Sense Theory. Sense Space

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.31219/osf.io/ay5k6 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Egger L. Mielberg

Keyword(s):

New Paradigm ◽

Life Event ◽

The Past ◽

Heterogeneous Objects ◽

The Future ◽

Massive Number ◽

Birthday Celebration ◽

Physical Phenomena

A purely sense-to-sense connection between two arbitrary objectswould allow trillions of other objects to be associated with eachother by their specific sense.The main benefit of the sense connection is still lost if an object ofcertain nature does not still have a property's association to even asingle another object (-s).We propose a new paradigm of a mathematical space that issense-centered and AI-focused in its nature. One of the mainpurposes of this space are to create an informational sphere for aa massive number of heterogeneous objects by the existed senserelationship between them.It may be extremely useful if a life event (behavior) in the future ofone person, say buying a car could be described by another lifeevent (behavior) in the past of another person, say the baby'sa birthday celebration or the properties of physical phenomena in thepast will trigger some actions in the future.

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Legacy

How to Be Childless ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190918620.003.0011 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 169-190

Author(s):

Rachel Chrastil

Keyword(s):

Life Stories ◽

Future Generations ◽

Family Tree ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Human Flourishing ◽

The Past ◽

The Family ◽

The Future ◽

Necessary Connections

What happens to our stuff when we die? How might we reimagine the family tree? Childlessness raises, among others, questions about legacy, inheritance, our relationship with future generations, our ability to shape the future, and the narratives we tell about the past and the future. The author examines several life stories to help readers begin to envision childlessness within a new paradigm of meaning. This chapter encourages readers to consider new metaphors for how they think about childlessness. It ends with considerations about the deep and necessary connections between the childless and the childful within the quest for human flourishing.

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Sekularingseringstesen i religionssociologien

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift ◽

10.7146/rt.v0i35.2642 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Lene Kühle

Keyword(s):

Social Reality ◽

Sociology Of Religion ◽

Main Argument ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Sociological Study ◽

Political Sphere ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Dominant Paradigm

Secularization has been á major issue in sociological debates on religion. Recent developments in theory as well as in social reality seems to indicate that the future for the seularization thesis will not be as glorious as the past. The main argument in this article is that the secularization thesis, which can more properly be understood as a paradigm in the Kuhnian sense, is no longer a very useful frame for the sociological study of religion. This argument is supported by three examples from the contemporay political sphere, where the description in terms of "secularization" seems to lead to ambiguous conclusions. The article gives a brief presentation of two candidates for a new paradigm and discusses the requirements that the new paradigm is expected to meet. Whether any of these paradigms or perhaps a completely different one is going to assume the position as the dominant paradigm in the sociology of religion is still to be seen.

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The Mental Scenarios and Internet Genre Etiquette of Different Cultures (Based on Online Greetings in Four Languages)

Respectus Philologicus ◽

10.15388/respectus.2012.27.15334 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 22 (27) ◽

pp. 21-36

Author(s):

Eleonora Lassan

Keyword(s):

Speech Acts ◽

Speech Act ◽

National Character ◽

Internet Site ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Wide Circle ◽

Birthday Celebration ◽

Different Cultures ◽

Good Attitude

This article analyses online greetings in the Russian, Polish, Lithuanian and German languages. The author treats greetings as a speech act which helps the addresser to remind the addressee of his/her good attitude towards him/her on the basis of a particular occasion—the addressee’s birthday. The author analyses this speech act in relation to the specific communicative and mental scenarios of the culture to which the speaker belongs. The entirety of standard speech acts and the combination of intentions of the speakers form a genre. The genre of modern online greetings seems contiguous to folklore genres, because most of the texts do not have authors. Moreover, these texts move from one Internet site to another, resulting in a wide circle of “implementers”—users.The author distinguishes some typical characteristics of online greetings among the four cultures. An emphasis on the figure of the speaker and an incantatory character are typical of Russian greeting texts. Happiness, health and eternal youth are the key objects of these Russian texts. Russian greetings are related to the future. German greetings are mainly related to the birthday celebration itself. Greetings are often related to a review of life: on this occasion the addressee is encouraged to reflect on whether s/he has lived the past year appropriately. The word courage (Mut) is constantly repeated in German greetings, whereas this word is absent from the Russian greetings. The figure of the speaker is marginally expressed in Polish greetings. The sweetness of life is present in Polish greetings, whereas it is observed neither in German nor in Russian texts. May all your dreams come true is a cliché element of Polish greeting texts. Lithuanian greetings distinguish themselves by their melancholic tone.The author relates the detected specific features of online greetings to the ideas of philosophers and historians on the unique means of expressing one’s national character.

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Wavering in Delight

American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813056043.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 56-76

Author(s):

Myrto Drizou

Keyword(s):

Turn Of The Century ◽

Fin De Siecle ◽

The Novel ◽

New Paradigm ◽

The Past ◽

Models Of Teaching ◽

The Future ◽

Fin De Siècle ◽

Sister Carrie

In this chapter, Drizou argues that Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie (1900) questions the rationalization of modern progress by depicting the turn of the century as a moment that wavers between the urgent incalculability of the future and the conventional knowledge of the past, embodied in the two main plotlines of the novel: Carrie’s hasty anticipation of the future and Hurstwood’s steady retreat to the past. For many scholars, the intersecting plotlines of Sister Carrie suggest the contrasting narratives of progress and decline that confirm the irreversibility of fate in turn-of-the-century naturalist texts. Dreiser complicates the teleology of this model, however, by dramatizing the temporal unpredictability of evolutionary tropes (change, adaptability, and chance) to illustrate wavering as a mode that allows his characters to measure their options and remain open to the future. This wavering mode furnishes a new paradigm of thinking about the fin de siècle as an incalculably open jangle that welcomes (and embodies) the resistance to rationalized discourses of modernity. In this sense, Dreiser’s novel prompts us to question and rethink our contemporary processes of rationalization, such as the standardization of knowledge through period-based models of teaching and temporally restrictive paradigms of scholarship.

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Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities

International Indigenous Policy Journal ◽

10.18584/iipj.2015.6.3.3 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Cher Weixia Chen ◽

Michael Gilmore

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Communities ◽

Cultural Resources ◽

New Paradigm ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Policy Trend

This article proposes a new concept of “biocultural rights” that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and cultural resources. The concept of biocultural rights combines nature with culture; takes into consideration the past, the present, and the future; and values “special” Indigenous elements that are indispensable to the diversity of our universe. It aims at protecting Indigenous resources holistically and more effectively.

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