Biography Bernardo Kastrup has a Ph.D. in computer engineering with specializations in artificial intelligence and reconfigurable computing. He has worked as a scientist in some of the world’s foremost research laboratories, including the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the “Casimir Effect” of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). B...

The Japanese art films of the mid-1960s, also known as the so-called Japanese New Wave, are often praised by film scholars, but its formal elements and common characteristics are not often discussed. Thus, through the use of directors representative of the period, such as Hani Susumu, Matsumoto Toshio, Oshima Nagisa, and Teshigahara Hiroshi, this talk analyzes the features of outstanding exampl...

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...

The concept of “national allegory” formulated in Fredric Jameson’s work on the third-world literatures has been subject much critical debate, especially context postcolonial studies. dispute surrounding term is closely tied to controversial suggestions such as view that “all” literary texts inevitably fall into category allegory”. “nation” this sense provides main conceptual framework out which...

Relational languages such as Ruby are used to derive hardware circuits from abstract speci cations of their behaviour. Much reasoning is done informally in Ruby using pictorial representations of relational terms. We formalise this use of pictures in circuit design. We show that pictures naturally form a unitary pretabular allegory. Homomorphisms of pictures correspond to adding new wires or ci...