This essay examines, in Ben Highmore’s words, the implications of “a materialist turn towards the immaterial, towards affect, towards thinglyness, the senses” and how this might be determined by “the social world that produced them.” In viewing the “social,” or “sociocultural,” as always affective, and in viewing the significance of landscape in terms of how people define themselves and their r...

This article discusses the phenomenon of luminescence in production and visualization images from an art-practice standpoint. The theoretical argument is developed through analysis artistic work that explores, inserts, expands, articulates, interrogates internal contradictions UV light transitivity light-sensitive materials installation contexts. investigation explores complexities encounter an...

This article analyzes how rural provenance foods are portrayed by the promotional materials, websites and social media issued urban specialty stores in Portugal. Even though food may be defined multiple ways as, among others, local, regional, traditional, authentic, is mostly about territories of origin: their biophysical characteristics, cultural values practices production preparation with so...

Participatory Design (PD) is inherently concerned with inquiring into and supporting human values when designing IT. We argue that a PD approach that is led by a focus upon participants’ values can allow participants to discover meaningful alternatives – alternative uses and alternative conceptualizations for IT that are particularly meaningful to them. However, how PD works with values in the ...

References to anatomical entities in medical records consist not only of explicit references to anatomical locations, but also other diverse types of expressions, such as specific diseases, clinical tests, clinical treatments, which constitute implicit references to anatomical entities. In order to identify these implicit anatomical entities, we propose a hierarchical framework, in which two la...

Substance dualism says that all thinking beings are immaterial. This sits awkwardly with the fact requires an intact brain. Many dualists say bodily activity is causally necessary for thinking. But if a material thing can cause thinking, why can’t it think? No argument dualism, however convincing, answers this question, leaving more to explain than their opponents.

on6?kv, ens, sum, being, essence. It energises through the ponderable organ the brain, and the material organ subserves the immaterial essence, or vis vitce. The abrupt space that intervenes between the last portion of matter and the earliest dawn of intelligence is an unfathomable gulf, tantamount to infinitude?for infinite it must be, since nothing can fill it up. No correct reasoning can con...