Tag: research
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The Development of Assemblage Theories: Advancements, application and its ability to analyse
Introduction Assemblage Theory is a concept that analyses the construction of both the physical (environments, societies, nations) and the non-physical (morals, culture, histories, social) as a process of assembling assemblages (DeLanda, 2016). The theory has seen multiple renditions throughout academia, such as Actor-Network Theory, which focuses more on socio-technological constructions, the human and non-human assemblages…
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The Consciousness Society: Motivations
The author reflects on the motivations behind writing their book, highlighting personal experiences with grief, particularly through the character Dr. Sally Clark, who copes with loss. Additionally, they explore the concept of abstract evil in historical contexts, emphasizing the shocking nature of human atrocities. The book aims to provoke thought without being excessively dark.
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5 Strange Academic Theories
The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes: Early humans heard schizophrenic like auditory hallucinations before they learned consciousness. Jaynes refers to this as the ‘God voice’, due to the phenomenology of the right hemisphere of the brain being transmitted to the left through auditory hallucinations. If this is the case then even great minds like Socrates…
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