distinctive characteristics of modern societies and the consequent changes in previous forms of such power. Debates about power necessarily involve different understandings of both the nature of social reality (ontology)‚ and how we best go about acquiring knowledge of that reality (epistemology). An important issue in this debate is the location of social power. Is social power to be found in different institutional locations such as the economy (economic power) or the state (political power)‚ or rather
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In 1990‚ both Eve Sedgwick (Epistemology of the Closet) and Judith Butler (Gender Trouble) made significant contributions to the ever burgeoning field of queer studies with theories about sexuality as performance. Following the central Foucauldian thread in which sexual conduct is but a construct specific to one’s cultural context and a factor of historical and cultural connotations‚ queer theorists proposed gender as a socially and culturally constructed performance. The performance of gender is
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Art Imitating Life? In his assessment of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari‚ (1920)‚ Noel Burch describes the film as a play on “carefully contrived ambiguity‚” (Burch‚ 174). The spectator of the film‚ the audience is both drawn in as a participant‚ a “motionless voyager” (Bordwell‚ 96‚ quoting Burch) forced to imagine their own dialogue‚ action‚ and expression‚ and then all at once‚ harkened back to severe reality with contrived moments. This play between audience immersion and expulsion from the film’s
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A Street Observation by Clinton Palanca from The Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Literature in English There are some people who say that‚ in order to understand a country‚ one should not rush about visiting endless museums and monuments‚ but simply sit quietly with a drink and allow the country to come to you. I think this is a good idea‚ but only for a certain type of country. I would agree that the essence of Paris is to be found sitting on a terrace with a cup of coffee. But what about Manila
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Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Research methodology Table of contents 3.1. Introduction................................................................................................................................79 3.2. The interpretive research approach...........................................................................................79 3.3. The case study strategy............................................................................................................83 3.4. Research
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History of Counseling Lead to Multidisciplinary Teams COUN5004 Survey of Research in Human Development for Professional Counselors History of Counseling Leading to Multidisciplinary Teams Counseling is a relatively new profession which has transformed over time from treating mental illnesses to providing educational guidance to counseling with a variety of specializations. Pistole summarizes by stating that counselors‚ now‚ aim to‚ “contribute to the vitality and vigor and to the soundness
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to continue to creep into our lives without us really noticing. Contents Introduction Why Artificial Intelligence? • Motivation How does Artificial Intelligence work? • Planning • Pattern Recognition • Ontology • Robotics • Artificial Life • Epistemology Who uses Artificial Intelligence? • Medicine • Artificial Nose • Military • Game AI • Natural Language Processing • Expert Systems Future of AI Technology • Telephone Translator • A
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Ontology Development for Online Food Ordering System Management Author: Md. Alamgir Hussain ID: 1071553011 Supervisor: Dr Joanna Isabelle OLSZEWSKA Date: 18 March‚ 2011 School of Computing & Engineering A Project report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MSc Information Systems Management in the School of Computing & Engineering at the University of Huddersfield Acknowledgement Throughout the course of completing this project‚ I was faced
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could be considered a critical realist. The aim of the article is to show that her vision of international political economy fulfills the methodological reorientation initiated in economics by Tony Lawson at the end of the 90s. Strange’s radical ontology claims that structural power determines human actions. The paper contrasts Strange’s approach with that of John Ruggie‚ from the American school‚ who identifies himself as a social constructivist. Ruggie emphasizes the role of ideational factors
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Semiotics for Beginners Daniel Chandler Glossary of Key Terms * Abduction: This is a term used by Peirce to refer to a form of inference (alongside deduction and induction) by which we treat a signifier as an instance of a rule from a familiar code‚ and then infer what it signifies by applying that rule. * Aberrant decoding: Eco’s term referring to decoding a text by means of a different code from that used to encode it. See also: Codes‚ Decoding‚ Encoding and decoding
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