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The possibility has been mentioned that Landor was speaking biographically when, in the course of a later work, he has Petrarch describe how, "among the chief pleasures of my life, and among the commonest of my occupations, was the bringing before me such heroes and heroines of antiquity, such poets and sages, such of the prosperous and unfortunate as most interested me"...to engage them in ...
The imaginary (or social imaginary) is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols through which people imagine their social whole. It is common to the members of a particular social group and the corresponding society. The concept of the imaginary has attracted attention in anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and media ...
The lack of a sociological imagination can make people apathetic. This apathy expresses itself as a lack of indignation in scenarios dealing with moral horror—the Holocaust is a classic example of what happens when a society renders itself to the power of a leader and doesn't use sociological imagination.
A data imaginary is a particular framing of data that defines what data are and what can be done with them. [1] Imaginaries are produced by social institutions and practices and they influence how people understand and use the object of the imaginary, in this case data. [2] Different data imaginaries compete to be considered common sense.
The concept of imagined geographies (or imaginative geographies) originated from Edward Said, particularly his work on critique on Orientalism.Imagined geographies refers to the perception of a space created through certain imagery, texts, and/or discourses.
Image credits: Iluv_Felashio #3. That bacon wasn't a vegetable. Had ordered a bacon cheeseburger at a fast food restaurant and asked for "no veggies." When I got the burger, there was no bacon.
An important theoretical implication is that basic processes, like self-conflicts, self-criticism, self-agreements, and self-consultancy, are taking place in different domains in the self: within the internal domain (e.g., "As an enjoyer of life I disagree with myself as an ambitious worker"); between the internal and external (extended) domain ...
Manuscript by Emily Brontë that contains poems about Gondal, a paracosm. A paracosm is a detailed imaginary world thought generally to originate in childhood. The creator of a paracosm has a complex and deeply felt relationship with this subjective universe, which may incorporate real-world or imaginary characters and conventions.