Suspending Space and Time: The Body Under the Lens of the Japanese Concept of Ma

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
Cristina Elias ◽  
Priscila Arantes
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Space And Time

Welterleben/Weiterleben

Daphnis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 343-388
Author(s):  
Ottmar Ette
Keyword(s):  
Space Time ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
The Body ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
The World

Welterleben and Weiterleben are what determine the second globalization (of four previously explored) whose constantly accelerating dynamic, vectorization, this essay explores. On the basis of selected writings of Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso, the author highlights the increasing speed with which knowledge, especially in the experiential sciences, is produced and disseminated following the routes of ever-widening trade speeded along by globalization. The notion of ‘vectopia’ stands for the connection of utopia and uchronia in space and time in such a way that the experience of the world, expanded worldwide, contains within it a Weiter-Leben, a ‘living-further’ that is to be understood first in a spatial, and not yet temporal, sense, of what Forster called Erfahrungswissen, or ‘experiential knowledge.’ Vectopia, as elaborated here, has a material dimension that relates to the physical person, the body, the experience of the world that cannot occur without the constant changing of place, without a journeying that is again and again recommenced. Vectopia develops the projection of a life not from space or from time alone, but by their combination. Vectopia is more than a concept, it is a thought-figure: it is vitally connected to life, and thus a life-figure. It opens itself to a type of knowledge that stands almost at the threshold of a further life, indeed, of a Weiterleben that, opening itself to a ‘living-onward,’ resides beyond space, time, and movement.

scholarly journals Pleasure and Duty

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-282
Author(s):  
JEFFREY WEEKS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Body ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Temporal Unity ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
The Subject

Three obvious, superficially simple but actually intensely complex questions embodied in the title immediately confront the reader of Dagmar Herzog's important new book. First, what do we mean by the ‘sexuality’ that constitutes the subject matter? Second, what is demarcated by the Europe that provides the geo-political boundaries of this study? Third, does the ‘twentieth century’ provide a useful temporal unity for the narrative and analysis that is at the heart of the book? Such questions are not mere scholarly nit-picking or academic point scoring, but a tribute to the problematising of the body in space and time that has been a hallmark of the deconstructive and reconstructive energy of recent scholarship on the sexual, and that is now making a welcome entry into mainstream history.

scholarly journals Human Fundamental Upward Movement; Spiral Trajectory and Walking of 3D + 1D Space and Time

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Hiroko Tadaura
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Volunteers ◽  
Supine Position ◽  
Vertical Direction ◽  
Biomechanical Properties ◽  
The Body ◽  
Upward Movement ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Spiral Trajectory ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
3D Motion Analysis

Background: There are few biomechanical studies on the physical transfer of a person lying on a floor or bed perpendicular to the direction of gravity. Basic biomechanics research can be an important source. This study aimed to analyze the biomechanical properties of the upward movement of the floor in the supine position. Methods: Healthy volunteers were recruited by snowball sampling. The movement from the supine position to upward movement on the carpet floor was repeated three times. The three procedures were analyzed with an 11 segments model using a 3D motion analysis Move Tr 3D (Library©) under the 4 CCD cameras. The analysis of the motion trace was examined. The movement of the reflection marker with respect to the Z-axis was analyzed with the vertical direction of the gravity as the Z-axis. It was observed from the XY plane, XZ plane, ZY plane, and how many dimensions the reflection marker took was analyzed. Results: Five healthy volunteers (Medium age 27 years, Female) who received written consent to the study were investigated. A spiral motion was observed in the trajectory of all reflection markers. A walking motion was observed in which the right and left sides of the body alternately swam to the back. Each reflex marker body site was moving headward as if contacting the floor with either the left or right side having 0 to the vertical Z-axis of gravity; the opposite left or right side walked with repeated movements floating from the floor and raising the Z coordinate. 3D Space + 1D time were observed in the human fundamental upward movement. Conclusion: The Human Fundamental Upward Movement on the floor was observed Spiral Trajectory and the Walking of 3D+1D Space and Time. KEYWORDS: Human Fundamental Movement, Upward movement, Positioning Change, Transfer, Biomechanics

scholarly journals Potentiating Gross Motor Coordination in 5-year-old Infants

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 601-609
Author(s):  
Guiseti Maria Puerta Vilchez ◽  
Flor De María Sánchez Aguirre ◽  
Elva Luz Castañeda Alvarado
Keyword(s):  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Expert Judgment ◽  
Basic Type ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Gross Motor ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Cognitive Levels ◽  
Motor Activities

