Michel Foucault se historiografiese benadering as lens in historiese ondersoeke by Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel

“…Foucault’s main thesis is that history is largely an illusion. Foucault contrasts effective historiography with traditional historiography. …”
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L’injonction à participer au monde numérique by Serge Proulx

“…But what does “participation” means exactly : isn’t it a simple illusion, a semantic ruse of the powerful to exploit more subtly the users ? …”
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Memories of “wretched eminent things” (5.5.113): Remembrance and Posterity in John Webster’s Duchess of Malfi (1613–1614). by Louis André

“…This article will question this relationship between death and memory in Webster’s Duchess of Malfi: with its plethora of memento mori images and discourses on posterity, isn’t memory a form of vain illusion, pertaining to the luxury and decadence of the aristocracy? …”
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L’idée républicaine dans l’émigration antifasciste en exil by Éric Vial

“…Yet the debate exists, even if it is rudimentary and often instrumentalized, as the reformist socialists were under the illusion that they could find support from monarchist liberals or even from the Crown. …”
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Patrimoine naturel et médiations visuelles : les solutions du paysage by Catherine Saouter

“…However, the standpoint in favor of heritage, by overvaluing the aesthetics of the landscape, creates the illusion of preserving nature and can even hinder this very preservation. …”
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Domains of case changing and case maintaining movements by Mark Newson, Krisztina Szécsényi

“…Based in Dependent Case Theory, our analysis claims that case change does not really happen, but case assignment is allowed to be delayed under certain circumstances creating the illusion of one case over-writing another. In explicating these circumstances, we are not only able to provide a better understanding of when ‘case change’ can and can’t happen, but also develop the theory in ways which address certain conceptual problems that it faces. …”
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Une « Laine d’Albâtre » : Quelques cas de surexposition dans la photographie américaine by Jean-Marc Victor

“…In its deliberate use by photographers of the 20th century, the technique emphasizes the artificialness of the photographic act by negating mimetic illusion. In Robert Frank’s work, overexposure suggests the threat of erasure in an increasingly disenchanted world. …”
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« Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard » : quelques cas de conversions esthétiques au flamenco (XXe-XXIe siècles) by Vinciane Trancart

“…Based on interviews with the artists, this study takes into account the part of «biographical illusion» presented by P. Bourdieu: through souvenirs and discourse, these memories exposed are a result of the reconstruction of their experiences. …”
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Motion in Augmented Reality Games: An Engine for Creating Plausible Physical Interactions in Augmented Reality Games by Brian Mac Namee, David Beaney, Qingqing Dong

“…This will require the illusion that real and virtual objects interact physically together in a plausible way. …”
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Les Grecs d’Istanbul après la conquête ottomane. by Stéphane Yerasimos

“…Tradition and sometimes even recent historiography allow themselves the illusion of quasi-uninterrupted continuity in the Greek-Orthodox community in the Ottoman capital following the conquest through the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Post-Colonial Macau: hope and despair in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure by Michael O’Regan

“…The expansion of casino concessions and subsequent growth of employment and gross domestic product (GDP) per Capita in Macau after the 1999 handover from Portugal created an illusion of prosperity in a post-colonial territory of less than 30 sq. km. …”
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‘I will never concede’: Donald Trump’s discourse of denial on Twitter (Nov. 4th 2020 – Jan. 8th 2021) by Sandrine Sorlin

“…Through what she calls a ‘rhetoric of the iceberg’, presenting only some evidence of the Republican victory while giving the illusion of ‘massive’ proof underneath, and through constant repetition in the Twitter echo chamber, she demonstrates how Trump succeeds in kindling his fans’ frustration and leading them to the Capitol on January 6th 2021.…”
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Entre réception et histoire des idées : l’histoire des études médiévales comme archéologie de nos passions by Alain Corbellari

“…On aimerait montrer ici que les deux axes de l'histoire des études médiévales et de l'histoire de la réception des représentations du Moyen Âge dans la modernité, qui ne sont que les versants savant et profane d'un même objectif, ne doivent pas s'opposer mais au contraire dialoguer pour constituer une véritable archéologie de notre rapport au Moyen Âge, nécessaire à une science aujourd'hui sortie de l'illusion d'objectivité du positivisme.…”
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Maître-élèves : le risque d'un rapport manqué ? Exploration des conditions d'une école hospitalière by Frédérique-Marie Prot

“…First, we'll look at the conditions under which the idea of a hospital school does not contradict itself or fall within the logic of illusion. Secondly, we'll look more specifically at the relationship between teacher and pupil, and with it the necessary interweaving of the psychic and the didactic. …”
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Mettre en scène les codes du genre : artifice et théâtralité dans la comédie musicale hollywoodienne classique by Anne Martina

“…Neither demystifying nor remystifying the genre’s illusion-making process, such theatrical games pave the way to a double reading. …”
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I trovatori come fondamento dell'identità occitana: la linea Jaufré Rudèl-Jean de Nostredame-Frédéric Mistral by Gilda Caiti-Russo

“…Rudèl devient ainsi l’incarnation tour à tour de l’amour héroïque à l’intention d’un public italien du XIIIe siècle, des anciens fastes d’une noblesse provençale à la recherche d’une nouvelle identité à la Renaissance, du Romantisme allemand et de l’illusion mistralienne au XIXe siècle.…”
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Uniqueness and Nonuniqueness in Inverse Problems for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Related Medical Imaging by Kiwoon Kwon

“…For anisotropic coefficient with anomaly with or without jumps from known or unknown background, nonuniqueness of the inverse problems is discussed and the relation to cloaking or illusion of the anomaly is explained. The uniqueness and nonuniqueness issues are discussed firstly for EIT and secondly for ISP in similar arguments. …”
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Metaleptic Variations by Dominique Pernot

“…A dazzling array of techniques such as hyperrealism, Gothicism, mise en abyme, mise en fantaisie, intertextuality, to name but a few, construct and deconstruct the illusion of the represented world and threaten the whole foundation of fiction writing. …”
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Normalising Fan Parasociality within Pathologising Traces by Ava Bucy

“…Fans, here, are quite aware of Styles’s star persona and the illusion of their intimacy. They use the concept of parasociality to manage, understand, and police both their own behaviour and that of other fans. …”
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L’évolution de l’inspiration poétique républicaine de Mameli à Carducci : de l’antimonarchisme mazzinien et jacobin à la « démocratie dynastique » by Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro

“…But the seeking of conciliatory solutions between democratic commitment and respect for the “people” who chose to be represented by the Monarch pushes the poet to deprive himself of the Republican illusion and to celebrate the House of Savoy as best guarantor to defend the supreme value of Unity.…”
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