Just … Mimesis : Jack Hitt's Act V

Embodiment , Language , and Mimesis

The present focus on embodiment in cognitive science undervalues concepts such as convention/norm, representation and consciousness. I argue that these concepts constitute essential properties of language, and this makes it problematic for “embodiment theories” to account for human language and cognition. These difficulties are illustrated by examining a particular, highly influential approach ...

Mimesis as a phenomenon of semiotic communication

The concept of mimesis is not very often used in the contemporary semiotic dialogue. This article introduces several views on this concept, and on the basis of these, mimesis is comprehended as a phenomenon of communication. By highlighting different semantic dimensions of the concept, mimesis is seen as being composed of phases of communication and as such, it is connected with imitation, repr...

Congestion - Mimesis of traffic flow

Taking heed of the approach of physics towards examining reality, constructing laws, and deducing consequences, here we explore the process of creating an algorithmic work of art, through an iterative approach based on the steps of examining the underlying logic of traffic and traffic networks, constructing rules inspired by this logic, and examining the consequences of those rules. However, wh...

The Graph Database: Jack of All Trades or Just Not SQL?

The Loadings Which Act on a Romanian Jack-up Structure in the Black Sea

On a jack-up structure acts static loads (own weight, machines, installations and materials weight) and dynamic loads (waves, wind, marine currents, earthquake, operating installations). The authors led their analysis on the determining the dynamic loads produced by waves, wind and marine currents, in the Black Sea, because these are the main source in collapse of the structure. The structural ...