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Genesis, the Origin, and Darwin's autobiographies
Authors: Harley Alexis
Published: February 2023

In the first paragraph of his "Recollections", Charles Darwin explains, "I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life" (6). As John Sturrock, George Levine, James Olney and Howard Helsinger have variously observed, Darwin's self-construction here rhetorically asserts an objectivity and scientific authority that contradict the realities of autobiographical production (the temptation to fictionalize, the deceitfulness of memory, the absurdity of claiming pure empiricism in the interpretation of a life). More than that, in playing revenant, Darwin makes himself out as transcendental and metaphysical: an otherworldly retrospective narrator with a god's-eye view of his life. He claims not just the authority of the uninvolved, but the authority of the immortal.
Timeless and (Un)original : the Role of Gossip in R.K. Narayan's The Man-Eater of Malgudi and The Painter of Signs
Authors: Peacock James
Published: February 2023

Tropes of gossip underline much of R.K. Narayan's work and they assume particular significance, I shall argue, in The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961) and The Painter of Signs (1977), in which they interleave with, and describe an oppositional paradigm to, the processes of printing and sign writing.
“Bonnie und Kleid”: Female Terrorists and the Hysterical Feminine
Authors: Bielby Clare
Published: February 2023

This paper will explore the ways in which the feminine, in particular the hysterical feminine, is invoked in media representations of violent women in order to contain the threat they pose. I shall draw on a number of mainstream German newspapers, both leftwing, liberal “quality” journals, such as Der Spiegel and, to a lesser extent, Stern, and more reactionary papers, such as Bild and Die Welt. It is my contention that although these journals may seem to be of different quality, the same paradigms are being mobilized with regard to the violent female terrorist: paradigms that are firmly anchored in the German popular imagination of the 1970s.
The Grotesque Sublime: Play with Terror
Authors: Chao Shun-liang
Published: February 2023

Throughout "La Préface de Cromwell" (1827), Victor Hugo treats the sublime and the grotesque as different realms without seriously expounding upon their distinction. In examining the major treatises of the sublime, however, one will find that the grotesque actually resides inside the sublime in terms of evoking violent emotions, especially terror. This essay, then, aims to bring into relief the essential similarities between the grotesque and the sublime, thereby drawing attention to the role of the grotesque in the construction of artistic or aesthetic modernity.
Butterfly and Bulkhead: Chance, Control, Conrad
Authors: Stevenson Randall
Published: February 2023

"What a chance missed! My God! What a chance missed"Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)Jim's lament has intriguing implications for issues of chance and control in literature, perhaps also for literary history, and certainly for the act of reading itself. This article will explore such implications, from the obivous 'moral identity' of Jim himself to the complex way in which imagination incessantly and ingeniously strives to impose its orders and controls on experience.
Putting on the Red Dress: Reading Performative Camp in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows
Authors: Powell Ryan
Published: February 2023

Camp comes into being as a performative vernacular when naturalized constructions of gender and sexuality are questioned through the enactment of their inherent contradictions. As subjects that are feminized through heteronormative ideology, both women and gay men may have a similar attentiveness, or what Keith Harvey describes as a "semiotic awareness," for the signs that are inscribed upon them and through which they negotiate their place in society (Harvey, 407). When this predilection for signs is acted out in the ironic performance of camp, as an artistic vernacular that expresses the ways in which women and gay men suffer as bearers of the passivity, emotionality and inactivity inscribed upon them, the performance may in turn become a radical site of destabilizing activity.With this in mind, the film genre of the melodrama, and in particular the work of Douglas Sirk, provides an interesting site for exploring representational traces of the inter-subjective positioning of women and gay men for two central reasons: [1] as a genre that is well known for narrativizing the pain and suffering of women, it may have something to say of the conditions which propel this pain and suffering; and [2] the work of Sirk, as a director who relied heavily upon distanciation, or distancing effects, to highlight artifice, demonstrates incongruencies between naturalized and constructed versions of heteronormativity much in the same way as camp does when utilized as a performative vernacular. I will focus on the 1955 film All That Heaven Allows, taking into account the ways in which gender and sexuality are performed through the film in such a manner that demonstrates conflicts surrounding hetero/homo binaries within representations of the period that can be productively read within a matrix of performative camp.
Scenes from the Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Authors: Jones Darryl
Published: February 2023

At their zenith, empires become haunted by images of their inevitable demise. This article examines historical theories of imperial decline, as exemplified by the works of Edward Gibbon, C-F Volney and Oswald Spengler, and suggests a recurring concern with 'revolutionary orientalism' in such writings. The USA is currently in its late-imperial decadent phase, and much given in consequence to apocalyptic or catastrophic narratives. These are hardly new - the late-Victorian British Empire produced a large number of disaster fictions hardly less spectacular, with H G Wells foremost amongst his contemporary catastrophists - London is destroyed many hundreds of times in the period's fiction. The article closes with an analysis of 9/11 fictions and theories, and looks particularly at the novels of Don DeLillo and Jonathan Safran Foer.
Behind the Veil: Gender and Apocalypse in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil (1859) and Wilkie Collins’s The Two Destinies (1876)
Authors: Barnett Ryan
Published: February 2023

