Tension and Phase: Doris Lessing

2017 ◽  
pp. 112-132
Author(s):  
Brian Willems
Keyword(s):  
Doris Lessing ◽  
The World ◽  
New Phase

The previous chapters laid out a number of ways in which objects can be surprising. The dismantling of language, vision and the world is one strategy for creating this surprise. In the Anthropocene the world is falling apart around us. If we are to go forward, this falling apart will need to become a part of the solution, meaning part of a vision of a less destructive future. This chapter aims to correct this. Following a number of arguments laid out in Graham Harman’s Immaterialism, Doris Lessing’s novel The Cleft (2007) is used to develop the notion of when an object enters a new phase of its existence, and when such change does not take place. The symbiosis of one object and another potentially causes change to occur. However, this only takes place when certain conditions are met.

Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Willems
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cormac Mccarthy ◽  
Doris Lessing ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
Neil Gaiman ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Quentin Meillassoux

A human-centred approach to the environment is leading to ecological collapse. One of the ways that speculative realism challenges anthropomorphism is by taking non-human things to be as valid objects of investivation as humans, allowing a more responsible and truthful view of the world to take place. Brian Willems uses a range of science fiction literature that questions anthropomorphism both to develop and challenge this philosophical position. He looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way in which language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene. Willems considers the works of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson are considered alongside some of the main figures of speculative materialism including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett.

scholarly journals The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Davies ◽  
Stephen B. Walker ◽  
Mor Rubinstein ◽  
Fernando Luis Perini
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Open Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Data Movement ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Open Data Movement ◽  
New Phase ◽  
Real World Problems

Its been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement enters a new phase in its evolution, shifting to target real-world problems and embed open data thinking into other existing or emerging communities of practice, big questions still remain. How will open data initiatives respond to new concerns about privacy, inclusion, and artificial intelligence? And what can we learn from the last decade in order to deliver impact where it is most needed? The State of Open Data brings together over 60 authors from around the world to address these questions and to take stock of the real progress made to date across sectors and around the world, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come.

scholarly journals Doris Lessing’s Science Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
Ms. Shikha Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Doris Lessing ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Private Problems ◽  
Post War ◽  
Story Writer

Doris Lessing, the Nobel Laureate (1919-2007), a British novelist, poet, a writer of epic scope, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was the “most fearless woman novelist in the world, unabashed ex-communist and uncompromising feminist”. Doris has earned the great reputation as a distinguished and outstanding writer. She raised local and private problems of England in post-war period with emphasis on man-woman relationship, feminist movement, welfare state, socio-economic and political ethos, population explosion, terrorism and social conflicts in her novels.

scholarly journals Aging and Poverty in Asian Context: A Sociological Appraisal of Alzheimer's Disorders in Iran

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-07
Author(s):  
Mohammad Taghi Sheykhi
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Poverty And Health ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Aging People ◽  
New Phase ◽  
New Strategies

The paper reflects an image of Alzheimer's disorders in Asia as the largest continent of the world. Asia with increasing life expectancy and elderly people is facing Alzheimer's disorders within the emerging aging people leaving behind various issues. Aging in Asia is also in parallel with poverty and health deficiency. Many parts of Asia is getting aged before becoming rich. Spread of Alzheimer's disorders while needing more and additional capital to invest, is in low position. Under such circumstances, the countries of the region need new paradigms and policies to combat the emerging Alzheimer's within the aging cohorts. Aging as a new phase of life needs new strategies to put into effect, to take care of those involved with Alzheimer's disorders. Aging as a new part of life needs more scientific study, and the practice of plans to modify the issue.

Multilingualism and Technology: A Review of Developments in Digital Communication from Monolingualism to Idiolingualism

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
Helen Kelly-Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Evolution Of Language ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
New Phase

AbstractThe focus in this article is on the evolution of language and technology in relation to multilingualism, in particular on how multilingual provision has developed in tandem with the development of the internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). In trying to understand how multilingualism has evolved, it is also necessary to understand how the technical aspects of digital technology as well as the politico-economic dimensions to that technology have changed. Four distinct periods emerge in the development: monolingualism, multilingualism, hyperlingualism, and idiolingualism. Monolingualism covers the origins of the internet and later the WWW as monolingual spaces. This was followed by a long period that charts the slow but gradual development of increased language provision and what I am terming “partial multilingualism.” Multilingualism expanded substantially, potentially limitlessly, with the development of Web 2.0. This has involved the diversification of online spaces to the point of “hyperlingualism.” I argue that we are still in this hyperlingual phase, but alongside it, a new phase is developing, that of “idiolingualism” as a result of mass linguistic customization. In this article, I discuss these phases, paying attention to both their technical and economic contexts, as well as their implications for linguistic diversity online and in wider society.

