Blood Of Others Research Articles

Fast Zombies and Social Rights: The Case of Umberto Lenzi’s <i>Nightmare City</i> (1980)

In the tense atmosphere that preceded the May 1981 Italian referendums on abortion, Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City is released. Included in several ‘Best Zombie Movies’ lists, Nightmare City is important for at least two reasons; first, because it inaugurates a significant and eventually successful variation on the zombie image: the fast zombie; second, as a commentary on the most salient social debate of the late 1970s and early 1980s – the one on the self-determination of Italian women. The aesthetic and the metaphorical levels of Lenzi’s film are strictly connected and the infected people running around drinking the blood of others are the embodiment of a reactionary response to the ongoing social transformation. Nightmare City joins the Italian political dispute of the late 1970s by openly opposing the women’s freedom of choice and by channeling and amplifying the most conservative side of that quasi-eschatological battle.

On the blood of others: re-visiting how “health” happens in interdisciplinary scholarship

ABSTRACT In much interdisciplinary scholarship, when health and well-being are conceptualized, they are often contextualized in white supremacist, racist, and capitalist frames. To reframe scholarship towards more useful possibilities, we first must confront the historical and ongoing violence brought forth by our reliance on notions of health that often come directly from colonization and slavery and have failed to provide possibilities of health for racialized folks. If capitalism can be described as ‘labour on the backs of Others’, then health is founded on the blood of Others – particularly, those who were enslaved. In naming the socio-historical legacies and their current manifestations, we name some of the interconnected oppressions that we must dismantle in our everyday work as we engage with racialized communities. Our work requires us to politicize the role of health and healing as a crucial component of the better world we are building.

Links among Intellectual Terrorism, Religious and Political Dissent

The unusual rapid change of globalization process, winning of extreme right parties in some countries, who ask for racism and refuse other nationalities and races makes the world unstable and coexistence among various nations is in dangerous. All these things does not come to exist without any plan of some extremist parties, subversive activities in different places. Physical terrorism and terrorist acts are semi controlled, but the extreme groups nowadays found other ways to terrorize societies, frighten and threaten people intellectually. There is an exploiting of different ideas, different views of parties in a country and change it to an intellectual terrorism just for specific and private interests or to take power in a country. Under the name of rights there is a huge deface on religion through deception and mislead people and push them to take unusual habits and acts which leads to anger some people without taking into account of other religion through burning the religious book, abusing religious characters and all these acts consider to be intellectual terrorism and spreading hatred among different religions who were living in peace before without any crucial and serious big problem. To this devastating end, the extremist parties and their elements try to use any way of means to reach their dirty and bad intentions. Even we live in a media revolution nowadays which if anything happens in the farthest part of the world will be known in other parts in a way or another, make them to have hostile ideas against who are not in their religion, ethnic, nationality or language, even some of high officials and ranks clearly mention in front of their assembly and spread hostile idea. It has nothing to do with the freedom of expression. It is some kind of terrorism, not physical but intellectual and it is stupidity of people through their bad planned ideas, their political orientation and their trade in the blood of others. Unfortunately there are still many who believe in such things and terrorism and terror belongs to specific religion or ideology without having a minimum information on it. We all together need to face intellectual terrorism and stop them otherwise the situation goes worse than it is.

Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin (review)

Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin (review)

Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin (review)

Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin (review)

Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity. Rory Finnin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. xii, 352 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Maps.

Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity. Rory Finnin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. xii, 352 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Maps.

Societal Afflictions and Economic Inequity: A Marxist Study of Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

The world is full of people who are thirsty for others’ blood. They lack soft corners and ethical morals. Under such circumstances, conflict erupts the societies that cause destruction and wreckage. Conflict resolution and the creation of global harmony is the basic need to resolve the issues. Additionally, freedom is the most precious gift given to people. However, some people do not realize this, they remain suffering from various hardships and spend their lives as slaves. This is the era of development and progress; we can see the escalated building and pillars of knowledge all around the world. However, some people are facing cruelties and life-threatening situations. Contrary to this, some people enslaved by force are bestowed with the courage and determination to be free. They sacrifice their most valuable belongings such as children for freedom. This study is the proximal approach explaining such types of devastations in the spotlight of the novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Keeping in view the Marxist theory, societal afflictions and economic inequity are analyzed and the results depict that being a soldier in an American force is the most damaging phenomenon. The soldiers are betrayed by being given special privileges, however, in return, they have to give up on their own freedom, and they are forced to shed the blood of others.

