Metamorphosis from exalted person to cultural symbol: A case study of the GOAT in tennis

In this article, we suggest that our semiotic understanding of embodiment could be expanded to include a socially exalted individual, who embodies a symbol. To illustrate this argument, we draw on an ongoing research project that examines fandom rhetoric and debates around the ‘Greatest of all time’ or the GOAT symbol in Tennis. Grounding Bakhtin’s tri-distinctions of identity, I-for-myself, I-for-other and other-for-me, in a Kantian hermeneutic tradition, we perform a theoretically informed analysis of the GOAT debate. None of the three tri-components exists in isolation; rather, they interact in a reflexive dialogue which continually shapes and re-shapes individual consciousness and experiences of embodiment. We apply a ‘romanticism aesthetic activity’ analytical framework to the tri-distinctions of identity, that consists of ‘creative’ and ‘critical’ rhetoric, within which we found genres of ‘myth’, ‘art’ and ‘science’. Each genre functions through disparate means to exalt or metamorphise an individual (our focus is on Roger Federer) into a cultural symbol, and that the symbolic form of GOAT reflexively organises the emotional field and identities for those fans deeply invested in it. This article contributes to the current cultural psychological literature on understanding the mediation of people to symbols in a new digital age.

Ungdomens poetiska form

The Poetic Form of Youth: The Rebellious Power of Language and Desire in the Anthologies Kärlek och uppror and Berör och förstör Siv Widerberg and Anna Artén’s poetry anthology Kärlek och uppror: 210 dikter för unga människor (Love and Rebellion: 210 Poems for Young People, 1989) is something of a classic when it comes to Swedish contemporary poetry explicitly addressing young readers. Thirty years after its publication another poetry anthology, Berör och förstör: Dikter för unga (Affect and Destroy: Poems for Youth, 2019), edited by Athena Farrokhzad and Kristofer Folkhammar, was published. Both books tap into a long tradition of lyrical anthologies. Neither of the anthologies contain poetry written primarily for young readers. On the contrary, the anthologies include poems from the Swedish lyrical canon. Although the two anthologies share a similar structure and joint themes such as youth, love, poetry, and rebellion, they are significantly different in regard to poetic form and the conceptualizations of youth. The main theoretical perspective in this study is that the form of the anthologized poems can be understood as ideological expressions of an interplay between the genre's tradition and its specific aesthetic context. By historizing the genre and comparing the different paratexts of the anthologies, the article shows that adult conceptions of youth hides behind the editorial choices. In a quest to (re)create new writing subjects, through the rebellious powers of poetic language and love, the symbolic form of youth poetry both challenges and negates adult notions of youth in the two anthologies.

Students’ Error on Proof of The Group with “Satisfy Axioms Proof” based on Newman Error Analysis

This study aims to analyze students’ errors in solving proof problems on group theory, focus on proofs with satisfying axioms proof. The analysis used refers to the Newman Error Analysis, namely: reading, understanding, transformation, process skills, and coding. The participants in this study consisted of students at the Mathematics Department that enrolled in the group theory course during the odd semester of the 2021/2022 academic year in Universitas Negeri Makassar. Research data was obtained through tests, followed by interviews based on student answers from the test. Based on the results of the error analysis conducted in this study, it can be concluded that: (1) There were no reading errors; (2) Comprehension error was incorrectly write down the meaning of what is known from the problem in symbolic form; (3) Transformation error was error determining the type of proof, mistake write down a formula to show an axiom in the group; (4) Process skill error was an error using arithmetic operations for the validity of an axiom; and (5) Encoding error was an error in writing the final answer, wrong evaluation to conclude.

