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In this article the intricacies of video art are explored through the use of reconstruction. In the light of a paradigmatic analysis of the Canadian production God's Greatest Gift is…, nine theses on aesthetic and functional practices in video art are presented. Studying these practices and the role of technology leads to a conclusion that reveals one of the (possible) aesthetic and social functions of the medium and of the art.
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ABSTRACTThis article seeks to evaluate the scientific contributions of cognitive psychology to genre theory and science-fiction film theory in particular. The science-fiction genre's thematic lexicon is called upon to illustrate the concept of cognitive schemata, as put forth by David Bordwell. Torben Grodal's cognitive theory of emotions is also examined for its potential explanatory value in regards to the science-fiction genre's emotional parameter, estrangement.
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AbstractThis short essay, inspired by annoyances and dilemmas encountered during field work, takes the shape of a fictional dialogue with typical situations drawn from encounters between researchers and law-enforcement officers. Engaging a three-party dialogue with Max Weber, my fellow sociologists, and law-enforcement officers encountered in the course of my research in Germany, I stress the Weberian conception of motives underlying the action and at the core of the investigation. I distinguish three pairs of concepts: the fictional and the ‘flesh-and-blood' individual, motive and intention, the consequences of action and individual destiny. I insist upon the notion of motive in the Weberian sense in order to advocate an approach – and a technique – that would take into account social action, so as to stress the interpretative task that such an approach presupposes, and to question anew the relation between the values of the researcher and the object of his investigation.
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The article introduces to the role of efficiency in the generation of advantages or disadvantaged for minorities. The objective is to demonstrate that efficiency should play a more important role in the domain of ethnocultural justice. For doing so, a brief presentation of the place of numbers in the literature on the topic is offered, which leads to the argument apprehending numerical disequilibria as a definite source of injustices borne by minorities, especially from a perspective inspired by luck egalitarianism. From this point of view however, numerical asymmetry can constitute a source of benefits for these groups. As one of the constituents of the definition of minority, asymmetry thus takes another dimension. Over and above this asymmetry, it appears that it is efficiency (in the manner that groups manage the numerical dimension) that regulates the material conditions and successes of the members of a given group. After a discussion of efficient minorities and dominant minorities, the article concludes by highlighting avenues of research that are made visible by efficiency and that are relevant to the theory of justice in a multicultural context.
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AbstractDuring the last decade, a large volume of literature has been published on the development of “downscaling” methods from the global to the hydrological scale in order to estimate the impact of global climate change on the availability and distribution of water resources. The present paper proposes a comprehensive review and a synthesis of climatic downscaling methodologies presented in the literature in order to simulate the regional response to global climate change. The paper focuses mainly on recent advances in the field, and on the practical problems that may arise from the application of the various models in impact studies. The paper presents also a discussion of the advantages and limitations of the various methods. The paper concluded with some suggestions for future work dealing with the impacts of global change on water resources.
Keywords: désagrégation, changement climatique, estimation régionale, ressources en eau, précipitation, modèle, downscaling, climatic change, regional estimation, water resources, precipitation, model