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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Antonio Damasio"”.
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Quintessence of Dust: Cognitive Neuroscience and an Actor's Process
… supported by the work of John Searle and Antonio Damasio. The phenomenal feeling of character-model control is discussed and supported by the work of Thomas Metzinger. The paper also considers our relative understanding of mirror neurons and specifically their function in relation to …
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The elusive digital frame and the elasticity of time in painting
… Peter Gidal and recent neuroscientific work by Antonio Damasio, investigating vision and consciousness. This material is used in conjunction with observations from experimental and expanded film works as they deconstruct aspects of subjective temporality and visual perception.
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Artificial Identity: Representations of Robots and Cyborgs in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction Films
… the theories of neurologist and neuroscientist Antonio Damasio are applied, which explore both the biological means by which emotional (rather than solely physical) feelings are generated in humans, and the capacity of humans to simulate emotion. As Damasio argues that many of the central …
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Traumatic bodies and diasporic disaffection: a study of Iranian American literature in English
… a host of scholars including Sigmund Freud, Antonio Damasio, Elaine Scarry, Slavoj Žižek, Iris Marion Young, Gilles Deleuze, Bisel Van der Kolk, and a number of trauma theorists. Using the case of Iran as a modern state, I study the impacts that experiences of pernicious maximum social, …
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Spinoza’s theory of emotion in relation to Vygotsky’s psychology and Damasio’s neuroscience
… to the Spinozist theory of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. Following Vygotsky’s ‘testing’ of Spinoza’s theory against the Jamesian theory of emotion I ‘test’ Spinoza’s theory in the light of Damasio’s interpretation, for the purpose intended by Vygotsky. In the course of this …
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The Sensible Reason
… Drawing on the contributions of thinkers such as Antonio Damasio and Robert Solomon, it is argued that emotions possess an internal logic that can be analyzed and evaluated, and that their role in decision-making has been underestimated. This chapter also introduces the concept of sensible reason, …
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Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino
In this dissertation, I focus on the work of five contemporary experimental poets - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lyn Hejinian, Carla Harryman, Hannah Weiner, and Leslie Scalapino - in order to demonstrate various aspects of a philosophical dynamic at work in their poetry. The critical debates surrounding …