scholarly journals Becoming-Flashdrive: The Cinematic Intelligence of Lucy

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-303
Author(s):  
Laurence Kent
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
A Site

An important but easily forgotten moment in the history of film-philosophy is Jean Epstein's assertion that cinema, more than merely thinking, has a kind of intelligence. If it is a newfound conception of rationality that is needed for any contemporary ethical relation to the world, as thinkers from Reza Negarestani and Pete Wolfendale to feminist collective Laboria Cuboniks have espoused in their respective neo-rationalist projects, then cinema as a thinking thing must be interrogated in its relation to reason. A somatophilia of purely affective and phenomenological approaches in film theory alongside micropolitical injunctions to undermine common-sense and liberate one's desire in extremity can fall limp in view of such calls for universal thinking around rationality. To understand cinema's specific form of intelligence, this article will explore Luc Besson's Lucy (2014) as an instance of how film is able to represent intelligence. Besson's film provides a site where Western cultural anxieties and assumptions around intelligence are manifested. This will allow an explication of contemporary approaches to intelligence in philosophy whilst confronting these discourses with the insidious problematics of gender and race that undergird the film. I argue that Lucy shares many of its ambitions with the emerging vectors of thought associated with the neo-rationalist perspective in its engaging with a rethinking of universal values and the Promethean possibilities of human action. Reading the film through these philosophies will help position the ethical stakes it sets up, but also to distinguish it from a trend of contemporary “posthuman” films that it finds itself in company with. While it is certainly true that posthuman themes, as well as transhumanist fantasies, seem to permeate Besson's film, this article will incorporate another neologism, taken from neo-rationalist thinkers, in order to emphasise moments that can be productive from the standpoint of a philosophical account of intelligence: “rationalist inhumanism.”

scholarly journals Analisis Kritik Sastra Feminis dalam Cerpen Catatan Hati Yang Cemburu Karya Asma Nadia

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-545
Author(s):  
Suaibatul Aslamiyah ◽  
Suci Nadilla ◽  
Cindy Aprilia Pratami
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
The Subject

Art has opened the eyes of the world throught literary works that record the history of a writing. Also the subject of women’s affairs is subject to an author’s reference to the problem of a sense of injustice. Such views have been discussed to voice gender equality and to seek efforts to overcome those problems. Nadia’s asthma is one of the authors who attempt to awaken women to the patriarchate system that has been going on. His works consistently incorporate such universal values as equality in various fields, human freedom, and tolerance so that his readers can adopt the value of life. In addition, she was actively involved in social media as a means of channeling her mind. The twitter feed says some of the people were repressed. Seeing the account encourage him to make a book and then be poured into a storybook of several different stories and in which one of the women’s true account t with the tittle of a jealous heart note. The study used qualitative descriptive methods with the theory of feminist literary criticism.

Esbozo sobre el método de las Ciencias Sociales, con especial referencia a la economía. Una aproximación desde la doctrina de la Escuela Austriaca

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-195
Author(s):  
Sagar Hernández Chuliá
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

In this article we justify epistemologically the methods of social scien-ce based on certain contributions from the austrian school of economics (but not only). To do this, we start from the knowledge of agents in the world of everyday life, we differentiate between it and the scientific knowledge, we distinguish the fields of the physical and natural sciences and of human scien-ces, we argue that the social sciences should be considered as a specific form of human sciences and we define economics as a science of human action that takes place in the presence of significant monetary prices for agents. In addi-tion, we define the fields of economic theory, based on the conception method and operated through imaginary constructions, and economic history, which uses the understanding method and ideal types. Keywords: gnoseology, epistemology, methodology, social sciences, econo-mics. JEL Codes: B40 B41 B53 Resumen: En este artículo pretendemos fundamentar epistemológicamente los métodos propios de las ciencias sociales basándonos en ciertas aportaciones procedentes de la escuela austriaca de economía (aunque no sólo). Para ello, partimos del conocimiento de los agentes en el mundo de la vida cotidiana, diferenciamos entre éste y el conocimiento científico, distinguimos los campos de investigación propios de las ciencias físico-naturales y de las ciencias huma-nas, defendemos que las ciencias sociales deben ser consideradas como una forma específica de las ciencias humanas y definimos la economía como una ciencia que estudia la acción humana que se desarrolla en presencia de pre-cios monetarios significativos para los agentes. Además, delimitamos los cam-pos de la teoría económica, basada en el método de la concepción y que opera mediante construcciones imaginarias, e historia económica, que se vale del método de la comprensión y de los tipos ideales. Palabras clave: gnoseología, epistemología, metodología, ciencias sociales, economía. Clasificación JEL: B40 B41 B53

scholarly journals Jan Patočka’s Transcendence to the World

2021 ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Michael Gubser
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Philosophical Framework