The practice of gross motor coordination allows the infant to perform experiential actions to reach maturity, evidencing the passage from practical action to the action of thinking. In this way, feelings and sensations are promoted; discovering one's own body, space and time. The objective of the research was to describe the level of gross motor coordination presented by five-year-old children from I.E.I. N° 0345, Lima and I.E.I. N° 166 "Warma Kuyay", Callao, 2020. The research approach was quantitative, basic type and comparative descriptive design. The technique used was observation and the instrument was the checklist validated through the expert judgment technique and the reliability was 0.911, according to Cronbach's alpha. The results obtained describe the differences presented by five-year-old students in relation to gross motor coordination; the main indicators being the prioritization of the body through movement and the orientation to the development of motor activities, especially in the first years of life. This, because it favors the physical, emotional, socio-affective and cognitive levels, which evidences the differences between the samples investigated.

scholarly journals MF Husain’s Hindi Autobiography Em. Ef. Husain kī kahānī apnī zubānī

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Consolaro
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Cultural Artefact ◽  
The World ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Subject

Drawing from Elizabeth Grosz’s notion of the body as a socio-cultural artefact and the exterior of the subject bodies as psychically constructed, and Rosi Braidotti’s concept of nomadic identities, in this article I introduce world-renowned Indian painter MF Husain’s verbal and visual autobiography Em. Ef. Husen kī kahānī apnī zubānī as a series of sketches of a performative self, surfing the world in space and time. Bodies and spaces are envisioned as “assemblages or collections of parts” in constant movement, crossing borders and creating relationships with other selves and other spaces. People and places become a catalyst for manifestations of the self in art – MF Husain being foremost a painter – and eventually also in literature. I look for strategies that MF Husain uses in order to construct or deconstruct the self through crossings and linkages. I try to investigate how the self is performed inside and outside private and public spaces, how the complex (sometimes even contradictory) relationship between self and community is portrayed, and how this autobiography does articulate notions of (imagined) community/ies, nationalism, transnational subjectivity, nostalgia.

An Early Nominalist Critique of Platonic Realism: Ibn Ḥazm’s Metaphysics of the Created Corporeal World

2019 ◽  
Vol 112 (04) ◽  
pp. 541-554
Author(s):  
Ali Humayun Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Prime Matter ◽  
The World ◽  
Dialectical Argumentation ◽  
Ibn Hazm

AbstractThis study examines how Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456 AH/1064 CE) articulated his nominalist critique of Platonic realism in the context of a larger rejection of ontological dualism in philosophy. It draws on evidence in Al-Fiṣal fī l-Milal wa-l-Ahwāʿ wa-l-Niḥal (The Book of Opinions on Religions, Heresies, and Sects) and his Marātib al-ʿUlūm (Categories of the Sciences). In response to those who “claim to follow philosophy (falsafa),” and in dialogue with earlier theologians and philosophers such as al-Bāqillānī (d. 403/1012–1013) and al-Kindī (d. 258/873), Ibn Ḥazm redefined the universal soul (al-nafs al-kulliyya) and universal intellect (al-ʿaql al-kullī) as linguistic references to the total of all particular souls and particular intellects, which he defined as corporeal accidents inhering in the body. Ibn Ḥazm’s identification of souls and intellects as corporeal was part of his larger conception of the world as discrete and finite in both space and time. The world, in other words, is measurable in numbers and therefore limited by the volume of its visible and invisible air-like corporeality to the exclusion of philosophical notions of a perfect void or prime matter. In his additional critique of contemporary Muslim epistemology and the theologians’ reliance on dialectical argumentation, Ibn Ḥazm held that a true scholar of Islam should turn to logic-oriented deductive methods and scriptural evidence together in order to ascertain the possibilities and, more importantly, the limits of human knowledge about both the corporeal created world and the ontological unknown (ghayb) of the divine realm.

