“The Proustian Corporeity” and “The True Hawthorns”

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
Mauro Carbone
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Involuntary Memory ◽  
Lost Time ◽  
The Invisible

In The Visible and the Invisible, Merleau-Ponty famously wrote: “No one has gone further than Proust in fixing the relations between the visible and the invisible.” To gain a fresh and original access to Merleau-Ponty’s interpretation of Proust, this chapter places his views alongside those of another of Proust’s great interpreters, Walter Benjamin. In spite of the absence of explicit references to Benjamin in the writings of Merleau-Ponty, certain intersections are clear. For one thing, we find the originating importance of Husserl for Merleau-Ponty and Benjamin. Though they make reference to very distant periods of Husserlian thought, they share at least a distrust with regard to experience understood as Erlebnis. Second, they each give attention to the theme of essence and ideas, which, concerning artistic and literary works, are considered by the two thinkers as immanent within the works themselves. This suggests one of the most important contributions of Proust to Merleau-Ponty’s thought, the concept of “sensible ideas.” Third, both Merleau-Ponty and Benjamin demonstrate their common interest in perception and memory, sometimes focusing on the very same pages of Recherche du temps perdu [In Search of Lost Time] to deepen, through the character of Marcel, the concept of “involuntary memory.”

Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galen A. Johnson ◽  
Mauro Carbone ◽  
Emmanuel de Saint Aubert
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Francis Ponge ◽  
Claude Simon ◽  
Philosophy And Literature ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
André Breton ◽  
The World ◽  
Visual Apparatus ◽  
The Invisible

Merleau-Ponty’s Poetics of the World offers detailed studies of the philosopher’s engagements with Proust, Claudel, Claude Simon, André Breton, Mallarmé, Francis Ponge, and more. From Proust, Merleau-Ponty developed his conception of “sensible ideas,” from Claudel, his conjoining of birth and knowledge as “co-naissance,” from Valéry came “implex” or the “animal of words” and the “chiasma of two destinies.” Thus also arise the questions of expression, metaphor, and truth and the meaning of a Merleau-Pontyan poetics. The poetic of Merleau-Ponty is, inseparably, a poetic of the flesh, a poetic of mystery, and a poetic of the visible in its relation to the invisible. This poetics is worked out across each co-author’s chapters in dialogue with Husserl, Walter Benjamin, Heidegger, and Sartre. A new optic proposes the conception of literature as a visual “apparatus” in relation to cinema and screens. Recent transcriptions of Merleau-Ponty’s first two 1953 courses at the Collège de France The Sensible World and the World of Expression and Research on the Literary Usage of Language, as well as the course of 1953–54, The Problem of Speech, lend timeliness, urgency and energy to this project. Our goal is to specify more precisely the delicate nature and properly philosophical function of literary works in Merleau-Ponty’s thought as the literary writer becomes a partner of the phenomenologist. Ultimately, theoretical figures that appear at the threshold between philosophy and literature enable the possibility of a new ontology. What is at stake is the very meaning of philosophy itself and its mode of expression.

The Romance of Transportation in Wordsworth, Emerson, De Quincey, and Dickinson

Romanticism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Li-Hsin Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
The Future ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Technological Sublime

This essay investigates diverging transatlantic attitudes towards mechanisation in the mid-nineteenth century by looking at the portrayals of steam engines in Anglo-American Romantic literary works by Wordsworth, Emerson, De Quincey and Dickinson. Wolfgang Schivelbusch notes how time and space are ‘annihilated’ with the speed of industrialization. Walter Benjamin, alternatively, indicates how the metaphoric dressing up of steam engines as living creatures was a retreat from industrialization and modernization. Those conflicting perceptions of what David Nye calls the ‘technological sublime’ became sources of joy as well as sorrow for these authors. The essay examines how the literary representations of transportation show various literary attempts to make sense of and rewrite the technological promise of the future into distinct aesthetic experiences of modernity. Their imaginative engagement with the railway showcases a genealogy of metaphorical as well as mechanic transportation that indicates an evolving process of Romantic thought across the Atlantic Ocean.

