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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Orthogonal Terrain Guarding is NP-complete

Journal of Computational Geometry, 2019
A terrain is an x-monotone polygonal curve, that is, every vertical line crosses the curve at most once. In the Terrain Guarding problem, a special case of the famous art gallery problem, one has to place at most $k$ guards on the vertices of a $n ...
Édouard Bonnet, Panos Giannopoulos
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A defining feature of cultural capital is its propensity for accumulation and the potential of its convertibility. However, there are a lack of studies that would explore how different forms of cultural capital could be employed as an advantage.
Ondřej Špaček
wiley   +1 more source

Impairment-Aware Access Point Placement for Visible Light Communication

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
Visible Light Communication (VLC) has emerged as a promising technology for modern wireless communication, offering high-speed data coverage when light-emitting diode (LED) access points (APs) are suitably positioned.
Behrouz Shamsi, Mohammad Hadi, Mohammad Reza Pakravan   +2 more
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Beyond Distinction: Private Art Museums and Their Versatile Role for Elites' (Self)Legitimization Discourses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva, Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analytical Morphology of Div in the Works of Muhammad Siyah Qalam [PDF]

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With regard to the problem statement in this research, it is observed that demons are among the most frequent patterns in Iranian paintings and have been illustrated as evil and malicious creatures for several centuries.
Zahra Alioghli ziyaei, Hamideh Hormati
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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz, Kobe De Keere, Sara Geven   +2 more
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Üksildus küberruumis: autori individuaalsus ja teksti autonoomia. Solitude in Cyberspace: the Individuality of an Author and the Autonomy of a Text

Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2011
The keywords in analyses of digital literature and cybertexts (literature that has been created by and is read on a computer) mostly derive from the vocabulary of increasing collectivism: shared authorship, readerviewer interaction, their active ...
Virve Sarapik, Piret Viires
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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