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Inspired by Roland Barthes's practice of "semioclasm" in Mythologies, this book offers a "technoclasm"; a cultural critique of US narratives, discourses, images, and objects that have transformed the politics of automation into statements of fact about the "rise of the robots". Treating automation as an ensemble of technologies and science fictions, this book foregrounds automation's ideologies, exaggerations, failures, and mystifications of the social value of human labor in order to question a…Read more
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4This paper presents a method for selecting Regions of Interest in brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging for diagnostic purposes, using statistical learning and vector quantization techniques. The proposed method models the distribution of GM and WM tissues grouping the voxels belonging to each tissue in ROIs associated to a specific neurological disorder. Tissue distribution of normal and abnormal images is modelled by a Self-Organizing map, generating a set of representative prototypes, and the rece…Read more
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35Žižek's Apocalypse: The End of the World or the End of Capitalism? (review)Theory and Event 13 (4). 2010.A review of Living in the End Times.
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30Using deep neural networks along with dimensionality reduction techniques to assist the diagnosis of neurodegenerative disordersLogic Journal of the IGPL. forthcoming.
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21A practical theology of liberation: Mimetic theory, liberation theology and practical theologyHTS Theological Studies 76 (2): 9. 2020.In this article, the authors bring two personal journeys together: one author’s liberationist journey, sparked by a search for justice and liberation in the slums of Guatemala City, and the other’s lifelong commitment to practical theology and spatial justice in South Africa. A practical theology of liberation is the result of life experiences in countries of the Global South amidst the search for justice and liberation. The worlds that come together in this article are René Girard’s mimetic the…Read more
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25A practical theology of liberation: Mimetic theory, liberation theology and practical theologyHTS Theological Studies 76 (2): 9. 2020.In this article, the authors bring two personal journeys together: one author’s liberationist journey, sparked by a search for justice and liberation in the slums of Guatemala City, and the other’s lifelong commitment to practical theology and spatial justice in South Africa. A practical theology of liberation is the result of life experiences in countries of the Global South amidst the search for justice and liberation. The worlds that come together in this article are René Girard’s mimetic the…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Social and Political Philosophy |