Reading on the Move

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutz Koepnick
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Jane Smiley ◽  
The Real ◽  
Alternative Structures ◽  
Good Book ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Way

It is often said that proper reading relies on the art of taking a pause: On our abilityto suspend the pressing rhythms of the everyday and allow ourselves to absorb, and be absorbed by, alternative structures of temporality. The clocks of the imagination do not run at the same speeds as the timetables of the real; to read is to inhabit the present at one's own pace and in the light of a multitude of unknown pasts and possible futures. Recent years have witnessed a swell in publications pondering the state of reading in our world of instant connectivity and shrinking attention spans. In one of these books, Jane Smiley, a Pulitzer Prize winner, considers the peculiar acts of writing and reading a novel as profound contributions to the process of enlightenment—a kind of enlightenment enlightened about itself and no longer repressing the other of reason: “The way in which novels are created—someone is seized by inspiration and then works out his inspiration methodologically by writing, observing, writing, observing, thinking through, and writing again—is by nature deliberate, dominated neither by reason nor by emotion” (176). According to Smiley, the act of reading a novel re-creates an author's deliberate negotiation of affect and rationality. As readers follow the lines of a (good) book, they remain in relative control over the speed of their reading, able to pause when necessary, to hasten forward when desiring so, to reread passages at their leisure, and to close the pages of the book when overtaken by exhaustion. Good stories rely on intricate plot constructions and narrative tensions, but they also situate readers as subjects freed from the temporal determination and ideological drive of other time-based media. Good books can certainly move readers, but—following Smiley's logic—they will not curtail a reader's freedom to move along the text at his or her own speed, and hence they will allow this reader to simultaneously bring into play emotion and reason, the absorptive and the distant.

scholarly journals State, law, realm of freedom (practical-philosophical themes of the later Fichte)

2003 ◽  
pp. 33-59
Author(s):  
Danilo Basta
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
State Law ◽  
Philosophical Consideration ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

Fichte's theory of the state, comprising and integral part of his practical philosophy, is built on the key premises of his metaphysics. Therefore the clarification of this problem in Fichte's later philosophy intends to point, on one hand, to a representative metaphysical project of the state with great speculative power, and on the other to a way of thinking about the state which is today taken to be anachronistic, unscientific, outdated, and hence worthy of being mentioned as a "negative example". Though these qualifications should not be totally discarded or questioned in advance, revisiting Fichte's late metaphysics of the state is philosophically productive even in our times. Nowadays it can be extremely helpful to anyone who has not yet been trodden over by a scientific political science and whose cognitive interest is still sufficiently open for a strongly philosophical consideration of the state, who wishes to philosophically enrich or sharpens his/her view of the state. Although Fichte's theory of the state is unified and coherent, it underwent - especially in its last phase - a significant transformation. It was so much visible that the state is relegated to the background even terminologically. In Fichte's later philosophy the keyword is no longer the state but the "realm of freedom". The state is here talked about intentionally, as it were, always with a glance aimed at this realm, at the possibility and prospects for its establishment. Although this terminological and cognitive primacy of the realm of freedom pushed the state into the background, it was not denied any importance. On the contrary, on the way to freedom the state is for Fichte an important point of development that must be passed. And precisely in this transiency lies its inevitability. .

Sheng-Sheng (生生) as Being-Between-Generations: On the Existential Structure of Confucian Ethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-149
Author(s):  
Sun Xiangcheng
Keyword(s):  
Filial Piety ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Confucian Ethics ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Existential Analysis ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
The Analects ◽  
The Way

AbstractOn the level of existential structure, “Shengsheng Buxi” unfolds an existential structure different from Heidegger’s “being-in-the-world”. This paper calls it “being-between-the-generations”. Through this existential structure, it reveals many aspects which Heidegger ignored in his existential analysis. The existence of “I” between generations is, first of all, a conjunction of generations, “this body” has its own origin. Its original facing the Other is to love his/her parents, and showing the structure of “being-together-with-the-generations” in filial piety; family implements the existence of “inheritance”, thus gaining its ontological status in this structure. The state of mood in generations shows the “Enjoyment-at-home” of this-body; at the same time, being-between-the-generations also makes “learning” and “teaching” indispensable and essential moments in the existential structure, and makes the “Project” of “trans-generations” possible. The “historicity” formed by “generations” has an impact on this. Ultimately, in the memorial ceremony of “death of parents and ancestors”, it builds the structure of “being-together-with-the-generations” within a family, and maintains the dimension of transcendence, in the way of filial piety, whose nature is revealed in The Analects as “Tribute to the death of parents and keeping memory of ancestors” (慎終追遠).

scholarly journals Public relations as promotional activity

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr.Sc. Almira Curri-Mehmeti
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Local Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
Promotional Activity ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way

Public relations give opportunity to the organization to present its image and personality to its own “public”- users, supporters, sponsors, donors, local community and other public.It is about transferring the message to the public, but that is a two-way street. You must communicate with your public, but at the same time you must give opportunity to the public to communicate easier with you. The real public relations include dialog – you should listen to the others, to see things through their perspective. This elaborate is made with the purpose to be useful for every organization, not for the sensa-tional promotion of its achievements, but to become more critical towards its work. Seeing the organization in the way that the other see it, you can become better and sure that you are giving to your users the best service possible.

scholarly journals Review of the monograph by V. Voynalovych and N. Kochan "The religious factor of ethnopolitical processes in Galicia: the postwar Soviet era and the present", Kyiv. IPiEND named after IF Kuras, 2018,408 p.

