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Infinite families of finite string rewriting systems and their confluence
International audienceWe introduce parameterized rewrite systems for describing infinite families of finite string rewrite systems depending upon non-negative integer pa- rameters, as well as ways to reason uniformly over these families. Unlike previous work, the vocabulary on which a rewrite system in the family is built depends it- self on the integer parameters. Rewriting makes use of a toolkit for parameterized words which allows to describe a rewrite step made independently by all systems in an infinite family by a single, effective parameterized rewrite step. The main result is a confluence test for all systems in a family at once, based on a critical pair lemma classically based on computing finitely many overlaps between left- hand sides of parameterized rules and then checking for their joinability (which decidability is not garanteed)
Mosaics of the self : Kantian objects and female subjects in the work of Claire Goll and Paula Ludwig
In this thesis, I use poetic texts by two German women Expressionist authors,
Claire Gull and Paula Ludwig, to examine questions of selfhood, aesthetics
and sexual difference within a Kantian philosophical frame.
The thesis is structured in two parts. In Part One, I situate the project via a
critical examination of Lyotard's reworking of the Kanlian sublime. I argue
that Lyotard closes down the gaps within Kant's system that feminist
philosophy could usefully exploit and explore. I then position German
Expressionism as an alternative mode of post-Kantianism. I argue that
although the male Expressionist poets break down the Kantian subject-object
distinction, they continue to position woman as the "other".
There follows a brief bridging section, in which I outline work by some of the
key women Expressionists, and argue that the theoretical frameworks used in
Expressionist scholarship are inherently gendered.
In Part Two of the thesis, I explore texts by both Go!! and Ludwig in detail. I
argue that whilst the male Expressionists are concerned with dissolving male
subjecthood, these writers can be read as subverting Kantian space-time to
produce alternative modes of female selfhood and of the sublime.
In chapter 4,! examine Goll's disruptive exploration of a mode of embodied
selfhood generated through productive play and movements of relationality.
Chapters 5 and 6 extend the theme of relationally generated selfhood by
tracing the subversive use of neoplatonic and Orphic elements in a short story
by Goll. In chapter 7, I show how Ludwig radically reconfigures the limits of\ud
both body and self to produce identities no longer constructed via
oppositional boundaries in the manner of the Kantian subject. I conclude by
arguing that the work of these authors provides feminist philosophy with
productive models for rethinking immanent transcendence and relationally
generated selfhood which can incorporate both difference and change
Enacting Enaction-Enaction Enacted: Experiments With and Through Enactive Ontologies
Over the last three decades the enactive approach to life, mind and nature has exerted an impressive amount of influence across a broad range of disciplines and varied research topics. At the core of the enactive approach is a thorough rejection of a number of modernist ideals and tenets; from anthropocentrism, determinism and reductionism to a host of deeply entrenched dualisms found across academia and beyond. This work brings this rejection of certain modernist tenets â qua âenactive matters of concernâ â into dialogue with Bruno Latourâs analysis of modernity. This is done primarily as a means to explore, to think-with and through, how and where certain enactive theorists not only reject these modernist tenets but also often reproduce them. Drawing from work in science and technology studies (STS), feminist science studies and anthropology, this work then attempts to âbring to lightâ the different contrasting worlds enacted by certain enactive theorists. It explores how, in and through the development of âautopoietic enactivismâ, these contrasting worlds are enacted in relation to key aspects of modernist thought and practice
A Shine of Truth in the "universal delusional context of reification" (Theodor W. Adorno)
