hen Kant inquired into the capability of the human mind and drew the conclusion that the entire universe, as we know it, is only appearance and not reality —i.e., noumena— “he said nothing absolutely new,” Paul Deussen notes humorously in Die Philosophie des Upanishads (204). According to this critic, Kant’s doctrine on the phenomenal world comes down to demonstrating in a more intelligible way...

stanley g. weinbaum was one of the american science fiction writers of the 1920s and 1930s who anticipated virtual reality early in the development of the genre in the united states. the machine in weinbaum’s science fiction plays a crucial role in the production of virtual space and time. not only does weinbaum’s gadgetry function within the domain of spatial alterity, but they also provide te...

Abstract This chapter provides a critical overview and theoretical introduction to Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Silences that Speak . Drawing on wide range perspectives considerations silence through broad diversity themes functions, this introductory essay reclaims an unprecedented attentiveness unspoken today’s fiction. The argues contemporary writing features as ...

This paper deals with one of the urgent problems in framework implementation latest radical technologies “human enhancement” so-called theory multiple identity (multiple “I”, doubles, and duplication consciousness). topic a possible backup our consciousness is analyzed relation to procedure for digitally uploading consciousness, creating digital avatars, cyborgs, clones cases success field gene...

The article presents an overview of the main themes and literary processes taking place in contemporary Kazakh literature, for first time aspect, works one authors Alikhan Zhaksylyk are considered. poetic specifics writer’s stories “Loneliness hell”, “Heartache”, “Wingless dream” “Six continents” analyzed. On basis various methods, problem ideological continuity named other authors, process rev...

Hegemony is a term both elusive and recurrent. It provides a theory of the social for a world in which all universalizing truth narratives have lost their fantasmatic hold over our lives and, in their withdrawal, we are forced to confront the fictions that they in fact always represented. In a certain sense, hegemony theory is the fiction of social fiction; a fiction designed to account for the...