Although the term 'apocalypse' is often used to refer to a catastrophic event it literally means 'to unveil' and, pre-biblically, signified the unveiling of a virgin bride. It is in the sense of the apocalypse as an 'unveiling' that, in a discussion of George Eliot's 1859 novella The Lifted Veil and Wilkie Collins's 1876 novel The Two Destinies, I will explore the links between the notion of apocalypse and the 'secret' of female sexuality. In Eliot's and Collin's stories, I argue, female sexuality is portrayed as an apocalyptic secret that exists above and beyond the play of veiling and unveiling. Indeed, when the veil concealing this apocalyptic secret is lifted, in Eliot's and Collins's text, the revelation reveals only a blank, an absence. In this sense, I claim, The Lifted Veil and The Two Destinies can be said to anticipate Jacques Derrida's assertion, in his essay "Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy," that the final veil of the apocalypse cannot be lifted, that it remains always 'to come.' The apocalyptic secret of female sexuality, which lies behind the veil in Eliot's and Collins's texts, I conclude, mirrors the secret that literature itself represents: a secret that, like the apocalypse and female sexuality, is radically unknowable. For both Eliot and Collins, it seems, the apocalypse is never 'now,' but only ever the constantly deferred promise of an unveiling 'to come.'
Apparitions
Authors: Saghafi Kas
Published: February 2023

There are only apparitions. There have always only been apparitions.Apparition names the complex and unstable coming to appear, the very arising or emergence of what appears and the thing's appearing. The eidos and the phantasm find their mutual source in the apparition of a phantasma.The other [l'autre] never appears as such, it appears as an apparition: its appearance is in disappearing, it dis-appears in its appearance.There will have been haunting-before life and before death.
The inevitable need to speak in order to be: On the loss of voice in two plays by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Authors: Bush Sophie
Published: February 2023

The contemporary playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker has shown a long-standing engagement with the themes of language and identity formation. Wertenbaker uses a range of mediumsto explore these subjects and, as one would expect, such concerns have also made frequent appearances in her playwriting. This article will explore and compare two such plays: the unpublished Case to Answer, first produced by the Soho Poly in 1980, and the more widely known, The Love of the Nightingale, first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford, in 1988.
“Child’s Own Voice”: Representing the Child Audience
Authors: Whitaker Lynn
Published: February 2023

This article, drawn from my doctoral research into children’s public service broadcasting (PSB) in the UK in the 21st century, examines the role that the child’s voice plays in the construction of the child audience made by producers of children’s television in their texts, production practices and discourse. It is argued that both the literal and figurative concept of the “child’s own voice” is a doctrine frequently deployed by producers to claim an authenticity or transparency to their representations. Through this doctrine, producers stress the relevance and appeal of representations of the child audience and thus foreground television’s probity as a beneficial cultural artefact under the aegis of public service broadcasting. By analysis of a specific case study, drawn from my role as participant-observer in the BBC Scotland Children’s department under the AHRC’s collaborative doctoral award scheme, I illustrate and discuss the key elements of the doctrine of child’s own voice that producers of public service children’s media frequently invoke.
The New Individualist Perspective: Identity Transformations in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis
Authors: Elliott Anthony
Published: February 2023

In this article I examine some implications of the extraordinary financial and economic crisis sweeping the globe since 2008 – referred to in what follows as the Great Global Crash – with specific reference to the social theory of the new individualism (Elliott and Lemert, 2006, 2009a, 2009b; Elliott 2008, 2009; Elliott and Urry 2010; Elliott, Katagiri and Sawai 2010).[1] The global shocks to worldwide production, financial, consumption and real estate systems unleashed by the crisis of September 2008 has carried profound consequences for economic and social development, both in terms of extensity and intensity, as well as significant implications for global security and political stability. As an indication of the global scope and depth of the macroeconomic financial crisis of 2008, the United Nations (2009) – in a report titled "World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009" – estimated that governments worldwide have spent in economic stimulus packages in excess of $US18 trillion in order to recapitalize banks and failing financial institutions; it was also estimated by the UN that $US2.6 trillion has been spent worldwide in fiscal stimulus packages, and that worldwide unemployment as a direct result of the financial and economic crisis might reach fifty million jobs (although the report also notes that such a figure could well double).Widely viewed as the worst world recession since the Second World War, the global policy response to the economic and financial crisis of 2008 – centred on monetary, fiscal and financial measures to stabilize financial markets and revive the global electronic economy – has sought to introduce sounder economic management and better policy regulation of the financial sector in order to achieve more sustainable economic goals for the twenty-first century. Some critics have labelled such policy responses as spelling the death of neo-liberalism, or the demise of unfettered, turbo-charged economic globalization. As a consequence, the new individualism – as a construct of identity modes underpinning the global electronic economy of mass consumerism, mass indebtedness and neo-liberalism more generally – has come in for some sustained and probing criticism (see, among others, Smith 2007 and Beasley 2009). However I shall argue in this article that, rather than heralding a new era of austerity or significant cultural reform of the global electronic economy and its associated fast-speed ways of life throughout the expensive, polished cities of the West, that the global financial crisis has ultimately produced a reinforcement and intensification of the ethos of new individualism. The upshot, in sociological terms, has been a lifting of the new individualism to the second power.
Blazoning Mary Magdalene
Authors: Gray Sophie
Published: February 2023