The image of war in Simone de Boer’s novel The Blood of Others

The image of war in Simone de Boer’s novel The Blood of Others

The Blood of Others

Abstract The author argues, with reference to a number of Merleau-Ponty’s unpublished manuscripts, that Merleau-Ponty’s notion of encroachment (empiétement) has origins in Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel, The Blood of Others. He examines how the two philosophers approach the encroachment of freedoms, the political stance of pacifism, and the interpretation of Voltaire’s Candide (Part I). The impact of Élisabeth Lacoin’s death on Beauvoir’s and Merleau-Ponty’s philosophies, as well as their relationships with Jean-Paul Sartre, is also considered (Part II).

Drinking and Disappearing: Vampiric Orality and Age As Challenging the Youthful Male Gaze in Let Me In

This article analyzes the 2010 vampire horror film Let Me In, focusing on how age and gender are represented through the vampiric mouth. Drawing upon critical feminist age scholarship and Freudian writings on orality and fetishization, I examine the characters Abby, a seemingly preteen vampire, and Owen, her young human friend. Throughout the film, as Abby uses her mouth to drink the blood of others, she is marked not as a young girl but as an “older” female monster that fails to appeal to what I dub “the youthful male gaze” of the film’s male characters, the camera, and the viewing audience. Thus, I argue that through Abby’s “aging” vampire mouth, Let Me In undermines the youthful male gaze and challenges the ability of this gaze to fetishize, consume, and visually “drink in” images of female youth. Moreover, Owen is also forced to confront the realities of his own waning youth, illustrating the phenomenon of male aging anxiety in Western culture.

The Blood of Others

Abstract The author argues, with reference to a number of Merleau-Ponty’s unpublished manuscripts, that the philosopher’s notion of encroachment (empiétement) has origins in Simone de Beauvoir’s 1945 novel The Blood of Others. He examines how the two philosophers approach the encroachment of freedoms, the political stance of pacifism, and the interpretation of Voltaire’s Candide (Part I). The impact of Élisabeth Lacoin’s death on Beauvoir’s and Merleau-Ponty’s philosophies, as well as their relationships with Jean-Paul Sartre is also considered (Part II).

Assessment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Vulnerability Index and Its Effect on Labour Productivity of Rural Farmers in Cross River State, Nigeria

The research assessed the HIV/AIDS vulnerability index effects on rural labour productivity of agricultural communities in Cross River State. Using multistage random sampling techniques on infected and non-infected farm households, 308 respondents were sampled and structured questionnaires were administered by trained enumerators with adequate experience in the state. Data were analysed using the fussy set approach to health risk vulnerability, descriptive and correlation analysis to determine vulnerability index, productive labour force and relationship between vulnerability index and productivity of both infected and non-infected rural farmers. The average labour force (18 years and above) for infected households was approximately 3 persons per household as against 4 persons for non-infected farm households. The mean labour productivity for infected farmers was 6715 ton/man day while, the non-infected farmer was 8285 ton/man day, where the difference in productivity was significant. A vulnerability index of 16% was established and the indicators that contributed significantly were; care not to take unscreened blood, care not to touch blood of others, having sex indiscriminately, sharing clipper, reduction in savings, and reduction in number of working hours. Furthermore, 43.97% of infected households and 20.40% of the pooled farmers were found to be highly vulnerable. Also an inverse relationship between labour productivity and vulnerability index was established and data were statistically significant. The researcher recommends special inputs subsidy programme for infected farmers, institutionalization of the HIV/AIDS (public health) desk in the State and federal Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development.

‘One step closer’: Acceptability of a programme of plasma donation for fractionation from men who have sex with men

Background and objectivesIn Canada, Héma‐Québec is considering the possibility of allowing men who have sex with men (MSM) to donate plasma for fractionation combined with a mandatory quarantine period. This study aims to assess the acceptability and operational feasibility of the programme in the targeted population.Materials and methodsSeven focus groups with MSM (N = 47) were conducted in Montréal, regarding their beliefs underlying attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control relating to intention to participate in a programme of plasma donation for fractionation. A theoretical thematic content analysis was realized.ResultsParticipants brought up benefits of the programme. Some are altruistic (help others, save lives, contribute as citizens), while others are linked to what it could bring to their community (progress, opportunity to include MSM in blood donation programmes, acknowledgement of MSM's contributions to the well‐being of others). However, even if the programme is in accordance with their altruistic values, it clashes with their values of equality and social justice. Many disadvantages were raised (discrimination and stigmatization of MSM, the fact that their blood is presented as being not as good as the blood of others). Facilitating factors and barriers to participation were put forward in terms of programme characteristics and sites where donations would be made.ConclusionThe findings suggest some interest in the programme of plasma donation for fractionation, but this is significantly tempered by the fact that differential treatment for MSM would continue and that their demands regarding access to whole blood donation are still unmet.

