Kairos and Carnival: Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rhetorical and Ethical Christian Vision

An Investigation into Nikzad Nodjumi’s Works of Art Based on Carnival Theory by Mikhail Bakhtin

Abstract                                                The world has faced complicated upheavals nowadays. Man has always tried to forsake these disasters and calamities and find an answer for them. He looks for a way to express these contrasts and conflicts in warning, intricate and thought provoking works of art. Nikzad Nodjoumi, one of the contemporary artists shows these oppositions by g...

Genetic testing's "soft underbelly". Christian vision and bio-utopia.

Ethical issues in ophthalmology and vision research.

As more research work is done on eye disorders, more safety rules and regulations are required to ensure the safety of trial subjects. This is the main function of Research Ethics Committees [also known as Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and Domain Specific Review Boards (DSRBs)]. Tragedies in research in other fields are wake-up calls, such as the death of a healthy young volunteer subject ...

Mikhail Ershov And

We establish a new spectral criterion for Kazhdan's property (T) which is applicable to a large class of discrete groups defined by generators and relations. As the main application, we prove property (T) for the groups ELn(R), where n ≥ 3 and R is an arbitrary finitely generated associative ring. We also strengthen some of the results on property (T) for Kac-Moody groups from [DJ].

Christian Norberg-Schulz and the Existential Space

The historian-theoretician Christian Norberg-Schulz, examining the development of his ideas across 30 years. While Norberg-Schulz started out with Intentions in Architecture (1963), a work that was clearly influenced by structuralist studies, he soon shifted to a phenomenological approach with Existence, Space and Architecture (1971), and then with Genius Loci (1980) and The Concept of Dwelling...