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(New) Sincerity in David Foster Wallace's “Octet”
Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2015David Foster Wallace's “Octet” provides a singular example of how he endeavors to negotiate with the ever-present specter of irony and interrogate the efficacy and applicability of sincerity within the millennial zeitgeist. By requiring of his readers a vast investment of time and concentration, acknowledging and working through the specter of irony ...
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Political New Sincerity and Profilicity
Philosophy Today, 2021The past few years have seen a dramatic backlash against identity politics from academics such as Michael Sandel, Kwame Appiah, Mark Lilla, and Francis Fukuyama. In the vocabulary of identity conceptions, we can classify this as a reaction to a growing dissatisfaction with the perceived hollowness and ineffectiveness of “authenticity” that calls for a ...
Paul J. D’Ambrosio, Hans-Georg Moeller
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The New Sincerity trend : pursuing a different kind of happiness
, 2017 Defined by its ironic vision of society, the New Sincerity trend in cinema developed throughout the 1990s, giving way to the debunking of American founding myths. Focusing mainly on films by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach this talk will seek to analyse how those directors re-evaluated the pursuit of happiness in specific moments of history, and how to ...
Assouly, Julie
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Proof of Sincerity: A New Lightweight Consensus Approach for Mobile Blockchains
2019 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2019In this paper, we present the idea of proof of sincerity for a new consensus method for mobile-user-friendly blockchains. Ever since the birth of Bitcoin, there have been many distributed consensus methods studied to replace the central (or third-party) trusts to protect the integrity of the distributed ledgers.
Miraz Uz Zaman, Tong Shen, Manki Min
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Wes Anderson: a ‘smart’ director of the new sincerity?
New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2012See here: I do not live in a postmodern time. I did not live in a time when something new was called modern, so for me there is no such thing as modern, and thus there cannot be anything postmodern...
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The Doppelgänger Motif in the “New Sincerity” Cinema
Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies, 2018The article substantiates the doppelgnger motif of in the new sincerity cinema and searches into the conceptual diversi fication of this motif in a number of films as well as the ways of representation on the conceptual and narrative levels of using artistic expressive means.
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Nathan for Youand the New Sincerity aesthetic
New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2020This article argues that Comedy Central’s Nathan For You enacts a sophisticated critique of reality television and offers a different way of capturing ‘reality’ on the small screen.
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2019
This chapter consists of two parts. The first half of the text offers a short genealogy of post-Soviet sincerity rhetoric. That part of the chapter builds on my research for Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History (Rutten 2017). For my thinking in that book, as well as in most of my early research, I am indebted at least in part to the addressee ...
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This chapter consists of two parts. The first half of the text offers a short genealogy of post-Soviet sincerity rhetoric. That part of the chapter builds on my research for Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History (Rutten 2017). For my thinking in that book, as well as in most of my early research, I am indebted at least in part to the addressee ...
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The Origin of the Counter-Enlightenment: Rousseau and the New Religion of Sincerity
American Political Science Review, 1996Rousseau inaugurated the counter-Enlightenment—that attack on secular rationalism and quest for “re-enchantment” that has, in one form or another, been with us ever since (and which, if the postmodern age has really arrived, now enjoys its heyday). The crowning expression of this event was Rousseau's effort to revive (while transforming) Christianity ...
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