scholarly journals Anthropology of the Living and the Dead: The Case of the Human Body and Technics (an Afterword to the Discussion)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei V. SOKOLOVSKIY
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
New Research

This paper summarizes the discussion on anthropological approaches to the study of the interface of human body and technologies. Employing the concept of ‘hypocognition’ suggested by Robert Levy, the author describes the search for the conceptual tools necessary to create interdisciplinary dialogue in this new research field. In addition to a brief overview of this search and the resulting discussion, the paper argues with the traditional approach to the human body and technologies as separate phenomena. As new technologies interact with the human body in new and intricate ways, and influence human beings, societies, and cultures across the world, their study must become part and parcel of anthropology, which has so far focused on tradition and paid less attention to innovations.

scholarly journals TANGGAPAN PENONTON DI DAERAH KETAPANG KABUPATEN KOTAWARINGIN TIMUR KALIMANTAN TENGAH TERHADAP ACARA DOKUMENTER DUA DUNIA TRANS 7

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamdani .
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The Body ◽  
Central Kalimantan ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Event Based

This research comes from an event titled Two World which is a show owned by Trans7. This event has a lot of religious messages through jinmelalui advice through the body of the mediator (genie penetrates into the human body) .The purpose of this study is to know the level of material understanding of the World Two Trans7 event based on existing categories of audience in Ketapang Kotawaringin East of Central Kalimantan against this Two World event. This research method is descriptive qualitative field research (field) in town in Middle Kalimantan region named Sampit and more specifically Ketapang Village area So with the data obtained, the authors conducted a questionnaire that has contained questions about the response to the World Two event in Trans7.In addition, also coupled with various manuals in theory to do this research. The results of this study can be seen that there are messages of da'wah in this event though many smells of mystic things. As for the religious message about belief (akidah), Worship (shariah) and Moral (akhlak). Also in the event Two World also, from the results of the question with the jinn is implied ban on begging to the deceased. Moreover, if to adore them. Remember that the dead only require prayer posts, not for worship. Those are some of the sage messages implied by the jinns' rantings in the Worlds Two show that aired on Trans7. Seeing some of the precious messages that have been conveyed by the Jinn, men should be ashamed for being nasehati by the people of the unseen world that is identical with the evil and sinister impression

scholarly journals RUMAH ABU MUARA KARANG

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 2249
Author(s):  
Oscarius Lufti ◽  
Agustinus Sutanto
Keyword(s):  
Design Concept ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Living World ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Utilization Of Technology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Physical Boundary

Starting from the issue where there is a physical boundary that separates the world of life and the world of death which gives a bad impression of death. Living humans can perform rituals to interact spiritually with the world of the dead. From this it can be said that there are still opportunities for interaction between the living world and the world of death. Utilization of technology is applied in the design of projects to create architecture that becomes a container where interactions occur between the living world and the world of death. The world of death will mingle with visitors and vice versa so that interaction occurs. Carrying the theme ‘Third Place” in the proposed project design concept, the design of the columbarium will not be closed. Columbarium can be used as an architectural space that can be enjoyed by the community without exception. Interaction not only occurs with fellow human beings who are still alive, but also can occur with those who have died with the help of existing technology. With this view of the closed columbarium  can be removed. Keywords:  Columbarium; Death; Interaction; Life Abstrak Berawal dari isu dimana terdapat sebuah batasan secara fisik yang memisahkan antara dunia kehidupan dan dunia kematian yang menimbulkan kesan yang tidak baik terhadap kematian. Manusia yang masih hidup dapat melakukan ritual untuk berinteraksi secara rohani dengan dunia kematian. Dari hal ini dapat dikatakan bahwa masih terdapat peluang untuk terjadinya interaksi antara dunia kehidupan dan dunia kematian. Pemanfaatan teknologi diterapkan dalam perancangan proyek untuk menciptakan arsitektur yang menjadi wadah dimana terjadi interaksi antara dunia kehidupan dan dunia kematian. Dunia kematian akan berbaur dengan pengunjung dan sebaliknya sehingga terjadi interaksi. Membawa tema “Third Place” dalam konsep perancangan proyek yang diusulkan, perancangan rumah abu tidak akan bersifat tertutup. Rumah abu dapat dijadikan sebagai ruang arsitektur yang dapat dinikmati oleh masyarakat tanpa terkecuali. Interaksi tidak hanya terjadi dengan sesama manusia yang masih hidup, tetapi juga dapat terjadi dengan mereka yang sudah meninggal dengan bantuan teknologi yang ada. Dengan ini pandangan terhadap rumah abu yang bersifat tertutup dapat dihilangkan.

