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Jon Jerde's consuming fantasies and other urban interiors (The psychogeographical potential of the Californian architect's themed commercial schemes)

June 2001
Architectural Design

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The Nostalgias of Situationist Subversion

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THEOR CULT SOC

Alastair Bonnett

This article examines the role of nostalgia within situationist theory and politics. After introducing the Situationist International and the need to rethink the politics of nostalgia, it is shown that nostalgia had both a productive and a disruptive place in situationist thought; that it enabled some of their key insights yet also introduced incoherence and tensions into their political project. This productive and disruptive relationship is explored through two of the situationists' main concerns: the idea of the spectacle and the critique of urbanism.

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Using Delay to Defend Against Database Extraction

August 2004 · Lecture Notes in Computer Science

For many data providers, the “crown jewels” of their business are the data that they have organized. If someone could copy their entire database, it would be a competitive catastrophe. Yet, a data provider is in the business of providing data, so access to the database cannot be restricted entirely. How is the data provider to permit legitimate access to users who request access to small portions ... [Show full abstract] of the database while protecting the database from wholesale copying? We suggest that delay can be used for this purpose. We show, under reasonable assumptions, that it is possible to slow down the copying of the entire dataset by an arbitrary amount ensuring that queries that return a significant portion of the database introduce a delay that is orders of magnitude higher than that for legitimate user queries. We then consider issues of change, and show, under reasonable assumptions of rates of change, how to limit access so that the voyeur is guaranteed never to have a complete up-to-date dataset. We also present several extensions of these two major results. We have implemented our technique on a commercial relational database, and we present numbers showing that the analytically expected delays are indeed observed experimentally, and also that the overheads of implementing our scheme are small.

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The Province of Québec witnessed a doubling of its commercial vineyards in less than ten years. The Québec wine industry can be described both as centered on “small vineyards” because of the average size of its operations, and as a “vineyard of the extreme” because of the climatic as well as legal conditions that affect it. Despite these difficult conditions that one would deem insuperable, ... [Show full abstract] Quebec wine makers do not lack tenacity or fantasy.

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Jay McCauley Bowstead

This Chapter from the anthology 'Ends Meet' is focused on the fashion boutique as a site of cultural exchange, and more broadly on the 'aesthetic economy' of fashion. The chapter explores the ways in which commercial and semi-commercial spaces act as nexus for cultural intermediaries and the boutique as a space of imagination, initiation and transformation.

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Design of Gameplay for Learning: A Phenomenological Examination of the Integrative Design of Game, L...

January 2019

A common skepticism about educational games is that learning and play are frequently not well integrated—the skill or content to be used and learned lacks a semantic or meaningful relation with the fantasy and challenge elements and can be easily swapped without influencing gameplay. In this chapter, we describe and analyze design challenges associated with the core components of gameplay—game ... [Show full abstract] mechanics and the narrative scheme as it relates to learning—and review the gameplay design propositions and infield test findings of E-Rebuild. Via a retrospective investigation of design features and strategies in terms of learnability and playability (i.e., capability of activating knowledge-based cognitive performance without interrupting gameplay), this chapter aims to report and discuss how domain-specific learning is integrated in, and activated by, core game actions, rules, game objects, and the game world design.

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Conceptions of Complex Leisure: Specialized Play

January 2019

Lise Kjølsrød

This chapter compares the term specialized play with three related conceptions, and concludes that choice of term makes a difference to the general understanding of modern actors. The terms are different, partly because they rely on different analogies. Serious leisure borrows much from work; nothing is laidback about it. Specialized play shares this perspective, and emphasizes specialization ... [Show full abstract] processes, but is also inspired by expressive communication through art. Edgework is a type of risk-taking associated with an inborn tendency in the person, enhanced by cultural influences in modernity. Consumption within a fantasy enclave stems from commercial enterprises, among them luxury hotels, and settings in Las Vegas and Disneyland where fantasy offers a richer quality of experience and stimulates consumer desires. The presentation of these terms illustrates at the same time a variety of game-like activities.

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January 1970

The idea of contested places is increasingly common in theorisations of multicultural cities, spaces whose identity is the product of competing claims and attempts to enact power over a particular territory. The question of how we can share cities of difference presents an almost insoluble conundrum if it is assumed that these competing claims must be settled to somehow return places to a ... [Show full abstract] harmonious and orderly unity that is imagined to have previously existed. In this paper, we are interested in those more subtle processes of place and power, where rather than just contestation, modes of 'power over' and 'power to' both operate in the same place. From this view, we argue that place-identity is an ongoing process of the particular interaction between these modes of power in specific spatial contexts. To explore this idea, we use a case study of Sydney Road, a traditional commercial strip in one of Melbourne's most multicultural districts, a place that raises questions about how power is associated with multiculturalism in everyday life rather than sensationalised, high-profile spaces. Drawing on Hage's 'White Nation fantasy', we examine how 'power over' and 'power to' are interwoven, enacted and negotiated within this de facto multicultural space, where everyday multiculturalism is 'done'.

