Gregory Bateson claims that all play acts should be primarily understood as meta-communicative. In other words, playing a game implies being able to transmit and receive the metamessage ‘this is play’, which establishes a psychological frame among the players. I will propose a radical reading of Bateson’s theory in the context of video games; specifically, I will attempt at analysing the charac...

The 49-ycar-old spokesman, who recently returned from Iran, addressed a responsive audience for nearly three hours. In the ASUHA and Speaker's Forum sponsored event, Gregory reflected on the slate of America, situations abroad and at home. He talked in depth about problems faced by blacks in education, employment, and surviving "the game." He voiced his attitudes about "a group of white pimps w...

A systematic socio-cultural study of the uses Christian poetry in late antique Greek-speaking Mediterranean is still lacking. Most literary overviews restrict themselves to an overview extant texts and some programmatic reflections by Gregory Nazianzus. This paper seeks address this matter a combined reading best-known poetic forms (including Gregory) poems copied Codex Visionum (now Bodmer Col...