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This paper provides a philosophical reflection of the crisis of democracy. Its central research focus is on what is referred to as “the world of artificial images and the lost truth” (or phantasmagoria), where the West European society experiences a ...
Asad Shukhrat-Zade
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The phantasmagoria: From ghostly apparitions to multisensory fairground entertainment [PDF]
The “phantasmagoria” is a term that originally referred to the ghost lantern shows first staged in France at the end of the 18th Century by the Belgian inventor and entertainer Étienne-Gaspard Robertson.
Charles Spence
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Pornography and the Erotic Phantasmagoria [PDF]
Susan Sontag, in her classic 1967 essay, "The Pornographic Imagination," argued: "Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness …. "In the last half-century, Sontag's demonic force of sexuality has transformed pornography and the "pornographic imagination"-let along social relations between women and men.
Rosen D.
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This article examines how the narrator in Lesego Rampolokeng’s Whiteheart: Prologue to Hysteria (hereafter designated as W/H) deploys spectres of hysteria as a novelistic phantasmagoria to challenge the subject in the fictive post-apartheid South Africa ...
Ibrahim Wachira +2 more
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The following essay intends an approach that comprises a combination of aesthetics, history and philosophy to reproduce the perception of certain elements of image contradictions in contemporary times.
Ainá Rocha
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From Phantasmagoria to Reality?* [PDF]
Diana, Pang, Rajesh, Aneja
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Controlled Illusion. Recursion as Emotional Suggestion in Post-Cinematographic Space [PDF]
The article deals with an aspect of the phenomenon of controlled illusion — manipulating emotional reactions and behaviour through the space of an artificially created reality.
Efremova Anna A.
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FANTASY AND FANTASMAGORY IN THE MODERN UKRAINIAN DRAMATURGY (CONFLICT AND CHARACTER) [PDF]
The article analyzes the peculiarities of the conflict and the system of characters in contemporary Ukrainian plays with an “irreal” (unreal) chronotope.
Nataliya L. Yuhan
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We explore the psychoanalytic transfer used by Danish director Lars von Trier in his debut film “Forbrydelsens element” (1984). We consider the stages of therapeutic sleep, its composition and structure.
V. V. Kolchanov
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