Composer on Guard of Nature

10.34690/23 ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 128-139
Author(s):  
Д.А. Черкасова
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Ecological Problems

Джон Лютер Адамс, обладатель Пулитцеровской премии 2013 года (за оркестровую композицию «Become Ocean»), своим творчеством привлекает внимание к проблемам исчезающей дикой природы. Порой его даже называют «зеленым композитором», поскольку большинство его произведений прямо или косвенно отображают процессы, происходящие в природе. Какие бы формы реализации своих творческих замыслов он ни выбирал - светозвуковые инсталляции, камерные пьесы для исполнения на открытом воздухе, крупные симфонические полотна,- практически всюду в них прослеживается озабоченность автора состоянием современной окружающей среды. В настоящей статье дается обзор основных сочинений Адамса и анализируется причина их сравнительно малой известности среди отечественной аудитории. John Luther Adams, the 2013 Pulitzer-prize winner (awarded for the orchestral composition Become Ocean), in his works attracts attention to ecological problems of the disappearing wilderness. Sometimes he is even called a “green composer”: most of his works directly or indirectly address worrisome tendencies regarding the natural world. No matter which type of creative form he uses to express himself - be it sound-light installations, chamber pieces for the outdoors or huge symphonic narrations - basically everywhere his concern with the worldwide ecological status quo can be noted. In the present article a review of his main compositions can be found along with an analysis of the reasons behind their low popularity among the Russian audience.

scholarly journals Loving Nature in João Guimarães Rosa: The Non-human as 'amável'

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-74
Author(s):  
Ashley Brock
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Emotional Relationships ◽  
Joao Guimaraes Rosa ◽  
Human World ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Cost

In the present article, I locate an implicit environmentalism JoãoGuimarães Rosa’s writing from the 1950s and 1960s. This sensibility is easy tomiss, in part because it transposes political debates on damage inflicted in thename of development and progress onto the affective-ethical plane; however, itdoes so in a way that resists sentimentality or projecting a misplaced innocenceonto the non-human world. Focusing on emotional relationships between humansand non-humans, I read “As margens da alegria” and “Os cimos” as expressingan eco-critical discourse that was already latent in Grande sertão: veredas.Recasting the natural world as a site of both unfathomable otherness and relationsof tenderness, Guimarães Rosa presents the emotional hold that nature has onhumans and the cost of cleaving oneself from it—a cost that includes diminishingthe human capacity for delight, wonder, and eros.

scholarly journals Pedagogical theories and the process of internalization of moral values

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. e49921
Author(s):  
Juliana Santos Monteiro Vieira ◽  
Dinamara Garcia Feldens
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
State Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
Pedagogical Discourses

The present article proposes to reflect on the process of internalization of moral values as the primary objective of Education, through historical and philosophical sources, analyzing, for this, theoretical frameworks of Pedagogy, such as: Comenius, Pestalozzi, Herbart and Durkheim. Our methodology was based on the bibliographic and authorial writings of these theorists and we try to question the logic established in pedagogical discourses, starting from the critic of moral values formulated by Friedrich Nietzsche, emphasizing aspects present in the referred theories and their reverberations in singularities and collectivities. The process of internalizing moral values had as its priority making education an instrument for the ordering of subjects, making it useful to the interests of state culture. It is understood that subjectivities are constituted inside and outside for the moral field and that the same is not alien or should be non-existent in school. However, it has been attempted to demonstrate in this article, how the moral field has been reduced to a process of disciplining and ordering, according to pre-determined models, virtues and values, which shows the limited pedagogical perspective in the vision of the moral field, which from its conception responds to interests and prioritizes the maintenance of the status quo.

scholarly journals Uncovering the Struggling Inner Voice of Green Beings Through The Novel “The Overstory” By Richard Powers

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1-Dec2020) ◽  
pp. 63-66
Author(s):  
Saranya Lakshmanan ◽  
P Nagaraj
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Richard Powers ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
Inner Voice

Nature and literature are interwoven. Without natural world, the beauty of words cannot be celebrated. So far in literature the exquisiteness of nature is being taken into deliberation. Trees play a crucial role in our planet but they are taken for granted by humans for their sophisticated life. It is easy to plant tree saplings but it is very difficult to protect a tree. Trees play an important role for human survival. Still people are not concerned to protect or conserve forest because they are connected with machines than with nature. Every individuals run behind the technical advancement that they will protest in virtual media to safeguard nature but not in reality. Trees do communicate but human fails to understand. This study unfurls the dark destroying side of nature through the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Overstory by Robert Powers.

Между природой и культурой: экологические мотивы в поэзии Баира Дугарова

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-293
Author(s):  
Galina P. Dondukova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Language Poetry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Nomadic Life

The article analyses the motif of contrasting the natural world and the technical civilization in the works of the Buryat poet Bair Dugarov as one of the aspects forming the ecological problems of the present. Dichotomy between nature and culture reflected in the opposition of a countryside and a city that is characteristic of Russian-language poetry of Buryatia, in Dugarov’s works gains a deep tone and expresses inner thoughts of the persona about the past and present, about forgotten nomadic life and modern globalization. Keywords: Buryat literature, environmental motifs, nature and culture

scholarly journals Nature · Animals · Non-Human: A Study of Community Consciousness in The Night Watchman

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Qu Tang
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
The Core

