Buzsáki György
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195301069
- eISBN:
- 9780199863716
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301069.003.0009
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Neuroendocrine and Autonomic, Techniques
The most characteristic field pattern of the waking, activated neocortex is gamma oscillation. Its generation depends on the time decay of GABAA-receptor-mediated Laurent inhibition and/or shunting. ...
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The most characteristic field pattern of the waking, activated neocortex is gamma oscillation. Its generation depends on the time decay of GABAA-receptor-mediated Laurent inhibition and/or shunting. These receptors are uniformly distributed in the cerebral cortex and other brain regions. Because inhibitory postsynaptic potentials mediated by these neurons are reliable, they provide a more efficient means for timing than excitatory postsynaptic potentials. Due to the localized axon arbors of basket and chandelier cells and the local gap junctions, gamma oscillations in the cortex are often confined to a small piece of tissue. Coupling of distant gamma oscillators requires fast-conducting conduits, provided by the widespread axon collaterals of long-range interneurons and possibly by the long axons of some pyramidal cells. The physiological importance of the gamma rhythm is supported by the observation that neuronal assemblies in the waking brain self-organize themselves into temporal packages of 15 to 30 milliseconds.Less
The most characteristic field pattern of the waking, activated neocortex is gamma oscillation. Its generation depends on the time decay of GABAA-receptor-mediated Laurent inhibition and/or shunting. These receptors are uniformly distributed in the cerebral cortex and other brain regions. Because inhibitory postsynaptic potentials mediated by these neurons are reliable, they provide a more efficient means for timing than excitatory postsynaptic potentials. Due to the localized axon arbors of basket and chandelier cells and the local gap junctions, gamma oscillations in the cortex are often confined to a small piece of tissue. Coupling of distant gamma oscillators requires fast-conducting conduits, provided by the widespread axon collaterals of long-range interneurons and possibly by the long axons of some pyramidal cells. The physiological importance of the gamma rhythm is supported by the observation that neuronal assemblies in the waking brain self-organize themselves into temporal packages of 15 to 30 milliseconds.
Marina Umaschi Bers
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199757022
- eISBN:
- 9780199933037
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199757022.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology
With the advances of Web 2.0 and social media applications, it becomes evident that while new technologies today are said to isolate youth, they also provide opportunities for them to communicate and ...
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With the advances of Web 2.0 and social media applications, it becomes evident that while new technologies today are said to isolate youth, they also provide opportunities for them to communicate and form new types of connections. This chapter will explore the range of relationships established and maintained by the use of technology. The media has recently devoted a great deal of effort into raising awareness of cyberbullying and other dangers associated with communicating online. Allowing a child to socialize using Facebook, Virtual Worlds, or online gaming is certainly a major risk. However, the question is whether or not the risk is worthwhile. There are ways to restrict what can be said online that can protect children, but this chapters explores ways for technologies to effectively embrace open communication that facilitates interaction, promotes language development, and strengthens connections between people.Less
With the advances of Web 2.0 and social media applications, it becomes evident that while new technologies today are said to isolate youth, they also provide opportunities for them to communicate and form new types of connections. This chapter will explore the range of relationships established and maintained by the use of technology. The media has recently devoted a great deal of effort into raising awareness of cyberbullying and other dangers associated with communicating online. Allowing a child to socialize using Facebook, Virtual Worlds, or online gaming is certainly a major risk. However, the question is whether or not the risk is worthwhile. There are ways to restrict what can be said online that can protect children, but this chapters explores ways for technologies to effectively embrace open communication that facilitates interaction, promotes language development, and strengthens connections between people.
Natasha F. H. O'Hear
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199590100
- eISBN:
- 9780191725678
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590100.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This study is firstly, a contribution to the history of interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern period in the form of seven visual case studies ranging from ...
