Death and Translation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haun Saussy
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Life Process ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Translational Equivalence ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

The first translation of a Baudelaire poem into Chinese, a 1924 version of “A Carcass” by Xu Zhimo, offers an example of creative adaptation in translation: in his version and preface Xu assimilates Baudelaire to the early Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi. This is a strange choice on general grounds, but reflects the translator’s strategy of creating a recognizable identity for the Flowers of Evil, and for modernist poetics generally, within the world of Chinese thought. Furthermore, the content of Baudelaire’s poem, the changes made to it in Xu’s translation, and the relationship Xu devises with the works of Zhuangzi together outline a different theory of translation: not the creation of equivalents, but the chewing, digestion, and assimilation of a previous text, whether native or foreign, as part of the life-process of a literary tradition. Xu’s version of “A Carcass” enacts what Baudelaire’s poem describes, thereby displacing the ground of translational equivalence.

scholarly journals The professionalization of Brazilian nursing in the written media of the end of the nineteenth century: a gender analysis

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1265-1271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Braga do Espírito Santo ◽  
Taka Oguisso ◽  
Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Professional School ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

The object is the relationship between the professionalization of Brazilian nursing and women, in the broadcasting of news about the creation of the Professional School of Nurses, in the light of gender. Aims: to discuss the linkage of women to the beginning of the professionalization of Brazilian nursing following the circumstances and evidence of the creation of the Professional School of Nurses analyzed from the perspective of gender. The news articles were analyzed from the viewpoint of Cultural History, founded in the gender concept of Joan Scott and in the History of Women. The creation of the School and the priority given in the media to women consolidate the vocational ideal of the woman for nursing in a profession subjugated to the physician but also representing the conquest of a space in the world of education and work, reconfiguring the social position of nursing and of woman in Brazil.

scholarly journals WANITA CANTIK DAN KEJATUHAN PEMERINTAHAN HEBAT DALAM FILEM “TUN FATIMAH” (1962)

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Ayu Haswida Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Main Factor

Beautiful women have often been associated with great men of authority and governance in various kingdoms. However, according to scholars, the beautiful female subject also serves as a domineering figure that monopolises the man himself. She can also be a contributing factor towards the downfall of an empire and the world of the man she exists in. For instance, this phenomenon occurred during certain Chinese dynasties. Hence, this research, using the film titled “Tun Fatimah” (1962), focuses on studying and analysing the relationship between the beauty of Tun Fatimah – the daughter of the “Dato‟ Bendahara” of Malacca and the wife of Tun Ali – and the creation of a “sultan” (king), who was still a bachelor and governed tyrannically. Subsequently, history witnessed the king‟s downfall as a ruler in the larger context of the Malay World. It also led to fissures within the great Malaccan sultanate. This research utilises a qualitative approach, focusing on the detailed textual-narrative analysis of the film, supported by the epistemology of desire. Findings show that Tun Fatimah‟s beauty, which was befitting as queen for the Malaccan sultanate, is the main factor in contributing to the libido imbalance of the king and the weakness of hegemonic masculinity in the empire. The imbalance triggered the king‟s irrationality as shown through his emotions such as the thirst for vengeance, anger, jealousy, guilt and regret. In conclusion, the factors proved they did contribute fully to creating a tyrannical Malaccan king.

scholarly journals Postmodernism, Interpretivism, and Formal Ontologies

2012 ◽  
pp. 43-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Kroeze
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Logical Structure ◽  
Formal Ontologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Philosophy ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter investigates the relationship between postmodernism, interpretivism, and formal ontologies, which are widely used in Information Systems (IS). Interpretivism has many postmodernist traits. It acknowledges that the world is diverse and that knowledge is contextual, ever-changing, and emergent. The acceptance of the idea of more than one reality and multiple understandings is part and parcel of postmodernism. Interpretivism is, therefore, characterized as a postmodern research philosophy. To demonstrate this philosophical premise more concretely, the creation of the logical structure of formal ontologies is sketched as an example of typical interpretivist and postmodernist activity in IS.

scholarly journals From the Golem to Artificial Intelligence: science in the theatre for an existential reflection

2002 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. A04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana Barbacci
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Intelligence Science

This work analyses how the theme of the creation of thinking machines by man, particularly through artificial intelligence, is dealt with on stage, with reference to three plays addressing different topics and characterised by different types of performance. This analysis reveals the particular effectiveness of plays dealing with scientific topics, when the relationship between theatre and science results in reflections transcending the boundaries of its contents to address man and his essence and gives voice to the ancient question of the sense of the world.

scholarly journals Man‐Machine and Machine‐Man in Art: Meeting in Digital

2021 ◽  
pp. 112-127
Author(s):  
G.L. Tulchinskii ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Code ◽  
Original Source ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Artificial Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Wide Horizon

Digitalization has given rise to a substantially new civilizational and existential situation. The mankind development was associated with the creation of collective memory in the form of culture as a system for generating, storing and transmitting social experience, including the creation of an artificial environment. For the main part of history, man likened the world to himself, which made the world understandable. However, over time, the tools and means became less and less anthropomorphic. The world has increasingly become like complex mechanisms. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the relationship between man and machine has become one of the main themes in art. They gave rise to a wide horizon of aesthetic comprehension of this topic: from the pathos of transforming reality (including the person himself) to alarm and horror. However, modern digitalization creates an artificial environment that involves not only the natural environment, but also the biological nature of man. The person himself turns into an artifact. Moreover, under the conditions of digitalization, culture turns into a kind of machine, when reality appears as the realization of a “transcendental” digital code, which acts as an original source for any number of artifacts as its copies. This situation cannot but affect art and aestheticization, which are reduced to the flow of processing digitized data. It is not about new digital technologies in art. It is about changing the format of the entire process of artistic creation and aesthetic reception. A person is transformed from a user of consumption and creativity options into one of the options for a digital mega-machine.

