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Chornyi, Dmytro. "The Person and the City of the 20th-21st Centuries: Versions of Ukrainian and Polish Prose Fiction." V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Bulletin "History of Ukraine. Ukrainian Studies: Historical and Philosophical Sciences", no. 38 (June 23, 2024): 78–92. https://doi.org/10.26565/2227-6505-2024-38-08.

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Purpose. The article examines the influence of the city on a person, component parts of the urban space that form the spirit of the city, evolution of the average city dweller and everyday life over the past hundred years, patterns of the past in modern cities. Our responses based on the analysis of the modern Poland and Ukrainian novels. Methods. The methodology of the work is based on the approaches of everyday life history and historical memory studying. We have drawn on the novels of S. Khvin, A. Stasyuk, M. Krajewski, R. Mruz, N. Osinska, J. L. Vyshnevsky, N. Gurnytska, S. Zhadan, Y. Vinn

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Antunes, Luiz Guilherme. "CITY-AS-A-SERVICE: A DESIGN FRAMEWORK FOR SMART CITIE." South American Development Society Journal 08, no. 24 (2022): 182–202. https://doi.org/10.24325/issn.2446-5763.v8i24p182-202.

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In science fiction literature of the 1950s and 1960s, the reader is frequently presented to a concept of a futuristic city enclosed by an all-encompassing “dome” that shelters its dwellers from a hostile environment, while providing them the comfort and infrastructure needed to develop a safe and productive community. These domes are no longer fiction: they already exist, invisible, enabled by the wireless Internet infrastructure that surrounds and supports most of the contemporary urban activities. Called “Smart City” by commercial enterprises, media and marketing depa

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Graham, Gary, Rashid Mehmood, and Eve Coles. "Exploring future cityscapes through urban logistics prototyping: a technical viewpoint." Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 20, no. 3 (2015): 341–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/scm-05-2014-0169.

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Purpose – The purpose of this technical viewpoint is to provide a commentary of how we went about using logistics prototyping as a method to engage citizens, science fiction (SF) writers and small- to medium- sized enterprises (SME’s). Six urban logistic prototypes built on the themes of future cities, community resilience and urban supply chain management (SCM) are summarized, together with details of the data collection procedure and the methodological challenges encountered. Our investigation aimed to explore the potential of logistics prototyping to develop “user-driven” and “SME” approach

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Ershova, Irina V. "Commenting on medieval chronicles: Between fiction and truth (on the material of the “History of Spain”, 13th century)." Shagi / Steps 10, no. 2 (2024): 296–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2024-10-2-296-309.

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The present article is devoted to the problem of commenting on medieval chronicles (on the example of the Old Spanish Estoria de España by Alfonso X the Wise, 13th с.) and the need not only to search for the sources of certain large and small stories, but also to explain the choice of words, naming, and the mechanism of putting together various stories from the point of view of the problem of truth/fiction (verdad /fabula) in the perception of the medieval chronicler, for whom an important goal is to present his story as truth and to make it compelling for the listener and reader. As an exampl

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Vedenin, Yu A. "Cultural and geographical approach to study literary journeys." Heritage and Modern Times 5, no. 3 (2023): 232–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.52883/2619-0214-2022-5-3-232-257.

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This article regards a literary journey as a representation of the diversity of the world, perceived by a person in the process of his physical or virtual movement in geographical space, conveyed in literary form. One of the most important grounds for the typology of literary journeys is the idea of relationship between real and fictional subjects and objects included by the writer in his narrative. According to the relationship between reality and fiction, literary journey is divided into four main types: real travel in the real world; composed (invented) journey in the real world; a fictiona

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NIKOLIĆ, Andrijana. "THE POSTMODERN WORLD OF DEJAN VUKOVIĆ." Lingua Montenegrina 32, no. 2 (2023): 195–211. https://doi.org/10.46584/lm.v32i2.1012.

