Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing is a story about the past as well present. It peopled not only by characters living in present South but also ghosts representing racial injustice. These are manifestation of brutality, sign haunting But presents temporal aporia: separate from present, hence presence link between two temporalities they merged through remains past: Parchman prison or discrimina...

A decade after the ‘‘Sokal Hoax,’’ Alan Sokal and Paul Boghossian still claim that postmodern arguments are incoherent attacks on reason and truth. However, both also continue to mischaracterize ‘‘constructivist’’ epistemology, to engage in highly problematic logical gymnastics to defend their own views, and to ignore changes in philosophy of science and science studies since 1996. I offer a br...

The modernistic model of upbringing emphasizes more cognitive, instrumental competence, and underlines the importance of critical thinking. The postmodern model of upbringing induces more interdisciplinary and creative thinking. The authors of the article raise the following question: is creativity compatible or incompatible with critical thinking? Relying on their own experience of textbooks w...

Abstract The work of the French illustrator and writer Gilles Bachelet has been recognised through numerous awards, but he is not yet sufficiently well known in critical community. In this article, multilevel humour that constructs his studied, both from an iconic a textual perspective, as situational characters emerge metafiction, self-referentiality heteroreferentiality. For purpose, theories...