“Speaking Out of the Most Passionate Love” – James Baldwin and Pragmatism by Ulf Schulenberg

“…The final part demonstrates that while it would be pointless to claim that Baldwin is a radically postmetaphysical author and thus an ideal member of a literary culture, his politicized version of self-creation makes it seem legitimate to advance the argument that he is part of a left-liberal tradition of worldly pragmatism that sees the work of the strong poet or creative redescriber as contributing to political and social change.…”
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O tamanho populacional das cidades importa? Uma análise econômico-financeira dos municípios do COREDE Fronteira Noroeste do Rio Grande do Sul by Argemiro Luís Brum, Daniel Knebel Baggio, Maurício Galeazzi Medeiros de Farias

“…As a consequence, these small municipalities end up depending, almost exclusively, on transfers from the central government. Thus, it would be pointless to create new municipalities in the interior of the country, with some exceptions.…”
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Landscapes without landscape architects. The ecological beauty of informal urban landscapes by Chiara Catalano, Thomas E. Hauck, Susann Ahn, Salvatore Pasta

“…In the long term, the struggle between these two opposite ways of conceiving the look and the role of green infrastructure appears pointless: in the end, what decides the identity of most urban green infrastructure is the ‘vegetation by use’, that is, the daily people’s use of these spaces (whether accessible). …”
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L’Affaire Charles Lainé (1818), ou comment la police fabriquait un faux-monnayeur by Étienne Hofmann

“…Benjamin Constant, who had only recently been involved in the Wilfrid Regnault case (that of a man condemned to death for a crime he had not committed), published an article and a pamphlet in defence of Lainé, admiting the crime but also accusing the police and those in power of pursuing practices that were as reprehensible as they were pointless, since the locksmith had never before been a forger, did not belong to any criminal group and presented no potential danger to society. …”
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A Study on the Stoichiometry of One-Dimensional Nanostructures by Keivan Davami, Mehrdad Shaygan, Nazli Kheirabi, Hessam Ghassemi

“…Thus, investigation of physical properties of nanostructures would be pointless if one cannot assure the exact stoichiometry of the material. …”
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An Optimized Approach for Secure Data Transmission Using Spread Spectrum Audio Steganography, Chaos Theory, and Social Impact Theory Optimizer by Rohit Tanwar, Kulvinder Singh, Mazdak Zamani, Amit Verma, Prashant Kumar

“…Given this limitation, it seems that concealing information within audio files would be a pointless exercise. Human auditory system (HAS) experiences an interesting behavior known as masking effect, which says that the threshold of hearing of one type of sound is affected by the presence of another type of sound. …”
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À quel corps appartient cette voix ? Quelle voix est parlée par ce corps ? La disjonction de la voix et du corps comme fondement de la performance dans les spectacles Spectacular,... by Charlotte Bouteille-Meister

“…This can be the gap between the incongruous presence of bodies on stage and the "vocal action" the actors perform, between the vocal but motionless bodies and the moving but silent and pointless image projected on the screen, or between actual sweating bodies and their technically-distorted and therefore artificial voices. …”
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A UAV perspective based lightweight target detection and tracking algorithm for intelligent transportation by Quan Wang, Guangfei Ye, Qidong Chen, Songyang Zhang, Fengqing Wang

“…Furthermore, the C2f module is replaced by the FPW to reduce the pointless computation and memory utilization of the model. …”
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What Can Urban Gardening Really Do About Gentrification? A Case-Study of Three San Francisco Community Gardens by Guillaume Marche

“…And if so, are they somehow effective, simply pointless, or can they actually be detrimental and counterproductive?…”
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Joseph Conrad’s ‘Youth’: A Melting Pot for the Old and New by Samir Elbarbary

“…The modern/postmodern is at work in a dialogic disposition (in the Bakhtinian sense) along with the shifting discourse that characterizes Conrad’s oeuvre, a metafictional quality, intertextual space, and there is the sense of loss and pointlessness of striving that is fairly common in such writing. …”
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Star and National Myths in Cold War Allegories: Marlene Dietrich’s Star Persona and the Western in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952) by Hilaria Loyo

“…At the same time, by moving Dietrich progressively towards the centre of the film, he produced an amalgam of the women’s film and the Western genre that suggested the pointlessness of the male aggression the Western itself had traditionally embodied.…”
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Theatre and Psychoanalysis: or Jung on Martin Crimp's Stage: “100 Words” by Solange Ayache

“…By foiling these “attempts on her life”, her aphasia reflects the vain pretensions of language and points both at the failure of the scientific purpose of psychoanalysis and at the “pointlessness” of the intellectual debate. Crimp’s collage itself is a criticism of the temptation to make uncompromising statements about one’s life and motives. …”
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