Cartesian Fingerprints in Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-243
Author(s):  
Irit Degani-Raz

The idea that Beckett investigates in his works the limits of the media he uses has been widely discussed. In this article I examine the fiction Imagination Dead Imagine as a limiting case in Beckett's exploration of limits at large and the limits of the media he uses in particular. Imagination Dead Imagine is shown to be the self-reflexive act of an artist who imaginatively explores the limits of that ultimate medium – the artist's imagination itself. My central aim is to show that various types of structural homologies (at several levels of abstraction) can be discerned between this poetic exploration of the limits of imagination and Cartesian thought. The homologies indicated here transcend what might be termed as ‘Cartesian typical topics’ (such as the mind-body dualism, the cogito, rationalism versus empiricism, etc.). The most important homologies that are indicated here are those existing between the role of imagination in Descartes' thought - an issue that until only a few decades ago was quite neglected, even by Cartesian scholars - and Beckett's perception of imagination. I suggest the use of these homologies as a tool for tracing possible sources of inspiration for Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine.

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 88-107
Author(s):  
Agata Szuba Szuba

The contemporary media message can be perceived in two perspectives: an active one, in which women perform a role of journalists and editors, and a passive perspective, in which they become a part of media message. The latter aspect is the most controversial for many reasons. Walter Lippmann defines a stereotype as an image created in the mind which allows a subordination of a certain fragment of reality a priori. The media’s visible, negative influence on women has them create a reality beyond the boundaries of acceptance, presenting it in a way the audience expects. A new kind of feminism appears, i.e. one which answers the receiver’s needs (succumbing to the expectations and exposing to the view), and a question appears – whether in the time of the feminist legacy, thereby changes resulting from the development of the media, feminists should gain their own unique style? In a way this begins to happen. Due to the development of the media, women gained an unrestricted possibility to express their views, and the reception and availability of the media lifts the restrictions and causes an inconspicuous person to please and sweep the crowd and his or her voice to be impossible to be ignored in the discourse.


2018 ◽  
pp. 120-150
Author(s):  
Sara Blair

In “After the Fact: Postwar Dissent and the Art of Documentary,” Sara Blair analyzes the redirection of photo-documentary practice by visual artists Richard Avedon and Martha Rosler. Specifically, the chapter emphasizes the self-consciousness with which postwar figures represent and conduct their labor for a context of urgent social crisis and dissent. Both photographers experiment with the properties and forms of documentary imaging, wrested from its familiar contexts: Avedon in an evolving series of portraits of New Left leaders, activists, war prosecutors, and dissidents made in the United States and on the ground in Vietnam, Rosler in projects focusing on the role of photojournalism, documentary, and the media itself in perpetuating both a fog of war and a set of presumptions about documentary as a form of knowledge and power.


Author(s):  
Jessica Frazier

This chapter outlines a theory of meditation as an art of self-shaping, by emphasizing meditation’s efficacy as a tool for sculpting the “plastic” structures of the mind. First, it considers modern views of meditation as a form of healing that brings the mind “back” to its natural functioning. This stands in contrast with most traditional views of meditation as a way to change the self in permanent—and sometimes radical—ways. Second, it sketches a model of the mind’s “architecture of attention”—exploring the role of selective attention in cognitive processing and the cumulative structures of the self. Third, given this model of the mind, it considers some examples of how absorptive, deconstructive, and narrative forms of meditation shape the inner world of the practitioner. From this examination of meditative functions, there emerges an ontology of the self that recognizes its self-creative malleability. Less an atomic individual or an outward-shining power of perception, the self appears as a kind of dynamic weather system that is constantly transformed as it takes up the raw materials of sensory stimulus. On this model, meditation functions as the selective factor that allows different elements of that system to predominate and thereby shape the others. Finally, the chapter reminds that, far from the modern world’s concern with individual autonomy, classical meditation’s subtle artistry aimed to bring the self into alignment with broader realities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Dwiki Setya Prayoga ◽  
I Nyoman Lodra ◽  
Autar Abdillah

