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A chance for ontology
No full textThis paper speaks to Hook’s thesis that a National Māori University needs to be established. However, it sets about this task by designating Hook’s intended central concerns to the outer reaches of his article’s limits, and moving towards the core those more ephemeral issues, which, despite their haziness, still demand attention. Hook builds an argument premised on assertions to do with the functional need for a National Māori University, and only hints at the nature of the knowledge to be experienced at such an institution – yet as the commentator I found that the various elements of that peripheral issue coalesced to demand my attention. In this peer commentary I consider how issues to do with the very nature of knowledge – if indeed we want to call it that – become absolutely vital (and hence central) to any discussion about a National Māori University
S.S. Nelson
No full textS.S. Nelson owned by Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Co. S.S. Nelson was the first sternwheeler to operate on Kootenay Lake. She was set ablaze at night in a Viking's funeral as part of the waterfront festivities during the Chahko Mika Carnival in July 1914
Mika Waltari's Detective Novels
Full text linkThis bachelor's thesis deals with the analysis of three detective novels by the Finnish author Mika Waltari: Kuka murhasi rouva Skrofin? (1939, Who Murdered Mrs. Skrof?), Komisario Palmun erehdys (1940, Inspector Palmu's Mistake) and Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu! (1962, It is Written in the Stars, Inspector Palmu!). The first part of the thesis is devoted to the theoretical introduction, which discusses the origin and development of the detective novel and where the existing typologies of detective stories and the rules for their writing are introduced. In the second part of the thesis we will proceed to the proper analysis of Waltari's novels. We first determine to which kind of detective novel Waltari's texts belong in terms of Todorov's typology. The aim is also to determine whether his works are closer to the classic British whodunnit detective story, or its American hard-boiled variant, and to what extent Waltari follows the rules set for writing a detective novel in his texts. In the end, on the basis of performed analysis, we will describe the main tendencies in the author's detective literary output. Keywords: detective novel, Mika Waltari, police commissioner Palmu, Tzvetan Todorov, detective, murde
My war in Spain by Mika Etchebéhère; Oviedo: Cambalache, 2019 [Reseña]
Full text linkReseña de la segunda edición (2019) que la editorial Camblache realzia de la célebre obra autobiográfica de Mika Etchebéhère. Se actualiza el texto añadiendo contenido sobre el contexto con los procesos históricos que marcarán la vida de la autora y que se relatan en el texto, permitiendo analizar en su complejidad los aportes de las reflexiones de Mika Etchebéhère sobre papel de la mujer en los procesos revolucionarios de su época.
Abstract
Review of the second edition (2019) that the Camblache publishing house makes of the famous autobiographical work of Mika Etchebéhère. The text is updated by adding content on the context with the historical processes that will mark the life of the author and that are related in the text, allowing to analyze in their complexity the contributions of Mika Etchebéhère's reflections on the role of women in revolutionary processes of his time
Narrative exploration via media art
Full text linkMika 'Lumi' Tuomola introduces a selected chronological collection of Media Lab's, Crucible Studio research group's artistic productions. The Art of Storytelling in New Media research group, Crucible Studio, was originally established in 2002 as a collaboration of the Media Lab with the Media Centre LUMB, when I was the visiting artist at Media Lab Helsinki. As the lead author of the artistic and practice-based research studio proposal, I also started to head it until now. The studio per se does not focus on (Media) Art, but on any generative, interactive and enactive use of narrative in New Media production and design. However, in the investigation of storytelling and drama, experimental Media Art productions - while usually maintaining their standing as art works of their own right as well- have been and are useful tools of exploration via research questions like:
• How to bring both designers' I authors' and users' I participants' internal
intentions into a dramatically interesting dialogue/chorus within a mediated
interaction environment?
• What kinds of media database, system, interaction and narrative logics
may be able to generate a dramatic interactive experience with coherent
audiovisual language?
• What are the ethics of (narrative) aesthetics, when designed participatory
processes orchestrate multiple points of view?
• How have the audience genre expectations evolved (e.g. via games and
social media) considering what an interactive/enactive drama/art experience
is and how does it influence our design work
World christianity as post-colonialising of theology
Full text linkIn this chapter, the author argues that the old-school confessional and ethnocentric theology has no place in today’s Western secular academia. He focuses on the academic discipline under the name “theology”. Mission studies has represented a widening of the horizon in theology in the sense that through it, non-Western cultures and religions have gradually been introduced into the theological agenda, resulting in contextual theologies where the interaction between faith and culture is lifted into focus. The renewal needed for theology in Western academia can use World Christianity as its model. What is done in the study of World Christianity needs thus to become a standard approach in theology. Theology can no longer afford to externalise the task of cultural plurality to contextual theologies, mission studies, or World Christianity, but the multiple voices in terms of cultures and subcultures need to be recognised throughout
Who was the better athlete? Which was the better team?
