Examining the Physical Manifestation of Alt-Right Gangs: From Online Trolling to Street Fighting

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-134
Author(s):  
Shannon E. Reid ◽  
Matthew Valasik ◽  
Arunkumar Bagavathi
Keyword(s):  
Physical Manifestation

‘Where Men and Gods Command’: the monument, the crypt, and the magic word

Derrida Today ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-98
Author(s):  
Thomas Houlton
Keyword(s):  
The Holocaust ◽  
Memory Power ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Exquisite Corpse ◽  
Physical Manifestation

This paper examines the relationships between monumental commemoration and memory, placing Rachel Whiteread's Memorial to the Austrian Jewish Victims of the Shoah (2000) as the physical manifestation of Derrida's archive as a place where memory, power, writing and representation intersect. I consider the context and characteristics of Whiteread's memorial alongside the concept of the crypt, formulated by Derrida in his ‘Fors’ to Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's The Wolf Man's Magic Word (1976). I propose that the archive, formed as it as around the crypt, is a place where death and desire co-habit, and that the Holocaust, the subject of Whiteread's sculpture, is itself an archive that has been constructed around what Maria Torok terms the ‘exquisite corpse’. This exquisite corpse of the Holocaust encrypts, even in its own commemoration, the erotics and desires of the ‘Nazi father’ or ‘Hitler in uns’, what Derrida terms ‘the tombstone of the illicit’. This paper poses the question that we are, even as we remember the Jewish dead, simultaneously re-encrypting the forgetful, murderous Nazi father, and advocates that we maintain a watchfulness on the threshold of the archive, the monument, the text, in order to resist total resolution, complete meaning, the forgetful re-inscription of acts of atrocity.

scholarly journals Designing for international law: The architecture of international organizations 1922–1952

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Miriam Bak McKenna
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Physical Manifestation ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Do So

Abstract Situating itself in current debates over the international legal archive, this article delves into the material and conceptual implications of architecture for international law. To do so I trace the architectural developments of international law’s organizational and administrative spaces during the early to mid twentieth century. These architectural endeavours unfolded in three main stages: the years 1922–1926, during which the International Labour Organization (ILO) building, the first building exclusively designed for an international organization was constructed; the years 1927–1937 which saw the great polemic between modernist and classical architects over the building of the Palace of Nations; and the years 1947–1952, with the triumph of modernism, represented by the UN Headquarters in New York. These events provide an illuminating allegorical insight into the physical manifestation, modes of self-expression, and transformation of international law during this era, particularly the relationship between international law and the function and role of international organizations.

Sissy Insurgencies

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlon B. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
Black Nationalism ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
George Washington ◽  
Amiri Baraka ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Physical Manifestation

In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender practices that are expressed as a physical manifestation, discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon. He reconsiders several black leaders, intellectuals, musicians, and athletes within the context of sissiness, from Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and James Baldwin to Little Richard, Amiri Baraka, and Wilt Chamberlain. Whether examining Washington’s practice of cleaning as an iteration of sissiness, Baldwin’s self-fashioned sissy deportment, or sissiphobia in professional sports and black nationalism, Ross demonstrates that sissiness can be embraced and exploited to conform to American gender norms or disrupt racialized patriarchy. In this way, sissiness constitutes a central element in modern understandings of race and gender.

Embodying Kairos in Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-463
Author(s):  
Artemis Brod
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Ideal ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Physical Manifestation

Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists (VS) is not usually understood as a text with much relevance for rhetorical theory. But this omission cedes theory to the handbooks and reinforces the dichotomy between theory and practice. I argue that Philostratus' theory of efficacious performance—implicit as it may be—has much to offer scholars of rhetoric and classical studies. I demonstrate that Philostratus prizes improvisation not only because it reveals the paideia of the orator, who becomes a cultural ideal, but also because it affords processes of mutual constitution between orator and audience. This occurs when the sophist becomes a physical manifestation of what the moment calls for, which compels recognition from the audience. In the second part of the paper, I focus on Polemo, the most improvisatory of sophists. In the scenes in which he features, Polemo repeatedly emerges as a man and, in recognizing him, spectators come to embody their own masculinity, in turn.

