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The lives of paintings : presence, agency and likeness in Venetian art of the sixteenth century
\"As this book shows, paintings in 16th-century Venice were often treated as living beings. On the basis of case studies, its author offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two-dimensional images could exert. Grounded in the theoretical literature on the agency of material things, the book contributes to Venetian studies as well as engaging with wider debates on the attribution of life and presence to images and objects\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The lives of paintings : presence, agency and likeness in Venetian art of the sixteenth century
In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings.As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, and became involved in love affairs.Presenting a range of case studies, Elsje van Kessel offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two-dimensional images could exert.
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Illuminating sanctity : the body, soul and glorification of Saint Amand in the miniature cycle in Valenciennes, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 500
In Illuminating Sanctity, Maria R. Grasso analyses the twelfth-century vita of Saint Amand. Her discovery and analysis of another set of preliminary drawings related to the miniature cycle demonstrates that a key alteration was made, isolating an important devotional image.
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Yorùbá Beadwork in Africa
The following text has been excerpted from the companion publication, which is divided into three sections: \"Yorùbá Beadwork in Africa\" by Henry John Drewal, \"Yorùbá Beadwork in the Americas\" by John Mason (with essays by Drewal and Pravina Shukla), and a catalogue of the African objects in the exhibition. Here, Drewal's introduction to African beadwork is followed by a selection from Mason's discussion.
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Yorùbá Beadwork in the Americas: Òrìṣà and Bead Color
In the following excerpt, John Mason, himself a babalòrìṣà (priest of an òrìṣà, or Yorùbá divinity), discusses the colors associated with specific òrìṣà and their domains and attributes: Èṣù-Ẹlẹ́gbá, the cosmic crossroads; Ògún, the hunt, iron, and war; Erinlẹ́, medicine and the hunt; Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì, the hunt; Ọ̀ṣun, the gushing spring; Yẹmọja, motherhood; Olókun, the waters; Ọya, the whirlwind; Babalúaiyé, the earth; Ṣàngó, thunder; the creator god Ọbàtálá, ethical rightness. In the African diaspora, beads are used most widely in necklaces, ìlẹ̀ke, and they also encircle and guard other major points where parts of the body meet (wrist, waist, ankle). The color associations found in ìlẹ̀ke extend to crowns, fly whisks, banners, and numerous other beaded items for òrìṣà devotees and their shrines.
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Introduction: The Victorian Poetry Palace
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The Meditations and the Ancient Art of Living
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Marcus' Project
Socrates and the Stoic Art of Living
Types of Philosophical Text
Assimilation and Digestion
Writing the Self
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Watching While Black Rebooted!
Watching While Black Rebooted: The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences examines what watching while Black means in an expanded U.S. televisual landscape. In this updated edition, media scholars return to television and digital spaces to think anew about what engages and captures Black audiences and users and why it matters. Contributors traverse programs and platforms to wrestle with a changing television industry that has exploded and included Black audiences as a new and central target of its visioning. The book illuminates history, care, monetization, and affect. Within these frames, the chapters run the gamut from transmediation, regional relevance, and superhuman visioning to historical traumas and progress, queer possibilities, and how televisual programming can make viewers feel Black. Mostly, the work tackles what the future looks like now for a changing televisual industry, Black media makers, and Black audiences. Chapters rethink such historically significant programs as Roots and Underground, such seemingly innocuous programs as Soul Food, and such contemporary and culturally complicated programs as Being Mary Jane and Atlanta. The book makes a case for the centrality of these programs while always recognizing the racial dynamics that continue to shape Black representation on the small screen. Painting a decidedly introspective portrait across forty years of Black television, Watching While Black Rebooted sheds much-needed light on under examined demographics, broadens common audience considerations, and gives deference to the preferences of audiences and producers of Black-targeted programming.
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PLATO, REPUBLIC 606a7–606b2: SYNTAX AND MEANING
Plato, Republic 606ab, which deals with the soul bipartition and the behaviour of the two soul components during a theatrical performance, has been the object of scholarly dispute concerning both its grammar and its meaning. This article proposes a new syntactical approach and argues that the passage does not have to be interpreted as contradicting the context.
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Powers of the Soul Beyond AI
Could Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit rational characteristics traditionally attributed to the human soul? I argue that five features of human rationality will likely remain beyond LLMs and other adaptive physical systems. Insight into truth: using billions of pages of text, a LLM may harvest a sound rule of inference. However the LLM has no insight into why the rule is true. Meta-insight: both humans and machines can follow instructions that constitute an infinite loop. Yet humans can, but machines cannot, recognize that they are in an infinite loop. Free will: once humans realize they are trapped in a loop, they can exercise free will to break out of the loop. By contrast, when a machine is trapped in an infinite loop, an external intervention is required to end the task. Access to necessary conceptual relations: LLMs are inductive learners and cannot justify universal necessary truths. By contrast, a human being can, via insight, see that a conceptual relation is necessarily true. Non-combinatorial creativity: LLMs can recombine the products of human creativity in amazing ways. But unlike humans, they cannot use universal concepts to find a possible item that is not derived from items already instantiated in the world.
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