Review: "Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork, Zone Books, 2012" and "Lisa Gitelman, Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, Duke University Press, 2014" (joint review) [PDF]
, 2014 Kafka delves into the nature of paper as enabling agent of bureaucracy – i.e. paperwork – Gitelman’s focus is on “documents” and how they were shaped by print and are now transformed by the ...
von Lunen, Alexander
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Obraz Łodzi w wybranych utworach literackich rosyjskojęzycznej prasy łódzkiej
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria PolonicaW artykule omówiono obraz Łodzi, jaki został przedstawiony w dwóch parodystycznych poematach rosyjskiego autora N.G. Kuzmicza: Mój wujek i Demon, które ukazały się w rosyjskojęzycznej gazecie łódzkiej „Łodzinskij Listok” w ostatnich latach XIX wieku. Oba
Anna Warda
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Quantum consensus dynamics by entangling Maxwell demon
New Journal of Physics, 2022 We introduce a Maxwell demon which generates many-body entanglement robustly against bit-flip noises, allowing us to obtain quantum advantage. Adopting the protocol of the voter model used for opinion dynamics approaching consensus, the demon randomly ...
Sungguen Ryu, Rosa López, Raúl Toral
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Descartes' demon and his powers: The break with medieval demonology [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualIn contemporary scholarship, Descartes' Demon has been often treated as a thought experiment with no connection to the world and the views of the 17th century.
Radenović Ljiljana, Jevtić Rastko
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Reliabilism and Demon World Victims [PDF]
, 2013 This paper defends reliabilism against the classic demon world victim thought experiment. In doing so, I underscore two of its key alleged intuitions.
Mulnix, Jennifer Wilson
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Little Birds and a Demon - a Still Life [PDF]
, 2015 Commissioned by 14th Istanbul Biennial Materials: Sea salt, wooden table and chairs, copper cauldron, ladle, and bowls, silver spoons, used-pointe-ballet-shoe-soup, speakers and sound variable dimensions Little Birds and a Demon -- a Still Life was ...
Schwindt, Grace
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From Daimon to Demon: The Evolution of the Demon from Antiquity to Early Christianity [PDF]
, 2013 One of the most fascinating entities of religious thought is the demon, which is still pervasive in both religious and popular culture today. The demon is something that is present not just in various religious texts, but is also a staple of the modern ...
Fuller, Hailey Marie
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SCURT DEMERS COMPARATIV ASUPRA FIGURII FEMININE ÎN DRAMATURGIA LUI LUCIAN BLAGA ȘI VALERIU ANANIA / A BRIEF COMPARATIVE APPROACH ON THE FEMALE FIGURE IN THE DRAMATURGY OF LUCIAN BLAGA AND VALERIU ANANIA [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginarThe aim of this paper is to explore, from a comparative mytho-symbolic perspective, the ways in which the feminine figure is configured in the dramatic texts of Lucian Blaga and Valeriu Anania.
Raluca-Denisa NICOARĂ
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A Comparative study of Daiva's Sin and its Evolution in the Stories of Ancient Iran and Ta'ziehs of Daiva's Tying Thumb Based on Six Poetic Verses [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2021 1.Introduction The presence of demons as evil and demonic beings in epic literature as well as religious epic narrations is very abundant. Hence, the demons' story is also considered a style in religious erature. In ancient religious texts, the demon was
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Bisimulation for Demonic Schedulers [PDF]
, 2009 Bisimulation between processes has been proven a successful method for formalizing security properties. We argue that in certain cases, a scheduler that has full information on the process and collaborates with the attacker can allow him to distinguish two processes even though they are bisimilar.
Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis 0001 +2 more
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