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The Constitutional Law Of Defamation—Recent Developments And Suggested State Court Responses, Susan Gail Shorey

Maine Law Review

Prior to the 1964 decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, defamation law in the United States was controlled by common law principles developed in the state courts. In New York Times the United States Supreme Court staked out an area of first amendment privilege, which limited the states' power to permit recovery in defamation actions brought by public officials. Later extensions of this constitutional privilege made it appear for a time that constitutional requirements would produce a unified nation-wide body of defamation law to replace the various common law rules followed in the fifty states. In view of …

A Labor Of Love: Wall-E'S Redemption, Rosamund M. Gammie

Journal of Religion & Film

Inaugurated into the Criterion Collection in 2022 this paper re-examines some of the initial responses to the 2008 Disney-Pixar animated film, WALL-E. The movie received a mixed reception, largely celebrated (but occasionally viewed as “too leftist” by others) for its environmental, anti-capitalist message by many public critics, yet disparaged or dismissed as being superficially empty, shallow, and hollow in academic circles. Labor has been the focus of some academic criticism of the film, particularly as it relates to commoditisation, but this paper recontextualises labor not with capitalism, but with love. By viewing the film through the dynamic of labor and …

A Hidden Life On The Way Of The Cross: Terrence Malick And The Cultivation Of Character, William S. Skiles

Journal of Religion & Film

Terrence Malick’s film A Hidden Life depicts the resistance of the Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter against the Nazi regime and its demands that he serve Nazi war aims and swear an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler. Unlike other resistance films set in Nazi Germany or the Greater German Reich, which depict resistors conspiring to overthrow the regime or actively working toward its downfall, A Hidden Life presents a man’s simple and emphatic “No” to the Nazi regime and its ideology. The film does not simply show how Jägerstätter said “No,” but reveals how he was able to say “No” …

The Shrouds, Elijah Siegler

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The Shrouds (2024), directed by David Cronenberg.

The Wicker Man, Laurel Zwissler

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Steve A. Wiggins, The Wicker Man (Liverpool: Auteur, 2023)

Full Issue, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.

“The Amber Campfire“ By Ureltu, Hang Lin

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.

Paabat: Provincializing Postmemory In Merlie Alunan’S Poems On The Balangiga Encounter Of 1901, Ian Harvey A. Claros

Kritika Kultura

This essay deploys the Waray word for haunting, apparition, and feeling—paabat—to examine Merlie Alunan’s poems about the Balangiga Encounter of 1901 and its aftermath in the anthology Running with Ghosts and Other Poems (2017). This historical event transpired when the townsfolk launched a surprise attack against the American soldiers stationed in Balangiga, a town in Samar, Philippines. Despite its success, the Americans harshly retaliated by pacifying the entire island through militarization, massacre, and arson. Alunan’s poetry attempts to reconstruct a range of events and subjectivities that constitute this traumatic history. Initially, it can be posited that her poetics and self-reflexivity …

Alaála: Tropical Memory, Christian Jil R. Benitez

Kritika Kultura

This essay considers a moment in José Rizal’s novel El Filibusterismo (1891)—namely, the substitution of the Spanish figure of “black King Melchor” with the folk “King of the Indios,” Bernardo Carpio, in the eyes of a native coachman—with a critical attention to how such an instant of comparison unfolds. The essay first ruminates on the crucial phrase deployed by Rizal to signify the moment, pensar naturalmente, which has been interpreted differently across various translations of the novel, but specifically rendered here as alaála or remembering. Through a brief philological examination of the latter Filipino word, regarding it as a material …

On Exasperated Isles, Joff P. N. Bradley

Kritika Kultura

This essay is an experimental piece of writing that brings together an array of thinkers from different traditions. Readers will encounter allusions to the Heideggerian Marxism of Axelos, the schizoanalysis of Deleuze and Guattari, and the pre-Socratics such as Heraclitus. Badiou is present, alongside Glissant, Nietzsche, and Bernard Stiegler. Karl Marx also makes an appearance. My project is to rethink the question of the unthought and the open system. I have been exploring this theme in various contexts, and for nearly a decade, I have been revisiting the excellent philosophy of Kostas Axelos. Axelos is a thinker who is rarely …

