On the basis of an analysis of her unpublished manuscript Black Metamorphosis, the author, a nondisciplinary artist who attends to ritual aspects of aesthetics, argues that Sylvia Wynter never stopped being an artist. She is a language-centric artist with a functionalist aesthetic and a decolonial bent, and the manuscript indicates an interest in music, performance, and narrative (time-based mediums of worlding). The article examines certain lines of flight regarding sound and performance, as well as shades of an ontology of vital rhythm in her manuscript. Sometimes framed as a site of change regarding the status of Wynter (e.g., from artist to philosopher), the manuscript serves instead as a crucial indicator of the continuity of Wynter's creative inquiry regarding the narrative condition of being human, and her commitment for generating analytic tools and spaces for consecrating alternative narratives and transforming consciousness. After troubling the divide between orality and textuality that emerges when trying to situate the manuscript (as written or textual object) in relation to the oral and aural, the author elaborates on a notion from Tavia Nyong'o, that Black Metamorphosis is a fetish. That is, it embodies the properties of certain Black Atlantic ritual practices it analyzes: the work is a tool in the sacred maroon world-building process of rewriting the human, a performance script that, like all the best fetishes in Black American anthropologist J. Lorand Matory's analysis, is ambivalent.

Preface to an unpublished manuscript by Thomas Schwandt

ABSTRACT This article revisits the “Kunstlump” (“Art Scoundrel”), one of the most significant debates on the relationship between art and politics in early Weimar Germany. It does so by incorporating the perspective of a key yet overlooked historical actor: Hannah Höch. The Kunstlump debate began when the Expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka urged striking workers – who were defending the Republic against a failed coup d’état – to move their protests away from artworks after a stray bullet damaged a painting by Rubens. Dada artists George Grosz and John Heartfield responded to Kokoschka, sparking a controversy that eventually involved several other figures, including the German Communist Party, which branded the Dadaists as vandals. By analysing “The Painter,” an unpublished short fiction manuscript by Höch, and exploring overlooked writings, interviews and her intellectual networks – particularly her friendship with the socialist cultural theorist Lu Märten – I argue that Höch contributed to the Kunstlump by establishing a middle ground in the controversy and introducing a distinctive gender perspective that was critical of her Dadaist colleagues.

This study explores the manifestation of national cognition in the Algebra textbook authored by Kanysh Satbayev, the first algebra text written in the Kazakh language for national schools. It examines how mathematical knowledge is shaped by linguistic, cultural, and cognitive factors within a specific national context. Drawing on a linguistic and cognitive analysis of the unpublished manuscript, the research highlights the ways in which mathematical concepts are adapted to the Kazakh worldview through culturally embedded examples, traditional measurement systems, and context-based problem-solving. The study also investigates the formation of early Kazakh mathematical terminology and the role of language in enhancing conceptual understanding. The findings demonstrate that mathematics education is not purely abstract but is deeply influenced by national cognition, which contributes to both knowledge transmission and the preservation of cultural identity. Received: 22 October 2025 / Accepted: 11 April 2026 / Published: May 2026

ABSTRACT This article examines how Mykhailo Maksymovych, a prominent nineteenth-century Ukrainian scholar and public intellectual, portrayed Jews in his historical and literary writings. Drawing on published works, personal documents, and unpublished manuscripts, it explores how his Orthodox religiosity, romantic historiographical style, and Cossack heritage shaped his consistently negative depictions of Jews. Particular focus is given to how his religious beliefs intensified anti-Jewish attitudes through motifs of collective guilt and supersessionism. Using methods from intellectual history and metaphor theory, the article shows how admiration for biblical texts coexisted with hostility toward contemporary Jews within established Christian interpretive patterns.

