scholarly journals Of surviving humans and apocalyptic machines

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indrajit Patra
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Isolated Communities ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Karen Barad ◽  
Space Opera ◽  
Determining Factor

The article aims to critically examine the roles of humanity and posthumanity in Alastair Reynolds’s post-apocalyptic space opera Inhibitor Phase (2021). The study endeavours to show how in this post-apocalyptic and posthuman space opera, humanity emerges as the key player in determining the fate of the galaxy or even universe at large. In Reynolds’s masterfully crafted post-apocalyptic universe, is it not pure technological advancement sans human concern but basic human bonding that appears to be the determining factor when it comes to saving the final remains of the human or posthuman civilizations from the clutches of the nightmarish machines. It is by reassembling and regrouping the fragmented and isolated communities of survivors that mankind seeks to defeat a virtually unconquerable foe. In the process, the article also strives to show how the novel expands and extends the very scope of humanity and its definition and how through a fusion of posthumanism and post-anthropocentrism the agency and animacy of non-human entities also get redefined and redistributed. For the purpose of a theoretically enriched textual analysis, the author has adopted some important theoretical viewpoints from such thinkers as Rosi Braidotti, Deleuze and Guattari, Jane Bennett, Karen Barad and Gordon Coonfield.

scholarly journals Film “Darah dan Do’a” Sebagai Wacana Film Nasional Indonesia

Panggung ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arda - Muhlisiun
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
National Cinema ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Determining Factor

AbstrakFilm nasional merujuk pada pengertian identitas nasional. Dia bisa disebut nasional karena representasi identitas itu bisa menunjukkannya. Film Usmar Ismail (Darah dan Doa, 1950) disebut sebagai (gagasan) film nasional karena diwacanakan sebagai film yang “asli” Indonesia.Melalui analisa tekstual bisa didapatkan satu pengertian diskursif-performatif atas film nasional, yang sesungguhnya telah menjadi “mitos” terhadap film Usmar Ismail ini. Untuk memperjelas pengertian film nasional, sekaligus sebagai upaya mendeskripsikan wacana film nasional atas film Usmar Ismail ini digunakan konsep film nasional yang ditawarkan oleh Jinhee Choi tentang pengertian film nasional yang menurutnya bisa berdasarkan nilai teritori, nilai fungsional dan nilai relasional. Hasil analisa yang didapatkan dari penelitian ini menemukan bahwa gagasan film nasional atas film Usmar Ismail memang lebih berkutat pada kekuatan wacana yang mengelilinginya, terutama Usmar Ismail yang memang menjadi faktor determinan dalam lahirnya gagasan film nasional Indonesia.Kata Kunci : Film Nasional, Usmar Ismail, Darah dan DoaAbstractA national film suggestived towards the ideas of national identity. It can be labelled ‘national’ because the representation of national identity pertains to it. Usmar Ismail’s film was described as a national film because it presents genuine Indonesian. Through the textual analysis that discursive-performative understanding of national films can be achieved; an understanding that has become a myth in context to Usmar Ismail’s film.In order to clarified concepts of national film as well as to illustrate the discourse of national films in Usmar Ismail’s work, this analysis used JinHee Choi’s theory of national cinema. In which national film was theorized based on territorial, functional and relational factors.The findings of this analysis showed how the concept of national film in Usmar Ismail’s film actually struggles against the dominant discourse of its time particularly in terms of Usmar Ismail’s figure as a determining factor in establishing national films in Indonesia.Keyword : National Cinema, Usmar Ismail, Darah dan Doa 

Quantum Creativity: Afracting New Materialism in the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042110666
Author(s):  
jan jagodzinski
Keyword(s):  
Creative Destruction ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Quantum Level ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Karen Barad

This essay engages the vicissitudes of new materialism at the quantum level, attempting to differentiate what I take to be fundamental differences in the theoretical positions of vitalist theories as developed by Karen Barad and Deleuze and Guattari in relation to the Anthropocene. I treat matter at the quantum level to differentiate conceptions of apparatus and assemblage. It is argued that one should not treat them under the same signifiers. There is the question of creativity that runs through the essay which also raises questions concerning an “affirmative” Deleuze, the dominant position when it comes to the arts, humanities, and pedagogy. Against these particular developments, anorganic life as in|different comes to fore where issues of creative destruction must be faced.