Grotian Images Of The Sea In Law And Philosophy, José Duke Bagulaya

Kritika Kultura

Against the backdrop of modern states’ cadastralization of the sea, this article discusses images of the sea in three texts that are analyzed as figures of resistance to contemporary forms of territorialization: Hugo Grotius’s Mare Liberum [The Free Sea] (1609), Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus (1981), and the South China Sea (SCS) Arbitration Award (2016). It is argued that the recurring images of the sea in these three texts, which may be collectively called “Grotian images of the sea,” constitute a thought that resists states’ territorializing tendencies by grounding legal challenges to excessive claims to the sea. …

Living The Coast: On Property And Possession, The Netherlands And Indonesia, And The Free Sea, Rick Dolphijn

Kritika Kultura

When Sigmund Freud visited the Netherlands in the 1920s, he oversaw the Dutch landscape while travelling by rowing boats, carriages, and on foot. The reclamation of the Zuyderzee especially made an impression. He concluded that this drive for culture to control nature was similar to how the Ego wanted to control the Id. Of course, this was not a recent phenomenon in the Netherlands. During two earlier visits (in 1908 and 1910), Freud visited the major museums of the Netherlands where he was especially interested in the landscape painters of the seventeenth century. Landscape is actually one of those Dutch …

Transversal Symbiogenesis: Mapping A Nonlinear Postcolonial Future, Chun-Mei Chuang

Kritika Kultura

Gaia’s symbiotic imagery and the Anthropocene crisis characterize the early twenty-firstvcentury, shaping a historical consciousness where we are becoming Isabelle Stengers’sv“cosmopolitical idiots.” In this context, we practice “slowing down” and regeneration, always with historical specificities and intricate networks of relations. This paper reevaluates Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon’s vivid transcorporeal language, charged with the violent energy of resistance, through the lenses of symbiogenesis, metamorphosis, and hybridogenesis. I propose a nuanced understanding of postcoloniality that challenges normative notions of identity and violence, advocating for a nonlinear trans-species future. I emphasize the urgent need for a planetary postcolonial turn that embraces hybridity, …

Heterotopos Of Desert Island, Woosung Kang

Kritika Kultura

This essay attempts to elucidate the uniqueness of the concept of desert island in Gilles Deleuze’s thinking, juxtaposing it with Carl Schmitt’s idea of struggle between the land and the sea. Especially, Deleuze’s notion of “desert island” is to be reread and revisited in terms of archipelagic literality of islands themselves. Deleuze’s concept of “desert island” is different from other conceptualizations of island in two critical aspects. Firstly, it does not metaphorize something other than island itself; its desertedness has nothing to do with utopian or apocalyptic representation of what the continent lacks. Secondly, it does not feed on the …

The Posthuman Evolution Of A Hazardous Transcorporeality: Tracy K. Smith’S Poetics Of Water From “Thirst” To Wade In The Water, Bahareh Azad

Kritika Kultura

This study analyzes Tracy K. Smith’s poetry through the lens of ecological materialism and Stacy Alaimo’s concept of transcorporeality, which emphasizes the fluidity and vitality of bodies and their interconnectedness. Tracing the evolution of Smith’s ethicopolitical concerns, I explore the elemental and transcorporeal forces in her work that create a poetics of fluidity. Additionally, I argue that Smith’s poetic trajectory marks a significant shift away from humanist frameworks, advancing toward a politically charged conception of Black marginality. By examining Smith’s poem “Watershed” in relation to Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead, this study investigates the development of a posthuman …

Review Of Plai, Visual Intelligence In Design And Art: An Experimentation Handbook With Artificial Intelligence, Jena Marble

Book Reviews

No abstract provided.

2025 April News Report, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Communications and Marketing Publications Archive

The April 2025 Morehead State University News Report.

A Semi-Mechanistic Model Of Immune Tolerance Induction To Support Preclinical Development Of A Human Monoclonal Antibody, Paridhi Gupta

Alternative Theses and Dissertations (AETDs)

Administration of human monoclonal antibodies (mAb) in preclinical species often triggers an immunogenic response, leading to the formation of anti-drug antibodies (ADA). ADA can bind to the mAb and reduce their systemic exposure by enhancing immune-complex mediated clearance. Thus, ADA complicates the accurate assessment of preclinical pharmacokinetics and toxicology studies. To mitigate this effect, we explored short-term immunosuppressive therapy (methotrexate or combination of tacrolimus and sirolimus) to induce prolonged immune tolerance towards a human mAb, erenumab, in rats. The results demonstrated that tacrolimus/sirolimus but not the methotrexate regimens prevented ADA formation in all treated animals relative to the non-immunocompromised control …

Enhancing Academic Integrity: From Ideas To Action., Fiona O' Riordan (Ed.), Ruth Níbheoláin (Ed.), Denis Cummins (Ed.)

Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Authors 2025: College Of Arts And Sciences, Erin Sheffner

Faculty Authors and Sponsored Grant Recipients Reception Bibliographies

An annotated bibliography compiled by the University Library of the publications featured by the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty at the annual Faculty Authors and Creators Reception at Governors State University.

Veganism (And Method) In Political Philosophy: A Response To B.V.E. Hyde, Josh Milburn

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

Impulse, Spring 2025, Jill Fier, Micayla Standish, Jerome J. Lohr College Of Engineering

Impulse (Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering Publication)

2 | Faculty, Staff Honored
4 | The State of Lithium
6 | 100 Years of Ag and Biosystems Engineering
8 | Major Milestones
12 | Distinguished Engineer Geldert-Murphy
14 | Distinguished Engineering Heitkamp
16 | By the Numbers
18 | Space Grant Consortium at SDSU
20 | Healthcare Systems Engineering Program
22 | Ridgway Three-Peat
23 | Aerospace Club Launches
24 | Power and Energy Scholarships
25 | More Take Part in Nasa Challenges
26 | Weber Recognized as Student Leader
30 | Wild Hare Racing Ready
32| Sebern’s Success as Sole Operator
34 | Meink: From Prairie to …

Günther Anders’S “Promethean Shame”: Technological Ressentiment And Surveillance, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

Günther Anders’s philosophy of technology, particularly his complex notion of ‘Promethean shame,’ or technological ressentiment, may illuminate questions of surveillance and AI ethics. As a critical philosopher of technology, radically so, his emphasis on the negative or downside of technology distinguishes Anders’s thinking on technology from future-focused and mainstream technological messianism. Key to Anders’s notion of ‘Promethean shame’ was his observation that we adapt ourselves to our technology, not the other way around. Provocatively, Anders argued that while the populace in the past—referring to Nazi Germany—required the techniques of mass psychology and mass gatherings for the purposes of manipulation and …

Dog Act

Theatre and Performance Studies Programs

A post-apocalyptic vaudeville, "Dog Act" follows Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion Dog, a young human undergoing a voluntary species demotion, as they walk through the wilderness of the former Northeast U.S. with their little troupe.

The Role Of Moonlighting Proteins In Life Through Viewing A Synthetic Mycoplasma Species, Anthony Wheeler, James Daubenspeck, Prescott Atkinson

Expo Student Presentations

2025 Spring Expo Oral Presentation

• Biological & Life Sciences
• Works in Progress

Age Related Variations In Blood Vessel Vascularity And Collagen Deposition In Mice Ovarian Tumors, Khushi Sureja, Asha Kumari, Mehri Monavarian, Liz Quientero-Macias, Karthikeyan Mythreye

Expo Student Presentations

2025 Spring Expo Poster Presentation

• Biological & Life Sciences

Impact Of O-Glcnacylation Elevation On Mitophagy In Astrocytes Within The Dentate Gyrus, Eric Rohwer, Joshua Kramer, John C. Chatham, Martin E. Young, Victor Darley-Usmar, Jianhu Zhang

Expo Student Presentations

2025 Spring Expo Poster Presentation

• Biological & Life Sciences
• Works in Progress

St6gal1 Enhances Cell Survival And Proliferation Under Hypoxic Stress In A Human Pancreatic Model, Anna Wong, Michael Marciel, Susan Bellis

Expo Student Presentations

2025 Spring Expo Poster Presentation

• Biological & Life Sciences

Stress-Induced Neural Activity In The Pvt And Its Role In Binge Eating Behavior, Julia Tucker, Sierra Miller, Lauren Assaf, Sofia Beas

Expo Student Presentations

2025 Spring Expo Poster Presentation

• Biological & Life Sciences

Effective Guidance Using Natural And Unnatural Framing, Bowen Dong

Level Design Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates the impact of six types of framing—Natural, Unnatural, Implied, Implicit, Mixed, and Lighting / Color Contrast Framing—on guiding player navigation in video games. It further examines how additional design elements, such as chokepoints and breadcrumbing, interact with these different types of framing to enhance directional cues across both indoor and outdoor settings. Utilizing the Dying Light Editor: Chrome Engine, the researcher developed a custom single-player level in which these framing methods were implemented and evaluated. Through testing and analysis we can determine the best practices for utilizing the framing techniques.