Time for the Ancients

The book offers an overview of experiences, theories and conceptions of time in the Graeco-Roman world. It presents the results of new research on neglected medical texts, relating to time management, aging and times of life, and the importance of the accurate time assessment. At the same time it draws together the most important findings of much recent classical scholarship on ancient attitudes to time, and presents them in accessible form

Time for the Ancients

The book offers an overview of experiences, theories and conceptions of time in the Graeco-Roman world. It presents the results of new research on neglected medical texts, relating to time management, aging and times of life, and the importance of the accurate time assessment. At the same time it draws together the most important findings of much recent classical scholarship on ancient attitudes to time, and presents them in accessible form

Time for the ancients: measurement, theory, experience

Book synopsis: The book presents the author's latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also contextualizing his work within Graeco-Roman evidence and discussions – archaeological, medical, technological, philosophical, literary – more broadly. The focus is on questions of medical or experiential significance: life cycles, disease cycles, daily regimes for mind and body, clinical assessment, including the vital area of diagnosis through the pulse, technologies of time measurement. But the philosophical background is also examined: questions of the nature and definition of time and its relationship to space and motion. Galen offers original contributions in all these areas, at the same time as shedding important light on both contemporary attitudes and previous discussions. The book thus offers an accessible and vivid overview of key issues in ancient time perception and awareness, while also offering the first in-depth exploration of the insights that the Galenic texts add to this picture. Five thematic chapters – Time Measurement, Year and Life Cycles, Biography, Medical Cycles – consider a wide range of evidence and of recent scholarship, while highlighting the contribution of medical texts. Accessible overview of ancient attitudes to and conceptions of time Original research on the basis of previously unexplored medical texts Summarizes recent scholarship in diverse area

Incapacity

In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Peter Handke, David Mamet, and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wittgenstein, these artists are concerned with the limits of language’s representational capacity. For Golub, it is these limits that give Wittgenstein’s thought a further, very personal significance—its therapeutic quality with respect to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from which he suffers. Underlying what Golub calls “performance behavior” is Wittgenstein’s notion of “pain behavior”—that which gives public expression to private experience. Golub charts new directions for exploring the relationship between theater and philosophy, and even for scholarly criticism itself

Out of Time: Temporality, Form and Fugitive Care in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Much of the scholarship on narratives of illness and death proceeds from the assumption such accounts offer universal insights into the human experience. This thesis challenges this assumption, highlighting the occlusions produced by dominant disciplinary and narrative approaches. This project recognises the ways in which those living lives conceptualised as ‘ungrievable’ and deathly are concealed by and yet support dominant narratives of dying. Focusing on experiences of the end-of-life in an extended contemporary period (1990 – present), and beginning with narrative form, this project moves outwards to consider what insights other genres might offer to understandings of illness and death in contexts of temporal incommensurability. I argue that an experimental orientation to genre disrupts and offers critical purchase on representations of death outside of normative temporality and normative embodiment. Indebted to and building upon formulations of fugitivity originating within Black studies, this project develops the concept of fugitive care, the ever-shifting offers and practices of care that exceed institutions of science, medicine and policing, arguing that experimental form foregrounds such practices. I draw on queer theory to explore dying that is conscious of a fraught relation to the linear progression of the life course, tracking the relationship between cancer and HIV/AIDS and formulations of kinship in Kathlyn Conway’s Ordinary Life (1997), Ruth Picardie’s Before I Say Goodbye (1998), Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work (1995) and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love (1999). Thinking with Édouard Glissant’s notion of ‘opacity’, I consider the double-bind of aspiring to legibility/visibility for the sudden deaths and the slow attrition of living while Black under the conditions of late capitalism in the US, through readings of Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying (2007) Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped (2013), Harryette Mullen’s poem ‘All She Wrote’ from the collection Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002), and Claudia Rankine’s epic poem Citizen (2014). Finally, responding to the conceptualisation of the ‘undying’ and ‘Zombie time’ within poet Anne Boyer’s and artist Martin O’Brien’s work respectively, I also consider the intersection between chronic illness and ecology in a time of environmental crisis increasingly and ambivalently conceptualised as apocalyptic, reading across Susanna Antonetta’s memoir Body Toxic (2001) and Jesmyn Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones (2011).Wellcome Trus

Students’ understanding of evidence in science through studying paradoxes and the principle of falsification

This thesis explores how students can come to understand the relationships between evidence, theory and logic within the field of science. I develop the role of the study of paradox as a teaching practice. I seek to ascertain the role that this type of study offers the development of students’ evidentiary logic and I question whether studying paradoxes can enhance students’ capacity to articulate their understandings

Psychology in Edgar Allan Poe

This collection offers six critical essays on the topic of psychology in Edgar Allan Poe. It came together as a response to a visible absence of this subject in recent scholarship. The volume presents Edgar Allan Poe as one of the pioneers in psychology, who often anticipated major theoretical trends and ideas in psychology in his incessant explorations of the relationship between behavior and the psyche. Scrutinizing serial killer narratives, obsessive narratives through Jungian unconscious, Lacanian Das Ding, doppelgängers, intersubjectivity, and the interrelationship between the material world and imaginative faculties, the essays reveal the richness and the complexity of Poe's work and its pertinence to contemporary culture

Pause As A Phrase Demarcator For Speech And Language Processing

In spontaneous speech understanding a sophisticated integration of speech recognition and language processing is cspceiMly crucial. ]towever, the two modules are traditionMly designed independently, with indepemlent lingutstie rules. In Japanese speech recognition the bunsctsu phrase is the basic processlug unit and in language processing the sentence is the basic unit. This difference has made it impractical to use a unique set of linguistic rules for both types of processing. Further, spontaneous speech cmttains unexpected utterances other than wellformed sentences, while linguistic rules for both speech and language processing expect well-formed sentences. They therefore fail to process everyday spoken language. To bridge the gap between speech and language processing, we propose that pauses be treated as phrase demarcators and [hat the [nterpausal phrase be the basic common l)rocessing unit. And to treat the linguistic phenonl cna of spoken language properly, wc survey relevant features in spontaneous speech data. We then exaltlille the effect of integrating pausal and spontaneous speech phenomena into syntactic rulers for speech recognition, using 118 sentences. Our experiments show that incorl)orating l)aUSa[ phenootena ptrely syntactlc constraints de grades recognition accuracy considerably, while ;he addi riohal degradation is nilnor if stone further spontaneous speech features are also incorporated

Learning in network organisations

This study addresses the nature of learning in organisations engaged in multiple outsourcing arrangements. It describes issues, problems and achievements for employees working with team members from other companies and nationalities. It finds that people learn through personal agency and relationship building, often overcoming significant barriers to communication and learning