ABSTRACT Alfred S. Eichner (1937-1988) is widely recognized as a founding figure of post-Keynesian economics. This paper argues that his framework was also shaped by original institutional economics. Although his later work integrates these traditions, his earlier writings reveal a latent institutionalist structure. Drawing on unpublished manuscripts, the paper reconstructs a framework for institutional change developed prior to The Megacorp and Oligopoly. At its center is the Social Systems Interaction Matrix, a device mapping nonlinear relations among institutional dimensions. Archival evidence shows that Eichner formalized the instrumental — ceremonial dichotomy to capture tensions between technological change and institutional continuity within cumulative causation. Correspondence from 1969 to 1975 indicates that this framework was intended for his major book but was removed during revision under the influence of Joan Robinson, Adrian Wood, and editorial constraints at Cambridge University Press. The paper shows how this architecture clarifies Eichner's microfoundations for macrodynamics by situating pricing, investment, and corporate behavior within historically specific processes of cumulative causation. In doing so, it clarifies four critiques of mark-up models concerning firm investment decisions, the limits of partial analysis, principal-agent conflicts in dividend distribution, and institutional constraints on corporate pricing.

This paper examines a previously unexplored episode in the early history of the isoquant. In some of his unpublished manuscripts of the late 1920s, Piero Sraffa proposed the use of indifference curves within production theory. He found Marshall’s response to Hobson (1909), and more broadly Marshall’s wage theory based on marginal magnitudes, unconvincing. In Sraffa’s view, this approach obscured the relationship between the marginal productivity of a given factor and the ratio of variable to fixed factors. For Sraffa applying indifference curves to production theory would help clarify the genesis and behaviour of the marginal productivity of a given factor.

This previously unpublished lecture manuscript by John D. Zizioulas examines Fyodor Dostoevsky as a theological thinker whose reflections on freedom, suffering, and death raise fundamental questions for Christian anthropology. Rather than approaching Dostoevsky primarily as a literary figure, Zizioulas interprets his novels as explorations of the existential limits of human freedom. Dostoevsky’s characters reveal a paradox at the heart of human existence: the human longing for absolute freedom confronts the reality of suffering and death. According to Zizioulas, Dostoevsky’s anthropology challenges both Western humanistic optimism and modern ideological projects that seek to eliminate suffering while preserving freedom. The lecture further explores Dostoevsky’s eschatological vision, especially as articulated in The Brothers Karamazov, where the problem of death becomes central to the future of humanity. The text offers a rare glimpse into Zizioulas’ early engagement with themes that would later become central to his theology of personhood, freedom, and resurrection.

The article is dedicated to the research of the specifics and unspoken rules for compiling the selected works of the Tatar encyclopedic enlightener Kayum Nasyri during the Soviet period. The author analyzes the content, themes, presentation, and scholarly apparatus of the selected works of K. Nasyri published in 1926, 1945, 1953, 1956, and 1974–1975. Their continuity is noted, which was manifested in the consideration of the structure and themes of previous editions, as well as in the inclusion of relevant materials, usually with certain clarifications and/or additions, in new editions. An unspoken rule was the inclusion of previously unpublished manuscript works of K. Nasyri in each collection. The editions lack texts of religious content, but at the same time, they contain materials of far from high artistic quality that include criticism of government representatives or the upper classes of society. Using specific examples, the role of Soviet censorship in the exclusion of individual essays and sections from the works of the Tatar enlightener is determined. For citation: Zagidullin I.K. Specifics of Compiling and Publishing the Selected Works of Kayum Nasyri in the Tatar Language During the Soviet Period. From History and Culture of Peoples of the Middle Volga Region. 2026, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 108–124. https://doi.org/10.22378/2410-0765.2026-16-1.108-124 (In Russian)

