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Re-enchantment and Reclamation

Re-enchantment and Reclamation is a two-year research project, begun in 2006, involving four artists based at Lancaster University UK, who are collaborating with four artists from the UK and abroad. Through a programme of workshops and lectures the project aims to discover and develop methods in dance, film, and the sonic arts for re-enchanting and reclaiming the landscape of Morecambe Bay in t...

Does Nature Prefer Heterocycles?

Enchantment under the sea: An intelligent enviroment

Disc Jokeys (DJs) generally mix music in a confined isolated space. This can make the DJ have depression sentiments and it can also difficult the DJ's understanding of his public. We present Enchantment Under The Sea: a new intelligent environment that allows the disc jokey to roam freely, interact directly with his audience, receive informative feedback about the public's social interactions, ...

Does Nature Prefer Heterocycles?

What Does Respect for Nature Mean?

A review of Paul W. Taylor's Respect for Nature: A Theory of aylor develops a biocentric environEnvironmental Ethics (Princeton: mental ethics based on moral Princeton University Press, 1986). agents' respect for inherently worthy moral subjects in nature. 329 pages, hardcover $37.50, Moral subjects consist of "the paperback $12.50. natural world ... the entire set of natural ecosystems on our ...