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January 2003

Galdino Pranzarone

The multiple genre’s, niches or themes of commercial pornography available on the internet can serve to reveal to the consumer, or an objective observer, the specificity of the components of an individual’s lovemap (Money, 1989). The lovemap being a developmentally acquired template in the mind/brain specifying the physical and psychological characteristics of one’s idealized lover and the ... [Show full abstract] scenario of sexuoerotic activities either in actuality or in fantasy.

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March 2012 · Akroterion

F.R. Pauw

The term ‘magic realism’, normally reserved for twentieth-century novels with a mixture of realistic and fantastic elements, has not, to my knowledge, been applied to the comedies of Aristophanes. In this article I examine whether there are similarities between Aristophanes’ comedies and magic realism. First, the origin, development and meaning of the term ‘magic realism’ are explored. Then, ... [Show full abstract] Italo Calvino’s 1952 novella, The cloven Viscount, is investigated as example of magic realism. The next section examines the duality of Aristophanes’ comedies: they not only allude to the socio-political realities of late-fifth-century Athens but also hinge on plots of comic fantasy. This scheme is then applied to the Aristophanic comedy Birds. In the penultimate section a comparison is drawn between magic realism, as exemplified in The cloven Viscount, and Aristophanic comedy, as exemplified in Birds. The conclusion is devoted to an attempt to account for the similarities in such disparate genres.

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History doesn’t relate: England, England

May 2011

Peter Childs

England, England (1998) is a fictional study around issues such as the creation of the past, the re-fashioning of an imagined national community, and in particular the telling and selling of England. It explores the relationships between heritage and commercialism, history and exploitation, imitation and reality. It is a fantasy, but one that has many recent echoes and real-life parallels. Its ... [Show full abstract] central story is that of a powerful businessman who plans to turn the Isle of Wight into a colossal theme park so that tourists will not have to traipse from Dover to London to Stratford-on-Avon to Chester. It counterposes the pomp of Sir Jack Pitman's service-sector magnate with Martha Cochrane's everyday scepticism.

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December 2009 · Acta Neophilologica

Matic Večko

The novels The Wood Beyond the World (1894) and The Weil at the World's End (1896) by William Morris are considered the formative works of the type of literature which has been labelled high fantasy. The latter is one of the commercially most successful genres of fantasy literature. The two novels are analysed from the perspective of critical utopianism as articulated through a distinctive type ... [Show full abstract] of aesthetic structure which was established in these works and has become characteristic of the high fantasy literature. The author of the article suggests that it is this complex of aesthetic structiire-aiid ifs iiiherent iitopian lmpulse which may be one of the important faciors-in the perennia popularity of high fantasy.

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Rough Magic and Moral Toughness: Iris Murdoch’s Fictional Universe

January 1991

John Fletcher

In 1970, the same year as she published her greatest novel, A Fairly Honourable Defeat, Iris Murdoch collected her philosophical papers under the stern title The Sovereignty of Good.1 Morality, she argues in that work, is pictured by many modern thinkers in terms of a personal liberation, through the power of will, into an area of indefinitely free choice. This is not a philosophical position she ... [Show full abstract] has much time for; in her view, moral endeavour is best seen as the attempt to overcome illusion and selfish fantasy in order to see and respond to the real world. Moral development, and also the experience of art and beauty, are the penetration of the veil with which selfishness conceals the reality of here and now from us. She does not delude herself that such transcendence of our normal, very human, selfish concerns is easy. The ‘difficulty’, she admits, ‘is to keep the attention fixed upon the real situation and to prevent it from returning surreptitiously to the self with consolations of self-pity, resentment, fantasy and despair’.2 I shall be returning to those consolations, since characters in her novels, like the rest of us, happily (or more often unhappily) take refuge in them when doing the right things starts to hurt.

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Imaginaire du scenario de court métrage

October 2018 · Mise au point

Sophie Beauparlant

Our aim is to identify the specificities of short film scripts, which are not limited to formal structures; this is why we suggest in this paper examining the imaginary constructs that determines both the possibility for the short film to exist and the interpretation it triggers. With a view to defining an imaginary universe connected to short film scripts, we focus on two films: J’attendrai le ... [Show full abstract] suivant directed by Philippe Orreindy (2002) and Next Floor by Denis Villeneuve (2008). This paper aims at taking stock not only of the formal features characterizing short film narrative, but also at grasping the pragmatic elements that influence our interpretations of it. In conclusion, we show that short films, thanks to plots assorted to an aesthetics of brevity, send spectators some types of phasing signals which foster a perceptual adhesion to the script being staged on screen.

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