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The Montenegrin writer of the newer generation, Dejan Vuković, is the author of the novels „Dokleanka“ - a book about Anna (2015) and „The Power of Silence“ (2021). While in his first novel he neutralizes the temporal boundaries of the present and ancient, fictitious world, in his second novel „The Power of Silence“ he skillfully opens the historical and cultural deposits of Brskov from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 19th of the 20th century with paratextual clips and motifs. The text of the novel „Dokleanka“ is subjected to the poetics of duality in the historiographical

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Grishchenko, Anton Borisovich. "Architectural heritage of Belarus in fine art and cinema." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, no. 2 (63) (2025): 104–9. https://doi.org/10.30725/2619-0303-2025-2-104-109.

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The article is devoted to identification the features of artistic reflection of architectural heritage of Belarus in fine art and cinema in the paradigm of comparative analysis. This art study method was developed by V. P. Prokoptsova. The relevance of the article is determined by the lack of complex studies in art history devoted to the artistic reflection of the architectural heritage of Belarus in fine art and cinema. It is noted that in fine art the architectural heritage of Belarus is artistically reflected in architectural and historical landscapes, portraits. The compositional features

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Wallace, Shane. "GREEK CULTURE IN AFGHANISTAN AND INDIA: OLD EVIDENCE AND NEW DISCOVERIES." Greece and Rome 63, no. 2 (2016): 205–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383516000073.

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In 1888 Rudyard Kipling published a collection of short-stories entitledThe Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales. Perhaps the most famous of these stories, ‘The Man Who Would Be King’, recounted the adventures of two British military veterans, Peachy Carnahan and Daniel Dravot Esq., played by Michael Caine and Sean Connery in John Huston's 1975 film of the same name. Both men have seen India's cities and jungles, jails and palaces, and have decided that she is too small for the likes of they. So, they set out to become kings of Kafiristan, a mountainous, isolated, and unstudied country beyon

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Wijaya, Mukhammad Handy dwi, and Musta’in Mashud. "Konsumsi Media Sosial Bagi Kalangan Pelajar: Studi Pada Hyperrealitas Tik Tok." Al-Mada: Jurnal Agama, Sosial, dan Budaya 3, no. 2 (2020): 170–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31538/almada.v3i2.734.

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The phenomenon of Tik Tok which has become an acute epidemic among students does not only occur in big cities. In almost all parts of the country, this phenomenon has become a trend. No exception in small cities like Blitar, East Java. Though not realized, they have been trapped in a simulation world full of unreality (artificial). That is something that looks more than what actually happened. Tik Tok appears to facilitate the existence of a person beyond its essence. The reality that is displayed through Tik Tok is actually a hyper and pseudo reality. Literally, hypereality can be interpreted

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Lenok, Maria. "ARTISTIC REPORTAGES BY O. KRYSHTOPA’S UKRAINE: THE SCOPE 1:1." Fìlologìčnì traktati 12, no. 1 (2020): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/ftrk.2020.12(1)-7.

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The article is devoted to artistic reportages by O. Khrystopa a Ukrainian author of non fiction literature. The artistic reportage of the early 21st century underwent significant changes, evolving from the literary coverage of the 1920s. Contemporary authors refine their texts with different artistic techniques, genre-style techniques, which leads to the emergence of common genres. Such texts tend to be meta-genre in documentary and artistic discourse. The artistic reportages have a dual nature because they synthesize genre features of literature and journalism. There is a tendency to saturate

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Sedrati, Yasser, and Walid Djari. "Borges: el Otro Arabesk. Case Study: The Aleph." Literature of the Americas, no. 17 (2024): 117–39. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2024-17-117-139.

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This paper will address the question of the Borgesian approach towards writing multilayered philosophical fiction. It will attempt to stratify his artistic prescription towards constructing deep philosophical testimonies which amalgamate different historical and fictional narratives. The latter will be thoroughly examined in his oeuvres which introduced Islamic heritage specifically, wherein the researchers argue that the fascination which Islam seems to exert on Borges, écrivain préféré of Derrida is far less concerned with remote isolated small desert villages, minarets, raging sultans, swor

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Dr., Prashantkumar Bhupal Kamble. "Portrayal of Children's Psychoanalytical World in the Village by the Sea." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 10, no. 6 (2023): 255–57. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8344647.

