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This Is My (Post) Truth, Tell Me Yours; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”

This is a commentary on the article ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.’ It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and ‘post truth.’ This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, ‘post-truth’ has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...

The Analysis of The Concept of Time in Performance-Art based on Gilles Deleuze’s Ideas

Art in Deleuze’s ideas is a block of percepts and affects that is made in order to make audiences free from clichés. Performanceart works’ approach to social matters are to disarrange clichés, too. The aim of this paper is to analyze “Time” as an essential component in performance-art works to answer to this question: What potential is in artists’ approach to this component for expressing socia...

Truth in the Context of Christian Faith and its Relation to Other Religions

In the following reflections on the understanding of truth in regard to Christian faith (or even in regard to religious faith, experience, and language in general), I advocate a relational interpretation of truth. Truth in that sense is understood not primarily as an intellectual assertion but as a qualification of a dynamic, existential, personal relation. Truth is the trustworthiness of that ...

The Hard Truth about Some “Soft” X-ray Transients

We have accumulated multiwavelength lightcurves for eight black hole X-ray binaries which have been observed to enter a supposed “soft X-ray transient” outburst, but which in fact remained in the low/hard state throughout the outburst. Comparison of the lightcurve morphologies, spectral behaviour, properties of the QPOs and the radio jet provides the first study of such objects as a subclass of...

Review of Reviews/ ‘Tis Truth not Imagination: A Response to "Sometimes a Desire for Truth, Sometimes Imagination: A Critique on the Book Kimia, The Child of Mowlana’s Household": Gholamreza Khaki

Organizational Black Hole Theory

There are issues in organizations that require new theoretical formulation. Hence, metaphorical theorizing is used in the study of organizations to interpret them and understand their complexities. In this method, the organization is likened to an entity and one of the key features of that entity is generalized to the organization. It should be borne in mind that most organizational theories ar...