Legitimacy is a concept that has been largely forgotten by the deconstructive discourse on law and politics. This article seeks, one hand, to reassess role of legitimacy in deconstruction and, other bring thinking bear legitimacy. By re-reading Derrida’s “Declarations Independence” through lenses his later texts sovereignty (counter)signature, it argued that, rather than being deconstructible, ...

Categories are not invariant. This paper attempts to explore the dynamic nature of semantic category, in particular, that of fashion language, based on the cognitive theory of Dawkins’ memetics, a new theory of cultural evolution. Semantic attributes of linguistic memes decrease or proliferate in replication and spreading, which involves a dynamic development of semantic category. More specific...

Fashion design often starts with hand-drawn, expressive sketches that communicate the essence of a garment over idealized human bodies. We propose an approach to automatically dress virtual characters from such input, previously complemented user-annotations. In contrast prior work requiring users draw garments accurate proportions each character be dressed, our method follows style transfer st...