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The Object as a Process
How does artistic practice lead to the production of knowledge? How does, in turn, artistic knowledge relate to its material base? How does contingent materiality guide the artist towards finding form and developing a statement? This volume is dedicated to the object as a process in order to offer new insights into the ways the object - broadly construed, comprising digital and other non-classical objects - becomes an active element in artistic practice.
Fractal Narrative
Fractals suggest recursivity, infinity and the repetition of a principle of order. They are digital pictures of the universe's continuous movement ignored by mankind during millennia. This book investigates the relationship existing between geometries and technology, and how it guided cognitive processes and thus the organization of narrative spaces. The author proposes a new approach for the study of media remarking that from Bacon's camera obscura to von Neumann's computers both geometries and technology strongly influenced the organization of narrative spaces, which acquired a fractal character.
Linguistic structure and educational achievement in second language acquisition
Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Pedagogy - Miscellaneous Topics, University of Hamburg, language: English, abstract: The widely decontextualised educational language, its abstraction from everyday relations and its exemption from personal-dialogical communication have lead the Canadian researcher Jim Cummins to distinguish between „basic interpersonal communication skills“ (BICS) and „cognitive-academic language proficiency“ (CALP). Against this conceptual backdrop, educational discourse is seen to focus on CALP, a language with higher cognitive requirements, lower contextual transparency and a higher demand for abstraction. It presupposes on behalf of the students...
Reading »Black Mirror«
Very few contemporary television programs provoke spirited responses quite like the dystopian series Black Mirror. This provocative program, infamous for its myriad apocalyptic portrayals of humankind's relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies, has proven quite adept at offering insightful commentary on a number of issues contemporary society is facing. This timely collection draws on innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks to provide unique perspectives about how confrontations with such issues should be considered and understood through the contemporary post-media condition that drives technology use.
Comparison of novel and film: La Familia de Pascual Duarte
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Romance Studies - Spanish Studies, grade: 1,8 (A-), University College Cork (Spanish), course: HS 2057 Cinema & Identity in Spain & Latin America, language: English, abstract: The film version of the novel La Familia de Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela is written and directed by Ricardo Franco Rubio and was first screened in 1975. Without any background knowledge the film seems hard to follow, boring and depressing, but by watching it with background knowledge, just as Spanish history, Spanish cinema history, the novel itself or by watching the film for the second time one can realise, that it is a very demanding film full of symbols, of small impor...
The Shetland Bus
The Shetland Bus is the eighth installment of Jack DuArte’s best-selling World War II series. At the start of WW II, Germany overruns Norway and occupies the great northern country. Many Norwegian fisherman flee and some even take their fishing boats to nearby Scotland. Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) sets up a base in the Shetland Islands and these boats and crews begin systematic supplying and ferrying to aid the Norwegian Resistance. These trips are only made when the dangerous North Sea is at its worst; when nighttime offers a tiny measure of safety. The Shetland Bus is the heroic story of these boats and men and their efforts to outlast perilous seas and a demonic enemy. From start to finish, the Shetland Bus is filled with action-packed sequences of this masterful attempt to thwart Nazi Germany.
The Week in Germany
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The Architect's Dream
Sean Pickersgill demonstrates that the goal of creating meaningful architecture can take a variety of critical and philosophical paths. The importance of architecture as an expression of broad, complex social drivers is complemented by the equally popular idea that architecture, as an intellectual pursuit, retains its own autonomy as a self-referential culture. This book uniquely places the emphasis for innovation in architecture within the domain of critical thinking generally, and a specific understanding of the semantics of built form. The book draws on a broad range of subject areas, from film to philosophy to anthropology to mathematics and economics, to show that the path to meaningful...
Diasporas within a Diaspora
This volume is concerned with the religious, social and commercial 'networking' methods extending over a large part of the world, ranging from the Near East to South America, used by the western Sephardic Jewish diaspora - and the linked 'New Christian' diaspora (in lands where the Inquisition prevailed)- from the mid sixteenth to the mid eighteenth century. Particular attention is given to the role of these unique diasporas in the functioning of the six great European world maritime empires of the time - the Venetian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English and French. New material and argument is offered relating to the questions of diaspora formation, Sephardic social practices, crypto-Judaism, religious syncretism, cross-cultural brokerage, and the contribution of diasporas to European expansion.
