Deleuze’o ir Guattari jutimo logika šiuolaikinio meno kontekste

Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of art (the logic of sensation) has been interpreted in the context of the opposition between modernism and contemporary art, and then it is either attributed only to modernism, which gives priority to the aesthetic dimension of art, or it is argued that we must see its potential to create “new connections.” These opposing views are expressed by Stephen Zepke and Simon O’Sullivan. However, Deleuze and Guattari’s artistic sensation is not a sensory perception, it is the main concept of their logic of sensation, encompassing both the sensory and the conceptual-virtual dimensions. In the article, I seek to demonstrate that Deleuze and Guattari’s artistic sensation, encompassing both of these dimensions, relates to the general context of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and resonates with the aesthetic and semantic dimensions of contemporary art projects. Discussing Thomas Feuerstein’s installation Prometheus Delivered I demonstrate in what ways the notion of the logic of sensation expands the field of the interpretation of this work of art.Deleuze’o ir Guattari meno samprata (jutimo logika) atsiduria priešpriešos modernizmas versus šiuolaikinis menas kontekste ir tada ji arba priskiriama tik modernizmui, teikiančiam pirmenybę estetinei plotmei, arba teigiama, kad turime įžvelgti jos potencialumą kurti „naujas jungtis“. Šias priešingas pozicijas išreiškia Stephenas Zepke ir Simonas O’Sullivanas. Tačiau Deleuze’o ir Guattari jutimas nėra estetinė percepcija, jis yra pagrindinis jutimo logikos konceptas, apimantis ir juslinę, ir konceptualią-virtualią plotmes. Straipsnyje siekiu parodyti, kad Deleuze’o ir Guattari jutimas, apimantis abi minėtas plotmes, susisieja su bendru Deleuze’o ir Guattari filosofijos kontekstu ir rezonuoja su šiuolaikinių meninių projektų estetine ir prasmine plotmėmis. Analizuodama Thomo Feuersteino instaliaciją Prometheus Delivered parodau, kaip Deleuze’o ir Guattari meninio jutimo samprata išplečia šio kūrinio interpretacijos lauką

FEATURES OF THE STRUCTURE OF LATGALIAN ANIMAL ANECDOTES IN THE CONTEXT OF ANIMAL EPICS

The objective of the paper is to reveal the main structural features of Latgalian animal anecdotes in the context of animal epics. According to the fundamental and universal laws of folklore it can hypothetically be assumed that Latgalian animal anecdotes are an ethnic version of international zoomorphic anecdotes. When analyzing the structure of the zoomorphic anecdotes, it is essential to consider them in the context of the whole animal epic, which allows to acknowledge typological similarities and coherence in the creation of the animal images and the most typical motives. A comparative analysis illustrates that the structural features of both Latgalian and Latvian zoomorphic anecdotes are vitally associated with the whole context of animal epics, and especially with fairy tales. Some of the functions of fairy tales, as outlined by the Russian scientist V. Propp, band together, thereby forming the most typical motives of zoomorphic anecdotes, which can be found in the folklore and the literary traditions of different nations. Therefore it is possible to conclude that the Latgalian animal anecdotes preserve all those structural features of the zoomorphic anecdotes which are common for animal anecdotes in general, irrespective of the area where an anecdote is told, the nationality of a narrator or the topic. A structural analysis of the anecdotes shows the manifestation of regularities of the genre of anecdotes and its structural features, as well as a mutual interaction of the peculiarities of composition in the context of animal epics in general. A fundamental analysis of the structure of an anecdote implies identifying a motive, whose successful scientific interpretation reveals the interconnection of the structure of the fairy tales and the anecdotes. The understanding of a motive is based on the dichotomic comprehension as practiced in folklore studies, whose founder – the American folklorist A. Dandes – based it on the theory of fairy tales functions as elaborated by the Russian folklorist V. Propp. According to A. Dandes’ theory, the understanding of a motive in narrative folklore virtually merges with the understanding of the function in the morphology of fairy tales, which allows the comparison of any motive in an anecdote with the corresponding function in a fairy tale. V. Propp distinguishes 31 functions in fairy tales: eight of them have to do with the introduction (set off, prohibition, violation of the prohibition, deception, revelation of a secret, telling a secret, help, sabotage), three have to do with the nodus (mediation, initiation of counteraction, sending away or reproach), eleven have to do with the main part of the message (the first function of the sender, the hero’s response, acquisition of a magical asset, a movement of the hero, a fight, a distinctive action of a hero, victory, prevention of a shortfall, return, chase, rescue), and finally, the last nine functions (the return fails to be recognized, grudge of a false hero, a difficult task, its solution, exposure, transfiguration, punishment, wedding, reign) (Пропп 1998). Naturally, due to their compact structure, anecdotes cannot include all the functions mentioned by V. Propp. However, when banding together, several of the most typical motives of the Latgalian zoomorphic anecdotes become dominant (for example, motives of competition, truth, seeming departure, etc.), which can be found also in fairy tales about animals and other genres of animal epics. In these, every motive can be identified not on its own, but in inseparable connection with a particular message, because one motive can have different roles within different ideas. Besides, several types of artistic ideas can be distinguished in animal anecdotes as models of various life situations. Laconism in an anecdote often depends on the inclusion of a narrated element in it. Therefore, dialogues, monologues and narrated texts carry a very important meaning in an anecdote. These brilliantly reveal the most characteristic peculiarities of the genre – a short, concentrated dialogue, monologue or message elaborated to the minimum reveals personal characteristics and social realias attributed to the animals, which in reality characterize people and their mutual relations. Whereas a fairy tale’s plot contains more elaborated elements, anecdotes consist of separate compositional elements (only dialogue or monologue, or any expressive figure of repetition, etc.). Also, whereas in fairy tales the number of the plot elements is mainly constant, in the Latgalian animal anecdotes they can be variable and incomplete. As far as the compositional peculiarities of anecdotes are concerned, we can also talk about elements of verbal and nonverbal communication, which in particular cases can become a prerequisite for the creation of a comic pathos. A particular part assigns the following structure to the compositional models of the Latgalian and Latvian animal anecdotes: - components of fairy tale motives, i.e. images, compositional stages, as well as types of texts and models included into the motives, - models of structures of the anecdotes – combinations of message elements and positions of verbal and nonverbal communication. Taking into consideration that the Latgalian animal anecdotes in terms of an understanding of the motives and the organization of the structural elements show little or no difference from the Latvian anecdotes – their structure is virtually identical to the Latvian zoomorphic anecdotes – it is safe to consider the Latgalian animal anecdotes as an ethnic version of international zoomorphic anecdotes

