Hypertext and Hypermedia require no assumptions as to the nature of law, nor any rule formalism; they are a "quick and dirty" method of presenting material legal or otherwise. Until now hypertext has lacked a theoretical foundation. Some might argue that this is one of its greatest virtues, in that building Hypertext requires no grand theory. However, Critical Theory, in particular Derridian/Fo...

Katherine Mansfield is traditionally located in English Modernism; however, she goes beyond the modernist perception of the “allotropic self” and approaches the endlessly split subject of postmodernism. This study selects the theoretical rationale of a number of postmodernist critics that validates a perception of Mansfield’s treatment of the human subject as postmodernist, particularly in “The...

The present study attempts to examine the factors contributing to modernism of the youth in Shoshtar city. In the research the degree of modernism and the relationship between education, job status, the use of mass media, social and economic status and the degree of faith were evaluated. The data were collected through a questionnaire. The population was all the youth in Shoshtar 400 people wer...

In this paper, we have tried to analyze and asses the process of formation and spatial – structural evolution of Iranian-Islamic cities through Tehran case study as well as how to organize and effecting different factors specially modernism on urban elements. Also we have discussed about formation and emergence of Tehran and the effect of different pre modernism and postmodernism socio-economic...

This paper conceptualises an East European type of populism that I call post-peasant. It originated in state-socialist modernisation and mobilises people who are not peasants, but nevertheless value the countryside as morally superior to a life large cities. My major contention is post-peasant emerges under specific cultural-economic conditions, among which institution ‘post-peasant house’ para...

Philosophers can get pretty excited about The Matrix . An apparent exception is Jean Baudrillard, the author of Simulacra and Simulation (henceforth, S&S), the book that appears in the movie. Numerous sources report Baudrillard saying that the movie “stemmed mostly from misunderstandings” of his work. So a natural point of inquiry has been whether or not this is true. Yeffeth (2002) contains tw...