Abstract This article presents a comprehensive account of the career of Lieutenant Colonel Mieczysław Szumański (1896–1973), emphasizing his multifaceted role as a soldier, topographer, cartographer, and resistance fighter. It highlights his contributions to Polish military geography, the clandestine cartographic service during World War II, and his scholarly activity in military history, while also providing insights into his private life. The study addresses the regrettable obscurity of Szumański’s profile within both Polish and international geographical communities. The research draws upon a diverse array of primary and secondary sources, including Szumański’s handwritten notes and unpublished manuscripts, memoirs of his son Jerzy Szumański, biographical works by Jacek Szumański, and historical studies by Balbus, Krassowski, Gałęzowski, Sobczyński, and others. The narrative is framed chronologically, with thematic deviations to separate military, underground, and public activities from personal life. The analysis combines historical reconstruction with evaluation of Szumański’s motivations, decisions, and their broader consequences. The study reveals Szumański’s extraordinary achievements across multiple domains: distinguished service in the Polish Legions and during the Polish–Soviet War; leadership of the Officers’ School of Topographers; command of the Home Army Geographic Service (“Schronisko”) in occupied Poland, which successfully provided topographic support to resistance units; postwar clandestine work in Freedom and Independence (Wolność i Niezawisłość, WiN); as well as scholarly and cartographic contributions during his exile in France, including work at the French National Geographic Institute (IGN). His life exemplifies the intersection of military service, cartographic innovation, and patriotic commitment, often at the expense of personal and family life. Due to the fragmentary nature of some source materials, certain aspects of Szumański’s activities require supplementation or verification. This applies particularly to the intelligence work conducted by “Schronisko” as well as his activities in the anti-communist underground and his escape from Poland. The study should also be expanded to include Szumański’s involvement in the WiN structures in Paris and his work at the French IGN. The article offers a valuable resource for historians, geographers, and military cartographers by filling gaps in the understanding of the history of Polish military geography and underground cartographic operations. Special attention is given to the clandestine activities of the Military Geographical Institute (WIG). By integrating biographical, military, cartographic, and personal perspectives, the article constructs a multidimensional portrait of Lt. Col. Szumański, highlighting his overlooked legacy in Polish and international geographical scholarship. It contributes to a fuller appreciation of the role of geographers in national defense and clandestine operations during twentieth-century conflicts.

Bernardino Genga of Mondolfo, Italy, a pioneer of surgical anatomy, taught and practiced in seventeenth-century papal Rome. He was a contemporary of Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy and personal physician to Pope Innocenzo XII. When Malpighi died in 1694, his pupil Giorgio Baglivi performed an autopsy in the presence of Giovanni Maria Lancisi, a leading Roman physician and anatomist. Baglivi and Lancisi wrote the only reports known to date of the autopsy. Research in the Archivio Apostolico Vaticano uncovered an unpublished manuscript by Bernardino Genga describing Malpighi's autopsy. Genga's manuscript, compared in this paper with those of Baglivi and Lancisi, is historically significant because it reveals his presence at Malpighi's autopsy, demonstrating he was alive in 1694. This new evidence prompts a re-evaluation of Genga's unsettled chronology and the context of his latest works, previously deemed posthumous.

Prisons must go. “Is that what you suggest? We should open all prisons and let all the prisoners out? The gangsters? The murderers? The kidnappers? Let them return and flood the community? Is that what you believe, that we should abolish the prisons? And make the community an open battle field?” Yes, this is exactly what I believe – because this is exactly what happens. Unpublished manuscript or speech from 1931 Jacob L. Moreno Collection Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University Retrieved and submitted by Sergio Guimaraes

Journal selection is a critical step in the scientific publishing process, influencing the visibility, impact, and credibility of the published work. This task has become increasingly complex due to the proliferation of journals, predatory practices, and the diversity of editorial criteria. This narrative review presented an overview of classical tools, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platforms, and generative models (ChatGPT, Grok) used to recommend suitable journals for an unpublished manuscript. Six tools were tested (Springer Journal Finder, Jane, Manuscript Matcher, Trinka Journal Finder, ChatGPT, and Grok) using either the abstract or full text of a clinical article on nonspecific low back pain. The results were compared based on thematic relevance, availability of bibliometric indicators, and transparency of the recommendations. Classical tools are limited by their narrow editorial scope and the absence of key indicators. AI platforms offer broader coverage but sometimes lack precision for targeted topics. Generative tools stand out for their ability to structure recommendations, although the data provided (impact factor, fees, timelines) are often inaccurate or unverifiable. Several technological biases and algorithmic limitations impact the overall reliability of these systems. While AI tools expedite initial journal identification, they frequently suggest journals outside the manuscript's scope and provide incorrect journal metrics. These systems function best as exploratory instruments rather than authoritative advisors. The most successful approach positions the researcher as the primary decision-maker who employs computational assistance to survey options while exercising scholarly judgment for final determinations.

