Results 111 to 120 of about 1,913 (261)

The Many Shades of Clouds: How Law Fails (Us) in Seeing Power in the Digital Economy

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cloud infrastructures form the backbone of our contemporary (digital) production environment. Despite their centrality, legal and scholarly practice have not been treating cloud infrastructures as single objects of/for study. In other words, we have laws for regulating services and products that flow from (within) cloud infrastructures, but we
Petros Terzis, Anushka Mittal, Joris van Hoboken   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
wiley   +1 more source

A cultural memory semiotics and function behavior structure model for digital inheritance and innovation in AI generated Huizhou woodcarving images. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Qian Y, Bao Q, Zhang S, Peng X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Queer-religious symbol analysis (QRSA): A semiotic method for reframing Hindu iconography. [PDF]

MethodsX
Ac PS, Gk C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Drawing Animals in the Paleolithic: The Effect of Perspective and Abbreviation on Animal Recognition and Aesthetic Appreciation

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta, Mateusz Psujek, Larissa M. Straffon, Riccardo Fusaroli, Kristian Tylén   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The biopsychosocial materno-semiotics framework: A holistic analytical tool for film studies. [PDF]

MethodsX
Priyadharshini J, Karthiga RKJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cognitive Symbionts. Expanding the Scope of Cognitive Science With Fungi

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract It has been argued that fungi have cognitive capacities, and even conscious experiences. While these arguments risk ushering in unproductive disputes about how words like “mind,” “cognitive,” “sentient,” and “conscious” should be used, paying close attention to key properties of fungal life can also be uncontroversially productive for ...
Matteo Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging the stuff of words: language materiality and symbolic power. [PDF]

Educ Linguist
Thurlow C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Visualising the Urban Imaginary: Failure and Irresolution in an Urban Digital Twin

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract The article analyses the visualisation encountered in an urban digital twin to argue that recognising the visualisation as a representation of the city is dependent upon habituation to perceptual and computational practices. Through speculative engagement with moments of visual irresolution, the article highlights the importance of ...
Emma McRae
wiley   +1 more source