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Gaming the Network Poetic: Contextualizing Networked Videogames in Art

Videogames have historically used networking either to connect players for competition or cooperation, or to provide an ephemeral connection to allow the upload, comparison, or assessment of single-player achievement data. The majority of videogames take place on a screen and on established platforms, each of which have physical, technical, and sociocultural constraints that suggest how a playe...

Structural Differences between Poetic and Prosaic Genres of Ainu ― in Favour of the Corpus-based Approach to Linguistic Typology ―

For many years, language documentation has merely been regarded as a primary ‘invisible’ stage of grammar writing; the results of language documentation itself, i.e. transcribed and annotated texts, often remained unpublished. In the last decade, the importance of language documentation as such has been finally recognized by the international community of linguists. As a result, not only the qu...

On the State of the Art of POEtic Machines

Biological systems grow, live, adapt, and reproduce, characteristics that are not truly encompassed by any existing computing system. If one considers life on Earth since its very beginning, three levels of organization can be distinguished: phylogeny, ontogeny, and epigenesis. Machines that combine evolutionary mechanisms (Phylogeny), developmental processes (Ontogeny), and learning algorithms...

Poetic Engagement with Afghanistan, Caucasus and Iran: an unesplored strategic opportiunity? (2009)

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...

Poetic (In)Justice? Rap Music Lyrics as Art, Life, and Criminal Evidence