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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"weird"”.
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Weird America
<p>Mercenaries Ashley and Steve solve supernatural cases in an America that became the Earth’s second moon! Their newest case: saving a small Wisconsin town from monster terrorists, government corruption, and a lonely pillar of flesh caught in the chaos! What will they find? Money? Purpose? Love? …
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Keeping Somerville weird by zoning for artist workspace
Artists are often viewed as the precursor to gentrification, and it is true that artists tend to move into neglected parts of the city where rents are cheap and regulations are lax, typically in industrially zoned districts. When this happens, real estate values typically rise over time, pushing …
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Weird History: Genre Mixing in Contemporary American Historical Fiction
We live in weird times. Climate disaster, plague, and economic stagnation define our present moment and demand immediate action. But it seems that Americans can’t agree on the definitions of the terms of the debate, let alone on how to tackle any of the substantive issues that face our communities, …
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Satanic abuse, false memories, weird beliefs and moral panics
… of false memories, the anomalistic psychology of weird beliefs, and the sociology of moral panics. I was one of the first researchers internationally to conclude there was no physical, forensic evidence that Satanic abuse existed. My ‘Making of a Satanic Myth’ feature, published in the Independent …
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All Things Weird and Wonderful: A Creative Exploration of Disability Representation
<p>My dissertation, <strong>All Things Weird and Wonderful: A Creative Exploration of Disability Representation,</strong> begins with a thorough review of the literature of disability representation in TV and film to set the stage for the one-hour supernatural drama pilot I wrote, which I also …
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The Little Weird: Self and Consciousness in Contemporary, Small-press, Speculative Fiction
… this dissertation refers to as "the little weird") use the techniques of recursion, narratological anachrony, and Ulric Neisser's "ecological self" to avoid the constraints of textual linearity that have historically prevented other literary modes from accurately portraying the operations of …
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"Weird Sex Science" in Britain, ca. 1900-1939: Narratives of Naturalisation and Eradication
This thesis examines changing concepts and practices relating to sex variations— intersexualities, transformations of sex, and non-heteronormative sexual desires and behaviours—derived from the biological sciences and their impact in Britain through the Edwardian and interwar eras. Using a variety …
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“Brightly Colored Magic and Weird Worlds”: Sylvia Plath’s Creation of Personae Through Her Visual Poetics
In this dissertation, I extend existing acknowledgments of the impact of Sylvia Plath’s visual arts training on her writing in order to argue that her painterly sensibilities are central to her character construction. Specifically, I contend that Plath draws upon a set of visual techniques, which I …
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Microdevelopment of co-construction of knowledge during problem solving : puzzled minds, weird creatures, and wuggles
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.
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A New Story for the Anthropocene: Partial Knowledge and the New Weird in Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation
… world would mean.I do this by exploring two weird texts, H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” and Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation. In both texts, the protagonists and readers are introduced to unknown forces that — similar to the Anthropocene — defy what we think we know about the world. …
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Lovecraftian Queerness: Weird and Queer Temporalities in <em>Lovecraft Country</em> and <em>Detransition, Baby</em>
<p>By analyzing H. P. Lovecraft’s work through the lens of queer temporality, I offer a queer perspective on Lovecraft, reading the monstrous outside in his work as a queer figure and casting the temporal conflict common to Lovecraftian horror as a conflict between dominant time and outside time. I …
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Accessible AI That’s Out of This World: Globalizing AI Literacy through Problem-Based Learning and Deep Learning Models in a Low Code Environment
… this effort has been predominantly geared toward WEIRD (White Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic) populations which leads to biased results and false generalizations. With the goal of helping students engage meaningfully and safely with AI; in this thesis I implement tooling to allow for …
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Unravel. A novel – and – A diverse palette: Cosmic horror and weird fiction with/out Lovecraft. A critical essay
The fiction of HP Lovecraft – known broadly as weird fiction and more specifically as cosmic horror – ushered in a genre that rejected the “clanking chains” inherent to the Gothic and supernatural fiction (Lovecraft, 2012, p. 28). The weird is defined by its “atmosphere of breathless and …
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Weird Old Figures and a New Twist: Cultural Functions of Halloween at the Turn of the 20th Century
Halloween arrived in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century with the surge in immigration from the British Isles — especially Ireland. However, the folk holiday did not gain widespread attention until the late 1870s and 1880s when descriptive pieces containing both accounts of Halloween's …
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How WEIRD are the South African acute pain guidelines? An analysis of the 2015 South African acute pain guidelines
… is biased owing to skewed reliance on data from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democracies) populations. This research explores health care discrepancy, primarily experienced by non-westernised, non-industrialised, non-rich and non-white people in the context of formulating the …
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Whalelight: A Sounding
… an epistemological definition/description of <em>weird</em> within a literary contexts as well as the experience of weirdness itself. It analyzes works by authors Dennis Johnson and William Golding, among others, as well as number of extradiegetic examples, drawing on theorists Julia Kristeva, …
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Essence Apparatus
… poetry and the traditions of ‘the uncanny' and ‘weird' writing. Included are also three expository essays relating to my creative work and its contextual and theoretical underpinnings, going in-depth on my relationship with the genre of science fiction and its literary device ‘cognitive …
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Empowering K-12 Students to Understand and Design Conversational Agents: Concepts, Recommendations and Development Platforms
… Industrialized, Educated, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) and non-WEIRD countries, I found different subsets of the participants’ perceptions of agents changed differently through the activities. For instance, after learning to program agents, participants from non-WEIRD countries felt agents were …
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