Implanting Character Education Values through the Augmented Reality of Two-Dimensional Animation of Dewa Ruci to Teenagers. Teenagers are the next generation for the nation and country. However, teenagers tend to have bad behaviors and act out of control that can threat the nation and the country, such as being involved in a fight, violence, drug abuse, alcohol addict, and even free sex. It is very important to instill the values of character education to the teenagers such as honesty, mutual respect, courtesy, and perseverance. Character education is often related to culture with regards to the mind and common senses. This is because human's life cannot be separated from culture and the traditions. One of the cultural things is wayang (shadow puppetry).  Shadow puppetry is a symbol of human beings and the shadow of their humanity. Lakon Dewa Ruci (Dewa Ruci play) tells a story of a student who is obedient to his teacher.  As implied in the story, a student is supposed to be obedient to his teacher, while the teacher must be discipline yet patient in dealing with the students. A teacher with his responsibility in education is demanded to enhance  his quality and his expertise. In the effort to educate the life of a nation, the role of technology is needed in order to make the teenagers have a broader knowledge as well as to have an interest and a passion to keep learning.   Nowadays animated videos are often preferred by the teenagers in general, not to mention in the field of education. Animation has become media or instruments to deliver the most updated information.  Evaluation conducted in this research had used a questioner and the result showed 98% for the media quality from the material aspects and for the post test obtained 63%.  Therefore, the results could define whether this product of animation is eligible, or in other words, no revision is needed.  ABSTRAK Remaja merupakan generasi penerus bagi bangsa dan negara. Namun, remaja juga berpotensi mempunyai perilaku buruk dan di luar kendali yang dapat mengancam bangsa dan negara, seperti perkelahian, kekerasan, penyalahgunaan narkoba, minuman keras, dan seks bebas. Sangat penting untuk menanamkan nilai-nilai pendidikan karakter kepada remaja seperti kejujuran, saling menghormati, sopan santun, dan pantang menyerah. Pendidikan karakter sering dikaitkan dengan kebudayaan yang berhubungan dengan budi dan akal manusia. Hidup manusia tidak lepas dari kebudayaan dan adat istiadat. Salah satu contoh kebudayaan adalah wayang. Wayang merupakan simbol manusia dan bayangan dari kemanusiaan itu sendiri. Lakon Dewa Ruci bercerita tentang murid yang patuh kepada gurunya. Sebagai murid hendaknya menghormati gurunya, sedangkan guru hendaknya tegas dan sabar dalam menghadapi muridnya. Guru dalam dunia pendidikan dituntut untuk meningkatkan kualitas dan mutunya. Dalam upaya mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa, peranan teknologi sangat diperlukan supaya remaja memiliki wawasan yang luas serta dapat memiliki minat dan ketertarikan untuk terus tetap belajar. Saat ini video animasi seringkali digemari oleh remaja umumnya apalagi dalam dunia pendidikan. Animasi digunakan sebagai media atau alat untuk menyampaikan informasi yang lebih terkini. Evaluasi yang dilakukan dalam animasi ini menggunakan angket dan diperoleh hasil uji kualitas media aspek materi mendapatkan hasil 98% dan pada post test mendapatkan hasil 63%. Dari data angket tersebut dapat dikatakan produk ini layak dan tidak perlu direvisi.  