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This study is firstly, a contribution to the history of interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern period in the form of seven visual case studies ranging from 1250 to 1522. Secondly, it is an attempt to understand the different ways in which images exhibit hermeneutical strategies akin to what is found in textual exegesis, but with those peculiar properties of synchronicity of both subject‐matter and effect that separate them off from the experience of leading a text. Thirdly, therefore, it explores the multi faceted character of visual exegesis as a way of exploring both the content as well as the character of a biblical text such as The Book of Revelation. The study ends with a consideration of the potential for a complementery relationship between textual and visual exegesis, if visual exegesis were taken more seriously by the biblical academy.Less
This study is firstly, a contribution to the history of interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern period in the form of seven visual case studies ranging from 1250 to 1522. Secondly, it is an attempt to understand the different ways in which images exhibit hermeneutical strategies akin to what is found in textual exegesis, but with those peculiar properties of synchronicity of both subject‐matter and effect that separate them off from the experience of leading a text. Thirdly, therefore, it explores the multi faceted character of visual exegesis as a way of exploring both the content as well as the character of a biblical text such as The Book of Revelation. The study ends with a consideration of the potential for a complementery relationship between textual and visual exegesis, if visual exegesis were taken more seriously by the biblical academy.
Luke Gibbons
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226236179
- eISBN:
- 9780226236209
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226236209.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
The importance of simultaneity in literary modernism is often taken to represent the triumph of space over time, but in the “Wandering Rocks” chapter of Ulysses, Joyce subjects synchronicity itself ...
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The importance of simultaneity in literary modernism is often taken to represent the triumph of space over time, but in the “Wandering Rocks” chapter of Ulysses, Joyce subjects synchronicity itself to raids from uneven temporalities. Standard Time was introduced to facilitate global communications, transport, and trade under modernity, but in colonial Ireland, Greenwich Mean Time was a contested zone. This lent itself to montage effects closer to the palimpsest than to the transverse time of the present. The past constantly intrudes on the present in a manner that makes it unclear whether these are flashbacks or spectral irruptions of the past into the present. Though the flashback is pre-eminently a modernist device, its introduction in cinema and fiction coincided with its emergence as a defining attribute of trauma and shell-shock in the aftermath of World War I. Space and time are themselves out of joint due to the violent upheavals of modernity in early-twentieth-century Ireland.Less
The importance of simultaneity in literary modernism is often taken to represent the triumph of space over time, but in the “Wandering Rocks” chapter of Ulysses, Joyce subjects synchronicity itself to raids from uneven temporalities. Standard Time was introduced to facilitate global communications, transport, and trade under modernity, but in colonial Ireland, Greenwich Mean Time was a contested zone. This lent itself to montage effects closer to the palimpsest than to the transverse time of the present. The past constantly intrudes on the present in a manner that makes it unclear whether these are flashbacks or spectral irruptions of the past into the present. Though the flashback is pre-eminently a modernist device, its introduction in cinema and fiction coincided with its emergence as a defining attribute of trauma and shell-shock in the aftermath of World War I. Space and time are themselves out of joint due to the violent upheavals of modernity in early-twentieth-century Ireland.
Stephen E. Braude
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226071527
- eISBN:
- 9780226071534
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226071534.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
For over thirty years, the author of this book has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship and materialization. The book is an account of ...
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For over thirty years, the author of this book has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship and materialization. The book is an account of his most memorable encounters with such phenomena. Here the author recounts in detail five particular cases—some that challenge our most fundamental scientific beliefs and others that expose our own credulousness—beginning with a south Florida woman who can make thin gold-colored foil appear spontaneously on her skin. He then travels to New York and California to test psychokinetic superstars—and frauds—such as Joe Nuzum, who claim to move objects using only their minds. Along the way, the author also investigates the allegations of K.R., a policeman in Annapolis who believes he can transfer images from photographs onto other objects—including his own body—and Ted Serios, a deceased Chicago elevator operator who could make a variety of different images appear on Polaroid film. Ultimately, the author considers his wife's surprisingly fruitful experiments with astrology, which she has used to guide professional soccer teams to the top of their leagues, as well as his own personal experiences with synchronicity—a phenomenon, he argues, that may need to be explained in terms of a refined, extensive, and dramatic form of psychokinesis.Less
For over thirty years, the author of this book has studied the paranormal in everyday life, from extrasensory perception and psychokinesis to mediumship and materialization. The book is an account of his most memorable encounters with such phenomena. Here the author recounts in detail five particular cases—some that challenge our most fundamental scientific beliefs and others that expose our own credulousness—beginning with a south Florida woman who can make thin gold-colored foil appear spontaneously on her skin. He then travels to New York and California to test psychokinetic superstars—and frauds—such as Joe Nuzum, who claim to move objects using only their minds. Along the way, the author also investigates the allegations of K.R., a policeman in Annapolis who believes he can transfer images from photographs onto other objects—including his own body—and Ted Serios, a deceased Chicago elevator operator who could make a variety of different images appear on Polaroid film. Ultimately, the author considers his wife's surprisingly fruitful experiments with astrology, which she has used to guide professional soccer teams to the top of their leagues, as well as his own personal experiences with synchronicity—a phenomenon, he argues, that may need to be explained in terms of a refined, extensive, and dramatic form of psychokinesis.
