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"Meta" is Greek for "beyond"; "narrative" is a story that is characterized by its telling (it is communicated somehow). [6]Although first used earlier in the 20th century, the term was brought into prominence by Jean-François Lyotard in 1979, with his claim that the postmodern was characterized precisely by mistrust of the "grand narratives" (such as ideas about Progress, Enlightenment ...
The prefix "meta-" referred not so much to a reflective stance or repeated rumination, but to Plato's metaxy, which denotes a movement between (meta) opposite poles as well as beyond (meta) them. Vermeulen and van den Akker described metamodernism as a " structure of feeling " that oscillates between modernism and postmodernism like "a pendulum ...
Yidn Nov and Yidn Zayen, the final two volumes of Yidn series (and of the encyclopedia as a whole), consist of a combined twenty-eight essays on topics related to the Holocaust. These essays, written by a variety of influential scholars (many of whom had not previously contributed to the encyclopedia), are generally organized by country, and ...
Similarly, an image model prompted with the text "a photo of a CEO" might disproportionately generate images of white male CEOs, [128] if trained on a racially biased data set. A number of methods for mitigating bias have been attempted, such as altering input prompts [129] and reweighting training data. [130]
Elon Musk told a rally the German far-right AfD party, just before Holocaust Remembrance Day, that Germany should get over "past guilt." Elon Musk told a rally the German far-right AfD party, just ...
Lyotard uses the example of Auschwitz and the revisionist historian Robert Faurisson’s demands for proof of the Holocaust to show how the differend operates as a double bind. Faurisson argued that "the Nazi genocide of 6 million Jewish people was a hoax and a swindle, rather than a historical fact" and that "he was one of the courageous few ...
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Dawidowicz’s major interests were the Holocaust and Jewish history. [5] A passionate Zionist, [6] Dawidowicz believed that had the Mandate for Palestine been implemented as intended, establishing the Jewish State of Israel before the Holocaust, "the terrible story of six million dead might have had another outcome". [7]