Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation

Psychoanalytic Pure War: Interactions with the Post-Apocalyptic Unconscious

McCarthy's The Road and Ethical Choice in a Post-Apocalyptic World

In her article "McCarthy's The Road and Ethical Choice in a Post-Apocalyptic World" Jingjing Guo analyses ethical choice and its implications in McCarthy's The Road. After examining the deterioration of the ethical context and the prevalence of evil reflected in cannibalism, Guo highlights the father's ethical choice and dilemma. Different from most others, the father chooses to keep alive to p...

Appropriation Infrastructure: Mediating Appropriation and Production Work

End User Development offers technological flexibility to encourage the appropriation of software applications within specific contexts of use. Appropriation needs to be understood as a phenomenon of many collaborative and creative activities. To support appropriation, we propose integrating communication infrastructure into software application that follows an“easy-to-collaborate”-principle. Su...

Diverse structural approaches to haem appropriation by pathogenic bacteria.

The critical need for iron presents a challenge for pathogenic bacteria that must survive in an environment bereft of accessible iron due to a natural low bioavailability and their host's nutritional immunity. Appropriating haem, either direct from host haemoproteins or by secreting haem-scavenging haemophores, is one way pathogenic bacteria can overcome this challenge. After capturing their ta...

“Hold Him in Your Arms”: Deconstruction of Gender Roles in the Post-Apocalyptic Novel The Road