This essay examines Czech philosopher Jan Patočka’s phenomenology as a philosophy of freedom. It shows how Patočka’s phenomenological concept of worldliness, initially cast within a largely philosophical framework as the domain of human action and transcendence, turned toward a philosophical history of the modern age, viewed as increasingly post-European. Patočka hoped for the moral renewal of a fallen modernity, led first by non-Europeans after the era of decolonization and then by a “solidarity of the shaken” during the dark 1970s of Czechoslovak normalization. The essay starts and concludes by considering the relation between his thought and his dissi-dence, a link that is more tenuous and indirect than some commentators suggest.Este ensayo examina la fenomenología del filósofo checo Jan Patočka como una filosofía de la libertad. Muestra cómo el concepto patočkiano de mundanidad, modelado inicialmente en un marco básicamente filosófico como el dominio de la acción humana y de su trascendencia, giró hacia una historia filosófica de la Modernidad, considerada crecientemente como post-europea. Patočka confiaba en la renovación moral de una Modernidad caída, liderada en un primer momento, tras la era de la descolonización, por no-europeos y, después, por una “solidaridad de los conmovidos” a lo largo de la oscura década de normalización checoslovaca en los 70. El ensayo arranca y concluye considerando la relación entre su pensamiento y su disidencia, un vínculo que es más tenue e indirecto de lo que algunos comentadores sugieren.

scholarly journals The notion of Māyā in Arthur Schopenhauer’s epistemological idealism

XLinguae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Koy
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Persian Translation

The Hindu texts known as the Upaniṣads were written by many different people from approximately 900 B.C. to about 300 B.C. The Upaniṣads represent one of the earliest efforts of man at giving a philosophical account of the world. As such, the Upaniṣads are invaluable in the history of human thought. The writings came to the West in bits and pieces in the first half of the 19th century in Latin, English and German translation. Soon after he finished his doctoral dissertation in 1813, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), took note of the very first European-language translation (or rather a retranslation) of the Upaniṣads by Abraham Anquetil-Duperron, a Parisian Orientalist who had lived in or near India for six years and had mastered Persian. Anquetil-Duperron translated into Latin a Persian translation of fifty Upaniṣads from the original Sanskrit. This influential translation entitled Oupnek’hat (1802) held Schopenhauer’s great interest for the remainder of his life. Schopenhauer was one of the few serious philosophers who early on read and was profoundly interested in the philosophy coming out of the East in the first half of the 19th century. This contribution will examine his understanding of māyā and its role in Schopenhauer’s epistemology as revealed in his book The World as Will and Representation

Politics of Vision in the Carceral State: Legibility and Looking in Hostile Territory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Hunt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
The United States ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Multiple Discourses

As we begin to think about the United States as a carceral state, this means that the scale of incarceration practices have grown so great within it that they have a determining effect on the shape of the the society as a whole. In addition to the budgets, routines, and technologies used is the culture of that carceral state, where relationships form between elements of its culture and its politics. In terms of its visual culture, that relationship forms a visuality, a culture and politics of vision that both reflects the state’s carceral qualities and, in turn, helps to structure and organize the society in a carceral manner. Images, architecture, light, presentation and camouflage, surveillance, and the play of sight between groups of people and the world are all materials through which the ideas of a society are worked out, its politics played out, its technology implemented, its rationality or common sense and identities forming. They also shape the politics of freedom and control, where what might be a free, privileged expression to one person could be a dangerous exposure to another, where invisibility or inscrutability may be a resource. In this article, these questions are asked in relation to the history of prison architecture, from premodern times to the present, while considering the multiple discourses that overlap throughout that history: war, enslavement, civil punishment, and freedom struggle, but also a discourse of agency, where subordinated peoples can or cannot resist, or remain hostile to or in difference from the control placed upon them.