Berthold Hoeckner
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226649610
- eISBN:
- 9780226649894
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226649894.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
Chapter 3 introduces double projection as a phenomenon that occurs when well-known music calls up preexisting associations on the viewer’s mental screen while watching a movie. With the advent of ...
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Chapter 3 introduces double projection as a phenomenon that occurs when well-known music calls up preexisting associations on the viewer’s mental screen while watching a movie. With the advent of film, such music-induced double projections proliferated, creating a qualitatively new experience of intertextuality. While compilers of early film scores worried about such "interferences" when recycling well-known songs or operatic numbers, film makers soon began to exploit the potential of intentional reference and allusion. The two case studies of this chapter focus on the potential of critical interference and formal synchronicity in the montage films of late modernist European cinema: Alexander Kluge’s quotation in The Patriot (1979) of Hanns Eislser’s score for the Holocaust documentary Night and Fog (1955); and Jean-Luc Godard’s use of of a phrase from Paul Hindemith’s Sonata for Viola and Piano, op. 11 in his Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-89). In as much as intertextuality has become rampant in both modernist and post-modernist media, the chapter concludes with the suggestion that music may at times become buoyant and free itself from being visually overdetermined.Less
Chapter 3 introduces double projection as a phenomenon that occurs when well-known music calls up preexisting associations on the viewer’s mental screen while watching a movie. With the advent of film, such music-induced double projections proliferated, creating a qualitatively new experience of intertextuality. While compilers of early film scores worried about such "interferences" when recycling well-known songs or operatic numbers, film makers soon began to exploit the potential of intentional reference and allusion. The two case studies of this chapter focus on the potential of critical interference and formal synchronicity in the montage films of late modernist European cinema: Alexander Kluge’s quotation in The Patriot (1979) of Hanns Eislser’s score for the Holocaust documentary Night and Fog (1955); and Jean-Luc Godard’s use of of a phrase from Paul Hindemith’s Sonata for Viola and Piano, op. 11 in his Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-89). In as much as intertextuality has become rampant in both modernist and post-modernist media, the chapter concludes with the suggestion that music may at times become buoyant and free itself from being visually overdetermined.
Becky Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041167
- eISBN:
- 9780252099731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041167.003.0003
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
What might a classroom look like where students are invited to bring their minds, bodies, and spirits? How might learning be enhanced with this invitation? This chapter chronicles how Thompson was ...
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What might a classroom look like where students are invited to bring their minds, bodies, and spirits? How might learning be enhanced with this invitation? This chapter chronicles how Thompson was first invited fully into a classroom as a graduate student by the marvelous mentoring of a professor who taught a legendary course at Brandeis University, “Birth and Death.” Maurice Stein modeled a way to keep intimacy, intensity, and intellectual depth in the classroom while teaching about the Holocaust, the threat of nuclear war, attempted genocide of Indigenous people, and child abuse by incorporating meditation, paired listening, and collaborative teaching. After graduate school, Thompson stumbled through creating syllabi and pedagogy that invited students into the classroom, realizing that liberatory teaching requires understanding what hinders embodiment—how many of us ransom off our body parts below the neck on our way to becoming academics. Finding ourselves again is key to creating intellectually rigorous classroom environments. Thompson explores how she turned students away from their questioning spirits, and what healing she needed to do to change that.
