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...Charlotte Sussman Susan C. Greenfield and Carol Barash , editors. Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science and Literature, 1650-1865 . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1999 . Pp. vii + 274. 0813120780. Copyright © 2001 Regents of the University of Colorado 2001...

... of stylistic moves including stream of consciousness, appropriation, literary cut-up, and poetic praxis. Copyright © 2012 Regents of the University of Colorado 2012 David G u n k e l 237 Materials Science: A Response to Mark Amerika's "Remixing the T " D a v id J. G u n k e l he task appears to be quite...

...Renee Barlow Copyright © 2009 Regents of the University of Colorado 2009 E ntangling C u lt u r a l Theory and Science: Lessons L e a rn e d FROM THE SOKAL INCIDENT Renee Barlow T he entanglement of scientific term inology and theoretical discourse from the humanities has a long history.The...

...Herbert Lindenberger Abstract Frederick Luis Aldama and Partrick Colm Hogan turn to advances in the brain sciences to pick up the age-old question and discussion: what constitutes the self? Their conversation begins with a discussion of the neurochemical makeup of the brain and addresses the more...

...Sue J. Kim Abstract Frederick Luis Aldama and Partrick Colm Hogan turn to advances in the brain sciences to pick up the age-old question and discussion: what constitutes the self? Their conversation begins with a discussion of the neurochemical makeup of the brain and addresses the more global...

... a text in the limited cultural w orld where it first appeared, we risk com prom ising faith in both the ongoing vitality o f the literary object and the reality o f a communicative relation through writing. Philip Joseph University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center NOTES I w ould like...

... something Balthasar Gracian described in the seventeenth century, "the single cloud that eclipses the sun."3 1believe that most physicians chose a medical career out of a love o f science and a desire to help people.The im positions that extraneous forces place on a doctor's ability to w h olly realize...

... of the nation: through her fiction, she tells how original Argentine peoples adopted Sarmiento’s proposal. In speaking of her inspiration for the film, Martel refers to both her work and Sarmiento’s as bold texts that fall within the genre of science fiction. The present essay considers the reasons...

... in science, technology, and forms of expression possess mātauranga (knowledge), ahua (appearance), and tukanga (process) that are applied to understanding processes of life and death. This article considers how the subsequent “appropriation of non-Indigenous technologies” such as social media agitates...

... science and public health policy have had in shaping national identity politics in the borderlands. Because militarized border control evolves from public health efforts, reframing analyses of Latinx fiction to read for public health provides fresh insight into institutionalized forms of discrimination...

... on the idea of the “Black Legend” of the Spanish conquest, for, contrary to conventional wisdom, it was the conquest of America (not its “discovery”) that legitimated the modern idea of discovery in international law and science. Copyright © 2018 Regents of the University of Colorado 2018 Edmundo...

... of the pseudoscientific and the lit­ erary. The meaning system of alchemy is the meaning system of tropes and figures, metaphors and enigmas. Whereas modern natural science, as described by contem porary epistemologists such as Graham Oddie, quests for "truthlikeness" the quality of a theory that, while necessarily...

... "biocultures." Biology serving at tim es as a metaphor fo r science is as intrinsic to the embodied state of readers and o f w riters as history and culture are intrinsic to the professional bodies of knowledge known as science and biology. To think o f science w ithout including an histori­ cal and cultural...

... charts matching physical features to class status, charac­ ter, and potential criminal tendencies. Neither science was strictly "cutting edge" physiog­ nom y had claimed ancient Greek origins long before Johann Caspar Lavater reintroduced it to European audiences in the 1770s; and Francis Gall...

... knowledge spaces. They thus goad inquiry into processes of knowledge production, especially into how cultural works fun ction as epistem ological devices. Second, the poem concatenates data, climate and species science, and embodied em otion through experi­ ment with environmental aesthetics...

... teaching outcomes and m ethods.1 Unlike the sciences, literature courses are rarely precisely organized into progressive units of knowledge, where master­ ing one section o f the course is essential to the students' ability to progress to the next sec­ tion. A literature course, as do many other courses...

... the im aginative projection o f an alm ost m athem atical order that is quite unreal, bring ing the chaotic and vicissitudinous elements o f nature, culture, and society into an orderly w h ole that cannot but be artificial.T he utopian project o f m odern philosophy and science is to im agine...

... h ole­ heartedly plunged into both Blavatsky's w ork and her pseudoscientific world. Blavatsky's Theosophy even came to form the wellspring o f Dario s and Lugones's friendship.5 Lugones, in particular, tookTheosophical occult science seriously.The conscious resonance o f Lugones's stories w ith...

...., they have been produced intentionally. This is, of course, the precise difference between the sciences of nature and the sciences o f culture: the sciences of culture search fo r the human intentions hidden in the objects. The sciences of culture ask not only "w hy?" as do the natural sciences, but also "w...

... of pseudoscience comes to light only when one understands that it is not science; similarly, the meaning of art emerges from our understanding that it is not life, but the criticism or negation of life. The truth o f art is in its denial or rejection of facts. In Herbert Marcuse's words, "Fiction calls the facts...