The advent of cybertechnologies has led to radical paradigm shifts in our social, economic, cultural, and psychological conceptualizations. The paper investigates the advent of cyborgs, indeed our transformation into cyborgs, and the impact of this transformation upon identities and face management, which has an important social value since the late modernism. Cyborg is a designation for the in...

The paper presents both the institutional background and the government philosophy regarding equality and non-prejudice within all of the territories under Portuguese sovereignty in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as tests carried out to discover if the decision to marry and racial homogamy could be considered independent variables, using annual data from statistical yearbooks relating to the colo...

RECKONING WITH THE PAST? ON ILLUSORY DE-FASCISATION OF ITALY IN PERIOD TRANSFORMATION (1943-1948) This chapter discusses de-fascisation process in Italy during the systemic transformation 1943-1948. It will examine whether national reconciliation policy pursued by Alcide De Gasperi’s governments second half of 1940s contributed to emergence a societal vision Mussolini’s relatively mild dictator...

Since the 1940s there has been an interest in the question of why social networks often give rise to two antagonistic factions. Recently a dynamical model of how and why such a balance might occur was developed. This note provides an introduction to the notion of social balance and a new (and simplified) analysis of that model. This new analysis allows us to choose general initial conditions, a...

Ankara’da Sakarya olarak anılan bölge kentin merkezinde bulunması nedeniyle kentlilerin yoğun biçimde kullandığı mekânlarından biri olagelmiştir. Bu nedenle günümüze kadar sosyal yaşamın bir alanı varlığını sürdürmekte ve hem de tarihinde önemli yer tutmaktadır. çalışmada bölgesindeki tarihsel süreç içindeki dönüşümü ağırlıklı simgeleşmiş mekânlar üzerinden ele alınacaktır. Çalışmanın temel ama...

Surrealism and the New Universal Myth During the 1940s and 1950s, surrealists increasingly explored abstraction. A widespread interest in biomorphism (the use of organic shapes that reference natural life forms) was accompanied by a heightened emphasis on automatism. Investigations into abstraction paralleled the search for a new social myth, which André Breton deemed therapeutic, mind expandin...