The Night Watchman written by Louis Erdrich won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The core characters running through the novel are not only Thomas Wazhashk, but Patrice who bears the burden of narrating the natural world of the Turtle Mountain reserve. Louis Erdrich not only noticed the connection between females and nature with keen eyes, but also human and non-humans. The interaction among them reflects the author’s thoughts on the ecological environment, human survival, and indigenous tradition conflicted with modern appeal. Therefore, this article, using the Biocentric Equality of deep ecology, explores the Community Consciousness in the novel.

scholarly journals Alice’s Garden: Imagining Agency in the Natural World in Clare Boylan’s Black Baby

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-52
Author(s):  
Maureen O’Connor ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Generative Process ◽  
Untimely Death ◽  
The Status ◽  
Feminist New Materialism ◽  
Interracial Family

The Irish writer Clare Boylan is something of a forgotten figure, despite enjoying significant literary success in her lifetime. Because of her untimely death, little critical work has been done on her fiction. Her blackly comic sensibility responds sensitively to characters situated in culturally specific environments, with particular attention paid to the vexed and contradictory position of women in their relationship to the natural world, and so this essay conducts a reading of her 1988 novel, Black Baby, using the insights of feminist new materialism and critical posthumanism, especially as articulated by Rosi Braidotti. In every genre, contemporary Irish women’s writing finds space in the natural world to explore alternatives to the status quo. Black Baby imagines an interracial family of women (and cats) in the enchanted environment of a miraculously blooming winter garden. By staging Alice’s most transformative moments, including her final moments of semi-consciousness, in a garden, Boylan makes recourse to the idea of an unending, generative process. Nothing really dies when life is no longer an individualised experience, but an impersonal moment of radical inclusion that exceeds the material limits of any one life span.

Assessment for Urban Environmental Status Based on Nuclear Approximation

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Екатерина Бельская ◽  
Ekaterina Belskaya ◽  
А. Медведев ◽  
A. Medvedev ◽  
Е. Михов ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Status ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Space Distribution ◽  
Nonparametric Model ◽  
State Monitoring ◽  
Atmospheric Air ◽  
Correct Definition ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Definition Of

In the work has been demonstrated the importance of the process of revealing and forecasting for existing ecological problems related to urban environment (on the example of Krasnoyarsk city). Have been considered the main sources of atmospheric air pollution. Has been argued the need for building the model for urban environment’s ecological state assessment in the context of new type of models (named H-models). In the construction of mathematical models for ecological problems solution the correct definition of variables essentially acting on considered environment’s ecological status is playing an important part. A novel way for determining of the most informative variables has been proposed. Based on presented by the authors approach to the modeling has been developed a nonparametric model for formaldehyde space distribution along city’s territory using data of atmospheric air state monitoring network. Modeling velocity allows use this method in the real-time.

Formal Axiomatic Systems and Computer-Generated Theorems

1982 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-252
Author(s):  
Michael T. Battista
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Mathematics Classroom ◽  
Formal System ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Instructional Unit ◽  
Instructional Use ◽  
Axiomatic Systems

One of the main topics of discussion in Douglas Hofstadter’s Pulitzer-prize-win-ning book Godei, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is the concept of deriving theorems in a formal system. To give his readers a better idea of what a formal system is, Hofstadter discusses a simple example of such a system, called the MIU system. Although the example may not have been designed for instructional use, to a teacher of mathematics it seems ready-made for the classroom. Indeed, the MIU system can not only provide an instructional unit on some important topics in mathematics, it can also be used to lead students to investigate some fascinating ideas from computer science and artificial intelligence. The present article will describe the MIU system and indicate a number of possible uses for it in the mathematics classroom.

Evolutionary Logic and Adlerian Social Interest

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-378
Author(s):  
Steven B. Christopher ◽  
Gary Leak
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Individual Psychology ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Psychological Domain ◽  
The Status ◽  
Human Social Behavior ◽  
Evolutionary Explanations

Evolutionary explanations of human social behavior are increasing in popularity among social scientists. Unfortunately, many psychologists are ill-equipped to argue for or against evolutionary explanations. While numerous examples of inappropriate evolutionary analyses exist, the present article focuses upon one which is a subtle yet profound distortion in the service of maintaining the status quo of individual psychology. We hope our analysis will encourage others to be cautious when applying evolutionary principles to the psychological domain.

scholarly journals Pluralism of goals of proecological architecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 005-014
Author(s):  
Justyna Kobylarczyk ◽  
Janusz Marchwinski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Present Article ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Ecological Architecture ◽  
Environmental Goals ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Ecological Building

This article discusses selected concepts for defining the goals of modern pro-ecological architecture. It highlights a significant diversity of attitudes towards the issue of ecology in architecture. This clear pluralism of goals results from the priorities given to buildings and is the effect of emphasizing individual ecological problems to a various extent. In the present article, it has been demonstrated that two attitudes coexist today: the pro-environmental one and pro-humanistic one, with further variations occurring within the two approaches. Attention was also paid to the evolution of ecological goals in architecture, as well as to threats that may lead to its distortions under the influence of a narrow perception of these issues. The article is cognitive and is based on the analysis of the abovementioned attitudes. It aims at the organization of the knowledge and observations in this area. The authors recognize that a conscious and, above all, the apposite definition of ecological goals provides a foundation for creating architecture in line with the general concept of ​​sustainable development. The authors are inclined to conclude that the contemporary model of a pro-ecological building should be based on balancing pro-humanistic and pro-environmental goals.

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