scholarly journals Paint and decay: A colloquial conversation on preserving the urban heritage

ARSNET ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diandra Pandu Saginatari ◽  
Adrian Perkasa
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Nonfiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Visual Illustration ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Visual Materials ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Looking Back

This paper is an attempt to converse about urban heritage preservation and its experience. To converse is to colloquially discuss ideas that comes to mind while we are looking back at the 2019 photographs of some parts of Kota Tua Surabaya (The Old Town of Surabaya) and reflect upon our knowledge background, one of architecture, the other of history. This conversation is created through a form of creative writing, creative nonfiction, where we begin with our personal thoughts, one of experiencing ruination and the other of witnessing complexity of urban heritage preservation, one of decay and the other of paint. We involve relevant discourses and the use of visual materials such as collages, diagrams, and drawings as a form of visual inquiry and visual illustration, showing the interpretation, reality, and the imagination of fragments of Kota Tua Surabaya. The process involved in creating this conversation could be one of the ways to creatively build collaborative knowledge and have the writings and the visual materials based on personal voice, expanding the academic form of writings.

scholarly journals URBANISTIKOS PAVELDO IŠSAUGOJIMO TEISINĖS PRIELAIDOS LIETUVOJE

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Jūratė Jurevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
Low Efficiency

The paper discusses urgent problems of urban heritage assesment and treatment in Lithuania today. Contradictions in the system of listing, lack of fundamental investigations, indeterminate responsibility of authorities, inadequate role of local communities are revealed as the basic factors of low efficiency of urban heritage preservation. The most efficient means of urban heritage preservation are revealed in protected national and regional parks. Historic towns and villages of these areas remain more authentic than registered urban heritage sites in the other territories of Lithuania. The initiative of local administrations could also be considered as one of the most important factors in urban heritage preservation. Scandinavian experience in the protection of urban heritage reveals the importance of local inhabitants in the processes of historic town preservation. Recent international documents on cultural heritage protection and changes in the Lithuanian urban planning system enable perfection of urban heritage preservation. The launched reimbursement of expenses for restoration works in Lithuania shows positive changes in this field. Santrauka Nagrinėjamos dabarties Lietuvoje susiklosčiusios teisinės paskatos ir kliūtys išsaugoti urbanistikos paveldą. Analizuojami Lietuvos įstatymai ir įstatymų įgyvendinamieji dokumentai, reglamentuojantys urbanistikos paveldo vietovių apsaugą kultūros paveldo apskaitos bei teritorijų planavimo lygmenyse. Siekiama atskleisti urbanistinių darinių vertingųjų savybių išsaugojimo teisinių nuostatų veiksmingumą. Atskleidžiami teisiniai trukdžiai ir paskatos gyventojams dalyvauti istorinių miestų ir miestelių kultūrinės vertės išsaugojimo procesuose.

scholarly journals Introduction: Digital Pedagogy in American Studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Gessner ◽  
Uwe Küchler
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Digital Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching Ideas ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Summer Semester

As we are writing the introduction to this special issue we are looking back on the online summer semester 2020, which has profoundly and perhaps lastingly impacted how we do American Studies, not least by pushing us to embrace digital technologies to an extent unimaginable half a year ago. Did we really need a viral pandemic to provide the necessary push for some of our colleagues to become (more) digitally naturalized? Of course not. On the other hand, we would have appreciated practical guidelines and offers of technical support for our digital teaching ideas (as most universities have provided them in the last months) much earlier. Yet, most of these offerings were merely technological or only contained a list of tools available. How can we think critically about our tools, and how can we implement them successfully?

Perceptual Organization in Multistable Apparent Motion

Perception ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilayanur S Ramachandran ◽  
Stuart M Anstis
Keyword(s):  
Motion Perception ◽  
Apparent Motion ◽  
Perceptual Organization ◽  
Necker Cube ◽  
The Other ◽  
Horizontal Oscillation ◽  
Random Location ◽  
Single Figure ◽  
Looking Back

Is motion perception based on a local piecemeal analysis of the image or do ‘global’ effects also play an important role? Use was made of bistable apparent-motion displays in trying to answer this question. Two spots were flashed simultaneously on diagonally opposite corners of a 1 deg wide square and then switched off and replaced by two spots appearing on the other two corners. One can either see vertical or horizontal oscillation and the display is bistable just as a Necker cube is. If several such bistable figures are randomly scattered on the screen and presented simultaneously, then one usually sees the same motion axis in all of them, suggesting the presence of field-like effects for resolving ambiguity in apparent motion. While viewing a single figure observers experience hysteresis: they tend to adhere to one motion axis or the other and can switch the axis only by looking away and looking back after 10–30 s have elapsed. The figure can be switched off and made to reappear at some other random location on the screen and it is then always found to retain its motion axis. Several such demonstrations are presented to show that spatial induction effects in metastable motion displays may provide a particularly valuable probe for studying ‘laws’ of perceptual organization.

