L'important, C'est Les Lunettes.
Applying mathematics to solve any problem inevitably grants an aura of objectivity and truth to the results generated through such methodology. However, mathematics remains a means of elucidation that functions within strict constraints of tractability and stylization. Despite the aesthetics of mode...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 17; no. 3/4; pp. 349 - 367 |
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