KINEMATICS OF TWO LINK MANIPULATOR IN MATLAB/SIMULINK AND MSC ADAMS/VIEW SOFTWARE

The paper deals with the kinematic analysis of a manipulator mechanism. The matrix method of kinematic analysis is used for the solution. The robot's mechanism is an open kinematic chain. The vector of position, velocity and acceleration is determined. The problem is solved using Matlab and MSC Adams / View. The Matlab program is used to solve kinematics equations in symbolic form. Computer software reduces the design time and also brings economic benefits. Conditions are being created for faster research and the creation of new mechanical systems gradually appearing in the production area. Computer simulation can also serve an educational purpose and giving additional information about the mechanical systems through simulation and kinematic analysis.

Does Livelihood and Asset Diversification Contribute to Pastoralist Resilience?: the Case of Il Chamus, Baringo County, Kenya, 1980-2018

In studies of pastoralism, the concept of resilience has normally been applied to the analyses of post-shock recoveries ('bounce backs') within an ecological framework and and limited time and spatial perspectives. When temporal and spatial parameters are relaxed to span multiple decades and geographies with widespread social changes and numerous shocks and recovery periods, understanding what resilience for pastoralists should look like is exceedingly complex and challenging. This article examines livelihood and asset diversification among Il Chamus of Baringo County, Kenya over a 35+ year period (1980-2018) in the context of significant changes. It suggests that 'successful resilience' among pastoralists involves much more than the continuity of a pastoralist livelihood in a particular place. By addressing diversification trends among households both in towns and rural spaces, the study shows that both better-off and poor households pursue non-pastoral strategies and assets, and that livestock remains an important real and symbolic form of capital even for those who work in towns. Finally, the article concludes that studies of pastoralist resilience should consider long-term continuities and changes associated with market expansion and the strengthening of rural-town linkages, in order to understand how pastoral livelihoods evolve not just in response to short-term shocks but also to challenges and opportunities that wider socio-economic changes present.

Closed-Form Solutions of Linear Ordinary Differential Equations with General Boundary Conditions

This paper deals with the solution of boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations with general boundary conditions. We obtain closed-form solutions in a symbolic form of problems with the general n-th order differential operator, as well as the composition of linear operators. The method is based on the theory of the extensions of linear operators in Banach spaces.

The Power without Responsibility of the Gaze. The Letter and Spirit’s Eye in the Humanities, from the Italian Perspective to the Robot

The paper identifies a continuity between the legal issue of the letter and spirit (or ratio) of the law and the invention of perspective as a symbolic form. The idea of perspective in Piero della Francesca’s Annunciation and the concept of “Italian perspective” in Arasse’s work are based on the aesthetic normativity of the painting in relation to the normative form of the norm, moving from the analysis of the invisible/visible nexus in legal theory. The notion of thirdness thus mediates between law as text and normativity as image, leading to the aesthetic enactment that conceives Italian playhouse as a form of theater, cinema, trial and university, as a symbolic form of knowledge and culture in the West. The simultaneously normative and aesthetic power of the gaze thus emerges as the removed from legal theory, until the problem of self-driving vehicles brings the issue back to the center of contemporary debate. The transition from frontal gaze to 360° vision suggests the theme of immersion as a new symbolic for the man–robot society.

From libraries to wayfinding, waylosing, and symbolism

After demonstrating that a building is a system of systems, we examine the symbolism of certain libraries. A cognitive account of wayfinding uses the Seattle Public Library to analyze getting lost in buildings—which we contrast with waylosing as in exploration. Cognitive maps in the brain represent places and the means to find one’s way between them. Different “worlds” each have their own, modeled as a world graph (WG) with distinctive places represented by nodes, and paths represented by edges. Complementing this, a locometric map represents locomotor effort in getting from one place to another. Single-cell recording from rat hippocampus reveals place cells whose activity correlates with the place in which the animal finds itself. However, “place” here corresponds to location on a locometric map, rather than distinctive places of WG nodes. The taxon affordance model (TAM), models how one navigates without a cognitive map. Several brain regions are involved, but not hippocampus. The world graph model (WGM) makes essential use of the hippocampus in coordination with brain regions processing the relevant WG. Finally, we contrast symbolic form in buildings with the use of explicit signage. Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia Cathedral exemplifies how architects may achieve novel symbolic forms.