Archetypal images of modern social mythology

Archetypal Images at the Stardust Casino: Understanding Human Experience

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Revealing Social Identity Phenomena in Videogames with Archetypal Analysis

In this paper, we present a novel approach toward revealing social identity phenomena in videogames using archetypal analysis (AA). Conventionally used as a dimensionality reduction technique for multivariate data, we demonstrate how AA can reveal social phenomena and inequity such as gender/race-related steretoyping and marginalization in videogame designs. We analyze characters and default at...

The Philosophy of Mythology

The modern mythology of the left-handedness of Alexander the Great.

The prevalent modern suggestion that Alexander the Great was left-handed probably derives from Michael Barsley's (1966) book, Left-handed man is a right-handed word, perhaps by mutation from as earlier story cited by Wile in 1934 from a 17th century Rabbirical exegesis, which said that Alexander discovered a country where all the inhabitants were left-handed. That itself may derive in part from...

Individualism as a Modern Social Anarchy

Social anarchism sometimes referred to as socialist anarchism is generally considered tobe the branch of anarchism which sees individual freedom as being dependent upon mutual aid. Socialanarchist consideration generally emphasizes community and social equality. Society in the modernperiod is in a critical situation of not only economy and social system, but also in the remarkableaspects of the...