Mary Magdalene is a significant figure in the Christian world, largely due to her unique relationship with Christ. As a woman and a reformed prostitute, the Magdalene is an unlikely friend to the son of God. However, despite her low social status and sinful past, Mary is featured in all four Gospels and is present at several crucial moments in Christ’s life and death: she anoints his feet as a sign of humbleness, witnesses his crucifixion and is the first to see his resurrection, after which she leaves society to lead a contemplative life in the desert. As patron saint of repentant sinners and the contemplative life, Mary Magdalene was an aspirational figure in late medieval piety, and the subject of many religious paintings and statues. There were Magdalene cults in Europe from as early as the sixth century, with interest at its peak in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries (Jansen, 18-48). Consequently, accounts of Mary’s life took on an almost mythical quality, with apocryphal texts such as Jacobus de Voraigne’s influential The Golden Legend drawing together the stories of several biblical women. This is evident in the Digby manuscript Magdalene play written around 1490-1530, which conflates Mary as the apostle of the Apostles, with Mary sister of Martha and the woman who has devils exorcised from her by Christ. As well as using scriptural references, the Digby Magdalene also draws heavily on Jacobus to create a narrative of the Magdalene’s entire life.
Identity and Identification in Azouz Begag’s Le Gone du Chaâba and Béni ou le paradis privé
Authors: Lewis Jonathan
Published: February 2023

"Man is human only to the extent to which he tries to impose his existence on another man in order to be recognised by him [...] It is on that other being, on recognition by that other being, that his own human worth and reality depend." (Fanon 216-17)The dependence of one’s “human worth and reality” on mutual recognition, highlighted by Frantz Fanon in his seminal text Black Skin White Masks, first published in 1952, plays a central role in the construction of identity in Azouz Begag’s first two novels, Le Gone du Chaâba and Béni ou le paradis privé, published in 1986 and 1989 respectively. Using contemporary post-colonial criticism to carry out a close reading of these two texts, this article will take into account the memory of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), which marked Algeria’s independence from French colonial rule, and its connection to France’s current attitude towards ethnic difference. Subsequently, the effect of these factors on considerations of contemporary Franco-Algerian selfhood will be examined, and the analysis will go on to demonstrate how an Algerian presence in France, forty-eight years after the end of the Algerian War, continues to come into conflict with the French Republic’s constitutional definition of nationhood, which favours unity of the nation by uniformity rather than an embracing of multiple identities.
Vampiric Narratives: Constructing Authenticity in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Authors: Butler Kirsty
Published: February 2023

Using Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a textual tool, this essay will explore not only the authentication of the Self and its subsequent deconstruction when confronted by its Other, but will also discuss how such a confrontation and the search for authenticity and authority are fashioned and perpetuated in the construction of personal histories. Acknowledging this presence illuminates the larger implications of the anxieties surrounding the unstable construction of the Self and its complex, sometimes contradictory, relationship to its long-repressed Other(s). This essay will begin by examining the Self as a psychological construct that initially seeks the affirmation established by the existence of its mirroring double figure. The Gothic novel intuitively gives voice to the repressed and in so doing, confronts the Self with its uncanny double, a reflection which the Self perceives as a threat to its own existence. This engagement of the uncanny as a device of the Gothic transforms the familiar into the unfamiliar, and, consequently, the psychological authentication of identity experiences a series of oscillations between the Self and the Other that leads to an identity crisis. This confusion is rooted in the confrontation between two estranged figures struggling to establish one as the authentic Self.
The Face of Comic Revenge in Jonson's Alchemist
Authors: Brown Michelle
Published: February 2023

