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Quantifying the Beauty of Words: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective. [PDF]
In this paper I would like to pave the ground for future studies in Computational Stylistics and (Neuro-)Cognitive Poetics by describing procedures for predicting the subjective beauty of words.
Jacobs AM.
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The Aphorism and Play in the Artistic Paradigm of the Novels by Crébillon-fils [PDF]
The article examines the function of ludic poetics and the role of aphorisms in the novels by Crébillon-fils: “L’Ecumoire, ou Tanzaï et Néadarné.” “Les Egarements du cœur et de l’esprit,” and “Le Sopha.” It argues that the specificity of the artistic ...
Natalya V. Lidzerhos
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Resisting Apollo: The Legacy of Ezra Pound in Late 20th Century American Poetry [PDF]
While Ezra Pound is still widely repudiated in the U.S. for his wartime associations with Mussolini and his anti-Semitic statements, he is nonetheless recognized there and throughout the world as a groundbreaking modernist literary figure.
John Gery
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CYBERPUNK – GAME – POETRY: Rostislav Amelin’s “SimStab”
The article discusses “SimStab” [Simulator of Stability], a poetic performance by a young Russian poet, Rostislav Amelin, as an effective hybrid of the innovative poetry, video game, and the cyberpunk genre models.
Daniil Leiderman, Mark Lipovetsky
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Un’immaginazione ludicamente decostruttiva
Avant-gardist but at the same time critic toward Arte Povera and Conceptual Art, Nespolo express a ludic attitude in his works based on an intensive production of images and forms.
Enrico Crispolti
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Can We Programme Utopia? The Influence of the Digital Neoliberal Discourse on Utopian Videogames [PDF]
This article has a dual purpose. The first is to establish the relationship between videogames and utopia in the neoliberal era and clarify the origins of this compromise in the theoretical dimension of game studies.
Navarrete-Cardero, Luis +1 more
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Technology as the God-Command [PDF]
Giorgio Agamben's Creation and Anarchy is comprised of five meditative essays compiled over the last few years and presented as an anthologized collection.
Erkan, Ekin
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Architecture, playing and vanishing
In this essay I will focus on an exceptional group of architects and poets who have explored vanishing as a form of action, by means of grandiloquent geo-poetic expeditions through more or less vast American territories, for over sixty years. I will try
María Berríos
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Hallucination or Lucidity?: Vision and Time in Ciaran Carson’s Ekphrastic Writing
Northern Irish writer Ciaran Carson has long been noted for the extent to which his texts, both in poetry and in prose, challenge traditional genre distinctions and refashion conventional form—be it in the patterns of his narrative prose, or in the ...
Rui Carvalho Homem
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Meta-Literacy in Gameworlds [PDF]
This paper proposes the notion of "meta-literacy", understood as the player's ability to navigate between spheres of reality and/or cross boundaries when interacting with a gameworld. We examine how meta-aesthetics functions in vide ogames and argue that
Carrasco Yelmo, Silviano +1 more
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