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The Village by the Sea subtitled "An Indian Family Story" is a novel for young people by the Indian writer Anita Desai, appeared in London in 1982. It is based on the poverty, hardships and sorrow faced by a small rural, community in India. Desai won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-life time book award judged by panel of British children's writers. Much of the novel's interior plot is developed by Anita Desai's childhood experiences at the hill station, Mussoorie. Exquisitely written, with sensitivity and delicacy, Desai's this book remai

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Fontes, Millena, and Larissa Ribeiro Cabral Vieira. "Urban Metaphors Depicted Through the Scenographic Architecture of the TV Series Smallville." Estudios sobre las Culturas Contemporáneas (Colima) 2, no. 3 (2025): 166–93. https://doi.org/10.53897/revescc.2025.3.06.

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Amid the ongoing discussions on Urbanism and experiences in contemporary cities, this essay explores the influence of the urban scenery on the profile and behavior of the residents through a playful analysis of the TV series Smallville (2001-2011). The narrative follows Clark Kent who grows up in a small rural town and evolves into the hero, Superman. Smallville with its anti-urban values contrasts with Metropolis, a fictional version of New York City, reflecting different urban dynamics. The series’ filmic scenography illustrates metaphors of the city/individual relationship, showing how the

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Falski, Maciej. "Symbolic policy in small towns of Zamojszczyzna region, Poland, in the post-socialist period." Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics 17, no. 3 (2023): 223–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2023-0014.

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Abstract Small cities have attracted less attention from researchers of transformation processes, although in some countries they are an important part of the social landscape, as they are in Poland. I present the results of research on the public space and symbolic politics in three small towns in Zamojszczyzna, a region in southeastern Poland. All are characterized by interrupted or disturbed historical continuity due to the extermination of their Jewish communities, which made up the majority of the population until World War II. After 1945, the Jewish past was silenced, while the symbolic

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Ms. Abhinanda Chakraborty. "Walking the Streets: Psychogeography and the Politics of Exclusion in Selected Works of Ruskin Bond." Creative Launcher 9, no. 4 (2024): 46–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2024.9.4.05.

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Psychogeography involves the study of the interrelationship between the human psyche and the surrounding physical environment. Both as a theory and as a methodological tool, psychogeography can be utilized to understand and analyze how space – especially urban space as the centres of capitalism, consumerism, and authoritative control by capitalist forces – impacts our lives and our attitudes and becomes an integral factor in the formation of our sense of self and identity. Integral to psychogeography is the concept of walking, often referred to as the ‘dérive’, which signifies a sort of aimles

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Lowenthal, David. "Why Sanctions Seldom Work: Reflections on Cultural Property Internationalism." International Journal of Cultural Property 12, no. 3 (2005): 393–423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739105050216.

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Heritage piety departs ever farther from reality. High-minded admonitions broaden the gulf between what happens to cultural property and what virtuous stewards feel should happen. Ever more of our patrimony gets looted, destroyed, mutilated, shorn of context, hidden from scrutiny, inadequately stored, poorly conserved, eBayed. Merryman cites three causes: the animus of UNESCO and archaeology against marketing cultural property, the sanguine view that trafficking abuse can be quashed by state fiat and moral suasion, and excessive constraint against heritage export by blanket diktats from source