Could Chalk Hopping Be Caused by Reverse Chatter?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Control Algorithm ◽  
Human Hand ◽  
Related Phenomenon ◽  
Painlevé Paradox ◽  
Loss Of Contact ◽  
Subsequent Motion ◽  
Parameter Values ◽  
External Loads ◽  
Physical Manifestation ◽  
Two Bodies

Anyone who has ever used a chalkboard is probably familiar with the phenomenon of “chalk hopping,” where the chalk unexpectedly skips across the chalkboard, leaving a dotted line in its wake. Such behavior is ubiquitous to mechanical systems with moving parts in contact, where it is almost always undesirable. It is widely believed that hopping behavior is a physical manifestation of either the classical Painlevé paradox or a related phenomenon called dynamical jam. The present paper poses the question of whether chalk hopping might be caused by a different, and much more recently discovered, instability called “reverse chatter,” in which two bodies initially in sustained contact can lose contact through a sequence of impacts with increasing amplitude. Previous simulations of reverse chatter have considered only constant external loads, which do not adequately model the forces exerted on a piece of chalk. The current work presents simulation results for a model system in the presence of a control algorithm that mimics the human hand by attempting to keep the chalk in contact with the chalkboard. The simulations reveal that there exist physically realistic parameter values for which a loss of contact occurs that cannot be attributed to either the classical Painlevé paradox or dynamical jam, but which can only be attributed to reverse chatter. Furthermore, the subsequent motion of the system after losing contact is found to be strikingly similar to that of chalk hopping on a chalkboard, to a hitherto unparalleled degree. These results show that neither the classical Painlevé paradox nor dynamical jam is necessary for hopping behavior, and suggest that reverse chatter may be the most plausible explanation for chalk hopping.

scholarly journals Robotic Spatial Printing For Designers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Liam Gilbertson
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Additive Manufacture ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Solid Objects ◽  
Printing System ◽  
Computational Processes ◽  
Physical Manifestation ◽  
Supporting Structures

<p>This research developed a fully-integrated robotic printing system, using new methods of additive manufacture (AM) that enables users to explore spatially printed structures with increased freedom of geometric complexity.  Current AM technologies, such as Fusion Deposition Modelling (FDM), can rapidly translate design ideations into solid forms by precisely depositing consecutive layers of material in coordination with the movements of a robotic platform. Using this method, solid objects are digitally deconstructed into linear toolpaths and physically reconstituted with thermoplastic extrusion equipment; the toolpath becomes the form.  Spatial printing, using methods such as those demonstrated in this research, offers a new way of building 3D forms. By harnessing the potential of FDM equipment and materials for generating self-supporting structures, the user can create complex free-standing structures unshackled from the layered constraints of typical additive manufacturing processes. Here, the user acts as an informed negotiator between digital form and physical manifestation where movement realises form.  A complete spatial printing system was built that harnesses the complexity of robotic movements and responds to the needs of printing materials through a feedback loop that draws from the results of experimentation. Bespoke printing equipment and computational processes strive to improve the craft qualities and printability of input materials with a specific focus on compatibility with co-extrusion biopolymer filaments developed by Scion. This thesis illustrates the development of a versatile spatial printing system and subsequent investigations into the craft qualities and freedom of complexity that this system offers to designers and architects.</p>

Parameter Estimation for an Imperfectly Clamped Plate: Numerical Examples

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. T. Banks ◽  
R. C. Smith ◽  
Yun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Parameter Estimation ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Circular Plate ◽  
Simple Zero ◽  
Numerical Examples ◽  
Vibrating Structures ◽  
Physical Experiments ◽  
Slight Rotation ◽  
Physical Manifestation ◽  
Clamped Edges

Abstract The problems associated with maintaining truly fixed (zero displacement and slope) or simple (zero displacement and moment) boundary conditions in applications involving vibrating structures have led to the development of models which admit slight rotation and displacement at the boundaries. In this paper, numerical examples demonstrating the dynamics of a model for a circular plate with imperfectly clamped boundary conditions are presented. The latitude gained when using the model for estimating parameters through fit-to-data techniques is also demonstrated. Through these examples, the manner in which the model accounts for the physical manifestation of imperfectly clamped edges is illustrated, and issues regarding the use of the model in physical experiments are defined.

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