The general aim of the present paper is to set out characteristics what I call (or a) baroque time, trying as such reveal how linked with this category, in opposition both current, «popular» perception it or powerful theoretical interpretations, which are permeated by a spatio-visual kind lecture. sketchily then three significant analyses (of Benjamin, Maravall and Bal) where we find an attempt...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of timbre, the presence or absence of tonal hierarchy, and the influence of musical training on the perception of "tension-relaxation schemas" in musical phrases. Two musical excerpts taken from the Baroque 'tonal/metric' and contemporary 'nontonal/nonmetric' repertoires constituted the stimuli of the experiment. Two versions of each excerpt w...

Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn Dycki (born 1964) belongs to the group of poets whose work has been awarded many times in prestigious literary competitions; poet received, among others, The Nike Literary Award (2009), Gdynia (twice: 2006 and 2009) SilesiusWrocław Poetry 2012 2020). His poetry systematically elaborated on themes madness, disease obsession with death. When writing about death refers baroque...

Pearls, the most flawless and highly prized of them, are perhaps the most perfectly spherical macroscopic bodies in the biological world. How are they so round? Why are other pearls solids of revolution (off-round, drop, ringed pearl), and yet others have no symmetry (baroque pearls)? We observe that with a spherical pearl the growth fronts of nacre are spirals and target patterns distributed a...

Telč is a Moravian medieval town, founded in the 13 Century as a fortified place with two castle-fortresses, town wall and lakes around, Fig.1. The lower castle, first Gothic, was rebuilt in the 16 century into a Renaissance chateau with rich well preserved interiors. In the 17 and 18 centuries the city was enriched with Baroque churches and sculptures, mostly built by Jesuits. The Gothic perio...

In this paper we investigate the notion of developing generic aspects in Hyper/J and compare it with other approaches.

The sensibilities and varieties of expression gathered under what John Law describes as resources of the baroque do not suggest a method but an orientation to thinking and research that departs from dominant modes of knowing in the social sciences and humanities. This includes concerns with excess, non-coherence, the senses, Otherness, affect, embodiment, movement, and heterogeneity as explored...