Conclusion: White Light, White Life

Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474450713.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 217-222

Author(s):

Hanjo Berressem

Keyword(s):

White Light ◽

Short Text ◽

Life And Death

Shortly before his suicide, Deleuze writes “Immanence: A Life”; a short text that, like “The Actual and the Virtual,” has the feel of both testament and legacy. Unlike the former, however, it stresses the decomposition rather than the composition of crystals, and it proposes a purely transcendental plane of anonymous life; a purely virtual, white plane that lacks nothing, not even its actualization. Entering its pure glow is to enter the white-out of a fully virtual, non-actualized storm of light. However, as ‘a life is everywhere, in all the moments that a given living subject goes through’, this white life and white death are also part of actualized, refracted life. ‘Dying is the figure which the most singular life takes on in order to substitute itself for me’ Deleuze notes. In both life and death, to reach both philosophy’s and life’s luminous ‘point-at-infinity’ means to literally ‘step into the light.’

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The Apophatic Dimension of Color in B. Zaitsev's Stories “Mist” and “White Light”: Its Ontological and Cultural Aspects

Solov’evskie issledovaniya ◽

10.17588/2076-9210.2021.2.160-170 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 160-170

Author(s):

M.A. Dudareva

Keyword(s):

White Light ◽

A Priori ◽

Point Of View ◽

Philosophical Analysis ◽

Life And Death ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

Philosophical Understanding

This article is timed to coincide with the 140th anniversary of the birth of the Russian writer B. Zaitsev and it is devoted to the apophatic dimension of Russian artistic culture, namely, the phenomenon of color in the stories “Mist” and “White Light”, which are included in the collection “White Light” (1922). The works are analyzed from a cultural-philosophical point of view. The research object in its widest sense is the apophatic dimension of verbal culture, manifested through a thanatological discourse and liminal states of the heroes, expressed by the author through a special color. Death is a priori apophatic, but this does not mean that its meaning cannot be approached. The focus is on the colors “white” and “black”, which are used by Zaitsev in a dominant and symbolic sense: white correlates with Light, and black – with Darkness. Both colors are considered from cultural-philosophical positions not only as achromatic, but also as apophatic: black enters into a paradigmatic relationship with white, spiritualizing it – to use the terms of the anthroposophical teaching, known to the writer. The ontogermeneutical reconstruction of the ethos of life and death in these stories allows us to approach the apophatic horizon of Russian verbal culture. This study gives the reader a holistic cultural and philosophical understanding of the phenomenon of color in the stories of B. Zaitsev. The main images, their nature and functions in the work are discussed. The results obtained may be of interest both to cultural scientists for the subsequent social and philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of color, and to philologists studying the poetics of B. Zaitsev.

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FeXIV Line Emission Polarization of the July 11, 1991 Solar Corona

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100026002 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 144 ◽

pp. 541-547

Author(s):

J. Sýkora ◽

J. Rybák ◽

P. Ambrož

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Solar Corona ◽

Emission Line ◽

Solar Eclipse ◽

White Light ◽

Preliminary Analysis ◽

Line Emission ◽

Total Solar Eclipse ◽

Degree Of Polarization ◽

High Resolution Images

AbstractHigh resolution images, obtained during July 11, 1991 total solar eclipse, allowed us to estimate the degree of solar corona polarization in the light of FeXIV 530.3 nm emission line and in the white light, as well. Very preliminary analysis reveals remarkable differences in the degree of polarization for both sets of data, particularly as for level of polarization and its distribution around the Sun’s limb.

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White-Light Coronal Structures: Streamers and CMEs

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100025045 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 144 ◽

pp. 82

Author(s):

E. Hildner

Keyword(s):

Emission Line ◽

Electron Density ◽

White Light ◽

Coronal Mass Ejections ◽

X Rays ◽

Solar Cycles ◽

Temperature Function ◽

X Ray ◽

Eclipse Observations ◽

Coronal Structures

AbstractOver the last twenty years, orbiting coronagraphs have vastly increased the amount of observational material for the whitelight corona. Spanning almost two solar cycles, and augmented by ground-based K-coronameter, emission-line, and eclipse observations, these data allow us to assess,inter alia: the typical and atypical behavior of the corona; how the corona evolves on time scales from minutes to a decade; and (in some respects) the relation between photospheric, coronal, and interplanetary features. This talk will review recent results on these three topics. A remark or two will attempt to relate the whitelight corona between 1.5 and 6 R⊙to the corona seen at lower altitudes in soft X-rays (e.g., with Yohkoh). The whitelight emission depends only on integrated electron density independent of temperature, whereas the soft X-ray emission depends upon the integral of electron density squared times a temperature function. The properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) will be reviewed briefly and their relationships to other solar and interplanetary phenomena will be noted.

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Periodic Variations in the Coronal Green Line Intensity and their Connection with the White-light Coronal Structures

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100064484 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 179 ◽

pp. 197-200

Author(s):

Milan Minarovjech ◽

Milan Rybanský ◽

Vojtech Rušin

Keyword(s):

Time Resolution ◽

White Light ◽

Short Time Scale ◽

High Time Resolution ◽

Green Line ◽

Periodic Intensity ◽

Coronal Green Line ◽

Significant Intensity ◽

Short Time ◽

Coronal Structures

AbstractWe present an analysis of short time-scale intensity variations in the coronal green line as obtained with high time resolution observations. The observed data can be divided into two groups. The first one shows periodic intensity variations with a period of 5 min. the second one does not show any significant intensity variations. We studied the relation between regions of coronal intensity oscillations and the shape of white-light coronal structures. We found that the coronal green-line oscillations occur mainly in regions where open white-light coronal structures are located.

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Factors Influencing Electrophysiologic Responsivity in Normal Adults

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.0804.323 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 323-347

Author(s):

Robert Goldstein ◽

Benjamin RosenblÜt

Keyword(s):

Conditioned Stimulus ◽

White Light ◽

Pure Tone ◽

Alpha Rhythm ◽

White Women ◽

White Men ◽

Inverse Relation ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Electrodermal Responses ◽

Normal Adults

Electrodermal and electroencephalic responsivity to sound and to light was studied in 96 normal-hearing adults in three separate sessions. The subjects were subdivided into equal groups of white men, white women, colored men, and colored women. A 1 000 cps pure tone was the conditioned stimulus in two sessions and white light was used in a third session. Heat was the unconditioned stimulus in all sessions. Previously, an inverse relation had been found in white men between the prominence of alpha rhythm in the EEG and the ease with which electrodermal responses could be elicited. This relation did not hold true for white women. The main purpose of the present study was to answer the following questions: (1) are the previous findings on white subjects applicable to colored subjects? (2) are subjects who are most (or least) responsive electrophysiologically on one day equally responsive (or unresponsive) on another day? and (3) are subjects who are most (or least) responsive to sound equally responsive (or unresponsive) to light? In general, each question was answered affirmatively. Other factors influencing responsivity were also studied.

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