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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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The cinematic image as platonic simulacrum [PDF]
, 2019 The present chapter proposes an ontological and aesthetic analysis of the film image highlighting its power as a simulacrum. To carry out this analysis, the text considers three different positions: the Platonic, the Bergsonian and the Deleuzian.
Tomás García, Jorge
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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, 2018 The paper refers to the notion of simulacrum, a term created by Jean Baudrillard in his work “Simulacra and Simulation”, a philosophical treatise from 1981, in which he seeks to examine the relationships among reality, symbols, and society, in particular
Głażewski, Michał
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A Past Perfect Rather Than a Perfect Past: Julian Barnes’s Reflective Nostalgia in England, England
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2015 This article focuses on the concept of nostalgia, which appears as a key notion to understand the representation of English identity in Julian Barnes’s 1998 novel, England, England.
Fanny Delnieppe
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Celebration of the Hyperreal Nostalgia: Categorization and Analysis of Visual Vaporwave Artefacts
Meno Istorija ir Kritika, 2021 Vaporwave grabs the attention of internet voyager with harsh collages glued together in a technically primitive manner. It’s a cultural phenomenon which both originated and is active solely on the internet.
Dovydaitis Gytis
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Aspicera simulacrum Belizin 1952
, 2013 <i>Aspicera simulacrum</i> Belizin, 1952 <p>(Figs 37a & b)</p> <p> <i>Aspicera simulacrum</i> Belizin, 1952: 295-6</p> <p> <b>Type material:</b> (1♂). HOLOTYPE male deposited
ROS-FARRÉ, P., PUJADE-VILLAR, J.
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Lady Gaga as (dis)simulacrum of monstrosity [PDF]
, 2015 Lady Gaga’s celebrity DNA revolves around the notion of monstrosity, an extensively researched concept in postmodern cultural studies. The analysis that is offered in this paper is largely informed by Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of ...
George Rossolatos, Rossolatos, George
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‘Comparativism from Inside and Outside: Not only a matter of viewpoint’: Comparativism in Art History edited by Jaś Elsner, London & New York: An Ashgate Book, Routledge, 2017 [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2017 The review criticizes the genuflection made to ‘world art history’ without specifying what this is, even as an antithesis to the methodology of some authors.
John Clark
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