Report on Session 3b

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 597-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. T. Nash
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Geotechnical Properties ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Soft Clays ◽  
State Of Stress ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site

IntroductionThe theme of this session covers a very wide spectrum of deposits and processes. The thirteen papers submitted from all over the world, together with several from other sessions which also relate to this theme, describe numerous deposits and processes - mostly the former. Some of the processes which influence the geotechnical properties and behaviour of soils are listed in Table 1. This is a reminder of the importance of fully appreciating the geological history of a site when planning and undertaking construction projects.The papers can be conveniently divided into four groups under the general headings Tectonics and Uplift, Problems relating to Reservoirs, Regional Studies of Soils, Studies of Soft Clays.Quaternary Tectonics and UpliftAs part of the study of the background to the present seismicity of the UK, Ringrose, Hancock and Davenport have observed the distribution of recorded seismicity and noted the coincidence of areas which are currently the most seismicly active with the areas of highest topography and the areas of maximum present day uplift. They have examined several Quaternary faults in Scotland and related the patterns of movement to the inferred state of stress in the earths crust, and concluded that ice-loading must have been sufficient to trigger fault movements. On other faults the displacements are consistent with a zone of uplift coinciding with the maximum zone of present day uplift in the highlands of west central Scotland. The authors report some very substantial fault movements during the Quaternary. The studies, of which these form

Introduction: Archives, Record Keeping and Imperial Governance, 1500-1800

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Pia Donato
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Imperial Governance ◽  
A Site ◽  
Geographical Scope ◽  
Archival Practices

Abstract In the last decades, a vast body of literature has scrutinized the archive, regarding it as an instrument of power for the Western conquest of the world. More recently, a new, vibrant cultural history of archives has changed our understanding of archives as a fully-fledged historical object and why they matter for extending the geographical scope of history and achieving a more connected image of modernity. The articles assembled in this themed issue delve into the history of imperial archives and archival practices in the period 1500-1800, bringing together different lines of inquiry. Each contribution focuses on a major Western imperial formation at different epochs in their evolution, dealing both with current records and historical collections; each engages with archives as an institution, as assemblages of documents that circulated in and out of official depositories, as a site where colonial administrative knowledge was elaborated, and as a political project.

Glass Architecture as a Site for Encountering the Surface Aesthetics of Urban Photography

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-286
Author(s):  
Paulina Nordström
Keyword(s):  
Capacity To Act ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site

This article brings glass architecture and geophilosophy into a relationship with one another with the further aim of studying surface aesthetics of urban photography. First I present a selected history of glass architecture and its previous methodological applications. Then, I focus on the characteristics of glass architecture—its permeability/reflectivity and capacity to act with light—in relation to the geophilosophies of Nietzsche and Deleuze. I aim to formulate surface aesthetics through which I contemplate the materialities and the fabulative landscape of urban photography. Urban photography is valued for its characteristic of combining the practices of art and research. In this article, urban photography is also understood as an affectual encounter. However, for urban photography to be seen as a creative medium, it has to be acknowledged as not merely making aesthetic representations of the world but also opening a landscape in order to see it differently and ask new questions.

Nature, Freedom, History

2021 ◽  
pp. 258-283
Author(s):  
Brady Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Human Action ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Human History ◽  
Organic Life ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

Post-Kantian philosophers historicize the world soul, reconceiving it as an implicitly rational, progressive, yet impersonal agency, at work throughout nature as a formative principle, more especially, however, in the progressive liberation and self-determination of spirit in human history. This chapter outlines the concept’s career in the thought of Kant, Maimon, Schelling, and Hegel, focusing especially on the overlapping functions they accord to the world soul. On the one side, it serves to mediate within nature between the opposing spheres of mechanism and organic life; on the other, between those of unconscious currents of historical development and self-consciously free human action. In thus tasking the world soul with mediating between nature and the history of human freedom, German idealists are faithful to their Platonic source of inspiration, even as they refashion the concept in a distinctively modern, post-Enlightenment spirit.

Doing His Best to Sustain the Sanctity of Marriage

1983 ◽  
Vol 31 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 124-146
Author(s):  
Michael D.A. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Marital Violence ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Satisfactory Solution ◽  
Legal Foundation ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Freeman's paper deals with marital rape, a specific form of marital violence which has been virtually ignored in the literature on violence against women. Battering and rape, the author argues, are closely related and frequently occur together. Both forms of violence stem from a patriarchal society designed to protect the interests of men and maintain male dominance. At present men who rape their wives are immune from prosecution in England. This is also the case in most other countries, but the paper also considers what has happened in places where the immunity has been removed or modified. Freeman traces the history of the immunity in England and casts doubt on its legal foundation and on the contemporary arguments used in its defence. The immunity rests on two shaky foundations: that married women are part of their husbands' property and that man and wife are one flesh. The first of these ideas may still have some currency, but it is as out-moded as the immunity itself. The author considers various modifications that could be made to the exclusion rule but concludes that abolition is the only satisfactory solution. Women made a fuss about it in books, but in the cool judgement of right thinking men, of other men of the world, such as he recollected often received praise in the Divorce Court, he had but done his best to sustain the sanctity of marriage, to prevent her from abandoning her duty . … No, he did not regret it.

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