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Cugurullo, Federico, Federico Caprotti, Matthew Cook, Andrew Karvonen, Pauline MᶜGuirk, and Simon Marvin. "The rise of AI urbanism in post-smart cities: A critical commentary on urban artificial intelligence." Urban Studies, November 13, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00420980231203386.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as an impactful feature of the life, planning and governance of 21st-century cities. Once confined to the realm of science fiction and small-scale technological experiments, AI is now all around us, in the shape of urban artificial intelligences including autonomous cars, robots, city brains and urban software agents. The aim of this article is to critically examine the nature of urbanism in the emergent age of AI. More specifically, we shed light on how urban AI is impacting the development of cities, and argue that an urbanism influenced by AI, which

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BUENO, ANDRÉ LUIS MACHADO, and MARTA JULIA MARQUES LOPES. "RURAL WOMEN AND VIOLENCE: READINGS OF A REALITY THAT APPROACHES FICTION." Ambiente & Sociedade 21 (July 10, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc170151r1vu18l1ao.

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Abstract This is an epidemiological study on violence against rural women, based on data from public safety in small and medium-sized municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul. The objective was to trace and analyze the geoepidemiological profile of these events from perspectives Sociological The idea is maintained that social inequalities limit or even impede the full exercise of citizenship, forming a factor of vulnerability. Violence becomes a health problem because it affects individual and collective health, demanding the formulation of public policies to deal with it. The results indicated inc

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Hemelrijk, Emily A. "Fictive Motherhood and Female Authority in Roman Cities." Varia, no. 2 (January 1, 2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.54563/eugesta.1079.

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This paper discusses the meaning and function of female kinship titles in the Latin West, focusing on the title of mother of a city or a collegium, on the basis of a small corpus of Latin inscriptions recording mothers of cities and collegia in the cities of – mainly central – Italy and a few cities in the Balkan and Danubian regions in the second and third centuries AD. It is argued that the title of mater implies a lasting and hierarchical relationship between a locally prominent woman of wealth and the city or collegium she fostered. Like the title mater patriae (or mater castrorum et senat

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Gupte, Rupali, and Prasad Shetty. "small forces." Public Culture, October 31, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937424.

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Abstract This essay discusses cities as composites of small forces of energetic selves. Energetic self here is the dimension of the self that drives one to undertake activities connected to one's desires. These could include collecting strange objects, achieving mundane targets, opposing new ideas, behaving like a spy, counting every tree, tracking obscure data, occupying obscure spaces, and so on. Energetic selves also express themselves in everyday friendships and compassions. These practices go beyond the acts of routine and are considered unproductive in conceptualizing cities. They remain

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Franks, Rachel, Simon Dwyer, and Denise N. Rall. "Re-imagine." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1050.

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To re-imagine can, at one extreme, be a casual thought (what if I moved all the furniture in the living room?) and, at the other, re-imagining can be a complex process (what if I adapt a classic text into a major film?). There is a long history of working with the ideas of others and of re-working our own ideas. Of taking a concept and re-imagining it into something that is similar to the original and yet offers something new. Such re-imaginations are all around us; from the various interpretations of the Sherlock Holmes stories to the adjustments made, often over generations, to family recipe

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Novak, Sonja, Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı, Asma Mehan, and Sílvia Quinteiro. "The Narrative Identity of European Cities in Contemporary Literature." Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, June 30, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2023.24.

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This volume aimed to highlight narrative identities of European cities or city neighbourhoods that have been overlooked, such as mid-sized cities. These cities are neither small towns nor metropolises, cities that are now unveiling their appeal or specificity. The present special issue thus covers a range of representations of cities. The articles investigate more systematically how different texts deal with various cities from different experiential and fictional perspectives. The issue covers the geographical scope across Europe, from east to west or vice versa, as well as a range of differe

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Taylor, Paul. "Fleshing Out the Maelstrom." M/C Journal 3, no. 3 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1853.

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Biopunk is an intriguing development of that essential cultural reference point for the information age: cyberpunk. William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) did more than popularise the phrase cyberspace, it laid the basis for a genre that went on to capture the turbulent zeitgeist of a new digital age in which the promises of the much-vaunted, information society finally seemed possible. Karl Marx used the phrase "All that is solid melts into air..."1 to describe the profound social changes wrought by capitalism. It is also a fitting description of the apparent technology-induced paradigm shift in

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Irene Luraschi. "A teatro dai Secco Suardo." Royal Conservatoire Research Portal, no. 1 (May 15, 2025). https://doi.org/10.22501/koncon.2467265.

