In the framework of an artistic-scientific project on eye-movements during reading, my collaborators from the psychology department at the KU Leuven and I had a close look at the poem "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" ("A throw of the dice will never abolish chance") by Stéphane Mallarmé. The poem is an intriguing example of nonlinear writing, of a typographic game with white and spac...

What is the nature of the representation formed during the viewing of natural scenes? We tested two competing hypotheses regarding the accumulation of visual information during scene viewing. The first holds that coherent visual representations disintegrate as soon as attention is withdrawn from an object and thus that the visual representation of a scene is exceedingly impoverished. The second...

in 20th century, artist’s new experiences and diverse examinations along with emerging different art movements, was so immense that in every decade of last century we faced with prodigious changes in modern arts. improvisation is one of the phenomena which enlivened in visual arts of early 20th. in 1909, among art revolutions in the west, visual arts experienced the “improvisation” in the works...

this paper examines the political-economy and cultural dynamics and discourses underlying the emergence of the Palestinian Hamas and the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front. Both movements emerged in the late 1980s as responses to continuing (neo) colonial conditions in their countries. I explore to what extent the various processes commonly referred to as “globalization,” both the world-wide econ...

Abstract At the beginning of 2010s, several Arab countries seemed about to follow model Turkey, with an electoral victory Islamist parties in a context democratization. A decade later, Turkish akp has turned authoritarian, and Moroccan Tunisian have lost both access governmental office large part their appeal. In this context, lessons can be learned from early failed democratic experience Alger...