The Form and Function of DialecticalCinécriturein Beckett'sCompany

In this essay I argue that throughout Company Beckett adopts the technique of dialectical montage, which he encountered in the work of Eisenstein, to create a radically new autographical form of transmedial cinécriture. I suggest that this cinécriture enables Beckett not only intellectually to communicate the provisionality of self to readers, but also bodily to engage readers in a dialectical dynamic by which they directly experience the self for what it really is: an always-provisional synthesis in an always-provisional time and space. I begin the essay by considering the motivating factors that may have compelled Beckett to combine elements of film, radio, and prose in the late 1970s, after decades of resisting transmedial adaptations. I then examine the form and function of dialectical montage and constructive editing in Company. Next, I outline the form and function of intellectual montage and deep-focus space-time throughout the text and, in particular, in the penultimate watch sequence. Finally, I elaborate upon the ethical implications of the dialectic that these techniques set in motion.

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MOTIVASI MASYARAKAT DALAM MEMELIHARA DAN MEMPERTAHANKAN GIGI

Andalas Dental Journal ◽

10.25077/adj.v1i2.17 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 142-153

Author(s):

Lendrawati Lendrawati

Keyword(s):

Oral Cavity ◽

Soft Tissues ◽

The Self ◽

Tooth Decay ◽

Dental Disease ◽

Aesthetic Value ◽

Know How ◽

Form And Function ◽

Tooth Form ◽

And Function

Motivation is a fundamental impulse that drives a person to behave in undertaking activities that are expected. Motivation as a concept that is used when the self emerged a desire and drive or direct behavior. The higher the intensity the higher the motivation of behavior. Maintaining a fixed gear means an action to prevent tooth decay, dental care for the sick and restoring damaged teeth and abnormalities of the hard and soft tissues to restore tooth form and function, aesthetic value and protection of the supporting tissues of the teeth and maintaining teeth as long as possible in the oral cavity. Knowledge of dental disease is important to know how to maintain healthy teeth to increase the motivation to maintain one's teeth Knowledge gained will form the attitude is a predisposition for sustaining behavior teeth.

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Emerson’s Operative Mood

Xenocitizens ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823287758.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 33-57

Author(s):

Jason Berger

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Original Version ◽

Form And Function ◽

The Individual ◽

And Function ◽

Universal Reason

This chapter reexamines Ralph Waldo Emerson’s early thinking about the relation of the individual to universal Reason, revealing that Emerson’s writing is philosophically consistent in its insistence that the human self is “operative” in form and function. Shifting our conceptual perspective from a traditional Matthiessenian notion of an “optative mood” to something of a Badiouian “operative mood” opens up new ways to consider how, across the early works, the Emersonian self is shaped by interactions with an impersonal Other as well as the ways these interactions influence the self’s relation to historical landscapes. Intervening in scholarship on Emersonian personhood by scholars such as Sharon Cameron, Branka Arsić, and Donald Pease, this chapter offers an original version of Emerson’s political vision, one that finds in his theory of “religious sentiment” a model for the self that may reframe all of Emerson’s corpus.

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MOTIVASI MASYARAKAT DALAM MEMELIHARA DAN MEMPERTAHANKAN GIGI

Andalas Dental Journal ◽

10.25077/adj.v1i1.17 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 90-101

Author(s):

Lendrawati Lendrawati

Keyword(s):

Oral Cavity ◽

Soft Tissues ◽

The Self ◽

Tooth Decay ◽

Dental Disease ◽

Aesthetic Value ◽

Know How ◽

Form And Function ◽

Tooth Form ◽

And Function

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Topological morphogenesis of neuroepithelial organoids

10.1101/2021.08.08.455385 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Keisuke Ishihara ◽

Arghyadip Mukherjee ◽

Elena Gromberg ◽

Jan Brugues ◽

Elly Tanaka ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Control Parameter ◽

The Self ◽

Self Organization ◽

Quantitative Microscopy ◽

Epithelial Surface ◽

Form And Function ◽

Organ Morphogenesis ◽

Epithelial Fusion ◽

And Function ◽

Physical Principles

Animal organs exhibit complex topologies involving cavities and tubular networks, which underlie their form and function. However, how topology emerges during organ morphogenesis remains elusive. Here, we combine tissue reconstitution and quantitative microscopy to show that trans and cis epithelial fusion govern tissue topology and shape. These two modes of topological transitions can be regulated in neuroepithelial organoids, leading to divergent topologies. The morphological space can be captured by a single control parameter which is analogous to the reduced Gaussian rigidity of an epithelial surface. Finally, we identify a pharmacologically accessible pathway that regulates the frequency of trans and cis fusion, and demonstrate the control of organoid topology and shape. The physical principles uncovered here provide fundamental insights into the self-organization of complex tissues.

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Cultures and Selves

Perspectives on Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/1745691610375557 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 420-430 ◽

Cited By ~ 535

Author(s):

Hazel Rose Markus ◽

Shinobu Kitayama

Keyword(s):

Psychological Functioning ◽

Interpersonal Relationship ◽

Empirical Work ◽

Specific Form ◽

The Self ◽

Psychological Processes ◽

Self Identity ◽

Form And Function ◽

The Individual ◽

And Function

The study of culture and self casts psychology’s understanding of the self, identity, or agency as central to the analysis and interpretation of behavior and demonstrates that cultures and selves define and build upon each other in an ongoing cycle of mutual constitution. In a selective review of theoretical and empirical work, we define self and what the self does, define culture and how it constitutes the self (and vice versa), define independence and interdependence and determine how they shape psychological functioning, and examine the continuing challenges and controversies in the study of culture and self. We propose that a self is the “me” at the center of experience—a continually developing sense of awareness and agency that guides actions and takes shape as the individual, both brain and body, becomes attuned to various environments. Selves incorporate the patterning of their various environments and thus confer particular and culture-specific form and function to the psychological processes they organize (e.g., attention, perception, cognition, emotion, motivation, interpersonal relationship, group). In turn, as selves engage with their sociocultural contexts, they reinforce and sometimes change the ideas, practices, and institutions of these environments.

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Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of DNA and RNA

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100152148 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 34-35

Author(s):

Patricia G. Arscott ◽

Gil Lee ◽

Victor A. Bloomfield ◽

D. Fennell Evans

Keyword(s):

Molecular Structures ◽

Inorganic Materials ◽

Resolving Power ◽

Scanning Tunneling ◽

Tunneling Microscopy ◽

Form And Function ◽

Dna And Rna ◽

Calf Thymus ◽

And Function ◽

The Relationship

STM is one of the most promising techniques available for visualizing the fine details of biomolecular structure. It has been used to map the surface topography of inorganic materials in atomic dimensions, and thus has the resolving power not only to determine the conformation of small molecules but to distinguish site-specific features within a molecule. That level of detail is of critical importance in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological systems. The size, shape, and accessibility of molecular structures can be determined much more accurately by STM than by electron microscopy since no staining, shadowing or labeling with heavy metals is required, and there is no exposure to damaging radiation by electrons. Crystallography and most other physical techniques do not give information about individual molecules.We have obtained striking images of DNA and RNA, using calf thymus DNA and two synthetic polynucleotides, poly(dG-me5dC)·poly(dG-me5dC) and poly(rA)·poly(rU).

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