Pain and Pleasure
The pleasure and pain of visualising data in times of data power
... researchers of but not with data visualisation, as we did not produce our own visualisations as part of our research. We make reference to the empirical material that we gathered on the project, our encounters with data ...
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Power, Pain, and Pleasure in Pornography: A Content Analysis of Pornographic Feature Films, 1972-1985
... Within the last decade, a view has emerged in governmental publications, the popular press, and research conducted in the fields of communications and film studies which regards pornography as being typified by material ...
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The pleasure and pain of visualising data in times of data power
... This paper reflects on the growing urge amongst researchers to visualise large-scale digital data. It argues that the desire to visualise unfolds in the context of a complex entanglement of a) the pragmatics of data ...
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Pleasure and Pain in life: Cases from People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV)
... between pain and pleasure is to consider these two systems as a reward-punishment based ...When pleasure is perceived, one associates it with reward. When pain is perceived, one associates ...
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A pleasure in pain : contemporary mainstream cinema's fascination with the aestheticized spectacle of the controlled body
... of masochistic pleasure and recognize issues also arise in respect of the controlled body, where spectatorial pleasure frequently lies in images of suffering, but with the potential for [r] ...
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Loving work: drawing attention to pleasure and pain in the body of the cultural worker
... The body at work 1: Administration, e-mail shoulder and frustrated self-realisation Alongside the discussion around the structural organisation of work, when defining differ- ent tasks within cultural work participants ...
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Grounds for Respect: particularism, universalism, and communal accountability
... While classic utilitarian arguments regarding pain and pleasure or preferences are used to provide a universal standard of measurement in regards to moral consideration for both animals [r] ...
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Balancing pleasure and pain : the role of motherhood in home education
... Analysing my data through the themes raised by the literature and my research questions above, this thesis argues that the different constructions of childhood and parenthood by home edu[r] ...
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Is Woody Allen a Hedonist? A Look through the Lens of Film-Philosophy at Crimes and Misdemeanors
... all pain. It recognizes a hierarchy in the quality of pleasure and elevates “attitudinal” pleasures (such as the enjoyment that comes from invigorating mental stimulation and being physically fit) over the ...
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A reconstruction of Classical Utilitarianism
... potential pleasure (and/or lack of virtue as a potential pain), it remains true that an agent would not undertake voluntarily an act unless he or she expected a net pleasure advantage for himself or ...
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Celebrity and Schadenfreude: The cultural economy of fame in freefall
... of pleasure in celebrity loss and asks how they operate in relation to ...popular pleasure towards celebrity pain on these different levels, the paper aims to demonstrate that contemporary ...
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SUBSTANTIATING THE CORRELATION OF AN ARCHITECTS FUNCTION WITH PERCEIVED AESTHETICS AND IDENTITY CONCEPTION, EMPLOYED IN ARCHITECTURE FACULTY, IN CHARGE OF BRAIN JUDGMENT
... as pleasure or pain, which are probably connected, some of them a priori, with beauty or ugliness (Cupchik,1995; Ginsborg,2003; Guyer,2008; Iseminger,2003; Kant,1914; Matravers,2003; Matravers& ...
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Perceptual dimensions of infants' cry signals : a dissertation present in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Education at Massey University
... for classifying cries as either birth, pain, hunger or pleasure, the data on all 50 semantic differential scales were subjected to a multiple discriminant function analysis SPSS: method=[r] ...
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The distinctive feeling theory of pleasure
... of pleasure and pain currently on ...to pleasure, and aversion to pain, is the result of our regarding our pleasures as good and our pains as ...
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Lopsided lives
... of pleasure (and ...any pleasure whatsoever. Or consider taking pleasure in true beauty—or, taking pleasure in knowledge, rationality, and so ...take pleasure in these things without ...
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EpicurusReading.pdf
... believe pleasure is the greatest ...of pain and fear through the employment practical reason- ...with pleasure, Epicurus’ s philosophy is often described as “egoistic ...
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Elucidating Ubiquitin Chain Formation Catalyzed by E2 Enzymes through use of a Di Ubiquitin Probe
... Yet, pleasure and pain seem to have this kind of motivational effect regardless of whether they are attached to an action in itself or to some aspect of that ...
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A Cognitive Interpretation of Aristotle’s Concepts of Catharsis and Tragic Pleasure
... Keeping in mind the discussion of fear above, Aristotle brings together the intensity of pity by way of the confluence of events that illuminate suffering. The audience is brought to such a state of pity in the case of ...
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Sobel on Pleasure, Reason, and Desire
... that pleasure is a reaction to, ...that pleasure is a qualitative feeling episode, an affective, not a sensory feeling (Ibid: 554, 557, ...- pleasure is objectless, it is not directed to any thoughts ...
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Psychological and Ethical Hedonism in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
... more pleasure overall, but instead that telling the truth would lead to more pain than ...of pleasure on this occasion, then he would have lied to that ...
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