Full text linkOften, there is disagreement about who is the better athlete, or the better team. The
aim of this paper is to clarify a recent disagreement between the author (Mika
Hämäläinen) and Arvi Pakaslahti about different views of ‘betterness’ in sport competitions.
I introduced a ‘three criteria’ model of betterness, which suggested the
following three criteria: the official result, the ideally adjudicated result
and the display of athletic skills. Pakaslahti criticised my account and
introduced his own model, which has two built-in ideals of sport competitions:
the Athletic Superiority Ideal and the Just Results Ideal. I argue that when we
look behind the terminological differences, there is surprisingly little
genuine disagreement between my account and Pakaslahti’s.</p
Expresívnosť literárnej tvorby Leonida Andrejeva v kontexte sústavy výrazových kategórií Františka Mika
No full textŠtúdia identifikuje paralely medzi poetikou Leonida Andrejeva, jedného z popredných predstaviteľov ruskej literárnej moderny, a literárnym expresionizmom. Pri skúmaní danej problematiky sa autor štúdie opiera o ideovo-estetický program spisovateľovej tvorby na pozadí literárneho kánonu na prelome 19. a 20. storočia, ktorý slúži ako premisa pre ďalšiu interpretáciu špecifík Andrejevovej poetiky. Východiskom analýzy Andrejevovej expresívnosti na ploche štúdie je sústava výrazových kategórií a kategória expresívnosti definovaná podľa Františka Mika, na základe ktorej autor štúdie definuje expresívny prvok v Andrejevovej tvorbe ako produkt sémantickej disproporcie medzi objektom a subjektom s presahom na tematickej a jazykovej rovine prozaických a dramatických diel spisovateľa.The study identifies the parallels between the poetics of Leonid Andreyev, one of the leading figures of Russian literary modernism, and literary expressionism. The author of the study uses the ideological and aesthetic program of the writer's work in the context of literary canon at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries as a basis for her research. The author defines the expressive element in Andreyev's work as a product of semantic disproportion between object and subject (based on František Miko's system of expression categories and his category of expressiveness) that manifests on both thematic and linguistic level of writer's prosaic and dramatic works.Štúdia identifikuje paralely medzi poetikou Leonida Andrejeva, jedného z popredných predstaviteľov ruskej literárnej moderny, a literárnym expresionizmom. Pri skúmaní danej problematiky sa autor štúdie opiera o ideovo-estetický program spisovateľovej tvorby na pozadí literárneho kánonu na prelome 19. a 20. storočia, ktorý slúži ako premisa pre ďalšiu interpretáciu špecifík Andrejevovej poetiky. Východiskom analýzy Andrejevovej expresívnosti na ploche štúdie je sústava výrazových kategórií a kategória expresívnosti definovaná podľa Františka Mika, na základe ktorej autor štúdie definuje expresívny prvok v Andrejevovej tvorbe ako produkt sémantickej disproporcie medzi objektom a subjektom s presahom na tematickej a jazykovej rovine prozaických a dramatických diel spisovateľa
Who was the better athlete? Which was the better team?
No full textOften, there is disagreement about who is the better athlete, or the better team. The aim of this paper is to clarify a recent disagreement between the author (Mika Hämäläinen) and Arvi Pakaslahti about different views of ‘betterness’ in sport competitions. I introduced a ‘three criteria’ model of betterness, which suggested the following three criteria: the official result, the ideally adjudicated result and the display of athletic skills. Pakaslahti criticised my account and introduced his own model, which has two built-in ideals of sport competitions: the Athletic Superiority Ideal and the Just Results Ideal. I argue that when we look behind the terminological differences, there is surprisingly little genuine disagreement between my account and Pakaslahti’s
Keinoleino - Finnish Poem Generator
No full textKeinoleino is an artificially intelligent poet who can write poetry in Finnish automatically. It is a computationally creative system capable of natural language generation in Finnish.
This is a refactored and updated (Python 2 to Python 3) version of the Finnish Poem Generator described in:
Hämäläinen, M. (2018). Harnessing NLG to create Finnish poetry automatically. In Proceedings of the ninth international conference on computational creativity. Association for Computational Creativity (ACC).
@inproceedings{hamalainen2018harnessing,
title={Harnessing NLG to create Finnish poetry automatically},
author={H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen, Mika},
booktitle={Proceedings of the ninth international conference on computational creativity},
year={2018},
organization={Association for Computational Creativity (ACC)}
}
This code used to be very much integrated with the Poem Machine and it used an old version of HFST, Syntax maker and Omorfi. I have updated the code and it should work as before
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