So, what happens in this encounter of mind and being? What kind of agency does the moment of repose initiate? What does it mean to confront the possible and the real in this instant? Why is the mind only present in this encounter that takes place within the moment of repose? And why, for Bachelard, is the initiation of an action the origin of a temporal duration? Why is temporality only an effe...

In his Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958), the sociologist of culture Abraham Moles (1920–92) set out to demonstrate applicability information theory—a mathematical linchpin cybernetics—to arts more generally. drew on classical psychophysics, Gestalt psychology, modern behavioral and contemporary psychoacoustic research advocate a cybernetic model creation art. repeatedly ...

The common murre is a gregarious, colonially nesting, and circumpolar seabird with a boreal, low Arctic, and northern temperate distribution (American Ornithologists’ Union 1983, Nettleship and Evans 1985, Gaston and Jones 1998, Ainley et al. 2002). Based mostly on morphological differences, there have been up to eight subspecies or races described for the common murre (Storer 1952, Tuck 1961, ...