‘If cinema does not give us the presence of the body and cannot give it to us, this is perhaps also because it sets itself a different objective: it spreads an “experimental night” or a white space over us; it works with “dancing seeds’ and a “luminous dust”; it affects the visible with a fundamental disturbance, and the world with a suspension, which contradicts all natural perception. What it...

This paper takes environmental complexity to task by offering a way to understand the heterogeneity of an ecosystem in terms of its components’ relations rather than in terms of individuals (disaggregate) or wholes (aggregate). To do so, we use Escobar’s notion of redes (networks) and Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas about human/environment relations as they relate to understanding the practical, p...

This article provides an exposition of four key concepts emerging in the encounter between the philosophical man of the theatre, Antonin Artaud, and the theatrical philosopher, Gilles Deleuze: the body without organs, the theatre without organs, the destratified voice and differential presence. The article proposes that Artaud’s 1947 censored radio play To Have Done with the Judgment of God con...

Human reasoning about developments of the world involves always an assumption of inertia. We discuss two approaches for formalizing such an assumption, based on the concept of an explanation: (1) there is a general preference relation ≺ given on the set of all explanations, (2) there is a notion of a distance between models and explanations are preferred if their sum of distances is minimal. Ea...

Abstract Interpreting a large number of neurons in deep learning is difficult. Our proposed ‘CLAssifier-DECoder’ architecture ( ClaDec ) facilitates the understanding output an arbitrary layer or subsets thereof. It uses decoder that transforms incomprehensible representation given to more similar domain human familiar with. In image recognition problem, one can recognize what information (or c...

kiarostami’s unfinished cinema emphasizes the importance of audiences’ involvement in a movie by using postmodern images. some essential points of critically reading his, so-called half-created cinema, could be summarized as self-reflexive style, diagrammatical perspectives, in-between narratives,and individual minimalism. the main postmodern achievement of this cinema is focusing on the proces...

Abstract. Sequences of events are an ubiquitous form of data. In this paper, we show that it is feasible to present an event sequence as an interval sequence. We show how sequences can be efficiently randomized, how to choose a correct null model and how to use randomizations to derive confidence intervals. Using these techniques, we gain knowledge of the temporal structure of the sequence. Tim...