âA Shine of Truth in the âuniversal delusional context of reificationâ (Theodor W. Adorno)â comprend sept chapitres, un prologue et un Ă©pilogue. Chaque partie se construit Ă deux niveaux : (1) Ă partir des liens qui se tissent entre les phrases contiguĂ«s ; et (2) Ă partir des liens qui se tissent entre les phrases non contiguĂ«s. Les incipit des paragraphes forment lâargument principal de la thĂšse. Le sujet de la thĂšse, Schein (apparence, illusion, clartĂ©) est abordĂ© de maniĂšre non formaliste, câest Ă dire, de maniĂšre que la forme donne dâelle-mĂȘme une idĂ©e de la chose : illusion comme contradiction imposĂ©e. Bien que le sujet de la thĂšse soit lâillusion, son but est la vĂ©ritĂ©. Le Chapitre I prĂ©sente une dialectique de perspectives (celles de Marx, de LukĂĄcs, de Hegel, de Horkheimer et d'Adorno) pour arriver Ă un critĂšre de vĂ©ritĂ©, compte tenu du contexte dâaveuglement universel de la rĂ©ification ; câest la dĂ©termination de la dissolution de lâapparence. Le Chapitre II prĂ©sente le concept dâapparence esthĂ©tiqueâune apparence rĂ©versible qui sâoppose Ă lâapparence sociale gĂ©nĂ©rĂ©e par lâindustrie de la culture. Le Chapitre III cherche Ă savoir si la vĂ©ritĂ© en philosophie et la vĂ©ritĂ© en art sont deux genres distincts de vĂ©ritĂ©s. Le Chapitre IV dĂ©termine si lâappel Ă la vĂ©ritĂ© comme immĂ©diatetĂ© de lâexpression, fait par le mouvement expressionniste du 20e siĂšcle, est nouveau, jugĂ© Ă lâaune dâun important antĂ©cĂ©dent Ă lâexpressionisme musical : « Der Dichter spricht » de Robert Schumann. Le Chapitre V se penche sur la question Ă savoir si le montage inorganique est plus avancĂ© que lâexpressionisme. Le Chapitre VI reprend lĂ oĂč Peter BĂŒrger clĂŽt son essai Theorie de lâavant-garde : ce chapitre cherche Ă savoir Ă quel point lâoeuvre dâart aprĂšs le Dada et le SurrĂ©alisme correspond au modĂšle hĂ©gĂ©lien de la « prose ». Le Chapitre VII soutient que Dichterliebe, op. 48, (1840), est une oeuvre dâart vraie. Trois conclusions rĂ©sultent de cette analyse musicale dĂ©taillĂ©e : (1) en exploitant, dans certains passages, une ambigĂŒitĂ© dans les rĂšgles de lâharmonie qui fait en sorte tous les douze tons sont admis dans lâharmonie, lâOpus 48 anticipe sur Schoenbergâtout en restant une musique tonale ; (2) lâOpus 48, no 1 cache une tonalitĂ© secrĂšte : Ă l'oeil, sa tonalitĂ© est soit la majeur, soit fa-diĂšse mineur, mais une nouvelle analyse dans la napolitaine de do-diĂšse majeur est proposĂ©e ici ; (3) une modulation passagĂšre Ă la napolitaine dans lâOpus 48, no 12 contient lâautre « moitiĂ© » de la cadence interrompue Ă la fin de lâOpus 48, no 1. ConsidĂ©rĂ©s Ă la lumiĂšre de la sociĂ©tĂ© fausse, lâAllemagne des annĂ©es 1930, ces trois aspects anti-organiques tĂ©moignent dâune conscience avancĂ©e. La seule praxis de vie quâapporte lâart, selon Adorno, est la remĂ©moration. Mais lâeffet social ultime de garder la souffrance vĂ©cue en souvenir est non nĂ©gligeable : lâĂ©mancipation universelle.âA Shine of Truth in the âuniversal delusional context of reificationâ (Theodor W. Adorno)â defends Adornoâs aesthetics as a theory of advanced, or avant-garde, artworks. Its seven chapters show that aesthetic experience implies liberation from illusion (Schein). Chapter I engages a dialectic of viewpoints to explain how different dialectical thinkers (Marx, LukĂĄcs, Hegel, Horkheimer, Adorno) have contributed to a criterion of truth adequate to todayâs total delusional context of reificationâdeterminate negation of illusion. Chapter II introduces the concept of artistic aesthetic illusionâa reversible illusion opposed to the social illusions of mechanical musical reproduction and of the culture industry. Chapter III examines the question of whether truth in philosophy is a different kind of truth than truth in art. Chapter IV considers whether truth in twentieth-century Expressionism is a new truth based on immediate expression, in light of an important precedent for Expressionism in Robert Schumannâs âDer Dichter spricht.â Chapter V determines whether inorganic montage is more advanced than Expressionism. Chapter VI takes up a parting suggestion of Peter BĂŒrger: to treat artworks after Dada and Surrealism on the model of âproseâ in Hegelâs aesthetics. Chapter VII pursues the idea that Dichterliebe, op. 48, (1840) by Robert Schumann is a true artwork. Three results emerge from this close musical analysis: (1) exploiting, on occasion, an ambiguity in the rules for figuration that permits all twelve tones in the harmony, Schumann anticipates Schoenberg; (2) Op. 48, No. 1 is in a hidden key: to all appearances, its key is either A major or F-sharp minor, but its secret key is the Neapolitan region applied to C-sharp major; (3) the other âhalfâ of the cadence with which Op. 48, No. 1 breaks off suddenly may be found in a brief applied-Neapolitan passage in No. 12. The thesis argued is that the antiorganicity in such a work is advanced with regard to the false reality of 1930s Germany and the place of organicity therein. According to Adorno, the only life-praxis afforded by art is remembrance. But the social effect of remembering social suffering is considerable when the Here-and-Now is its own justification