When one thinks of early modern dramatic examples of revenge, the first titles that spring to mind may include Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, and The Spanish Tragedy. These three and others adhere to a rough template: first, the play begins with social or political unrest; second, the conflict comes to a head through the action of the play; and third, the conflict is resolved by the final act, often with few survivors. You may even be familiar with the phrase: "In the Fourth Act the die is cast. In the Fifth Act the cast dies." These qualities can be anticipated in tragedies, but can also be found as tragic elements encompassed within other genres. Revenge can be found in comedies alongside other stereotypes and expectations: the restoration of social order and a marriage or at least the implication or anticipation of a marriage (Hopkins 16). Dramatic expectations and stereotypes were formed through years of perfecting and use by Renaissance dramatists; however, as soon as they were established, playwrights began to break with dramatic expectations and blur the lines between tragedy and comedy. Shakespeare created plays like The Tempest in which both tragic and comic circumstances fuel the plot and the conclusion includes both a death, as Prospero abandons his magic, and an impending marriage between Ferdinand and Miranda. Ben Jonson, too, contributed to this new genre and engaged tragic themes within comedy.
Seeking Vengeance: Revenge Tragedy, Coherence and Scepticism from Sophocles to Shakespeare
Authors: ONeill Fionnuala
Published: February 2023

Literary representations of revenge frequently encourage us to question the motivations behind such an impulse towards symmetry and coherence, as well as the outcomes of such a quest. In this sense, such literary representations relate closely to tragedy itself, the dramatic genre in which revenge is most often given aesthetic form in the shape of revenge tragedy. While this particular sub-genre is principally located on the Renaissance stage, it has its roots in the Senecan tradition, which itself draws on classical Greek drama. This article aims to explore representations of revenge in tragedy from Sophocles to Shakespeare, focusing on the scrutiny under which such representations repeatedly place the idea of "coherence", the attempt to find pattern, meaning and justice in the midst of tragic horror and destruction. In so doing, it aims to draw parallels between the drive towards revenge and the quest for coherence in tragedy, suggesting that an obsessive attempt to find satisfaction in order and symmetry is repeatedly found to be ethically questionable, as it can be both punitive and violent.
Sacred/Sacrilegious Tourism in Emily Dickinson's Poems
Authors: Hsu Li-hsin
Published: February 2023

This paper investigates Dickinson's poetic subversion by looking at her poems of spiritual tourism, examining how these poems challenge the definition of sacredness. Although she seldom travelled, her writing frequently uses metaphors of tourism to account for religious uncertainty in a rapidly secularized and commercialized society. Her depiction of spiritual quest, in particular, deploys what William Stowe suggests as an empowering process in travel, which exposes the problematic nature of received belief systems. Her poems of tourism open up a Bakhtinian carnivalesque space, in which religious and social hierarchy can be questioned and restructured.
From a Misfire to an Open Future: Repetition, Performativity and the Promise of the Metaphor
Authors: Vulic Ana
Published: February 2023

This article deals with the notion of performativity through the work of J.L. Austin, Shoshana Felman, and, most significantly, Judith Butler. It examines the intertextual references of the work of the mentioned theorists mainly through the notion of promise which is used as an example, a metaphor, but also as an organizing principle of the performative logic of their texts.
A Symbol in Mass Production: Ruyi Images in the Inner and Outer Cities Under the Qianlong Reign
Authors: Zhang Stacy Guoying
Published: February 2023

Qianlong's predilection for the Chinese auspicious symbol ruyi was satisfied by court artists and echoed in the country at large by the mass production of the New Year Picture workshops. This imperial cult manifests Qianlong's authority on the country and the Han subjects' recognition of the Manchu emperor.
We Have Built You: On the Nature of Artificial Intelligence in Blade Runner and Babylon Babies.
Authors: Durham April
Published: February 2023

While “Artificial Intelligence” describes cognition occurring on the part of machines, over the last several decades representations in television, film, and literature complicate what might comprise “the natural” relative to intelligence. This article explores what is at stake, besides masterful control, in narratives of intelligence as mediated and technical.
Transformative Impetus: A Look at Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts.
Authors: Sartor Genevieve
Published: February 2023

Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts (1941) works against the grain of understanding human subjectivity and its relationship with environment as mechanistic, primarily anthropocentric or teleological. It puts forth worlds that crisscross boundaries between nature and culture, the human and the animal. This essay explores the ways in which Woolf’s portrayal of a decentralized, temporal relativity finds voice through principles of co-evolution and complexity theory, highlighting the co-dependency operating within evolutionary development as a transformative impetus.
Trees of Birth: rituals and the emergence of sacred space in Dutch Vinex-areas
Authors: Schippers Inez
Published: February 2023

In this article, I aim to explore the role of rituals in the emergence of a “sacred” space in a newly built suburban area in the Netherlands. This so-called birth forest serves as a case study to show how nature functions as a platform for ritual practice in this neighbourhood.
Cliché, Irony and the Necessity of Meaning in Endgame and Infinite Jest
Authors: Cetkovski James
Published: February 2023

With reference to the work of the ordinary language philosopher Stanley Cavell, this essay argues that David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest deploys cliché to expose the workings of ironic language in a way that is complementary to a similar exposition in Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play Endgame.
Proliferation, Action: Marine Plastic Pollution, Material Agency, and Affective Representation
Authors: Echterling Clare
Published: February 2023

