This essay interweaves Stefan Morawski’s critique of postmodernism and Jean-François Lyotard’s expression the postmodern sublime as “the presentation unpresentable” in a wide-ranging appraisal culmination age. juxtaposition finds concept two modes negative sublime: dynamical exemplified stockpiles nuclear warheads scattered widely across globe, mathematical represented by omniscient electronic ...

The contemporary landscape is rife with ruins, from circumscribed tourist attractions to urban decay and demolition sites. When examined, our aesthetic experience of these sites ranges from historical distancing to the sublime and, when found in our local communities (e.g., Providence, RI), to discomfort, displacement, and horror. In particular, this paper is interested in how certain forms of ...

To produce well-defined device structures having ultrasmall areas in compound semiconductors, it is necessary that lateral variations in doping and composition be realizable having interfacial quality comparable to that presently achieved vertically with techniques such as molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). This letter describes a novel scheme involving the controlled, patterned sublimation of GaAs,...

This essay is divided into two sections. In the first, I argue conditions for Keatsean Sensevil Sublime, drawing upon adequate resources from political (Hobbesian) and aesthetic categories (Longinus, Edmund Burke Immanuel Kant) to showcase expansions limitations of this Sublimity. A close-reading “This Living hand, now warm capable” (Written approximately in December, 1819, published posthumous...

Like other spaces of the Enlightenment, sublime was what Michel de Certeau might have called “a practiced place.” Its rhetorical commonplaces, philosophical terrains, and associated physical environments were cultivated, shaped, framed by human action habit. But can sublime—epiphanic, quasi-spiritual, unmasterable, extraordinary—ever really become a habit? Is it possible, even natural, to habit...