Ideasthetic imagining: Writing as dream-membering

Dream as Symptom, Dream as Myth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Dream Narratives

Many of us have an image of a classic anthropological approach to dreams: in "traditional" cultures, dreams are used to predict the future; dreams are part of "folk healing;" dreams are a social phenomenon. As the anthropologist Ellen Basso has put it, folk dream theories tend to be "progressive" or forward-looking, in contrast to the "regressive" Western dream theory, which uses dreams as a wi...

Re-membering the Body

Imagining Clp(, ) Imagining Clp(, )

We study under which conditions the domain of-terms (() and the equality theory of the-calculus () form the basis of a usable constraint logic programming language (CLP). The conditions are that the equality theory must contain axiom , and the formula language must depart from Horn clauses and accept universal quantiications and implications in goals. In short, CLP((,) must be close to Prolog. ...

Imagining predictions: mental imagery as mental emulation.

We argue that the primary function of mental imagery is to allow us to generate specific predictions based upon past experience. All imagery allows us to answer 'what if' questions by making explicit and accessible the likely consequences of being in a specific situation or performing a specific action. Imagery is also characterized by its reliance on perceptual representations and activation o...

Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community

The notion of “community” has often been caught between concrete social relationships and imagined sets of people perceived to be similar. The rise of the Internet has refocused our attention on this ongoing tension. The Internet has enabled people who know each other to use social media, from e-mail to Facebook, to interact without meeting physically. Into this mix came Twitter, an asymmetric ...