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Susilo

After 1999, Indonesia's Media became grown up. It is the implication of the fallen of the authoritarian regime, Suharto. The growth has another side effect about trends of media conglomeration. Indonesian Media Conglomerate such as Tanoesoedibjo, Tandjung, Paloh and Bakrie also have the background as a politician. Mass media are an efficient tool to change the mind of people.  Mass society theory makes several basic assumptions about individuals, the role of media, and the nature of social change. Media owner used their media for preserving his political influences. Facing this situation, Indonesian regulation about media ownership ignored by media owners. They used their power in the political area to get away from the regulation. Whereas, in Indonesian Law Number 32, issued on 2002 about Broadcasting Media, Especially on Chapter 36 verse 4 states, "broadcast content must be maintained neutrality and should not put the interests of a group". Many complain from the media audience, but no action from the government. The regulator doesn't enforce the law, especially at Broadcast Media. Most of the press uses the public sphere, who design for democratisation process, not for individual or political party's interest. Keywords: media conglomeration, Indonesia, Politics


Philosophy ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Gillett

Consciousness and its relation to the unconscious mind have long been debated in philosophy. I develop the thesis that consciousness and its contents reflect the highest elaboration of a set of abilities to respond to the environment realized in more primitive organisms and brain circuits. The contents of the states lesser than consciousness are, however, intrinsically dubious and indeterminate as it is the role of the discursive skills we use to construct conscious contents that lends articulation and clarity to the mental acts which cumulatively make up our mental lives. I lay out a tripartite structure for the formation of mind in which the ongoing interaction between brain and world, the formative effect of socio-cultural context and the self production of a relatively coherent narrative all play an important part in making a mind. The latter two influences clearly transcend biological science and suggest that human minds have features which broadly align with certain Freudian insights but do not support the reification of the causally structured unconscious that Freud envisaged.


2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-167
Author(s):  
Catherine Pickstock

Abstract Recent years’ emphasis on contemplation, prayer and ritual has raised new questions about the ‘site’ of theological reflection: is an inhabited theology newly disclosive? What are the implications of such an appreciation of the role of the body ‐ of language, gesture, posture, sound, variations of light and space, the passage of time ‐ for theological understanding? The space of the liturgy, the edifice of the Church or the performed space of enactment becomes a dramatization and exteriorisation of the mind, of unfallen reason which remembers that it is created and is now at one with the diversity of creation and with God, where knowing and unknowing coincide in illumination and the forgetting of the self.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
thomas Scheff

It is possible that war in modern societies is largely driven by emotions, but in a way that is almost completely hidden. Modernity individualizes the self and tends to ignore emotions. As a result, conflict can be caused by sequences in which the total hiding of humiliation leads to vengeance. This essay outlines a theory of the social-emotional world implied in the work of C. H. Cooley and others. Cooley’s concept of the “looking-glass self” can be used as antidote to the assumptions of modernity: the basic self is social and emotional: selves are based on “living in the mind” of others, with a result of feeling either pride of shame. Cooley discusses shame at some length, unlike most approaches, which tend to hide it. This essay proposes that the complete hiding of shame can lead to feedback loops (spirals) with no natural limit: shame about shame and anger is only the first step. Emotion backlogs can feed back when emotional experiences are completely hidden: avoiding all pain can lead to limitless spirals. These ideas may help explain the role of France in causing WWI, and Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. To the extent that these propositions are true, the part played by emotions and especially shame in causing wars need to be further studied.


2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Mark Pearson

Justice Ian Callinan, appointed to the Autralian High Court in 1998, challenged the rhetoric on the media's role in society and its claims to press freedom with his minority decision in the Lenah Game Meats case in 2001. He questioned the notion of media freedom in an age where information providers are multinational coporations with a vested intereset in the sale of news. Further, he challenged the claim of news organisations to special priviliages on public interest grounds to the detriment of the rights of others. This paper uses qualitative analysis techniques to consider the comments of Justice Callinan and Justice Michael Kirby in the Lenah Case and four subsequent media-related cases in an attempt to develop a theory about the attitudes of these High Court justices towards the media. It finds five key themes emerging from their decision, headed by the expression 'The Modern Media' used by both Jusitce Callinan and Justice Kirby, whicn embodies many of these attitudes. The other key themes are the shift to considering media 'just another business', the self-appointed role of judges as reporting experts, the ascendancy of privacy over press freedom, and the challenge to some legal privleges with which the media have become comfortable.  


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