Cities and Spectacle
Commodifying Scarcity: Society, Struggle, and Spectacle in World of Warcraft
... Players first encounter the three-dimensional world of the game in the first person, through the viewpoint of the disembodied camera of the game’s initial cut-scene movie. Moving in wide, lazy arcs around trees, ...
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Ben Hur and the spectacle of empire
... Such a combination of ideological and theological commitments seem now to mark Wallace out as a quintessential statesman of his times, and expressions of these beliefs can be found scattered through his numerous ...
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Comparing spectacle and toric contact lens prescribing trends for astigmatism
... of spectacle and CL wearers from a major optical chain in South Korea was ...prescribed spectacle and/or CL ...the spectacle and CL prescriptions of the same individuals at the same visit as they are ...
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Saints, Saracens, and the reconquest : re-imagining martyrdom in the Antependium of Durro
... The antependium is an image bound by and born in the rhetoric of the Reconquest. The stories of the early Christian saints, as Castelli notes, are “transmitted, repackaged, and deployed into new situations, making ...
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Cities, Global Cities and Glasgow - Some Reflections
... The ability to cope with the consequences of growth and success often means overcoming a third challenge - governance deficits. It is part of the day job for city leaders to be mired in vertical and horizontal government ...
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Rethinking the 'Spectacle of the Scaffold' : Juridical Epistemologies and English Revenge Tragedy
... I want, further, to suggest that even in revenge tragedy, the bloodiest of genres, the shaping epistemology of plot is not that of Foucault’s ‘‘spectacle of the scaffold’’ but is, rather,[r] ...
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<p>Patient-Reported Outcomes/Satisfaction and Spectacle Independence with Blended or Bilateral Multifocal Intraocular Lenses in Cataract Surgery</p>
... Our results are similar to other studies; Vingolo et al found better near vision was reported after bilateral ReSTOR +3.0 D than ReSTOR +2.5 D, but both groups reported overall good performance. 27 Shah et al reported ...
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Scratching the surface of spectacle: Black hypermasculinity and the Television Talent Show
... This study explores the construction of black hypermasculinity in television talent show competitions through the re-valuing of spectacle as an aesthetic experience. Drawing on a screendance analysis of eighteen ...
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Spectacle Compliance in Slum Population of Mumbai: Pilot
... Mumbai Eye Care campaign was a mega refractive error project implemented for the slum population of Mumbai from 2009-15. The project was supported by Standard Chartered Bank’s CSR activity Seeing is Believing through ...
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Cities at the centre: core cities 2002
... Core Cities Group and its partners should consider in relation to current and future ...and cities across the ...Core Cities and other key stakeholders to work together, genuinely and constructively, ...
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AP Human Geography Audit.docx
... The second subfield will focus the form, internal structure, and landscapes of cities, emphasizing what cities are like as places to live and work. Students will learn about patterns of urban land use, ...
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From smart cities to wise cities
... for cities should be led by sound judgement, not technological ...about cities should focus not on developing smart cities but on creating wise ...
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Completeness: How the Lack of a Mouse in a Box Revisits the Spectacle of the Kunstkammer
... Although relatively rare outside of contem- porary art museums, artist-curated exhibitions are not new in the museum world. Similarly, such an intuitive selection and placement of objects can be traced back to the deep ...
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Rotational stability and visual performance 3 months after bilateral implantation of a new toric extended range of vision intraocular lens
... The good level of refractive predictability as well as the high rotational stability of the lens observed in our series were one of the main factors leading to a high rate of postopera- tive spectacle ...
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A network analysis of cities hosting ICT R&D
... Asian cities and particularly some of the Chinese cities as a location of R&D ...Valley cities, which are smaller in size but large in numbers, occupying a significant number of positions in the ...
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Climate adaptation and urban resilience : identifying barriers and drivers in sustainable stormwater management implementation
... All cities have conducted major efforts to investigate and visualise the effects of climate change on (storm)water management and flood safety. This includes connecting climate projections and socio- economic ...
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An investigation of affect in the cinema: Spectacle and the melodramatic rhetoric in Nil by Mouth
... of spectacle in the ‘cinema of ...this spectacle operates in the same manner as in the opening sequence in Nil by ...the spectacle of the image that causes the embodied emotions of the ...the ...
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Spectacle: fast chromatin state annotation using spectral learning
... in Spectacle, which showed high enrichment for GWAS SNPs for GM12878, was under less negative selection than enhancer state 9 (Mann–Whitney U test: Spectacle state 20 vs Spectacle state 9: P < ...
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The Society of the Spectacle Revisited: Separation, Schooling, and the Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship
... who observe from a disconnected distance— “know” anyway. If schooling is stultifying or even dead/death, so what? Of what meaning via the corporate, global, technological, standardized world? Better passive and (thus) ...
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Music and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”
... Abstract: This paper examines Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens (1609), and The Wonder of Women, Tragedy of Sophonisba (1604-6) by John Marston, considering the topic of the nature and status of stage directions related ...
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