The Blood of Others: Television Documentary Journalism as Literary Engagement

The provocations that spurred literary engagement (littérature engagée) also motivated documentary journalists, yet their work is defined narrowly as journalism history, instead of engaged literature. Like their literary counterparts, documentarians immersed themselves in research and location, reported comprehensively, and posed existential questions that animated civic action. Long-form documentary journalism is thus analyzed in concert with engagement—meaning political involvement by intellectuals denoting commitment and obligation. Engagement arose after World War I, transformed during the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as a dividend that permeated network documentary journalism after World War II. Historical-critical method establishes foundations and criteria, combs existing scholarship for markers of engaged documentary journalism, and moves exemplars from the corners of journalism history into the spotlight of engagement.

British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy Annual Conference and Joint UK Regenerative Medicine Platform Meeting Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom Wednesday April 19-Friday April 21, 2017 Conference Abstracts.

British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy Annual Conference and Joint UK Regenerative Medicine Platform Meeting Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom Wednesday April 19-Friday April 21, 2017 Conference Abstracts.

MEMAHAMI AGAMA DAN BUDAYA SEBAGAI SOLUSI MENGATASI KONFLIK TEOLOGIS

This article is intended to establish a common perception in understanding of religion as a way of life or common life rule in religion and nation. Therefore in this article described essence of religious term that is misunderstood by some people - of ignorance about essence and incomprehension about various terms of religion - is extreme attitude in religious life, that's so convicting others (who do not agree with him) as an infidel, the lost, even worse they take anarchy action to justify blood of others for same reason. Besides, to avoid negative effects above, this article also aims to realize and prove that Islam is a friendly, polite, tolerant religion - as did prophet in Medina charter- more particularly diversity (diversity - which is grace of gods- as proof that Islam brings blessing for whole world ( rahmatan lil 'alamin ). Keywords :

Entre l’Église, l’État et l’armée : aumôniers militaires et prêtres-soldats français (1914-1918)

France, like Italy, submitted the clergy to the military service obligation since the late nineteenth century. In 1914-1918, approximately 30,000 priests, religious and seminarists were mobilized as soldiers; the oldest served in the health service, the youngest in the fighting units. The very few chaplains were recruited from voluntary non-mobilized clergy. During the war, however, some priests soldiers became official or voluntary chaplains, with the agreement of the military and religious authorities. The participation of the Catholic clergy in the conflict raised the question of its relationship with the Church, the republican state and the army : how did the priests remain faithful to the Church and their priestly vocation, so that it was difficult to respect the canonical obligations? How did they obey the laws of the secular state, which obliged them to fight, so that their ministry was incompatible with the fact of flowing the blood of others? Finally, how were they received in the army, by the mobilized soldiers and the officers, who weren’t used to meet priests? The adaptations of the clergy to the armies in the context of the total war will be advanced. His presence in the frontline, in the hard life of the trenches and on the battlefield, among mobilized soldiers, let to the weakening of anticlericalism after 1918. The French priest was recognized as a full citizen because he was a fighter.

Resistance and rescue in Beauvoir's The Blood of Others and The Mandarins: A semiotic contribution to the thinking of the ‘being-for-other’ existential category

In The Blood of Others and The Mandarins , Simone de Beauvoir encodes the experience of a resister in World War II. The objectivization of her particular vision is developed by the use of an idiosyncratic language through quotations and the coining of semiotic equivalents. She first defines her paradigms in The Blood of Others , where the theme of resistance against the Nazis is explicitly dramatized. In The Mandarins , she puts her semiotics to the test through phenomenological descriptions. Rich food along with the military authority to make the rules indicated by formal clothes point to abuse. Homologies are made with the abusive military authority and its substitutes, and the oppressed individual identified as the ‘other.’ Scenarios where the characters switch identities in resistance and rescue point to an underlying philosophy of the human being as a ‘being-for-other.’ Examples of transformations and substitutions are the characters Ruth, Yvonne, and Hélène in The Blood of Others , and Diego and ‘the first’ Lewis in The Mandarins . The compassion of Hélène for Ruth at her arrest by the Gestapo is a heroic response whereas in The Mandarins , Lewis's unexpected transformation from a husband into an enemy is the echo of the abandonments of World War II.

The Blood of Others: A Novel Approach toThe Ethics of Ambiguity

<i>The Blood of Others</i>: A Novel Approach to<i>The Ethics of Ambiguity</i>

The Blood of Others : A Novel Approach to The Ethics of Ambiguity

The Blood of Others : A Novel Approach to The Ethics of Ambiguity