Conversion, Palinody, Traces

2021 ◽  
pp. 528-545
Author(s):  
Jennifer Rushworth
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear

Taking three terms which represent different ways of relating to experience, time, and narration, this chapter proposes attention to what remains, in the form traces, against the pressure of conversion which requires, instead, a complete break with the past. Traces are here understood as vestiges or footprints, with literal and metaphorical implications inspired by Sigmund Freud’s reading of Gradiva’s footsteps in his essay on Jensen’s novel, and followed back to Beatrice’s footsteps in Vita Nova and Inferno. Just as Freud understands Pompeii as a symbol of a force which is at once destructive and preservative—in other words, repression—, so this chapter shows that palinody in Dante is a mechanism that conserves as well as hides. The resultant understanding of Dante’s works is volcanic as well as non-linear.

In search of lost space: The process of space planning through remembering and history

Organization ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio James Petani ◽  
Jeanne Mengis
Keyword(s):  
Production Of Space ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Contested Narratives

This article explores the role of remembering and history in the process of planning new spaces. We trace how the organizational remembering of past spaces enters the conception (i.e. planning) of a large culture center. By drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s reflections on history, time and memory, we analyze the processual interconnections of his spatial triad, namely between the planned, practiced, and lived moments of the production of space. We find that over time space planning involves recurrent, changing, and contested narratives on ‘lost spaces’, remembering happy spaces of the past that articulate a desire to regain them. The notion of lost space adds to our understanding of how space planning involves, through organizational remembering, a sociomaterial and spatiotemporal work of relating together different spaces and times in non-linear narratives of repetition.

Approximations and boundary conditions for continuous-time threshold autoregressive processes

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 1103-1109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob J. Hyndman
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Autoregressive Processes ◽  
Threshold Autoregressive ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Threshold ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
The Way

Continuous-time threshold autoregressive (CTAR) processes have been developed in the past few years for modelling non-linear time series observed at irregular intervals. Several approximating processes are given here which are useful for simulation and inference. Each of the approximating processes implicitly defines conditions on the thresholds, thus providing greater understanding of the way in which boundary conditions arise.

scholarly journals How to deal with non-linear pathways towards energy futures

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Stefan Vögele ◽  
Witold-Roger Poganietz ◽  
Philip Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Policy Advice ◽  
Linear Extrapolation ◽  
Energy Futures ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Simplifying Assumptions ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Linear Trends

Energy scenarios currently in use for policy advice are based on a number of simplifying assumptions. This includes, in particular, the linear extrapolation of trends. However, this approach ignores the fact that central variables were highly dynamic in the past. For an assessment of energy futures and the specification of measures, novel approaches are necessary which can implement non-linear trends. In this paper, we show how cross-impact balance (CIB) analysis can be applied to map dynamic trends. Using a small CIB model, we highlight the need for novel approaches in the creation and evaluation of energy futures and the possible contribution of CIB analysis.

The Static Aeroelasticity of Slender Configurations

1963 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Static Stability ◽  
Aerodynamic Forces ◽  
Flexible Aircraft ◽  
The Past ◽  
Plate Models ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
The Future ◽  
Static Aeroelasticity ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Image Position

SummaryThe validity and applicability of the static margin (stick fixed) Kn,where as defined by Gates and Lyon is shown to be restricted to the conventional flexible aircraft. Alternative suggestions for the definition of static margin are put forward which can be equally applied to the conventional flexible aircraft of the past and the integrated flexible aircraft of the future. Calculations have been carried out on simple slender plate models with both linear and non-linear aerodynamic forces to assess their static stability characteristics.

Telling the Traumas of History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Lipson Freed
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Distortions ◽  
Leslie Marmon Silko ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Small Things ◽  
The Third Person

Focusing on the novels Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, and The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, Chapter 2 uses trauma theory to explore how histories of imperial domination refuse to be confined to the past. These two novels invite readers to identify to varying degrees with their traumatized protagonists, holding out the possibility of a resistant and revisionary “history from below.” Ultimately, however, a careful analysis of these two works reveals how literary trauma theorists, in their eagerness to give voice to the voiceless, are too readily taken in by the imaginative construct of the third-person narrator. While individual characters in these novels may suffer the cognitive distortions of trauma, the fragmentary, non-linear account that their readers receive is, in both cases, mediated by the presence of a narrator whose choices are conscious, volitional, and strategic.

scholarly journals Speculating Ancestor(ie)s: The Cavernous Memory of White Innocence and Fluid Embodiments of Afrofuturist Memory-Work

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Javier Ernesto Perez
Keyword(s):  
Racial Violence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
White Innocence

Enduring legacies of racial violence signal the need to reconcile with the past. This paper comparatively explores various speculative works that either reinforce a paradigm of White innocence that serves to deny such legacies or center critical dialogue between the past and present. It draws on a range of theoretical works, including Seshadri-Crooks’s (2000) Lacanian analysis of race, Taylor’s (2003) notion of the body as repertoire for embodied knowledge, Wright’s (2015) concept of Black epiphenomenal time, and Hartman’s (2008b) method of ‘critical fabulation.’ Through an analysis of the narrative tropes of caves and mirrors in the Star Wars Skywalker saga (1977–1983; 2015–2019), this paper firstly unpacks the bounded individualism that permits protagonists Luke and Rey Skywalker to refute their evil Sith lord ancestry and prevail as heroes. It then turns to the works Black Panther (2018) and Watchmen (2019) to comparatively examine Afrofuturist narrative strategies of collectivity, embodiment, and non-linear temporality that destabilize bounded notions of self and time to reckon with the complexities of the past. It concludes that speculative approaches to ancestral (dis)connections are indicative of epistemological frameworks that can either circumvent or forefront ongoing demands to grapple with the past.