Biometrics

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Halim Sayoud
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Behavioral Characteristic ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Security Applications ◽  
Automated Methods ◽  
Living Person

The term biometrics is derived from the Greek words: bio (life) and metrics (to measure). “Biometric technologies” are defined as automated methods of verifying or recognizing the identity of a living person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. Several techniques and features were used over time to recognize human beings several years before the birth of Christ. Today, this research field has become very employed in many applications such as security applications, multimedia applications and banking applications. Also, many methods have been developed to strengthen the biometric accuracy and reduce the imposture errors by using several features such as face, speech, iris, finger vein, etc. From a security purpose and economic point of view, biometrics has brought a great benefit and has become an important tool for governments and institutions. However, citizens are expressing their thorough worry, which is due to the freedom limitations and loss of privacy. This paper briefly presents some new technologies that have recently been proposed in biometrics with their levels of reliability, and discusses the different social and ethic problems that may result from the abusive use of these technologies.

scholarly journals People-centred care: new research needs and methods in doctor–patient communication. Challenges in mental health

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Del Piccolo ◽  
C. Goss
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication ◽  
Therapeutic Decisions ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Research ◽  
Biomarker Research

Communication in psychiatry is nowadays called to create bridges between different levels of observation (biological, functional and relational levels) and therapeutic intervention (social and educational) with important implications for therapeutic practice and communication research in the mental health context. New research challenges and windows of opportunity for therapeutic practice will be addressed in this contribution, as they relate to the three main tasks that psychiatrists have to meet when talking with their patients: understanding patient's problems and concerns; establishing the therapeutic alliance by acknowledging and responding to patient's emotion; informing and involving patients and their families, when appropriate. Therapeutic decisions need the elaboration of valid strategies of shared decision-making, which still have to be implemented and adapted to psychiatric context. Moreover, in the research field, emerging biomarker research may contribute to better explain what makes the difference in an empathic relationship either in terms of psycho-physiological reactions and in brain changes. Finally, the influence of new technologies and of Internet has to be more and more considered during clinical consultations.

scholarly journals What the Polish Mother Does Not Say. Zbylut Grzywacz Against the Myth

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4 SELECTED PAPERS IN ENGLISH) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Dorota Kudelska
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Position ◽  
The Body ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Body Form ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead

The Polish version of the article was published in Roczniki Humanistyczne vol. 62, issue 4 (2014). The article presents the art of Zbylut Grzywacz in the context of his post-mortem exhibition in the Kraków National Museum in 2009. The subjects of the analysis are his paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, presenting women through a simple rough treatment of human body form, without an academic idealization. The destruction of the form conforms to the deconstruction of the myth of a Polish Mother. It is due to the change of a social position of the figures whom Grzywacz gives the roles of guardians of tradition, as well as due to their mental and moral degradation. The artist uses an irony in showing his knowledge of the tradition of showing a human body in an academic nude (what he denies), in a Flemish art of showing torn animal meat (with the Rembrandt’s reflection) and Holbein’s tradition of the post-mortem decay (The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb). One of the main themes in Grzywacz’s paintings is the loneliness, especially distinct in a representation of symbolically naked persons among insensible pedestrians. The Polish Mother—here she doesn’t belong to any society. The explicitness and the picturesque materiality covers a certain “crack” in the world presented inside the hard-to-comprehend present-day multitude of Grzywacz’s paintings. Behind the cover of the foreground tale, as one could think on the basis of the sketchbooks, there is a kind of an “unpresented world”, in which the author incessantly tells us about the pain of his existence with no anaesthetization by grotesque.

scholarly journals Conditional Text Generation for Harmonious Human-Machine Interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Bin Guo ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Yasan Ding ◽  
Wei Wu ◽  
Shaoyang Hao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Text Generation ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Concept Model ◽  
New Research ◽  
Key Techniques ◽  
Machine Interaction ◽  
Generation Technology

In recent years, with the development of deep learning, text-generation technology has undergone great changes and provided many kinds of services for human beings, such as restaurant reservation and daily communication. The automatically generated text is becoming more and more fluent so researchers begin to consider more anthropomorphic text-generation technology, that is, the conditional text generation, including emotional text generation, personalized text generation, and so on. Conditional Text Generation (CTG) has thus become a research hotspot. As a promising research field, we find that much attention has been paid to exploring it. Therefore, we aim to give a comprehensive review of the new research trends of CTG. We first summarize several key techniques and illustrate the technical evolution route in the field of neural text generation, based on the concept model of CTG. We further make an investigation of existing CTG fields and propose several general learning models for CTG. Finally, we discuss the open issues and promising research directions of CTG.

scholarly journals Pedagogy, Places And People

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ros Wade
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Global Solutions ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Local And Global Solutions ◽  
The World ◽  
New Forms Of Learning

