Cassirer thinker of technology

Ernst Cassirer: Science, Symbols, and Logics

The Unity of Kant’s Active Thinker

The thinker: opposing directionality of lighting bias within sculptural artwork

Individuals tend to perceive the direction of light to come from above and slightly from the left; it has been speculated that this phenomenon is also producing similar lighting preferences within 2-dimensional artworks (e.g., paintings, advertisements). The purpose of the present study was to address if lighting bias was present in the 3-dimensional medium of sculpture by implementing a virtua...

G-thinker: Big Graph Mining Made Easier and Faster

This paper proposes a general system for computationintensive graph mining tasks that find from a big graph all subgraphs that satisfy certain requirements (e.g., graph matching and community detection). Due to the broad range of applications of such tasks, many single-threaded algorithms have been proposed. However, graphs such as online social networks and knowledge graphs often have billions...

foucault: a critical thinker

this essay intends to show critical abilities of m. foucault's thought. it purposes that assertion to structural and relativistic narratives of foucault's thought, and interpration of it on heidegger, prevents to see critical aspects and critical thought project of foucault. the essay argues that in regard to critical thought, and out of limits of previous critical theory, foucault, w...