Monteverdi's infinite variety

Early Music ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-463
Author(s):  
G. Camp
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Variety

Sexual Difference, Animal Difference: Derrida and Difference “Worthy of Its Name”

Hypatia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Sexual Differences ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Infinite Variety

I challenge the age-old binary opposition between human and animal, not as philosophers sometimes do by claiming that humans are also animals, or that animals are capable of suffering or intelligence, but rather by questioning the very category of “the animal” itself. This category groups a nearly infinite variety of living beings into one concept measured in terms of humans—animals are those creatures that are not human. In addition, I argue that the binary opposition between human and animal is intimately linked to the binary opposition between man and woman. Furthermore, I suggest that thinking through animal differences or differences among various living creatures opens up the possibility of thinking beyond the dualist notion of sexual difference and enables thinking toward a multiplicity of sexual differences.

scholarly journals Crossing Borders in Irish Drama and Theatre. Art, Artist and Sacrifice

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
Csilla Bertha
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Faith Healer ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Role Function ◽  
Irish Drama ◽  
Theatrical Representation ◽  
Infinite Variety ◽  
Function Potential

AbstractAmong the infinite variety of borders crossed in the theatre – social, national, cultural, gender, generic, aesthetic, existential, and many others – this essay focuses on self-reflexive border-crossings in Irish kunstlerdrama (artist-drama) and theatre. Spanning over eighty years, in selected plays from W. B. Yeats’s The King of the Great Clock Tower (1934), through Brian Friel’s Faith Healer (1979), Frank McGuinness’s The Bird Sanctuary (1994) and Marie Jones’s Stones in His Pockets (1999), to Enda Walsh’s Ballyturk (2014), a few forms of theatrical representation of transgressing and/or dissolving boundaries are explored while attempting to delienate which borders need to be respected, which contested, abolished, and then which to be transcended. Artist figures or artworks within drama, embodying the power to move or mediate between different realms of reality, including art and nature, stage and auditorium, life and death, reveal that sacrificial death proves crucial still in a non-sacrificial age, in enabling the artist and/or instigating spiritual fertility. In addition to his/her role, function, potential in affecting social and spiritual life, the representation of the artist necessarily reflects on theatre’s art seeking its own boundaries and opening itself to embrace the audience.

scholarly journals Calculation features of wall panels with monolithic cement bond of layers in the stages of installation, transportation and maintenance

Vestnik MGSU ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 367-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena A. Korol’ ◽  
Marina N. Berlinova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Layer ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Design Standards ◽  
Wall Panels ◽  
Multilayer Wall ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Infinite Variety ◽  
Construction Practice

Introduction. When building residential, public and administrative buildings of various spatial structural designs (monolithic, precast-monolithic, precast, etc.), it is common practice to design self-sustaining (non-structural) outer walls within a storey. Developing and using new design and fabrication solutions of multilayer industrial-made wall panels in modern construction practice makes actual the issue of improving methods of their calculation in different stages of maintenance and under various sorts and combinations of loads and effects. However, there is an infinite variety of possible loading levels in practice and, therefore, the same variety of design approaches would be required. This is obviously unacceptable for engineering calculations, hence it is necessary to provide a monolithic matrix bond of layers, both technologically and structurally, which can provide a generalized approach to the calculation of multilayer enclosing structures in accordance with current design standards. Materials and methods. The article describes structural features of a multilayer wall panel made of structural concrete with the middle layer of concrete with low thermal conductivity and monolithic bond of layers. These features have an influence on creation of a design model and a calculation procedure in the stages of transportation, installation and maintenance. Results. The article has examined the structures described above in the sense of design parameters that provide their competitive advantages in strength and maintenance as compared with conventional mass-built enclosures. Conclusions. The studies demonstrate that when combining loads of force and non-force character, stresses in the considered structure do not exceed allowable values in all the stages what proves the prospects of using the multilayer panels with monolithic bond of layers for erection of various-purpose frame-panel buildings.

Irrigation and Soil-Conservation in African Agricultural History

1984 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. G. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Agricultural History ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Old Field ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Environmental Adaptations ◽  
African Agriculture ◽  
Infinite Variety

