This poster will focus on the participatory play Revelations by Toronto-based theatre creators Anahita Dehbonehie, Griffin McInnes and Aidan Morishita-Miki presented as part of Kingston’s Kick & Push Festival in summer 2020. The show used game mechanics to have us prepare for apocalypse- but not one we were living height COVID-19 pandemic, potential future nuclear apocalypse. first half inv...

Des personnages en phase terminale de cancer (Les jours viennent et passent Hemley Boum Explication la nuit d’Edem Awumey) aux souffrant du sida (Cueillez-moi, jolis Messieurs Bessora), il semble bien que, depuis le génocide tutsi 1994, roman postcolonial francophone se met au chevet malades. Ce nouvel infléchissement a été très peu lu par critique africaine qui préféré y voir un effet extrême ...

The article offers a comparative analysis of two outstanding texts culture: Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola and Undivine Comedy Zygmunt Krasiński in relation to their multifaceted renditions the apocalypse motif. text looks at these works from different perspectives examining protagonists, settings forms. presents revision revolutionary potential within outside romantic paradigm. It also...

www.ums.ac.uk deals with commonly used and abused drugs. They describe socially acceptable drugs such as alcohol, nicotine and caffeine; abused prescription drugs, such as steroids and analgesics and sedatives; and illicit substances, such as, Ecstasy, cocaine and hallucinogens. The drugs are discussed in terms of pharmacological class, common slang names, pharmacological effect (“The Buzz”), r...

This article examines representations of the PaciŽ c in the Ž lm Rapa Nui, in articles from National Geographic, and in the academic debate on cannibalism as epitomized by Marshall Sahlins’ and Gananath Obeyesekere’s discussion of Cook’s fate in Hawaii. While the area is typically the location of an Edenic paradise, in these texts it becomes the locus of apocalypse ending in cannibalism. Furthe...