Gestures of Acknowledgment

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Vincent Colapietro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Stanley Cavell

Gestures are arguably the most pervasive, primordial, and generative of signs. This partly explains why the failure or refusal to gesture in certain ways, in certain circumstances, carries more weight than would seem otherwise comprehensible. Stanley Cavell attends to not only the importance of acknowledgment but also how our failures to acknowledge others amount to nothing less than an “annihilation of the other”. What account of gestures would begin to do justice to the power of such failures to wound humans so deeply? Of course, it is possible to argue that those who are wounded by such slights are hypersensitive. But, given the weight of our experience, this goes only a very short distance toward illuminating the phenomena under consideration. Drawing upon Peirce’s theory of signs, this paper offers a sketch of gestures of acknowledgment, paying close attention to why our failures or refusals to acknowledge others are so powerful.

(Hi)story Telling in the Books of Samuel

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachelle Gilmour
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Studies ◽  
Books Of Samuel ◽  
2 Samuel

This chapter introduces the books of Samuel from three angles. The first angle is an overview of its content and macro-structures. Close attention is paid to the patterns in its narrative: the rise and fall of Israel’s leadership and the comparisons and contrasts between these leaders. Second, the focus shifts from the books themselves to the methods of reading them, tracing the development of narrative studies in Samuel. It advocates the integration of final form readings with investigation into historical and source-critical questions of the book, each informing and developing the other. Finally, an example of this integration is demonstrated in a narrative reading of the story of Shimei, David, and Joab in 2 Samuel 20 through the lens of its characteristics of historiography: causation, meaning, and evaluation. Attention to these categories deepens our literary reading, highlighting its values and conception of significance in the past.

scholarly journals "Stay on Your Path, Young Man"

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
Paul Grimstad
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Stanley Cavell

Almost ten years ago I participated in the conference whose proceedings would become the volume Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism. Stanley sat directly in front of me and listened attentively to my talk, thrilling and scary, not to say awkward, reading out “Cavell writes...” and “Cavell says...” with the man right there. After the Q and A, someone, I don't remember who, brought me over and introduced us. Stanley shook my hand and with the other patted my shoulder and said, with a broad smile, “Stay on your path, young man.”

Théologie de la rédemption et éthique sexuelle: unité et cohérence du ‘développement’ 1 Co 5–7

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-531
Author(s):  
Loïc P. M. Berge
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The One ◽  
Literary Unity ◽  
Original Approach ◽  
Concentric Structure

The literary status of 1 Cor 5–7 is diversely considered in scholarly literature. Sometimes these chapters are seen as a stand-alone part of the letter, sometimes they are divided in separate blocks, chapters 5–6 on the one hand and chapter 7 on the other. However, an original approach that pays close attention to the structure of the text makes it possible to show the neat architecture of this larger textual unit. The concentric structure of the three chapters (A–B–A’) highlights their literary unity and stresses the significance of the central chapter, which correspondingly possesses the greatest theological density of the whole section.

Thinking the Postcolonial Contemporary

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Jini Kim Watson ◽  
Gary Wilder
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
The One

To invoke the “postcolonial contemporary” is simultaneously to offer a proposition and to raise a question. It is an invitation to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. This introductory essay explores, on the one hand, how new historical situations require different analytic frameworks and, on the other, that grasping the political present requires close attention to historical continuities, repetitions, and reactivations. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative. Our aim is to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity.