The archaeological study of African agricultural history has concentrated more on origins and the identification of crop remains than on farming techniques and ancient fields. The latter rarely survive, and even then may be of indeterminate age and apparently atypical, such as hillside terracing or irrigation systems. The subject has been further bedevilled by these unusual instances of preserved fields being regarded as relics of ‘intensive’ cultivation by ‘vanished civilizations’. However, a clearer understanding of African agriculture, through ethnographic and ecological approaches, reveals not only its basically extensive character but also the infinite variety of local specializations (or cultural–environmental adaptations, combining ancient African domesticates and introduced crops which have been ‘Africanized’). This provides a perspective for examining peculiarities of the present and past and claimed instances of ‘intensification’. Conversely the concept of specialization allows us to use, with caution, the preserved remains of old field systems to illustrate more typical ones. Many of the archaeological survivals were not so much ‘intensive’ as ‘over-specialized’, often in isolated and circumscribed situations, notably remote hills in both western and eastern Africa. A moderate example is Inyanga in eastern Zimbabwe with its extensive terraced hillsides of the later Iron Age. Here most of the terraces were not irrigated, but there are hints of complex seasonal arrangements and field techniques. A more extreme, even ‘ultra-specialized’ agricultural system, also of the later Iron Age, which was abandoned in the seventeenth or eighteenth century, is that of Engaruka in the northern Tanzanian rift. This was an essentially isolated and self-sufficient settlement in dry country, absolutely dependent on its exquisite irrigation devices. Eventually this community expired, as its soil was exhausted and its water supplies declined.Finally, there are instances in nineteenth-century East Africa, and from earlier in West Africa, of more open cultural–economic systems producing a surplus for caravans, markets and towns. Technologically these have been no more accomplished or ‘intensive’ than the specializations discussed, but developmentally their achievement has been more effective.

Infinite Variety

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfram Schmidgen
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Variety

Fairy-Tale Bodies: Prostheses and Narrative Perspective in Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Little Lame Prince

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Kylee-Anne Hingston
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physical Difference ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Physical Limitations ◽  
Infinite Variety

As a literary fairy tale, Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak: A Parable for Young and Old (1874) employs a fantasy setting and magical circumstances to depict the moral, psychological, and physical development of its hero, Prince Dolor. The hybrid story combines fairy tale, Bildungsroman, and parable, defies conventional narrative closure, and produces incongruous understandings of disability. The story’s narrative trajectory moves towards closure, first reinforcing Dolor’s physical deviance and the eradicating it through magical prosthetic gifts; as such, the outer structure creates a story of disability as abnormal, restricting, and in need of compensation if not cure. However, by making readers aware first of the narrator’s physical limitations and of their own roles as spectators, and then by focalizing through the disabled hero while he is a spectator, The Little Lame Prince undermines its earlier use of Dolor as a sentimental spectacle. Moreover, moments in which readers focalize with Dolor through his magical prostheses reveal the limitations of all bodies and speculate on the beauty and infinite variety of physical difference. These colliding views of disability in The Little Lame Prince exhibit the complex, shifting role of the body in Victorian thought.

Chapter LV Tempest

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Variety

I Now approach an event in my life, so indelible, so awful, so bound by an infinite variety of ties to all that has preceded it, in these pages, that, from the beginning of my narrative, I have seen it growing larger and...

Soil Stratigraphy in Geoarchaeological Contexts

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vance T. Holliday
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Alluvial Soil ◽  
The United States ◽  
Depositional Environments ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Buried Soils ◽  
Soil Burial ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽  
Infinite Variety ◽  
Salvage Archaeology

The various kinds and states of soils, surface and buried, discussed in the previous chapter can be found in an almost infinite variety of combinations, and most can also be found in archaeological contexts. Furthermore, most soil stratigraphic relationships and conditions of soil burial can form a continuum through time or space or both, depending on local and regional variations in rates and depth of burial (i.e., rates and thickness of sedimentation). The most common and most extensive depositional environments with buried soils that illustrate these relationships are alluvial and eolian. These are the settings for much research on buried soils and soil stratigraphy. Alluvial settings likewise have been the loci of considerable archaeological and geoarchaeological research. Tephra—airfall deposits from volcanic eruptions—also commonly contain buried soils because of the episodic nature of eruptions. Though not as extensive as alluvial or other kinds of eolian deposits, tephra stratigraphy is locally important. Archaeological sites are also common in tephra layers from a variety of settings and regions. This chapter illustrates geoarchaeologically significant soil stratigraphic relationships in a variety of alluvial and eolian settings and at various spatial and temporal scales. Alluvial systems probably have been the site of more geoarchaeological research than any other type of depositional environment because they have always attracted occupants who left archaeological sites. A significant amount of archaeological research has also focused on riverine settings owing to “rescue” or “salvage” archaeology. In the United States, for example, this work included the federally funded River Basin Surveys of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, followed by CRM studies beginning in the 1970s and continuing into the 21st century. The importance of alluvial stratigraphy in interpreting the archaeological record of alluvial settings has been recognized throughout most of this work (e.g., Mandel, 2000). Furthermore, the significance of soils in alluvial stratigraphic records has long been recognized; for example, soils were an important component of Haynes’s (1968) classic geoarchaeological model of an “alluvial chronology” for the central and western United States. Alluvial soil stratigraphy per se is more poorly known, however, being underrepresented in the traditional pedology or even traditional soil stratigraphic literature.

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