Non-Linear Model of Rubber Bearings under Random Excitation

2012 ◽  
Vol 452-453 ◽  
pp. 602-606
Author(s):  
Hai Yan Jing ◽  
Yan Ping Zheng ◽  
Ming Xia Fang
Keyword(s):  
Past Research ◽  
Random Excitation ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Statistical Characteristics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Rubber Bearings ◽  
Force Displacement ◽  
Sinusoidal Excitation

Through dynamics test and theoretical analysis about rubber bearings in Auto body’s sub-frame, and the past research results of sinusoidal excitation, a hysteretic non-linear mathematical model of the rubber bearings is established under the condition of random excitation. The model shows that the hysteretic renewed force of the rubber bearings under random excitation can be expressed with the mean value and variance of random excitation’s statistical characteristics and speed. Finally curves of the hysteretic renewed force - displacement are reconstructed with the model built, which match the test’s results well.

Light Falling on England: History and Landscape in the Poetry of C. H. Sisson

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 406-435
Author(s):  
Kevin Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Linear Theory ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Living History ◽  
English History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uncertain Future

AbstractThe defining characteristic of the poetry of C. H. Sisson (1914–2003) may be its complex understanding of time. Pervading his work is an incessant fascination with the history and landscape of England that hinges on a non-linear theory of time. Sisson imagines events past and present swirling together in eddies of dislocated English history. He associates the English landscape not only with a past still vibrantly alive but with moral virtue as well. A profound commitment to Anglicanism and monarchism also notably marks his poetry. Sisson's attention to the history and landscape of England substantiates and justifies his commitments to church and crown. This Drydenesque Toryism, rooted in the landscape of his poetic imagination, enables him to conceptualize time as an undisrupted flow in which history and the present merge seamlessly and offer comfort against an uncertain future. The poetry of C. H. Sisson is the poetry of hope, amid the desolation of the present, located in the living history of the past.

scholarly journals Behavioral evidence for memory replay of video episodes in macaque monkeys

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuzhen Zuo ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Junghan Shin ◽  
Yudian Cai ◽  
Sang Wan Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Rhesus Monkeys ◽  
Temporal Order ◽  
Irrelevant Information ◽  
Macaque Monkeys ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Temporal Order Judgement ◽  
Behavioral Evidence ◽  
Past Experiences

ABSTRACTHumans recall the past by replaying fragments of events temporally. Here, we demonstrate a similar effect in macaques. We trained six rhesus monkeys with a temporal-order judgement (TOJ) task and collected 5000 TOJ trials. In each trial, they watched a naturalistic video of about 10 s comprising two across-context clips, and after a 2-s delay, performed TOJ between two frames from the video. The monkeys apply a non-linear forward, time-compressed replay mechanism during the temporal-order judgement. In contrast with humans, such compression of replay is however not sophisticated enough to allow them to skip over irrelevant information by compressing the encoded video globally. We also reveal that the monkeys detect event contextual boundaries and such detection facilitates recall by an increased rate of information accumulation. Demonstration of a time-compressed, forward replay like pattern in the macaque monkeys provides insights into the evolution of episodic memory in our lineage.Impact StatementMacaque monkeys temporally compress past experiences and use a forward-replay mechanism during judgment of temporal-order between episodes.

scholarly journals O texto eletrônico e suas particularidades textuais

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Flavia Susana Krug
Keyword(s):  
Virtual World ◽  
Electronic Text ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Medium ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear

RESUMO: Criou-se um imenso mundo virtual de informação, a partir do advento da Internet. Neste universo prático da informação, disponível a qualquer instante, somaram-se ambientes tramados para interligar as pessoas. A leitura, especialmente a literária, além da escrita numa velocidade espantosa, modificadas e dispostas nos mais diversos formatos, alteraram-se, consideravelmente, e atualmente ler não é mais como antigamente. Dos rolos impressos às telas digitais, o leitor utiliza artefatos diferenciados para o contato com a leitura. De forma não linear, tem-se, portanto, uma infinidade de opções para se completar o processo de leitura de um texto, agora também disposto no meio eletrônico. Virar a página atualmente corresponde a um diferente formato quando acionada pelo toque na tela ou do mouse. Neste artigo, optou-se por refletir brevemente acerca da leitura nas telas, o formato do texto eletrônico e sua textualidade digital. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: leitura; textualidade; texto eletrônico; leitor.   ABSTRACT: An immense virtual world of information has been created from the advent of the Internet. In this practical universe of information, available at any time, we have added environments designed to interconnect people. Reading, especially literary, as well as writing at an astonishing speed, modified and arranged in the most diverse formats, have changed considerably, and nowadays reading is no longer as it was in the past. From the rolls printed to the digital screens, the reader uses differentiated artifacts for the contact with reading. In a non-linear way, we have, therefore, an infinity of options to complete the process of reading a text, now also available in the electronic medium. Currently turning the purchased page corresponds to a different format when triggered by touching the screen or the mouse. In this article we have chosen to reflect briefly on the reading on the screens, the format of the electronic text and its digital textuality..   KEYWORDS: reading; textuality; electronic text; reader.  

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