scholarly journals Object-disoriented geographies: the Ghost Tower of Bangkok and the topology of anxiety

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucas Pohl
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Lacanian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Object A ◽  
Ontological Priority ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
Material Conditions

There is a broad consensus that psychoanalytic theory cannot offer an account to further engage with the ontological turn toward the object that human sciences face today. In particular, the structuralist side of psychoanalysis, most prominently promoted by Jacques Lacan, is supposed to be unable to grasp an object independently from the subject. Against this background, it is no surprise that ‘object-oriented’ geographers ignore psychoanalytic theory. My aim is to investigate the interstices between the object-oriented turn and Lacanian psychoanalysis. I argue that the critiques miss a crucial aspect of Lacan’s ontology: he does not question that there are objects located ‘out there’, but rather adds that psychoanalysis engages with another object whose location remains uncertain. I follow Lacan’s most important invention, the object a, to argue that this object is crucial to understanding the ontology of Lacan as an ‘object-disoriented’ ontology. While object-oriented approaches in cultural geography give ontological priority to the material conditions of existence, Lacanian ontology allows us to understand how material objects become spectralized through an immaterial surplus. To substantiate this claim, I explore the role of anxiety with regard to the Sathorn Unique Tower, an abandoned skyscraper sitting in the middle of Bangkok. Widely known as the ‘Ghost Tower’, this ruin is internationally considered to be haunted. By focusing on a movie and an interview about the Ghost Tower as well as my own ethnographic observation of it, I not only explore the topological dimension of the ghost but also demonstrate that it is precisely the impossibility of localization that enables an object to disorientate the subject.

scholarly journals Models of downward motion and their metaphorical potential (in Russian and Chinese)

2020 ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Tao Tszin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Spatial Localization ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Motion Models ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Subject Of Cognition ◽  
Physical Causation ◽  
Variable Representation

The paper analyses the hypothesis of a mental structure as movement models to categorize the changes by the example of variable representation of performance indicators of the downward direction in Chinese and Russian. The research materials are the lexical and semantic variants of indicators xia and c-1, including the dictionary definitions and semantic features described by Chinese and Russian scholars. By reconstructing the physical causation processes repre-sented by two indicators, we found that in the Chinese language consciousness, a human body is a landmark for determining “the TOP”/“the BOTTOM.” In Russian, it is another object. The principal figure in the anthropic-oriented model is the subject of cognition, combining the role of a landmark for determining “the TOP”/“the BOTTOM.” During the metaphoric im-plementation, SOMETHING “placed” originally in the area of “anthropic-oriented TOP” ap-pears in the area of “anthropic-oriented BOTTOM” as a result of the manipulation. Depending on the nature of SOMETHING, the correlations are formed: “the BOTTOM – the zone under control,” “the BOTTOM – the zone of certainty,” “the BOTTOM – the zone of embod-iment,” “the BOTTOM – the zone of passivity.” Three variations of the object-oriented model implementation were revealed: changes destroying the current situation, changes towards “decreasing,” and repositioning of SOMETHING. In general, when implementing an object-oriented model, the correlation between the idea of “being on something” and understanding “being” prevails. Thus, the variability of metaphorization of changes is explained by different motion models being implemented and is due to spatial localization being a landmark-dependent operation and variability of a landmark choice.

scholarly journals Use of Faultlessness Indicator to Rate Human Reliability in Human – Operating Aircraft System

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Maciejewska ◽  
Paweł Fuć ◽  
Marta Galant ◽  
Monika Kardach
Keyword(s):  
Research Result ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Technical Object ◽  
Object A ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Aircraft System ◽  
Main Influence

Abstract In the M–T–E (man – technology – environment) system, human has a main influence on aircraft. In the article focused on M–T relations, which means human – technology, more accurately on a man impact on a plane, which is specify as human factor [3]. The role of human in this system can lead to an accident, caused by human mistake. In this article fa main question is how man effects on maintenance aircraft. To purpose the analysis the research was made with use of technical object – a simulator, which is located in Simulator Research Laboratory in Institute of Combustion Engines and Transport at Poznan University of Technology. The subject of analysis was a correctness of performing procedures, which every pilot is obligated to make before start operation. Based on tabular research result the analysis of chosen area was made.

