Daniel 3 as satirical comedy

Comedy as freedom of expression

Information Science is a broad, inclusive disciplinary area. If rather than looking to define or delimit it, we look for its driving principle or ethical rationale a good choice would be Article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights. This is a powerful statement on intellectual freedom encompassing freedom of opinion, expression and access to information. Without the freedom to gen...

Improvised Comedy as a Turing Test

The best improvisational theatre actors can make any scene partner, of any skill level or ability, appear talented and proficient in the art form, and thus "make them shine". To challenge this improvisational paradigm, we built an artificial intelligence (AI) trained to perform live shows alongside human actors for human audiences. Over the course of 30 performances to a combined audience of al...

Facial Expression Learning 3 Au 1 DANIEL

17 Theoretical Background 18 Facial expression learning is typically a focus of theories of 19 emotional development. These theories differ in the 20 importance they assign to innate versus environmental 21 factors, and the degree to which they emphasize change 22 in the form of facial expressions with age. Learning theory 23 argues that the development of facial expression proceeds 24 through ...

Satirical Perspectives: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Aristotle's Theory of Comedy

<193>Aristotle, in his Poetics, claimed that tragedy, “through pity and fear, accomplishes the catharsis of such emotions (di j ejlevou kai; fovbou peraivnousa th;n tw'n toiouvtwn paqhmavtwn kavqarsin) (Poet. 1449b27f.) .” It has been argued that the medical purgation theory of the musical catharsis in Politics is the key phrase for the interpretation of tragic catharsis, where he says, those w...