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In Bergamo, a small city in Northern Italy, in 1687 a new theatre was opened: the Teatro Secco Suardo, the only example of “teatro impresariale” that existed in this city. Its story is full of interest and allows us to observe a glimpse of the musical and cultural life of a provincial city in the period of Venetian domination and the resulting cultural influence. For this reason, I felt the need to narrate the story of this place in my own way, trying to combine the historical narration of facts and the discovery of music that was brought to life in our theatre. The play I wrote includes both

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Hamdani, Jumana, Pablo Antuña Molina, Lucía Leva Fuentes, Hesham Shawqy, Gabriella Rossi, and David Andrés León. "What Is My Plaza for? Implementing a Machine Learning Strategy for Public Events Prediction in the Urban Square." Urban Planning 10 (October 31, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.8551.

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Plazas are an essential pillar of public life in our cities. Historically, they have been seen as public fora, hosting public events that fostered trade, interaction, and debate. However, with the rise of modern urbanism, city planners considered them as part of a larger strategic development scheme overlooking their social importance. As a result, plazas have lost their function and value. In recent years, awareness has risen of the need to re-activate these public spaces to strive for social inclusion and urban resilience. Geometric and urban features of plazas and their surroundings often s

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Masson, Sophie Veronique. "Fairy Tale Transformation: The Pied Piper Theme in Australian Fiction." M/C Journal 19, no. 4 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1116.

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The traditional German tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin inhabits an ambiguous narrative borderland, a liminal space between fact and fiction, fantasy and horror, concrete details and elusive mystery. In his study of the Pied Piper in Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature, Wolfgang Mieder describes how manuscripts and other evidence appear to confirm the historical base of the story. Precise details from a fifteenth-century manuscript, based on earlier sources, specify that in 1284 on the 26th of June, the feast-day of Saints John and Paul, 130 children from Hamelin were led away by a pi

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Mello, Januária. "A Woman from Garimpo: The Autobiographical Novel by Nenê Macaggi in Roraima." Cadernos Pagu, no. 65 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/18094449202100650009.

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Abstract This text proposes to contextualize and analyze the novel by Maria (Nenê) Macaggi (1913-2003), “ A mulher do garimpo: o romance no extremo sertão do Amazonas ” (The woman from the garimpo: the romance in the Amazon’s extreme backlands), published in 1976 by the Official Press of Manaus, drawing a parallel with the author’s biographical trajectory. In the 40’s, Nenê Macaggi participated in an expedition to the northern region of the country and ended up settling in Roraima. It was in the region of the Tepequem and Cotingo rivers, where Nenê discovered the garimpo and worked as an indig

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A.Bennett, Simon. "A City Divided." M/C Journal 5, no. 2 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1950.

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Imaginings of cities are powerful...imagination can be either an escape...or an act of resistance or both (Bridge and Watson 2000: 16). Imagination and the city are closely entwined for Gary Bridges and Sophie Watson who organise the relationship between the city and the imagination in two areas: how the city affects the imagination and how the city is imagined. They see that the city provides both constraints and stimulus on the imagination of all its inhabitants. From screenwriters to urban planners to policy makers to city visitors from suburbs or country towns, each person has his or her i

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Waelder, Pau. "The Constant Murmur of Data." M/C Journal 13, no. 2 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.228.

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Our daily environment is surrounded by a paradoxically silent and invisible flow: the coming and going of data through our network cables, routers and wireless devices. This data is not just 1s and 0s, but bits of the conversations, images, sounds, thoughts and other forms of information that result from our interaction with the world around us. If we can speak of a global ambience, it is certainly derived from this constant flow of data. It is an endless murmur that speaks to our machines and gives us a sense of awareness of a certain form of surrounding that is independent from our actual, p

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Seale, Kirsten, and Emily Potter. "Wandering and Placemaking in London: Iain Sinclair’s Literary Methodology." M/C Journal 22, no. 4 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1554.

