From Islands to Archipelagos

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-304
Author(s):  
Johannes Riquet
Keyword(s):  
Physical World ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Space Time ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Logical Space ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Human Element ◽  
Evolutionary Narratives ◽  
Human Extinction

The texts examined in Chapter 4 explore islands in geo(morpho)logical space-time. The chapter begins by discussing how the relational poetics of Darwin’s and Wallace’s writings ask readers to reimagine planetary space as a discontinuous multiplicity of shifting islands. The notion of a geopoetic resonance between the material energies of the physical world and the poetic energies of language guides the analyses of three literary responses to Darwin, Wallace, and their successors. H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and ‘Aepyornis Island’ (1894) figure islands as beleaguered territories haunted by the spectre of human extinction. However, their geopoetic descriptions of volcanism and coral suspend these evolutionary narratives. A century later, Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide explores the radical poetic implications of Darwin and Wallace’s archipelagic thinking. In the novel, the human element intersects with other living forms, physical geography, and textual spaces to form a mutable landscape shaped by conflicts.

Diaghilev and British Writing

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores the diversity of British literary responses to Diaghilev's project, emphasising the way in which the subject matter and methodologies of Diaghilev's modernism were sometimes unexpectedly echoed in expressions of contemporary British writing. These discussions emerge both in writing about Diaghilev's work, and, more discretely, when references to the Russian Ballet find their way into the creative writing of the period, serving to anchor the texts in a particular cultural milieu or to suggest contemporary aesthetic problems in the domain of literary aesthetics developing in the period. Figures from disparate fields, including literature, music and the visual arts, brought to their criticism of the Ballets Russes their individual perspectives on its aesthetics, helping to consolidate the sense of its importance in contributing to the inter-disciplinary flavour of modernism across the arts. In the field of literature, not only did British writers evaluate the Ballets Russes in terms of their own poetics, their relationship to experimentation in the novel and in drama, they developed an increasing sense of the company's place in dance history, its choreographic innovations offering material for wider discussions, opening up the potential for literary modernism's interest in impersonality and in the ‘unsayable’, discussions of the body, primitivism and gender.

Las mentiras en Pedro Páramo

Revue Romane ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-80
Author(s):  
Pol Popovic Karic
Keyword(s):  
Specific Area ◽  
Space Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Juan Rulfo ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pedro Paramo

Four types of lies will be analyzed in the novel Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo. Each one stems from a specific area: space, time, love and death. These lies are complementary; the first two permeate into the other two and these complement each other forming a circle of ambiguity and uncertainty in the narrative.

Space‐time structure as a property derived from the operation of consciousness at the quantum-classical boundary

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Liang Shan
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Problem ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Space Structure ◽  
Time Structure ◽  
Space Time Structure ◽  
Classical Boundary ◽  
Microscopic World ◽  
Near Death Experiences

The space‐time is empirically perceived as a pre-existing property of the universe. However, a special kind of perception that takes place in near-death-experiences (NDEs) is challenging this idea. Here, I will illustrate how understanding of this particular state of consciousness (named the bodiless consciousness) helps us re-think the space‐time structure of the physical world. I first speculate that the bodiless consciousness perceives the physical world as nonlocal 4D. I then propose that the space‐time is a “derived” feature subsequent to the emergence of perception of the bodiless consciousness, rather than a pre-existing and unchangeable property. Next, I explain that the space structure only takes place in the classical (or macroscopic) world rather than in the quantum (or microscopic) world, due to its intrinsic imperceptibility to the bodiless consciousness. Without a presupposed structure of the space, the strangeness of the quantum world is expected. Then, I bring up the old measurement problem. I will argue that it is the bodiless consciousness that may entangle with the superposed state of an observed system and trigger the collapse. Finally, I will briefly discuss the potential relationship between electromagnetic wave and consciousness.

scholarly journals Students' Use of Languaging in Rewriting Events from The Things They Carried

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Beach
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
The Novel ◽  
School Students ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Social Actions

This article describes high school students’ responses to events in the novel, The Things They Carried, leading to their collaborative rewriting to create their own narrative versions of these events. It draws on “enactivist” theory of languaging, an approach to language that focuses on its use as social actions to enact and build relationships with others (Cowley, 2011; Linell, 2009). The focus is on “in-between” meanings constituted by “shared intentionality” (Di Paolo & De Jaegher, 2012) in readers’ transactions with authors’ portrayals of events in texts as well as in responding to uses of languaging in characters’ interactions. Analysis of four students’ rewriting events from the novel indicated that they drew on their responses to the novel to portray tensions in their characters’ interactions as well as their own experiences of coping with these tensions. Students also benefitted from collaboratively creating their narratives through sharing their different perspectives on events in the texts, suggesting the value of using collaborative rewriting activities to enhance students’ literary responses and awareness of how languaging functions to enact relationships.

