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Preserving Destruction: Philosophical Issues of Urban Geosites

Open Philosophy, 2020
This article examines the philosophical issues that arise when preserving urban geological sites or urban geosites. These are preserved not only because of their geological value but also because of aesthetic, cultural, and economic reasons. To do so, it
Capdevila-Werning Remei
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The Evolutionary Value of an Aesthetic Sense

Aisthesis, 2013
The aesthetic sense we inherited from our successful ancestors drew them toward conditions that made for survival and reproductive success and repelled them away from conditions that impacted negatively on longevity and fertility. But for them, as for us,
Stephen Davies
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The Symbolic Significance of Deer in Ildiko Enyedi’s On Body and Soul

CINEJ Cinema Journal
This paper examines the symbolic significance of deer in Ildiko Enyedi’s 2017 film On Body and Soul. Through a close analysis of the film’s visual and narrative elements, the paper explores how the deer imagery serves as a powerful metaphor for the ...
Sanjay Surin
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Reconciling Science and Nature by means of the Aesthetical Contemplation of Natural Diversity

Rivista di Estetica, 2015
In this paper, I argue that a reconciliation between science and nature is possible by way of the role played by ecological sciences on the aesthetical and ethical appraisal of natural diversity.
Jorge Marques da Silva
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Green fields, ugly ducklings and black swans: Aesthetic dimensions of ecological science

People and Nature
Despite its relative infancy, ecological science plays a pre‐eminent role in current environmental decision‐making globally and has, over recent decades, permeated a broad range of academic disciplines.
Samantha J. Capon, Robyn Bartel, Sandy Boucher, Felicity Joseph, Anthony Lynch   +4 more
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Radioactive futures of Environmental Aesthetics

, 2022
One extreme example of intergenerational environmental change is given by nuclear waste. The radiation from a typical nuclear waste assembly will remain fatal for humans for millennia, creating the problem of communicating a warning about hazardous repositories to people so far in the future that we cannot assume any common ground with them in terms of
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Stories of Snow and Fire: The Importance of Narrative to a Critically Pluralistic Environmental Aesthetic

Humanities, 2013
Written narratives enable humans to appreciate the natural world in aesthetic terms. Firstly, narratives can galvanize for the reader a sense for another person’s experience of nature through the aesthetic representation of that experience in language ...
John Charles Ryan
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What do the contrasting views of harries and eisenman add to architectural culture in bringing aesthetic impressions back to the built environment?

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism
In the era of modernism, the natural symbols of art – expressed through aesthetic elements – have been seen replaced by the verbal notations of communication.
Abhijit Paul, Kshitij Sinha
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“New” identity in a city space

Budownictwo i Architektura, 2010
Finding and classifying the factors that determine the identity of a city influences the feeling of the emotional bond between inhabitants and a city in the period of the widespread globalization processes. The inhabitants’ social awareness of preserving
Jan Wrana
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« Topologie de la démesure » : entretien avec Félie-Line Lucol, artiste-plasticienne

Études Caribéennes, 2018
This interview synthesizes artist statements collected in a series of interviews with Félie-Line Lucol conducted by Frédéric Lefrançois, with reference to the paper presented during the conference “Artistic Cartographies and Topologies” which was held on
Frédéric Lefrançois, Félie-Line Lucol   +1 more
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