Seeing plastic as an actant rather than inert matter can help us better comprehend the effects of marine plastic pollution. In this essay, I read various texts that depict plastic as an actant, highlighting the ways they give narrative urgency to a crisis that we normally cannot see.
Exploring the Enlightenment from Intellectual History and Critical Theory: A Case Study of Hybrid Methodologies in Literary Criticism
Authors: San Martin Pablo
Published: February 2023

This essay is a reflection on the methodological problems that arise when critical theory and intellectual history are brought together in the study of the Enlightenment. Taking my own PhD research as a case study, I explore the tension between the different conceptions of the Enlightenment employed by these methods, and assess the possibility of articulating them together in a single argument.
Sentimentality in the Suburban Ensemble Dramedy: A Response to Berlant’s Optimism-Realism Binary
Authors: Moss-Wellington Wyatt
Published: February 2023

Lauren Berlant has famously problematised the sense of communal belonging wrought by sentimental humanism, yet in so doing has presumed a binary between optimism and realism, and tendered new strictures on acceptable affect. In suburban ensemble cinema we find an alternate view: sentimentality as a place of transition, and a more complex taxonomy of human relationality.
“Of traditional Israel and Albion”: discourses of racial purity and the Jewish body in Mina Loy’s “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose”
Authors: Smith Rachel
Published: February 2023

This essay explores the modernist poet Mina Loy’s work “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose” (1923) within its historical and cultural context. The poem consistently challenges ideologies such as eugenics, which informed anti-Semitism and sought to strengthen notions of racial purity. Incorporating the biopolitical theory of Rosi Braidotti, this essay explores how Loy exposes the figure of the Jewish “mongrel” as a constructed figure within eugenic discourse, in turn revealing the ways in which eugenic and biopolitical ideologies work together to govern, vilify, and glorify certain lives over others.
Towards a Marginal History of Reading the Geneva Bible
Authors: Hardie-Forsyth Alexander
Published: February 2023

Historian and divine Thomas Fuller’s comparison of the Geneva Bible’s marginal annotations to "spectacles" has proved captivating for critics. However, despite fitting neatly within a hermeneutic understanding of scriptural study in which readers search for "inner truths" inside a postlapsarian structure of signs and symbols, this figuration fails to encompass either the ambivalence of Fuller’s full appraisal or the various, complex ways through which readers came to encounter and comprehend their Bibles. This article proposes a new artefactual study of the Geneva Bible’s printed marginalia and their position within early modern reading practices. It demonstrates how the Geneva Bible's (para-)textual apparatuses existed in multiple unstable forms across the life of the translation, charting how different notational formulae impacted upon mise-en-page and, ultimately, upon exegetical praxis.
The Editorial Beginnings of the First Chemical Journal
Authors: Gielas Anna
Published: February 2023

The academic journal is a central instrument of scholars and scientists alike, yet we know surprisingly little about its historical development. This paper focuses on the foundation of the first scientific journal devoted solely to chemistry. It introduces the editorial strategies and policies behind the periodical, and briefly describes the role it played in the process of establishing chemical knowledge during the last decades of the eighteenth century. More generally, it sheds light on the socio-cultural identity of the editor located between the two professionalising fields of science and journalism and the epistemological consequences of his editorial work.
Reading Solomon J. Solomon’s Samson against the Book of Judges
Authors: Musa Aysha
Published: February 2023

This paper examines Solomon J. Solomon’s Samson, an interpretative artistic portrayal of the biblical Samson and Delilah narrative in Judges 16. Solomon’s painting explores themes of eroticism, power, and ‘the Other’. Solomon both embellishes and fills gaps in the biblical narrative. By doing so, he conspicuously explores themes only implicit in the Bible, thus creating content where the biblical text remains silent. Filling these narrative gaps and making the implicit explicit changes the focus of the Samson and Delilah narrative, thereby adding to the cultural memory of the biblical text and altering the way in which the biblical narrative is approached by readers.
Virtual Playgrounds: Electronic Literature’s Challenge to Authorship
Authors: Tuan Lydia
Published: February 2023

This paper explores authorship and readership in two works of electronic literature: The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam (2000) and Tramway (2009). It argues for a broadened understanding of reading as potentially authoring and offers an expansion of what it means to read an electronic literary text in the twenty-first century.
Book Review: Slavoj Žižek, Against the Double Blackmail
Authors: Shelley Cain
Published: February 2023

Of interest to few beyond the fellow specialist and often uncritically aligning with harmful clichés, the new book on Europe’s refugee crisis by the radical Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek ultimately fails in its attempt to emulate the proud tradition of scholarly writing that has intervened effectively in public life.
“...to poison and corrupt her soul”: Shelley’s Poetic Designs of Incest in The Cenci
Authors: Chen Amadeus Kang-Po
Published: February 2023

This paper examines Percy Bysshe Shelley’s designs of the father-daughter incest in his tragedy The Cenci. It proposes that Shelley’s deviation from his historical source, concerning Count Cenci’s atrocities and Beatrice’s characterizations, insinuates the idea of incest as the embodiment of a dark poetics that features identity annihilation and assimilation.
The dissident is dead. Long live the dissident – Boris Akunin and popular literature as counterculture under Putinism
Authors: Liebig Anne
Published: February 2023