The Latin Studies of Hermann and Wilamowitz

1948 ◽  
Vol 38 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Eduard Fraenkel
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Other ◽  
Latin Poetry ◽  
Classical Scholar ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
Greek Poetry ◽  
True Reading ◽  
The One ◽  
Looking Back

A century ago, on the last day of 1848, there died Gottfried Hermann, the greatest classical scholar of his time. As a small token of homage to his memory some brief remarks on his contribution to the study of early Latin poetry may not be out of place here.Hermann, who owes his fame to his work on Greek poetry, had a knowledge of the language of Rome and an instinctive sense of its potentialities such as few scholars possessed. He spoke and wrote Latin with lucidity, ease, and grace: it was to him the natural medium for the expression of his thought. A keen interest in Plautus had been roused in him at an early stage by his teacher Reiz, who was the first after an interval of darkness to rekindle Bentley's torch. Late in life, looking back over more than fifty years, Hermann said: ‘Plautum praeceptor meus Reizius pro sponsa mihi esse voluit.’ When Reiz was engaged in correcting the proofs of his edition of the Rudens he used the young Hermann as his amanuensis. Hermann (Elementa doctrinae metricae p. xiii) has left us a delightful picture of this collaboration: on the one side the elderly professor, all kindliness and modesty, distrustful of himself, relying on painstaking care and meticulous circumspection; on the other the impetuous youngster, impatient of tiresome hesitation and confident that his divination and his strong rhythmical instinct were enough to recover the metre and the true reading of a controversial passage.

scholarly journals Brunei And Aceh: A Manuscript-Based Study of Cultural And Historical Relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
Fakhriati NFN
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Historical Manuscripts ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

Dari sisi letak geografis, Brunei dan Aceh adalah dua suku bangsa yang berada di posisi berjauhan, pulau Kalimantan dan Sumatera. Namun, keduanya memiliki banyak kemiripan antara satu sama lainnya. Keduanya berada dalam satu rumpun Melayu, budaya, dan karakter yang mirip. Dari sisi sejarah, kedua suku ini memiliki hubungan baik, baik pada tatanan kesul­tanan maupun pada level rakyatnya. A. Hasyimi mengatakan bahwa qanun yang dipakai di Brunei adalah hasil adopsi dari qanun yang ada di Aceh. Selain itu kemiripan dari sisi budaya adalah, seperti perma­inan rakyat, cara masuk rumah baru, dan tepung tawari. Kemiripan-kemiripan ini men­jadi menarik dikaji lebih jauh tentang hubungan sejarah Brunei dan Aceh. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menggali hubungan sejarah antara kesultanan Brunei dan Aceh, termasuk hubungan yang baik antara ulama dalam menye­barkan ajaran Islam. Penelitian ini didasarkan pada temuan-temuan terutama yang terdapat dalam manuskrip Aceh dan Brunei. Kajian ini mengunakan pendekatan filologis dan antropologis untuk mengungkap informasi relasi antar kedua etnis ini. Diharapkan hasil kajian ini dapat menjadi pendukung pelestarian warisan yang dimiliki kedua suku bangsa Brunei dan Aceh, terutama terkait manuskrip dan bukti sejarah tentang hubungan kedua suku bangsa tersebut.  Kata Kunci: Aceh, Brunei, manuskrip, sejarah, budaya, dan MelayuGeographically, Brunei and Aceh are separated by the ocean. One is located on the island of Kalimantan and the other on the island of Sumatra. Despite the distance, these two entities possess many similarities. Their people are of Malay origin, alike in culture and character. Historically, the relationship between them, be it at the level of sultans or subjects, is as well as it can be. For example, A. Hasyimi stated that Brunei adopted qanun (law) from Aceh. Other similarities can be found in their culture, such as folk games, housewarming celebration, and flour ritual. These similarities invite a deeper examination into the relationship between Brunei and Aceh. This study aimed to investigate the connection between the Brunei and Aceh sultanates, as well as the relationship between their ulama in spreading Islam. Using historical manuscripts from both places as primary sources, this study employed philological and anthropological approaches to achieve its objectives. It is hoped that the result of this study could be used to support the heritage preservation of Brunei and Aceh, especially in terms of historical manuscripts which have successfully proved their close relationship.Keywods: Aceh, Brunei, Malay, manuscript, history, culture

scholarly journals A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel K. Staffa ◽  
Maraja Riechers ◽  
Berta Martín-López
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Sustainability Science ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Cultures ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge ◽  
Taking Care

