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This article is about the staging of death in certain video games and the way it is experienced by regular gamers. In these games, it's all about killing characters and simulating the death of your avatar. A certain parallel can be drawn between the end (of the game) and death (as the end of life). A psychoanalytic framework sheds light on these issues. Video games are described structurally, to account for their complexity (and their success) as a “total game,” synthesizing several forms of mediation. A corpus of video games is then analyzed to understand how death is staged.
Keywords: jeux vidéo, fin de partie, mort, avatar, video games, game over, dead, avatar, videojuegos, fin de la partida, muerte, avatar
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Chemin Saint-Paul (2015) by Lise Tremblay and De synthèse (2017) by Karoline Georges both describe death and its throes as experienced by the dying parents, but mainly by their daughter-narrators. Death throes serve, first, as a springboard to revisit the family past. Such a trajectory is bruising but marked with discoveries. Death throes also lead the narrator to reassess her relationship with her parent, at the very time when she must endorse the responsibilities that care demands. In Tremblay’s autofiction, the relation with the dying father bathes in gentleness; the relation with the mother, on the contrary, is characterized by tension, as the latter goes from craziness to Alzheimer’s disease. The situation is reversed in Georges’ novel. The narrator will progressively rebuild a connexion with her mother, while remaining distant from her father, whom she does not know to be dying. Finally, in each novel the death of the parents generates reflection on the artistic progression, or even destiny, of the narrator.
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Referring to Paul Ricoeur’s work on narrativity, this article addresses digital subjectivity and the influence of algorithms.
Keywords: Digital subjectivity, Subjectivité numérique, Je numérique, Digital I, Fiction, Fiction, Liminality, Liminalité, Algorithms, Algorithmes, Body, Corps
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This article examines, through a long series of interviews carried out mostly within the Italian diaspora of the Waterloo region of southwestern Ontario yet virtually applicable to the rest of the country, the salient characteristics diasporic domestic objects display vis-à-vis their privileged interlocutors, their family custodians. Supported by an array of theoretical views on the object per se, the study intends to explore more fully both the symbolic valence and the identity charge palpable objects of diaspora, often of domestic nature, might have retained for their custodians. It aims to probe and identify the sense and silence of these objects as they continue to engage in dialogue with their Italian-Canadian keepers, particularly those who, while continuing to live in Canada, have maintained through generations a strong sense of their Italian roots.
Keywords: diaspora, immigration, family, object, Italian-Canadian, nostalgia, poetry, translation
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AbstractIn the Subjunctive ModeThe Narrative Construction of Seizures in TurkeyThis paper provides a cultural analysis of seizures in Turkey, based on individual and family interviews with a community sample of persons diagnosed as suffering epilepsy or psy-chogenic seizures. It outlines a brief critique of analytic stratégies that juxtapose cultural « beliefs » to médical « knowledge » of a biological condition, and develops an alternative understanding of the narrative construction of illness and ils expérience. In particular, it draws on récent theories of narrativity and reader response (Iser, Ricoeur, Bruner) to analyze the « subjunctivizing tactics » présent in illness narratives.
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We describe as orthodox all kinds of logic which absolutely are based on the Aristotelian axiomatics and the principle of bivalence. The orthodox logics give rise to a mode of reasoning which rejects contradiction and in which any concept is strictly and discretely distinguishable from any other concept.A way of thinking presented as an alternative to analytics is dialectics. The latter admits contradiction as a fundamental principle. In line with dialectics, logical systems integrate contradiction. They are the neo-orthodox logics consisting of the set of non-trivial, weakened and paraconsistent logics.With regard to phenomenon perceived as complex changing in time and space, we call into question the strictly absolute character of identity and accept contradiction. We propose three basic principles to establish the logic of complexity: the principles of sameness, differentiality, and relationality. They do not exclude the Aristotelian axiomatics, but only recognize its relevance at a certain level of abstraction. Furthermore, we sketch out a model of statement differentiation according to truth values.
Keywords: Analytique, complexité, contradiction, dialectique, identité, logique, non-trivialité, Analytics, Complexity, Contradiction, Dialectics, Identity, Logic, Non-Triviality
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