The publication as evocation: exhibition histories’ printed matter

This article looks at three case studies to probe into the fruitful relation between art exhibitions and the publications that follow from them. Phaidon’s Exhibitions That Made Art History are examples of the weightiness of exhibitions’ reception, and useful to analyse the ploys with which exhibition histories impact the construction of art histories. A couple of Mousse magazine issues help to expand the possibilities of documentation, criticise the reliance on images and ponder if rhizomatic histories can be woven from a plurality of voices. The exhibition catalogue of When Attitudes Become Form (2013) serves to unpack exhibitions’ “aura” and the possibility of thinking beyond their (un)repeatability. Following the idea that publications cannot be regarded as neutral evocations of exhibitions, the article traces the ways in which these two platforms of display intertwine to create exhibition histories.Este artigo aborda três estudos de caso, a fim de investigar a produtiva relação existente entre exposições de arte e as publicações que delas resultam. Os volumes Exhibitions That Made Art History da Phaidon exemplificam o impacto da receção de exposições, e são aqui usados para analisar os mecanismos através dos quais a história das exposições influencia a construção de histórias da arte. Os dois números da revista Mousse, que são também abordados neste artigo, permitirão expandir as possibilidades da documentação de exposições, criticar a nossa confiança nas imagens, e ponderar de que forma histórias rizomáticas dos eventos expositivos se podem ou não tecer a partir de uma pluralidade de vozes. O catálogo da exposição When Attitudes Become Form (2013) servirá como base para desmontar a “aura” da exposição e para podermos pensar além de sua (ir)repetibilidade. Perseguindo a ideia de que as publicações não podem ser consideradas evocações neutras de exposições, o artigo examina de que forma estas duas plataformas diferentes de exibição se articulam na criação de histórias de exposições.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

AN EXPERIENCE SAMPLING STUDY OF SLEEP DISTURBANCE, EMOTIONAL REGULATION AND POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS SYMPTOMS IN PREDICTING ALCOHOL USE AMONG OIF/OEF VETERANS

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common concern for veterans involved in the post-9/11 Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts (