The Rhetoric of Theorizing Adaptation

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-264
Author(s):  
Kamilla Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Microscopic Study ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Adaptive Rhetoric ◽  
The Relationship

“Refiguring Theorization” shifts from macroscopic historical and theoretical metacriticism to microscopic analyses of rhetoric. Theorizing adaptation has unfolded not only at the level of books, chapters, articles, and reviews but also at the level of sentences, phrases, words, and pieces of words. Analyzing relations between parts of speech governed by the laws of grammar makes clear that some problems of theorizing adaptation lie within the systems and structures of rhetoric itself. A microscopic study of rhetoric takes larger discourses to pieces not only to understand their workings but also as a prelude to constructing new discourses of theorizing adaptation. Rhetoric’s conjoined persuasive and aesthetic functions render it particularly resonant for pondering the relationship between theoretical discourses and aesthetic practices, with potential for refiguring that relationship. Figurative rhetoric (or figuration) is central to this endeavor, providing a variegated, adaptive rhetoric with potential to forge new ways of thinking, speaking, and writing about adaptation, theorization, and their relationship to each other.

scholarly journals Strategies of Perception of Europe and their Reception in Lithuania

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Povilas Aleksandravičius
Keyword(s):  
European Identity ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyses strategies of perception of Europe that fit into a triple structure. The traditional division into philosophical, cultural, and political Europe is intersected with more fundamental European perceptions determined by different ways of thinking. In this article, these ways are referred to as the closed, the open and the hollow ones. Thus, three different conceptions of Europe arise: the closed Europe characterized by essentialism, ethnocentrism, and monologic consciousness; the open Europe based on the standpoint that protection of one’s own identity and maturity depend on a dialogic relationship with representatives of other identities; and the hollow Europe that makes absolute the imperative of moral self-criticism, as well as identity’s deconstruction and its relativism. The discussion of all three strategies of perception of Europe is followed by the analysis of how they were received in Lithuania. The conclusion highlights the necessity to further research the relationship between all three conceptions of European identity.

Back Home: The Provincial Lives of Turgenev’s Cosmopolitans

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-141
Author(s):  
Anne Lounsbery
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Crucial Part

This chapter explains how Ivan Turgenev's oeuvre forms a crucial part of the provincial trope, with its focus on the relationship between provintsiia and the problem, or the hope, of a specifically Russian temporality. When Turgenev is writing about Russian space, he often seems to be thinking just as much about Russian time, often posing or implying the question, “Is Russia 'behind'?” Analyzing spatial relationships in his texts reveals how these relationships condition ways of thinking about historical time (what counts as ahead and what counts as behind, for example). In Turgenev's view, it seems, Russia is not “modern,” but it is not simply “backward,” either. Hence his focus on the gentry estate: estates were places where Russian elites could work to rethink their relationship to historical time, moving beyond the assumption that centers (capitals) are ahead and peripheries (provinces) are behind.

History of Science and Medicine

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Staffan Müller-Wille
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Growth Of Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores what both historians of medicine and historians of science could gain from a stronger entanglement of their respective research agendas. It first gives a cursory outline of the history of the relationship between science and medicine since the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Medicine can very well be seen as a domain that was highly productive of scientific knowledge, yet in ways that do not fit very well with the historiographic framework that dominated the history of science. Furthermore, the article discusses two alternative historiographical approaches that offer ways of thinking about the growth of knowledge that fit well with the cumulative and translational patterns that characterize the development of the medical sciences, and also provide an understanding of concepts such as ‘health’ and ‘life’.

Moral Responsibility and Voluntariness

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-208
Author(s):  
A P Simester
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores some of the ways in which moral responsibility for events can be negated through a lack of voluntariness. It looks at how such negations are best accommodated within the criminal law. The chapter begins by identifying two ways of thinking about voluntariness. Some writers see voluntariness as a counterpart to involuntariness, envisaging behaviour ‘done in the presence of open alternatives’. Others explain voluntary behaviour in terms of ‘volitional’ behaviour that is intentional under some description; behaviour, one might say, done willingly. The chapter goes on to consider the relationship between voluntariness and the varieties of actus reus elements, including omissions, situational liability, and possession.