God Makes a World of Difference: The Dialectic of Motivation and Meaning at the Creation of an African Theistic Worldview

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-445
Author(s):  
Gary Burlington
Keyword(s):  
Original Research ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Worldview as a way to understand Christianity (Naugel 2002) and competing accounts of reality (Sire 1997, 2004) focuses on cognitive, rational structures of meaning. But how are worldviews created? What is the relationship of cognition to historical contingency and psychological motivation? To answer these questions, I present original research on the thoughts of Emilio Mulolani Chishimba, founder of Zambia's Mutima Church, and view them through the lens of Charles W. Nuckolls' (1996) theory of culture and myth formation. Missiologists are better prepared to engage the world when they understand the nexus of factors that create specific worldviews.

scholarly journals The Invention of Sacred Places and Rituals: A Comparative Study of Pilgrimage

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 649
Author(s):  
John Eade
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

During the last twenty years around the world there has been a rapid increase in the number of people visiting long established religious shrines as well as the creation of new sites by those operating outside the boundaries of institutional religion. This increase is intimately associated with the revival of traditional routes, the creation of new ones and the invention of new rituals (religious, spiritual and secular). To examine this process, I will focus on the European region and two contrasting destinations in particular—the Catholic shrine of Lourdes, France, and the pre-Christian shrine of Avebury, England—drawing on my personal involvement in travelling to both destinations and being involved in ritual activities along the route and at the two destinations. In the discussion section of the paper, I will explore the relevance of these two case studies to the analysis of power, agency and performance and the ways in which they expose (a) the role of institutions and entrepreneurs in creating rituals and sacred places and (b) the relationship between people and the domesticated landscape.

scholarly journals WORD FORMATION MOTIVATION OF DERIVED WORDS

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
G. Zaysanbayeva ◽  
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G. Akimzhanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the research is to reveal the meaning of the terms of word-formation motivation as an important scientific component in the linguistic analysis of the study of the process of creating derivative words. The article identifies extralinguistic factors that contribute to determining the motivation of nominative units as the basis of the lexical meaning of words. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the development of a methodology for analyzing the word-formation processes of nominative units in the Kazakh language. As a result, the conditions for the formation of the internal form of words are described, which show the connection between word formation and the creation of a language picture of the world, as a factor determining the linvocultural features of the Kazakh people. The motivation of words determines the anthropocentricity of the formation of lexical units and is considered as the rationality of the relationship between the sound shell and the meaning of words. By studying the motivation of words, we can understand what meaning is the basis for this name, how much it has changed, that is, the motivation of the semantics of the word is analyzed synchronously.

The Creaturely View

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-59
Author(s):  
David Cheetham
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Order

What is the nature of the creaturely view? This chapter critiques some of the contemporary literature concerning the theology of creation primarily to discern what kind of vehicle it might be for interreligious dialogue. It will give some attention to the different perspectives on creation: the emanationist, pantheist, and feminist views, and so on. However, the chapter settles on a non-contrastive ex nihilo understanding or what has been called ‘the Christian distinction’. This view makes it clear that finite causal world is emphatically not a model for understanding the relationship between God and the world. The difference is of an entirely different order. The chapter argues that this ‘non-contrastive’ relationship allows one to speak of the freedom of God as well as the gift of meaning to the creation. It thus sets the stage for wisdom to speak ‘for itself’ in the immanent.

scholarly journals An exploration of place: Towards an understanding of spatial character

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunica De Klerk
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Life Form ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Steven Holl ◽  
The Relationship

Architecture and its influences on our daily life form the premise of the study. Every space has a character which is defined by the type of human engagement it solicits. Spaces have varying characters and the suitability of their use depends on whether they are experienced as enchanting or disenchanting. Hermeneutic phenomenology, which emphasise the importance of context when the experience of a phenomenon is considered, guides the investigation. Since the 1970’s various architects have absorbed the hermeneutic phenomenology into their writings and work. Those referred to during the course of this paper include Christian Norberg-Schultz, Steven Holl, Peter Zumthor, Ziona Strelitz, Nabeel Hamdi and Juhani Pallasmaa.Christian Norberg-Schultz translated hermeneutic phenomenology into architecture in his theory defining the Sense of Place. This theory delineates that there are two spatial qualities influencing the experience of an environment, namely, ‘space’ and ‘character’. These qualities are interdependent and are therefore explored independently prior to their exploration as a singular whole. An interdependent eco-system defining the relationship between the Context, User and Built Fabric is proposed within this paper. Observation and in-depth knowledge in all three areas is required for the creation of enchanted environments. If this system falls out of equilibrium, disenchanted environments develop. Enchanting environments engage their users and benefit the community and individuals alike. Disenchanted environments do not support their users, rendering their experience of architecture sombre and austere. The necessity of experiencing the world as a place, and not as a space, is a central theme throughout the paper.

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