Karen Tei Yamashita and Magical Realism: Re-Membering Community, Undoing Borders

Re-membering the Body

Re-membering: a Theory of Agents

This position paper provides an abstract discussion regarding current work to develop a design theory for the realization of a computer-based assistant composed of "societies of agents" based on Minsky’s Society of Mind theory. Specifically, the theory attempts to define a cognitive architecture to integrate various learning and reasoning processing. This work has resulted in the implementation...

Race and Magical Realism in Young Adult Fiction

fiction are preoccupied with questioning and destabilizing the conventions and establishments of the adult world. While the main function of adolescent literature is socialization and acculturation, subversion and transgression are equally integral elements. According to Latham, magical realism offers a narrative mode through which adolescent literature can achieve the goal of “socialization th...

The Work of Re-Membering: After Genocide and Mass Atrocity

First, this article explores the role of international criminal trails and truth commissions in resisting narratives of collective guilt and producing a different sort of collective memory, helping the society-and the watching world-not merely recall but also re-member, that is, to reconstitute a community of humanity against which there can be crimes (hence, “crimes against humanity”), and wit...

Beyond re-membering: phantom sensations of congenitally absent limbs.

Phantom limbs are traditionally conceptualized as the phenomenal persistence of a body part after deafferentation. Previous clinical observations of subjects with phantoms of congenitally absent limbs are not compatible with this view, but, in the absence of experimental work, the neural basis of such "aplasic phantoms" has remained enigmatic. In this paper, we report a series of behavioral, im...