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    The significant other: the value of jewellery within the conception, design and experience of body focussed digital devices

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    In this paper, we demonstrate how craft practice in contemporary jewellery opens up conceptions of ‘digital jewellery’ to possibilities beyond merely embedding pre-existing behaviours of digital systems in objects, which follow shallow interpretations of jewellery. We argue that a design approach that understands jewellery only in terms of location on the body is likely to lead to a world of ‘gadgets’, rather than anything that deserves the moniker ‘jewellery’. In contrast, by adopting a craft approach, we demonstrate that the space of digital jewellery can include objects where the digital functionality is integrated as one facet of an object that can be personally meaningful for the holder or wearer.</p

    The limits of lovemaking and community: infertility in "Their eyes were watching God"

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    Janie Crawford, the protagonist in Zora Neale Hurston‟s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), never fully grows up or integrates completely into any of the communities of which she is a part in the novel. She therefore remains “infertile” in several relationships and communities that showcase diverse kinds of “fertility,” whether that fertility is Logan Killicks‟s productivity with his farmland, Jody Starks‟s successes in building Eatonville, or even Tea Cake‟s skills at gambling and guitar-playing. No matter her environment, Janie remains outside of systems of fertility, more child-like than adult, which means that the blossoming pear tree image that surrounds her, and which seems to epitomize sexuality and fertility, is wasted on Janie, because she refuses to grow up and become fertile either by procreating or by contributing creatively to the communities in which she lives.Janie Crawford, la protagonista de Sus ojos miraban a Dios (1937), de Zora Neale Hurston, nunca se hace del todo adulta ni se integra completamente en ninguna de las comunidades de las que forma parte en la novela. Por tanto, permanece “estĂ©ril” en varias relaciones y comunidades que son emblemĂĄticas de diferentes tipos de “fertilidad,” sea esta fertilidad la productividad de Logan Killicks con su granja, los Ă©xitos de Jody Starks en la construcciĂłn de Eatonville, o incluso las habilidades de Tea Cake para el juego y la guitarra. En cualquiera que sea su entorno, Janie permanece fuera de los sistemas de fertilidad, mĂĄs infantil que adulta, lo que significa que la imagen del peral en flor que la acompaña, y que parece ser el epĂ­tome de la sexualidad y la fertilidad, se desperdicia en el caso de Janie, ya que ella se niega a crecer y a convertirse en fĂ©rtil ya sea procreando o contribuyendo de forma creativa a las comunidades en las que vive

    Remember Gerhard Richter in the Thunderstorm of Beethoven: The Influence of Cross-Sensory Coupling on Memory, Intercultural Communication, and the Verbalization of Paintings and Sounds

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    This interdisciplinary study focuses on the perception and verbalization of messages conveyed through instrumental music, soundscapes, and contemporary paintings. International young-adult university students learning German participated in a series of experiments conducted at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. To incorporate globalization and cultural difference into this analysis, the author compared the reactions of Western and Asian participants to auditory and visual stimuli. This paper explores the concepts of mixed media, cross-sensory coupling, and esthetic synesthesia, and throws new light on the contribution of cross-sensory coupling to verbalization and to long-term memory processes, from encoding to retrieval. In addition, the author demonstrates how intercultural communication is based upon universal emotions aroused by contemporary paintings, instrumental music and soundscapes

    What Does One Poisoned Fruit Say to Another? Eat Me.

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    Closing Plenary

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    The closing session of the symposium was a plenary session in which invited speakers were asked to make brief critical and reflective comment on the symposium theme and future directions regarding Māori and Pacific psychologies

    Blossoming

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    Blossoming is a collection of four short stories and a novel-in-progress that explores the mysteries of relationships amidst a world of ever-thinning international borders. In Blossoming, four friends in Taiwan drink tea while comparing how their lives have turned out; in The Moon Is Fuller in A Foreign Country, oceans are crossed and familial ties are tested; in Animal Spirits, Sun tries to protect her younger sister growing up in an environment that views her as foreign; in Flea Market, Wenwen seeks a way to mourn the father she had never met; and in Duende, two men and two women interpret the meanings of life through flamenco, ballet, and lust

    Film as a Teaching Medium

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    New Mexico Quarterly, 1934, VOL. IV INDEX

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    New Mexico Quarterly, VOL. IV INDEX, 193
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