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The Transformation Book, which belongs to Pessoa's pre-heteronymic
period, contains a series of fragments written in English,
Portuguese, and French, none of which were ever published during
Pessoa's lifetime. Conceived by Pessoa in 1908, a year of great
social and cultural transformation in Portugal, The Transformation
Book was designed to reflect and advance social and cultural
transformation in Portugal and beyond. Moving between a number of
literary forms, including poetry, fiction, and satire as well as
essays on politics, philosophy, and psychiatry, The Transformation
Book marks one of the fundamental stages in Pessoa's elaboration of
a new conception of literary space, one that he came to express as
a "drama in people." Alexander Search, Pantaleao, Jean Seul de
Meluret, and Charles James Search are the four "pre-heteronyms" to
which the texts of The Transformation Book are attributed. These
four figures constitute a plural literary microcosm - a world that
Pessoa makes, but that is occupied by a multiplicity of authors -
and clearly anticipate the emergence of Pessoa's heteronyms. As the
singular result of an intersection of Pessoa's personal
intellectual trajectory with his hopes for fomenting cultural
transformation, The Transformation Book makes for a unique
contribution to Pessoa's ever-growing published oeuvre. Although
some of the texts conceived as part of the Transformation Book have
previously been published in isolation or as fragments, this is the
first complete and critical edition of The Transformation Book, and
most of the texts in this edition are published here for the first
time. Through the critical efforts of Nuno Ribeiro and Claudia
Souza, a fundamental project of Fernando Pessoa's is now brought
from the confines of the archive to the public in its most complete
and accurate fashion. The Transformation Book should contribute to
future studies on the work of one of the most distinctive geniuses
of modernist literature.
Fernando Pessoa claimed to be inhabited by thousands of
philosophies, all of which he intended to develop in his unfinished
project of English-language Philosophical Essays. The resulting
fragments were never published by Pessoa himself and almost the
entirety of them are presented in this edition for the very first
time in history. This volume exhibits Pessoa s musings and wild
insights on the history of philosophy, the failures of
subjectivity, and the structure of the universe to reveal an
unexpectedly scholarly, facetious, and vigorous theoretical mind.
Written under the pre-heteronyms of Charles Robert Anon and
Alexander Search, these texts constitute the foundation for the
fabrication of Pessoa s future heteronyms. They are the testimony
of a writer who referred to himself as a poet animated by
philosophy. Through editor Nuno Ribeiro s careful critical efforts,
a new and fundamental facet of the work of one of modernity s most
seminal geniuses has now been brought to light in a remarkably
reliable and clear fashion.
Digital information awareness is the process by which people obtain
knowledge about important personal information stored on their
computers. This is usually provided graphically: when information
is hidden from view it must be summoned to the front and users are
interrupted by the system, disregarding the costs of the
interruption. A solution is to use speech output to complement the
graphics, but its use invokes anthropomorphic feelings whose cues
must be carefully controlled if the system is to be regarded as
humanized. This book describes the design of a speech-based
assistant nased on a set of intelligent agents and demonstrates how
the content contextually cues the significance of visually hidden
information, and how the delivery impacts on the social
acceptability of a speaking system, including attentive
interruptions, linguistic variation and politeness. An empirical
study showed that people felt a degree of rapport with the such a
system. These results led to the abstraction of design guidelines
for speech-based systems that purport to be humanized in nature.
The book is useful to scholars and professionals concerned with the
design of next-generation user interfaces.
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