scholarly journals Getting Real: Work, Coolness and Nobokov’s Despair

Hawliyat ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 41-68
Author(s):  
Peter Williams
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Work Memory ◽  
The Self ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Real Work

Modernist aesthetics emphasised the representation of states of mind over the "blessed matter" of the everyday real. This shift from "substance to subtlety" licensed modernist protagonists like Hermann Karlovich from Vladimir Nabokov's Despair to engage in a narcissism that ignored real world contingencies in order to legitimate an aesthetic transcendence based upon inspiration rather than work, memory over creative reconstruction and lies instead of truths. The dissociative heat of Karlovich 's literary inspiration lacks the cool, remote thought Nabokov considered necessary for the associative work of artistic creation. His effort to communicate beyond the self fails because he never understands that while art may be an inspired lie, life is not. Nabokov therefore provides a critique of those strains of modernist aesthetics that understood the real as merely a set conventions rather than a constellation offorces that have the power to disrupt and overturn the best of human intentions.

Comparison of the self-expanding Evolut-PRO transcatheter aortic valve to its predecessor Evolut-R in the real world multicenter ATLAS registry

2020 ◽  
Vol 310 ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Kalogeras ◽  
Neil Ruparelia ◽  
Tito Kabir ◽  
Richard Jabbour ◽  
Toru Naganuma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aortic Valve ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Real ◽  
Transcatheter Aortic Valve

scholarly journals Timelessness Strictly Inside the Quantum Realm

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 772
Author(s):  
Knud Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
The Real ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Quantum Objects ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Double Slit

Time is one of the undisputed foundations of our life in the real world. Here it is argued that inside small isolated quantum systems, time does not pass as we are used to, and it is primarily in this sense that quantum objects enjoy only limited reality. Quantum systems, which we know, are embedded in the everyday classical world. Their preparation as well as their measurement-phases leave durable records and traces in the entropy of the environment. The Landauer Principle then gives a quantitative threshold for irreversibility. With double slit experiments and tunneling as paradigmatic examples, it is proposed that a label of timelessness offers clues for rendering a Copenhagen-type interpretation of quantum physics more “realistic” and acceptable by providing a coarse but viable link from the fundamental quantum realm to the classical world which humans directly experience.

scholarly journals Biblical Inspirations in Nikifor’s Paintings

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Wałczyk
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ideal World ◽  
The World ◽  
Biblical Anthropology ◽  
Divine Order ◽  
The Ideal

Nikifor Krynicki (Epifaniusz Drowniak, 1895-1968) was one of the most popular non-academic Polish painters worldwide. To show the biblical inspiration in his creative output I chose two categories from various thematic aspects: self-portraits and landscapes with a church. There are plenty of Nikifor’s paintings showing him as a teacher, as a celebrating priest, as a bishop, or even as Christ. A pop­ular way to explain this idea of self-portraits is a psychological one: as a form of auto-therapy. This analysis is aims to show a deeper expla­nation for the biblical anthropology. Nikifor’s self-portraits as a priest celebrating the liturgy are a symbol of creative activity understood as a divine re-creation of the world. Such activity needs divine inspira­tion. Here are two paintings to recall: Potrójny autoportret (The triple self-portrait) and Autoportret w trzech postaciach (Self-portrait in three persons). The proper way to understand the self-identification with Christ needs a reference to biblical anthropology. To achieve our re­al-self we need to identify with Christ, whose death and resurrection bring about our whole humanity. The key impression we may have by showing Nikifor’s landscapes with a church is harmony. The painter used plenty of warm colors. Many of the critics are of the opinion that Nikifor created an imaginary, ideal world in his landscapes, the world he wanted to be there and not the real world. The thesis of this article is that Nikifor created not only the ideal world, but he also showed the source of the harmony – the divine order.

Ten Paradoxes of Technology

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Feenberg ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Real World ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Interconnected Network ◽  
The Real ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Causal Laws ◽  
Technological World

Though we may be competent at using many technologies, most of what we think we know about technology in general is false. Our error stems from the everyday conception of things as separate from each other and from us. In reality technologies belong to an interconnected network the nodes of which cannot exist independently qua technologies. What is more we tend to see technologies as quasi-natural objects, but they are just as much social as natural, just as much determined by the meanings we give them as by the causal laws that rule over their powers. The errors of common sense have political consequences in domains such as, development, medicine and environmental policy. In this paper I summarize many of the conclusions philosophy of technology has reached reflecting on the reality of our technological world. These conclusions appear as paradoxes judged from our everyday perspective.This paper presents a philosophy of technology. It draws on what we have learnt in the last 30 years as we abandoned old Heideggerian and positivist notions and faced the real world of technology. It turns out that most of our common sense ideas about technology are wrong. This is why I have put my ten propositions in the form of paradoxes, although I use the word loosely here to refer to the counter-intuitive nature of much of what we know about technology.

Fluid bodies or bodily fluids

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Adams-Thies
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Anal Sex ◽  
The Real ◽  
Bodily Fluids ◽  
Dichotomous Thinking ◽  
A Site

Previous researchers discussing cybersexuality have been fascinated with the body-less-ness of cybersex. They have focused on the textual productions and (re)formations of the self that are allowed in this space independent of the body. Thus, the cyber becomes the space of transformation and fluidity of the self while the ‘real’ becomes the site of the material, concrete and unchanging body. I posit that dichotomous thinking about the cyber and the real and the text and the body produces an errant concept of the body. Cybersex is rarely a disembodied experience. Text-making cannot create itself free from the constraints of linguistic communities of practice in the “real” world. I challenge the notion that cybersexuality is a sexuality without the body and that the body in the ‘real’ world is stable. I focus specifically on how gay men describe the experience of the anus and anal sex as a means to better understand how the body becomes a site for linguistic marking and reference.

