DOI 10.1215/016424721468308 © 2012 Duke University Press It has been twenty years since Kwame Anthony Appiah’s sharply critical essay, “Is the Postin Postmodernism the Postin Postcolonial?,” brought to our attention the deep complicities of the postcolonial intellectual with global capitalism’s management of cultural commodities out of Africa via the fetishism of the self as other.1 An unthinki...

Considering invisibility of the New Tendencies in the dominant narrative on European modernism, ongoing process of consolidation of the new media art might be a platform from which to introduce the New Tendencies into the context of new media art history. However explanations given in the recent interpretations of that international art Movement clearly demonstrate that along the lines of that ...

A close, and sometimes polemical, reading of Joanna Rzepa’s study Modernism Theology: Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, Czesław Miłosz reveals the cognitive fruitfulness a comparativist perspective in considering nature relationship between theological literary modernisms broad European context that, through even takes on Russian Orthodoxy. The article shows how British context, which 1922 is key...

built environment does not “simply appear overnight, like a movie-set springing up on a vacant lot, but has to be produced”.thus, the first point in dealing with such an environment is considered to be the tracing of time in the evaluation of the city and keeping in mind that the whole is more than its parts. the last point becomes naturally understood when the process of city building is p...

We study the problem of estimating the mean of a multivariate distribution based on independent samples. The main result is the proof of existence of an estimator with a non-asymptotic sub-Gaussian performance for all distributions satisfying some mild moment assumptions.

This paper gives a proof of existence of price equilibria under certain parameters for a model of product differentiation commonly used in the empirical geographic differentiation literature. This proof is needed because the assumptions of Caplin and Nalebuff (1991) are not generally satisfied once data is introduced to geographic models. The theorem also has implications for existence in mixed...

Postmodernism does not have a standard definition. However, this paper tries to formulate the characteristics of postmodernism based on various ideas from some postmodernism figures. There are five characteristics of postmodernism which successfully formulated. Based on these five characteristics, this paper looks at the differences between postmodernism with its predecessor, that is modernism....

The aim of the paper is to explore line Ukrainian Modernity which expressed in writings Hryhorii Skovoroda by combining Christian concept human life and experience Antiquity, perceived through prism Christianity. In this context, motive spiritual renewal directly conditioned understanding interaction God’s Word with one, manifested persistent work revealing biblical meaning creating a new form ...