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Children of Prometheus
The superhuman is a notion of mankind's relationship between himself and his tools. This bound condition of dependence with ingenuity both liberates his body from mortal perils and binds him to indefinite dependence with the complex, the external, and inhuman. Architecture as an extension of …
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Il Prometeo di Luciano. Prometheus es in verbis, Prometheus, Dialogi deorum V
… ne tratta particolarmente in tre opere: Prometheus es in verbis, Prometheus e Dialogi deorum V. Questo studio le analizza, facendone emergere la connessione.
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Prometheus liberated
<p>This thesis investigates the influences of Mary Shelley and trace her construction of Frankenstein. While previous studies have researched Mary Shelley or her novel, little attention has been devoted to considering both. This study takes a close look at the life of Mary Shelley and her novel …
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Prometheus Earthbound Technological Being on an unsettled Planet
Contains fulltext : 183228.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Prometheus in sound : one hundred years of musical adaptations of the myth of Prometheus: Beethoven, Shubert, Liszt, Wolf, Parry, Fauré and Scriabin
… that out concern is primarily with the gift of Prometheus - the fire rather than with the rebellion and defiance associated with the demigod who took action against the tyranny of Zeus.
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From Prometheus to Pistorius: a Genealogy of Physical Ability
(Fragile Frames + Monstrosities)ModernWar + (Flagged Bodies + Cyborgs)PostmodernWar = dis-AbilityCyborged
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Nuclear electric propulsion : assessing the design of Project Prometheus.
… for long-distance space travel. Project Prometheus was a NASA-led project that sought to demonstrate that distant electric propulsion missions were achievable by planning an expedition to characterize the Jovian moons of Jupiter. Several requirements were estimated for the electric …
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Prometheus bound: the evolution of structure in relation to knowledge
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Design for the modern Prometheus : towards an integrated biodesign workflow
Biodesign is a growing field that harnesses the re-engineering capabilities of synthetic biology and the principles of design to create functional products on a variety of scales. It is now possible to precisely modify and program living organisms to create products useful for medicine, …
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Prometheus unbound: quality of government and institutionalised grand corruption in public procurement
This PhD thesis looks at one of the most crucial determinants of state formation, quality of institutions, and social equality: institutionalised grand corruption. Institutionalised grand corruption denotes the particularistic allocation of public resources, that is violating prior explicit rules …
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Shelley the Tragedian: Differing Modes of Catharsis in Prometheus Unbound and the Cenci
The primary purpose of this paper is to reflect on Percy B. Shelley’s understanding of catharsis, the most beneficial and sought after purpose of tragedies. Much of this thesis will also consider Shelley as a translator, to help better understand how Shelley viewed and understood the Greek texts. …
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A Hermeneutic Exploration of the Literature of Technology: Prometheus Bound, Frankenstein and Battlestar Galactica
… of three exceptional artistic works: Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, and Ronald Moore's Battlestar Galactica. Furthermore, in order to broaden the exploration, the present work takes as a forestructure the late work of philosopher Martin Heidegger, the Freudian-Marxist …
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
According to Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mortals, either in the form of culture, or by using it to bring to life the clay people he had made. Margaret Homans distinguishes between what she calls literal and figurative creativity (1980:223). The woman who is a …
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Prometheus unbound : towards the more precise proscription of the socially undesirable market conduct associated with dominance
The regulation of the market conduct of dominant firms is an entrenched part of the competition laws in many jurisdictions. The conduct which such laws proscribe has been variously described as "abuse of dominance", "anticompetitive conduct", "monopolization" or "improper use of market power". Each …
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The design and development of Prometheus 1: Rice University's coded aperture faint object gamma ray telescope
Rice University has been developing a gamma ray telescope to be used for the detection of spectral gamma ray lines from Type I supernovae within one megaparsec in the energy range from 100 keV to 10 MeV. The detector is an actively shielded array of 121 0.5$\sp{\prime\prime}$ x …
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Enemy life: theorizing exile through Milton, Shelley and Byron
… human subjectivities found in <em>Paradise Lost, Prometheus Unbound, Manfred</em> and <em>Don Juan</em>. The dissertation examines <em>Paradise Lost</em> for its competing narratives of exile, Adam and Satan, and explores notions of home, transgression, the purification rituals which are the …
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: vengeance as a vehicle for presenting his moral principles
… in certain philosophical and religious essays, Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, and The Mask of Anarchy. Chapter II examines the following three philosophical and religious essays by Shelley which illustrate his moral concept of vengeance as this concept relates to tyrannical oppression: "Essay on …
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