2019 ◽  
pp. 153-154
Author(s):  
Mykola Obushnyi
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Compromise Solutions ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

In the context of decentralization of state administration and expansion of powers of local authorities in Ukraine, the ability of, on the one hand, the leadership of the state and, on the other, regional managers, to find compromise solutions taking into account the specifics of each region and state interests becomes important. The monograph is devoted to clarifying the specifics of such an important area in the spiritual life of Ukrainians in Galicia - state-church relations and the problems that arise in the way of their solution in the context of decentralization. The research problem posed by the authors is generally revealed at the level of requirements for this type of work and will be useful to all who are not indifferent to the study of ethno-religious relations in Ukraine.

scholarly journals WAYS OF DIMINISHING OF ERRORS OF CALCULATIONS OF COMPUTER OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE OBJECT ARE FOR ALGORITHMS OF SLAM OF NAVIGATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Nitsuk ◽  
О. М. Semchak ◽  
І. V. Sharipova
Keyword(s):  
Subsequent Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Mobile Object ◽  
Frequency Filter ◽  
Mobile Unit ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Place ◽  
The Way

A question is in-process considered, in relation to the lead through of estimation of complication of algorithms of EKF-SLAM and construction of map of locality in accordance with supporting points, from point of his algorithmically programmatic realization. It enables to determine the ways of subsequent development and adaptation of the known mathematical correlations of algorithms of EKF-SLAM and DP-SLAM for diminishing of errors of calculations of co-ordinates airborne COMPUTERS of autonomous mobile object for realization of algorithms. The estimation of the state of off-line mobile unit is arrived at by filtration of particles. The great number of hypotheses which are an eventual number is generated, which show by itself the predictable place of location of robot. Every meaningful element of map, that orienteer, in every particle can be appraised with the use of the extended filters of Kalmana, particles of robot conditioned position. And the coefficient of weight of particles settles accounts for determination of probability of hit of certain part in a final set, which will present not only the real place of location of autonomous mobile object on a map but also position of found out all orienteers. The way of modification of the known mathematical correlations of filters of Kalmana offered in-process from point of their adaptation to the features of algorithmic and programmatic realization in airborne COMPUTERS provides economy of memory of airborne COMPUTER and diminishing of necessary calculable resource It is noticed that the algorithms of realization of SLAM of navigation are changed the offered way use less of particles, than methods, based only on a frequency filter. The error of initial calculation of co-ordinates of orienteer is taken to the minimum and does not accumulate in course of time in mathematical sense.

scholarly journals Quiet Refusals: Androids as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Nima Behroozi Moghadam ◽  
Farideh Porugiv
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Point ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
The Real ◽  
Objet Petit A ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Cultural Theorist ◽  
The Way

This study intends to show how science fiction literature in general and Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in particular can be read as a symptom of the postmodern era we live in. Taking as the main clues the ideas of the cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, who combines Marxism with the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, as well as his account of “postmodernism,” the study discusses how, contrary to what capitalism dubs a “post-ideological” era, we are more than ever dominated by ideology through its cynical function. It further examines (through such Lacanian concepts as fantasy, desire, objet petit a, and jouissance) the way late capitalistic ideology functions in Dick’s narrative, and discusses how the multiculturalist society prompts new forms of racism through abstract universalization which only accounts for and tolerates the other as long as they appear within the confines of that formal abstraction. Finally, it looks into how ideologies as such can be subverted from the Real point within the symbolic.

scholarly journals Muestra del léxico pesquero en Sonora

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl Arístides Pérez Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fishing Activity ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
The Real ◽  
Specialized Language ◽  
Sea Ports