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What might a classroom look like where students are invited to bring their minds, bodies, and spirits? How might learning be enhanced with this invitation? This chapter chronicles how Thompson was first invited fully into a classroom as a graduate student by the marvelous mentoring of a professor who taught a legendary course at Brandeis University, “Birth and Death.” Maurice Stein modeled a way to keep intimacy, intensity, and intellectual depth in the classroom while teaching about the Holocaust, the threat of nuclear war, attempted genocide of Indigenous people, and child abuse by incorporating meditation, paired listening, and collaborative teaching. After graduate school, Thompson stumbled through creating syllabi and pedagogy that invited students into the classroom, realizing that liberatory teaching requires understanding what hinders embodiment—how many of us ransom off our body parts below the neck on our way to becoming academics. Finding ourselves again is key to creating intellectually rigorous classroom environments. Thompson explores how she turned students away from their questioning spirits, and what healing she needed to do to change that.
Arnold J. Band
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300084269
- eISBN:
- 9780300130218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300084269.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter explores how Hebrew writers coped with Israel's establishment through an analysis of Haim Hazaz, one of the most celebrated writers of Modern Hebrew, who, born in Eastern Europe in 1898, ...
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This chapter explores how Hebrew writers coped with Israel's establishment through an analysis of Haim Hazaz, one of the most celebrated writers of Modern Hebrew, who, born in Eastern Europe in 1898, experienced pogroms and the Russian Revolution and spent eight years in Paris before moving to Palestine in 1931. Like many of his generation, he viewed art as an instrument for furthering national ends. Hazaz's characters are often framed against the historic events that he himself experienced, including the Russian Revolution, the struggle for the state, the ingathering of exiles, and settlement of the land. The chapter reveals that Hazaz was in transition between the traditional rhetoric of his generation, which tended to the messianic, and the mundane realities of life in a Jewish state.Less
This chapter explores how Hebrew writers coped with Israel's establishment through an analysis of Haim Hazaz, one of the most celebrated writers of Modern Hebrew, who, born in Eastern Europe in 1898, experienced pogroms and the Russian Revolution and spent eight years in Paris before moving to Palestine in 1931. Like many of his generation, he viewed art as an instrument for furthering national ends. Hazaz's characters are often framed against the historic events that he himself experienced, including the Russian Revolution, the struggle for the state, the ingathering of exiles, and settlement of the land. The chapter reveals that Hazaz was in transition between the traditional rhetoric of his generation, which tended to the messianic, and the mundane realities of life in a Jewish state.
Alexis McCrossen
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226014869
- eISBN:
- 9780226015057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226015057.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter discusses how the public adapted to the use of synchronized public clocks in telling time. After the adoption of national standard time, Americans living in towns and cities began to ...
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This chapter discusses how the public adapted to the use of synchronized public clocks in telling time. After the adoption of national standard time, Americans living in towns and cities began to rely on public clocks for a sense of synchronicity, which was called the “perfect accord.” Public clocks not only inspired devotion among citizens, but also gave rise to suspicion. This suspicion was rooted in the incidents of public clocks being unsynchronized, resulting in confusion about which clock should be followed. Amidst the confusion, railroad clocks garnered more authority as they adopted standard time for the train schedules. This practice led citizens to move toward the modern time discipline.Less
This chapter discusses how the public adapted to the use of synchronized public clocks in telling time. After the adoption of national standard time, Americans living in towns and cities began to rely on public clocks for a sense of synchronicity, which was called the “perfect accord.” Public clocks not only inspired devotion among citizens, but also gave rise to suspicion. This suspicion was rooted in the incidents of public clocks being unsynchronized, resulting in confusion about which clock should be followed. Amidst the confusion, railroad clocks garnered more authority as they adopted standard time for the train schedules. This practice led citizens to move toward the modern time discipline.
Nick Wilson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199939930
- eISBN:
- 9780199369775
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199939930.003.0010
- Subject:
- Music, Performing Practice/Studies, History, Western
The title of this chapter alludes to the sense in which Early Music started out as a largely unwelcome visitor by the professional establishment;but over the years it has increasingly become an ...