Abstract The paper will explore the potential of new technologies in helping educators to play an active role in creating and promoting the learning that is needed for local and global communities to live sustainably. In particular, it will examine the potential of the virtual world to develop local and global communities for transformative learning for sustainable development. It is organised into three sections: 1) the need for new ways of knowing, learning and understanding; 2) the challenges an opportunities of the virtual world; 3) the role of virtual learning communities in education for sustainable education; 4) regional centres of expertise as a mobilising mechanism. Faced with the major challenges of climate change, environmental degradation, poverty and social inequality, it is clear that learning to live sustainably has never been more urgent. The credit crunch has thrown these into sharp relief and provided an opportunity to take stock of our current ways of organising the world economy which have led us to this unsustainable impasse. We are faced with a critical moment in world history which offers the chance to make the changes needed to set human beings on a path to a more sustainable future. In order to address these immense challenges, new forms of learning are needed, and the paper will argue that all educators, as responsible members of local and global communities, need to play key roles as agents for change. Globalisation and new technologies have changed the way we think about the world and about what constitutes the global and the local. It is clear that both local and global solutions must be found to address the serious dilemmas of the 21st century. This paper will see to examine the opportunities and challenges of the virtual world in enabling and supporting the development of effective ESD communities of practice.

scholarly journals At overskride mennesket – Interview med Francis Fukuyarma om transhumanisme

2018 ◽  
pp. 155-167
Author(s):  
Jakob Bek-Thomsen ◽  
Frank Lassen ◽  
Mikkel Thorup
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Francis Fukuyama ◽  
The World ◽  
American Political Scientist

The interview with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama deals with what he once called ‘the most dangerous idea in the world’, namely transhumanism. Transhumanism is the intentional redesign of the human body to make it faster, smarter and healthier, ultimately to free it from the constraints of a corporeal existence and to live forever. Fukuyama is asked to reflect on the philosophical, moral and political dilemmas of the new technologies for designing human life and on the failed opportunities of not engaging oneself as individual and community in these new opportunities.

The Classical Daoist Concept of LI 理 (Pattern) and Early Chinese Cosmology

Early China ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 157-183
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
Expression Of Emotions ◽  
To Come ◽  
Lushi Chunqiu ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Concrete Image

This study traces the origins and development of the concept of Li 理 (Pattern) in early Chinese Cosmology, locating its foundation in the root metaphor derived from the natural lines or veins along which a block of jade can be split by a skilled artisan. From this relatively concrete image, li comes to eventually represent in Daoist cosmology the more abstract quality of the natural patterns or structures within the universe along which all phenomena move and interact with one another without the interference of human beings. After examining how early Confucian works emphasize the more abstract and derivative qualities of order and structure, we see that the likely Yangist authors in the Lüshi chunqiu return to the original metaphor of veins in jade but, instead, apply this to the veins through which the qi circulates through the human body.We then see how this metaphor is expanded beyond the human body in the classical Daoist texts to come to represent the natural guidelines both within all phenomena and those that guide their movements within the cosmos. Within phenomena these include such varied things as the structures for the generation and expression of emotions within human beings as well as the natural lines along which the butcher's chopper passes in order to cleave oxen. In Daoist inner cultivation literature it is these patterns with which sages accord so that their spontaneous actions are completely in harmony with the greater forces of the cosmos. Only after long practice of the apophatic contemplative methods that include concentrating on one breathing and emptying out the normal contents of consciousness can the sage be able to accomplish this goal of “taking no action yet leaving nothing undone.” Thus the concept of li as these natural guidelines comes to serve as an explanation for why this classical Daoist dictum is effective in the world.Finally, the Huainanzi contains the most sophisticated and sustained usages of the concept of li as the natural patterns and guidelines in the cosmos arguing that complying with them is the key to a genuinely contented life.

Computer and Information Systems in Latin Paleography Between Research and Didactic Application

2005 ◽  
pp. 288-298
Author(s):  
Antonio Cartelli ◽  
Marco Palma
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
The Third ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Manuscripts ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Research

In this chapter the authors describe how ICT changed the way of approaching research and teaching for today’s paleographers. First of all they report how new technologies changed the cataloging, the studying, and the spreading of information concerning ancient manuscripts all over the world. Next, the results of the experiences they carried out at the Faculty of Humanities are described: the first one concerns the creation of Web resources for teaching paleography; the second one is a database collecting data on women copyists in the Middle Ages; the third one is the practical application of a more general project called by the authors “Open Catalog”; the fourth and last one is an information system concerning the bibliography of ancient manuscripts. Finally, the authors describe how ICT introduced new research methods in paleography and especially how they made possible the creation of learning communities (i.e., learning, studying, and research communities).

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