For example, when Diana stumbles upon Steve Trevor in the baths, I was on the edge of my seat with joy. The number of times a male lead has lucked into seeing the female love interest naked while bathing is too many to count (never threaten that or someone on the internet will go an...
The path from values to needs isn’t about abandoning moral principles. It’s about recognising that those principles only have meaning when they translate into concrete, quantifiable actions that improve people’s actual experiences. It’s also about acknowledging that the people best positioned to...
A really interesting metaphor that I love is that the sun produces almost 40,000 septillion watts of energy per second. And yeah, I did have to look that up. If you stand in the sun for a few minutes on a hot day, you’ll barely get some minor sunburn. If you take a one-watt...
“4E” cognitive science has demonstrated that embodied coupling offers powerful resources for reasoning. Despite a surge of studies, little empi
The table can be used as a metaphor for human sociality or connection – metaphoric uses of tables build upon more everyday uses; even as metaphor the material matters. In The Human Condition, Arendt writes, “To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is ...
The table can be used as a metaphor for human sociality or connection – metaphoric uses of tables build upon more everyday uses; even as metaphor the material matters. In The Human Condition, Arendt writes, “To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is ...
Second, by way of my reading of The Plague, I suggest that suffering can be privileged ground for the reconfiguration of political landscapes through its unmaking of identities in both a literal and metaphoric sense. Suffering ought not to be displaced from debates in political theory. Rather,...
13 Counting the dead and making the dead count Page 3 of 24 62 metaphor characterises the manner in which British officials both refuted specific death counts as well as the ability to count deaths in the case of the Iraq war. In making clear the indeterminate relation between ...
This may have been a Thanksgiving that blew up, in my lame metaphor, but there was also love among these people that carried on. There’s no lack of admiration on Bob Dylan’s part for any of the characters in this movie. He looks at them all with a wistful admiration, and...
The situation for Russian is rather similar.19 In the Russian National Corpus (289 million words) we identified 205 cases which could potentially be analyzed in terms of a way construction – potentially, because this depends to a considerable extent on the (literal or metaphoric) ...