Law and the Invisible Hand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Paul Malloy
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Common ◽  
Contemporary Interpretation ◽  
The Invisible

A contemporary interpretation of Adam Smith's work on jurisprudence, revealing Smith's belief that progress emerges from cooperation and a commitment to justice. In Smith's theory, the tension between self–interest and the interests of others is mediated by law, so that the common interest of the community can be promoted. Moreover, Smith informs us that successful societies do at least three things well. They promote the common interest, advance justice through the rule of law, and they facilitate our natural desire to truck, barter, and exchange. In this process, law functions as an invisible force that holds society together and keeps it operating smoothly and productively. Law enhances social cooperation, facilitates trade, and extends the market. In these ways, law functions like Adams Smith's invisible hand, guiding and facilitating the progress of humankind.

scholarly journals VIAGEM AO CENTRO DO POLISSISTEMA: O PAPEL DAS ADAPTAÇÕES CINEMATOGRÁFICAS NA DINÂMICA DE SISTEMAS LITERÁRIOS E CULTURAIS

Organon ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (52) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Barros Indrusiak
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Literary Systems

This paper aims at presenting and discussing the first findings of aresearch project that employs Itamar Even-Zohar’s Polysystem Theory (1978; 2010) inmapping some of the contributions cinema industry has brought to the Brazilian literarysystem. Focusing on the editorial boom and renewal of J. R. R. Tolkien’s trilogy TheLord of the Rings (1954) brought about by Peter Jackson’s homonymous film versions(2001-2003), the research intends to demonstrate that adaptations of literary works tothe screen may renew and enrich the original text, rearrange its role and positionwithin both source and target literary systems by introducing it to new audiences,adapting it to new readers, performing that which Walter Benjamin (2000) conceived astranslation’s major role: to grant the original text “afterlife”.

scholarly journals „Odurzony” milczeniem – Waltera Benjamina doświadczenie pasywnego milczenia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacek Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Main Section ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Third ◽  
Introductory Section

The paper “Intoxicated” with Silence – Walter Benjamin’s Experience of Passive Silence consists of three parts. The first (introductory) section highlights the notion of silence in the contextof selected works by Walter Benjamin. The second (main) section attempts to analyze the motif of so-called [passive] silence as auratic experience in Benjamin’s texts, as well as their impact on certain films and literary works. The third part first discusses the relation between the contextof Benjamin’s silence and two public practices referred to as the performances of silence, and then provides a summary of the issues considered in this paper.

Drilling in Slips: Strategies to Measure the Invisible Lost Time, Technical Limits Definition, Using Standard Analytics and Machine Learning Algorithms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Mora ◽  
Damian Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Depth Range ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Lost Time ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Productive Time ◽  
The Invisible

Abstract Drilling is probably the most critical, complex, and costly operation in the oil and gas industry and unfortunately, errors made during the activities related are very expensive. Therefore, inefficient drilling activities such as connection duration outside of optimal times can have a considerable financial impact, so there is always a need to improve drilling efficiency. It is for this fact, that the measure of different behaviors and the duration of the drilling activities represent a significant opportunity in order to maximize the cost saving per well or campaign. Reducing the cost impact and maximizing the drilling efficiency are defined by the way used to calculate the perfect well time by the technical limit, non-productive time (NPT), and invisible lost time (ILT), in an operating company drilling plan. Different approaches to measure the invisible lost time that could be present in the in slips activity on the drilling operation are compared. Results show the differences between multiple techniques applied in real environments coming from a cloud platform. The methodologies implemented are based on the following scenarios, the first one use a combination of a custom technical limit based on technical experience, the historical data limit using standard measures (mean, average, quartiles, standard deviation, etc.), and a depth range variable (phases) differentiation, initial, intermediate, and final hole sizes is used. A complexity comparison uses the rig stand and phase footage variables for base line (count and duration) definition per phase, the non-productive time activities exclusion and data replace techniques mixing with an out of standard time detection in slips behavior (motor assemblies, bit replacing, bottom hole assembly (BHA), etc.) using standard and machine learning mechanisms. A final methodology implements an in slip ILT by technical limit definition using machine learning. The results using the same data set (set of wells) and coming from the different methods has been evaluated according to the total invisible lost time calculated per phase, percentage of activities evaluated with invisible lost time per phase and the variation of ILT considering the activities defining the technical limit. Finally, the potential implementation by any operator can be evaluated for these methodologies according to their specific requirements. This analysis creates a guideline to operating companies about multiple techniques to calculate ILT, some using innovative procedures applied on machine learning models.