Contribution to the phylogeny of Caucasian Nonea (Boraginaceae) inferred from nrDNA ITS and trnL-F data

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 418 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-272
Author(s):  
MURAT ERDEM GÜZEL ◽  
VUGAR KARIMOV ◽  
SERDAR MAKBUL ◽  
KAMİL COŞKUNÇELEBİ
Keyword(s):  
Sequence Data ◽  
Corolla Tube ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nrdna Its ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Phylogenetic Structure ◽  
Generic Delimitation ◽  
Taxonomic Studies ◽  
Good Support

Nonea (Boraginaceae) with nearly 35 species was divided into four sections based on the shape of mericarpids and the position of the anthers in the corolla tube. Although several comprehensive taxonomic studies have been performed on Turkish and European Nonea taxa, Caucasian ones have not been studied well. Therefore Caucasian Nonea need close attention with regard to molecular systematics. In this study, 15 Caucasian Nonea including N. cyanocalyx and N. bakuensis were evaluated with nrDNA ITS and cpDNA trnL-F sequence data using Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian Inference to reconstruct phylogeny. All examined members of Nonea were grouped at three main clades with weak to good support values based on nrITS and at two main clades with moderate to good support values based on trnL-F. Both trees did not coincide with the traditional sub-generic delimitation of Nonea, but nrITS tree supported monophyly of Nonea. On the other hand, Pulmonaria is deeply nested in Nonea in the trnL-F tree. Moreover, present findings support treating N. cyanocalyx and N. bakuensis as distinct species rather than subspecies and revealed a preliminary phylogenetic structure of little known Caucasian Nonea.

On the Thermon Metopes

1926 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
H. G. G. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Principal Series ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Vase Painting ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Interesting Point ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Excellent Article

The principal series of metopes from Thermon has been familiar for so long that further discussion of them may seem unnecessary. I hope, however, that the following pages are justified by the collective result of the small observations which they contain, if not by any single one of these. There is little of a general nature to be said after Koch's excellent article in Ath. Mitt., 1914.I. Chelidon and Aedon. (Antike Denkmäler, ii., Pl. L, 1 (Soteriades). Photographs of details, Ath. Mitt., 1914, Pls. XIII, XIV (Koch)).In the first place, a word as to the technique, the surprising elaborateness of which calls for more close attention than it has hitherto received. An interesting point is that the contours of the female flesh are drawn in bright red, the same as is used for the inscription, and for many details of dress. This use of red outlines for female flesh occurs, though not commonly, on Corinthian vases—on hydriae in the Louvre (E. 695) and in Dresden, where the faces and bodies of the sirens under the side handles are outlined in this way. It is found also in Attic vase painting—in two Sophilos fragments and in the fragment of similar style, from the Acropolis, with Pandrosos and Poseidon. The Corinthianising character of these has long been recognised, and the usage seems to be a subtlety which vase painters occasionally borrowed from the free painting of the time. On the other hand, male flesh in all the metopes is consistently outlined with black; the reason for the distinction is not easy to see, but it is possible that the artist was in search of equivalents for rendering the colours proper to the sexes—brown outlined with black for the male being used to balance white outlined with red for the female. In any case, the distinction was carefully maintained and was evidently felt to be significant.

Stanley's Taste

2013 ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Sebastião Belfort Cerqueira
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Final Scene ◽  
King Vidor

Stanley Cavell closes Contesting Tears with a chapter titled “Stella’s Taste: Reading Stella Dallas”, devoted to the 1937 movie, directed by King Vidor, which Cavell compares to the other movies he has studied in the book and finds “to be the most harrowing of the four melodramas to view again and again.” Cavell’s reading of this movie is organized against what he calls the generally “accepted view” of the film where there are two key interpretive moments: in one, Stella, the protagonist, on vacation with her teenage daughter, Laurel, at a fancy hotel, tries to impress Laurel’s new friends by dressing up and ends up making a fool of herself, in a spectacle of bad taste; Stella then finds out what people thought of her and realizes she has embarrassed Laurel, eventually deciding to drive her daughter away from her, towards her father (Stella’s now ex-husband); this takes us to the second key moment: the final scene, where Stella anonymously watches her daughter’s wedding from the sidewalk, through a window, and walks away, which is generally seen as confirming Stella’s sacrifice, representing the dissolution of motherhood — hence, of her identity.

