Relocating the Light

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Scheible
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Moral Community ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Significant Patterns ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Rhetorical Structures ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
The Way

Pāli is not typically considered a language that allows for much literary flourish, but literary moves are made nonetheless: patterns and rhetorical structures introduced in the first chapter determine how the rest of the historical narrative is literarily conveyed. This chapter argues that structurally significant patterns manifest in the proem itself are what determine the narrative arc of the text, and further explores the metaphor of light as it is employed in the story, paying attention to the way the proems had set up the reader to perceive the transformative richness and practical potential of such metaphors. By exploring this metaphor of light we will see how a certain pattern is developed whereby the physical space of Laṅkā is transformed to a lamp of the dhamma, a cetiya for the future remembrance and representation of the Buddha through relic veneration, while individual hearers are transformed ethically, resulting in the moral community primed for the responsibility of the dhamma. Just as a lamp is primed with oil to effectively receive the flame, so the reader of the Mahāvaṃsa is primed for the full, transformative force of the text by the proem and by the narrative strategies employed.

Ireland might see historic coalition between old foes

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Bond Prices ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Future ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Way

Significance The Dail convened on March 10 to elect a taoiseach (prime minister), but no nominee was able to attract the support of anything close to a majority. Impacts Ireland's problems including the decline in public services are unlikely to be addressed while a caretaker government is in place. Substantial delays in forming a new government could raise Irish bond prices. The future of Irish Water, a body set up to deal with water supply problems whose abolition was demanded by the opposition, is uncertain. The crisis may bring about a long-promised reform of the way the Dail operates, giving it a larger and more constructive role.

scholarly journals Narratives of the future: immersive stories / indigenous roots

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Swift
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
The Future ◽  
Performance Challenges ◽  
The Way

The way we tell stories shapes what we are: it articulates the way we position ourselves in relation to the world. This article explores how immersive practices, as used in virtual reality and intermedial performance, provoke novel dynamics between artist and audience that no longer fit within Western traditions of aesthetic exchange and furthermore challenge our understanding of narrative production and reception. It proposes that new ways of reasoning are needed to allow audience agency and the evolving role of the artist to be explored more fully than is currently possible in mainstream theatre scholarship. One source that can provide a model for considering the dynamics between audience and performer in immersive performance is the Indigenous story systems of Australia. There is a significant synergy between the structure and operation of First Nation songlines and contemporary immersive performance. This is explored with reference to the work of contemporary anthropologists and Indigenous scholars and to recent immersive work from the companies Kaleider and Theatre Conspiracy. The article considers how both ancient narratives and contemporary immersive practices require people to engage with data/ physical space in a specific manner in order for stories to be realised. Furthermore, both bestow creative responsibility and the role of custodian on the user, through whose actions narrative is manifested. Immersive performance challenges assumptions about how information is generated, processed, and passed on, and the power structures involved in such exchanges. This research explores how non-traditional narrative practices can assist the debate about the future of storytelling.

scholarly journals Re‐engineering the specification process

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Hvam ◽  
Ulrik Have
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Product Data ◽  
The Future ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Design And Methods ◽  
The Way

Notes that rapid IT development changes the way of handling product data in sales, design and methods engineering (the specification process), and raises the important question, how to engineer systems for managing product data in order to utilise the IT possibilities. Presents, as a result of a project and a case study, concepts and methods for analysing the specification process and setting up a vision for an improved process. The theory bases for the project are; systems theory as applied in Wickam Skinner’s “manufacturing task”, concepts and methods from business process re‐engineering, and product data technology. The task concept is used for developing the specification process, where the functional demands to the specification process are outlined during an analysis of the so‐called “specification task”. As the task concept is used for another domain new descriptional dimensions for describing the specification task will be presented. Based on an analysis of the specification task the specification process is re‐engineered and a vision for the future process to be is formulated, evaluated, and a plan for the implementation set up.

scholarly journals Experimenting with Psychotherapy

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andri Steinþór Björnsson
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Research ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome ◽  
Psychotherapy Outcome Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Way

There are two major shortcomings in current psychotherapy outcome research: The standards that are used to evaluate psychotherapy (especially the way control conditions are set up in outcome research) are often not acceptable, and non-specific factors have been largely neglected, in part because of the “psychological placebo” metaphor. I argue that theories of psychotherapy need to specify further the role of non-specific factors in the development and maintenance of different disorders, and how non-specific treatment factors can be made to be more effective in therapy. This may be the major front in the future of psychotherapy research.

