This paper explores two wayang performances: the purwa shadow puppet show and Eblek interactive show. The research compares concepts behind performances. Wayang Interactive was developed based on inspiration taken from kulit purwa. qualitative method applies Levi-Strauss structural analysis approach. Behind human work is not just wishful thinking but form of values or meanings that subconscious...

I distill the indispensability argument to four general charateristics, which yield six unfortunate consequences, unwelcome characteristics of the objects yielded by the argument. The indispensabilist’s objects are not mathematical, in any traditional sense, but merely empirical posits. Then, I characterize a form of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics which relies on an indispensabi...

In this paper we argue that quantum mechanics provides a genuine kind of structural explanations of quantum phenomena. Since structural explanations only rely on the formal properties of the theory, they have the advantage of being independent of interpretative questions. As such, they can be used to claim that, even in the current absence of one agreed-upon interpretation, quantum mechanics is...

It is not my purpose here to give a historical treatment of linguistic ideas, nor it to distinguish and analyze the various approaches and schools of thought generally subsumed under the heading of Structuralism. Rather, I propose to look at the general features characterizing structuralism as seen and treated by structuralists and further to see how it has come to be viewed by Chomsky and othe...

This polemic calls for an end to our enchantment with Theory in the IS field. My critique uses Barthes’ structuralism to argue that theories are myths which order, interpret and normalise the world. I address the fundamental question “what is a fact”, drawing on the epistemology of Ludwik Fleck, which deserves more recognition in IS, supplemented by the structuralism of Roland Barthes. A “fact”...

Although these factors raised in the writings of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault are theoretically legitimate and have posed tremendous problems for the social sciences and their constitution as a science based on the notion of a stable structure constituted by stable rational subjects with agency. These problems have not adequately been addressed by Marxist social theorists...