Resumen:Este artículo describe los fenómenos lingüísticos -desde el punto de vista lexicográfico- de la lengua especializada que utilizan los pescadores del estado de Sonora. Mediante la aplicación de un cuestionario que rebasa las 390 preguntas y con la utilización del método de "palabras y cosas", se explora exhaustivamente el léxico pesquero de once poblaciones -puertos de altura y campamentos- sonorenses y se comparan entre sí con el objeto de hallar la extensión real y la vitalidad de cada uno de los términos marinos; asimismo, y con los mismos objetivos, se contrasta la nómina obtenida con otros sitios de México, América y España. El léxico patrimonial sonorense puede ser vislumbrado así a la luz de los contrastes que se establecen entre éste y las otras formas usadas por los pescadores del vasto mundo hispánico. De las múltiples denominaciones propias de la actividad pesquera y al tratarse de una muestra, se expone únicamente un filón de nueve centros de interés -el mar, meteorología, los astros, geomorfología, navegación y maniobras, jarcias, embarcaciones y construcción naval, artes de pesca y el comercio- de los diez en los que está dividido el cuestionario.Palabras clave : fenómenos lingüísticos; pescadores; léxico patrimonial; actividad pesquera; mundo hispánico. Abstract:This article describes the linguistic phenomena -from the lexicographical viewpoint- of the specialized language used by fishermen of the State of Sonora. By applying a questionnaire with more than 390 questions and by using the "words and things" method, the fishermen's vocabularies from eleven Sonora towns, deep sea ports and camps, are thoroughly explored and compared to each other in order to find the real extent and vitality of each of the "sea" words. Likewise, and with the same objectives, the list obtained is compared to other places in Mexico, America and Spain. The Sonora's patrimonial vocabulary can be glimpsed in the light of the contrasts between this vocabulary and the other forms used by fishermen around the immense Hispanic world. From the numerous denominations characteristic of the fishing activity, and since it's a sample, only nine focuses of attention are analyzed: the sea, meteorology, the stars, geomorphology, navigation and maneuvers, rigging, vessels and shipbuilding industry, nets, and trade.Key words: linguistic phenomena; fishermen; patrimonial vocabulary; fishing activity; Hispanic world.

scholarly journals SALT AND SOVEREIGNTY IN COLONIAL BURMA

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
JAGJEET LALLY
Keyword(s):  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
British India ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Government ◽  
Fiscal Administration ◽  
The One ◽  
Knowledge Deficits

Abstract Across monsoon Asia, salt is of such vital necessity that controlling its production or supply has historically been connected to the establishment and expression of political authority. On the one hand, rulers maintained the allegiance of their subjects by ensuring their access to salt of suitable price and sufficient quantity. On the other hand, denying rebels their salt was a strategy of conquest and pacification, while the necessity of salt meant it could reliably be taxed to raise state finances. This article first sets out this connection of salt and sovereignty, then examining it in the context of colonial Burma, a province of British India from its annexation until its ‘divorce’ in 1935 (effected in 1937), and thus subject to the Government of India's salt monopoly. Focusing on salt brings into view two aspects of the state (while also permitting analysis of ‘Upper Burma’, which remains rather marginal in the scholarly literature). First, the everyday state and quotidian practices constitutive of its sovereignty, which was negotiated and contested where indigenes were able to exploit the chinks in the state's administrative capacity and its knowledge deficits. Second, in turn, the lumpy topography of state power. The state not only failed to restrict salt production to the extent it desired (with the intention that indigenes would rely on imported salt, whose supply was easier to control and thus tax), but conceded to a highly complex fiscal administration, the variegations in which reflected the uneven distribution in state power – thicker in the delta and thinnest in the uplands.

The Other Side of the Camera: A TV Reporter's Stint as a Congressional Aide

1986 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Warren
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Office Building ◽  
Late Afternoon ◽  
The Real ◽  
Home Team ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

On a drizzly late afternoon, soon after the November 1984 elections and well before the start of the 99th Congress, I slogged into the Cannon House Office Building for an interview with a real, live congressman. This was not a new experience. As a television reporter for a decade, I'd interviewed dozens of representatives and senators along the way. This interview was entirely different, however, because this time I was looking for a job, and the member was looking for an APSA Congressional Fellow to help out in his office.After the usual half hour wait in the lobby, I was ushered in to meet the member. It was football season and before settling into the couch, he was bragging about his alma mater's quarterback. Fortunately, my home team had a hot quarterback too, so we debated quarterback's arms instead of the nuclear or conventional variety. I was scheduled for 20 minutes with the member, and half the time expired before the member abruptly turned to the real subject at hand—hockey. About the time I'd run through the last fact in my hockey memory, the member actually picked up my resume and scanned it.One fact leaped from the page and got him even more worked up than his quarterback's passing percentage. “So you're a TV reporter, huh? I've always liked having TV guys around.” By now the 20-minute interview time was up, but it would be another 1½ hours before I got back out into the rain, with my first real insight into politics and TV news, from the other side of the camera.

Hobbes's Concept of Multitude

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Omar Astorga
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
The People ◽  
Rational Construction ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn this brief article I expound some uses that Hobbes gave to the concept of multitude. Firstly, I explain the distinction between "people" and "multitude", the confusion of which was regarded in De Cive as a cause of sedition. The plural and disunited character of the multitude is highlighted, in comparison with the unity that constitutes the people. Secondly, I show that Hobbes, beyond the cited distinction, makes a relevant use in Leviathan of the principle of representation, in order to show the way in which multitude becomes State. Finally, I highlight the two-fold use given by the author to such concept: on the one hand, by attributing a theoretical role to it, which should allow thinking of the rational construction of the State; on the other, by showing the historical reality of multitude, turned into a source of madness and sedition.

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