Volume 40, Number 1 - November 1960

Volume 40, Number 1 - November 1960. 40 pages including covers and advertisements. Caley, David, Cover Design Galvin, Jack, The Search Liguori, Pat, Illustration Procaccini, Donald, Chekhov and The Russian Character Moynahan, Tim, What Wishes Can Do Maguire, T. F., Someone Sullivan, Brian, The Portrait Caley, David, Illustration Oehmsen, Stephen, A State of Being Dearbin, B., A Long Lost MS Oppel, Robert, Sketches Sheridan, Thomas C., Fall Tale Olsen, John, Summary Morin, Jon L., Myopia Maguire, T. F., The Run for the Roses Olsen, John, Life of a Legen

Relative authenticity : abstraction and the digital domain

This paper intends to offer a preliminary investigation of what will be referred to as the notion of ‘abstraction’ in relation to Sigmund Freud’s ideas of ‘condensation’ and ‘displacement’, together with Ferdinand de Saussure’s theory of signification. Abstraction, then, shall be defined as one process through which a ‘signifier’ is created. The argument shall aim to trace and retrace the cognitive process of abstraction by discussing its role across different facets and layers of contemporary society, with particular attention being paid to the effects of the digital on this role. Abstractions shall be discussed regarding how they occur both in principle and in practice, and in how they might be perceived. This shall lead to a series of hypotheses concerning reflections and reactions which the omnipresence of the digital domain in every-day life might be prompting in contemporary society. The paper shall also focus on the parallel phenomena of ‘relative reality’ and ‘relative authenticity’, which can be understood as the hypothetical middle ground or gradient existing between ‘real’ and ‘fake’, and which shall be argued to be direct implications of abstraction.peer-reviewe

A Certain Amount of the Unknown - The Argument of the Bodily in Don DeLillo

Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej nauk

Her Still Singing Limbs: A Collection of Poetry

Her Still Singing Limbs: A Collection of Poetry is a fragmented rumination on the intrinsic loneliness of the human condition. Using the Greek myth of Echo’s destruction at her beloved Narcissus’s hands as the foundation, these poems combine voyeuristic images of beauty and violence to explain why all poets write songs of exquisite loneliness

Constructing sonified haptic line graphs for the blind student: first steps

Line graphs stand as an established information visualisation and analysis technique taught at various levels of difficulty according to standard Mathematics curricula. It has been argued that blind individuals cannot use line graphs as a visualisation and analytic tool because they currently primarily exist in the visual medium. The research described in this paper aims at making line graphs accessible to blind students through auditory and haptic media. We describe (1) our design space for representing line graphs, (2) the technology we use to develop our prototypes and (3) the insights from our preliminary work