The Poetry and the Prose of the Future

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Third ◽  
Science Of History ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Poetic Response ◽  
Century Science

The Introduction examines three moments that have proven foundational for the fraught relationship between poetry and history. The first occurs in the fourth century B. C. in Aristotle’s Poetics, the earliest attempt to provide a systematic definition of the structure and effects of poetry and, consequently, the origin of all later crises of verse. The second appears in Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire, a text that offers a complicated poetic response to a moment of crisis in Marx’s own historical method. The third appears in the early writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, where, against the onset of the nineteenth-century science of history, the demand to see history become poetry is made explicit. Focusing on these three moments, the Introduction establishes the intellectual-historical coordinates of the poetico-historical problem that T. S. Eliot and Walter Benjamin inherit.

Relics and Divination

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
Robert Wiśniewski
Keyword(s):  
Early Period ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
Material Evidence ◽  
Written Sources

As early as in the second half of the fourth century, Gregory of Nazianzus assured his audience that the saints, living or dead, had the power to predict the future. This chapter seeks to explain how such predictions were obtained. There were at least three divinatory practices in which relics could be used: incubation in martyrs’ sanctuaries, interrogation of demoniacs in the presence of relics, and the drawing of lots on martyrs’ tombs. The problem is that the literary evidence for the first practice in the early period is rather scarce, for the second, exceedingly scanty, while for the third it is simply non-existent (we only know about it from material evidence). This reticence of the written sources does not necessarily reflect the actual popularity of these methods and plausibly results from their ambiguous character—neither praised nor condemned, they have left very few traces in literature.

‘Copyright Work and its Definition with Regard to Originality and AI’ – Conference Report on the Fourth Binational Seminar of TU Dresden and Charles University in Prague, 27 June 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
David Linke ◽  
David Petrlík
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bill Gates ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract Bill Gates once wrote ‘I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence’ and positioned himself on the question of Artificial Intelligence.1 Mr Gates was, however, concerned about the future of AI in order to be able to supply not only intelligent but also exceptional products. Following the third binational seminar in November 2018 on the topic ‘Software and Artificial Intelligence – Old and New Challenges for Patent Law’,2 colleagues from the IGETeM, TU Dresden and Charles University in Prague met in Dresden on 27 June 2019 to focus on this question from the perspective of copyright. They also dealt with other current issues involving copyright, such as definition of work and the notion of originality.

The Romance of Transportation in Wordsworth, Emerson, De Quincey, and Dickinson

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Li-Hsin Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
The Future ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Technological Sublime

This essay investigates diverging transatlantic attitudes towards mechanisation in the mid-nineteenth century by looking at the portrayals of steam engines in Anglo-American Romantic literary works by Wordsworth, Emerson, De Quincey and Dickinson. Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes how time and space are ‘annihilated’ with the speed of industrialization. Walter Benjamin, alternatively, indicates how the metaphoric dressing up of steam engines as living creatures was a retreat from industrialization and modernization. Those conflicting perceptions of what David Nye calls the ‘technological sublime’ became sources of joy as well as sorrow for these authors. The essay examines how the literary representations of transportation show various literary attempts to make sense of and rewrite the technological promise of the future into distinct aesthetic experiences of modernity. Their imaginative engagement with the railway showcases a genealogy of metaphorical as well as mechanic transportation that indicates an evolving process of Romantic thought across the Atlantic Ocean.

III. Lord Macaulay, 1800–59

1959 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Andrew Browning
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Eventual Collapse ◽  
Great Exhibition

It was the fortune of Thomas Babington Macaulay to be born into a chaotic world; to grow to manhood amidst constant wars, revolutions, counterrevolutions and reform movements scarcely distinguishable from revolutions; to take a leading part in some of these movements at home and in India, and to be an eye-witness of others in France; to live long enough to see the gradual return of stability on a foundation holding out the brightest hopes for the future, and to die early enough to escape even the first faint indication that these hopes were not to be fulfilled. He was born (on the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt, as he loved to recall) between the fall of the republic in France and the rise of Napoleon to despotic authority. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, with which he and his family were to have so long and so distinguished an association, between the battle of Waterloo and the battle of Peterloo. He attained his majority amidst the revolutions of 1821, entered Parliament amidst the revolutions of 1830, and published the first two volumes of his History amidst the revolutions of 1848. He was still at the height of his powers when the Great Exhibition of 1851 was hailed as ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity, and died eight years later, just in time to avoid witnessing the series of wars which marked the third quarter of the nineteenth century and the beginning of that bitter commercial rivalry and international tension which foreshadowed the eventual collapse.

Myth and Metrology: The Early Trans-Saharan Gold Trade

1982 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy F. Garrard
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ivory Coast ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Weight System ◽  
North African ◽  
Tax System ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North

Coins and weights provide evidence which can throw light on the origins of the trans-Saharan gold trade. Such a trade does not seem to have existed before the end of the third century a.d., but from 296 to 311 an irregular gold coinage was issued at Carthage, and by the end of the fourth century there were significant changes in the North African tax system to enable more gold to be collected. The solidus, a coin first issued in 312, provided the standard used for weighing gold-dust in the trans-Saharan trade, while copper, a major item of merchandise in that trade, was being imported to Jenne-Jeno by a.d. 400. This strongly suggests that the gold trade first assumed significance in the fourth century. The trade was evidently flourishing before the Arab conquest, for the Byzantine mint of Carthage produced a copious output of gold between 534 and 695. For weighing gold-dust, the standard based on the Roman ounce and the solidus was retained by the Arabs, and survived until the nineteenth century in the Western Sudan. It was also adopted by the Akan of Ghana and Ivory Coast, who made it the basis of their weight-system from about 1400 to 1900.

