Sascha Bru
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748639250
- eISBN:
- 9780748651931
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748639250.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter discusses Richard Huelsenbeck and his pre-Dada writings, showing that his extensive knowledge of how his country was politically and practically directed partly determined his literary ...
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This chapter discusses Richard Huelsenbeck and his pre-Dada writings, showing that his extensive knowledge of how his country was politically and practically directed partly determined his literary agenda. It reveals the notion of the other politician and how this politician was gendered in Huelsenbeck's last Dada text. The chapter shows that Huelsenbeck provided an alternative to the practical organisation of democracy through his experimental literature.Less
This chapter discusses Richard Huelsenbeck and his pre-Dada writings, showing that his extensive knowledge of how his country was politically and practically directed partly determined his literary agenda. It reveals the notion of the other politician and how this politician was gendered in Huelsenbeck's last Dada text. The chapter shows that Huelsenbeck provided an alternative to the practical organisation of democracy through his experimental literature.
Jan Lauwereyns
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262123105
- eISBN:
- 9780262277990
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262123105.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Neuropsychology
This book examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making using “bias” as its core concept, rather than the more common but noncommittal terms “selection” and “attention.” It offers an ...
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This book examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making using “bias” as its core concept, rather than the more common but noncommittal terms “selection” and “attention.” It offers an integrative, interdisciplinary account of the structure and function of bias, which it defines as a basic brain mechanism that attaches different weights to different information sources, prioritizing some cognitive representations at the expense of others. The author introduces the concepts of bias and sensitivity based on notions from Bayesian probability, which he translates into easily recognizable neural signatures, introduced by concrete examples from the experimental literature. He examines, among other topics, positive and negative motivations for giving priority to different sensory inputs, and looks for the neural underpinnings of racism, sexism, and other forms of “familiarity bias.” The author—a poet and essayist as well as a scientist—connects findings and ideas in neuroscience to analogous concepts in such diverse fields as post-Lacanian psychoanalysis, literary theory, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, and experimental economics.Less
This book examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making using “bias” as its core concept, rather than the more common but noncommittal terms “selection” and “attention.” It offers an integrative, interdisciplinary account of the structure and function of bias, which it defines as a basic brain mechanism that attaches different weights to different information sources, prioritizing some cognitive representations at the expense of others. The author introduces the concepts of bias and sensitivity based on notions from Bayesian probability, which he translates into easily recognizable neural signatures, introduced by concrete examples from the experimental literature. He examines, among other topics, positive and negative motivations for giving priority to different sensory inputs, and looks for the neural underpinnings of racism, sexism, and other forms of “familiarity bias.” The author—a poet and essayist as well as a scientist—connects findings and ideas in neuroscience to analogous concepts in such diverse fields as post-Lacanian psychoanalysis, literary theory, philosophy of mind, evolutionary psychology, and experimental economics.
J. Hillis Miller
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263103
- eISBN:
- 9780823266579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263103.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931) is her most “experimental” novel. The Waves is made up of two sorts of discourse juxtaposed: the ten “interludes” in the past tense distributed through the novel ...
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Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931) is her most “experimental” novel. The Waves is made up of two sorts of discourse juxtaposed: the ten “interludes” in the past tense distributed through the novel describing waves breaking on the shore at various times of the day and at various seasons, and the present tense “soliloquies” (her words) of the six characters at various times in their lives. Just what set of interpretative hypotheses will best and most economically account for the strange stylistic features of The Waves? The best answer is that The Waves presupposes a vast impersonal memory bank that stores everything that has ever happened, every thought or feeling of every person, but turned into appropriate language, complete with figures of speech for sensations and feelings that cannot be said literally. Passages in Woolf’s Dairy and in her “A Sketch of the Past” (from Moments of Being) confirm this hypothesis.Less
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931) is her most “experimental” novel. The Waves is made up of two sorts of discourse juxtaposed: the ten “interludes” in the past tense distributed through the novel describing waves breaking on the shore at various times of the day and at various seasons, and the present tense “soliloquies” (her words) of the six characters at various times in their lives. Just what set of interpretative hypotheses will best and most economically account for the strange stylistic features of The Waves? The best answer is that The Waves presupposes a vast impersonal memory bank that stores everything that has ever happened, every thought or feeling of every person, but turned into appropriate language, complete with figures of speech for sensations and feelings that cannot be said literally. Passages in Woolf’s Dairy and in her “A Sketch of the Past” (from Moments of Being) confirm this hypothesis.
Johanna Drucker
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226165073
- eISBN:
- 9780226165097
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226165097.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Nearly a decade ago, the author of this book cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. This book explores the ...
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Nearly a decade ago, the author of this book cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. This book explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature, and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects the author engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists' Books Online to the as yet unrealized Paracritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, the book functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies the contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age—models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.Less
Nearly a decade ago, the author of this book cofounded the University of Virginia's SpecLab, a digital humanities laboratory dedicated to risky projects with serious aims. This book explores the implications of these radical efforts to use critical practices and aesthetic principles against the authority of technology based on analytic models of knowledge. Inspired by the imaginative frontiers of graphic arts and experimental literature, and the technical possibilities of computation and information management, the projects the author engages range from Subjective Meteorology to Artists' Books Online to the as yet unrealized Paracritical Demon, an interactive tool for exposing the structures that underlie our interpretations of text. Illuminating the kind of future such experiments could enable, the book functions as more than a set of case studies at the intersection of computers and humanistic inquiry. It also exemplifies the contention that humanists must play a role in designing models of knowledge for the digital age—models that will determine how our culture will function in years to come.
