The Concept of Fragmentation in Poststructuralism by Justina Šumilova

“…Guy Debord’s position shows that fragmentation is related to the society of the spectacle because it produces atomization of meaning and knowledge. …”
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Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…Having established the import of tectonics for the architecture of Brutalism, the paper then argues that in the present situation, when architecture – like other cultural products – is infatuated with the spectacle of late capitalism, a re-thinking of the Semperian notion of theatricality is useful. …”
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Advanced slit-lamp-assisted toric marker by Neeraj Israni, Shruti Kochar, Amol Kadu, Rwituja Thomas

“…Background: Toric intraocular lenses (IOLs) are meant to be aligned at a particular axis for spectacle-free vision for distance after cataract surgery. …”
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“To Ensure that these Emotions are Passed to the Next Generation”: The Netherlands American Military Cemetery in Margraten as a site of Transatlantic Memory Diplomacy during George... by Albertine Bloemendal

“…More specifically, this article demonstrates how president Bush’s visit was rhetorically and visually framed through the memory of World War II—linked to Margraten as the décor of this transatlantic diplomatic spectacle—and how this framing in turn informed ‘emotional norms’ that facilitated the creation of an unequal platform for political messaging in favor of the purposes and narratives of the official political-diplomatic actors.…”
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Review of Vid Simoniti, Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Manifesto (2023), New Haven: Yale University Press by Sue Spaid

“…He develops this argument over seven chapters beginning with ‘when and how art contemporary art became political’, then ‘Realism for our time: on art and truth’, ‘unity and utopia: on socially engaged art’, ‘worldmaking: on the role of aesthetics in political art’, ‘spectacle and surveillance: on art in the internet age’, ‘creativity in the face of extinction: on art and climate change’, and finally ‘remaking the world’s hinges’. …”
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«Chi potrebbe esplicar con parole»: il lessico dei disastri nelle relazioni di età moderna tra scarti e continuità by Rosa Anna Paradiso

“…Ultimately, these elements are linked to the impossibility of describing, with traditional words and styles, an event that requires, at this chronological stage, the use of new terms and analogies: hence the use of dialect and the use of modern descriptive topoi such as those of war and spectacle. At the same time, we observe how a new discursive tradition is being created in the early modern period, exemplified on the one hand by the continuity in the use of syntagms that cannot be seen in the repertoires and the aforementioned descriptive strategies, and on the other by the affirmation of a sensationalist approach to information about the disaster. …”
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COGNITIVE METAPHOR OF QUEEN ELIZABETH DEATH NEWS ON BBC AND THE GUARDIAN by Isma Farikha Latifatun Nuzulia, Aprillia Firmonasari

“…The source domain is about spectacle, journey, end, ending of the journey, rest, and departure. …”
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Elevating the Antagonist Encounter: How the ‘Stitch’ Transforms Victimhood Contestation on TikTok by Marloes Geboers, Esther Hammelburg

“…Moving beyond hashtag hijacking the stitch elevates a practice of commentary that turns victimhood politics into a spectacle that politicizes formerly less political realms, and that further blurs the boundaries between on- and offline spaces. …”
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Dubai transient city. Anatomy of a post-urban phenomenon by Tiziano Aglieri Rinella

“…But what is concealed behind this amazing urban spectacle? Its very fast and uncontainable growth has generated massive phenomena of urban sprawl and proliferation of junk spaces. …”
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Vivre de paysage dans le Morvan ou l’impensé de la gestion forestière morvandelle by Damien Marage

“…From this object-subject perspective, the forest landscapes of the Morvan sometimes offer us a spectacle of desolation and emptiness. This coupling of subject and object which is specific to the Western definition of the landscape could be replaced by a vision derived from Chinese thought. …”
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Images of War in Late Victorian War and Adventure Novels for Children by Dorothea Flothow