A “Woodocrinus” Fauna from the Scottish Border

1924 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 270-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Wright
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Border Line ◽  
Geological Magazine

The majority of the crinoids recorded in this paper are from Penton Linns and a few from Harelawhill and Peterscrook in Liddesdale on the Scottish border. Peterscrook is really on the English side of the Liddel, which here forms the border line, but being quite a short distance from the other localities, it is thought advisable to include it here. The specimens in my own collection are the result of five visits at various times during recent years, the first of which, in the autumn of 1920, I was accompanied by my lamented friend, the late Mr. Robert Dunlop. My companion on the three following visits was Mr. James L. Begg, of Glasgow, and on the fifth visit Mr. J. G. Duncan, late of the Royal Scottish Museum and now of Kirkcaldy. To our combined efforts the following results are due. An account of these results may be of interest more especially since the crinoid fauna bears a remarkable resemblance to the “Woodocrinus” fauna discovered many years ago at Richmond in Yorkshire and first made known to geologists in the pages of the Geologist and later in the Geological Magazine.

Exercise intensity during repeated days of racing in professional triathletes

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Hue ◽  
Olivier Galy ◽  
Daniel Le Gallais
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Exercise Intensity ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
Time Trial ◽  
The Other ◽  
Very High

The purpose of this study was to estimate the exercise intensity from the competition heart rate (HR) of professional triathletes during a multi-triathlon race. Five internationally ranked professional triathletes completed incremental cycling and running tests to assess the first and second ventilatory thresholds (i.e., VT and RCT) and the HR at VT and RCT. HR was then monitored during a 5 d multi-triathlon race: a prologue time trial (PTT, 0.2 km swim - 5 km cycle - 1.2 km run) that opened the race; short-distance triathlons (SHD; 1.3 km swim - 36 km cycle - 8.4 km run) performed on the 2nd and 5th days; and sprint-distance triathlons (SPD; 0.75 km swim - 20 km cycle - 5 km run) performed on the 3rd and 4th days. All trials except the last (i.e., the second SHD) were performed above HR corresponding to RCT. PTT elicited significantly higher mean HR than the other trials (except for the first SPD trial). In contrast, the last SHD elicited significantly lower HR than the other trials. These responses were globally similar in the 3 segments (i.e., swim, cycle, and run). This study demonstrates that the triathletes performed at very high intensity during a drafting-permitted multi-triathlon race. However, as shown for multi-day cycling distances, the HR responses depended on (i) the distance covered and (ii) group behavior.Key words: heart rate, ventilatory thresholds, swim, cycle, run.

scholarly journals An experiment on electro-magnetic rotation

1876 ◽  
Vol 24 (164-170) ◽  
pp. 403-407
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Magnetic Force ◽  
Magnetic Polarity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Magnetic Rotation ◽  
Magnetic Pole ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Spiral Form ◽  
Electro Magnetic ◽  
Made In

The phenomena of the rotation of movable conductors, carrying currents, about lines of magnetic force are well known. One form of experiment, commonly called the rotating spark, presents, beside the actual rotation, some peculiar features which do not appear to have been noticed in detail. The instrumental arrangements consist of a partially exhausted chamber with a platinum point for one terminal, a ring for the other, and the intervening air or other gas for the movable conductor. The chamber is made in the form of a double cylinder, so that a magnet inserted through the ring may reach nearly to the point. The discharge then passes between the point and the ring, and revolves about the magnet according to Ampere’s law. But beside the rotation, and even when, through weakening of the magnet, rotation does not actually take place, the spark, when carefully observed, is seen to assume a spiral form ; and the spiral is right-handed or left-handed according to both the direction of the current and the magnetic polarity. This effect is particularly noticeable if the magnetic pole be inserted only a short distance beyond the ring. The discharge is then seen to spread itself out sheetwise on the ring in the direction in which rotation would take place. The edge of the sheet is in the form of a helix.

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