“Where Is the Friend’s Home?”: New World Landscapes in Sohrab Sepehri’s Poetic Geography

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (03) ◽  
pp. 313-328
Author(s):  
Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Islamic Revolution ◽  
Political Poetry ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
The Mind ◽  
East West

Sohrab Sepehri (1928–1980), the Iranian poet, painter, and translator, wrote during the tumultuous decades before the Islamic revolution in Iran (1979), concurrent with global decolonizing movements. At a time when many of his contemporaries were active participants in the “Committed” literary movement and wrote ostensibly political poetry, Sepehri’s work was considered apolitical and thus marginal in the revolutionary discourse of the time. This article demonstrates how his writing in fact worked towards decolonizing the mind of the Iranian subject by creating his own unique language of revolt–a language that refrained from engaging in the East-West binarism of this discourse. His language of revolt comes out of his subversive view of culture and through his frequent travels to global literary spaces while simultaneously de-centering these spaces. I analyze his poem "Address" in tandem with its visual representation by Abbas Kiarostami to present the embodiment of his poetic geography.

Psychoanalytic psychology

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-126
Author(s):  
Gavin Miller
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
New World ◽  
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
The Mind

This chapter begins with science fiction’s use of proto-psychoanalytic wisdom inspired by Nietzsche. Texts such as H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and The Croquet Player (1936), John Christopher’s The Death of Grass (1956), and Alfred Bester’s ‘Oddy and Id’ (1950) present civilization as a fragile veneer concealing displaced instinctual gratification. Superficially, such conservatism continues in George Orwell’s 1984 (1949), and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932). However, both these novels challenge Freudianism by thematizing Freud’s pessimistic model of the mind – a critique intensified in Barry N. Malzberg’s The Remaking of Sigmund Freud (1985). Dreams, moreover, are celebrated in Ursula Le Guin’s Jungian novel The Word for World is Forest (1972), which estranges the colonization of traditional societies, and counterposes rootedness in the collective unconscious (thereby developing an aesthetic pioneered by Frank Herbert’s The Dragon in the Sea (1956)). Generic re-evaluation of psychoanalysis continues in Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon (1966), which (like Bester’s The Demolished Man (1956)) endorses psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and the unreliable narrative of Frederik Pohl’s Gateway (1977), where the protagonist’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy reconciles him to a future reality of brutal capitalist exploitation.

scholarly journals The Bulls Distributing America

1892 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
John Gordon
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
The Other ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Natural Right ◽  
Tagus River ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Mind

When Columbus anchored in the Tagus River, March 5, 1493, he precipitated on Europe one of the most difficult questions with which the mind of man has ever grappled. It was this: By what title should the New World be held ? The Catholic sovereigns Ferdinand and Isabella determined to hold what their Admiral had discovered. But the Spanish lawyers found great difficulty in proving their title under the Roman law, which alone would be accepted as conclusive by the other powers, because it did not recognize the right of discovery. The Roman law recognized the acquisition of property through the operation of either the jus gentium or the jus civile? Under the jus gentium, which alone was applicable in this case, property could be acquired: ist, by occupation, occupatio; 2d, by natural increase, as land formed by seas or rivers, accessio; 3d, by transfer, traditio. The only doctrine suitable to the purposes of Spain was that of “occupation,” which some eminent Roman lawyers incorporated not in the jus gentium but in the jus natura, as affirming a natural right.

An instance of East-West confusion in Chinese Umbelliferae, or Arracacia out of Asia!

1997 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Constance
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Similar Material ◽  
East West

Franchet (1894) described two species from Yunnan as Arracacha (= Arracacia) delavayi and A. peucedanifolia, respectively, in a genus hitherto known only from Mexico to Bolivia in the New World. Wolff (1925) made A. delavayi the type of his new genus Physospermopsis, but neither de Boissieu (1906), Wolff, nor Norman could find an appropriate generic home for A. peucedanifolia. In 1980, Sheh and Shan established the new genus Cyclorhiza with one species and a second taxon which became C. major (M.L. Sheh & R.H. Shan) M.L. Sheh in Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae. This work does not mention either A. peucedanifolia or Cenolophiwn chinense M. Hiroe (1958), which was based on similar material. The correct name for A. peucedanifolia is Cyclorhiza peucedanifolia (Franch.) Constance, comb. nov. and the genus Arracacia is to be excluded from Asia.