scholarly journals Walter Benjamin e Roland Barthes às margens da escritura

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Derick Davidson Santos Teixeira
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Common

Resumo: A noção de escritura, desenvolvida por teóricos como Roland Barthes,Jacques Derrida e Maurice Blanchot, no século XX, possui um lugar medular nateoria da literatura e na crítica literária. O presente trabalho propõe um cotejamento entre a teoria de Walter Benjamin e de Roland Barthes no que concerne à escritura. Tomando alguns traços principais da escritura, analisados por Barthes, em conjunto com o pensamento de Benjamin acerca da narração, do declínio da experiencia e de algumas obras da literatura moderna – como a obra de Proust– é possível elucidar de que forma a escritura, operando como um limiar (Schwelle), escapa à rigidez das fronteiras que separam o pessoal e o histórico, a ordem comum do individualismo, a experiência da vivência.Palavras-chave: Roland Barthes; Walter Benjamin; escritura; limiar.Abstract: The notion of writing, developed by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot, in the 20th century, has a fundamental place when it comes to literary theory and literary criticism. This work proposes a collating between Walter Benjamin’s and Roland Barthes’ theory concerning writing. Taking some main features of writing, analyzed by Barthes, together with Benjamin’s thought about narration, the decline of experience and some modern literary works – such as Proust’s oeuvre – it is possible to elucidate how writing, working as a threshold (Schwelle), escapes from the rigidity of the borders that separate the personal and the historical, the common order and individualism, experience and “inner lived experience”.Keywords: Roland Barthes; Walter Benjamin; writing; threshold.

scholarly journals Francis Bacon: “pintar sensações” (Francis Bacon: “to paint sensations”)

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Sonia Borges
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Involuntary Memory ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Lost Time

O texto aborda, pela via da psicanálise, o que consideramos como o “método” de Francis Bacon: “pintar sensações”. Para isto, tomo, como referências principais, a Carta 52 (1896), da correspondência de Freud com Fliess, e Em busca do tempo perdido, romance de Marcel Proust ([1922] 1995), observando a possibilidade de considerar o que Proust nomeia como “memória involuntária” e o seu papel no processo criativo como uma ilustração esclarecedora do que Freud nos traz na Carta sobre a estratificação e o funcionamento do psiquismo. Estas ideias nos parecem bastante profícuas para a apreensão dos processos de subjetivação próprios à atividade artística, oferecendo, portanto, subsídios para pensar o processo criativo em Francis Bacon.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Sensação. Memória. Criação artística. ABSTRACT This text covers, by psychoanalysis way, what we consider the “method” of Francis Bacon: “to paint sensations”. For that, we take as main references, the Letter 52 (1896), from Freud to Fliess correspondence, and In search of the lost time, a romance of Marcel Proust ([1922] 1995), observing the possibility to consider what Proust names as “involuntary memory” and its role at the creative process as an enlightening illustration of what Freud brings us, at the mentioned Letter about the memory in the stratification and the psychic operation. These ideas seem to us fruitful for an apprehension of the subjective processes proper to artistic activity, offering, then, subside to think the creative process at Francis Bacon.KEYWORDS: Memory. Sensation. Creativity process.

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