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The title of this chapter alludes to the sense in which Early Music started out as a largely unwelcome visitor by the professional establishment;but over the years it has increasingly become an integral, even much-loved part of the classical music field. At issue is the ‘mainstreaming’ of Early Music. The chapter considers the extent to which Early Music has ceded ground to the classical music mainstream. A balance sheet of the early music movement is presented. This works through seven key areas where transformation has taken place: legitimacy; repertoire; training; recordings; authenticity; leadership; and integration. The chapter draws on survey evidence from the most comprehensive study of early music performers and instrument-makers (2003) so far carried out. After weighing up all the evidence the chapter concludes that there has been movement on both sides (i.e. symmetrical syncretism), but Early Music’s journey of research and experimentation is far from over.Less
The title of this chapter alludes to the sense in which Early Music started out as a largely unwelcome visitor by the professional establishment;but over the years it has increasingly become an integral, even much-loved part of the classical music field. At issue is the ‘mainstreaming’ of Early Music. The chapter considers the extent to which Early Music has ceded ground to the classical music mainstream. A balance sheet of the early music movement is presented. This works through seven key areas where transformation has taken place: legitimacy; repertoire; training; recordings; authenticity; leadership; and integration. The chapter draws on survey evidence from the most comprehensive study of early music performers and instrument-makers (2003) so far carried out. After weighing up all the evidence the chapter concludes that there has been movement on both sides (i.e. symmetrical syncretism), but Early Music’s journey of research and experimentation is far from over.
Jennifer O'Meara
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474420624
- eISBN:
- 9781474449564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420624.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines the relationship between dialogue and what is simultaneously shown on screen, in order to develop an understanding of verbal-visual style in contemporary indie cinema. In ...
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This chapter examines the relationship between dialogue and what is simultaneously shown on screen, in order to develop an understanding of verbal-visual style in contemporary indie cinema. In considering what makes certain combinations of words and images jarring or pleasurable for audiences, the chapter includes analysis of: textual speech; voice-over as a double-layered structure; and textual signposts. The chapter also examines words that are visualised, as with intertitles and text that is embedded in the mise-en-scene. It finds that the six writer-directors considered ‘cinematic verbalists’ can substitute verbal interest for visual interest, or for visual interest that depends on the verbal for its impact. The chapter charts the relationships between visual and verbal synchronicity, as well as between observational styles of viewing and audiences being positioned as eavesdroppers: when they must piece together verbal information.Less
This chapter examines the relationship between dialogue and what is simultaneously shown on screen, in order to develop an understanding of verbal-visual style in contemporary indie cinema. In considering what makes certain combinations of words and images jarring or pleasurable for audiences, the chapter includes analysis of: textual speech; voice-over as a double-layered structure; and textual signposts. The chapter also examines words that are visualised, as with intertitles and text that is embedded in the mise-en-scene. It finds that the six writer-directors considered ‘cinematic verbalists’ can substitute verbal interest for visual interest, or for visual interest that depends on the verbal for its impact. The chapter charts the relationships between visual and verbal synchronicity, as well as between observational styles of viewing and audiences being positioned as eavesdroppers: when they must piece together verbal information.
Gananath Obeyesekere
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231153621
- eISBN:
- 9780231527309
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231153621.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter focuses on Western dreaming from the early nineteenth century to our own times. It examines the somewhat discredited secularization thesis originally enunciated by Max Weber, who posited ...
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This chapter focuses on Western dreaming from the early nineteenth century to our own times. It examines the somewhat discredited secularization thesis originally enunciated by Max Weber, who posited the idea that, with the development of rationality in the West, there is a concomitant erosion of the worlds of enchantment, the magical garden cultivated by many a traditional society. It then discusses the “first topography” of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, especially the distinction he made between the dream as dreamt, or its manifest content, and the latent content, which reveals the various elements from the past that help to form the manifest dream; Jung's controversial idea of “synchronicity,” the theoretical bridge connecting dreams and oneiromancy; and Jung's psychosis during the period 1914 to 1916.Less
This chapter focuses on Western dreaming from the early nineteenth century to our own times. It examines the somewhat discredited secularization thesis originally enunciated by Max Weber, who posited the idea that, with the development of rationality in the West, there is a concomitant erosion of the worlds of enchantment, the magical garden cultivated by many a traditional society. It then discusses the “first topography” of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, especially the distinction he made between the dream as dreamt, or its manifest content, and the latent content, which reveals the various elements from the past that help to form the manifest dream; Jung's controversial idea of “synchronicity,” the theoretical bridge connecting dreams and oneiromancy; and Jung's psychosis during the period 1914 to 1916.
