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Así Es La Vida, Patricia Cortés Sep 2016

Así Es La Vida, Patricia Cortés

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Sábado, Patricia Cortés Sep 2016

Sábado, Patricia Cortés

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.


Remembering The Forgotten, Briana Corona Sep 2016

Remembering The Forgotten, Briana Corona

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Mis Berrinches: My "Otherness", Jacqueline Barrera-Pacheco Sep 2016

Mis Berrinches: My "Otherness", Jacqueline Barrera-Pacheco

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Those Hot Summer Days, Karla Amaya Sep 2016

Those Hot Summer Days, Karla Amaya

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Editors' Introduction, María Corral-Ribordy, Carlos Molina Sep 2016

Editors' Introduction, María Corral-Ribordy, Carlos Molina

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Table Of Contents Sep 2016

Table Of Contents

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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Full Issue Sep 2016

Full Issue

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

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On The Origin And Future Of Poetry: Notes Towards An Investigation, Carlos Aguasaco Oct 2014

On The Origin And Future Of Poetry: Notes Towards An Investigation, Carlos Aguasaco

Publications and Research

An exploration on the historical and material conditions that allowed the emergence of metaphors and poetry alongside language. This article analyzes the historical relation between poetry and technology across history. It discusses the so-called ontological crisis of poetry and opens the conversation on its future.


Cultural Topology: An Introduction To Postmodern Mathematics, Brent M. Blackwell Oct 2004

Cultural Topology: An Introduction To Postmodern Mathematics, Brent M. Blackwell

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Editors' Introduction]

This essay develops a new way of thinking about the cultural relationships among and within the sciences and the arts through a new understanding of the term postmodernism that at once derives from literary theory and the mathematical discipline of topology. While topology forms the main vertebra of this connective approach in its capacity as the mathematics of connectivity, quantum mechanics and non-Euclidean geometry -- the atlas and axis of this spinal column -- form the context through which this “postmodern” approach will develop. However, in order to position topology as a “postmodern” branch of mathematics, some brief …


Of Parts And Wholes: Self-Similarity And Synecdoche In Science, Culture And Literature, Dirk Vanderbeke Oct 2004

Of Parts And Wholes: Self-Similarity And Synecdoche In Science, Culture And Literature, Dirk Vanderbeke

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Editors' Introduction]

The discussion here centers on how self-similarity, or parts resembling a whole, has been a recurring aspect in the most diverse fields of human thinking from antiquity to the present. Primary examples are drawn from physics, biology, cybernetics, alchemy, philosophy, myth and, of course, language and literature. The author argues that self-similar patterns are one of the persistent ways in which the human mind structures its experience and knowledge of the world, and then examines some of the questions that arise when an almost ubiquitous concept, structure or linguistic and literary phenomenon resurfaces in a new guise in …