scholarly journals SIMULACRA ASAS PRADUGA TIDAK BERSALAH DALAM INGSUTAN KEWENANGAN PRAPERADILAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rustamaji
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
New World ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Presumption Of Innocence ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
The Core ◽  
Human Effort ◽  
The Mind

<p align="center"><em>A</em><em>b</em><em>s</em><em>tr</em><em>ac</em><em>t</em></p><p><em>d</em><em>i</em><em>e</em><em>d</em><em>. ‘New World’ which Baudrillard calls the ‘Galactic Simulacra’, was struck all life aspects, including law. Dialectics about the pretrial judge over status of a suspect several times ago which is better known as Sarpin’s Effect, and has been abolished with the appearance of  The Constitutional Court Decision Number 21 / PUU-XII / 2014, shows how the reality of the presumption of innocence (APTB) often turns into hyperreality in the application of national law APTB at the pretrial stage, which applies only in textual various issues surrounding the complexity of the legal reality. The competition between the presumption of guilt and innocence, the legal and factual concept in the minds of law enforcement, as well as human values that precede the legality brooded in the Pancasila revolution ala Indonesia human rights, failed to be described due to the simplifying of Presumption of Innocence in monofacet. Therefore, Presumption of Innocence as one of the principles at the core of the formal criminal law, according to Satjipto Rahardjo, it is proper to be conceived as a law manner that does not just stop at reading the text, but continues with the action or human effort. An effort that certainly draining the mind, empathy and courage, which is not purely alles binnen de cadre van de wet.</em></p><p><em>K</em><em>e</em><em>y Words : Presumption of Innocence, normativity, contextuality, the Indonesian way, pretrial</em></p><p align="center">Abstrak</p><p>Jean Baudrillard melalui <em>Simulacra and Simulation </em>(1981) membuat rancangan pikir yang memprediksi bahwa realitas pada akhirnya telah mati. ‘Dunia baru’ yang Baudrillard sebut sebagai ‘Galaksi Simulacra’, ternyata melanda seluruh aspek kehidupan tidak terkecuali hukum. Dialektika tentang praperadilan yang mengadili status tersangka beberapa waktu lalu yang lebih dikenal sebagai <em>Sarpin’s Effect</em>, dan dipungkasi dengan munculnya Putusan MK Nomor 21/PUU-XII/2014, menunjukkan betapa realitas asas praduga tidak bersalah (APTB) acapkali berubah menjadi hiperealitas dalam penerapan hukum nasional. APTB pada tahap praperadilan yang hanya diterapkan secara tekstual dan dipisahlepaskan dari konteksnya, hukumnya. Persaingan antara praduga bersalah dan tidak bersalah, maupun kesenjangan <em>legal concept </em>dan <em>factual concept </em>dalam benak penegak hukum, serta nilai kemanusiaan yang mendahului legalitas yang diperam dalam revolusi Pancasila ala HAM Indonesia, gagal tergambar akibat penyedehanaan APTB yang monofaset. Oleh karenanya, APTB sebagai salah satu asas yang menjadi inti dalam hukum pidana formil, menurut Satjipto Rahardjo, sudah selayaknya dikonsepsikan sebagai cara berhukum yang tidak hanya berhenti pada membaca teks, tetapi melanjutkannya dengan aksi atau usaha (<em>effort</em>) manusia. Suatu usaha yang tentu saja menguras energi, baik pikiran maupun empati dan keberanian yang tidak semata-mata bersifat alles binnen de kader van de wet.</p><p>Kata kunci: asas praduga tidak bersalah, normativitas, kontekstualitas, keindonesiaan, praperadilan.</p>

scholarly journals Readers' Advisory: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Fiction: Suggesting New Titles to Make All Readers Feel Like They Belong

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Tarulli
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
New World ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Religious Congregation ◽  
Sacred Heart ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
The World ◽  
Eyes Open ◽  
The Mind