scholarly journals Beyond the Pletzl: Jewish urban histories in interwar France

Urban History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 577-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIN CORBER ◽  
MEREDITH L. SCOTT-WEAVER ◽  
NICK UNDERWOOD ◽  
NADIA MALINOVICH
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Administrative Structures

In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin described Paris as ‘the capital of the nineteenth century’, the hub of cultural transformations precipitated by the rise of industrial capitalism. For good reasons, Jewish historians have followed suit in identifying Paris as the focal point for studies of political, social, cultural, demographic and economic change in France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, native French Jewish religious and cultural administrative structures, implemented during Napoleon I's reign and further entrenched by reforms in the Third Republic, are centred in Paris. These conditions have rendered an abundance of source material documenting the rest of the country from the centre, a phenomenon that places even more weight on the capital as a locus for national processes that occur in its image.

scholarly journals O retorno da Companhia de Jesus no Segundo Reinado: representações dos jesuítas nas páginas da Revista do IHGB (1839-1886) * The return of the Society of Jesus in the Second Empire representations of the Jesuits in the pages of Revista do IHGB (1839-1886

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
SIMONE TIAGO DOMINGOS
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
National History ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of

<p><strong>Resumo</strong>: A busca de evidências históricas visando tanto a definição de uma história nacional quanto a resolução prática de questões políticas que demandavam uma solução durante o Segundo Reinado foi uma das preocupações dos membros do IHGB. Dentre os temas recorrentes em sua <em>Revista</em> estava, desde 1839, a Companhia de Jesus. Cumprindo o papel de experiência vivida capaz de sugerir alternativas para ações no presente e no futuro, o passado colonial da Ordem foi reeditado em outros termos e com objetivos próprios dos meados do século XIX, alimentando um debate com posicionamentos diversos sobre o desempenho desses religiosos. Neste artigo, propomos destacar, a partir de duas publicações do sócio Cônego J. C. Fernandes Pinheiro datadas da década de 1850, uma das leituras divulgadas sobre os jesuítas e os seus possíveis vínculos com o implemento de uma política de tendência centralizadora.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>: IHGB – Jesuítas – Representações.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract</strong>: A search for historical evidence aimed at both the definition of a national history and the practical resolution of political issues that demanded a solution during the Second Empire was one of the concerns of the members of IHGB. Among the recurring themes in the <em>Magazine</em> there was, since 1839, the Society of Jesus. Fulfilling the role of experience able to suggest alternative for actions in the present and in the future, the  colonial past of the Order was reedited in other terms and own goals from the mid-nineteenth century, fueling a debate with various positions on the performance of the Order. In this paper, we propose to highlight, from two publications of J. C. Fernandes Pinheiro dating from the 1850s, one of the readings disclosed about the Jesuits and their possible links to the implementation of centralization policy.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: IHGB – Jesuits – Representations.</p>

Challenges of Fear Conditioning Research in the Age of RDoC

2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina B. Lonsdorf ◽  
Jan Richter
Keyword(s):  
Fear Conditioning ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Research Domain Criteria ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Research Domain

Abstract. As the criticism of the definition of the phenotype (i.e., clinical diagnosis) represents the major focus of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, it is somewhat surprising that discussions have not yet focused more on specific conceptual and procedural considerations of the suggested RDoC constructs, sub-constructs, and associated paradigms. We argue that we need more precise thinking as well as a conceptual and methodological discussion of RDoC domains and constructs, their interrelationships as well as their experimental operationalization and nomenclature. The present work is intended to start such a debate using fear conditioning as an example. Thereby, we aim to provide thought-provoking impulses on the role of fear conditioning in the age of RDoC as well as conceptual and methodological considerations and suggestions to guide RDoC-based fear conditioning research in the future.

Alkohol im Tank – Bio-Kraftstoffe und die Grenzen moderner Mobilität

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (136) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Hartwig Berger
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World

The article discusses the future of mobility in the light of energy resources. Fossil fuel will not be available for a long time - not to mention its growing environmental and political conflicts. In analysing the potential of biofuel it is argued that the high demands of modern mobility can hardly be fulfilled in the future. Furthermore, the change into using biofuel will probably lead to increasing conflicts between the fuel market and the food market, as well as to conflicts with regional agricultural networks in the third world. Petrol imperialism might be replaced by bio imperialism. Therefore, mobility on a solar base pursues a double strategy of raising efficiency on the one hand and strongly reducing mobility itself on the other.

ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF CLASSIFICATION OF THE CONCEPTS OF INFORMATICS STUDIED AT SECONDARY SCHOOL

2018 ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
S. I. Zenko
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Definition Of

The article raises the problem of classification of the concepts of computer science and informatics studied at secondary school. The efficiency of creation of techniques of training of pupils in these concepts depends on its solution. The author proposes to consider classifications of the concepts of school informatics from four positions: on the cross-subject basis, the content lines of the educational subject "Informatics", the logical and structural interrelations and interactions of the studied concepts, the etymology of foreign-language and translated words in the definition of the concepts of informatics. As a result of the first classification general and special concepts are allocated; the second classification — inter-content and intra-content concepts; the third classification — stable (steady), expanding, key and auxiliary concepts; the fourth classification — concepts-nouns, conceptsverbs, concepts-adjectives and concepts — combinations of parts of speech.

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