The scenographic, costumed chorus, agency and the performance of matter: A new materialist approach to costume

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella Barbieri ◽  
Greer Crawley
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Iterative Processes ◽  
The Core ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Relational Form ◽  
Eugene Onegin ◽  
Analytical Approaches

This article presents the performativity of costume as generated through materially discursive iterative processes that embed meaning in the production itself through the analysis of the chorus costumes for the 2018 Opéra du Rhin production of Eugene Onegin. It argues that a new materialist approach can reveal the ethical concerns, around gender, toxic masculinity and compliance to reactionary social conventions, that lie at the core of this costuming of an opera chorus, particularly when perceived through the multiple forms that shape its distinct materializations over three successive acts. In addition, a focus on the agential actions of materials will draw attention to the work of the costume department, which to date has remained largely unaddressed by analytical approaches that are solely based on spectatorship, semiotics or phenomenological perspectives. Identifying the agential actions that materials perform enables the articulation of the costume specialist’s response to the performativity of materials. Adopting a new materialist approach, ‘costuming’ is found to be an evolving and relational form that emerges from a complex process of meaning-making that addresses, through a distribution of agency, how materials connect to wider concerns.

scholarly journals Introducing Gamification in the AR-Enhanced Order Picking Process: A Proposed Approach

Logistics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Athina G. Bright ◽  
Stavros T. Ponis
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Order Picking ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
The Core ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Game Elements ◽  
Innovative Industry

In the last decade, the Industry 4.0 concept has introduced automation and cyber-physical systems as the core elements of future logistics, supported by an array of technologies, such as augmented reality (AR) providing the necessary support for the digital transformation of manufacturing and logistics and the smartification and digital refinement of traditional pre-Industry 4.0 processes. This paper studies the influence and the potential of gamification techniques in supporting innovative Industry 4.0-enhanced processes in the contemporary warehouse work ecosystem. Gamification in the workplace aims to motivate the employees and increase their involvement in an activity, while at the same time creating a sense of an everyday different experience rather than a set of repetitive and monotonous tasks. Since the design of such a system is a complex process, the most widespread design frameworks are studied, and the emphasis is on the principal game elements and their connection to mobilization mechanisms. Finally, an initial proposal of a gamification framework to support the AR-enhanced order picking process in contemporary logistics centers is provided with an emphasis on the mechanics of a fair and functional reward system. The proposed approach aims to showcase the potential alignment of business processes to human motivation, respecting the differences between tasks and the workers’ cognitive workload.

Charting the moral life courses: A theory of moral development in U.S. evangelical and mainline Protestant cultures

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica McKenzie ◽  
Lene Arnett Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Moral Transgressions ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Analytical Approaches ◽  
Resultant Theory ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
The Relationship

Drawing from qualitative analyses of interviews, ethnographic data, and a review of interdisciplinary literature, this manuscript puts forth a theory of moral life course narratives among U.S. evangelical and mainline Protestants. This theory delineates the relationship between religious worldviews and conceptions of moral behaviors, and the manner in which these worldviews and attendant moral conceptions change across the life course for community members. Grounded theory analyses of 32 participants’ divinity-based moral discourses were interpreted in conjunction with their worldviews, as well as church, home, and school contexts. Analyses indicated that evangelical children highlighted their moral transgressions because they regarded themselves as still quite close to a sinful birth. Evangelical adults, who had been saved and were moving toward God, temporally and spiritually distanced themselves from the morally wrong deeds of their youth. Meanwhile, mainline children and adolescents rarely reasoned about their moral experiences in terms of divinity. This finding is understood in light of their church’s emphasis on developing an individualized relationship with God over time. The study and resultant theory elaborate cultural constructions and transmissions of moral life course narratives that, in turn, provide a framework for understanding when, why, and how divinity enters into moral meaning making for cultural community members. We conclude by advocating for theoretical, methodological, and analytical approaches that expose the cultural nature of developmentally dynamic moral selves.

