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Landscape Approaches in Historical Archaeology: The Archaeology of Places
Nicole Branton
International Handbook of Historical Archaeology·2009·32 citations
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View paper →Homi Bhabha's Third Space and African identity
Fetson Kalua
Journal of African Cultural Studies·2009
This paper suggests a way of looking at postcolonial African identity as fluid, relational and always in flux. I explain this fluidity of identity by making a connection between Victor Turner's concept of liminality and Homi Bhabha's innovative formulation and application of the same idea in his text, The Location of Culture. The connection is important because, in espousing the vocabulary of liminality which gestures toward fluidity and allows particular spaces of meaning to emerge, both Turner and Bhabha are involved in what Stuart Hall calls 'thinking at or beyond the limit' (1996, 259), a thinking on the margins. I conclude the paper by arguing that it is this thinking on the margins that sheds light on African identity, especially as the continent gradually becomes part of the postmodern and globalized world.
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View paper →Hooks, Benjamin
Greg Sidberry
African American Studies Center·2009
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View paper →Virtual Self-Modeling: The Effects of Vicarious Reinforcement and Identification on Exercise Behaviors
Jesse Fox, Jeremy N. Bailenson
Media Psychology·2009·378 citations
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View paper →Compiler. Formes, usages et pratiques
Johann Petitjean
Hypothèses·2009·4 citations
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View paper →Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone
John C. Baez, Mike Stay
arXiv·2009
In physics, Feynman diagrams are used to reason about quantum processes. In the 1980s, it became clear that underlying these diagrams is a powerful analogy between quantum physics and topology: namely, a linear operator behaves very much like a "cobordism". Similar diagrams can be used to reason about logic, where they represent proofs, and computation, where they represent programs. With the rise of interest in quantum cryptography and quantum computation, it became clear that there is extensive network of analogies between physics, topology, logic and computation. In this expository paper, we make some of these analogies precise using the concept of "closed symmetric monoidal category". We assume no prior knowledge of category theory, proof theory or computer science.
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