Researchers studying autonomous agents are increasingly examining the problem of integrating multiple capabilities into single agents. The Oz project is developing technology for dramatic, interactive, simulated worlds. One requirement of such worlds is the presence of broad, though perhaps shallow, agents. To support our needs, we are developing an agent architecture, called Tok, that displays...

Bit transmission technologies are not communication technologies! I argue that most socalled Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are neither information nor communication technologies. They are, instead, simply bit transmission technologies that need to be critically decompiled and rebuilt if they are ever to have any potential as communication technologies. The so-called "theory ...

This paper explores the implications of postmodernism upon a historically modern institution by articulating and applying three components of postmodernity to the academic library: the rise of local narratives, the performativity of knowledge, and the notion of the cyborg, a humanmachine hybrid inhabited, in many ways, by the academic librarian. In his 1999 article “Towards a Postmodern Context...

Resumo: Este artigo analisa o conto brasileiro “Nos olhos do intruso”, de Rubens Figueiredo, e sua relação com a pós-modernidade. Por meio da temática duplo, observa-se comportamento protagonista identidade multifacetada. O aporte teórico trabalho é baseado nos estudos Harvey (2008), Hall (1986), Lyotard (2009), Rosset (2008) outros autores. Constata-se que estranheza causada pelo enredo as pol...

Postmodernizm; sınırları, kapsamı net bir şekilde belli olmayan, bununla birlikte sanat eserlerine nasıl ve ne yansıdığı konusunda da çeşitli fikir ayrılıkları bulunan, kimilerine göre üslup ise ideoloji olan akımdır. Sözlüklerdeki tanımına üslup; Habermas, Jameson gibi yazarlara ideoloji, Baudrillard, Lyotard medya teknolojinin yeni bilgi yaşam biçimlerini doğurduğu dönemin adı Postmodernizmin...

The authors of the article with reference to discussions about status knowledge in postmodernism discourse and "crisis intellectual" presented works by J.F. Lyotard Z. Bauman, consider these issues context other social challenges. Interpreting conducted empirical research results, also focuses on multidisciplinary theoretical analysis philosophical, psychological pedagogical literature.
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The following paper has been revised from my 2001 MA thesis, which asked ‘Is it possible to define a strategy for reading queer?’ This includes an investigation of how the traditionally stable categories of reader/text/author may be redefined by queer strategies that instead force instability and flux. In the three years that have elapsed since first conceiving of this piece, I argue that the p...

The paper outlines the theoretical and methodological complexity of historical-philosophi- cal study Georges Bataille’s literary philosophical heritage, In: particular «Inner Expe- rience», one his key works, which is about to be released in Ukrainian. To this end, I analyze biographical historical-philosophical contexts writing Experience». observe main events thinker’s life, led work testify ...