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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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Abstract Corridors are promoted as seamless solutions for economic development, integrating production and consumption networks. However, they often fall short, fail, and operate as tools of accumulation for some while unevenly and, at times, violently reshaping the lives of others.
Jessica DiCarlo, David Fernando Bachrach
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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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The term hyperreality characterizes the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures. Jean Baudrillard adopted the term “simulacrum” (lat: likeness, similarity) to abstract the
Steinmann, Cary
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“Stayin’ Alive in Da Club”: The Illegality and Hyperreality of Mashups
This study investigates the issues raised by the creation of ‘new’ songs entirely from ‘old’ recordings, exemplified by mashups. The paper looks at the illegal status of the genre and the challenge to traditional ideas of authorship and originality posed
Liam Alan Maloy
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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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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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ABSTRACT For Aotearoa New Zealand Māori, sleep and wairua (spirit) are closely intertwined. During sleep the wairua awakens and journeys across multiple dimensions of time and space to attain the tools and knowledge the individual needs to navigate waking life.
Deanna Haami +3 more
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Hyperreality and Consumer Society: J.G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come
Over the course of a literary career spanning over four decades, J.G. Ballard established himself as an important British contemporary writer. In his final novel, Kingdom Come (2006), Ballard again expresses his disdain for the contemporary world ...
Ewelina Chiu
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Reductive, Exclusionary, Normalising: The Limits of Generative AI Music
Up until recently, most approaches to music generation were based on deductive logic: generative rules were devised on the basis of musicians’ preferences, subjective appreciation and dominant music theories.
Fabio Morreale +4 more
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