scholarly journals Archival Reenactement and the Role of Fiction

2022 ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Roberta Agnese
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
The Past ◽  
With Memory ◽  
The Web

The Atlas Group created a digital mixed-media archive of contemporary Lebanese history, made up of produced and found documents. These archives look immediately ambiguous: they don’t collect historical documents; they actually contain visual artefacts created by the Lebanese artist Walid Raad. These digital mixed-media archives — partly accessible on the web but also physically exhibited and performed — are not intended to preserve the memory of the past, but they become indeed useful to actualize history by giving it back in the form of a historical fiction. What if archives should not deal with memory, but with amnesia? And what kind of historical temporality do they re-activate?

Dissociative fugue of the patient of maternity ward - A case report

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 410-410
Author(s):  
M. Załuska ◽  
R. Żurko ◽  
M. Kuroń ◽  
G. Jakiel ◽  
A. Dudel
Keyword(s):  
Defense Mechanisms ◽  
Past History ◽  
Post Partum ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Maternity Ward ◽  
Cognitive Dysfunctions ◽  
The Past ◽  
With Memory ◽  
Conscious Control

IntroductionMothers after childbearing are vulnerable to many stress related disorders.Objectiveto emphasize the role of the past obstetric complications, as so present infant pathology as risk factors for the mother's post partum stress related disorders.MethodsThe case analysis.Case descriptionThe thirty-year-old, women left the maternity ward with her baby unnoticed on the fourth day after giving birth. She was referred to psychiatry ward, after finding her by the police. In the past history the patient had spontaneous miscarriage in the first pregnancy. She has waited with her husband 6 years long for the next baby. The second pregnancy was at risk, the labor was premature and the infant has palatoschisis. The mother had difficulties with feeding. She feared about baby's life, and had feeling of being neglected by the staff. In psychiatry ward she did not reveal any symptoms of mental illness. She was interested in her child, however the period of the flight was covered with memory gap. The predominance of immature defense mechanisms, as so mild cognitive dysfunctions were revealed in psychological testing. The dissociative fugue was diagnosed. The patient was discharged without any medication to ambulatory psychotherapy.CommentaryThe interaction of past and present traumatic experiences in the patient with cognitive dysfunctions and immature defense mechanisms could impair ability of post-partum coping with fear about the child and consequently led to the loss of conscious control over the memory. Early diagnosing and supporting problematic patients of the maternity ward is needed.

scholarly journals History Contra Collective Memory: Collective Memory’s Finite Province

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Premjit Singh Laikhuram ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
History Plays ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
With Memory

In the humanities and social sciences, with the rise of memory studies, there has been an important theoretical shift in how we engage the past. What used to be studied with the methodically elaborate field of history no longer seems adequate. With memory becoming an ever-present framework with which to look at culture, literature, social phenomena, politics, and the arts, a theoretical conviction has come to prevail that says collective memory is a larger framework within which history and other approaches to the past must be situated. This paper tries to address this theoretical conviction of conflating history with collective memory by arguing that collective memory cannot be a be-all umbrella term encapsulating historical representation or other approaches to the past such as tradition. It does so by uncovering the ground for such a conviction, during which a clearer view of the role of history and the limits of collective memory emerge. The investigation shows that indiscriminate application of the concept of collective memory in every approach dealing with the past makes the concept almost meaningless and betrays its two crucial characters, or limits: that of i) temporal finiteness and ii) fragmentariness. In so doing, it restores the vital role history plays in trying to get at the truth of the past. The article concludes by calling for deeper engagement with foundational conceptual and theoretical issues in collective memory research if it is to establish itself as a longstanding field of inquiry.

Attention in Augustine

Rhizomata ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-270
Author(s):  
Lenka Karfíková
Keyword(s):  
Sense Organ ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
External Object ◽  
Sense Perception ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Will ◽  
With Memory

Abstract The article treats the role of attention (intentio or attentio) in Augustine’s analysis of sense perception, the notion of time, and the Trinitarian structure of the human mind. The term intentio covers a broad range of meanings in Augustine’s usage. Its most fundamental meaning is the life-giving presence of the soul in the body, intensified in attention’s being concentrated on a particular thing or experience; Augustine also uses the term attentio in this latter sense. According to his analysis of time, by way of attention (intentio or attentio), the soul fixes the present in which the future passes into the past. Due to the intention of the soul, the form abstracted from an external object is both imprinted into the sense organ and retained in the memory in order to be, by intention again, recalled before the sight of mind. As “the intention of the will” or just “the will”, attention connects intellectual understanding with memory. In Augustine’s eyes, attention has a different quality depending on the object it is oriented to, and a different intensity, ranging from inattentive distraction (distentio) to concentrated effort (intentio).

The Role of Dogs in Everyday Life

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renee B. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Domestic Animal ◽  
Archaic Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Dogs are the earliest and most widespread domestic animal in the world, and, thus, they are potentially an everyday matter for some peoples both in the past and in the present. Arriving with humans to the Americas at the end of the Pleistocene, dogs helped people hunt; protected their families; and carried wood, meat, and other household items. One strategy to explore the social and cultural reasons for humans keeping dogs is to use historical fiction to imagine the activities that dogs took part in and what those activities may have meant for the people around them. In this chapter, we join “Dog,” a male dog living during the Archaic period in the Southeast, and follow him throughout year.

Michael Graves’s Portland Building

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-269
Author(s):  
Meredith L. Clausen
Keyword(s):  
Architectural History ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Media And Politics ◽  
History Texts ◽  
The Media ◽  
Critical Literature

Singled out as a landmark in architectural history even before it was built, Michael Graves’s Portland Building, known only through drawings, was considered an icon of postmodernism and immediately became a fixture in architectural history texts. Since it exploded onto the scene in the early 1980s, it has been heralded as one of the most controversial, published buildings in architectural history. But little has been written about the building itself, how it came to be, how well it functions, and how it has stood the test of time over the past thirty years. In Michael Graves’s Portland Building: Power, Politics, and Postmodernism, Meredith L. Clausen argues that despite the voluminous critical literature of theorists and critics focusing on its meaning, symbolism, associations, and reinterpretation of classicism, a decidedly different picture of the building emerges when viewed through the lens of historical documents. The focus here is on the dynamics of the competition, the conflicting civic priorities, the powerful role of the media, and politics both local and in architecture.

Shifting media imaginaries of the Web

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédérik Lesage ◽  
Louis Rinfret
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Imaginaries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Web

This exploratory paper sets out a conceptual model for investigating how media imaginaries of the Web shape its design and use over time. We draw from the work of scholars who have devised models for the study of techno-social imaginaries of information and communication technologies, including Patrice Flichy and Robin Mansell. Based on these works, we devise a case study of contrasting media imaginaries of the Web by drawing on textual analysis of statements made by Tim Berners-Lee over more than two decades. Through our analysis of these statements, we show how differing views on the role of creativity — and how it is represented by people and technologies ‘behind the screen’ and ‘in front of the screen’ — lead to competing visions of the past, present, and future of the Web. We conclude with suggestions for some future research questions emerging from this study.

scholarly journals How Black Twitter and other social media communities interact with mainstream news

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deen Freelon ◽  
Lori Lopez ◽  
Meredith D. Clark ◽  
Sarah J. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
The Web

People have been forming communities using digital communication technologies since long before the web as we know it today. Social media are only the latest in a long series of digital forums that have enabled global conversations and connections around nearly any topic imaginable. With its emphasis on public accessibility and real-time content production, Twitter has become a major hub for communities of all types and sizes. The issues and voices of people of color and women have attracted much attention from professional journalists over the past few years. Yet many such individuals have criticized journalists’ portrayals and coverage of issues that are important to them. In response, some participants have assumed the role of news creators and distributors, focusing on their communities’ particular concerns. Understanding these emerging social subcultures will allow more accurate portrayals of diverse communities and yield insights for better journalistic engagement in the digital age.

scholarly journals USING THE GEOSPATIAL WEB TO DELIVER AND TEACH GISCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAMS

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-6/W1 ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Veenendaal
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Geographic Information Science ◽  
Joint Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Past ◽  
Real World Learning ◽  
Geospatial Web Services ◽  
The Web

Geographic information science (GIScience) education has undergone enormous changes over the past years. One major factor influencing this change is the role of the geospatial web in GIScience. In addition to the use of the web for enabling and enhancing GIScience education, it is also used as the infrastructure for communicating and collaborating among geospatial data and users. The web becomes both the means and the content for a geospatial education program. However, the web does not replace the traditional face-to-face environment, but rather is a means to enhance it, expand it and enable an authentic and real world learning environment. This paper outlines the use of the web in both the delivery and content of the GIScience program at Curtin University. The teaching of the geospatial web, web and cloud based mapping, and geospatial web services are key components of the program, and the use of the web and online learning are important to deliver this program. Some examples of authentic and real world learning environments are provided including joint learning activities with partner universities.

scholarly journals Conversation with the past in contemporary choreography

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Анна Крулица ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Modern Dance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physical Play ◽  
Rewriting History ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
With Memory

My article examines the problem of the archival turn in scientific works and discourse that affects artistic practice, including the choreographic one. In recent years, we can find several attempts to reconstruct the performances of famous choreographers who worked in the 1920s and 1930s. Modern choreographers have recalled forgotten performances of the former era, but recalling these choreographic works, they want to give them a modern meaning. This attempt is similar to rewriting history. In this context of rewriting history, I want to emphasize the importance of bodily memory and bring the perspective of viewing the body as an archive. In my article, I pose questions about how to find traces of former works? How modern choreographers work with memory and with the body. The concept of the body as an archive and the experience of past generations associated with choreographic practice is at the center of my work. The body can hide the secret of trauma, the unconscious determination of behavior in bodily, physical play. The second problem raised in the article is about the relationship between the present and the past. Why do we need a turn in the past now? I consider Yanka Rudskaya’s biography and her approach to dance as an example. This article shows the role of feminine artistic practices in the space of choreography. Recent reflections concern the problem of transferring modern dance to modernity and its discovery.

scholarly journals Lukisan Dinding Gua Prasejarah di Perbatasan Indonesia –Papua Nugini

KALPATARU ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Klementin Fairyo
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Border Area ◽  
The Past ◽  
Figurative Painting ◽  
The Web

Abstract. The existence of rock art in Keerom area is very interesting to study because located in the border area between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The Purpose of this Papua is to determine the different forms of rock art in Keerom area regarding to the function and its meaning in the past and also in order to build. An understanding of the culture in the border region. The method used in this study consist of literature studies field observations and interview and use morphological and piktoral in the analysis processed. The result showed about the form of figurative and non figurative painting on cave walls, especially in the Web and Kibay sites. The meaning of the rock art associated with a symbol of religy and as a symbol of social comunications. The role of the rock arts shows about identify and also has and important meaning in an attempt to preserve the indigenous territories.Abstrak. Penelitian  tentang lukisan dinding gua di Keerom yang berbatasan dengan Papua Niugini menarik untuk dikaji. Informasi dari masyarakat menyebutkan bahwa di wilayah perbatasan banyak lukisan dinding gua yang belum diteliti secara mendalam. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui ragam bentuk lukisan dinding gua di Keerom, fungsi dan makna lukisan dining gua tersebut bagi masyarakat pendukungnya serta peran lukisan dinding gua dalam mempertahankan wilayah perbatasan Indonesia. Metode penelitian yag digunakan yaitu pengumpulan data berupa studi kepustakaan, observasi lapangan dan wawancara. Pengolahan data meliputi analisis morfologi, analisis teknologi dan cara perekaman piktorial. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bentuk lukisan dinding gua di Web dan Kibay yaitu lukisan figuratif dan non figuratif. Hasil karya seni tersebut merupakan himpunan simbol-simbol atau lambang-lambang yang mengandung nilai kehidupan. Makna lukisan adalah makna religi, komunikasi dan sosial. Peran lukisan dinding gua adalah sebagai tradisi berlanjut, jati diri dan mempertahankan wilayah adat. 

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