Bigger Than Life

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Doane
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Surround Sound ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close-up, particularly of the face, as grotesque and often horrifying, even as it sought to expose a character's interiority through its magnification of detail and expression. Today, large-scale technologies such as IMAX and surround sound strive to dissolve the cinematic frame and invade the spectator's space, “immersing” them in image and sound. The notion of immersion, Doane contends, is symptomatic of a crisis of location in technologically mediated space and a reconceptualization of position, scale, and distance. In this way, cinematic scale and its modes of spatialization and despatialization have shaped the modern subject, interpolating them into the incessant expansion of commodification.

The Eclipse

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-130
Author(s):  
Samy Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Gaza Strip

2006-2010: during these four decisive years in the history of the peace movement, the movement experienced a dramatic eclipse. Within an Israeli society that had grown increasingly nationalist, more attached to symbols of Jewish identity and the memory of the Holocaust, more concerned than ever about security, and less interested in making peace with the Palestinians, the movement was incapable both of promoting a message of peace and taking a stance on the subject of human rights. It seemed apathetic, paralyzed, almost non-existent in the face of the terrible events that marked the period. This chapter shows how and why this eclipse occurred. These years were punctuated by two large-scale military operations, the war in Lebanon in July 2006 and Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip from late 2008 to early 2009. These hostilities caused turmoil in the Israeli collective psychology and the perception of war and peace.

scholarly journals end of all taxation and censorship using blockchain technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (08) ◽  
pp. 604-610
Author(s):  
Tanmay Munjal
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Free Flow ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Surveillance Technology ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Free Flow Of Information ◽  
And Control ◽  
Flow Of Information

Large scale censorship and control over the free flow of information on the internet that was already implemented on a large scale in many authoritarian countries in China in the past few decades has started to work its way through the more liberal and western countries including India, US etc. especially in the last decade raising concerns over privacy issues and the possibility of a dystopian future of tyrannical governments empowered by the use of digital surveillance technology to increase their power and make them essentially undefeatable on a level unforeseen in the history of humanity among many great thinkers in our era. In this paper, we wish to outline a method to not only combat but to completely eliminate both the possibility and current usage of all censorship and control over flow of information on the internet, hence heralding an era of free flow of information throughout the world and destroying practically all mind control that tyrannical governments can hold over their people, in essence ending the era of propaganda and tyranny from the face of this earth forever, using blockchain technology.

Producing Immunity across the Hinterlands

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-77
Author(s):  
Mary Augusta Brazelton
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Medical Researchers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Major Project

This chapter surveys the history of vaccine research and development in China's wartime hinterlands during the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War, considering first a major project launched by the League of Nations Health Organization (LNHO) and then, in turn, the major cities of Chongqing, Guiyang, and Lanzhou. Although urban areas were not the only places where medical researchers, students, and administrators worked, they were significant hubs for coordination and exchange. The development of vaccine production in cities coincided with the deployment of new and coercive strategies for immunization, reflecting the ongoing militarization of Chinese society. Yet many urban dwellers welcomed vaccination as a means of defending themselves against disease at a time when the Japanese offensive threatened to cause epidemic catastrophe both directly, through biological warfare, and indirectly, by causing large-scale migrations of refugees and soldiers across the country. Attempts to establish a certification system that connected immunization status to free passage on ships and roads suggested the increasing importance of biology to individual rights and freedoms in wartime China.

scholarly journals The Rigid Disk Drive Industry: A History of Commercial and Technological Turbulence

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton M. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Disk Drive ◽  
Early Years ◽  
New Firms ◽  
Market Segments ◽  
Technological Turbulence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Disk Drive Industry

In its early years, the disk drive industry was led by a group of large-scale, integrated firms of the sort that Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., observed in his studies of several of the world's largest industries. The purpose of this history is to explore why it was so difficult for the leading disk drive manufacturers to replicate their success when technology and the structure of markets changed. The most successful firms aggressively developed the new component technologies required to address their leading customers’ needs, but this attention caused leading drive makers to ignore a sequence of emerging market segments, where innovative disk drive technologies were deployed by new entrants. As the performance of these new-architecture products improved at a rapid pace, the new firms were eventually able to conquer established markets as well. As a consequence, most of the integrated firms that established the disk drive industry were driven from it, displaced by networks of tightly focused, less integrated independent companies.

Capital Cities and Revolution

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Traugott
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Public Sentiment ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Will ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
Exclusive Focus

The premise here is that there existed a specific moment in the history of France —and, one might speculate, of other European societies—when a popular insurrection in the capital was capable of bringing down the national government, virtually overnight and irrespective of public sentiment in the provinces. In the face of such sudden outbursts, not even those regimes that appeared most firmly entrenched proved to be secure. The most striking instances, and the ones that will be the exclusive focus of attention here, occurred in Paris during the early years of the French Revolution of 1789 as in 1830 and 1848, when the urban crowd was able, if only for a time, to impose new institutions and policies upon the nation. In general, the rural population proved acquiescent, but the will of the capital initially held sway even when the numerical majority living in the countryside seemed resistant to the change.