This paper explores the reappearance of the dissident in Russian contemporary literature followingPutin’s rise to power, focussing in particular on how the country’s formerly highbrow dissident counterculture is now moving closer to the realm of popular culture. Tracing the link between the intelligentsia, literature, and dissent all the way up to the supposed death of all three phenomena in the post-collapse years, this article argues that a dissident revival is not only ongoing but directly linked to Putin’s manipulation of historical consciousness and the nostalgia discourse in Russia. Using Boris Akunin, one of Russia’s most popular contemporary writers, as an example, this paper demonstrates how his activity as an author and a public figure has changed in reaction to Putin’s totalitarian turn in politics, resulting in an increasingly pointed counter-narrative to theKremlin’s hegemonic discourse on history. Through sketching Akunin’s artistic principles as a writer and addressing the importance of the nostalgia discourse for post-Soviet Russia’s identity struggles, this article discusses how Akunin’s exploration of the intersection between popular culture and highbrow literature may be indicative of a modernisation of the entire Russian intelligentsia tradition, pointing towards the future of literary dissent in Russia.
Toys and Radical Politics: The Marxist Import of Toy Story That Time Forgot
Authors: Hay Jonathan
Published: February 2023

Through the analysis of a capitalist text, and by reflecting on the discourse of Marx and Althusser, this paper attempts to demonstrate why Marxism remains a potent politics of dissent. It suggests that Marxist philosophies can come to function in an ultimately reparative manner through their promotion of countercultural ideologies.
Berardi, Franco ‘Bifo.’ Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide. London: Verso, 2015. 224 pp. ISBN: 9781781685785. £10.99.
Authors: Vergara Tomás
Published: February 2023

Berardi’s Heroes (2015) analyses the intricate relationship between capitalism and mental health by exploring the proliferation of mass murder and suicide in the twentieth-first century. This book is not essential to achieve a better understanding of Berardi’s theoretical edifice as a philosopher. Instead, Heroes offers a great application of his theoretical concepts on contemporary events, exhibiting how philosophy can be applied to contingent historical issues such as the ones dealt with in the book.
Evaluating rudimentary prehistoric stone artifacts from the American southwest and Mexico
Authors: Neely James A. , Tomka Steve A.
Published: February 2023

The goals and background of this study are presented. A sample of rudimentary artifacts, recovered through survey and excavation from contexts in the American Southwest and southern Mexico, were physically examined to verify or reject their assumed validity as tools and their use in agricultural activities. Macroscopic and microscopic examinations were undertaken on these often overlooked and misidentified artifacts to ascertain evidence of human manufacture and use-wear. The results of the study indicate the specimens represent three general form categories of tools that have uses related to excavation and earth moving. To augment this evidence, information was gathered regarding find contexts, historic records, and from relevant literature. The geographic find locations and contexts of the artifacts, as well as their temporal placement, and likely group affiliations, are then discussed. Evidence indicates that, although probably used for other purposes, these minimally-retouched, hand-held, digging and earth moving tools were used in the preparation and maintenance of agricultural fields and irrigation canals, and functioned to support the subsistence system from ca. 400-1450 CE. These implements evidently also held social and ceremonial values and functions. The rudimentary nature of these tools is often found not to be commensurate with the sophisticated complexity of the associated agricultural infrastructure. Initial, very tentative, hypotheses are presented for this incongruity.
Mamíferos de la edad de hielo en la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca
Authors: Guevara Lázaro , Schulz-Kumar Olivia , Arroyo-Cabrales Joaquín
Published: February 2023

La Sierra Norte de Oaxaca es hogar de una extraordinaria diversidad de mamíferos silvestres, como jaguares, venados cola blanca, tapires, roedores, murciélagos y musarañas. Sin embargo, hace apenas unos miles de años, también habitaban otras especies sorprendentes, las cuales ya no existen más. Es posible que durante el Último Máximo Glacial (o Edad de Hielo), un periodo marcadamente frío y seco en la historia de la Tierra, algunos mamíferos de talla grande como los gliptodontes mexicanos, perezosos gigantes y mammuts colombinos también fueran habitantes comunes de esta región, por lo que las comunidades de mamíferos eran aún más ricas y diversas de las que conocemos en la actualidad. Este artículo intenta recordarnos que la diversidad y distribución de las especies no es estática, sino cambiante. Lo que vemos en la actualidad no fue así en el pasado ni será así en el futuro.
Fluktuasi Harga Saham Batu Bara: Peran Faktor Spesifik dan Makroekonomi
Authors: Habibah Ummi Khusnul , Zuhroh Idah , Sangadah Dhurotus
Published: February 2023