Martin Jay
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474407120
- eISBN:
- 9781474434874
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407120.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
In an influential essay of 1983, the anthropologist Clifford Geertz exhorted social scientists to blur genres and overcome the boundaries of disciplinary isolation. This essay undertakes an ...
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In an influential essay of 1983, the anthropologist Clifford Geertz exhorted social scientists to blur genres and overcome the boundaries of disciplinary isolation. This essay undertakes an examination of the ways in which literal visual blurring occurs – by focal discordances, the inability of the eye to register accelerated speed, or the intersection of two visual orders, as in the phenomenon of anamorphosis – and examines their implications for the ways in which disciplines can interact. Rather than implying seamless integration, the results suggest that unreconciled, albeit productive tensions can arise from the attempt to overcome boundaries in the name of interdisciplinary fusion. Different focal points or non-synchronous narratives, as well as the overlapping of different perspectival vantage points, resist the smoothing over of real contradictions through methodological harmonization or what Edward O. Wilson called ‘consilience’.”Less
In an influential essay of 1983, the anthropologist Clifford Geertz exhorted social scientists to blur genres and overcome the boundaries of disciplinary isolation. This essay undertakes an examination of the ways in which literal visual blurring occurs – by focal discordances, the inability of the eye to register accelerated speed, or the intersection of two visual orders, as in the phenomenon of anamorphosis – and examines their implications for the ways in which disciplines can interact. Rather than implying seamless integration, the results suggest that unreconciled, albeit productive tensions can arise from the attempt to overcome boundaries in the name of interdisciplinary fusion. Different focal points or non-synchronous narratives, as well as the overlapping of different perspectival vantage points, resist the smoothing over of real contradictions through methodological harmonization or what Edward O. Wilson called ‘consilience’.”
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226071527
- eISBN:
- 9780226071534
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226071534.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter, which analyzes the concept of synchronicity, or acausal meaningful coincidence, originally introduced by Carl Jung, shows that it is incorrect to claim that synchronicity is a principle ...
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This chapter, which analyzes the concept of synchronicity, or acausal meaningful coincidence, originally introduced by Carl Jung, shows that it is incorrect to claim that synchronicity is a principle in nature which organizes events into meaningful clusters. It proposes that, if genuinely nonrandom meaningful coincidences occur, this would be best explained in terms of a refined, extensive and potentially very intimidating form of large-scale psychokinesis.Less
This chapter, which analyzes the concept of synchronicity, or acausal meaningful coincidence, originally introduced by Carl Jung, shows that it is incorrect to claim that synchronicity is a principle in nature which organizes events into meaningful clusters. It proposes that, if genuinely nonrandom meaningful coincidences occur, this would be best explained in terms of a refined, extensive and potentially very intimidating form of large-scale psychokinesis.
Geoffrey Redmond and Tze-ki Hon
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199766819
- eISBN:
- 9780199396481
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766819.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion in the Ancient World
The French Jesuit missionary Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730) was the first Westerner to seriously engage with the Chinese Book of Changes. He was also the first to recognize the similarity of the hexagram ...
