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Monstruos, mutantes y contra-gestación : Promesas naturales, de Oliverio Coelho
Amerika, 2014 Between the futuristic novel, sciences fiction and the fantastic genre, Promesas naturales by Oliverio Coelho builds a suffocating universe. An omnipotent and distant State classifies individuals from the day they were born, distribute themselves ...
María A. Semilla Durán
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HumanitiesFascination with the unknown has always characterized humanity. This includes creation of mythical creatures that are believed to exist even though fully unproven. Fabricating monsters began to peak in early modern Europe. Sixteenth-century monsters were
Juan Claudio Gutierrez +1 more
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Monsters, black holes and the statistical mechanics of gravity
, 2009 We review the construction of monsters in classical general relativity. Monsters have finite ADM mass and surface area, but potentially unbounded entropy. From the curved space perspective they are objects with large proper volume that can be glued on to
't Hooft G. +8 more
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Against Conventional Wisdom [PDF]
, 2020 Conventional wisdom has it that truth is always evaluated using our actual linguistic conventions, even when considering counterfactual scenarios in which different conventions are adopted.
Jerzak, Ethan +2 more
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Journal of Approximation Theory, 2003 Using a theorem of \textit{S. J. Gardiner} [Harmonic approximation (1995; Zbl 0826.31002)], the author shows that there exists a harmonic function \(h\) on a non-empty open subset \(\Omega\) of \(\mathbb{R}^d\), where \(d\geq 2\), which behaves wildly near every boundary point of \(\Omega\).
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Figurations of Alterity: an Encounter with the Archive
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2021 In this work I ponder about the archive based on three images from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the drawing of a monster from the Teratology collection of the Museo Nacional de México preserved today in the Biblioteca Nacional de ...
Frida Gorbach
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Sirens Chanting in Auvergne-Velay: A Story of Exegetical Pilgrimage on the "Via Podiensis"
Ad Limina, 2013 Migrating from Greek mythology to scripture and ecclesiastical writing, sirens are best known for the perils they put on the road of Odysseus, and conversely, on that of the crucified Christ and on that of the pilgrim, two significations that Odysseus ...
Avital Heyman
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Cartographic Monsters and the Rise of Empiricism
XVII-XVIII, 2021 This paper studies the impact of empiricism on seventeenth-century cartographic monsters through the analysis of three maps: Jodocus Hondius’s 1598 map of the land described by Walter Ralegh in The discouerie of the large, rich, and bevvtiful empire of ...
Manon Turban
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Yes, We Khan—Diversity and De-Monsterization of Muslim Identities in Ms. Marvel (2014–)
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 In 2014, Marvel comics introduced a new character to take over the mantle of the superhero identity Ms. Marvel. The new heroine is Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old girl born and raised in New Jersey.
Anja Borg Andreassen
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Kon Satoshi and Japan’s Monsters in the City
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 This article offers an analysis of Kon Satoshi’s use of monsters in his 2004 animated television series Paranoia Agent (Mōsō Dairinin). Focussing on the bat-wielding figure of Shōnen Batto and a cuddly pink doll called Maromi, it is shown how Kon Satoshi
Chris Perkins
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