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Iain Sinclair is a writer who is synonymous with a city. Sinclair’s sustained literary engagement with London from the mid 1960s has produced a singular account of place in that city (Bond; Baker; Seale “Iain Sinclair”). Sinclair is a leading figure in a resurgent and rebranded psychogeographic literature of the 1990s (Coverley) where on-foot wandering through the city brings forth narrative. Sinclair’s wandering, materialised as walking, is central to the claim of intimacy with the city that underpins his authority as a London writer. Furthermore, embodied encounters with the urban landscape

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Martin, Sam. "Publish or Perish? Re-Imagining the University Press." M/C Journal 13, no. 1 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.212.

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In a TEXT essay in 2004, Philip Edmonds wrote about the publication prospects of graduates of creative writing programs. He depicted the publishing industry of the 1970s and 1980s as a field driven by small presses and literary journals, and lamented the dearth of these publications in today’s industry. Edmonds wrote that our creative writing programs as they stand today are under-performing as they do not deliver on the prime goal of most students: publication. “Ultimately,” he wrote, “creative writing programs can only operate to their full potential alongside an expanding and vibrant publis

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Dean, Gabrielle. "Portrait of the Self." M/C Journal 5, no. 5 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1991.

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Let us work backwards from what we know, from personal experience: the photograph of which we have each been the subject. Roland Barthes says of this photograph that it transforms "the subject into object": one begins aping the mask one wants to assume, one begins, in other words, to make oneself conform in appearance to the disguise of an identity (Camera Lucida 11). A quick glance back at your most recent holiday gathering will no doubt confirm his diagnosis. Barthes gives to this subject-object the title of Spectrum in order to neatly join the idea of spectacle with the fearsome spectre, wh

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Hearn, Greg, and Michelle Hall. "Zone." M/C Journal 14, no. 5 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.446.

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Our challenge for this special issue was to describe and analyse the zones we live in and to a large extent take for granted. There are micro zones. These are small intimate spaces that are very temporary and circumscribe activity between two or three people. The second category of zone is we might call mezzo or mid-range zones. These are zones wherein activities that occupy us for several hours take place. These could include bars, restaurants, playgrounds, and of course the rooms in a house or workplace. Finally there is the city level macro zone. Most of us live in cities. This is an aggreg

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Wishart, Alison. "Make It So: Harnessing Technology to Provide Professional Development to Regional Museum Workers." M/C Journal 22, no. 3 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1519.

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IntroductionIn regional Australia and New Zealand, museums and art galleries are increasingly becoming primary sites of cultural engagement. They are one of the key tourist attractions for regional towns and expected to generate much needed tourism revenue. In 2017 in New South Wales alone, there were three million visitors to regional galleries and museums (MGNSW 13). However, apart from those (partially) funded by local councils, they are often run on donations, good will, and the enthusiasm of volunteers. Regional museums and galleries provide some paid, and more unpaid, employment for agei

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Simpson, Catherine. "Cars, Climates and Subjectivity: Car Sharing and Resisting Hegemonic Automobile Culture?" M/C Journal 12, no. 4 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.176.

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Al Gore brought climate change into … our living rooms. … The 2008 oil price hikes [and the global financial crisis] awakened the world to potential economic hardship in a rapidly urbanising world where the petrol-driven automobile is still king. (Mouritz 47) Six hundred million cars (Urry, “Climate Change” 265) traverse the world’s roads, or sit idly in garages and clogging city streets. The West’s economic progress has been built in part around the success of the automotive industry, where the private car rules the spaces and rhythms of daily life. The problem of “automobile dependence” (New

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Proctor, Devin. "Wandering in the City: Time, Memory, and Experience in Digital Game Space." M/C Journal 22, no. 4 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1549.