Werewolf Wollstonecraft

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-274
Author(s):  
Chris Washington
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Dynamic Power ◽  
Karen Barad

The judicial bestiary at the heart of eighteenth-century politics has long been evident in Enlightenment social contract debates, as Michel Foucault’s and Giorgio Agamben’s theories of biopolitics show. In this essay, I argue that Wollstonecraft is nonetheless the first thinker of ‘true’ werewolf out-lawry in her final novel, Maria, Or the Wrongs of Woman and in her letters to Godwin. In the novel, Wollstonecraft leverages what we now call new materialism as a feminist critique of heteropatriarchal society. Wollstonecraft’s new materialist thinking also scrambles gender across even human and nonhuman distinctions. To counter microcosmic familial and macrocosmic state heteropatriarchy, Wollstonecraft theorizes what I am calling, following the example of wolves and werewolves, not a family but a ‘pack’. The pack manifests as new spacetimes through what Karen Barad terms “quantum entanglements” that produce love between subjects and subjects but that never strives to reproduce binaristic pairings that reproduce the sovereign family. A pack, as Wollstonecraft’s texts demonstrate, emerges from processes of co-creation that iterate new subjects and objects without dynamic power structures structured around stable gender identities or human and nonhuman power relations.

scholarly journals Videography as Refrain

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-137
Author(s):  
Theresa Giorza
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Agential Realism ◽  
The World ◽  
Karen Barad

A public park adjacent to an inner-city preschool invites children and their teacher into new encounters with the world, literacy and themselves. The park and preschool are situated in the inner-city of Johannesburg, South Africa. In this article, the researcher performs as mutated-modest-witness of events that unfold in lively materialdiscursive encounters between children, grass, friendship, a pen, cement table, sand, sticks, the alphabet and daylight. The agential realism of Karen Barad and the nomadic thinking of Deleuze and Guattari offer ways of re-imagining ‘the child in the park’. Diffracting with repeated viewings of video clips the researcher finds that forward and reverse movement and stops in different moments throughout repeated viewings of the same video footage produces different and new ‘stories’ about the events and the children involved. Conceptions of ‘child’ as literacy learner and of researcher-as-writer mutate through this diffraction which instantiates a non-representational videography practice.

scholarly journals Drug Repositioning: New Approaches and Future Prospects for Life-Debilitating Diseases and the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak

Viruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1058
Author(s):  
Zheng Yao Low ◽  
Isra Ahmad Farouk ◽  
Sunil Kumar Lal
Keyword(s):  
Drug Development ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Drug Repositioning ◽  
Personalised Medicine ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Good Potential ◽  
Novel Drug

Traditionally, drug discovery utilises a de novo design approach, which requires high cost and many years of drug development before it reaches the market. Novel drug development does not always account for orphan diseases, which have low demand and hence low-profit margins for drug developers. Recently, drug repositioning has gained recognition as an alternative approach that explores new avenues for pre-existing commercially approved or rejected drugs to treat diseases aside from the intended ones. Drug repositioning results in lower overall developmental expenses and risk assessments, as the efficacy and safety of the original drug have already been well accessed and approved by regulatory authorities. The greatest advantage of drug repositioning is that it breathes new life into the novel, rare, orphan, and resistant diseases, such as Cushing’s syndrome, HIV infection, and pandemic outbreaks such as COVID-19. Repositioning existing drugs such as Hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir, Ivermectin and Baricitinib shows good potential for COVID-19 treatment. This can crucially aid in resolving outbreaks in urgent times of need. This review discusses the past success in drug repositioning, the current technological advancement in the field, drug repositioning for personalised medicine and the ongoing research on newly emerging drugs under consideration for the COVID-19 treatment.

scholarly journals A Stylistic Investigation of the Act of Murder in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ujjal Jeet ◽  
Keyword(s):  
White Woman ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White Community ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical System ◽  
Nature And Nurture

This paper is a functional stylistic study of a selected passage from Doris Lessing’s novel The Grass is Singing. In the novel The Grass is Singing, a white woman in Rhodesia is killed by her black servant but surprisingly the murder instead of bringing a stir spreads a silence in the local white community. Further, the text on an intuitive reading seems to absolve the murderer of the crime which forms the research question of the paper. Thus, close and systematic textual analysis of the text representing the murder scene was conducted and it was found that the linguistic choices of the text does create a semantic universe where the murder and the murdered are allegorical figures representing nature and nurture in a mutual conflict. The methodology for linguistic analysis of the selected text is borrowed from Michael Halliday’s theoretical system Systemic Functional Linguistics. The text is analysed by means of transitivity system which provides the investigative tools to study the representational choices of the text.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF LIBERAL FEMINISM IN THE NOTEBOOK NOVEL (1996) BY NICHOLAS SPARKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Pande Made Gunawati ◽  
Dewa Komang Tantra ◽  
Putu Adi Krisna Juniarta
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Liberal Feminism

