In this article, I explore questions of laboratory animal agency in dialogue with Thalia Field’s literary text “Experimental Animals: A Reality Fiction” (2016). Using the framework “care” (understood, following María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017, as a multi-dimensional concept comprising affect, ethics, and practice), consider how synaesthetic descriptions suffering create an affective response re...

This paper argues for a robust notion of collective identity which is not reduced to a psychological conception of identity. In a first part the debate on the concept of identity raised by several authors is taken up critically with the intention to defend a strong sociological conception of identity which by definition is a collective identity. The basic assumption is that collective identitie...

Research on storytelling over the last 100 years has distinguished at least two levels of narrative representation (1) story, or fabula; and (2) discourse, or sujhet. We use this distinction to create Fabula Tales, a computational framework for a virtual storyteller that can tell the same story in different ways through the implementation of general narratological variations, such as varying di...

We describe the N2 (Narrative Networks) Corpus, a new language resource. The corpus is unique in three important ways. First, every text in the corpus is a story, which is in contrast to other language resources that may contain stories or story-like texts, but are not specifically curated to contain only stories. Second, the unifying theme of the corpus is material relevant to Islamist Extremi...

extended abstract 1. introduction maghame is a kind of narrative which focuses on the poor and beggars’ wants and tricky literary men with an ornate prose. also, picaresque is a kind of episodic narrative which explains events happening for low class people of society or criminals, or the roguish central character fighting for survival of fittest permanantly. these involvements may take place a...

This paper deals with the numerical analysis of the focalization of a beam of particles. In particular, this model can be useful to check whether or not the cut-off Boltzmann equation leads to some kind of smoothing effect as for the Fokker-Planck-Landau equation.