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Some Notes on La Faiseuse D'anges (A Fazedora De Anjos, 1908), by Pedro Weingärtner 《天使的仙女》（A Fazedora De Anjos, 1908），作者：Pedro Weingartner

Future Humanities Pub Date : 2026-09-25 DOI: 10.1002/fhu2.70032

Gustavo Ruiz da Silva

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Beyond Connection: Paradoxes of Psychedelic Resonance in Late Modernity 超越联系：晚期现代性迷幻共振的悖论

Future Humanities Pub Date : 2026-08-31 DOI: 10.1002/fhu2.70031

Mateo Sanchez Petrement

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The Plagiarist in the Machine? Generative AI and the Will to Fail 机器里的剽窃者？生成式人工智能和失败的意志

Future Humanities Pub Date : 2026-06-12 DOI: 10.1002/fhu2.70030

Matthew J. Barnard, Keith Crome

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Future Humanities Pub Date : 2026-05-07

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Future Humanities Pub Date : 2026-05-04

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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara “未来是祖先”：加布里埃拉的环境乌托邦Cabezón Cámara

Future Humanities Pub Date : 2026-02-21 DOI: 10.1002/fhu2.70024

Victoria Jara

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When the Future Feels Foreclosed: AI Resignation and the Power to Act 当未来感觉丧失抵押品赎回权：人工智能辞职和行动的权力

Future Humanities Pub Date : 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1002/fhu2.70026

Jan-Philipp Siebold, Annemarie Witschas, Rainer Mühlhoff

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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction 叙事视野：海洋气候小说中的故意错乱

Future Humanities Pub Date : 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1002/fhu2.70025

Mark Celeste

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Telecological Collapse: The Inevitability of Climate Breakdown in the Transmedial Podcast Drama Forest 404 远程崩溃：跨媒体播客戏剧森林中气候崩溃的必然性

Future Humanities Pub Date : 2026-01-18 DOI: 10.1002/fhu2.70023

Matilda Jones

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Alignment of the Starlings: Learning With Generative AI 椋鸟的结盟：用生成式人工智能学习

Future Humanities Pub Date : 2025-12-28 DOI: 10.1002/fhu2.70022

Sean Watson

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