Building the Base

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-237
Author(s):  
Joan Herrington
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Waiting For Godot ◽  
The Face

In the February 2005 issue of American Theatre, Ben Cameron considered impending season selection at theatres across the country and noted, “There are no magic bullets. God knows, I wish there were—especially in these times. … Even in the face of critical raves, standing ovations and a true sense of artistic pride, many have still fallen short of attendance goals.”2 Cameron explored a range of possible solutions to dwindling audiences: a season with no classics, or perhaps only classics; maybe opera, or A Christmas Carol, or the ever-popular Waiting for Godot. Indeed, the need to build audiences haunts most contemporary practitioners as we struggle to reestablish the place of theatre in the midst of its media sisters. It is a global issue, as noted in a column by Bhaskar Ghose in Frontline, a national Indian magazine: “Theatre needs to recapture its participative quality and density of human experience in order to woo the audience back from television and films. …”3 How then, do we build the base?

Reconciliation in the Cathedral: Isaac's Religion in “Owen-Mass”

10.34690/125 ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 6-36
Author(s):  
Роман Александрович Насонов
Keyword(s):  
Song Cycle ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Christian Religion ◽  
Religious Symbolism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
War Requiem ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Tradition

Статья представляет собой исследование религиозной символики и интерпретацию духовного смысла «Военного реквиема» Бриттена. Воспользовавшись Реквиемом Верди как моделью жанра, композитор отдал ключевую роль в драматургии сочинения эпизодам, созданным на основе военных стихов Оуэна; в результате произведение воспринимается подобно циклу песен в обрамлении частей заупокойной мессы. Военная реальность предстает у Бриттена амбивалентно. Совершая надругательство над древней верой и разбивая чаяния современных людей, война дает шанс возрождению религиозных чувств и символов. Опыт веры, порожденный войной, переживается остро, но при всей своей подлинности зыбок и эфемерен. Церковная традиция хранит веру прочно, однако эта вера в значительной мере утрачивает чистоту и непосредственность, которыми она обладает в момент своего возникновения. Бриттен целенаправленно выстраивает диалог между двумя пластами человеческого опыта (церковным и военным), находит те точки, в которых между ними можно установить контакт. Но это не отменяет их глубокого противоречия. Вера, рождаемая войной, представляет собой в произведении Бриттена «отредактированный» вариант традиционной христианской религии: в ее центре находится не триумфальная победа Христа над злом, а пассивная, добровольно отказавшаяся защищать себя перед лицом зла жертва - не Бог Сын, а «Исаак». Смысл этой жертвы - не в преображении мира, а в защите гуманности человека от присущего ему же стремления к агрессивному самоутверждению. The study of religious symbolism and the interpretation of the spiritual meaning of “War Requiem” by Britten have presentation in this article. Using Verdi's Requiem as a model of the genre, the composer gave a key role in the drama to the episodes based on the war poems by Wilfred Owen; as a result, the work is perceived as a song cycle framed by parts of the funeral mass. The military reality appears ambivalent. While committing a blasphemy against the ancient belief and shattering the aspirations of modern people, the war offers a chance to revive religious feelings and symbols. This experience of war-born faith is felt keenly, but for all its authenticity, it is shaky and ephemeral. The church tradition keeps faith firmly, but this faith largely loses the original purity and immediacy. Britten purposefully builds a dialogue between the two layers of human experience (church and military), finds those points where contact can be established between them. But this does not change their profound antagonism. In Britten's work, faith born of war is an “edited” version of the traditional Christian religion: in its center is not the triumphant victory of Christ over evil, but a passive sacrifice that voluntarily refused to defend itself in the face of evil-not God the Son, but “Isaac.” The meaning of this sacrifice is not in transforming the world, but in protecting the humanity of a person from his inherent desire for aggressive self-assertion.

Repercussions

Security ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Blaise Pascal ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Face

This chapter considers Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who devoted his philosophic and scientific career to harmonizing discordances and unifying disparities, calculating the otherwise incalculable and reconciling the seemingly unreconciliable. The universalizing thrust of Leibniz's thinking is of a piece both with his ecumenism and with his moral and political views. The Cartesian who rejects phenomena as false simply because they can be doubted lacks the courage to face conflicts that may arise within any aspect of human experience. Instead, Leibniz refused to be daunted by uncertainty. In this regard, he should be numbered among those seventeenth-century theoreticians of probability like Pierre de Fermat, Blaise Pascal, and Jakob Bernoulli, who strove to develop models of rational judgment and action in the face of grave uncertainty.

Baroque and Neobaroque: Making Thistory

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Greene
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
The Face

Among the most historically fixed of art historical and literary concepts, the Baroque arises at the intersection of early modern classicism, imperialism, and science—that is, out of the high Renaissance—to become a kind of antiprogram of resistances: to the absolutist state, the rise of empirical science, the pressures of empire, and other sixteenth-century signs of the gathering regimentation of knowledge. With a flourish of forms and a play of perspectives, the baroque embodies the recoil from such regimentation and the gathering sense that all these systems for organizing human experience fall short in the face of disorder, contingency, and death. Seen from certain vantages, the specimens of the baroque often seem complicit with the projects of absolutism, empire, and late humanism; but regarded in all their dimensions, such works are often complex reactions, critical and compromised, to those projects.

