Towards Cultural Echology

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Emily Dickinson\u27s Echology: A Listener\u27s Reconceptualization of Citizenship, Consciousness, and the World

What I call Emily Dickinson’s “echology” combines the terms “echo” and “ecology” to understand how Dickinson’s work echoes – and is an echo – of the world and how, consequently, her work resides not just in her handwritten documents and their publication in various editions but in an ecology that’s tied to the earth that hosted her, the air that faced her, and the sea kept her listening. To assess the critical value of Dickinson’s echology, this dissertation begins by apprehending how the story of the echo is a story about sound masking, specifically about how the echo that is an acoustic phenomenon has been masked by the Echo that is the nymph in mythology, which parallels how the echo that is a responsive interaction has been masked by the Echo that is a repeatable broadcast in and beyond mythology. With the masking of the echo by the Echo begun in mythology has come the masking of being by Being in philosophy and the masking of voice by Voice in lyric poetry, and while all these maskings have upheld the role of the speaking subject in western culture, they have also fashioned the world into a reflector of humans. The enduring popularity of Dickinson’s work is an occasion to go back to the story of the echo and approach it through perception rather than narrative because perception in her echology can, I argue, turn the inevitable path from Echo to Being to Voice into the ethical path from voice to being to echo. In chapter one, the democratic Voice of national citizenship unmasks a democratizing voice of earthen citizenship, and so citizenship itself is reconceptualized. In chapter two, the cognitive Being of sovereign consciousness unmasks the embodied being of shared consciousness, and so consciousness itself is reconceptualized. And in chapter three, the Echo of the world speakable through human nature unmasks the echo of the world speakable at the expense of human nature, and so the world itself is reconceptualized. Contextualized by the theories of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida and in conversation with nineteenth-century pieces by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, John Tyndall, Edward Hitchcock, and Asa Gray, these un-maskings in Dickinson’s echology esteem the role of the listening subject over the speaking subject in western culture even as they refashion humans as reflectors of the world and not vice versa. Dickinson’s echology is an opportunity to read her work and listen to the range of human, nonhuman, and nonliving subjects with whom she shared a vast sonic space – one rendered as an acoustic state of radical belonging that yet remains open to everything outside of it, especially the mystery of connection without belonging. While the chapters remain focused on the reconceptualization of citizenship, consciousness, and the world, the conclusion considers how the elements of earth, air, and sea make these reconceptualizations possible and bring our attention to fire as the element in human hands and in the lyric poem as a product not just of this fire but of the balance sought between fire, earth, air, and sea

Overlapping: a R package for Estimating Overlapping in Empirical Distributions

overlapping is an R package for estimating the overlapping area of two or more kernel density estimations from empirical data. The main idea of the package is to offer an easy way to quantify the similarity (or the difference) between two or more empirical distributions

News By Association: Designing a Way Out of the Echo Chamber

This thesis is an investigation of the echo chamber phenomenon in news consumption on social networking sites. It incorporates elements of actor-network theory, Bruno Latour’s ‘matters-of-concern’ and Participatory Design methodology to identify and unpack contributing factors to the formation of echo chambers. As part of the research, a web tool called Echology was conceptualized during a series of workshops with news industry professionals. This paper describes the making of Echology, from ideation to actualization. The goal of this document and its accompanying design piece is to challenge readers to think critically about the forces at play in an online news experience

On gravitational-wave echoes from neutron-star binary coalescences

A tentative detection of gravitational-wave echoes in the post-merger signal of GW170817 has been recently claimed at $4.2\sigma$ significance level. It has been speculated that the signal might provide evidence for near-horizon quantum structures in the remnant exotic object. We point out that if the remnant object is an ultracompact neutron star, echoes are expected for objects with radius only slightly smaller than that of an ordinary neutron star. The reported echoes at ~72 Hz are compatible with a toy model of incompressible star with mass approximately $M\in(2,3) M_\odot$ and radius close to the Buchdahl limit, R~9GM/(4c^2). If confirmed, low-frequency gravitational-wave echoes would be in tension with all current neutron-star models and would have dramatic implications for nuclear physics and gravity.Comment: v3: 4 pages, 2 figures, extended discussion, results unchanged. Version accepted in CQG Letter

Skills for Children's Liberation: An Applied Sociomusicology for Echologists

Ethnomusicology in Educatio

Лексико-семантичне поле на позначення екології

У цій статті йдеться про особливості центрального структуруеання лексико-семантичного поля "екологія". (This article deals with central structuring of lexico-semantic concept "echology".