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Designing at the End of the World [PDF]

open access: yesCompanion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion, 2019
We are living in a time of ecological and humanitarian crisis that requires imminent action from the joint fields of HCI and interaction design. In a very palpable way, we seem to be moving towards the "end of the world" (certainly, as we have known it).
Jonas Fritsch, Daria Loi, Ann Light
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Derrida and the End of the World [PDF]

open access: yesNew Literary History, 2011
Derrida was very attentive to the fictions that arise from claiming to open or to close a world, most notably in his readings of Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and Nancy. At the same time, he retained a concept—or a difference­­—of world. From his earliest work on Husserl, Derrida relies on a framework that takes its vantage point from what is not only in the
Gaston, S
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Marco Ferreri: The task of cinema and the end of the world [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2013
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2013 Intellect Books.This article identifies Marco Ferreri's original contribution to cinema as a gesture aimed at exposing the 'end of ...
Daniele Rugo
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A Stroke In Not the End of the World

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1957
WHY is the thought of having a stroke so frightening? Is it because no one looks forward to a life of limited activity? Statistics show, however, that 90 percent of the persons who have a cerebral vascular accident can learn to become selfsufficient, and 50 percent recover enough abilities to return to work.
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Is the end of the world at hand?

Challenge, 1973
I was having a hard time figuring out how to begin when I came across an excerpt from an interview with my MIT colleague Professor Jay Forrester, who is either the Christopher Columbus or the Dr. Strangelove of this business, depending on how you look at it.
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From the end of the world to the top of the world

Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, 2008
AbstractI've been on the road a bit this summer. Because of the kind generosity of my London broker, Lloyd and Partners, Ltd., I've been allowed the unique opportunity to have an insider's view of the London market. I observed an interesting renewal situation and sat with underwriters in their boxes amid the hallowed (at least to us insurance geeks ...
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The End of History and the End of the World

2023
“End of history” theories came in many shapes in the last decades of the previous century. Just as many shapes as do the various claims about the revival of history in midst of the political turmoils and human-induced environmental crises of the new century.
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End of the Party (but not the end of the world)

1999
In Part I, we traced the development of the modern Japanese financial system from its highly functional origins during the Second World War and immediate postwar period and through the high growth episode. We have a picture of a structure that was highly inter-mediated, with each step in the intermediary process performing a highly specialized function.
Dick Beason, Jason James
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The Ends of the World

Discourse, 2014
The Ends of the World Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability by Emily Apter. London: Verso, 2013. 358 pages. $95.00 hardback, $29.95 paperback, $29.95 ebook.World literature is a field that seems to occasion the polemical attitude signaled by the title of Emily Apter's new book: amid the defunding of language departments and the
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End of the downsizing and world after that

2016 46th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC), 2016
The progress of the electronics has been conducted by the downsizing of electron devices for more than 100 years since its beginning in early 20th century. However, it is believed now that the downsizing will reach its limit within several years because of several sure reasons. After reaching the limit there is no Moore’s law, and we cannot expect such
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