6. The Artwork without Cardinal Direction: Notes on Orientation in Adorno

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-143
Keyword(s):  
Cardinal Direction

scholarly journals Effects of environmental conditions associated to the cardinal orientation on the reproductive phenology of the cerrado savanna tree Xylopia aromatica (Annonaceae)

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 1007-1020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Gabriela G. Camargo ◽  
Regina M. Souza ◽  
Paula Reys ◽  
Leonor P.C. Morellato
Keyword(s):  
Edge Effects ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Fruit Production ◽  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Reproductive Phenology ◽  
Canopy Openness ◽  
Cerrado Savanna ◽  
Cardinal Direction ◽  
Floral Visitation

The Brazilian cerrado has undergone an intense process of fragmentation, which leads to an increase in the number of remnants exposed to edge effects and associated changes on environmental conditions that may affect the phenology of plants. This study aimed to verify whether the reproductive phenology of Xylopia aromatica (Lam.) Mart. (Annonaceae) differs under different light conditions in a cerrado sensu stricto (a woody savanna) of southeastern Brazil. We compared the reproductive phenology of X. aromatica trees distributed on east and south cardinal faces of the cerrado during monthly observations, from January 2005 to December 2008. The east face had a higher light incidence, higher temperatures and canopy openness in relation to south face. X. aromatica showed seasonal reproduction at both faces of the cerrado, but the percentage of individuals, the synchrony and duration of phenophases were higher at the east face. The study demonstrated the influence of the environmental conditions associated to the cardinal orientation of the cerrado faces on the phenological pattern of X. aromatica. Similar responses may be observed for other species, ultimately affecting patterns of floral visitation and fruit production, which reinforces the importance of considering the cardinal direction in studies of edge effects and fragmentation.

scholarly journals A Hybrid Reasoning Model for “Whole and Part” Cardinal Direction Relations

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ah-Lian Kor ◽  
Brandon Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Model ◽  
Binary Relations ◽  
Single Piece ◽  
Cardinal Direction ◽  
Hybrid Reasoning ◽  
Direction Relations ◽  
Cardinal Directions ◽  
To Come ◽  
Cardinal Direction Relations ◽  
Constraints Model

We have shown how the nine tiles in the projection-based model for cardinal directions can be partitioned into sets based on horizontal and vertical constraints (called Horizontal and Vertical Constraints Model) in our previous papers (Kor and Bennett, 2003 and 2010). In order to come up with an expressive hybrid model for direction relations between two-dimensional single-piece regions (without holes), we integrate the well-known RCC-8 model with the above-mentioned model. From this expressive hybrid model, we derive 8 basic binary relations and 13 feasible as well as jointly exhaustive relations for the x- and y-directions, respectively. Based on these basic binary relations, we derive two separate 8×8 composition tables for both the expressive and weak direction relations. We introduce a formula that can be used for the computation of the composition of expressive and weak direction relations between “whole or part” regions. Lastly, we also show how the expressive hybrid model can be used to make several existential inferences that are not possible for existing models.

The Artwork without Cardinal Direction

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Gerhard Richter
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Cardinal Direction

Chapter 6 marks a transition from the uncoercive gaze as it finds expression in other aspects of Adorno’s work to the problem of orientation, understood both as an intellectual phenomenon and as a problem to be considered in relation to the work of art. This chapter adds another case study to the examination of Adorno’s critical practice of the uncoercive gaze by complicating the concept of orientation and supposed “cognitive maps” provided by the artwork and by theoretical discourse. Tracing Adorno’s abiding engagement with the problem of orientation back to Kant’s essay on what it might mean to orient oneself in thinking, the chapter interrogates how Adorno’s engagement with the problem of orientation and the attendant specter of disorientation inflects a broader set of concerns that traverse his writing throughout its various periods.

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