This study aims to analyze the effect of specific faktor (profitability, leverage, EPS)  and makroeconomic factor (inflation , PDB) on the variable stock price. Using the financial reports of mining companies in the coal company, we take specific factor data (profitability/ROA, leverage/DER), EPS), Macroeconomic factor (Inflation, PDB) and stock price (closing price) from 10 companies, which were selected as samples, from 2011 to 2020. Data was analyzed using the Regression analysis panel data method. The results show that ROA, DER, EPS, Inflation, PDB affect changes in stock prices.  The implication of this research is to provide knowledge to investors about the importance of knowing the company’s financial performance. Companies with good financial performance will easily develop because there are sufficient funds for company operations. By analyzing financial ratios, investors can get signals to decide whether to invest in the company they want.
Analysis of E-Commerce Adoption Factors by Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise, and Its Effect on Operating Revenue
Authors: Effendi Arline Prameswari , Subroto Bambang
Published: February 2023

This research aims to examine the effect of organizational readiness, external pressure, and perceived benefits on micro, small, and medium enterprises’ e-commerce adoption, and to examine the effect of e-commerce adoption by MSMEs on operating revenue. The sample of this study is MSME owners and managers in Malang city. Data were collected by survey method using convenience sampling technique. The relationship between variables in this study were analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) with SmartPLS application. The results of this study indicate that external pressure and perceived benefits influence MSMEs’ e-commerce adoption, while organizational readiness does not influence MSMEs’ e-commerce adoption. In addition, e-commerce adoption increases MSME’s operating revenue.
Firm Value: Does Corporate Governance and Research & Development Investment Matter?
Authors: Murinda Cut Sri , Islahuddin Islahuddin , A Nuraini
Published: February 2023

This study aims to examine the factors that affect firm value. This research uses purposive sampling method. The sample of the research is 45 financial companies (128 year-firm observations) listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period of 2017-2019. Multiple regression analysis with unbalanced panel data was applied to analyze the data. A corporate governance index published by Globe and Mail with 4 sub-indices is adopted, namely board composition, shareholding and compensation policies, shareholder rights and disclosure. The results of this study indicate that good corporate governance and research & development investment have no effect on firm value. This explains that the implementation of good corporate governance and firm investment in research & development are not the main information for investors in making investments. However, intellectual capital and enterprise risk management disclosure have effect on firm value. The results can be used as a reference for researchers, especially in the accounting sector related to the development of measuring instruments for good corporate governance.
The Role Of Risk, Trust, Social Influence On ZIS Online Payment Adoption: Generation-Z Perspectives
Authors: Oktavendi Tri Wahyu , Mua'ammal Immanuel
Published: February 2023

Technological developments encourage people to make changes in their lives. The emergence of various kinds of online payment systems has made human life easier in completing various transaction activities. With online payment technology, ZIS payment activities can be done cashless. The respondents in this study were Generation Z. This research’s testing is using SMART PLS 3.0. Generation Z has several factors that are considered to be intense in using ZIS online Payment. To be able to continue to be intense, one of them is by increasing trust in ZIS online Payment. Trust owned by Generation Z is driven by the factors of Risk, Ease of Use, Usefulness, and Social Influence. The implication of the results of this study is that by increasing the ZIS online Payment movement in the future, ZIS transactions will be faster and the ability of the Amil Zakat, Infaq, and Shadaqah bodies to collect ZIS funds will also increase.
The Effect Of Innovation Strategy In The Influence Of Managerial Ability On Firm Performance
Authors: Yulita Khairanis , Fanani Zaenal
Published: February 2023

Managerial ability collaborates managerial skill and effort to improve firm performance through resources utilization and strategy implementation. This study is aimed to examine the influence of managerial ability on firm performance with the mediation effect of innovation strategy. The final sample is 940 firms from the manufacturing sector listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange 2012-2019. Analysis techniques use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure managerial ability score, cluster analysis to analyze company strategy, and path analysis to test and analyze variables statistically. The result shows that innovation strategy does not mediate the influence of managerial ability on firm performance. Higher managerial ability directly increases the firm performance, but it decreases innovation strategy and innovation strategy does not affect firm performance. In conclusion, managers should choose between efficiency and innovation because it is a trade-off. Therefore, the company must sacrifice one of them.
Does The Characteristic Of The Supervisory Board Affect Audit Quality?
Authors: Susandya Anak Agung Putu Gede Bagus Arie , Ni Nyoman Ayu Suryandari
Published: February 2023