Epochs of transition keep us on the alert. They ask us to keep our eyes open upon the distant horizons, our minds listening to seize every indication that can enlighten us: reading, reflection, searching, must never stop; the mind must keep flexible in order to lose nothing, to acquire any knowledge that can aid our mission. . . . Immobility and arrested development bring decadence; a beauty, fully unfolded, is ready to perish. So, let us not rest on our beautiful past.—Janet Erskine Stuart, RSCJ, 1914The above quote from Janet Erskine Stuart of the Society of the Sacred Heart, fondly referred to as Mother Stuart, was written in 1914, at a time when the world was in turmoil. A religious congregation that has included many remarkable and forward-thinking women, the Society has a reputation for persevering and growing stronger during times of change. Born out of the French Revolution, the society was formed in France to educate children in a time when a new world was emerging. Education endures as a core value of the Society—and most importantly, the concept of educating the whole person. Indeed, the goals that guide the Society of the Sacred Heart include a deep respect for intellectual values, social awareness, and personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom. 

The Mission to Constantinople in 968 and Liudprand of Cremona

Traditio ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 55-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon N. Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Detailed Record ◽  
East West

Of the documents that concern the relationship between Byzantium and Western Europe in the early Middle Ages, none is more famous or more frequently read than Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana, Liudprand of Cremona's description of his mission to Constantinople in 968 for Otto I. Much has been learned from his vivid if acid narrative about the Byzantine court of Nicephorus II Phocas and about East-West relations in the tenth century. Over the last forty years research has reached beneath the vivid prose in search of the true significance of that mission. But since Liudprand's is the only first-hand, detailed record of an embassy to Constantinople of that era, some scholars have given it more contemporary importance than it actually had, and, by extension, they have turned Liudprand's thoughts into subtle expressions of official Western policy. The danger in these inquiries has been to divorce the mind and moods of the creator from his creation and bestow on Relatio undeserved exaltation. The problem is to keep the document in its perspective while draining every sentence of its implications.

A Foucauldian Reading of Huxley’s Brave New World

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
World State ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Human World ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Systematic Control

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) is a nightmarish depiction of a post-human world where human beings are mass-produced to serve production and consumption. In this paper, I discuss the manipulations of minds and bodies with reference to Foucault’s biopower and disciplinary systems that make the citizens of the world state more profitable and productive. I argue that Brave New World depicts a dystopian systematic control of mind and body through eugenic engineering, biological conditioning, hypnopaedia, sexual satisfaction, and drugs so as to keep the worldians completely controlled, collectivized and contented in a totalitarian society. The world state eradicates love, religion, art and history and deploys language devoid of any emotions and thoughts to control the mind that judges and decides. I argue that Brave New World anticipates the Foucauldian paradigm of resistance, subversion and containment, ending in eliminating the forces that pose a challenge to the ideology of the world state.

scholarly journals THE THEATER OF A LIBERAL IRONIST: THE AMERICAN WEST AND THE FEMALE SELF IN SHEPARD’S A LIE OF MIND

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (35) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hossein Oroskhan ◽  
Bahee Hadaegh
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
New World ◽  
American Dream ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sam Shepard ◽  
American Theater ◽  
Female Self ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind

The formation and the establishment of the United States firmly adheres to two beliefs of the American dream and the American west. Though the American dream was part of American culture from its beginning, the other one became the driving force of American culture in the second part of the twentieth century when Sam Shepard began his career as a playwright. During this time, American theater emerged into a main arena for the presentation of the American west. Nevertheless, Shepard attempted to avoid playing with the duality of reality and illusion in his presentation of the American west when he put forward his characters to face and experience the world to then discover their selves. At the pinnacle of his success, he wrote A Lie of the Mind, a play that is filled with heroines who would leave the violent world of men to change their destinies. As such, Shepard endeavored to free their selves and flow them to experience a new world. Likewise, Shepard’s contemporary American philosopher, Richard Rorty, believed in the importance of self and the necessity of its redescription to create his ideal society. However, hopeless to find a philosophy model, he lends to literature to find his liberal ironist. On this account, the following study is not only to provide Sam Shepard as a liberal ironist in Rorty’s term but also to reveal certain puzzling features in Shepard’s A Lie of Mind, not least of which is the reason why his female characters blow the world of the American west to search for a new world.

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