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Our senses provide us with information about the world, but what exactly do they tell us? I argue that in order to optimally respond to sensory stimulations, an agent’s doxastic space may have an extra, “imaginary”dimension of possibility; perceptual experiences confer certainty on propositions in this dimension.
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"How America Disguises its Violence: Colonialism, Mass Incarceration, and the Need for Resistant Imagination" [PDF]
This paper examines how a delusive social imaginary of criminal-justice has underpinned contemporary U.S. mass incarceration and encouraged widespread indifference to its violence.
Stone-Mediatore, Shari
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In the late-Francoist period, coastal tourism became an extremely important argument and discourse in film fiction and coincided with what was known as comedia desarrollista.
Salvador Martínez Puche +1 more
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During the twentieth century, Catholic theology moved to reject the misuse of imaginaries of the afterlife. By insisting on a de-cosmologization of the “last things”, theologians endorsed a Christocentric eschatology.
Piotr Zygulski
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New World, Old Hope: Utopian Imaginaries in Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese [PDF]
Golden Door (Nuovomondo), a 2006 film by Emanuele Crialese, tells the story of Europeans immigrating to America at the turn of the twentieth century.
Barbara Klonowska
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Following the closure of its borders with the United States and Eastern Canada, Quebec residents in search of seaside destinations have turned their interest toward the maritime region of Eastern Quebec.
Luc Renaud, Dominic Lapointe
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Du discours à l’archétype dans l’œuvre de Mircea Eliade [PDF]
The exegesis of Mircea Eliade’s work highlights the fact that the author integrated concepts that belong to several sciences into his hermeneutical analysis of religion. Thus, our study analyses both Eliade’s view of discourse and the tight connection
Nicolae Şera
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Unproductive expenditure and spectacular merchandise
In order to fully grasp the spirit of our times, we need to analyse fully the contemporary relationship between spectacle and consumption: spectacular consumption and the spectacle of consumption.
Vincenzo Susca
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Fake Instability in the Euclidean Formalism [PDF]
We study the path-integral formalism in the imaginary-time to show its validity in a case with a metastable ground state. The well-known method based on the bounce solution leads to the imaginary part of the energy even for a state that is only ...
Aoyama, Hideaki +4 more
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The satirical strategies, both in the novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco and in the screen adaptation of this novel, target political, religious and social characteristics specific to the Middle Ages.
Maria HOLHOȘ, Andra Gabriela HOLHOȘ
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