Dialogues and Perception of Intersubjectivity in a Small Group

2012 ◽  
pp. 1446-1465
Author(s):  
Mei-Chung Lin ◽  
Mei-Chi Chen ◽  
Chin-Chang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
The Self ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Core

The core value of Web 2.0 lies in its potential for building technologies that are open, decentralized, and shared. This paper designs group activity to facilitate knowledge building and move on learning management system to web 2.0 paradigms with computer supported collaborative learning in a small group. The “give-take” metaphor for knowledge construction in a small group discourse only interprets the solo voice phenomenon in asynchronous forums. Tumultuous, parallel, and connected voices in synchronous conferencing need alternative metaphors to understand the self and the other in a personified way. This paper represents discourse evidence of emerging meaning making, expertise commentary, self-identity, and collective confirmation as a process in small group collective knowledge-building.

scholarly journals Becoming a complementary health practitioner: The construction of alternative medical knowledge

2020 ◽  
pp. 136345932094646
Author(s):  
Maayan Roichman
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Health Practitioner ◽  
Medical College ◽  
The Core ◽  
Practitioner Training ◽  
Experience Of Illness ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become widely popular in many countries, yet little is known about the actual training of CAM practitioners. This article employs ethnographic research methods to closely examine the meaning-making processes used in such training at a complementary and alternative medical college. It delineates how CAM practitioners in training, specialising in naturopathy, make sense of alternative medical knowledge and transform it into medical truth. The study indicates that the core of CAM training rests on overturning the biomedical epistemological hierarchy between the objectification of disease and the experience of illness through extended intersubjective sharing by instructors and students. This study therefore adds to the extensive CAM literature by carefully examining the way naturopathic knowledge is inculcated during practitioner training. The emerging insight is that introspection and the search for authenticity, a central narrative of modernity, have become powerful resources in CAM’s construction of alternative medical truth.

Smart Blockchain

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Gutha Jaya Krishna ◽  
Vadlamani Ravi ◽  
Bheemidi Vikram Reddy ◽  
Mohammad Zaheeruddin
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analytics ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Core ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Analytical Approaches

A blockchain is a digitized, decentralized, open system of records. Of late, there is a phenomenal spurt in the research and application activities of the catch-all phrase analytics, which subsumes machine learning, text mining, classical optimization, artificial intelligence, evolutionary computing, visual analytics, big data analytics, etc. in many a diverse field. Consequently, even new technology like blockchain is not left behind. This chapter presents a comprehensive survey of 33 papers that appeared between 2016 and 2018 under the theme, ‘Analytics and Blockchain', which focuses on how analytical approaches and blockchain implementation are symbiotically related to improve their overall performance in solving various real-world problems. The core idea behind the survey is to facilitate the reader to appreciate the utility of analytical methods to the design, implementation, and application of blockchain and suggesting future directions for further research.

There’s ‘consent’ and then there’s consent: Mobilising Māori and Indigenous research ethics to problematise the western biomedical model

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiri West-McGruer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Biomedical Model ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
The Core ◽  
Research Environments ◽  
Individual Informed Consent ◽  
Kaupapa Māori

Challenging western research conventions has a strong documented history in Indigenous critical theory and Kaupapa Māori research discourse. This article will draw from the existing research in these fields and expand on some of the core critiques of the biomedical model in Māori research environments. Of interest are the tensions produced by an over-reliance on individual informed consent as the panacea of ethical research, particularly when the research concerns communities who prioritise collective autonomy. These tensions are further exacerbated in research environments where knowledge is commodified and issues of knowledge ownership are present. Continuing a critique of the informed consenting procedure, this article considers its role in emulating a capitalist exchange of goods and perpetuating a knowledge economy premised on the exploitation of Indigenous people, resources and knowledge. Finally, this article will consider emerging ethical concerns regarding secondary data use in an era of big data.

scholarly journals Identification and management of the near-field knowledge of industrial design for innovative product shapes

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 168781401881657
Author(s):  
JinTao He ◽  
Qian Yang ◽  
MengYa Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Design ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Product Knowledge ◽  
Innovative Product ◽  
Core Knowledge ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
The Core ◽  
Complex Process

Industrial design is a complex process that contains multifarious product knowledge systems which play different roles at different stages of product development. Based on the research of different theories and methods of knowledge classification, the article proposes a new method which divides industrial design knowledge into knowledge in the field, near-field knowledge, and far-field knowledge, and established a corresponding frame of the design knowledge. In order to differentiate the near-field knowledge which is more innovative in design from considerable knowledge to facilitate an efficient design process, mechanisms of similarity searching are used. If 0.3 < [Formula: see text] (similarity) < 0.6, then define the case as the near-field product case and the relative knowledge as near-field knowledge. The core knowledge can be retrieved to drive innovative modeling. Furthermore, the process of a laptop design is taken as an example and validated using this method.

