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Brolly
Vol. 7, No. 1
April 2026
Vol. 7, No. 1
April 2026
Poetically Man Persists: Searching for Fullness of Being in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens and Rainer Maria Rilke
The quest for wholeness of being amidst an alienated and disenchanted world, and how this search unfolds in the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Rainer Maria Rilke. The article extends this through concepts advanced by literary critics and philosophers, such as Max Weber’s Disenchantment and Nietzsche’s “life as an aesthetic phenomenon”.
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Curator Beyond Protocol. The Emerging Figure of Care in Medicine and Research in the Age of AI
Curare: to care, to attend, to be responsible before any structure of rule or system takes form. From this root, two trajectories emerged: to cure, the impulse to restore what is at risk, and curator, the one who selects and organises meaning within an overwhelming field of possibilities. As AI expands, roles dissolve into automation. Protocols replace decision, outcomes unfold across processes. (...) What disappears is not work, but unreflected work. What returns is judgment. The Curator selects within abundance without reducing it, resisting the anonymity of what “one does” (das Man).
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How AI will Change the Entire Structure of Civilisation: The Need for a New Design of Education
AI’s rapidly advancing technologies will fundamentally restructure global civilisation and render the traditional, employment-driven design of education obsolete. The current school model, historically engineered to produce two classes of citizens (managers and managed) through selective grading and language-based performance, is shown to rest on misconceptions about intelligence and to avoid the explicit teaching of reasoning skills. As AI assumes economic functions, this model will no longer sustain societal stability.
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Welcoming the Unwelcomely in Ray Bradbury’s “Ylla”, “The Earthmen”, and “The Third Expedition”
These three stories in Ray Bradbury’s "The Martian Chronicles" have been read as independent narratives whose sequence is largely arbitrary. While understandable, given the collection’s history, this perspective overlooks the thematic and structural logic that binds them Drawing on Hospitality Theory, the paper reframes this as a sequence that traces the progressive overtake of unconditional hospitality by different forms of hostility. (...) Hospitality comes to an end when the guest is perceived as a threat that compels the host to react defensively in order to maintain control.
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Bakundu Traditional Authority System. An epitome of African Traditional Democracy
Bakundu political organisation was based on collective deliberation, moral accountability and a participatory ethos that anticipated many of the principles associated with modern democratic governance. Far from being autocratic or primitive, Bakundu governance represented a dynamic system of checks and balances rooted in the people’s collective will.
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Where the Harm Comes From: Ethics of Mediating Collectives
We target three domains of global injustice: economic, environmental, and gender-related, following the threads of briefly stated cases in these domains. Our conclusion suggests recommendations for dealing more realistically and more efficiently with global injustice (...)
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Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy as a Theoretical Framework of Wine Rhetoric
Wine rhetoric encompasses the unique discourse, vocabulary, and tastes of sommeliers, restaurateurs, and other wine professionals. (...) The rhetorical skills they develop are reflective of Scottish Enlightenment theories on Taste and Beauty.
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Pre-Raphaelite Intertextualities and Love as Melancholy in Constantin Christomanos’ Tagebuchblätter
Romantic aesthetics and Pre-Raphaelite fashion inspired Constantin Christomanos (late 19th century) to write about his virtual interaction with Empress Elisabeth...
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When “Knowing How to Read Texts” Means Understanding and Inferring Meanings
(...) a vision of reading comprehension as a dynamic process of decoding and linguistic understanding, which suggests how the relationship between decoding and linguistic understanding should be integrative rather than additional.
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“Gabriel de Pedro Quintet”: Decisions in Search for a Sonority
The production process and musical performance of the album "La mujer árbol" (2018). (...) The theoretical framework conceives music as a process and performance, not as an isolated object. The research field is organized by (...)
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