SF functions in contemporary life as a form of myth creation. Myth has a gnoseological function for archaic societies; it creates a whole world-picture by complementing accumulated empirical knowledge with analogies drawn from familiar experience. Thus world-models are structurally similar to myths, combining cognition and fiction. All writing that explains scientific knowledge at the level of ...

Ratte for reading and criticizing our book. Interestingly, their three sets of comments (to which we shall respond in order) reflect three very different standpoints on both vision and the science of vision. 1. Reply to Tim Schroeder Tim Schroeder is a very sympathetic reader indeed. He raises two queries, both of which are well taken and go deep to the heart of our framework. His first questio...

As is well-understood, the postwar economy, has gone through two major phases. During the long boom between the end of the 1940s and the early 1970s, most of the advanced capitalist economies (outside the United States and the United Kingdom) experienced record-breaking rates of investment, output, productivity, and wage growth, along with low unemployment and only brief and mild recessions. Bu...

This investigation is a preliminary report on a new measure of internalization of the model minority myth. In 3 studies, there was evidence for the validation of the 15-item Internalization of the Model Minority Myth Measure (IM-4), with 2 subscales. The Model Minority Myth of Achievement Orientation referred to the myth of Asian Americans' greater success than other racial minority groups asso...

The goal of this study is to investigate university students’ representation on their critical thinking in academic writing from a literacy perspective, which text bias and it possesses ideological perspective writer expressing social critics, inequality, power relations. Researchers analyzed 91 argumentative texts Indonesian undergraduate English education students, were qualitatively assessed...

This paper attempts to offer a fresh examination of the relationship between Empson’s early career as poet and his later erudite, largely influential, critical output. The theme waste, which dominates Collected Poems, partly accounts for decision abandon poetry, invest interest in complexity ambiguity modernist/postmodernist procedure, way ahead contemporary literary theory at time. waste is fu...

This article uses a myth of the Luangans Indonesian Borneo to reflect upon value sociality and its role in promoting well-being their healing rituals. In these rituals, with nonhuman beings between participants is crucial, yet insufficient for, sometimes at odds with, success. The describes multiple modes valences this ritual sociality, how it fundamentally predicated on ‘conditional ontology’ ...