scholarly journals Fun until the end: The nightclub fantasy in the Italian cinema of the economic miracle

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-154
Author(s):  
Giorgio Mobili
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Sexual Relationship ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Italian Cinema ◽  
The Real ◽  
Object A ◽  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Capitalist Ideology

This article examines the use of the nightclub trope in three films from the early years of the Italian “economic miracle”: Luchino Visconti’s White Nights (1957), Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria (1957), and Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte (1961). Availing myself of psychoanalytic theory, I discuss how, in these three films, the nightclub is deployed as a hermeneutic space that sheds light on the functioning of the then nascent ideology of consumption, specifically on the way it captures the subject through fantasy. Capitalism earns our allegiance by creating the illusion that the ontological lack that marks us as subjects is in fact only contingent, and thus remediable through the acquisition of an empirical object (a commodity) that might yield the total enjoyment we crave. In mainstream Hollywood cinema—the chief disseminator of the capitalist ideology—this illusion is mostly fostered through the fantasy of the successful sexual relationship (or romantic fantasy). Through the nightclub trope, Fellini, Visconti, and Antonioni deconstruct this fantasy by letting it unfold well past the point at which Hollywood endings would stop, until it inevitably unravels into an encounter with the Real: nothing but loss awaits us at the end of fantasy. Yet this traumatic moment is politically crucial: once we realize that the enjoyment we failed to attain was always already lost, we will be free from the capitalist injunction to consume and accumulate—from the crippling illusion that our happiness lies but one more purchase away.

The place of object-oriented programming in the school informatics course and in the system of training future informatics teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
M. A. Fedotenko
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
National Development ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Training System ◽  
Object Oriented Programming ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Modern Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents an analytical review devoted to determining the place and role of object-oriented programming in the school informatics course and in the system of training future informatics teachers. The relationship between the content of the school informatics course and the content of subject training of future informatics teachers with the modern level of development of informatics as a science, as well as with the national development strategy of the Russian Federation are identified and highlighted. The conclusion is made about the relevance and expediency of expanding the role of object-oriented programming both in the content of the school informatics course and in the content of the subject training of future teachers of this course. On the example of the methodological training system developed by the author, the possibilities of such an expansion are proposed by developing interdisciplinary connections with methodological disciplines (through the development of educational mobile applications) are proposed.

Top-Down Processing and Visual Reorientation Illusions in a Virtual Reality Environment

2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred W. Mast ◽  
Charles M. Oman
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Line Length ◽  
Perceptual Cues ◽  
Virtual Reality Environment ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Test Conditions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Processing Mechanisms

The role of top-down processing on the horizontal-vertical line length illusion was examined by means of an ambiguous room with dual visual verticals. In one of the test conditions, the subjects were cued to one of the two verticals and were instructed to cognitively reassign the apparent vertical to the cued orientation. When they have mentally adjusted their perception, two lines in a plus sign configuration appeared and the subjects had to evaluate which line was longer. The results showed that the line length appeared longer when it was aligned with the direction of the vertical currently perceived by the subject. This study provides a demonstration that top-down processing influences lower level visual processing mechanisms. In another test condition, the subjects had all perceptual cues available and the influence was even stronger.

The future role of the psychiatrist in Europe – a UEMS perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
M. Hermans
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Personal Opinion ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many

SummaryThe author presents his personal opinion inviting to discussion on the possible future role of psychiatrists. His view is based upon the many contacts with psychiatrists all over Europe, academicians and everyday professionals, as well as the familiarity with the literature. The list of papers referred to is based upon (1) the general interest concerning the subject when representing ideas also worded elsewhere, (2) the accessibility to psychiatrists and mental health professionals in Germany, (3) being costless downloadable for non-subscribers and (4) for some geographic aspects (e.g. Belgium, Spain, Sweden) and the latest scientific issues, addressing some authors directly.

