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What is the nature of computer games, and what happens when we play them? This book describes human play as a semiotic process and computer game play as a fundamental act of human cognition, or «semiosis». Offering one of the first fully articulated theories of computer games based on game play rather than game texts, The Nature of Computer Games mounts a serious challenge to literary critics, cultural theorists, and others who might assume computer game play is best understood with reference to preexisting social contexts. David Myers argues that computer game play displays a fundamentally intractable, self-reflexive structure - analogous to certain structures of thought - integral to language, consciousness, and our sense of self.

Computer games --- Play --- Semiotics. --- #SBIB:309H040 --- #SBIB:309H1713 --- #SBIB:309H240 --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Social aspects --- Populaire cultuur algemeen --- Mediatechnologie: nieuwe toepassingen (abonnee-televisie, electronic mail, desk top publishing, virtuele realiteit...) --- Andere media (theater, plastische kunsten, strips, affiches, speelautomaten...) --- Semiotics --- Sociology of culture --- Computer. Automation --- Social aspects. --- Electronic games --- Internet games --- Television games --- Videogames --- Games

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City planning --- Postcolonialism --- Urbanisme --- Postcolonialisme --- -Postcolonialism --- -911.375 <6> --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Urban settlements (their study and geography). Towns. Cities--Afrika --- Government policy --- Management --- 911.375 <6>

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This book brings together the portraits and autobiographical texts of six 17th-century Latin American women, drawing on primary sources that include Inquisition and canonization records, confessional and mystic journals, and legal defenses and petitions.

Nuns --- Latin American literature --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Sisters (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Christians --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Biography&delete& --- History and criticism. --- Nuns - Latin America - Biography - History and criticism --- Latin American literature - To 1800 - History and criticism --- Rosa a Sancta Maria --- Saintes femmes --- Amérique latine

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"Resisting History examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four major Jewish thinkers. David Myers situates these thinkers in proximity to leading Protestant thinkers of the time, but argues that German Jews and Christians shared a complex cultural and discursive world best understood in terms of exchange and adaptation rather than influence." "After examining the growing dominance of the new historicist thinking in the nineteenth century, the book analyzes the critical responses of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer. For this fascinating and diverse quartet of thinkers, historicism posed a stark challenge to the ongoing vitality of Judaism in the modern world. And yet, as they set out to dilute or eliminate its destructive tendencies, these thinkers often made recourse to the very tools and methods of historicism. In doing so, they demonstrated the utter inescapability of historicism in modern culture, whether approached from a Christian or Jewish perspective."--Jacket.

Historicism --- Historicism. --- Historicisme --- Historisme. --- Jewish learning and scholarship --- Jewish learning and scholarship. --- Jews --- Joodse filosofie. --- Judaism --- Judaïsme --- Juifs --- History. --- Histoire. --- History --- Intellectual life --- Historiography. --- Historiographie. --- Savoir et érudition --- Histoire --- Breuer, Isaac, --- Cohen, Hermann, --- Rosenzweig, Franz, --- Strauss, Leo --- Strauss, Leo. --- Et l'historicisme. --- 1800-1999. --- Germany.

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Computer. Automation