Diffusion Patterns of the Internet Technology Cluster in Irish SMEs

2005 ◽  
pp. 858-863
Author(s):  
James Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Sectoral Change ◽  
The World ◽  
New Phase

Electronic commerce has been recognised as a source of fundamental, pan-sectoral change to the conduct of business; Chan and Swatman (2000) use the term: “A new paradigm for doing business.” Other authors have gone further, viewing modern IT developments as the latter part of a period starting in the mid-1970s that represents a transition to nothing less than a new phase of capitalist development (Amin, 1994). Benjamin, Rockhart, Scott Morton, and Wyman (1983) also suggest that the world economy has been fundamentally altered by the globalisation of competition which has largely been caused by the declining cost and consequent increasing spread of IT developments.

Review of Wolfgang Vondey’s Pentecostal Theology: Living the Full Gospel

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Steven M. Studebaker
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Spirit Baptism ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
The World ◽  
Full Gospel ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Phase

Wolfgang Vondey’s Pentecostal Theology is a creative, constructive, and far ranging contribution to the development of Pentecostal theology. Grounded in the Pentecostal experience of the full gospel, it provides both a fundamental Pentecostal theology and a Pentecostal perspective on major categories of systematic theology. The book marks a new phase of efforts to develop a comprehensive or systematic Pentecostal theology by starting with Pentecostal concerns and developing a theology in terms of them. This review focuses on Vondey’s discussions of creation (ch. 7) and theological anthropology (ch. 8), in which he argues that a Pentecostal theology of creation and eschatology does not conclude with God razing the world, but with the Spirit’s renewing creation. Furthermore, although Spirit baptism transforms the individual, the purpose of that individual transformation is to lead beyond the self and to create a community of sanctified life. Spirit baptism leads those who receive it into the world to live for all people.

scholarly journals Qatar Digital Library: A New Phase of Digital Archives

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Ahmed Al-Mutawa
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
British Library ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collaboration Project ◽  
New Phase

Abstract Qatar Digital Library is a collaboration project by Qatar Foundation and the British Library to have an open access digital archive which aims to benefit people around the world. QDL offers cultural and historical materials of the Gulf and other regions and make it available online for everyone. The aim of QDL is to improve the understanding of the Islamic world, Arab cultural heritage, and the modern history of the Gulf for the public and the academic researchers.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-155
Author(s):  
GEOFFREY BURGESS
Keyword(s):  
Early Music ◽  
Music Training ◽  
The Past ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
Short Space ◽  
High Level ◽  
New Phase

The passing of pioneering figures – musicians Christopher Hogwood, Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt and Bruce Haynes, as well as harpsichord builder Martin Skowroneck and flute maker and recording engineer Andreas Glatt – all in the short space of the past couple of years might suggest that early music has reached its end, or at least entered a new phase. As we look back over the past forty-five years since the term ‘early music’ was trademarked in England by Early Music Shop founder Richard Wood, we may well ask if the movement's function and goals remain the same. Early music, which initially rode on the tailcoats of counterculture and actively disparaged the mainstream, has reached a high level of professionalism, and more than anything has become institutionalized. It now forms part of music training in conservatories around the world, as early-instrument orchestras proliferate and opera companies are increasingly turning to pre-romantic opera. For some, the professionalization of early music is an indication of its far-reaching impact, but to others the price paid is only too evident.

Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-289
Author(s):  
Roland Young
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Academic Development ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Phase

African studies at Northwestern University will enter a new phase of their history in September 1964, when Professor Gwendolen M. Carter takes up her post as director of the Program and Herskovits Professor of African Studies. The new appointment coincides with an expanding intellectual involvement of the faculty with the developing countries of the world, which have been somewhat neglected by scholarship, and the future goals of the Program are closely related to this wider academic development. First, however, a note on the background.

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