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As I round the corner from Church Street onto Vesey, I am abruptly met with the façade of St. Paul’s Chapel and by the sudden memory of two things, both of which have not yet happened. I think about how, in a couple of decades, the area surrounding me will be burnt to the ground. I also recall how, just after the turn of the twenty-first century, the area will again crumble onto itself. It is 1759, and I—via my avatar—am wandering through downtown New York City in the videogame space of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue (AC:R). These spatial and temporal memories stem from the fact that I have previousl

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Connor, Will. "Making It Magical." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3006.

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In the late 2010s, I owned and operated a bespoke drum-building company, and during that time, I was commissioned to build a frame drum by the partner of a musician who was also a magic practitioner. The commission was fitting despite my business not being related to magic or Paganism directly. I have been working with drum construction in all of my research projects during my academic career, a touring percussionist for decades, and the company focussed on making drums inspired by Lovecraftian narratives and Lovecraftian Futurist music. Due to the nature of Lovecraftian horror and science fic

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Morrison, Susan Signe. "Walking as Memorial Ritual: Pilgrimage to the Past." M/C Journal 21, no. 4 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1437.

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This essay combines life writing with meditations on the significance of walking as integral to the ritual practice of pilgrimage, where the individual improves her soul or health through the act of walking to a shrine containing healing relics of a saint. Braiding together insights from medieval literature, contemporary ecocriticism, and memory studies, I reflect on my own pilgrimage practice as it impacts the land itself. Canterbury, England serves as the central shrine for four pilgrimages over decades: 1966, 1994, 1997, and 2003.The act of memory was not invented in the Anthropocene. Rathe

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West, Patrick Leslie. "Towards a Politics and Art of the Land: Gothic Cinema of the Australian New Wave and Its Reception by American Film Critics." M/C Journal 17, no. 4 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.847.

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Many films of the Australian New Wave (or Australian film renaissance) of the 1970s and 1980s can be defined as gothic, especially following Jonathan Rayner’s suggestion that “Instead of a genre, Australian Gothic represents a mode, a stance and an atmosphere, after the fashion of American Film Noir, with the appellation suggesting the inclusion of horrific and fantastic materials comparable to those of Gothic literature” (25). The American comparison is revealing. The 400 or so film productions of the Australian New Wave emerged, not in a vacuum, but in an increasingly connected and inter-mix

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McHoul, Alec. "Talking (across) Cultures." M/C Journal 3, no. 2 (2000). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1838.

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1. In this paper, I want to begin to contemplate the possibility that the concept of culture could one day be thought outside modern Western thought, via a reading of Martin Heidegger's 'Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer'. As we shall see, for Heidegger, the dominant position here is representationalism. And so a large part of what I want to do here is to begin to shake the concept of culture from these dominant representationalist moorings.1 Heidegger's problem with the history of Western thought may be put as follows. In this tradition, the difference between Being and

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Blackwood, Gemma. "<em>The Serpent</em> (2021)." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2835.

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The Netflix/BBC eight-part limited true crime series The Serpent (2021) provides a commentary on the impact of the tourist industry in South-East Asia in the 1970s. The series portrays the story of French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim)—a psychopathic international con artist of Vietnamese-Indian descent—who regularly targeted Western travellers, especially the long-term wanderers of the legendary “Hippie Trail” (or the “Overland”), running between eastern Europe and Asia. The series, which was filmed on location in Thailand—in Bangkok and the Thai town of Hua Hin—is set

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Davies, Elizabeth. "Bayonetta: A Journey through Time and Space." M/C Journal 19, no. 5 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1147.

