâ•š v. the â•œPeopleâ•Žs agreement of Cochabambaâ•š

Working Stiff(s) on Reality Television during the Great Recession

This essay traces some of the narratives and cultural politics of work on reality television after the economic crash of 2008. Specifically, it discusses the emergence of paid labor shows like Ax Men, Black Gold and Coal and a resurgent interest in working bodies at a time when the working class in the US seems all but consigned to the dustbin of history. As an implicit response to the crisis o...