“O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”: Anthony Braxton's Speculative Musics

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-233
Author(s):  
MIKE HEFFLEY
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Microscopic Study ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Written Language ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Technological Potential ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractAnthony Braxton's opera Trillium R (1991): Shala Fears for the Poor is examined macroscopically, microscopically, and theoretically for its resonances with both spoken and written language. The latter is posited as an ur-technology spawning six more specialized technologies tropes, through which the macroscopic survey unfolds. Braxton's music is conflated with the academic discourse of “speculative musicology” and the genre of “speculative fiction,” the literary arena of most fertile explorations of technological potential. The microscopic study examines the relationship between Braxton's libretto and music in the score, and that between the determinate and indeterminate in both, as the techne (tool) of its effectiveness. Finally, the article explains Braxton's work through its European, African, Asian, and Native American influences.

NI EL HOMBRE ES BLANCO NI EL CABALLO CORRE. ARGUMENTOS ANTIPLATÓNICOS EN ESTILPÓN DE MÉGARA

Méthexis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-33
Author(s):  
CLAUDIA MÁRSICO
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Initial Survey ◽  
Theory Of Forms ◽  
The Relationship

The testimonies of Stilpo of Megara show an anti-Platonic position within the megaric program against fundationists attempts. This paper studies a particular point of this deployment. We will review the origin of the views that locate thruth on the onomastic or on the predicative level. This initial survey will provide the basis for the study of the paradoxes of the nomination, an element Stilpo used as a tool to challenge the theory of Forms, and the analysis of the aporias of predication, through which he rejects the combination of parts of the sentence in order to represent reality. The figure of Stilpo reveals the dialogical context in which ancient philosophies developed and, at the same time, displays ways of thinking the relationship between language and reality often forgotten.

Plainchant at Florence's Cathedral in the Late Seicento: Matteo Coferati and Shifting Concepts of Tonal Space

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-555
Author(s):  
Michael R. Dodds
Keyword(s):  
Specific Information ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Baroque Music ◽  
Tonal Space ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Modal Change ◽  
The Relationship

While accounts of modal change in Baroque music have often focused on progressive genres such as opera, more conservative repertories may also reveal important shifts in the conceptualization of tonal space. The presence of "new" elements in a conservative context can provide an index of how deeply new ways of thinking have penetrated. For this reason, the plainchant treatises of Matteo Coferati (1638- 1708), a singer and chaplain at Florence cathedral for nearly 45 years, merit special scrutiny. Coferati's unprecedentedly detailed instructions on the use of unwritten sharps in plainchant present new solutions to old problems while implicitly reflecting the influence of polyphony in general and the alternating organ in particular. The relationship between plainchant and polyphony thus emerges as a reciprocal one. Moreover, the distance between monophonic and polyphonic modal norms turns out to be less than one might conclude by examining notated chants without considering unwritten performance practices. That Coferati's teachings represent practice at the Florence duomo is supported by a contemporaneous manuscript choir book from the cathedral's archives, containing the very sharps he advocates. In addition, new archival findings revise Coferati's long-accepted birth and death dates and provide specific information about his service as a cappellano of Florence's cathedral.

Dancing with Myself

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek A. Burrill ◽  
Melissa Blanco Borelli
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter acts as a video game battle or interaction between the two authors. It discusses how dance video games construct corporeality. It provides an overview of Microsoft Xbox 360Dance Central’srelationship to choreography, choreographers, and dance analysis. It also theorizes how bodies and corporeality function in a virtual world. Finally, the chapter considers how avatar bodies provide new ways of thinking about the relationship between technology and the body.

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