This paper is partly a response to the ongoing debate in the game world about whether games can be art, and partly an excerpt from my Ph.D. research. I aim to offer some insights in the cognitive experiences gamers have while playing hopefully useful to both designers and scholars. I will argue that an art experience is a particular kind of cognitive experience, namely a distinctive type of ima...

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

The continuing debate over the status of medicine as an art or a science remains far from resolved. The aim of this paper is to clarify what is meant by the art of medicine. In the following interpretation I contrast two current perspectives of the medical art. I argue that the art of medicine is best understood in terms of the Aristotelian notion of techne. It consists of listening skills dire...

Serological screening of couples attending for ART therapy is now common practice. The frequency of such screening is a topic of debate as few publications have addressed this question. Emerging evidence shows that the ART population has similar prevalence of infectious diseases compared with the general EU population. The need to pursue repeat screening is mainly related to the risk of serocon...

The appropriate time to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection is an area of much debate and some scientific study. In the absence of opportunistic infection, HIV-related symptoms, pregnancy, or comorbidities that may trigger the use of ART (e.g., hepatitis B), treatment guidelines have focused primarily on the CD4 lymphocyte count and plasma HIV RNA level and have suggested im...

Between 1929 and 1930 the Der Kreis journal hosted a debate among art historians museum directors on how copies were changing landscape. The so-called Hamburger Faksimile-Streit constitutes crucial moment in Weimarian theoretical categories of copy original, culminating few years later Benjamin’s well-known essay work art. After examining theses main participants debate, this article focus posi...

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...