Polemology

Raise your hand if you’re into “ambient body horror.”

The Descent of Autofiction … and the Rise of the Literary Thrill-Seeking Industrial Complex Autofiction and new narrative are booming, thanks to a host of innovative writers and presses....

It is remarkable, that, despite the various waves of linguistic patriotism and purist filtering of foreign words, the Latin words “norm” and “normal” are present in all three major European language groups: Germanic, Roman, and Slavic. “Normal” is used even in Hungarian and Finnish, which belong to Finno-Ugric, a rare, non-European language family. It seems that among the European languages, only modern Greek uses another word for normal (kannoniko). According to dictionaries, these words penetrated European languages at around the same time – roughly speaking, between 1810 (the first rare usages) and 1850 (common usage).

The oxymoron of normality Now that "normalization" has come to seem a fact in post-communist eastern Europe, it might be asked why the word "normal" was so close to people's hearts. How does its meaning in the context of transition compare to western usages of the word? A Begriffsgeshichte of the concept of "normality" revea...

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BE WARNED!!! 10.24.21 Dr. Dragan Kujundžić's talk The Stakes Are High: Dracula-Vlad-the-Impaler, … 2021 All Rights Reserved Matthew W. Jarvis & Juan José Castaño-Márquez.

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Animalisation of disabled people, as a technique of inferiorising them, making them as 'lesser than human', as 'not-human'. At least not the 'human' that is valued the most in colonial patriarchal society: the white abled bodied man.

A classic example of animalisation of disabled people is 'the Elephant Man' (movie from 1980) based on the life of Joseph Merrick, who most likely had proteus syndrome (causing an overgrowth of skin, bones, muscles, fatty tissues, and blood and lymphatic vessels).

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