Abstract This overview of recent work on the relationship between economics and culture takes occasion Covid-19 pandemic to reflect urgency creative thinking about biopolitics, in process questioning utility apparent divisions Foucauldian- Marxist-derived approaches question social reproduction.

This work attempts a lexico-semantic analysis of ‘Don’t Marry Angelica’ in order to reveal the author’s creative deployment language foreground his pre-determined intentions text. The study, which adopts Halliday’s Context Situation as theoretical framework, shows how author uses vast knowledge linguistic techniques and fecundity mental construct expose ills African society through use figures ...

n this text, based on an interlocution with Bruno Latour’s objection to the task of criticism, Judith Butler seeks outline a way approaching, from contemporary perspective, Karl Marx’s 1844 economic-philosophical manuscripts. To end, author interrogates famous but enigmatic paragraph in early writings when he refers nature as inorganic body man. So, first all, finds larger text Marx and offers ...

For pragmatists, the inability to stand outside of the contingencies of human practice does not impede social criticism. However, several pragmatists have argued that Richard Rorty’s position unnecessarily and undesirably circumscribes the scope of social criticism, allowing for nothing more than an appeal to current practices, with no way to challenge or revise them. This article argues agains...

We are using summarising as a way of studying large-scale discours¢~ structure. Much computationally-orieuted work on disconrse structure ha.s been concerned with dialogue, rather than with 'single-source' text.. Some prop()sals haw. been made for singh~-soul'ce text e.g. l~hetorical Structure Theory (Mann ;rod Tholnpsoll 1987), I)nt al'~' open to criticism (e.g. Moore and I)olla(:k 1.q92); and...