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The French Jesuit missionary Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730) was the first Westerner to seriously engage with the Chinese Book of Changes. He was also the first to recognize the similarity of the hexagram arrays of Shao Yong to the system of binary mathematics discovered by his friend, Gottfried Leibniz. Bouvet interpreted the Yijing in terms of “figurism,” the doctrine that some non-Christian religions foreshadowed the truths of Christianity. Recently the Yijing has been taken as prefiguring modern modes of thought such as depth psychology, the DNA double helix, quantum physics, and computer science. These have no real precedent in Chinese tradition. Of more substance is what has become the dominant contemporary paradigm for understanding the Yijing—that of Carl Jung who interpreted it in terms of the unconscious and his concept of “synchronicity.” During the 1960s the Yijing became a hippie and New Age classic, part of a movement to explore the spirituality of non-Western cultures. Esoteric arts, such as divination, attracted considerable interest among those who regarded scientific thinking as limiting. Since the appearance of a highly readable English translation—that of Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes (Princeton University Press, one volume, 2nd edition, 1961)—the Yijing has become a classic of world literature.Less
The French Jesuit missionary Joachim Bouvet (1656–1730) was the first Westerner to seriously engage with the Chinese Book of Changes. He was also the first to recognize the similarity of the hexagram arrays of Shao Yong to the system of binary mathematics discovered by his friend, Gottfried Leibniz. Bouvet interpreted the Yijing in terms of “figurism,” the doctrine that some non-Christian religions foreshadowed the truths of Christianity. Recently the Yijing has been taken as prefiguring modern modes of thought such as depth psychology, the DNA double helix, quantum physics, and computer science. These have no real precedent in Chinese tradition. Of more substance is what has become the dominant contemporary paradigm for understanding the Yijing—that of Carl Jung who interpreted it in terms of the unconscious and his concept of “synchronicity.” During the 1960s the Yijing became a hippie and New Age classic, part of a movement to explore the spirituality of non-Western cultures. Esoteric arts, such as divination, attracted considerable interest among those who regarded scientific thinking as limiting. Since the appearance of a highly readable English translation—that of Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes (Princeton University Press, one volume, 2nd edition, 1961)—the Yijing has become a classic of world literature.
Kiranmayi Indraganti
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199463565
- eISBN:
- 9780199086559
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199463565.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This book examines the ways in which the Indian film industry between 1945 and 1955 welcomed a series of shifts to include the female film song performers or playback singers in the process of film ...
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This book examines the ways in which the Indian film industry between 1945 and 1955 welcomed a series of shifts to include the female film song performers or playback singers in the process of film production. While playback singing itself received very little attention from scholars, much of whatever was written centred around Lata Mangeshkar. This book focuses on the work and lives of a few popular voices from south India who have not found their way into the academic and ‘official’ histories of Indian film. Their popularity has remained an orally circulating ‘fact’, limited in its reach, scope, and understanding. This book aims to fill that gap. One of the premises is that the practice of playback singing erupted in the field of cultural consumption following a complex social and cultural disavowal and erasure of ‘singing ladies’ from the public sphere. Early cinematic industries depended on the talent of the ‘public women’, though subjecting them to censure and scrutiny. Placing the playback singers of south India within the discourse of courtesan culture and the way their vocality was linked to the legacy of such culture, this history investigates the oral accounts of singers to provide an empathetic perspective on their film songs, personal lives, careers, and fluctuating stardom, while critically engaging with the frugal writings available on the practice, both in the press and official documents.Less
This book examines the ways in which the Indian film industry between 1945 and 1955 welcomed a series of shifts to include the female film song performers or playback singers in the process of film production. While playback singing itself received very little attention from scholars, much of whatever was written centred around Lata Mangeshkar. This book focuses on the work and lives of a few popular voices from south India who have not found their way into the academic and ‘official’ histories of Indian film. Their popularity has remained an orally circulating ‘fact’, limited in its reach, scope, and understanding. This book aims to fill that gap. One of the premises is that the practice of playback singing erupted in the field of cultural consumption following a complex social and cultural disavowal and erasure of ‘singing ladies’ from the public sphere. Early cinematic industries depended on the talent of the ‘public women’, though subjecting them to censure and scrutiny. Placing the playback singers of south India within the discourse of courtesan culture and the way their vocality was linked to the legacy of such culture, this history investigates the oral accounts of singers to provide an empathetic perspective on their film songs, personal lives, careers, and fluctuating stardom, while critically engaging with the frugal writings available on the practice, both in the press and official documents.
Holly Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190469894
- eISBN:
- 9780190469931
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190469894.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The Introduction situates the subsequent chapters within the wider discourses on music and the moving image, and on experimental film. It identifies several threads that run through the book, most of ...
