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\"Playing with concepts of size and scale, giant pumpkins decorate some of America's most famous landmarks and landscapes.\"-- Provided by publisher. Includes facts about the places and events pictured.
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To Boldly Remember: Memorials and Mnemonic Technologies from Star Trek’s Vision to Israeli Commemoration
This article examines memory and monuments in the science fiction Star Trek franchise as a lens for understanding commemoration technologies and how futuristic visions of memorials anticipated real ones, especially during times of conflict. To understand the cultural reciprocity of sci-fi television and contemporary commemoration of war and trauma, we investigate the interactive website produced by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Kan, titled Kan 7.10.360, which commemorates the victims of the 7 October 2023 Hamas massacre of civilians, soldiers, and policemen in Israel’s Gaza Envelope region. The 7.10.360 website employs advanced technologies to create what we identify as a digital “counter-monument.” By applying the concept of metamemorial science fiction relating to the Shoah, investigating its victims’ commemoration and examining the globital turn in memory work, we demonstrate that the Kan project realizes digital mnemonic practices engaged in Star Trek. We argue that the renowned series performs and anticipates three aspects of globital memory work and novel digital commemoration, also prevalent in the Kan 7.10.360 website: the personalization of memory using images; televisual testimony or documentation that mediates personal experience; and the display of objects that symbolize quotidian aspects of the victims’ lives.
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Mr. Men : road trip!
Miss Fun buys a motorhome and takes her friends on an adventure, from New York City to Hollywood, California, with plenty of stops in-between--and plenty of complaints from Mr. Grumpy.
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Embodied Voices: Ekphrasis of Incarnation in Pérez Galdós' Doña Perfecta and Ana Galdós' El abra del Yumurí
In this essay I offer a comparative analysis of two works, one from nineteenth century Spain, Benito Pérez Galdós\" Doña Perfecta, and the second from twentieth-century Cuba, Ana Galdós\" El abra del Yumuri. This piece moves from the stark realism tinged with gothic elements of the first to the more nuanced realism of the second, as it is suffused with the magic of America. We will seek to understand the Latin (Cuban) voice that seeks inspiration both in America and in Spain. With Benito Pérez Galdós and Ana Galdós we come to view ekphrasis of incarnation as a process that actualizes art and words, making them monuments of flesh as they intrude into each other, our dreams and our worlds. From Pérez Galdos, the Cuban writer takes the love and knowledge of art, the uses of contrastive oppositions, the tragedy that emerges from lack of reconciliation, and the gothic nature of ignorance. Ana Galdos, also with a deep knowledge of art, creates a new world where the gothic is seen in nature's beauty; where woman rather than man seeks to bring light; and where the tragic may be attenuated by the marvel of an ekphrasis of incarnation.
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Legendary Rome
\"Legendary Rome\" is the first book to offer a comparative treatment of the reinvention of Rome's origins in the poetry of Vergil, Tibullus and Propertius. It also examines the impact that the changing topography of Rome, as orchestrated by the emperor Augustus, had on those poets' renditions of Rome's legendary past. When the poets explore the significance of Augustus' reconstruction of the Palatine and Capitoline hills, they create new meaning and memories for the story of Rome's legendary foundations. As the tradition of Rome's mythic and legendary origins evolves through each poetic revision, the past transforms and is reinvented anew.The exploration of what constitutes a civilised landscape for each poet leads to significant conclusions about the dynamic and evolving nature of shared public memories. Written when Rome was in the process of defining a new, post-war identity, the poems studied here capture the growing tension between community and individual development, the restoration of peace versus expansion through military means, and stability and change within the city.
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No Peace After Death? The Impact of AI-Driven Memorial Chatbots on Privacy and Data Protection
This paper examines the profitable digital afterlife industry (DAI), whose aim is to monetize the digital remains of departed internet users. Among the different services offered by such an industry, attention is drawn to AI and humanoid robots that create convincing digital surrogates of the deceased. A decade ago, Google patented robots that can be customizable with personality attributes, and later, Microsoft secured a patent for software that could reincarnate people as a chatbot. By focusing on how these technologies actually work, and in particular, on how software systems collect and process the deceased’s data, the intent is to illustrate the normative challenges of the field, namely, the legal puzzles, moral threats, and uncertainties related to privacy and data protection in the after-death governance of cyberspace.
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LITERARY TOURISM IN TIMIŞ COUNTY
Literary tourism is a niche tourism within the wider field of cultural and heritage tourism. It refers to visits to author/writer-related places (birthplaces, gravesites / memorials, frequented places / hotel stays / homes / houses / performance spaces), fiction-related places, literary festival places, and book-shop villages. The authors attempt at clarifying issues such as the relationship between literature and tourism, key concepts, authenticity, rural economies, tourist experience, and literary tourism destinations in Титу County.
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Monuments as “Sites of Memory”: Remembering the Forgotten Ottoman Past of the Modern Turkish Republic through Elif Shafak’s The Architect’s Apprentice
This article explores how monuments must not be seen as independent or self-referential depositories of historical knowledge; instead, they must be considered highly significant historical, cultural and socio-political artefacts \"with important political implications\" (Bozdogan, 2001, p. 12). Elif Shafak's The Architect's Apprentice (2015) establishes Ottoman monuments as the 'sites of memory' that have the potential to narrate alternative or buried histories. The present paper investigates how Shafak's oeuvre helps revive the forgotten aspects of Ottoman Turkish heritage. It further delineates that these Ottoman monuments, as represented in the text, are nothing but the manifestations of the suppressed Ottoman heritage of the Republic of Turkey. The researcher attempts to undertake a close textual reading of the text by drawing insights from the conceptual framework of Pierre Nora's idea of 'sites of memory' and the discourse concerning cultural memory and forgetting. The findings of this research reveal that Shafak's oeuvre can be considered as a medium to understand how the imposition of 'perpetual forgetfullness' in the Modern Turkish Republic has defamiliarised the populace of the Republic from these Ottoman monuments, which are the material embodiments of the Ottoman memory and history. In this light, it becomes crucial to discuss these monuments as 'sites of memory,' for they have the potential to abridge the rupture between the forgotten Ottoman past and the Turkish present.
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Sir Walter Scott: History Man?
Just in case he hadn't fully made his point, Williamson accompanied the post with a picture of himself appearing to dance on Scott's grave. When Galashiels' railway line reopened to passengers in 2015, Abbotsford visitor numbers surged. Sanderson's music for \"The Boat Song\" proved so popular that when President John Quincy Adams opened the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in 1828 the US Marine Band played an instrumental version. Whenever the US president arrives, anywhere, and they play \"Hail to the Chief,\" we are again failing to escape Sir Walter Scott.
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