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Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy After the New Media

Author : David Rodowick
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822327226
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy After the New Media written by David Rodowick and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of “the figural” to a variety of philosophical and aesthetic issues. Inspired by the aesthetic philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, the figural defines a semiotic regime where the distinction between linguistic and plastic representation breaks down. This opposition, which has been the philosophical foundation of aesthetics since the eighteenth century, has been explicitly challenged by the new electronic, televisual, and digital media. Rodowick—one of the foremost film theorists writing today—contemplates this challenge, describing and critiquing the new regime of signs and new ways of thinking that such media have inaugurated. To fully comprehend the emergence of the figural requires a genealogical critique of the aesthetic, Rodowick claims. Seeking allies in this effort to deconstruct the opposition of word and image and to create new concepts for comprehending the figural, he journeys through a range of philosophical writings: Thierry Kuntzel and Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier on film theory; Jacques Derrida on the deconstruction of the aesthetic; Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin on the historical image as a utopian force in photography and film; and Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault on the emergence of the figural as both a semiotic regime and a new stratagem of power coincident with the appearance of digital phenomena and of societies of control. Scholars of philosophy, film theory, cultural criticism, new media, and art history will be interested in the original and sophisticated insights found in this book.

Figural Space

Author : William D. Melaney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538147866
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Figural Space written by William D. Melaney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book begins with Julia Kristeva’s attempts to relate Hegelian thought to a psychoanalytically informed conception of semiotics that was first explored in her influential study, The Revolution of Poetic Language, and then modified in later books that develop semiotics in new directions. Kristeva’s agreements and disagreement with Hegel are important to the book’s argument, which ultimately defends Hegel against familiar, poststructuralist detractions. However, the book’s conceptual argument requires a historical exposition, with chapters devoted to literary figures ranging from Spenser to Ishiguro. One of the purposes of the book is to demonstrate that Hegel’s contribution to modern thought is at least partially exhibited in the history of literature, which also corroborates some of the deeper insights of psychoanalysis.

Strategies of Orientation in Environmental Spaces

Author : Tobias Meilinger
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832519971
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Strategies of Orientation in Environmental Spaces written by Tobias Meilinger and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Figural Philology

Author : Adi Efal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474254020
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Figural Philology written by Adi Efal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives, and calls attention to several of aspects that were until now less accentuated in his intellectual reception. Insisting on the importance of iconology as a method for art history and the humanities in general, it shows how examining this promotes a cooperation between the history of art and the history of philosophy. It discusses whether Panofsky's method could be of use for general questions in the epistemology of the historical sciences that examine human works. Figural Philology also shows that Panofsky shares affinities with twentieth-century romance philology. A reading of Panofsky's work alongside the philological enterprise of Erich Auerbach and several other authors demonstrates that a proper appropriation of the philological impulse can provide a way out of the methodological antimony still hanging between hyper-formalist and hyper-theoretical approaches to the history of art.

Finding Lost Space

Author : Roger Trancik
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471289562
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book Finding Lost Space written by Roger Trancik and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of "lost space," or the inadequate use of space, afflicts most urban centers today. The automobile, the effects of the Modern Movement in architectural design, urban-renewal and zoning policies, the dominance of private over public interests, as well as changes in land use in the inner city have resulted in the loss of values and meanings that were traditionally associated with urban open space. This text offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the crisis of the contemporary city and the means by which this crisis can be addressed. Finding Lost Space traces leading urban spatial design theories that have emerged over the past eighty years: the principles of Sitte and Howard; the impact of and reactions to the Functionalist movement; and designs developed by Team 10, Robert Venturi, the Krier brothers, and Fumihiko Maki, to name a few. In addition to discussions of historic precedents, contemporary approaches to urban spatial design are explored. Detailed case studies of Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; Goteborg, Sweden; and the Byker area of Newcastle, England demonstrate the need for an integrated design approach--one that considers figure-ground, linkage, and place theories of urban spatial design. These theories and their individual strengths and weaknesses are defined and applied in the case studies, demonstrating how well they operate in different contexts. This text will prove invaluable for students and professionals in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning. Finding Lost Space is going to be a primary text for the urban designers of the next generation. It is the first book in the field to absorb the lessons of the postmodern reaction, including the work of the Krier brothers and many others, and to integrate these into a coherent theory and set of design guidelines. Without polemics, Roger Trancik addresses the biggest issue in architecture and urbanism today: how can we regain in our shattered cities a public realm that is made of firmly shaped, coherently linked, humanly meaningful urban spaces? Robert Campbell, AIA Architect and architecture critic Boston Globe