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The Introduction situates the subsequent chapters within the wider discourses on music and the moving image, and on experimental film. It identifies several threads that run through the book, most of which concern the identification of a critical space that opens up between previously constructed binaries when audiovisuality is treated experimentally: between music and noise, active and passive consumption, popular and avant-garde practices and audiovisual synchronicity and dissonance. Despite the divergent practices of experimental film’s many histories, these threads enable the identification of persistent and common forms of sonic innovation.Less
The Introduction situates the subsequent chapters within the wider discourses on music and the moving image, and on experimental film. It identifies several threads that run through the book, most of which concern the identification of a critical space that opens up between previously constructed binaries when audiovisuality is treated experimentally: between music and noise, active and passive consumption, popular and avant-garde practices and audiovisual synchronicity and dissonance. Despite the divergent practices of experimental film’s many histories, these threads enable the identification of persistent and common forms of sonic innovation.
Holly Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190469894
- eISBN:
- 9780190469931
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190469894.003.0010
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Drawing on ideas of the Surrealist automatic and filmic détournement, artists working with found footage are able to construct new meanings and aesthetics by deconstructing completed audiovisual ...
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Drawing on ideas of the Surrealist automatic and filmic détournement, artists working with found footage are able to construct new meanings and aesthetics by deconstructing completed audiovisual texts. When original music is retained, or replaced by a new sonic collage, the disjointed sonic flow problematises and enhances the collage aesthetic by extending the possibilities for juxtaposition not only in a linear fashion, but also in a vertical, audiovisual direction, a process that highlights the materiality and artifice of the new combination of images. Here, pre-used footage can be collaged in such a way as to bring to the fore the conventions of mainstream cinematography and the languages of mass media. The result is not audiovisual synchronicity, but rather collision, or dissonance. Through the close reading of several found-footage films, this chapter traces the evolution of an activated form of audiovisual consumption that arises from a process of alienated listening.Less
Drawing on ideas of the Surrealist automatic and filmic détournement, artists working with found footage are able to construct new meanings and aesthetics by deconstructing completed audiovisual texts. When original music is retained, or replaced by a new sonic collage, the disjointed sonic flow problematises and enhances the collage aesthetic by extending the possibilities for juxtaposition not only in a linear fashion, but also in a vertical, audiovisual direction, a process that highlights the materiality and artifice of the new combination of images. Here, pre-used footage can be collaged in such a way as to bring to the fore the conventions of mainstream cinematography and the languages of mass media. The result is not audiovisual synchronicity, but rather collision, or dissonance. Through the close reading of several found-footage films, this chapter traces the evolution of an activated form of audiovisual consumption that arises from a process of alienated listening.
G. Barr, R. Devenish, R. Walczak, and T. Weidberg
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198748557
- eISBN:
- 9780191811203
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198748557.003.0003
- Subject:
- Physics, Particle Physics / Astrophysics / Cosmology
This chapter gives an introduction to accelerator physics, concentrating on synchrotrons. Accelerating cavities for standing and travelling radiofrequency (RF) waves, the synchronicity requirement, ...
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This chapter gives an introduction to accelerator physics, concentrating on synchrotrons. Accelerating cavities for standing and travelling radiofrequency (RF) waves, the synchronicity requirement, and the beam bunch structure are explained, as well as the energy loss due to synchrotron radiation. The beam emittance and the amplitude β function are introduced to describe the ensemble of beam trajectories. Dipole and quadrupole magnets, which act as the most important elements of so-called beam optics, are described. The LHC superconducting dipole magnets are described in some detail as an example. Colliders and fixed-target accelerators are then compared in terms of the centre-of-mass energy and the luminosity. As an important example, antiproton–proton colliders, including the use of stochastic cooling, are described and the chapter concludes with the outlook for accelerator developments in future decades.Less
This chapter gives an introduction to accelerator physics, concentrating on synchrotrons. Accelerating cavities for standing and travelling radiofrequency (RF) waves, the synchronicity requirement, and the beam bunch structure are explained, as well as the energy loss due to synchrotron radiation. The beam emittance and the amplitude β function are introduced to describe the ensemble of beam trajectories. Dipole and quadrupole magnets, which act as the most important elements of so-called beam optics, are described. The LHC superconducting dipole magnets are described in some detail as an example. Colliders and fixed-target accelerators are then compared in terms of the centre-of-mass energy and the luminosity. As an important example, antiproton–proton colliders, including the use of stochastic cooling, are described and the chapter concludes with the outlook for accelerator developments in future decades.