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Physics World ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 23a-24
Author(s):  
Peter Wright
Keyword(s):  
Real Point ◽  
The Real

What was the real point of the flight of Jeff Bezos’s spacecraft?

scholarly journals Quiet Refusals: Androids as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Nima Behroozi Moghadam ◽  
Farideh Porugiv
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Point ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
The Real ◽  
Objet Petit A ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Cultural Theorist ◽  
The Way

This study intends to show how science fiction literature in general and Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in particular can be read as a symptom of the postmodern era we live in. Taking as the main clues the ideas of the cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, who combines Marxism with the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, as well as his account of “postmodernism,” the study discusses how, contrary to what capitalism dubs a “post-ideological” era, we are more than ever dominated by ideology through its cynical function. It further examines (through such Lacanian concepts as fantasy, desire, objet petit a, and jouissance) the way late capitalistic ideology functions in Dick’s narrative, and discusses how the multiculturalist society prompts new forms of racism through abstract universalization which only accounts for and tolerates the other as long as they appear within the confines of that formal abstraction. Finally, it looks into how ideologies as such can be subverted from the Real point within the symbolic.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon 984–6

1966 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 166-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. C. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Real Point ◽  
The Real

984 ἐπεὶ F: ἐπί Tr ξυνεμβόλοις FTr: corr. Casaubon 985 ψαμμίας FTr: corr. Wecklein ἀκάτα F: ἀκάτας Tr: corr. Wilamowitz παρήβησ' Tr.The above is the text of Wilamowitz and Fraenkel, which I believe correct, requiring only interpretation. Wilamowitz translated (Gr. Trag. ii 85), ‘Die Zeit ist grau geworden, seit der Sand von Aulis aufflog, da zur Troiafahrt das Heer die Taue löste’; Fraenkel similarly but more literally, ‘Time has grown old since with the throwing-in of the mooring-cables the sand flew up, when the naval host set forth to Ilion’. Denniston-Page make the linguistically correct objection me ‘sand does not “fly up” when mooring-cables are “thrown in”’. But this misses the real point, viz. that no one ever throws in a cable when a ship is leaving—it is pulled in: throwing occurs only when a ship is coming in to land.

In Defense of the Sermon: A Communicational Approach

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
A. Duane Litfin
Keyword(s):  
Communication Network ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Real Point ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Church ◽  
Communicational Approach

Many are critical of the sermon today because it is essentially a “oneway” type of communication which offers little opportunity for feedback. But such arguments neglect the fact that the sermon does not have to stand alone. On the contrary, from a communicational point of view the sermon can and should be seen as simply one part of an overall communication network which exists in the church as a whole and which is largely unrestricted, allowing open feedback on the part of all. Thus, the real point to be emphasized is not that the sermon should be eliminated, but that conscious efforts should be made to complement the sermon with as many different avenues for feedback as possible. Only when this happens can preaching be maximally effective.

Data Processing in a Bureau Drawer

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elting E. Morison
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Real Point ◽  
Bureaucratic Organization ◽  
The Real ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
Paper Work

This chapter discusses the nature of bureaucracy and the things associated with a bureaucratic organization. It first considers various definitions of bureaucracy before turning to two or three things that come to anyone's mind when he is presented with the word “bureaucracy.” In particular, it looks at the career of General Fred Crayton Ainsworth, who made his reputation for his skill in the collection, the filing, and the organization of paper. Here, it becomes apparent that the real point of bureaucracy is data processing. After addressing paper work in bureaucracy, the chapter examines the impersonality of bureaucracy as well as red tape and regulations and those who work in the bureaucratic situation. It suggests that what we call bureaucracy, with its interest in fixed and uniform solutions, thrives best in static environments, but that science and technology constantly interfere to throw the bureaucratic balance of things out of balance.

Representation of a Certain Class of Polynomials

1976 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-301
Author(s):  
Raymond Leblanc
Keyword(s):  
Complex Plane ◽  
Complex Number ◽  
Real Point ◽  
Closed Disk ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Zeros ◽  
Extremal Polynomials

In this note, we discuss a representation of the class of polynomials with real coefficients having all zeros in a given disk of the complex plane C, in terms of convex combinations of certain extremal polynomials of this class. The result stated in the theorem is known [1] for polynomials having n real zeros in the interval [a.b.]. In the following z will be a complex number and D[(a + b)/2, (b-a)/2] the closed disk of the complex plane centered at the real point (a + b)/2 and having radius (b-a)/2.

Foci of Algebraic Curves

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Гирш ◽  
A. Girsh
Keyword(s):  
Algebraic Curves ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Conic Section ◽  
Real Point ◽  
Algebraic Equations ◽  
The Real ◽  
Isotropic Line ◽  
Real Curve ◽  
Line Contacts ◽  
Geometric Picture

Curves have always been part geometry. Initially, there were lines and circle, then it was added to a conic section and later, with the advent of analytic geometry, they added more complex curves. Particularly in a number of lines are algebraic curves that are described by algebraic equations. Curves found application mostly in mechanics. Today algebraic curves used in engineering and in mathematics, in number theory, knot theory, computer science, criminology, etc. With the bringing to account of complex numbers became possible to consider curves in the complex plane. It has expanded the horizons of geometry and enriched their knowledge on curves, particularly on algebraic curves. Our goal is to give a geometric picture of the foci of algebraic curves clearly show the position of the foci in the plane, show how the number of foci associated with a class curve. The solution of this problem we see in the application we have developed ways to visualize imaginary images to the study of foci and focal centers of algebraic curves. This article explains the concept of the foci of algebraic curves shows the basic principle of the curve-theory and offers a method for the identification of the foci. The geometric picture of the foci is shown in a diagram, which is putted together from two tables. One table shows the real curve with her foci, the other table shows an imaginary cut of the curve, on which the isotropic line contacts the cut and under them intersects in a real point. The point is a focal point of the real curve. This project shows 16 diagrams for conic, cubes and quadrics.

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