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Architecture Of The Virtual Corpse: National Lifetime Archive, Will Stattman Oct 2012

Architecture Of The Virtual Corpse: National Lifetime Archive, Will Stattman

Architecture Thesis Prep

"I believe that architecture cannot continue to ignore new technologies and their spatial, social, and tectonic consequences, and must incorporate them in order to stay pertinent. Additionally, the boundaries between the physical and simulated can be blurred to unite the human experience. We have acknowledged some aspects of this crisis, but architecture must fully respond formally, organizationally, spatially, ideologically and conceptually. I’d like to explore these implications within a new Architecture."


What Is Life And How Do We Know It? Theological Possibilities In Michael Polanyi's Epistemology, Vincent M. Smiles Apr 2012

What Is Life And How Do We Know It? Theological Possibilities In Michael Polanyi's Epistemology, Vincent M. Smiles

Theology Faculty Publications

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And Then, He Folds His Patterned Rug: Repressive Reality And The Eternal Soul In Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Cook Apr 2012

And Then, He Folds His Patterned Rug: Repressive Reality And The Eternal Soul In Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Cook

Masters Theses

While Vladimir Nabokov has deservedly earned fame as a stylist of the strange, most critics who study his novels approach his absurd and beautiful characters as little more than fractured victims of a wholly subjective reality. Compounding the misunderstanding is the tired debate over whether or not Lolita is literary, pornographic, or some cruel game of cat-and-mouse in which Nabokov seizes control of his readers' sense of morality. However, critics who read Nabokov as nothing more than a manipulative stylist neglect to realize that his characters suffer such absurd distortions of spirit and mind because their environment--the "average" reality of …