Teaching the Ethics/Technology Interface

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Albert R. Jonsen
Keyword(s):  
Electronic System ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Old World ◽  
New Words ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

The problem that I will discuss in this essay is marvellously illustrated in the title given to me by the editors. The word “interface” is itself part of the jargon of technology, the technospeak needed by those who develop, use, and discuss functions, things, and relationships that had not existed previously in the human world. They must make up new words to describe new realities (and, unfortunately, allow new and ugly words to obscure old ones). An “interface” presumably describes the way in which one electronic system contacts another so that the first energizes the second. In the old world of human experience, an “interface” is impossible. The face of one human being is visible to another; two faces, smiling or frowning at each other, communicate. The mind behind one face can interpret the movements of another. Never does one human face interpenetrate or merge with another.

scholarly journals Empowering of Small, Micro and Cooperatives Business Enterprise (SMCEs) on Base Agribusiness to Face ASEAN Market: Survey at SMCEs Malang, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benny Hutahayan
Keyword(s):  
Global Competition ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Market Survey ◽  
East Central ◽  
North East ◽  
South West ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Result Show ◽  
The Face ◽  
Asean Economic Community

Purpose: This study aim to analyze the Empowering of Small, Micro and Cooperatives Business Enterprise(SMCEs) on the base Agribusiness in Facing Asean Economic Community (AEC). Method: Population in research is all SMCEs under develop on Board of Cooper- ative, Industry and Commerceof three areas, North-East, Central, and South-West Malangbeing based on Agribusiness. Sample was done of the trained and developed about management of is effort; administration, accountancy, marketing and exploiting of various facility of is inclusive of information technology that is as much 60 SMCEs.Analyze conducted by regression of variable supporting power of SMCEs. Finding: The study result show that variables identified in model to progress of effort SMCEs equal to 0,66%. While if seen from level of influence relative minimize, that is only equal to 0,44%. Its Small cause is the influence possibility of progress variables of effort, with the indicator only mount the advantage and satisfaction in trying to represent the small shares from progress variables of is effort very macro. But that way result of this study represent the step of early good in comprehending by real is condition faced by SMCEs in Malang. Originality: In addressing this condition SMECs anywhere including in Malang require attention was more serious in order to organize further about their performance in the face of this global issue. Otherwise SMECs would lose in global competition, which grew rapidly in the future. Keywords: SMCEs Agrobusiness, AEC

scholarly journals Towards freedom and social awareness: Hopeful narratives and performatives in American theatre and literature

Ars Aeterna ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Ivan Lacko
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
American Art ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract The paper addresses the complexity of social issues in contemporary American society through the prism of its reflection in theatre and literature. The characteristic features of American narratives and performatives are freedom and an almost utopian belief in diversity and social understanding. At the same time, the discussed works present a comprehensive look at social issues using a great variety of forms and genres, and appealing to the aesthetic sensitivity of different groups of recipients. In the face of future problems in the political arena, American art offers an interesting transatlantic perspective on the complexity of 21st-century issues which are relevant all over the world.

scholarly journals Facial Spots Detection Using Convolution Neural Network

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
Payal Bose ◽  
Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Face Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Convolution Neural Network ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
The Face

Nowadays security became a major global issue. To manage the security issue and its risk, different kinds of biometric authentication are available. Face recognition is one of the most significant processes in this system. Since the face is the most important part of the body so the face recognition system is the most important in the biometric authentication. Sometimes a human face affected due to different kinds of skin problems, such as mole, scars, freckles, etc. Sometimes some parts of the face are missing due to some injuries. In this paper, the main aim is to detect a facial spots present in the face. The total work divided into three parts first, face and facial components are detected. The validation of checking facial parts is detected using the Convolution Neural Network (CNN). The second part is to find out the spot on the face based on Normalized Cross-Correlation and the third part is to check the kind of spot based on CNN. This process can detect a face under different lighting conditions very efficiently. In cosmetology, this work helps to detect the spots on the human face and its type which is very helpful in different surgical processes on the face.

Charity and grace

2022 ◽  
pp. 146349962110578
Author(s):  
João Pina-Cabral
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Donald Davidson ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Southern France ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
The Face ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Analytical Philosopher

This essay attempts to reconcile charity with grace, the central concepts of two thinkers whose views may seem irreconcilable to many: Donald Davidson, an analytical philosopher and the most distinguished follower of Quine; and Julian Pitt-Rivers, an Europeanist anthropologist, who wrote at length on Spain and Southern France. The latter's historicist exegesis of gracia points to basic aspects of human experience that are also salient in the reduction to basics that Davidson carried out concerning interpretation and truth. For Davidson, in the face of ultimate indeterminacy, interpretation is made possible due to the rational accommodation that charity sparks off. For Pitt-Rivers, gratuity highlights how processes of personal interaction depend on the drawing of shared trajectories: that is, not only do I have to grant others charity to make sense of them, I also have to frame others as subjects with a future by relation to myself as already in existence. The paper proposes that human interaction involves processes of sensemaking that integrate shared intentionality (i.e. the credit with which we respond to the indeterminacy of meaning) with shared experience (i.e. the debt implicit in the ultimate underdetermination of the world's entities). Thus, it brings both concepts together under the label of charis, their common etymological root, suggesting that the dynamic it represents is a broader feature of life itself.

An Anatomy of Facelessness: On Halfdan Pisket’s Dansker Trilogy

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-302
Author(s):  
Øyvind Vågnes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social History ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Individual Human

AbstractA significant contribution to the social history of immigration in the Nordic countries, Halfdan Pisket’sDanskertrilogy (2014–2016) is also a resonant visual-verbal reflection on the relationship between the face and the mask and its impact on the formation of individual and cultural identity. Pisket’s depiction of the hardship and alienation of the struggling immigrant is marked by a striking symbolism, and the article addresses how the three books collectively can be said to outline “an anatomy of facelessness”. The analysis revolves around three central aspects of Pisket’s depiction of the trilogy’s central protagonist: the imaginative re-appropriation of the myth of the Minotaur, the ambiguous deployment of the hooded figure, and the use of the facial portrait as an ambivalent emblem of the reservoir of individual human experience.

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