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- de Miranda, Luis, 1971-
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Life Is Strange and “Games Are Made” : A Philosophical Interpretation of a Multiple-Choice Existential Simulator With Copilot Sartre
- 2018
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In: Games and Culture. - : Sage Publications. - 1555-4120 .- 1555-4139. ; 8:1, s. 825-842
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The multiple-choice video game Life is Strange was described by its French developers as a metaphor for the inner conflicts experienced by a teenager in trying to become an adult. In psychological work with adolescents, there is a stark similarity between what they experience and some concepts of existentialist philosophy. Sartre’s script for the movie Les Jeux Sont Faits (literally “games are made”) uses the same narrative strategy as Life is Strange—the capacity for the main characters to travel back in time to change their own existence—in order to stimulate philosophical, ethical, and political thinking and also to effectively simulate existential “limit situations.” This article is a dialogue between Sartre’s views and Life is Strange in order to examine to what extent questions such as what is freedom? what is choice? what is autonomy and responsibility? can be interpreted anew in hybrid digital–human—“anthrobotic”—environments.
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- de Miranda, Luis, 1971-
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Being & Neonness
- 2019
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on present day.For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. For Luis de Miranda, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. Being and Neonness is a cultural and philosophical history of neon, from early twentieth-century Paris to the electric, perpetually switched-on present day Manhattan. It is an inspired journey through a century of night, deciphering the halos of the past and the reflections of the present to shed light on the future.Invented in Paris in 1912, neon first appeared on a modest but arresting sign outside a small barbershop; the sign lit up number 14, Boulevard Montmartre, attracting so many passersby that the barber's revenues soon doubled. A century later, neon is no longer just a sign; it is a mythic object—a metonymy of contemporary identity and a metaphor for the present, signifying the ubiquity of commerce and the tautology of hypermodernity. But perhaps the noble gas of neon whispers something more, something deeper? In ten short, poetic yet precise chapters, de Miranda explores the neon lights of the twentieth century. He considers, among other historical curiosities, the neon compulsions of the Italian Futurists; the Soviet program of “neonization”; the Nazi's deployment of neon for propaganda purposes; Baudelaire's “halo” and Benjamin's “aura”; neon as a gas and crystallized chaos; neon and power; neon and capitalism—all of this backlit by an original reading of Sartre's Being and Nothingness. This English edition has been thoroughly revised and adapted from the French edition, L'être et le neon.
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- Kullenberg, Christopher, 1980, et al.
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What are analog bulletin boards used for today? Analysing media uses, intermediality and technology affordances in Swedish bulletin board messages using a citizen science approach
- 2018
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In: PLoS ONE. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1932-6203. ; 13:8
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Analog bulletin boards are omnipresent in Swedish urban areas, yet little systematic knowledge about this communication medium exists. In the shadow of the rapid emergence of digital media the analog bulletin board has received less attention than its digital successors, many of them having incorporated similar functionality with novel technical solutions. In this study we used a citizen science method to collect 1167 messages from bulletin boards around Sweden aided by school children and teachers, with the purpose of shedding new light on what is communicated on the boards, by whom, using what types of technologies and in what way the messages refer to other media. Results show that the most common messages are invitations to events, such as concerts, lectures and sports events, followed by buy-and-sell ads for goods and services. The most frequent sender is an association, for example NGOs, sports associations or religious communities. Almost half of the sampled messages were professionally printed, about forty per cent were made by home printers. Only six per cent of the messages were handwritten, almost exclusively by private persons as senders. Moreover, we show how the analog bulletin board has adapted to recent changes in media technology—a media landscape which is saturated with electronic- and mobile media. Further, the bulletin board still holds a firm place in a media ecology where local communication is in demand, and exists in parallel with electronic media. Close to forty percent of the messages contained hyperlinks to web pages and we found (and removed for anonymization purposes) more than six hundred phone numbers from the dataset.
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- Lidskog, Rolf, 1961-, et al.
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Musik, organisation och sammanhang
- 2018
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In: Migration – Musik – Mötesplatser. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144125022 ; , s. 15-41
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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Migration – Musik – Mötesplatser : Föreningsliv och kulturproduktion i ett föränderligt samhälle
- 2018
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- I takt med att Sverige blir alltmer globalt får frågor om musikens betydelse nya innebörder. Musik är ofta en viktig del av livet och kan bidra till att människor inkluderas i olika sammanhang. Men sällan fördjupas resonemangen om vad musik egentligen innebär i frågor om människors transnationella förflyttningar, etniciteter och medborgarskap.I Migration – Musik – Mötesplatser undersöker forskare från olika discipliner de innebörder och roller som musik har för medlemmar i föreningar bildade på etnisk grund i Sveriges tre största städer. En gemensam fråga är hur samspelet ser ut mellan musik, föreningarnas verksamheter och medlemmarnas engagemang och meningsskapande.Genom att knyta an till musikvetenskaplig, musikpedagogisk, etnologisk och sociologisk forskning, ger denna antologi en rik och mångfasetterad bild av musikens betydelse för individer och grupper och, inte minst, på en samhällsnivå. I centrum står musikande (musicking) som inbegriper de interaktiva processer som förknippas med musik såsom att spela, sjunga, dansa, lyssna på och samtala om musik.Migration – Musik – Mötesplatser riktar sig till studerande vid samhällsvetenskapliga, humanistiska och konstnärliga utbildningar, som intresserar sig för vad musik som kulturell företeelse betyder för individer och grupper. Boken är också relevant för alla som i sin yrkesutövning eller i sitt frivilliga engagemang kommer i kontakt med frågor som rör kulturproduktion, migration och musik.
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- de Miranda, Luis, 1971-
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHILOSOPHICAL CREATIVITY : FROM ANALYTICS TO CREALECTICS
- 2020
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In: Human Affairs. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. - 1210-3055 .- 1337-401X. ; 30:4, s. 597-607
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The tendency to idealise artificial intelligence as independent from human manipulators, combined with the growing ontological entanglement of humans and digital machines, has created an "anthrobotic" horizon, in which data analytics, statistics and probabilities throw our agential power into question. How can we avoid the consequences of a reified definition of intelligence as universal operation becoming imposed upon our destinies? It is here argued that the fantasised autonomy of automated intelligence presents a contradistinctive opportunity for philosophical consciousness to understand itself anew as holistic and co-creative, beyond the recent "analytic" moment of the history of philosophy. Here we introduce the concept of "crealectic intelligence", a meta-analytic and meta-dialectic aspect of consciousness. Intelligent behaviour may consist in distinguishing discrete familiar parts or reproducible functions in the midst of noise via an analytic process of segmentation; intelligence may also manifest itself in the constitution of larger wholes and dynamic unities through a dialectic process of association or assemblage. But, by contrast, crealectic intelligence co-creates realities in the image of an ideal or truth, taking into account the desiring agent imbued with a sense of possibility, in a relationship not only with the Real but also with the creative sublime or "Creal".
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