Alignment

2016 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Subject

The subject of alignment is not new to the world of education. Today however, it has come to mean different things and to have a heuristic value in education according to research in different areas, not least for neuroscience, and to attention to skills and to the alternation framework.This paper, after looking at the classic references that already attributed an important role to alignment in education processes, looks at the strategic role of alignment in the current context, outlining the shared construction processes and focusing on some of the ways in which this is put into effect.Alignment is part of a participatory, enactive approach that gives a central role to the interaction between teaching and learning, avoiding the limits of behaviourism, which has a greater bias towards teaching, and cognitivism/constructivism, which focus their attention on learning and in any case, on that which separates a teacher preparing the environment and a student working in it.

TheOrvosi Hetilap (Hungarian Medical Journal)in the network of medical journals

2014 ◽  
Vol 155 (22) ◽  
pp. 876-879
Author(s):  
András Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Network ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
The Subject

The role of networks is swiftly increasing in the production and communication of scientific knowledge. Network aspects have, therefore, an ever growing importance in the analysis of the scientific enterprise, as well. The present paper demonstrates some techniques of studying the network of scientific journals on the subject of seeking the position of Orvosi Hetilap (Hungarian Medical Journal) in the international journal network. Orv. Hetil., 2014, 155(22), 876–879.

The Impact of Quantitative Easing on Emerging Markets – Literature Review

e-Finanse ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-76
Author(s):  
Piotr Bartkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Quantitative Easing ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sufficient Precision

AbstractThe article presents the results of the review of the empirical literature regarding the impact of quantitative easing (QE) on emerging markets (EMs). The subject is of interest to policymakers and researchers due to the increasingly larger role of EMs in the world economy and the large-scale capital flows occurring after 2009. The review is conducted in a systematic manner and takes into consideration different methodological choices, samples and measurement issues. The paper puts the summarized results in the context of transmission channels identified in the literature. There are few distinct methodological approaches present in the literature. While there is a consensus regarding the direction of the impact of QE on EMs, its size and durability have not yet been assessed with sufficient precision. In addition, there are clear gaps in the empirical findings, not least related to relative underrepresentation of the CEE region (in particular, Poland).

Contemporary Machiavellian theses "The strategy of the role of the absurd state as a model"

2020 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Ali Hussein Hameed ◽  
Saif Hayder AL.Husainy
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Decision Maker ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Area Of Influence ◽  
The Right ◽  
Modern Technologies

In the anarchism that governs the nature and patterns of international relations characterized by instability and uncertainty in light of several changes, as well as the information revolution and the resulting developments and qualitative breakthroughs in the field of scientific and advanced technological knowledge and modern technologies.  All of these variables pushed toward the information flow and flow tremendously, so rationality became an indispensable matter for the decision maker as he faces these developments and changes. There must be awareness and rationality in any activity or behavior because it includes choosing the best alternative and making the right decision and selecting the information accurately and mental processing Through a mental system based on objectivity, methodology, and accumulated experience away from idealism and imagination, where irrationality and anarchy are a reflection of the fragility of the decision-maker, his lack of awareness of the subject matter, his irresponsibility, and recklessness that inevitably leads to failure by wasting time and Effort and potential. The topic acquires its importance from a search in the strategies of the frivolous state and its characteristics with the ability to influence the regional, and what it revealed is a turning point in how to adapt from the variables and employ them to their advantage and try to prove their existence. Thus, the problem comes in the form of a question about the possibility of the frivolous state in light of the context of various regional and international events and trends. The answer to this question stems from the main hypothesis that (the aim which the frustrating state seeks to prove is that it finds itself compelled to choose several strategies that start from the nature of its characteristics and the goals that aim at it, which are centered in the circle of its interests in the field of its struggle for the sake of its survival and area of influence).

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