AbstractTransdisciplinary Sustainability Science has emerged as a viable answer to current sustainability crises with the aim to strengthen collaborative knowledge production. To expand its transformative potential, we argue that Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science needs to thoroughly engage with questions of unequal power relations and hierarchical scientific constructs. Drawing on the work of the feminist philosopher María Puig de la Bellacasa, we examine a feminist ethos of care which might provide useful guidance for sustainability researchers who are interested in generating critical-emancipatory knowledge. A feminist ethos of care is constituted by three interrelated modes of knowledge production: (1) thinking-with, (2) dissenting-within and (3) thinking-for. These modes of thinking and knowing enrich knowledge co-production in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science by (i) embracing relational ontologies, (ii) relating to the ‘other than human’, (iii) cultivating caring academic cultures, (iv) taking care of non-academic research partners, (v) engaging with conflict and difference, (vi) interrogating positionalities and power relations through reflexivity, (vii) building upon marginalised knowledges via feminist standpoints and (viii) countering epistemic violence within and beyond academia. With our paper, we aim to make a specific feminist contribution to the field of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science and emphasise its potentials to advance this field.

scholarly journals La visión responsable de Javier Marías: una narrativa entre el pensamiento literario de Julián Marías y la literatura como reconocimiento de Marcel Proust

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-244
Author(s):  
Santiago Bertrán
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jose Ortega Y Gasset ◽  
Visual Poetics ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Siglo Xx

Este artículo explora los aspectos filosóficos y éticos de la literatura de Javier Marías a la luz de la filosofía de Julián Marías y la literatura de Marcel Proust. Las ficciones de Javier Marías nos presentan una serie de personajes que se demuestran como agudos observadores que interpretan el mundo para entenderlo mejor y para orientarse en él. Este artículo defiende el argumento que esta tarea hermenéutica se extiende también a la propia poética de Javier Marías, la cual refleja dos conceptos esenciales no del todo bien estudiados hasta la fecha: por una parte, lo que Marías, tomando prestado un término de su padre, Julián Marías, denomina "pensamiento literario", un concepto que entiende la escritura como una de las herramientas más poderosas que tiene el autor de explorar y entender la realidad; por otra parte, el concepto de "reconocimiento", una noción muy próxima a la poética de Marcel Proust que describe la experiencia cognitiva por la cual el lector 'se ve' o 'se reconoce' a sí mismo en la narración. Al investigar estas poéticas visuales y sus implicaciones éticas se descubre el contexto metafísico y ontológico al cual se aproxima la obra mariesca, que no es otro que el paradigma filosófico de la "realidad radical" establecido por Ortega y Gasset a comienzos del siglo XX.   This article examines the ethical and philosophical aspects of Javier Marías’s literature in light of the philosophy of Julián Marías and the poetics of Marcel Proust. Javier Marías’s fictions famously present us with a series of characters that prove to be acute observers, interpreting the world both to understand it better and to orientate themselves within it. I argue that this hermeneutical approach extends to Marías’s poetics, which reflect two main concepts not yet well studied: on the one hand, what Marías, borrowing a term from his father, the philosopher Julián Marías, calls ‘pensamiento literario’, which describes creative writing as one of the most powerful tools the author has to explore and understand reality; and on the other, his idea of ‘reconocimiento’, a concept which echoes Marcel Proust’s poetics and which defines the sympathetic process by which the reader ‘sees’ or ‘recognises’ him or herself in the narrative. In investigating these ‘visual’ poetics and their ethical implications, we will discover the metaphysical and ontological context intrinsic to Marías’s narrative, which is based on the philosophical paradigm of the ‘realidad radical’ established by José Ortega y Gasset at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Silence, Scalpels, and Loupes: Reconsidering O’Connor as Sylvia Plath’s Contemporary

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-214
Author(s):  
Lindsey Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Other ◽  
Striking Difference ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Personal Essay ◽  
Female Authors

In an approach that is closer to a work of creative writing than to conventional criticism, Poet Lindsey Alexander compares O’Connor’s and Plath’s reception as women writers. This essay is something of an anomaly in the collection since it relies on elements of the personal essay, asks more questions than it answers, and uses anecdotal evidence. However, we see it as an essential demonstration of the volume’s commitment to a broad reconsideration of O’Connor, which includes exploring how she affects current writers and their work and practices. Alexander examines O’Connor and Plath as a way to consider how female authors are received by a male readership and identifies several similarities between the two authors—who are rarely regarded in tandem—and one striking difference: the perceived masculinity of O’Connor’s violent subject matter and the assumed femininity of Plath’s subject matter. Alexander uses these two gendered designations to raise the question: why one and not the other? 

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