“…The late-Victorian fascination with war and the military was mirrored in the period’s children’s fiction which presented war as an exciting spectacle and a glorious adventure. Through a number of formulized conventions and strategies, the narratives downplay the dangers of war and stress the inevitability of British victories. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomography-Guided Transepithelial Phototherapeutic Keratectomy for Central Corneal Opacity in the Pediatric Population by Sloan W. Rush, Ryan B. Rush

“…Uncorrected and best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) significantly improved postoperatively (p<0.0001 and p=0.0045, respectively). …”
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Exhibiting the West at the Paris Exposition of 1867: Towards a New American Aesthetic Identity? by François Brunet, Jessica Talley

“…In 1867 the French Second Empire’s “social” doctrine staged industry and labor not only as economic values but as cultural facts, envisioned in socio-ethnographic terms if not as forms of spectacle. The United States was only a second-tier player; however, for the U.S. organizers the Paris Exposition was a crucial opportunity for the country as it just emerged from the Civil War and entered Reconstruction. …”
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Evaluation of the Safety and Effectiveness of Intense Pulsed Light in the Treatment of Meibomian Gland Dysfunction by Xiaodan Jiang, Huibin Lv, Hang Song, Mingzhou Zhang, Yan Liu, Xiaodan Hu, Xuemin Li, Wei Wang

“…Ten ocular surface symptoms were evaluated with a subjective face score at every visit. Best spectacle corrected visual acuity, intraocular pressure (IOP), conjunctival injection, upper and lower tear meniscus height (TMH), tear break-up time (TBUT), corneal staining, lid margin and meibomian gland assessments, and meibography were also recorded at every visit, as well as the adverse effects on the eye and ocular surface. …”
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Salas de cine en Bogotá (1897-1940): la arquitectura como símbolo de modernización del espacio urbano by Andrés Avila Gómez, Alfredo Montaño Bello

“…This article analyzes the main characteristics which in the case of Bogotá, surrounded the arrival and reception of the cinematic spectacle and its architecture in the first decade of the twentieth century. …”
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Visual and sensory outcomes after refractive surgery for pediatric anisometropia by Ahmed A. Farrag, Mahmoud A.B. Mohamed, Hasan S. Yousef

“…Unfortunately, in high pediatric anisometropia, spectacle correction is not tolerated by many children. …”
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Christophe Charle, le parcours et les idées d'un historien by Chloé Maurel

“…Parmi ses œuvres, on peut citer : Histoire sociale de la France au XIXe siècle (1991), La République des universitaires (1994), Les Intellectuels en Europe au XIXe siècle (1996, nouvelle éd. 2001), Paris fin de siècle, culture et politique (1998), La Crise des sociétés impériales (2001), Théâtres en capitales, naissance de la société du spectacle à Paris, Berlin, Londres et Vienne, 1860-1914 (2008), Discordance des temps. …”
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Dark City, White City: Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition, 1893 by Hélène Valance

“…L’Exposition Universelle de Chicago s’ouvre, en 1893, sur un spectacle inédit: la Cour d’Honneur de l’Exposition, illuminée par des milliers d’ampoules à incandescence, bientôt connue sous le nom de "White City". …”
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The Great Arab Revolt, Palestine and a Phoenicianist Civilizing Mission: Transregional Debates in the Mexican Mahjar Press by Camila Pastor de Maria Campos

“…The debate failed to engage the Mexican Mahjar with Palestinian ‘Arab futures’, except perhaps in the modality of spectacle. In contrast, in the economically difficult and politically impoverished climate in the wake of the Great Depression, the second key debate was a decade-long conversation across the migrant community and Mexican ideologues of mestizaje about the desirability, or not, of Mashriqis as permanent residents of Mexico and the limits to their integration into the mestizo nation. …”
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Quality of Vision after Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (Fluid Dissection) Compared to Penetrating Keratoplasty for the Treatment of Keratoconus by Islam Mahmoud Hamdi, Momen Mahmoud Hamdi

“…Uncorrected and best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (UCVA and BSCVA, resp.), mean refractive spherical equivalent and mean refractive cylinder (MRSE and MRC, resp.), root mean square of the 3 mm and 5 mm OPD Scan (NIDEK Co. …”
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