Human Spatial Memory

Author : Gary L. Allen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135635137
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Human Spatial Memory written by Gary L. Allen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in Human Spatial Memory: Remembering Where present a fascinating picture of an everyday aspect of mental life that is as intriguing to people outside of academia as it is to scientists studying human cognition and behavior. The questions are as old as the study of mind itself: How do we remember where objects are located? How do we remember where we are in relation to other places? What is the origin and developmental course of spatial memory? What neural structures are involved in remembering where? How do we come to understand scaled-down versions of places as symbolic representations of actual places? Although the questions are old, some of the answers-in-progress are new, thanks to some innovative theorizing, solid experimental work, and revealing applications of new technologies, such as virtual environments and brain imaging techniques. This volume includes a variety of theoretical, empirical, and methodological advances that invite readers to make their own novel connections between theory and research. Scholars who study spatial cognition can benefit from examining the latest from well-established experts, as well as milestone contributions from early-career researchers. This combination provides the reader with a sense of past, present, and future in terms of spatial memory research. Just as important, however, is the value of the volume as a touchstone resource for researchers who study perception, memory, or cognition but who are not concerned primarily with the spatial domain. All readers may find the fact that this volume violates the trend toward an ever-narrowing specialization refreshing. Chapters from cognitive psychologists are alongside chapters by developmentalists and neuroscientists; results from field studies are just pages away from those based on fMRI during observation of virtual displays. Thus, the book invites integrative examination across disciplines, research areas, and methodological approaches.

Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day

Author : Jan Gadeyne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317081692
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day written by Jan Gadeyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome. Scholars specialized in different historical periods contributed chapters, in order to find common themes which weave their way through one of the most complex urban histories of western civilization. Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary) the volume opens with the issue of how public space was defined in classical Roman law and how ancient city managers organized the maintenance of these spaces, before moving on to explore how this legacy was redefined and reinterpreted during the Middle Ages. The third group of essays examines how the imposition of papal order on feuding families during the Renaissance helped introduce a new urban plan which could satisfy both functional and symbolic needs. The fourth section shows how modern Rome continued to express strong interest in the control and management of public space, the definition of which was necessarily selective in this vastly extensive city. The collection ends with an essay on the contemporary debate for revitalizing Rome's eastern periphery. Through this long-term chronological approach the volume offers a truly unique insight into the urban development of one of Europe’s most important cities, and concludes with a discuss of the challenges public space faces today after having served for so many centuries as a driving force in urban history.

The Modernist City

Author : James Holston
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226349799
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Modernist City written by James Holston and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989-09-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The utopian design and organization of Brasília—the modernist new capital of Brazil—were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises. Integrating anthropology with methods of analysis from architecture, urban studies, social history, and critical theory, Holston presents a critique of modernism based on a powerfully innovative ethnography of the city.