ABSTRACT Wopko Jensma’s three volumes of poetry, Sing for Our Execution (1973), Where White is the Colour, Where Black is the Number (1974), and I Must Show You My Clippings (1977), together with his unpublished manuscript ‘Blood and More Blood’, constitute an interesting and idiosyncratic response to the strife and turmoil in South Africa in the 1970s. His experimental poetry harnesses the signatures of jazz lyrics, concrete poetry, the avant-garde as well as African dance forms in bizarre cameos of underclass misery and racial oppression. In lieu of metrical regularity and rhyme the aesthetic experience is simulated by asemantic qualities of speech, sound, and rhythmic undulations in a poetry characterized by a ‘withdrawal of semantic crutches’. Jensma’s diction of private idiomatic language, the use of syncopation, neologisms, portmanteau words, disparate argots, syntactic dislocation, fragmentation, and experimental typography express an insurgent, anti-authoritarian politics which has significant shared affinities with the Beat poetic canon. Protest against state oppression, consumer culture, materialism and the privileging of the underclasses and everyday experiences are key motifs in his poetry and resonate with Beat counterculture. The use of anaphora and repetition also foreground the surreal and hallucinogenic nature of his poetry. Although written predominantly in English and Afrikaans, Jensma’s poetry draws on multiple languages and township argot, as well as an Americanized slang influenced by the rhythms and lexical items of jazz. Jensma’s poetry is also an imaginative critique of ‘constituted realities’ and its ambient ideologies which have exiled the other outside the pale of common humanity.

Manuscripts constitute handwritten knowledge repositories recorded on various materials including palm leaves, birch bark, leather, cloth, and paper. These documents hold substantial scientific and historical importance for Ayurvedic scholarship. The existence of numerous unpublished and unexplored Ayurvedic manuscripts reveals that currently available published literature represents only a fraction of this medical tradition. This reality necessitates comprehensive study of historical Ayurvedic texts through examination of multiple manuscript versions to preserve authentic medical knowledge. As a part of this scholarly endeavour, the present study examines Bheshajapaddhati, authored by Purushottama. Among its four sections (khaṇḍas), the Upakramakhaṇḍa was selected for critical edition and English translation due to its systematic presentation of disease treatment protocols and therapeutic formulations. Based on available evidence, the text likely dates between the 16th and 20th century CE. While Upakramakhaṇḍa shares similarities with other Ayurvedic texts, it demonstrates unique value through its concise presentation of treatment principles and effective medicinal formulations composed in dedicated verses. The text\'s distinctive therapeutic approaches include both classical preparations and innovative remedies not commonly found in other Ayurvedic compendia.

This article examines two eighteenth-century Polish travel accounts describing journeys through the Habsburg-ruled Kingdom of Hungary: the military account by Ignacy Zawisza from 1715 and the unpublished manuscript by Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski from 1762. The aim of the article is to highlight how Polish travellers perceived space, society, and history in the region, depending on the context of their journey as well as their social position and intellectual ambitions. The primary sources are two travel narratives – Zawisza’s printed and concise account, based on his military campaign experience, and Jabłonowski’s much more extensive manuscript, combining topographical observations with historical, genealogical, and heraldic reflections. The article also draws on relevant scholarship on eighteenth-century travel culture, Polish-Hungarian relations, and the representation of early modern elites. Both narratives are analysed comparatively, using a cultural perspective that makes it possible to reveal the cognitive, representational, and identity-building functions of travel writing in eighteenth-century noble culture. Special attention is paid to narrative construction and to the tension between factual description and the symbolic dimension of the travel accounts. The article argues that travel through Hungary served not only practical and cognitive purposes for the Polish nobility, but also played a role in self-representation and the shaping of identity. While Zawisza’s account aimed to document participation in a Habsburg-led military campaign, Jabłonowski’s manuscript was a conscious attempt at self-fashioning and presenting himself as a member of European intellectual networks. The article thus demonstrates how travel could serve as a medium for asserting status and participating in the transnational culture of early modern Europe.