From Evidence-Based Practice in Suicide Prevention to the Real World: How Long is the Leap?

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
M. Pompili
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Primary Care Providers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Shed Light

This presentation aims to shed light on effective suicide prevention activities that often are missing in the everyday clinical practice. Too often in fact suicidal individuals seek help from mental health professionals that nevertheless fail to recognize suicide risk. For instance, on average, 45% of suicide victims had contact with primary care providers within 1 month of suicide. Likewise, the real world often presents challenges that impair proper utilization of the evidence-based practice. Also, the alarming suicide rates around the world points to lack of effective preventive understanding of suicide. This presentation will present key point of the evidence-based practice, how to implement such approach and how to overcome difficulties in the real world. It will deal with the state of the art of preventive measures of suicide, what the missing elements are and how to make the most from personal experience without risking relying on clinician's intuition in management of suicidal individuals.

scholarly journals Conexões entre grafos e matrizes na modelagem de problemas matemáticos

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Larissa Melchiors Furlan ◽  
Mylena Roehrs ◽  
Glauber Rodrigues de Quadros
Keyword(s):  
Directed Graph ◽  
Real World ◽  
Adjacency Matrix ◽  
Directed Graphs ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mathematical World ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Everyday Problems

Graphs theory is very important in the mathematical world as an excellent way of connecting with the real world. By using the theory of directed graphs it is possible to transform many of the everyday problems into mathematical problems, so as to make an exact study in each case. In this work we explore the matrices related to the various types of graphs, such as the vertex matrix, which is associated with a directed graph, and the adjacency matrix. Moreover, matrices of multi-step connections are constructed so as to separate the various blades between the vertices of a directed graph. Then, we will construct some applications of those results in the form of examples.

scholarly journals Models for Predicting Global Plastic Waste

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuexing Hao ◽  
Glenn Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Growth Model ◽  
Real World ◽  
Exponential Growth ◽  
Plastic Waste ◽  
The Self ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Adaptive Model ◽  
The Real ◽  
Exponential Growth Model ◽  
Self Adaptive

For more than half a century, plastic prod-ucts have been a part of people’s lives. When plastic waste is thrown into nature, it can cause a sequence of dangerous effects. Previous researchers esti-mated that global plastic waste in 2020 will be more than 400 million tons. To reduce plastic waste, they built scientific models to analyze the sources of plas-tic and provided solutions for regenerating these plastic wastes. However, their models are static and inaccurate, which may cause some false predictions.In this paper, we first observe the distribution of the real-world plastic waste data. Then, we build simple exponential growth model and logistics model to match these data. By testing different models on our plots, we discover that the SELF-ADAPTIVE MODEL is the best to describe and correctly predict our future plastic waste production, as this model combines the benefits of SIMPLE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH MODEL and the LOGISTIC MODEL. The self-Adaptive model has the potential to minimize the error rate and make the predictions more accurate. Based on this model, we can develop more accurate and informative solu-tions for the real-world plastic problems.

Crime, Protection, and Compassion

2021 ◽  
pp. 78-102
Author(s):  
Derk Pereboom
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Self ◽  
General Deterrence ◽  
The Real ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
The Right ◽  
Special Deterrence

Chapter 4 sets out a theory for treatment of criminals that rejects the retributive justification for punishment, does not fall afoul of a plausible prohibition on using people merely as means, and can actually work in the real world. The proposal is largely justified as special deterrence by the right to self-defense and defense of others. This account features a quarantine analogy for a justification of the incapacitation of criminals, for example by preventative detention or monitoring, together with provisions for rehabilitation and reintegration. It also features a justification for penalties designed to secure effective general deterrence, measures that cannot be justified as special deterrence by the self-defense right. Here consequentialist considerations and duties of compensation have a justificatory role.

Simulating tests to test simulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (16) ◽  
pp. 149-1-149-8
Author(s):  
Patrick Mueller ◽  
Matthias Lehmann ◽  
Alexander Braun
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Test Bench ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
The Self ◽  
Camera System ◽  
Physical Test ◽  
The Real ◽  
Camera Systems ◽  
Industrial Settings

Simulation is an established tool to develop and validate camera systems. The goal of autonomous driving is pushing simulation into a more important and fundamental role for safety, validation and coverage of billions of miles. Realistic camera models are moving more and more into focus, as simulations need to be more then photo-realistic, they need to be physical-realistic, representing the actual camera system onboard the self-driving vehicle in all relevant physical aspects – and this is not only true for cameras, but also for radar and lidar. But when the camera simulations are becoming more and more realistic, how is this realism tested? Actual, physical camera samples are tested in laboratories following norms like ISO12233, EMVA1288 or the developing P2020, with test charts like dead leaves, slanted edge or OECF-charts. In this article we propose to validate the realism of camera simulations by simulating the physical test bench setup, and then comparing the synthetical simulation result with physical results from the real-world test bench using the established normative metrics and KPIs. While this procedure is used sporadically in industrial settings we are not aware of a rigorous presentation of these ideas in the context of realistic camera models for autonomous driving. After the description of the process we give concrete examples for several different measurement setups using MTF and SFR, and show how these can be used to characterize the quality of different camera models.

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