Reality in America, redux: on Trump panic fiction by Gaskill, N

“…This essay explains why the election of Donald Trump in 2016 marks a literary historical event. In particular, I show how the liberal response to Trump, as well as Trump’s own persona, foregrounded an unsettling confusion between fiction and reality that led novelists to question the value of their craft. …”

A parametric framework to generate visual illusions using Python by Makowski, Dominique, Lau, Zen Juen, Pham, Tam, Paul Boyce, W., Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…Instead, scientists have to craft them by hand in an idiosyncratic fashion, or use pre-made images not tailored for the specific needs of their studies. …”
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Preserving Mojiang Hani hand weaving techniques: understanding complexity for culture and sustainable development by Mingquan, Liu, Yahaya, Siti Rohaya, Chunli, Guo, Yan, Huang

“…This jeopardizes the continuity of a craft that is deeply woven into the fabric of their cultural identity. …”
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21W.747 Rhetoric, Fall 2002 by Strang, Steven M.

“…Studies the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs emotional argument, figures of speech, and historical forms and uses of arguments. From the course home page: Course Description Introduction to 21W.747 This course is an introduction to the history, the theory, the practice, and the implications (both social and ethical) of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion. …”
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Instability Scaffolding: Enacting Strategic Instabilities to Produce Authentic Premium Wine by Zhang, Alan

“…I show how vineyard proprietors and contract providers worked together to sustain craft authenticity at scale in the region through a process I theorize as contract custodianship. …”
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building by Spencer, Chelsea Anne

“…Operating at the critical inflection point between projection and materialization, paper and concrete, contractors appealed to investment-minded clients as fellow businessmen, offering them what neither craft builders nor professional architects could deliver: a completed building, for a fixed price, on a guaranteed schedule. …”
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Modélisation des interactions en Italie du Nord au premier âge du Fer: de la circulation de parures aux réseaux d’influences culturelles by Cicolani, V, Huet, T, Zamboni, L

“…By modelling the fashion tradition through the analysis of shared clothing items, this paper would like to propose a critical review of the markers of cultural identity, mobility, interaction traditionally used looking for alternative theoretical interpretation and social narrative of the role of indigenous communities in the North Italic trade et craft activities. …”

Visual mapping art : data visualization & crowdsourcing for an ostensive definition of art by Ong, Zi Feng

“…The core data will be gathered from existing art databases, such as the Library of Congress (LCC) (Class-N - Fine Arts) and the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) (73/76 Various arts & crafts); and controlled vocabulary systems such as Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). …”
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21W.731-3 Culture Shock!, Fall 2002 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…In the coming weeks we will read a number of articles that address current issues in popular culture along with essays, pieces of carefully-crafted nonfiction, by writers, scientists, philosophers, poets, historians, literary scholars, and many others. …”
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