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Memory and Youth Work: The Politics of Military Cemeteries in Germany
On the maintenance of memory and war graves
![Illustration by Daniel Mantilla](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Plots-in-Gardens.jpg)
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Visions of Eden: The State of Nature as Idyll
The language of environmental harmony is often used in Indigenous rights advocacy, but does it perpetuate the myth of the “noble savage”?
![The colossus of Appennino at Pratolino (Florence, Italy)](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/The-colossus-of-Appennino-at-Pratolino-Florence-Italy-.png)
The Grotesque: Mischief and Wonder in Renaissance Art
the misshapen, the disproportionate, the fantastic and the delirious
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Death, Technology, and the “Return to Nature”
The influence of Romantic philosophy in the funeral industry
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Spiritual Principles and Laboratory Work: The Wondrous History of Alchemy
Chemical philosophers, Galenists, and mechanists war over the meaning of scientific inquiry in early modern Europe.
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The Mechanical Age: Automata between social critique and the uncanny
The uneasy space between human and machine in late 18th century Europe
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