scholarly journals Pulling Apart the Apparatus

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-2-3) ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Will Straw
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Film Spectatorship

This article responds to a series of questions posed by Francesco Casetti to “Impact” conference panelists dealing with the fate of apparatus theory in film studies. I argue that the unravelling of apparatus theory has been a long, complex process, unfolding over four decades. A well-known feature of this unravelling within English-language film studies has been the assertion that spectators/subjects are not formal products of the functioning of an apparatus, but rather embodied individuals characterized by multiple forms of identity. This assertion has helped to detach the study of film spectatorship from theories of the apparatus, rendering the former more empirical and sociological. At the same time, difficulties in translation have resulted in a confusion, in English-language film scholarship, between the French termsappareilanddispositif, both of which have found themselves translated as “apparatus”. Drawing on the writings of Agamben and Vouilloux, I show how a key problem in apparatus theory is the extent to which the forces shaping spectator identity are themselves part of an apparatus or might be seen as external to the latter and as historical variables with which an apparatus interacts.

scholarly journals Prose miniatures as an experience of self-identification (author's mini-texts in the Vepsian language)

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 16005
Author(s):  
Galina Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Social World ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
The Social

Prose miniatures of Alexander Ulyanov are analyzed not only as a way of self-expression of the author's ego, but also as an experience of self-identification, awareness of their place in the social world order and historical time. The format of the miniature cycle appears as a convenient form of reproducing key moments of a person's life, which corresponds to the mechanism of memories as processing pop-up engrams of episodic memory into a complete self-reflection. At the same time, focusing on a particular idea unfolds in a specific situation in life. The creative principle of the author of miniatures serves the pragmatics of social adaptation in the surrounding stressful world. It is creativity that turns out to be a tool for assembling the personality in its multiple forms and serves as a way of integration into a heterogeneous external environment. The mechanisms of constructing miniatures in the perspective of achieving self-reliance and integration into the surrounding world are considered. Namely, the thematic diversity, the author's initial data representing a «fluid identity» typical for a person of the twentieth century with the help of a cumulative attitude to «collecting stones» are successfully overcome in the choice of a reflective style of description and the absence of hasty subjective conclusions. The core of self-identification of the series of miniatures by A. S. Ulyanov translates to the reader dignity, self-confidence and readiness for any tests.

scholarly journals PROPERTIES OF GROUPS G OF DOUBLE ERRORS AND ITS INVARIANTS IN BCH CODES

2018 ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
V. A. Lipnitskij ◽  
A. V. Serada
Keyword(s):  
Irreducible Polynomial ◽  
Galois Field ◽  
Bch Codes ◽  
Bch Code ◽  
Polynomial Invariant ◽  
Polynomial Invariants ◽  
The Core ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Scope Of Application ◽  
Complete Set

The goal of the work is the further extending the scope of application of code automorthism in methods and algorithms of error correction by these codes. The effectiveness of such approach was demonstrated by norm of syndrome theory that was developed by Belarusian school of noiseless coding at the turn of the XX and XXI century. The group Г of the cyclical shift of vector component lies at the core of the theory. Under its action The error vectors are divided into disjoint Г-orbits with definite spectrum of syndromes. This allowed to introduce norms of syndrome of a family of BCH codes that are invariant over action of group Г. Norms of syndrome are unique characteristic of error orbit Г of any decoding set, hence it is the basis of permutation norm methods of error decoding. Looking over the Г-orbits of errors not the errors these methods are faster than classic syndrome methods of error decoding, are avoided from the complex process of solving the algebraic equation in Galois field, are simply implemented.A detailed theory for automorphism group G of BCH codes obtained by adding cyclotomic substitution to the group Г develops in the article. The authors held a detailed study of structure of G-orbit of errors as union of orbits Г of error vectors; one-to-one mapping of this structure on the norm structure of group Г. These norms being interconnected by Frobenius automorphism in the Galois field – field of BCH code constitute the complete set of roots of the only irreducible polynomial. It is a polynomial invariant of its orbit G. The main focus of the work is on the description of properties and specific features of groups G of double errors and its polynomial invariants.

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