In The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, Allison Nelson was characterized as an inspiring woman who fought for her dreams. Meanwhile, Noah Calhoun was described as a loving man that respected Allison as a woman. This novel contained traits of rich liberal feminism. The purpose of the present research was to find out the traits of Noah Calhoun and Allison Nelson as the main characters that represented liberal feminism in the novel. The method of this research was textual analysis to analyze the traits. Data collection was linguistics unit corpora recorded in written forms. The finding of this research can be stated that Noah Calhoun and Allison Nelson were categorized as liberal feminists. Their traits were a combination of positive feminine and masculine traits. The traits of the main characters as liberal feminists were appreciative, forceful, strong, devoted, firm, sensitive, confident, patient, carefree, responsible, and independent.

scholarly journals Achiever of Higher Self: A Humanistic Study of Celie’s Character in the Novel, Color Purple

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Qurratulain Sardar ◽  
Rafique A. Memon
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Hierarchy Model ◽  
Humanistic Study ◽  
The One ◽  
Color Purple

A. Maslow in his book Motivation and Personality (1954) presents the five-stage hierarchy Model, emphasizes on the fulfilment of needs to achieving higher self. Based on textual analysis, the study demonstrates how the protagonist Celie, from the novel Color Purple written by Alice Walker, follows the gratification of needs in edict to connect the higher self. The evolution of character’s personality has been appraised thoroughly at each level, gives an equal attentive of new visions into her conduct and relationships with other characters. The Colloquial African-American dialect of the text is taken metaphorically, formulates the scarcity of needs created by external milieu. It is inimitably distinguished to identify the one of the major forces after her unusual, capricious and incoherent behaviors are usual social human drives.

scholarly journals Way of the Warrior: Battling Issues of Interlok with the Sword of Wisdom

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-230
Author(s):  
Lalita Sinha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
The Novel

Abdullah Hussain’s novel, Interlok, has been the source of discussion and conflict among various factions in the multi-ethnic and multi- religious community of Malaysia. As an alternative to some of the current negative impressions of the book, and accusations directed at the author, this essay presents a view of the novel and of the author’s motivations. It draws on two elements, evidences from the text itself, and an inward level or esoteric interpretation of the text. From an approach of Hindu religious and spiritual doctrines, and universal metaphysical truths from a Traditionalist perspective, it concludes that a fair and unbiased textual analysis which foregrounds Truth allows a genuine reader to understand what the author actually wrote, and to see beyond the conflict and accusations. Keywords: Hindu esoterism, discernment, Traditionalist perspective, human integration

scholarly journals Ethics of Biotechnology in Bioshock’s Interactive Narrative

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasbi Thaufik Oktodila ◽  
Dhita Hapsarani
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Interactive Narrative ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Game Player

The interactivity element in video games allows the process of delivering narration through words and actions taken by the game player. The diversity of game design in delivering stories leads to a debate between ludology (game-centered) and narratology (narrative-centered). Ludology perceives game as ‘sets of rules’ because game itself is a medium that is made up of rules. On the other hand, narratology views game in terms of the narrative resulted from the rules. Narratology tends to reduce the peculiarity of the medium because it does not take game rules into account, while ludology ignores the narrative elements. However, in recent times, games combine aspects of gameplay and narration to form an interactive narrative. One video game that uses such combination is Bioshock (2007). The interactivity elements in this game are not only for conveying the story, but also for allowing players’ participation to determine the resolution of the story through the player’s interaction with the character named Little Sister. Gameplay-wise, Little Sister acts as one of the main resources that helps players complete the game. Narrative-wise, Little Sister who is a chimera (a combination between animal and human) is a representation of technological advancement. Positioned as resource both in the gameplay and the narration, the game player’s treatment toward Little Sister implies ethical and moral consequences. For these reasons, this article implements textual analysis to discuss the characterization of Little Sisters displayed in the gameplay and the narration that leads to the ethical and morality issues lies in biotechnology.

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