This article examines the flow of information between Istanbul and Paris in the eighteenth century and explores how this exchange contributed to the shaping and dissemination of historical narratives across Europe. It draws on an unpublished French manuscript entitled Revolte de Constantinople, produced within French diplomatic circles in Istanbul, which narrates, day by day, the history of the 1730 (Patrona Halil) revolt. The article analyzes how this manuscript contributed to the shaping and publication of various texts, first in the French magazine Mercure de France (April 1731), and subsequently in a book published in The Hague in 1737 by the editor Jean Néaulme. In conclusion, the article offers a preliminary analysis of the possible Ottoman sources of the manuscript and reflects on the uses of the term “revolution.” Finally, from a historical perspective, the article considers how non-European social unrests, such as the Patrona Halil Revolt, have influenced the evolving connotations and semantic charge of the term “revolution” within the European vocabulary in post-1789 contexts.

While Rāvaṇa’s enduring legacy spans the religious, political, and intellectual histories of South Asia, it is in the realm of literature that his presence especially remains dynamic, inspiring a vast and heterogeneous corpus across both classical and vernacular traditions. His sole extant poetic composition, the Śivatāṇḍavastotra (ŚTS), widely venerated as a devotional hymn to Lord Śiva, stands as a singular testament to his poetic genius and continues to resonate beyond the confines of sectarian Śaiva devotion. This study reconsiders Rāvaṇa’s literary agency by undertaking a close textual analysis of the ŚTS, presenting a concise scholarly translation of its most widely circulated version alongside a review of variant stanzas drawn from several previously unpublished manuscripts. Through a reception-theoretical lens, this paper briefly explores the hymn’s transmission history and interpretive flexibility, revealing the ŚTS as a site of devotional intensity, aesthetic sophistication, and layered meaning. Ultimately, the research affirms Rāvaṇa’s stature as a cultural and literary figure whose poetic expression continues to provoke scholarly interest and devotional engagement across linguistic, historical, and spiritual contexts.

This article examines how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping authorship governance in Vietnamese scientific journals, with attention to its interaction with Vietnam’s intellectual property framework and norms of academic integrity. Using a legal–policy and conceptual approach, it reviews key aspects of the 2022 Intellectual Property Law, emerging proposals for AI regulation, and existing integrity rules, together with recent findings on plagiarism and ChatGPT use among Vietnamese students. Under Vietnamese law, authorship is limited to individuals who directly create a work, and named persons are presumed right holders; yet GenAI can generate or revise scientific text without legal personhood, complicating attribution while leaving formal presumptions intact. Persistent issues—plagiarism, “name lending,” and uneven enforcement—are further entangled when GenAI is used for drafting, paraphrasing, or stylistic imitation. Large-scale training on Vietnamese-language materials also raises concerns about unlicensed use of articles, theses, and unpublished manuscripts, with possible effects on priority and scientific credit. The article contends that Vietnamese journals and regulators should align international AI standards with domestic law, reinforce disclosure and authorship rules, adopt safeguards against opaque reuse and scraping, clarify the responsibilities of human authors and GenAI providers, and encourage empirical research on GenAI use in Vietnam.

The intellectual legacy of the Baṣrān Muʿtazila has had a profound and lasting impact on the development of discussions on Qurʾānic inimitability. Numerous writings have been composed by Baṣrān Muʿtazila on the topic; among them is Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān by Abū Rashīd al-Naysābūrī, an unpublished manuscript preserved in the King Saud University Library under the number 7752. This paper focuses on the development of al-Naysābūrī’s understanding of Qurʾānic inimitability in the context of this manuscript, especially analysing his reception of early Muʿtazilī (specifically Bahshamī) thoughts on Qurʾānic inimitability. Moreover, it pays particular attention to al-Naysābūrī’s engagement with the critiques directed against the Bahshamī theory of Qurʾānic inimitability. This paper adopts a source-criticism approach to studying the manuscript and evaluating the historical development of its contents. It argues that the theoretical foundation underlying the theory of miraculous eloquence developed by ʿAbd al-Jabbār drew al-Naysābūrī’s attention towards a deep engagement with hypothetical dialogues inspired by the refutations of questions concerning Qurʾānic inimitability posed by the freethinkers’ movement. This engagement prompted al-Naysābūrī to adopt and assess numerous hypothetical frameworks and conditional views, including the ṣarfa theory, in his defence of Qurʾānic inimitability. This approach of addressing the freethinker critiques aligns greatly with the dynamic and responsive nature of Baṣrān Muʿtazila’s thoughts against freethinkers’ movement.