scholarly journals THE ROLE AND USE OF THE ARMED FORCES IN THE FUTURE

2012 ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
STEFAN DANILA
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Operational Environment ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Force Structure ◽  
The Future ◽  
Set Up ◽  
High Engagement ◽  
The Way

The current challenges of the contemporary operational environment determine not only the establishment of a force structure having the necessary high engagement and sustainment capacity (including logistics), but also the allocation of ISTAR capabilities to support the fulfilment of assigned missions and the achievement of desired effects by the armed forces. Their support will be permanently adapted to the specificity of the operations in which they will be engaged, focusing on commonali- ty, interchangeability, interoperability and integrated functioning within multinatio- nal structures, depending on the way they will be organised, the deployment site, the climate, their sustainment capability in conflict areas and the legal institutionalised framework set up by the international organisations that will conduct those missions.

scholarly journals Rural Entrepreneurship in India : Challenges and Opportunities

2018 ◽  
pp. 673-678
Author(s):  
Pradeep Kumar Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Financial Development ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Rural Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Business ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Business Person ◽  
The Way

Enterprise is the way toward planning, propelling and maintaining another business, for example a new business offering a item, procedure or administration. It has been characterized as the limit and readiness to create, sort out and deal with a business adventure alongside any of its dangers so as to make a benefit. Endeavour and business enterprise are the drivers of financial development in India’s country regions. With the continuous difficulties confronting customary country divisions, the future accomplishment of the rustic economy is inseparably connected to the limit of provincial business visionaries to improve, and to recognize new business openings that make occupations and pay in country zones. A provincial business visionary is confronting numerous issues due to not accessibility of essential conveniences in rustic regions of creating nation like India. Absence of instruction, budgetary issues, inadequate specialized and calculated capacity it is excessively hard for the provincial business visionaries to set up enterprises in the rustic zones. This paper makes an endeavor to discover the Challenges and aptitudes for the probability of Rural Entrepreneurship and possibilities of the equivalent to be a fruitful business person.

The way of the future

1973 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Rosati
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Less Power, Greater Conflict

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra C. Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
High Power ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Goal Conflict ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Multiple Goals ◽  
Objective Performance ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Abstract. Power facilitates goal pursuit, but how does power affect the way people respond to conflict between their multiple goals? Our results showed that higher trait power was associated with reduced experience of conflict in scenarios describing multiple goals (Study 1) and between personal goals (Study 2). Moreover, manipulated low power increased individuals’ experience of goal conflict relative to high power and a control condition (Studies 3 and 4), with the consequence that they planned to invest less into the pursuit of their goals in the future. With its focus on multiple goals and individuals’ experiences during goal pursuit rather than objective performance, the present research uses new angles to examine power effects on goal pursuit.

Becoming Politicized

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Identity Model ◽  
Beliefs About The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
The Way

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.

Géographie et cartographie fictionnelles dans l’Utopie (1516) de Thomas More

Moreana ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (Number 181- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 9-68
Author(s):  
Jean Du Verger
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
The Third ◽  
Editio Princeps ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

The philosophical and political aspects of Utopia have often shadowed the geographical and cartographical dimension of More’s work. Thus, I will try to shed light on this aspect of the book in order to lay emphasis on the links fostered between knowledge and space during the Renaissance. I shall try to show how More’s opusculum aureum, which is fraught with cartographical references, reifies what Germain Marc’hadour terms a “fictional archipelago” (“The Catalan World Atlas” (c. 1375) by Abraham Cresques ; Zuane Pizzigano’s portolano chart (1423); Martin Benhaim’s globe (1492); Martin Waldseemüller’s Cosmographiae Introductio (1507); Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia (1513) ; Benedetto Bordone’s Isolario (1528) ; Diogo Ribeiro’s world map (1529) ; the Grand Insulaire et Pilotage (c.1586) by André Thevet). I will, therefore, uncover the narrative strategies used by Thomas More in a text which lies on a complex network of geographical and cartographical references. Finally, I will examine the way in which the frontispiece of the editio princeps of 1516, as well as the frontispiece of the third edition published by Froben at Basle in 1518, clearly highlight the geographical and cartographical aspect of More’s narrative.

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