The assumption about the formal and semantic link between language and genre is the starting point of this study. The absurd in speech is analyzed in texts written by N. Gogol and D. Kharms, while absurd genres are tackled on the basis of the narratives of Dostoevsky, Camus and Sabato. The reality of modern times and all aspects of its artistic representations have altered the form and ideology...

Paper Session, Espace de Projection Mobile and Public Mobile Music Technology: Report on an Emerging Community Lalya Gaye, Lars Erik Holmquist, Frauke Behrendt, Atau Tanaka A Framework for Spatial Interaction in Locative Media Atau Tanaka, Petra Gemeinboeck CaMus: Live Music Performance using Camera Phones and Visual Grid Tracking Michael Rohs, Georg Essl, Martin Roth Pocket Gamelan: tuneable t...

Albert Camus, the French Algerian, lived a short but action filled life; from losing his father when he was just one year old to poverty experienced in grandmother’s house where grew up after father’s passage. From suffering tuberculosis at time its cure still uncertain brilliance school, love for football, country-side and philosophy, becoming renowned philosopher, rising beyond mentors Messie...

When my colleague Mauricio Lima sent me the accompanying paper (Camus and Lima 2002) it rekindled my interest in an unfinished manuscript that attempts to address some of the questions and problems they pose. The ideas presented in this essay are based on the premise that ecology needs a central unifying concept upon which to build a coherent and practical discipline. I will argue that, from a ...

We present a new approach to reasoning in propositional linear-time temporal logic (PLTL). The method is based on the simplified temporal resolution calculus. We prove that the search for premises to apply the rules of simplified temporal resolution can be re-formulated as a search for minimal unsatisfiable subsets (MUS) in a set of classical propositional clauses. This reformulation reduces a ...