Leonore Mau reiste fast zwei Jahrzehnte mit dem Schriftsteller Hubert Fichte, um afrodiasporische Religionen zu erforschen. Ihre dabei entstandenen Fotografien blieben größtenteils unveröffentlicht. Sie stellen uns vor Herausforderungen: Was bedeutet es heute, sie zu betrachten – nach Debatten über Repräsentation und den Umgang mit künstlerisch-ethnografischen Fotografien? Das Buch widmet sich Maus Aufnahmen, die während der Duvalier-Diktatur in den 1970er-Jahren in Haiti entstanden. Der T...

Leonore Mau a voyagé pendant près de deux décennies avec l'écrivain Hubert Fichte pour explorer les religions afro-diasporiques. Leurs photographies sont pour la plupart restées inédites. Elles nous posent des défis : Que signifie les regarder aujourd'hui - après les débats sur la représentation et le traitement des photographies artistiques et ethnographiques ?En tant qu'étude de cas, Un an et un jour porte son regard sur des images de souris prises en Haïti dans les anné...

YEATS SOCIETY My daughter, Ana Claire and I after giving a power point presentation at New York University, celebrating Yeats and his impact on the world.Fairies in Celtic civilizations are a complicated topic that always stirred people's imagination. They are believed to be a supernatural race of beings descended from the Tuatha de Danann, an ancient, magical people who were the original inhabitants of Ireland; WB Yeats (1865-1939), the renowned Irish poet, firmly believed in them...

My daughter, Ana Claire and I after giving a power point presentation at New York University, celebrating Yeats and his impact on the world.Fairies in Celtic civilizations are a complicated topic that always stirred people's imagination. They are believed to be a supernatural race of beings descended from the Tuatha de Danann, an ancient, magical people who were the original inhabitants of Ireland; WB Yeats (1865-1939), the renowned Irish poet, firmly believed in them and felt that...

We live in a time where all indicators are pushing us to be negative, anxious, worrisome, empty, and unhappy. We’re being given more and more reasons to doubt our worth. There are many reasons today to be frustrated at life and to want to throw in the towel. But we will do no such thing.We stand strong in the face of the uncertainty of this era. Our minds are controlled and focused. We aim towards great hopes and dreams, and our hearts have been fortified with the ...

Religious Horror and the Ecogothic explores the intersections of Anglophone Christianity and the Ecogothic, a subgenre that explores the ecocritical in Gothic literature, film, and media. Acknowledging the impact of Christian ideologies upon interpretations of human relationships with the environment, the Ecogothic in turn interrogates spiritual identity and humanity’s darker impulses in relation to ecological systems. Through a survey of Ecogothic texts from the eighteenth centur...

Il y a 50 ans, en 1974, le Président des États-Unis Richard Nixon était contraint à la démission dans le cadre du scandale lié au Watergate. En 1994 pourtant, lors de ses obsèques, Bill Clinton prononce son éloge funèbre et ce, en présence de tous les anciens Présidents américains encore en vie.Sur les vingt ans séparant 1974 de 1994, Nixon aura donc réussi ce tour de force, d’abord de partir sous les injures et les quolibets, en étant littéralement banni de la société américaine, p...

"For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil."- Romans 13:4John Bishop, a member of the elite Direct Action Response Team, is confronted by a clandestine man in a black suit and tie named Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith invites John to join the ranks of the Gene Police, an insidious organization dedicated to targeting an...

Based on massive new research, a compelling and surprising account of the twentieth century's closest election.The 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon is one of the most frequently described political events of the twentieth century, yet the accounts to date have been remarkably unbalanced. Far more attention is given to Kennedy's side than to Nixon's. The imbalance began with the first book on that election, Theodore White's Th...

A radio anthology of George Orwell's finest novels, memoirs and essays, plus four biographical dramas and a bonus documentary, The Road to Nineteen Eighty-FourVisionary author and journalist George Orwell was the man behind two of the best-loved and most influential novels of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. This collection celebrating his life and work features dramatisations of both these classic books, with stell...

"Take away the shepherd's purpose, their place to do good as the protectors of the flock, and they will not become sheep, but rather wolves themselves."- Michael DavidsonMichael Davidson is a combat Veteran and the CEO of a private security company, Shepherd Security. While filming a commercial for his recently established business, Michael receives a series of new job offers in response to an attack against a multicultural centre, the violent suppression of a left-wing pro...

Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fictionDark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of time-travel, totalitarianism and terror, written by some of the masters of speculative fiction and adapted for radio with all-star casts.The Time Machine