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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Deus ex machina"”.
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Deus ex Machina: Legal Fictions in Private Law
This PhD dissertation is about legal fictions in private law. A legal fiction, broadly, is a false assumption knowingly relied upon by the courts. The main aim of the dissertation is to formulate a test for which fictions should be accepted and which rejected. Subsidiary aims include a better …
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Enabling a Speculative EcoGothic? Blood Moss, an Original Novella and a Critical Reflection
… disappearance of her sickly friend. The cult, Deus Ex Machina, is obsessed with creating a being envisaged as an expression of ideal humanity, unlimited by human imperfections and irrationalities. This narrative is set in relation to excerpts from the personal notebooks of Prof. Ngceni, a …
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Vivaria
Vivaria explores musical depictions of animalistic ecosystems, the advent of artificial intelligence, and its impact on the natural world and humanity. The rhythmic and gestural freedom in natural ecosystems has always fascinated me and remains a throughline in my art. Vivaria comments on the …
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Manufacturing the Marvellous: Technology and Divine Presence in Ancient Greek Religion
… Greek world. The dissertation seeks both to expand the existing vocabulary of visual modes of ancient epiphany, and to contribute to the cultural history of the unique category of ancient ‘enchantment’ technologies. A broad chronological scope not only allows for an adequate presentation of …
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Misplaced Methodologies: The Legal Hermeneutics of Muḥammad b. al Ḥasan al-Shaybānῑ (d.189/804)
… remain as an ode to the ‘master architect,’ the ‘deus ex machina’ who emerged victorious at the end of a centuries long battle, bringing ‘an unbridled law down to the knees of revelation.’ But what exactly was this “unbridled law?” The pre-Shāfian legal culture has largely been considered …