Archive for September, 2008
September 28, 2008
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On a 1989 trip to Paris, I suddenly found myself face to face with a spiral-topped gatepost that I knew very well from a beautiful photograph by Atget…
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Eugène Atget (1857 ‑ 1927) was a French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris.
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The single most important contribution to Atget scholarship is surely that made by Maria Hambourg, when she established, in the early nineteen eighties, that Atget had divided his work into thirteen categories, or series
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September 25, 2008
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For Martin Heidegger broadly, the question of being formed the essence of his philosophical inquiry. In The Question Concerning Technology, Heidegger sustains this inquiry, but turns to the particular phenomenon of technology, seeking to derive the essence of technology and humanity’s role of being with it. Heidegger originally published the text in 1954, in Vorträge und Aufsätze.
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Don Ihde (born 1934) is a philosopher of science and technology, and a post-phenomenologist. In 1979 he wrote what is often identified as the first North American work on philosophy of technology
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Albert Borgmann (born 1937) is an American philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of technology. He was born in Freiburg, Germany, and is a professor of philosophy at the University of Montana.
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What Heidegger called "The Question of Technology" has a peculiar status in the academy today. After World War II, the humanities and social sciences were swept by a wave of technological determinism.
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September 24, 2008
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This seminar which comprises film screenings, deals with the city symphony, a genre hovering between documentary, narrative, and experimental film.
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September 19, 2008
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Using a GPS-enabled PDA or mobile phone, artwork selects clips based on location. As the viewer travels, the movie is revealed. The result is a new type of film experience that is tied to the movement of the viewer.
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Matrix games are a way of resolving "critical events" in a campaign through the use of "arguments". Each argument consists of an ACTION, a RESULT, and three REASONS. Subsequent arguments in a turn can modify or contradict previously presented arguments.
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A phrasal template is a phrase-long collocation that contains one or several empty slots which may be filled by words to produce individual phrases. Often there are some restrictions on the grammatic category of the words allowed to fill particular slots.
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Universalis is a role-playing game (RPG) from Ramshead Publishing that stresses interactive storytelling. The game uses a unique system, based on "coins" that are used to make additions to the game, which allows the entire group to participate in the creation of the setting and events in play without a traditional gamemaster.
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September 18, 2008
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The film is unscripted and uses the exquisite corpse party game as a concept, with the film crew traveling across Thailand, interviewing people and asking each person to add their own words to a story.
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From an Original Idea by Adrien Lorion, David Étienne and Michel Laroche, the eleven directors of Cadavre Exquis première édition are each making their debut in features. The film is a collective project based on the principle of the Exquisite corpse parlour game.
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September 10, 2008
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