Textual Spaces

Author : Andrew Rothwell
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051831504
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Textual Spaces written by Andrew Rothwell and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cognitive Discourse Analysis

Author : Thora Tenbrink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108529925
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Discourse Analysis written by Thora Tenbrink and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing language data systematically and looking closely at how people formulate their thoughts can reveal astonishing insights about the human mind. Without presupposing specific subject knowledge, this book gently introduces its readers to theoretical insights as well as practical principles for systematic linguistic analysis from a cognitive perspective. Drawing on Thora Tenbrink's twenty years' experience in both linguistics and cognitive science, this book offers theoretical guidance and practical advice for doing cognitive discourse analysis. It covers areas of analysis as diverse as attention, perspective, granularity, certainty, inference, transformation, communication, and cognitive strategies, using inspiring examples from many different projects. Simple techniques and tools are used to allow readers new to the subject easy ways to apply the methods, without the need for complex technologies, whilst the cross-disciplinary approach can be applied to a diverse range of research purposes and contexts in which language and thought play a role.

Maps for the Future

Author : László Zentai
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642195229
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Maps for the Future written by László Zentai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The joint symposium of ICA commissions is always one of the most important event for cartographers. This joint seminar in Orleans was connected to 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris. Works were presented by members of the commissions on: Cartography and Children, Cartographic Education and Training, Maps and the Internet, Planetary Cartography, Early Warning and Disaster Management.

Walkable City

Author : Jeff Speck
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865477728
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Walkable City written by Jeff Speck and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a plan for American cities that focuses on making downtowns walkable and less attractive to drivers through smart growth and sustainable design

From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language

Author : Michel Denis
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1848720491
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book From Mental Imagery to Spatial Cognition and Language written by Michel Denis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing the state-of-the-art research in the field of imagery, visuo-spatial memory, spatial representation and language, with special emphasis on their interactions, the volume addresses the issues in depth, presenting new evidence through contributions from both behavioural and neuroimaging studies.

Spatial Cognition V

Author : Thomas Barkowsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540756663
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Cognition V written by Thomas Barkowsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Spatial Cognition 2006. It covers spatial reasoning, human-robot interaction, visuo-spatial reasoning and spatial dynamics, spatial concepts, human memory, mental reasoning and assistance, spatial concepts, human memory and mental reasoning, navigation, wayfinding and route instructions as well as linguistic and social issues in spatial knowledge processing.

From Geometry to Behavior

Author : Hanspeter A. Mallot
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547112
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book From Geometry to Behavior written by Hanspeter A. Mallot and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the mechanisms and evolution of spatial cognition, integrating evidence from psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and computational geometry. Understanding how we deal with space requires input from many fields, including ethology, neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, geography, and spatial information theory. In From Geometry to Behavior, cognitive neuroscientist Hanspeter A. Mallot provides an overview of the basic mechanisms of spatial behavior in animals and humans, showing how they combine to support higher-level performance. Mallot explores the biological mechanisms of dealing with space, from the perception of visual space to the constructions of large space representations: that is, the cognitive map. The volume is also relevant to the epistemology of spatial knowledge in the philosophy of mind. Mallot aims to establish spatial cognition as a scientific field in its own right. His general approach is psychophysical, in that it focuses on quantitative descriptions of behavioral performance and their real-world determinants, thus connecting to the work of theorists in computational neuroscience, robotics, and computational geometry. After an overview of scientific thinking about space, Mallot covers spatial behavior and its underlying mechanisms in the order of increasing memory involvement. He describes the cognitive processes that underlie advanced spatial behaviors such as directed search, wayfinding, spatial planning, spatial reasoning, object building and manipulation, and communication about space. These mechanisms are part of the larger cognitive apparatus that also serves visual and object cognition; understanding events, actions, and causality; and social cognition, which includes language. Of all of these cognitive domains, spatial cognition most likely occurred first in the course of evolution and is the most widespread throughout the animal kingdom.

Motion Encoding in Language and Space

Author : Mila Vulchanova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199661219
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Motion Encoding in Language and Space written by Mila Vulchanova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together researchers in linguistics, computer science, psychology and cognitive science to investigate how motion is encoded in language. Part I considers the parameters of the field, while part II looks at the way in which spatial scale or granularity plays a role in the encoding of motion in language.

Figural Realism

Author : Hayden White
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801865244
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Figural Realism written by Hayden White and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-12-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography.--James M. Mellard, Northern Illinois University "The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism"