scholarly journals Cinema: Not Frames But Veils

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-180
Author(s):  
Maria del Carmen Molina Barea
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Open Window

The aim of this paper is to rethink the metaphors of the cinema as window and frame. The first one addresses the cinema as a transparent, open window that faithfully reproduces the world, taking the spectator’s view beyond the screen guided by realism and indexicality. The second one takes the screen as a rectangular surface that focuses the audience’s eye on the images that are produced inside its borders. In these pages I will revisit both notions, adding a third one inspired by the passe-partout of Derrida: the cinema as veil, also theorized as backdrop and decor. Ultimately, this approach explores the idea of simulacrum by analizing two examples: Blue (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2018) and Decor (Ahmad Abdalla, 2014).

scholarly journals Trascender el Impacto del Dolor Ajeno: Más Allá del World Press Photo

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Alicia Blazquez
Keyword(s):  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Ethical Conflict ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Open Window ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Impact

The World Press Photo exhibition brings together, every year during the last eleven, the more representative set of photojournalism of the previous year. The collection of the winners in each edition represents, if one so wishes, an opportunity to reflect on the impact of the images in the public observer, beyond the aesthetic judgment in a particular time and space. This article aims to leave an open window to reflection. An approach on how snapshots shown are supported by three points: the photographer, the spectator and the surrounding social context. A triangle that inevitably possesses a constant ethical conflict: the duty between informing or helping, being anesthetized through the “compassion fatigue” or go beyond the initial discomfort when observing the pain of others and react against it. Human frailty observed as a driver or a deterrent of a broader social action; beyond the photographer, beyond the visit to an exhibition.ext of the abstract.  

Protective Custody

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Karl Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Good Faith ◽  
Natural Death ◽  
Police Station ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Protective Custody ◽  
Open Window ◽  
Nervous Breakdown

This chapter takes a look at the atrocities committed during protective custody. In this case, the perpetrators were oblivious of the deed and its consequences and had a knack for making both sound all too human, which should surely gain people's sympathy. After all, everything was done in good faith, and the world should respond accordingly when it learned what actually happened, as in the case of Dr. Ernst Eckstein. This case was depicted abroad as one of the most gruesome of bloody deeds, after the spirit of the despairing victim was broken: Dr. Ernst Eckstein, one of the first political functionaries to be taken into protective custody. But most die a natural death. The diagnosis was often exhaustion; from time to time someone was overcome with faintness and plunges from the third floor into the courtyard of a police station, prompting his guard to deplore the man's carelessness in standing too close to an open window. Nor as a nervous breakdown uncommon, especially in travellers, in whose case suicide was then committed.

Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) in North America (ca. 1830–1917)

1997 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 762-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Noll
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Open Window ◽  
The Church

When in the spring of 1817 the thirty-seven-year-old Scottish minister, Thomas Chalmers, descended upon London, the world's greatest metropolis was transfixed. The four benefit sermons that Chalmers preached between 14 May and 25 May produced electrifying results. “All the world wild about Dr. Chalmers,” wrote William Wilberforce in his diary. At the sermon for the Hibernian Society, which distributed Bibles to the Irish poor, Viscount Castlereagh, moving British spirit at the Congress of Vienna, and the future prime minister George Canning were visibly moved. For his final appearance the throng was so intense that Chalmers, arriving shortly before he was to preach, could neither get into the church nor, at first, convince the crowd that he was the preacher, so far did his nondescript appearance fall short of his grand reputation. When friends inside finally recognized Chalmers, they secured his entrance by having him walk on a plank through an open window up to the pulpit itself.

Alexander Fleming’s “Eureka” Moment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Allchin
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Bacterial Infections ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Time Magazine ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
The World ◽  
Open Window ◽  
Personal Insight

Alexander Fleming shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the “discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.” According to the story as commonly told, a stray spore of Penicillium mold, borne by fortune through an open window, landed on an open bacterial culture in Fleming’s lab in 1928. Fleming later happened to notice a clear zone on the plate, where no bacteria grew (Figure 21.1). “Seeing that halo was Fleming’s ‘Eureka’ moment, an instant of great personal insight and deductive reasoning,” Time magazine celebrated on its website 100 Persons of the Century. “When it was finally recognized for what it was—the most efficacious life-saving drug in the world—penicillin would alter forever the treatment of bacterial infections. By the middle of the century, Fleming’s discovery had spawned a huge pharmaceutical industry, churning out synthetic penicillins that would conquer some of mankind’s most ancient scourges, including syphilis, gangrene, and tuberculosis.” Millions of lives were saved, it seems, based on one astute observation. Fleming’s story reflects an ideal about science: a moment of genius cascades into monumentality. At the same time, the discovery of penicillin is also one of the most famous cases of chance, or accident, in science. Fleming himself often underscored the role of chance in his work. Despite his numerous honors and awards, he was fond of reminding others: “I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.” Yet one may recall Pasteur’s famous dictum that “chance favors the prepared mind.” That is, Fleming was surely being modest. He seems not just lucky. He seems exceptionally perceptive. What but intuitive genius could have guided the “great personal insight and deductive reasoning” hailed by Time and marked by the Nobel Prize? The role of “Eureka” moments in propelling scientific progress is certainly ingrained in popular lore—so deeply as to escape questioning. However, with a bit more historical awareness, one may well wish to challenge this sacred bovine. Ironically, the episode exhibits even more “chance” than is often told.

Mirrors

After Debussy ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 147-170
Author(s):  
Julian Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Song Cycle ◽  
World Music ◽  
Mirror Reflection ◽  
Piano Sonata ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Open Window

The trope of reflection foregrounds the idea that art is not a representation of reality but its remaking as a heterotopic space (Foucault). Two river paintings of Monet and Matisse’s The Open Window (1905) are explored as studies in the nature of vision and looking, anticipating Merleau-Ponty’s exploration of visuality and our perception of the world. Music since Debussy does something similar, as is shown in Saariaho’s two ‘Nymphéas’ pieces and in Boulez’s Constellation-Miroir from the Third Piano Sonata. The idea of a threshold is explored musically in relation to works from Fauré’s song cycle Mirages (1919) through to Grisey’s last work, Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (1998). The idea of mirror reflection finds a musical parallel in the idea of sound and echo, central to the development of electro-acoustic music.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Let's call a memory a memory, but what kind?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazim Keven
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
The World

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume animals’ memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these memory-like representations as what they are without beating around the bush. I refer to them as event memories and explain how they are different from episodic memory and how they can guide action in animal cognition.

Rotational Characteristics of the Green Solar Corona: 1947-1991

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Solar Corona ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Rotation Period ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronal Emission Line ◽  
Homogeneous Data

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.

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