RELIGIOUS VALUES BASED ON SPACE AND TIME IN COSMOLOGY PERSPECTIVE TO THE VERSE OF BADONG IN A FUNERAL CEREMONY OF TORAJANESE

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Z. Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Death Process ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
West Point ◽  
The West ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Funeral Ceremony

Ritual of badong is held in funeral ceremony of rambu solo in traditional belief of aluk to dolo/alukta in Toraja’s society, it was song and dance without music, and symbolic, verse of badong shown religious values of aluk to dolo/alukta. In data analysis, the study used descriptive qualitative and cosmology perspective in approaching the analysis. The aim of this study is want to know the relationship between being of universe and religious spirit of aluk to dolo/alukta which is stated in verse of badong in cosmology perspective. The result of the study is to find out the relationship between religious spirit of aluk to dolo/alukta in verse of badong and the space and time in orderliness of cosmos. They believed that after the death process, souls of the body will have a journey to reach a new place named puya, and the meaning of the death in belief of aluk to dolo/alukta is a way or transform the souls of the body from old world to the new world, puya is a village of soul of to dolo/tomembali puang (ancestors) authorized by Pong Lalondong, and puya in cosmology perspective was being at the west point of the earth.

scholarly journals The Sensation of Time in Ingmar Bergman’s Poetics of Bodies and Minds

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Fabio Pezzetti
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Human Contact ◽  
Phenomenological Dimension ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Temporal Horizon

Abstract Bergman’s cinema does more than just focus on a personal reflection of the body as an emotive and emotional vector; his cinema, through the transitory fragility of the human body as represented by his actors, defines the possibilities of a perceptive horizon in which the experience of passing time becomes tangible. Even though the Swedish director’s entire opus is traversed by this reflection, it is particularly evident in the films he made during the 1960s, in which the “room-sized” dimension of the sets permits a higher concentration of space and time. In this “concentration,” in this claustrophobic dimension in which Bergman forces his characters to exist, there is an often inflammable accumulation of affections and emotions searching for release through human contact which is often frustrated, denied, and/or impossible. This situation creates characters who act according to solipsistic directives, in whom physiological and mental traits are fused together, and the notion of phenomenological reality is cancelled out and supplanted by aspects of dreamlike hallucinations, phantasmagorical creations, and psychic drifting. Starting from Hour of the Wolf, this essay highlights the process through which, by fixing in images the physicality of his characters’ sensations, Bergman defines a complex temporal horizon, in which the phenomenological dimension of the linear passage of time merges with, and often turns into, a subjective perception of passing time, creating a synchretic relationship between the quantitative time of the action and the qualitative time of the sensation.

scholarly journals Why is it so rare and random to find pyre sites?

2019 ◽  
pp. 287-311
Author(s):  
Kristóf Fülöp
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Rare Occurrence ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The cremation rite is well-defined in space and time as it is the central part of a series of complex ritual events. Although it is one of the most significant and representative elements of the funeral, yet we know very little about it due to its destructive nature, the scarcity of pyre sites and the indirect character of cremated bones and artefacts found in graves. The two experimental cremations presented in this article, on the one hand, address this rare occurrence of pyre sites. On the other hand, by the detailed documentation of the cremation process and the formation of pyre sites, it is possible to examine in detail several new issues related to the pyre sites. Thus, the shape, orientation, dimension, and structure of the funeral pyre, as well as some moments of the cremation are discussed in detail. Furthermore, the representation of the body and pyre goods after the pyre’s burndown, the movement of artefacts during burning, and the watering of pyre remains, as well as the problem of the mixture are also examined. At the same time, the experimental observations also draw attention, besides the investigational possibilities, to the archaeological limitations of pyre sites.

The Instrumentality of Sense in Bruce Nauman’s Audio Video Piece for London, Ontario (1969–1970)

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 84-88
Author(s):  
Adi Louria-Hayon
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
American West ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Audio Video ◽  
Sensus Communis

Bruce Nauman’s installations have long served a literary and linguistic critique emphasizing the role of the body in relation to space and time. However, focusing on vision, phenomenology and semiotics, scholars of Nauman have paid little attention to the sounding body. The author weaves the political basis of audition into the making of sense while morphing the historical and philosophical roots through a close examination of Bruce Nauman’s Audio Video Piece for London, Ontario, a work executed soon after unrest on the American West Coast and in the streets of Paris. Unhinging the unity of sensus communis, Nauman’s work proposes new political trajectories for dispersed sounding bodies.

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