Peculiarly Mancunian? : Visions of a Past Manchester through Three Post-Punk Literary Frontmen

This paper is a psychogeographic study on the influence of home location on the work of three literarily fuelled working-class icons of the post-punk music scene in Manchester, England. Following an exploration on the ever-evolving meaning of psychogeography, I investigate how a past Manchester is revealed within the early works of Ian Curtis, Mark E. Smith and Morrissey, both through insights attained from contemporary writings and also by necessarily short analyses of output from the artists themselves. All three possess peculiarly Mancunian artistic and behavioural traits that emerged from a literate working-class artistic sensibility, one that has faded and arguably disappeared from the British working classes today but which possessed clearly defined links to established artistic traditions. This weakening of working-class based output in ‘rock and pop’ is perhaps a late-capitalist Internet–fuelled symptom of Guy Debord’s spectacle deepening its impact on local art scenes and might help us understand why the financially privileged appear to dominate pop culture in the UK today

Digital Poetry: a Naissance of a New Genre?

Este trabalho terá como tema e como objecto de estudo práticas da poesia digital: ou seja entender esta acção como prática criativa e prática da “leitura”. Ler é sempre ler: esta acção consiste sempre em perceber e utilizar os sinais derivados pelo trabalho de um “autor”, de qualquer modo, a ordem, o nível de atenção exijido pela leitura de textos eletrônicos, textos ambíguos, instáveis e fluidos diferem. O computador e a Internet oferecem um campo novo ao jogo creativo da escrita: o computador traz ao de cima a natureza reticular da escrita e do espaço entretanto a Web multiplica e dispersa a sua dimensão. Nós tentaremos então identificar os elementos estratégicos que constituem a poetica do texto digital para estabelecer como esta prática creativa emergente complica a noção do sujeito. Considerando a relação entre a poesia (texto verbal) e as imagens (audiovisuais) analisaremos os poemas digitais que exemplificam as estruturas e os estilos deste novo género de “neo vanguardismo”.This paper will have as its main research object the study of digital poetics practices: creative practice and “lecture” practice. Reading is always reading, i.e. this action consists always in perceiving and picking up signs derived by the work of an “author”, however the order, the level of attention demanded by the reading of electronic texts, ambiguous, instable, fluid texts, is different. Computer and internet offer a new field to the creative game of writing: computer finds out the reticular nature of writing and the web space multiplies and disperses the dimensions. We will try then to identify the strategic elements which constitute the poetics of digital texts to establish how this emergent creative practice complicates the notion of genre. By considering the relation between poetry (verbal text) and images (audio-visual) we shall be analyzing digital poems which exemplify the structures and styles of this kind of new avant-garde genre

Fuzzy Techniques for Decision Making 2018

Zadeh's fuzzy set theory incorporates the impreciseness of data and evaluations, by imputting the degrees by which each object belongs to a set. Its success fostered theories that codify the subjectivity, uncertainty, imprecision, or roughness of the evaluations. Their rationale is to produce new flexible methodologies in order to model a variety of concrete decision problems more realistically. This Special Issue garners contributions addressing novel tools, techniques and methodologies for decision making (inclusive of both individual and group, single- or multi-criteria decision making) in the context of these theories. It contains 38 research articles that contribute to a variety of setups that combine fuzziness, hesitancy, roughness, covering sets, and linguistic approaches. Their ranges vary from fundamental or technical to applied approaches

The Art of Movies

Movie is considered to be an important art form; films entertain, educate, enlighten and inspire audiences. Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as — in metonymy — the field in general. The origin of the name comes from the fact that photographic film (also called filmstock) has historically been the primary medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist — motion pictures (or just pictures or “picture”), the silver screen, photoplays, the cinema, picture shows, flicks — and commonly movies

The 3-Hypergraphical steiner quadruple systems of order twenty

© 1993 by MARCEL DEKKER, INC. All Rights Reserved. A 3-(20,4,1) design is 3-hypergraphical if its point-set is represented as the twenty triplets in a 6-element set X, and its block-set is a union of orbits of four triplets under the action of Sym(X). There are precisely four distinct 3-hypergraphical 3-(20,4,1) designs; these have a number of interesting properties, of which the following is remarkable. There exists an intersection-reversing permutation of the triplets in X, which acts as an automorphism of two of our designs and as an isomorphism between the other two. We also give some general results on hypergraphical t-wise balanced designs