Plant Portraits: Creative processes, communication and the search for new paradigms1

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Lucia Leao

Abstract What can we learn from plants? Which forms of intelligence and knowledge can we discover by dedicating ourselves to understanding the life of a plant, its characteristics, interactions with the environment and cultural narratives? This article aims to bridge recent studies in plant intelligence, Semiotics and creative processes. Departing form the idea that the world arrived at a critical situation and the planet Earth cannot continue being exploited as an infinite source, we argue that it is necessary to promote transformations in our culture, abandoning the anthropocentric framework and looking for new perspectives. In this sense, connecting communication, art, science and education, the purpose of Plant Portraits is to create experiences and propitiate encounters that catalyse the awakening of an expanded and integrated consciousness.

Author(s):  
Greg Garrett

Hollywood films are perhaps the most powerful storytellers in American history, and their depiction of race and culture has helped to shape the way people around the world respond to race and prejudice. Over the past one hundred years, films have moved from the radically prejudiced views of people of color to the depiction of people of color by writers and filmmakers from within those cultures. In the process, we begin to see how films have depicted negative versions of people outside the white mainstream, and how film might become a vehicle for racial reconciliation. Religious traditions offer powerful correctives to our cultural narratives, and this work incorporates both narrative truth-telling and religious truth-telling as we consider race and film and work toward reconciliation. By exploring the hundred-year period from The Birth of a Nation to Get Out, this work acknowledges the racist history of America and offers the possibility of hope for the future.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.I. Galkina ◽  
E.Yu Bobkova ◽  
E.A. Burnasheva ◽  
I.A. Grishan

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.I. Galkina ◽  
E.A. Kadyro ◽  
E.A. Burnasheva ◽  
I.A. Grishan

Prosemas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
José Andújar Almansa

Resumen: A lo largo de este artículo, dividido en dos partes, se hace una valoración global de la poesía de Valente, atendiendo al especial vínculo que dentro de su obra mantuvieron la palabra-creativa y la palabra-pensamiento. En el primer apartado, «Hasta dónde llega una palabra», se muestran las reflexiones del autor acerca de «el lugar del canto», ese espacio que ya desde sus libros iniciales sintió la necesidad de levantar sobre la morada arruinada del lenguaje, en un «tiempo de miseria» y retóricas usurpadoras del verdadero decir poético. De manera paralela, se produce en Valente la conquista de una tradición literaria propia, fruto del acercamiento a las principales corrientes de la literatura, las artes plásticas, la música, la filosofía y la reflexión estética contemporánea. Los nombres de Juan Ramón, Cernuda, Celan, Jabès, María Zambrano, Webern o Tàpies representan algunos de los principales hitos dentro de ese itinerario, que tiene su reflejo más temprano en las páginas de Las palabras de la tribu y su Diario anónimo. La segunda parte, «La palabra sumergida», transita a lo largo de todos sus libros, prescindiendo de la cronología o las llamadas «etapas» de Valente, tan proclives a crear una ortodoxia en torno al autor. Con la expresión «palabra sumergida» se hace mención a distintos registros de su poética: la necesidad de mantenerse al margen de la superficie que llamamos actualidad, su acercamiento a los procedimientos creativos de la mística, su visión de lo inefable como un sustrato que forma parte de los depósitos del lenguaje o sus relaciones entre la atonalidad, el fragmentarismo y una estética del silencio. El propósito es demostrar que la palabra sumergida de Valente es una palabra afirmadora, que nunca enmudece ni cae en un nihilismo estéril. Poeta de la radical inmanencia y de la memoria material del mundo, es posible discernir a lo largo de su obra una «metafísica del arte», en los términos en que la concibieron Nietzsche o Heidegger. Palabras clave: José Ángel Valente; poesía española contemporánea, Juan Ramón Jiménez; Luis Cernuda; Valente traductor; Paul Celan; poéticas del fragmento; estética del silencio. Abstract: Through out this essay, divided into two parts, a global assessment of Valente’s poetry is made, taking into account the special link that the creative-word and the thought-word maintained in his work. In the first section, «How far does a word go», the author's reflections on «El lugar del canto» are shown, that space which he felt the need to build, on the ruined home of language from his very first books, in a «Time of Misery» and usurping rhetoric of true poetic saying. In parallel, there is the conquest of a literary tradition in Valente, the result of the approach to the main trends of literature, plastic arts, music, philosophy and contemporary aesthetic reflection. The names of Juan Ramón, Cernuda, Celan, Jabès, María Zambrano, Webern or Tàpies represent some of the main milestones within that itinerary, which has its earliest reflection in the pages of Las palabras de la tribu and Diario anónimo. The second part, «The word submerged», travels through out all his books, regardless of the chronology or the so-called «stages» of Valente, so likely to create an orthodoxy around the author. With the expression «Submerged Word» different records of his poetics are referred to: the need to stay away from the surface that we call current existence, his approach to the creative processes of mysticism, his vision of the ineffable as a substratum that is part of the deposits of language, or the relationships between atonality and fragmentation with an aesthetic of silence. The purpose is to demonstrate that Valente’s submerged word is an asserting word, which never keeps silent or leads to vain nihilism. Poet of the radical immanence and the material memory of the world, it is posible to discern through out his work a kind of «metaphysics of art», in the terms conceived by Nietzsche or Heidegger. Key words: José Ángel Valente; Spanish Contemporary poetry; Juan Ramón Jiménez; Luis Cernuda; traduction by Valente; Paul Celan; the fragmentary poetics; aesthetic of silence.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1743-1745

Vehicular traffic can hardly escape the list of critical problems in the world that demand to be resolved at the earliest. Attempting to eradicate the factors that led to this menace is a process too long for the current critical situation to wait for and stay unattended. Considering the serious consequences that ensue as a result of traffic jams, some solution that can bring an expeditious remedy needs to be found in order to handle the current situation. And this paper is aimed at proposing one such solution which can considerably ameliorate the degree of the mayhem that is prevailing, using Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology.


Author(s):  
Rahul Mohare

Millennials, born starting from the 1980s, who are also called Nexters, the Net Generation, and Generation Y represent a new workforce in a global market and have high aspiration. Because of their digital, liquid, and collective mindset, they are adapting the way people generate the future. But now we have three generations representing the workforce at the same time . Before them, the world had two other generation groups: Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, and the Baby Boomers who were born between 1946 and 1964 . Following the Strauss-Howe generation theory, each type of generation falls on a certain cycle of social and economic development, namely high, awakening, unraveling, and crisis. As a result, the Baby Boomers were born during the high, Generation X during the awakening, and millennials entered the unraveling period.


Author(s):  
Vardan Mkrttchian ◽  
Serge V. Chernyshenko ◽  
Mikhail Ivanov

Technology transfer is considered as one of the most important instruments of national and regional economic growth in such countries as world leaders such as the United States, Japan, the European Union, China, and others. The importance of developing this direction is not in doubt. It invests a lot of money, is supported at the legislative level. The activity of technology transfer centers is aimed at commercialization of the results obtained in different organizations of the world, ensuring the acceleration of solving technical problems of enterprises, improving the quality and reducing the cost of their products, and developing new types of products. The main goal of the Center is to facilitate the transfer of the Internet intellectual innovative technologies and blockchain technologies developed both in the Republic of Armenia and in the Armenian Diaspora to ensure sustainable growth of the economy, increase the competitiveness of industry, agriculture, science and education, tourism and business attractiveness Republic of Armenia and Artsakh Republic.


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