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Una rovina ad alta quota. Il Werk Verena
The First World War brought epochal innovations in military, political, socio-economic and terms cultural also for the prodigies that scientific-technological progress has produced: enormous logistical systems and technological predisposed almost ...
Sara Isgrò
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The Human Still Lives? Technology, borrowing and agency in the music of Nicolas Collins
This paper considers aspects of late 20th century experimental music in a post-digital era, where DIY approaches of hacking now outdated digital technology have enabled new forms of artistic expression – namely, glitch and aesthetics of failure.
Mark Dyer
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The Inversion of Mysticism—Gelassenheit and the Secret of the Open in Heidegger
The article explores the topic of Gelassenheit (releasement) in Heidegger, through the lens of the ambiguous role of Christian mysticism in general and Eckhart in particular in and for his thinking.
Hans Ruin
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The arch, a favourite form of world architecture, is analysed in terms of its phenomenology, genesis and meanings. There is a thesis about the ambiguity of the arched structure, its initial criticality, which allows us to consider the arch as an ...
Петр Капустин
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The Ruin as Memorial – The Memorial as Ruin [PDF]
The ruin allows for a visualization of different forms of mourning: we mourn loss, death, decay and destruction; man-made and natural catastrophes; humanity’s futile and successful attempts to master nature; and nature’s indifference to humans and their cruelty against one another.
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In recent years, Geography has seen a rebirth of interest and appreciation of ruins, abandoned and neglected spaces of industrial modernity. This work has often emphasised the sensuousness of the material contextualisation of industrial ruins largely in terms of the phenomenological experience of decay, disorder and blight, or the affective elements of
Miller, Vincent, Garcia, Gonzalo
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The destiny of Marghiloman’s wealth [PDF]
In 1942, a trial of almost 15 years ended, in which it was proved that the judges were still dominated by the memory of Alexandru Marghiloman’s personality, as shown by the long terms granted and the agreement with the wife of the great missing person ...
Valeriu NICOLESCU
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This article takes as its starting point Bruno Latour’s reflections on the dereliction of theological discourse in contemporary culture. Acknowledging that theologians seek to avoid the question of how what “once had so much meaning [has] become absolutely meaningless,” it frames its reflections around John 2:19 and seeks to develop a “theopoetics of ...
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On the time value of ruin in the discrete time risk model [PDF]
Using an approach similar to that of Gerber and Shiu (1998), a recursive formula is given for the expected discounted penalty due at ruin, in the discrete time risk model. With it the joint distribution of three random variables is obtained; time to ruin,
Garrido, José, Li, Shuanming
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Robert Mugabe’s 1980 candidature as depicted in the (South African) Sunday Times
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has now been in power for three decades. He has acquired an almost universal image of being a dictator who has steadily governed the country to ruin.
Johann C de Wet
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