scholarly journals Creative Fungus: On Fredrik Værslev’s Mildew Paintings

Ung Uro ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Vera Maria Gjermundsen
Keyword(s):  
Exact Nature ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Urban Gardening

Fredrik Værslev’s Mildew Paintings cannot be defined as paintings in the conventional sense. They are the result of mildew growth developing over the course of a year on canvases stored inside humid plastic tubes. As such, their exact nature eludes us, not being straight-forward painterly objects, nor simple pieces of fungus-eaten material. This chapter aims to define the Mildew Paintings’ hybrid identity through the theories of interspecies entanglements of anthropologist Anna Tsing and Gilles Clément’s approach to what he refers to as the third landscape in urban gardening. The paintings are regarded as the result of a new-found collaboration between human and non-human processes, pushing the artist into the background while introducing other creative entities, leaving us to question our hegemonic role as this world’s sole active designers.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 394-419
Author(s):  
Helen Roche
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Specific Identification ◽  
The Third ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Post War

This chapter investigates the fates of NPEA staff and pupils after the end of the Third Reich. It begins with an account of how the schools’ former adherents fared under Allied denazification processes, and the ways in which these shaped later exculpatory narratives regarding the Napolas’ exact nature and relationship with the Nazi regime. It then describes the formation of the NPEA old boys’ networks (Traditionsgemeinschaften), and the various stages in the development of Napola memory culture, considering how successful the ‘Napolaner’ may have been in creating a unique strand of collective memory all their own, defined by their own specific identification as a ‘community of experience’. It also analyses former pupils’ reactions to the appearance of books, films, and TV programmes dealing with the NPEA in the post-war and post-Wall media landscape, including the psycho-historical study Das Erbe der Napola (1996), and Dennis Gansel’s film Napola: Elite für den Führer / Napola: Before the Fall (2005). The chapter concludes by siting these findings within the context of relevant literature on Allied denazification policy, veterans’ organizations in the Federal Republic, and post-war German memory.

‘Fire Cannot Harm It’: Mediation, Temptation and the Charismatic Power of the Qur'an

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis Zadeh
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status

This paper examines debates concerning the theological status of the material Qur'anic codex (muṣḥaf), by focusing on a range of interpretations of a widely circulated ḥadīth which states ‘if the Qur'an were written on a hide, fire would not harm it’. This particular saying appears as a flashpoint in a series of on-going debates, which begin during the third/ninth century, concerning the otherworldly status of the Qur'an. By exploring the broader implications of these debates, as they inflect Ḥanbalī, Muʿtazilī, Imāmī, Ashʿarī and Māturīdī theological positions, this paper demonstrates how broad disputes over the eternality and inimitability of the Qur'an impacted on the status of scripture as a material object. Thus, while the physical Qur'anic codex became a sanctified object of veneration, the exact nature of its charismatic power remained contested.

Preliminary Research on Perceiving Patterns of Underwater Acoustic Transients

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 292-296
Author(s):  
James A. Ballas ◽  
James H. Howard
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Underwater Acoustic ◽  
The Third ◽  
Pure Tones ◽  
Preliminary Research ◽  
Random Patterns ◽  
Acoustic Transients

The present studies were conducted to determine whether an implicit structure or grammar has an effect on a listener's ability to classify transient patterns. Three experiments were conducted. In each there were two groups, one which learned a set of structured patterns and one which learned a set of random patterns. In the first study, the structure was syntactic and pure tones were used to construct the patterns. In the second study, the structure was also only syntactic but a semantic structure was implied by using meaningful sounds. In the third study, both syntactic and semantic structure were used and the stimuli were water related acoustic transients. The results indicated that the listeners used the structure to identify the patterns even though they were unaware of its exact nature. The strongest facilitation was produced by both syntactic and semantic structure. Syntactic structure generally facilitated the listener's task but not as much when a semantic structure was implied but not present. In this case, the listeners' attempts to find a semantic structure interfered with their utilization of the syntactic structure.

scholarly journals The Narrative of Hybrid Identity in the Third Space: A Postcolonial Critique of The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moazzam Ali Malik ◽  
◽  
Shiraz Ahmed ◽  
Mr. Ehtsham
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Hybrid Identities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Postcolonial Identity

The study aims at analyzing the construction and the working of hybrid identity in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The review of the literature discusses how postcolonial identity research has undergone a paradigm shift in recent times. Among the modern postcolonial critics like Bhabha (1994) and Spivak (2013), 'colonizer' and 'colonized' are dynamically dependent on each other for their subjective constructions. The identities of the 'colonizer' and the 'colonized' are not autonomous; rather, they have mutually exclusive identities—a structuralist stance taken by the earliest postcolonial theorists. Instead, such identities of 'colonizer' and 'colonized' are transcultural and fluid in nature and can negotiate themselves 'in the third space of enunciation' for 'new' forms of 'social collectives' (Bhabha, 1994). This aspect of hybrid identities provides the framework for our research. So, the study, through the textual analysis of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, has applied Bhabha's (1994) concept of 'hybridity' to unearth different aspects of Changez's identity in the wake of changing geopolitical and global scenario after the 9/11 event. The study ends on a note that there is a further need to develop the concept of hybrid identity so that it might enlighten us more about the role of 'cultural materials' in constructing such identities.