Angle Estimation with Knowledge-Aided Constraint-Based Space-Time Adaptive Monopulse

2014 ◽  
Vol 998-999 ◽  
pp. 966-970
Author(s):  
Gong Chen ◽  
Wen Chong Xie ◽  
Yong Liang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Space Time ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cognitive Radar ◽  
Angle Estimation ◽  
Numerical Examples ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Tracking Filter

The principle and cost analysis of Constraint-Based Space-Time Adaptive Monopulse (C-STAM) are given. Based on the idea of cognitive radar, a novel Knowledge-Aided Constraint-Based Space-Time Adaptive Monopulse (KA-C-STAM) is proposed. With the knowledge given by a tracking filter in data processing, the KA-C-STAM improves the performance of angle estimation. Numerical examples verify the validity of the novel method.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL AND YANG–MILLS FIELDS, AND THE TREATMENT OF ACCELERATED FRAMES

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (32) ◽  
pp. 7485-7504 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONG-PING HSU ◽  
DANA FINE
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Flat Space ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Inertial Frames ◽  
Theory Of Gravity ◽  
Mills Field ◽  
Time Transformations ◽  
Accelerated Frames

We discuss ideas and problems regarding classical and quantum gravity, gauge theory of gravity, and space–time transformations between accelerated frames. Both Einstein's theory of gravity and Yang–Mills theory are gauge invariant. The invariance principles are at the very heart of our understanding of the physical world. This paper attempts to survey the development and to reveal problems and limitations of various formulations to gravitational and Yang–Mills fields, and to space–time transformations of accelerated frames. Gravitational force and accelerated frames are two ingredients in Einstein's thought in the period around 1907. Accelerated frames are difficult to define and are not well developed. However, one cannot claim to have a complete understanding of the physical world, if one understands flat space–time physics only from the viewpoint of the special class of inertial frames and ignores the vast class of noninertial frames. The paper highlights three aspects: (1) ideas of gravity as a Yang–Mills field, first discussed by Utiyama; (2) problems of quantum gravity, discussed by Feynman, Dyson and others; (3) space–time properties and the physics of fields and particles in accelerated frames of reference. These unfulfilled aspects of Einstein and Yang–Mills' profound thoughts present a challenge to physicists and mathematicians in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Missing Entities: Has Panpsychism Lost the Physical World?

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 194-211
Author(s):  
D. Aleksiev
Keyword(s):  
Quantum State ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Explanatory Gap ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Problem Space

Panpsychists aspire to explain human consciousness, but can they also account for the physical world? In this paper, I argue that proponents of a popular form of panpsychism cannot. I pose a new challenge against this form of panpsychism: it faces an explanatory gap between the fundamental experiences it posits and some physical entities. I call the problem of explaining the existence of these physical entities within the panpsychist framework 'the missing entities problem'. Space-time, the quantum state, and quantum gravitational entities constitute three explanatory gaps as instances of the missing entities problem. Panpsychists are obliged to solve all instances of the missing entities problem; otherwise, panpsychism cannot be considered a viable theory of consciousness.

Analysis of Minimum Decoding Complexity Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code for 6 Transmit Antennas

2013 ◽  
Vol 694-697 ◽  
pp. 2568-2571
Author(s):  
Mang Liao ◽  
Meng Xing Wang ◽  
Ling Xu Jin
Keyword(s):  
Block Code ◽  
Space Time ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Time Block ◽  
Decoding Complexity ◽  
Space Time Block Code ◽  
Full Diversity ◽  
Orthogonal Space ◽  
Transmission Reliability ◽  
Linear Decoding

Previous work on quasi-orthogonal space-time block code (QO-STBC) has been designed to achieve full rate and full diversity gain for four antennas. However this conventional QO-STBC scheme decoding is complex. For achieving more diversity gains, an extended QO-STBC scheme is provided to achieve full diversity with one rate for six antennas. Furthermore, by transforming the detection matrix to an orthogonal one, this novel scheme can achieve a simple linear decoding. Therefore it proposes an extended minimum decoding complexity QO-STBC (MDC-QO-STBC) for six antennas. Due to eliminate the interference from different equivalent channels, the novel extended MDC-QO-STBC scheme improves transmission reliability and linear decoding complex compared with the conventional QO-STBC scheme. At last extensive simulation results are presented to prove the theoretical analysis.

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