The response of insect faunas to glacial-interglacial climatic fluctuations

1994 ◽  
Vol 344 (1307) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Climatic Fluctuations ◽  
Climatic Oscillations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Extinction Rates ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insect Fossils

The extinction of species of small invertebrates is difficult to recognize. However, in deposits that date from the past few million years, insect fossils are remarkably common and provide objective data on the history of the organisms that constitute the biotic communities of the present day. It might have been expected that the great climatic oscillations of the glacial-interglacial cycles should have caused widespread extinctions, if their effects on the large vertebrates is taken as our model. Yet the record of Quaternary fossil insects shows no high extinction rates during this period. Constancy of species and communities of species can be demonstrated to be the norm for at least the last million or so years (= generations). The enigma of how such constancy was sustained in the face of large-scale climatic fluctuations remains a puzzle though several possible solutions are suggested. These solutions carry implications for our estimates of present and future extinction rates.

scholarly journals Stephen William Hawking CH CBE. 8 January 1942—14 March 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 267-308
Author(s):  
Bernard J. Carr ◽  
George F. R. Ellis ◽  
Gary W. Gibbons ◽  
James B. Hartle ◽  
Thomas Hertog ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Singularity Theorems ◽  
Post Graduate Student ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Universe

Stephen Hawking's contributions to the understanding of gravity, black holes and cosmology were truly immense. They began with the singularity theorems in the 1960s followed by his discovery that black holes have an entropy and consequently a finite temperature. Black holes were predicted to emit thermal radiation, what is now called Hawking radiation. He pioneered the study of primordial black holes and their potential role in cosmology. His organization of and contributions to the Nuffield Workshop in 1982 consolidated the picture that the large-scale structure of the universe originated as quantum fluctuations during the inflationary era. Work on the interplay between quantum mechanics and general relativity resulted in his formulation of the concept of the wavefunction of the universe. The tension between quantum mechanics and general relativity led to his struggles with the information paradox concerning deep connections between these fundamental areas of physics. These achievements were all accomplished following the diagnosis during the early years of Stephen's studies as a post-graduate student in Cambridge that he had incurable motor neuron disease—he was given two years to live. Against all the odds, he lived a further 55 years. The distinction of his work led to many honours and he became a major public figure, promoting with passion the needs of disabled people. His popular best-selling book, A brief history of time , made cosmology and his own work known to the general public world-wide. He became an icon for science and an inspiration to all.

Slovenia: Post-Socialist and Neoliberal Landscapes in Response to the European Refugee Crisis

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Toby Martin Applegate
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Response Capacity ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Refugee Crisis ◽  
Provision Of Care ◽  
National Infrastructure

As a nation-state, Slovenia represents an increasingly rare case wherein 80 percent of the country identifies as ethnically homogeneous. Even in the face of this fact, Slovenia's ethno-national identity has been called into question since its independence. The European refugee crisis has brought this questioning into sharp focus as the admittance, care and transfer of refugees has caused burdens not only economically and logistically, but also in terms of what it means to be Slovenian and European at the same time. In a place with little history of provision of care for large-scale refugee populations, the cultural and political frameworks of Slovene society do not possess the crisis response capacity that its Northern European neighbors might. In fact, Slovenia's record on human rights is not as stellar as is often presented to the world at large. This paper argues that Slovenia's place in Mitteleuropa serves as a hindrance to it as a place of social care and reaffirms certain historical conditions that render it a transitory space between The Other and the ‘real’ Europe. It relies upon field observations of how Slovenia organized its response to the crisis in the autumn of 2015 and criticizes those responses as reaffirming both the post-socialist transition and the neoliberal intent of its national infrastructure and political economy.

The Application of Digital Technology in the Recycling of Old Industrial Buildings

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 653-656
Author(s):  
Peng Lin Li ◽  
Li Jun Wu ◽  
Bin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Network Technology ◽  
Industrial Buildings ◽  
The Face ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
History Of ◽  
Processing Mechanism

With the urban industrialization transforming to post-industrialization development, the negative effect brought about by the removal of old industrial buildings is the ignorance of the history of industrial development, thereby resulting in a waste of resources. With the development of computer technology, information technology and network technology, in the face of the old industrial areas losing produce production capabilities causes a lot of waste idle constructions, people can integrate information through digital means, renovate and reuse resources under complete information processing mechanism and systematically collect information. The application of intellectual and digital technology combined with each other provides a good foundation for the recycle of old industrial buildings resources, so that these representative old buildings resources can be used more widely and efficiently.

scholarly journals Strategi Bisnis Startup Social Enterprise Wahyoo Dalam Menghadapi Situasi Pandemi Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Siti Qonaah
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
The Face ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
The Government

Wahyoo's entrepreneurial startup is a technology company established in 2017 and provides added value that is beneficial to stalls in Indonesia. Wahyoo experienced the Covid-19 Pandemic crisis so that Wahyoo's income decreased by 50%. Warung Tegal (warteg) is a Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise that is affected by a policy issued by the government to break the chain of covid distribution, namely regional quarantine, large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) and lockdown. For that we need digital technology such as social entrepreneur startup Wahyoo which in carrying out its business strategy can face the Covid-19 pandemic. The purpose of this research is to describe what Business Strategy steps carried out by Wahyoo's social enterprise startups in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic situation. In this study, researchers used a qualitative approach and case studies. With the observation and documentation research method as a research method that illustrates that the Wahyoo Social Enterprise Startup Business Strategy steps that have been implemented through # Rantang Hati, Warteg New normal and opening new units can deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic Situation

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