“They willfully themselves exile from light”: Exile in Space, Stage and Metatheatre in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Zied Ben Amor

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The Cinematic Visions and Dreams of Edgard Varèse by Gabriele

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The Flâneur’s Scopic Power or the Victorian Dream of Transparency by Estelle Murail

“…This article focuses on the dream of transparency which pervaded the nineteenth-century literary cityscape, and which, I argue, is embodied in the figure of the flâneur, the ubiquitous observer of urban life. …”
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A Quantitative Study on Dream of the Red Chamber: Word-Length Distribution and Authorship Attribution by Yue Yu, Wei Liu, Ying Feng

“…This paper investigates the distribution characteristics of word lengths in the Dream of the Red Chamber (DRC), measured in terms of the number of syllables or characters. …”
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A bad dream come true: ICT patent prosecution against EU competition law by Niccolò Galli

“… The article scrutinises patent prosecution practices in the ICT sector under Arts. 101 and 102 TFEU in light of the CJEU case law and economic arguments pointing to their anti- and pro-competitive effects. …”
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Franco Vaccari. Experiencing darkness towards Shamanism by Sergio Poggianella

“…This paper examines one of the most symbolic and meaningful artworks by Franco Vaccari, Dark Sculpture, an artwork/temporary performance in which darkness becomes a play of presence-absence, inspired, both conceptually and visually, by the transition from light to dark. A labyrinthine darkness that enhances the other senses and helps to rediscover the light forms of the Spirit worlds that are concealed precisely by the optical space, so they can’t be seen. …”
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THE SOCIAL PROTEST «WITH CHINESE PARTICULARITY»: THE SHIFTING VECTOR by V. A. Korsun

“…The CCP new leadership exploits the «Chinese dream» rhetoric and anticorruption assault to get the national consensus and conserve its monopoly on political power. …”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…The account of Hamilcar’s daughter’s social milieu, the analysis of her psyche, her desires, dreams and beliefs, shed light on her life as a woman.  …”
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Open Your Eyes Wider: Overexposure in Contemporary American Film and TV Series by Monica Michlin

“…Finally, although as a technique, it plays on the hypnotic attractions of excessive light, it also points to the artifice of lighting and acts as a reflexive sign that what we are gazing upon is unreal, in a contemporary enactment of the baroque allegories of life-as-dream.…”
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Consumer Boredom: Boredom as a Subliminal Mood of Consumer Capitalism by Mariusz Finkielsztein

“…Through a sequence of social and cultural shifts and freeloading on natural human predispositions, the system has manufactured a new type of being, homo consumens, who is socialized to be passive, desire- and dream-driven, and addicted to novelty, constant change, a ceaseless stream of stimuli, and pleasure. …”
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How to Read (With) Benjamin: From Cultural History of Materialism to Materialist History of Culture by Patrick Healy, Andrej Radman

“…He posited the tectonic unconscious and the deployment of optical instruments as crucial for understanding the development which architecture carried from the luxus capitalist forms of commodity. In light of technical innovations in iron and glass, it expressed a form of projective dream work of the architectural around material realisations as products of the industrial revolution, with long consequences for the future.…”
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Emotivity matters for mood licensing by Lena Baunaz, Joanna Blochowiak, Cristina Grisot

“…However, the existence of verbs like rêver (dream), which seem to accept both moods, poses a challenge to this idea and raises the question of the source of optional mood selection. …”
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« A unique aura of ancient, elemental evil » : les migrations du feu dans The Great God Pan (1894) d’Arthur Machen by Anne-Sophie Leluan-Pinker

“…This cerebral exploration results in the bringing to light and subsequent release of an untamable subterranean force of regression, indistinction, and dissolution embodied in the central female character of Helen Vaughan. …”
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La trilogie des Trois corps de Liu Cixin et le statut de la science-fiction en Chine contemporaine by Gwennaël Gaffric

“…With the considerable success he achieved with this trilogy, Liu Cixin has become for the readers, critics and even supporters of Chinese soft power the standard-bearer of a new “era” of Chinese science fiction, called to promote the “Chinese dream” to the international community. In the light of the history of science fiction in China since 1949 and its political distortion, this present contribution aims to offer an examination of the conditions of production and reception of the Three Body trilogy in China and abroad and to try to understand the reasons for the critical, academic and even political passion that it arouses today.…”
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From Ascetic Ideals to Honest Illusions: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Inception by Yonghwa Lee, Kyoung-Min Han

“…This article illuminates the open ending of Christopher Nolan's film Inception (2010) in light of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. Drawing particularly on Nietzsche's notions of ascetic ideals and honest illusions, the article contends that Cobb's refusal to look at the spinning top can be seen not necessarily as his renunciation of autonomy but as his new attempt to affirm his existence and create meanings. …”
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Pérou : le rêve de l’Etat-nation des intellectuels de la génération de 1900 by Patricia Salinas Desmond

“…Although they did not realize their dream, the questions they posed a century ago are still relevant.…”
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New drugs for acute kidney injury by Geoffroy Hariri, Matthieu Legrand

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Possible Superconductivity Transition in Nitrogen‐Doped Lutetium Hydride Observed at Megabar Pressure by Xingbin Zhao, Yu Huang, Shuailing Ma, Hao Song, Yanwei Cao, Hao Jiang, Yanping Huang, Tian Cui

“…Abstract The pursuit of room‐temperature superconductivity at an accessible synthetic pressure has been a long‐held dream for both theoretical and experimental physicists. …”
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Green Worlds: Shakespeare’s Plays and Early Modern Imagery by Anne-Marie COSTANTINI-CORNEDE

“…Shakespeare’s worlds, even in the very heart of pastoral comedies (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It or The Tempest), reveal the same propensity to oscillate between the lightness of ‘gay green’ and the darker, disquieting vein of ‘lost green’. …”
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Our Fascinating and Complex World by Jackson Kelly

“… Artist Statement Most young kids dream of having superpowers. Some want the ability to fly, others strength, and some invisibility. …”
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