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Similarity accounts of counterfactuals: A reality check1
Abstract To an unusual extent, philosophers agree that counterfactuals have truth conditions involving the most similar possible worlds where their antecedents are true, in the style of the celebrated and path‐breaking Stalnaker/Lewis accounts. Roughly, these accounts say that the counterfactual if A were the case, C would be the case is true if and ...
Alan Hájek
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O "Grande Irmão" e a empresa: indústria cultural, reality shows e espetáculos organizacionais
A motivação para este ensaio relaciona-se à busca de uma via mais direta de comunicação entre pesquisadores descontentes e participantes organizacionais pouco identificados com leituras críticas e mais interessados em render homenagem a certos produtos ...
Marcos Goulart Castelo +1 more
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In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. -Guy Debord Particularly in the contemporary era, image duplication and manipulation techniques have been advancing rapidly.
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The threshold of the real: A site for participatory resistance in Blast Theory's Uncle Roy all around you (2003) [PDF]
This article examines the collision of virtual and real spaces through simultaneous live and online play in Uncle Roy All Around You, and how this disruption of immersion is used to expose the habitual engagements associated with the digital interface ...
Adams, KR
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Spirit Owners, Ethno‐Racial Critique, and Indigenous Land Struggle in Brazil
ABSTRACT This article ethnographically explores how the land conflict between Indigenous protesters and agribusiness complexes in Brazil offers insights for critically reevaluating matters of property and belonging—namely, ethno‐racial critiques of who belongs where and what belongs to whom.
LaShandra Sullivan
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Hyperreal Replicas in Julian Barnes' "England, England" [PDF]
This article aims to examine Julian Barnes' England, England through Jean Baudrillard's influential concepts of hyperreality and simulation, illuminating profound resonances with the postmodern condition of contemporary Western societies.
Mohammadreza Shayanpoor +1 more
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Genesis in Hyperreality: Legitimizing Disingenuous Controversy at the Creation Museum [PDF]
This essay analyzes the argumentative structure of the Answers in Genesis ministry\u27s Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. Founded by a $27 million grant, the 70,000 square-foot museum appropriates the stylistic and authoritative signifiers of ...
Hoerl, Kristen, Kelly, Casey R.
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Nonstandard representation of the Dirichlet form and application to the comparison theorem
Abstract The Dirichlet form is a generalization of the Laplacian, heavily used in the study of many diffusion‐like processes. In this paper, we present a nonstandard representation theorem for the Dirichlet form, showing that the usual Dirichlet form can be well‐approximated by a hyperfinite sum.
Haosui Duanmu, Aaron Smith
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ADAPTATION TO THE (HYPER)REALITY: HAMLET AND HIS VIRTUAL WORLD [PDF]
In this article I will argue that the film adaptation of the play Hamlet by Michael Almereyda (2000) is a reflection on contemporary postmodern society that highlights the tragedy of an individual who is in a constant search for justice and identity ...
Adina Mocanu
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Cinema, Phenomenology and Hyperrealism [PDF]
Traditionally, hyperrealistic mannequins have embodied the dream (or rather the nightmare) of animating the inanimate: by imitating the living model to such an extent that any distinction becomes (almost) impossible, they blur the threshold between life and inert matter.
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