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Stereotypical Poles and Their Funny Beaver (Bober)

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

The aim of the paper is to analyse the viral presence of the beaver in the contemporary Polish digital sphere to identify the features of a specific text that make it popular, recognised, and disseminated in certain cultural circles. Our focus is to specify the factors creating its humorous…

A Manifesto That Reads Itself: Towards a palimpsest method for 'reading' site-specific works of art

Dori Ben Alon

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

A method is proposed for reading video works as a palimpsest: examining the source texts (the original manifestos), the visual text, and, perhaps most importantly, the spatial context, and then adding an often-overlooked layer: the location and its history as a third ‘text.’ Relying on the notion…

Poetry off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

The introduction to Poetry off the Page: Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance collection.

Calling the Mountains in East and West: A Contrastive Corpus Analysis on the Language of German Climbing Communities

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

Across Germany, cultural and linguistic norms in climbing communities differ significantly. Many of the differences which developed during the separation of the country into two independent states can still be observed today. Several studies on German language use of mountaineers have been…

‘Drowning is a very prosaic arrangement’: Narrating the shipwreck in the age of steam

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

The introduction of steam propulsion to transnational shipping in the second quarter of the nineteenth century marked a profound infrastructural shift, fundamentally reshaping global mobilities and the cultural imaginaries through which the sea was understood. At the heart of this transformation…

Blue Infrastructures: Reading Victorian Sailor Writing as Oceanic Ecofiction

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

The article brings infrastructure studies into dialogue with the blue humanities to examine how Victorian sailor writing appropriates the generic conventions of narrating the sea. Building on original research in the Caird Library & Archive (National Maritime Museum, London), it reads…

Walking from the 19th to the 21st Century: from Baudelaire’s to Jean-Christophe Bailly’s Paris

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

This paper examines the continuities and ruptures in walking practices in Paris from the 19th to the 21st century, focusing on the works of philosopher and essayist Jean-Christophe Bailly and his dialogue with Baudelaire. During the Second Empire, Paris underwent profound transformations through…

Generative Alternatives: GenAI Realism from the Image Provinces in Kristoffer Ørum’s #freedomlibertyandhiphop

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

In #freedomlibertyandhiphop (#frihedlighedoghiphop) (Ørum, 2023-) Kristoffer Ørum artistically employs generative AI (GenAI) images generated via Stable Diffusion to explore what would have happened to the Danish worker’s movement and late 20th-century culture if early hip-hop culture had been…

(A)I Cannot See Them: A Situated Reflection on the Simulation of Historical Figures

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

When algorithms speak in the voices of the dead, who decides what they say? This essay examines that question through a situated and at times uncomfortable reflection on the design and failure of a prototype of what the author terms a histobot: a conversational agent that uses generative Artificial…

Artificial Extinction Archives: Machine Learning for Ecological Mourning

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

This article examines how algorithmic and machine-learning–based creative practices can offer new modes for narrating, and mourning, species extinction in the Anthropocene. To do so, I conduct a creative-practice–led analysis of the Artificial Extinction Archives (AEA): a new media artwork wherein…

Matthias Flacius Illyricus, William of Saint-Amour, and the Codex Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Guelf. 367 Helmstedt.

Andrew Garrett Traver

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

The manuscript Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Guelf. 367 Helmstedt (hereafter cited as HAB) forms a 'Flacian compilation' in which the Lutheran theologian Matthias Flacius Illyricus (1520-1575) assembled texts to demonstrate the continuity of the Christian tradition throughout a period…

The Soviet-Ukrainian Magazine Chervonyi Perets Imagines Fighters for the Independence of Ukraine

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

This article examines how the Soviet Ukrainian satirical magazine Chervonyi Perets employed the image of the Zaporizhzhian Cossack to represent and discredit fighters for the independent Ukrainian nation-state in its first two issues, published in Kharkiv in April 1922. Using Erwin Panofsky’s…

Reimagining Literature? AI, Textual Collage, and Literary Experimentation

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

This essay explores how large language models (LLMs) and digital platforms reshape literary practices through two contrasting case studies: AI Imagines: Classic Literature (2023) and Things of Internet (2018). While appropriation and collage have long been part of experimental traditions, recent…

Literary Texts as Cognitive Codependents: the case of electronic literature redux

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

This essay’s title refers to N. Katherine Hayles’s ‘Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages’ and reexamines its arguments along with more recent thinking by this important scholar. What, in the light of Hayles’s essay, is ‘assembled’ by literary texts, especially now that their ‘electronic’ or…

Melancholic Masculinity in Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Part II (2020)

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

The spectre of the dead father haunts Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II (2020), which garnered praise for its progressive gender representation. In the game’s prologue, the beloved protagonist of the original game, Joel Miller, is brutally murdered in front of his surrogate daughter, Ellie, by…

Four Theses on Algorithmic Folklore

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

Recent advancements in machine learning have brought new forms of automation to the forefront of online interactions, exposing users of social media platforms and apps to different and unfamiliar kinds of algorithmic logics, which range from the curatorial biases of recommender systems and content…

Lost in the Fields: Who is Training Whom when Writing with AI

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 2 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

In this essay, I examine the 2023 AI-generated text Los campos electromagnéticos [The Electromagnetic Fields] by writer Jorge Carrión as an early example (perhaps the first) of writing with GPT-2 and GPT-3 in Spanish. The text, part essay and part creative exercise, raises the question of whether…

Anything, Anytime, Anywhere: Semiotic Landscapes, Labour, and Ideology in The Last of Us

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

Due to advancements in technology, capital-intensive videogames now often include rich semiotic detail in their simulated spaces. In The Last of Us, specifically, much of the playable space is stylised as dilapidated capitalist cities. In this article, I argue that the semiotic constitution of…

Zoharic Proverb: A One-Line Dialogue

Hillel Feuerstein

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

The zoharic proverb is a distinctive four-word aphoristic form embedded in the Zohar, a thirteenth-century mystical corpus. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of polyphony, the article considers how proverbs function as ‘external agents’ in the text—formally integrated yet marked by an autonomous…

Challenging the Colonial Archive of Conflict in Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone

Ann-Marie Einhaus

Open Library of Humanities, Vol. 12 No. 1 · 2026 · Spanyol · DOAJ Scopus

This article reads Kamila Shamsie’s novel A God in Every Stone (2014) as postcolonial historical fiction that seeks to question and complicate colonial archives of conflict – specifically, the British archives documenting the experiences of Indian sepoys in the First World War and inter-war…