The Adventures of Hlapić in Burgenland Croatian

The paper presents the results of a digital comparative text analysis of the Croatian original and the Burgenland editions of a children’s classic performed in combination with research methods of Translation Studies. The Croatian children’s novel of 1913, Čudnovate zgode šegrta Hlapića [The Strange Adventures of Hlapić the Apprentice] by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938), appeared in Burgenland Croatian in 1960 and again, with minor alterations, in 2000. Burgenland Croatian is the language of the Croatian minority predominantly positioned in Austria, considered to be a regional variant of Croatian. These two languages are similar, but they still differ in structural and semantic elements as they have been separately developing since the 15th century. The similarities allowed for a digital comparative text analysis of the linguistic aspects of source and target texts, including their linguistic complexity. The results of the digital analysis demonstrate the applicability of digital linguistics methodology in analyzing translated and rewritten literary texts when source and target language idioms are similar, especially in determining the stylistic differences between source and target texts. The results of the analysis of culture-specific items rendered in two target texts, as compared to the original, indicate there exist not many differences on the language text levels between the analyzed source and target texts, yet some discrepancies between the two editions of the translation into the Burgenland Croatian have been detected, and thus explained in the historical and cultural context of their appearance

The Structure and Evolution of Non-canonical Coiled coils

Coiled coils are ubiquitous protein structural elements which support a wide range of biological functions. They can serve as molecular spacers, oligomerization motifs, mechanical levers in membrane fusion, components of cytoskeleton as well as facilitate ion transport and signal transduction. Canonical coiled coils are regular, left-handed supercoiled bundles of two or more α-helices, with a characteristic heptad repeat pattern. However, other periodicities engendering different supercoils are possible. Insertion of two (nonads) or six (hexads) residues in a heptad repeat locally breaks the helices into short β-strands which assemble as a triangular structural element we call the β-layer. In the first project, we structurally characterized two hexad repeat families. Repetitive nonads and hexads yield a new structure, the α/β coiled coil, with regularly alternating α- and β-segments. Conversion of hexads to heptads by insertion of one residue per repeat gives a canonical coiled coil. Our results support previous data that novel backbone structures are possible within the allowed regions of Ramachandran space with minor mutations to a known fold. Secondly, we characterized the human paralogs MCUR1 and CCDC90B of a novel membrane protein family conserved in prokaryotes and mitochondria. The proteins were found to exhibit a conserved head-neck-stalk-anchor architecture, where a membrane-anchored trimeric coiled-coil stalk projects the N-terminal helical head domain via a β-layer neck. Cellular localization studies showed that prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins localize to the cytoplasmic and inner mitochondrial membranes, respectively, with an N-in C-out topology. Using MCUR1, an essential regulator of Ca(2+) uptake through mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU), we studied the role of individual domains and found that the conserved head interacts directly with MCU. Ca(2+) binding destabilizes MCUR1 head domain, which then accelerates its conversion to β-amyloid fibrils. Finally, we studied the effect of frameshift resistant (FSR) repeat amplification on the structure and function of existing and novel proteins. This type of repetition comprising units of n∤3 base-pairs and lacking stop codons, encodes the same protein repeat of n residues in all three frames. We focused primarily on heptad FSR repeats which conform to coiled-coil periodicity and are significantly enriched in bacteria. Using cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa, we investigated the in vivo expression of FSR repeat ORFs with proteome and transcriptome analysis and found that a number of them are highly transcribed, but undetectable at the protein level. Through biophysical and biochemical methods, we showed that FSR repeat insertion products are initially unstructured and mostly non-functional; however, they can obtain beneficial mutations over evolutionary time-scales to become more structured, giving rise to novel cellular functions

High Temperature Composite Analyzer (HITCAN) Programmer's Manual. Version 1.0

This manual describes the organization and flow of data and analysis modules in the computer code, HITCAN (High Temperature Composite ANalyzer). HITCAN is a general purpose computer program for predicting nonlinear global structural and local stress-strain response of arbitrarily oriented, multilayered high temperature metal matrix composite structures. This manual describes the architecture of the HITCAN code, followed by the listing of subroutines and calling tree, data storage scheme, file system, and a dictionary of code terminology. The primary intention of the manual is to familiarize the user with some of the computer program related issues so as to facilitate maintenance/modification/updates of the HITCAN computer code

Some Elements of the Poetic Language of the Serbian Romantic Poets

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Cryptography Enhanced Ad-Hoc Approach to P2P Overlays

We addressed a problem of safe mutually anonymous communication in a P2P overlay. Any peer in the overlay is able to initiate communication with another peer, without knowing their real IP address—using only their identifier within the overlay. Thanks to establishing peers’ public keys as identifiers, every message is digitally signed and the usage of ECC provides an instant access to end-to-end encryption without any need for negotiation of a shared key