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Art Imitating ArtThis article discusses the global, historical and literary references that are present in the video game franchise Bayonetta. In particular, references to Dante’s Divine Comedy, the works of Dr John Dee, and European traditions of witchcraft are examined. Bayonetta is modern in the sense that she is a woman of the world. Her character shows how history and literature may be used, re-used, and evolve into new formats, and how modern games travel abroad through time and space.Drawing creative inspiration from other works is nothing new. Ideas and themes, art and literature are f

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Gibson, Chris. "On the Overland Trail: Sheet Music, Masculinity and Travelling ‘Country’." M/C Journal 11, no. 5 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.82.

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Introduction One of the ways in which ‘country’ is made to work discursively is in ‘country music’ – defining a genre and sensibility in music production, marketing and consumption. This article seeks to excavate one small niche in the historical geography of country music to explore exactly how discursive antecedents emerged, and crucially, how images associated with ‘country’ surfaced and travelled internationally via one of the new ‘global’ media of the first half of the twentieth century – sheet music. My central arguments are twofold: first, that alongside aural qualities and lyrical cont

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Beyer, Sue. "Metamodern Spell Casting." M/C Journal 26, no. 5 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2999.

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There are spells in the world: incantations that can transform reality through the power of procedural utterances. The marriage vow, the courtroom sentence, the shaman’s curse: these words are codes that change reality. (Finn 90) Introduction As a child, stories on magic were “opportunities to escape from reality” (Brugué and Llompart 1), or what Rosengren and Hickling describe as being part of a set of “causal belief systems” (77). As an adult, magic is typically seen as being “pure fantasy” (Rosengren and Hickling 75), while Bever argues that magic is something lost to time and materialism,

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Sofoulis, Zoé. "Machinic Musings with Mumford." M/C Journal 2, no. 6 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1781.

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What is a machine? As part of his answer to this, historian and philosopher of technology Lewis Mumford cites a classic definition: "a machine is a combination of resistant bodies so arranged that by their means the mechanical forces of nature can be compelled to do work accompanied by certain determinant motions" (Reuleaux [1876], qtd. in Mumford, Technics and Civilisation 9). Mumford's own definition is focussed on machines as part of a technological continuum between human body and automaton: Machines have developed out of a complex of non-organic agents for converting energy, for performin

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Schlotterbeck, Jesse. "Non-Urban Noirs: Rural Space in Moonrise, On Dangerous Ground, Thieves’ Highway, and They Live by Night." M/C Journal 11, no. 5 (2008). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.69.

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Despite the now-traditional tendency of noir scholarship to call attention to the retrospective and constructed nature of this genre— James Naremore argues that film noir is best regarded as a “mythology”— one feature that has rarely come under question is its association with the city (2). Despite the existence of numerous rural noirs, the depiction of urban space is associated with this genre more consistently than any other element. Even in critical accounts that attempt to deconstruct the solidity of the noir genre, the city is left as an implicit inclusion, and the country, an implict exc

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Kelly, Elaine. "Growing Together? Land Rights and the Northern Territory Intervention." M/C Journal 13, no. 6 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.297.

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Each community’s title deed carries the indelible blood stains of our ancestors. (Watson, "Howard’s End" 2)IntroductionAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term coalition comes from the Latin coalescere or ‘coalesce’, meaning “come or bring together to form one mass or whole”. Coalesce refers to the unity affirmed as something grows: co – “together”, alesce – “to grow up”. While coalition is commonly associated with formalised alliances and political strategy in the name of self-interest and common goals, this paper will draw as well on the broader etymological understanding of coal

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Glitsos, Laura. "From Rivers to Confetti: Reconfigurations of Time through New Media Narratives." M/C Journal 22, no. 6 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1584.

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IntroductionIn the contemporary West, experiences of time are shaped by—and inextricably linked to—the nature of media production and consumption. In Derrida and Steigler’s estimation, teletechnologies bring time “into play” and thus produce time as an “artifact”, that is, a knowable product (3). How and why time becomes “artifactually” produced, according to these thinkers, is a result of the various properties of media production; media ensure that “gestures” (which can be understood here as the cultural moments marked as significant in some way, especially public ones) are registered. Being

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