Theatre and Installation: Perspectives on Beckett

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'Beckett on the Wards': medical humanities pedagogy and 'compassionate care'.

To cite: Heron J, Barry E, Duncan F, et al. Med Humanit 2016;42:63–64. To be ‘compassionate’ is to share the passion— etymologically, to suffer together. For some clinicians, there is an understandable tension between this compassion (to feel pity) and the imperative of diagnosis (to know thoroughly). This tension became an explicit concern of the 2013 ‘Beckett on the Wards’ medical humanities ...

Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson

This article analyses the work of the twentieth-century late modernist Samuel Beckett, in light of the turn-of-the-century anti-rationalist Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and the eighteenth-century neoclassicist Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). What unites these three very different thinkers is a concern over habitual, automatic and involuntary behavior, which in all three cases has a distinctly neurolog...

on semihypergroups and hypergroups

in this thesis, first the notion of weak mutual associativity (w.m.a.) and the necessary and sufficient condition for a $(l,gamma)$-associated hypersemigroup $(h, ast)$ derived from some family of $lesssim$-preordered semigroups to be a hypergroup, are given. second, by proving the fact that the concrete categories, semihypergroups and hypergroups have not free objects we will introduce t...

On the Opera Theatre Simulation

In this paper we develop some considerations on multimedia applications, starting from the experience gained by implementing a multimedia representation of an opera theatre: namely the Teatro alla Scala di Milano. After a hyper-realistic approach influenced by current trends in multimedia applications we are now considering a more abstract approach, in order to stimulate the aesthetic experienc...