The purpose of this study is to find empirical evidence of the effect of independence, work experience, professional ethics, motivation, and professional expertise on the audit quality of the Supervisory Board in LPD located at Denpasar-Bali. Lembaga Perkreditan Desa (LPD) is the financial institution based on local culture. They grow rapidly because of emotional bond with their customer. The LPD was formed because of the common desire to encourage the economic progress of the village where they live based on local wisdom. The population is collected from all LPD registered in Denpasar. The total number of respondents of this study is 99, with multiple regression analysis is used. The results of this study finds that independence, work experience, and professional skills do not affect the audit quality of supervisory board. The supervisory board has a great social responsibility in the existence of the LPD. Professional ethics and motivation positively have an important role influencing the audit quality of supervisory board. As the LPD only have a governor regulation, the supervisory board is the important key to keep an eye of the LPD’s performance. LDP as an economic cultural heritage must always maintain the trust of the local community.
Firm Value: CSR Disclosure, Risk Management And Good Corporate Governance Dimensions
Authors: Muhamad Fahminuddin Rosyid  , Erwin Saraswati  , Abdul Ghofar
Published: February 2023

This study aims to examine the effect of Corporate Social Responsibilty(CSR) disclosure and risk management on firm value with Good Corporate Governance(GCG) as a moderating variable. The research sample was conducted on mining companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2015-2019 period of 27 companies with a total of 120 observed data . The data were analyzed by panel data regression processed with Stata 15 software. The results showed that CSR disclosure had a negative effect on firm value. Meanwhile, risk management has no effect on firm value. Furthermore, GCG as a moderating variable, proven to be able to streng then the relationship of CSR disclosure to firm value. However, GCG cannot be a moderating variable between risk management and firm value. Financial performance and firm size proved unable to be control variables in relation to the effect of CSR and risk management on firm value. The limitation of this research is that it is limited to mining companies listed on the IDX so that it can give different results if carried out in different industries. This research can contribute to the accounting literature related to firm value, especially with regard to CSR disclosure, risk management and GCG in companies in Indonesia.
Competence, Work Experience, And Integrity On The Performance Of Auditor : The Role Of Professionalism
Authors: Hermawan Sigit , Roswita Cindi Dwianti , Biduri Sarwenda , Nugraheni Ratna , Qonitah Iffah
Published: February 2023

This study aims to determine the effect of competence, work experience, and integrity on auditor performance with professionalism as an intervening variable. This study uses a quantitative approach. The sample in this study was 44 with purposive sampling technique. The population of this research are auditors who work in Public Accounting Firms in Surabaya. Data collection techniques using questionnaires with the help of validity and reliability tests. The data analysis technique used in this research is Partial Least Square (PLS). The results of this study indicate that (1) Competence has no significant effect on Auditor Performance, (2) Work Experience has no significant effect on Auditor Performance, (3) Integrity has a significant effect on Auditor Performance, (4) Competence has no significant effect on Professionalism, (5) Work Experience has a significant effect on Professionalism, (6) Integrity has a significant effect on Professionalism, (7) Professionalism has a significant effect on Auditor Performance, (8) Competence has no significant effect on Auditor Performance through Professionalism, (9) Work Experience has a significant effect on Auditor Performance through Professionalism, (10) Integrity has no significant effect on Auditor Performance through Professionalism.
Ethical Perceptions Of Accounting Students: The Role Of The God Locus Of Control, Moral Disengagement, And Love Of Money
Authors: Oktrivina Amelia , Achmadi Achmadi , Hendryadi Hendryadi
Published: February 2023

The present study attempts to examine the effect of the God locus of control on ethical perceptions of accounting students and then further explore the psychological mechanism underlying this effect. We established a mediation and moderation model based on social cognitive theory and locus of control theory in which moral disengagement as mediator and love of money as moderator on the God locus of control and ethical perceptions. This study involved 324 participants through a series of online questionnaires. The moderated mediation analysis using Hayes's Macro Process demonstrated that the God locus control was negatively associated with moral disengagement and positively related to ethical perception. Moral disengagement is negatively associated with ethical perception and partially mediates the relationship between the God locus of control and ethical perception. As expected, the love of money plays an essential role as a boundary condition in the relationship between the God locus of control and ethical perceptions, but not for moral disengagement and ethical perceptions relationship. This study is the first empirical evidence to explore the role of the God locus of control on moral disengagement and ethical perceptions.
Determinants of Carbon Tax Implementation
Authors: Prasetyo Whedy
Published: February 2023

Empirically this study examines the relationship between carbon tax implementation with several variables, namely voluntary awareness, behavior change, business performance, business size and business growth. The multiple regression model analysis is based on 52 respondents of companies in East Java that run forestry, energy and transportation businesses in Malang Raya (Malang Regency, Malang City, Batu City), Pasuruan Regency and Blitar Regency. The results showed that the implementation of the carbon tax was significantly and positively associated with voluntary awareness and business size, and significantly and negatively associated with business performance. The results of the study did not succeed in supporting the hypothesis of a relationship between the implementation of carbon taxes with behavioral changes and business growth. These results indicate that the carbon tax implementation a based on the polluters-pay principle takes place. A philosophy that reflects of carbon tax function as a sustainable activity towards being more efficient, low-carbon and environmentally friendly. Internal awareness of Taxpayer regarding carbon emission rates application or carbon pricing in the business activities carried out. The economic value of carbon that influences the realization Sustainability Report implementation.