HYBRIDITY, THIRD SPACES AND IDENTITIES IN URSULA LE GUIN’s VOICES

Mousaion ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-139
Author(s):  
Fiona Covarr
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Adolescent Readers ◽  
Western Shore ◽  
Third Spaces ◽  
University City

This article explores ideas of identity in relation to a young adult fantasy novel, Voices (2006), the second novel in Ursula Le Guin’s Annals of the Western Shore series. Voices is set in a university city, Ansul, which has been invaded by the Alds. Nine-year old Memer Galva is an Ansul citizen who results from her mother being raped by an Ald soldier. She thus has a hybrid identity, since she is neither fully Ansulian nor Ald, and must learn to integrate with the Alds. Memer’s identity is examined in relation to Bhabha’s (1994) concept of hybridity and the third space in his postcolonial work. Hybridity is the adaptation of identity to an individual’s social/political environment by either combining or rejecting elements of the cultures which constitute it. A third space is one occupied by an oppressed/colonised people which is neither central to their culture nor to their oppressors’/colonisers’ culture, but which aids them to negotiate the two. By negotiating various ‘spaces’ in their respective environments, the Ansuls are able to ‘hybridise’ themselves, and ultimately ‘outwit’ or overcome the Alds. Annals of the Western Shore is aimed at adolescent readers who occupy a ‘hybrid’ or liminal identity, being neither children nor adults. They must learn to adapt to and integrate with society as they become adults. Concepts of integration and identity are also relevant to South Africa, where there has been a need for hybridisation and movements into third spaces in order for its inhabitants to better adapt to the socio-political changes experienced in the country.

Aantekeningen Bij Het Middeleeuwse Gewoonterecht

1996 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
R.C. Van Caenegem
Keyword(s):  
Customary Law ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ius Commune ◽  
The Government ◽  
Spontaneous Evolution

AbstractCustomary law is both important and difficult to comprehend. In medieval society it was paramount. It lived in people's memory and manifested itself in ritual gestures and words, and through adjudication. One competitor was legislation which, to the modem lawyer, stands in clear contrast to custom. However, medieval terms such as leges consuetudinariae show that there was at the time no absolute opposition between them. Another competitor was the learned ius commune, whose impact on the daily lives of medieval people should not be exaggerated. When trying to define customary and statute law the legal historian meets the four following problems. The first is the exact nature of the 'homologated' customs, which pretend to be old norms, but are in reality laws promulgated by the government. The second is the fact that so-called customary law often appears to have resulted from deliberate action instead of unconscious spontaneous evolution. The third problem concerns the character and application of the Volks

The Social and Political Philosophy of the Shih-chi

1963 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Society

Chinese state and society underwent a profound change in the Former Han period. During the early years of the Former Han the exact nature of state and society was by no means clear, but by the end of this period, the broad outlines of the imperial system had been established for all subsequent Chinese history. The Ch'in Dynasty had indicated one direction, but its collapse had revived many of those elements present at the end of the third century B.C. which could logically have developed into a limited open society.

scholarly journals Constructing “The Third Space” On Eat a Bowl of Tea

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Lingmin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Hybrid Identity ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Negotiation ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The One ◽  
Chinese American Literature ◽  
Homogeneous Culture

Identity construction is always the motif of Chinese American literature. Many critical theories are adopted to analyze this issue. Homi K. Bhabha’s “the third space” is one of them. It refers to a place where it is not a combination of different positions, rather, it is “neither the One nor the Other but something else besides”. Eat a Bowl of Tea by Chinese American writer Louis Chu presents such Third Space. This paper first discusses the homogeneous old Chinatown culture which is patriarchal and impotent in Eat a Bowl of Tea and explains how Mei Oi causes the cultural split from this homogeneous culture by her independence and adultery. And then this paper discusses how the old Chinatown undergoes the cultural negotiation and finally realize its transformation. This paper points out that in this process of transformation, the characters construct their Third Space, which offers them hybrid identity and the sense of belonging.

Atonality, 12–Tone Music and the Third Reich

Tempo ◽  
1991 ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Levi
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Tonal Music ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich

These extensively quoted statements, emanating from two of the most vociferous cultural ideologists of the Third Reich, give the impression that the Nazi regime formulated a highly consistent attitude towards ‘modernist’ trends in contemporary music. In reality, however, perceptions of the exact nature of ‘atonality’ and the ‘atonal’ movement in music remained notoriously imprecise. Six months before Rosenberg's address, for example, Hitler's Propaganda Minister Goebbels had erroneously denounced Hindemith as an ‘atonal musician’ who had succumbed to the ‘biting dissonances of musical bankruptcy’. Similarly, in 1938 Hans Severus Ziegler, organiser of the Degenerate Music Exhibition, had singled out the unequivocally tonal music of Hermann Reutter for particular criticism, claiming that it manifested severe symptoms of constructivism.

Familial Brain Tumors

Neurosurgery ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venkata R. Challa ◽  
Harold O. Goodman ◽  
Courtland H. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Karyotypic Analysis ◽  
Mixed Glioma ◽  
The Third ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Brain Tumors

Abstract We studied two families in each of which three or more individuals were affected by brain tumors. In the first family, which had no evidence of neurofibromatosis or tuberous sclerosis, a man, his sister, and her son developed histologically proven gliomas; the man's great uncle was historically reported to have died from a brain tumor, but the exact nature of the tumor was not known. In this family two of the tumors were low grade astrocytomas of the cerebrum, whereas the third was a mixed glioma of the cerebellum. Karyotypic analysis of this tumor showed no marker chromosomes. A second family had a history of an unusual concentration of brain tumors. In one patient the tumor was a histologically verified glioma. Four other patients had historically reported brain tumors, the descriptions of which suggested gliomas. Both families showed involvement of individuals in adjacent generations, although in both instances there were skipped generations. Twins, siblings, or parents and children are the kindred groups affected in most other reported families with multiple brain tumors. The mode of inheritance of brain tumors in these two families and recent literature on the conditions associated with familial brain tumors are discussed.

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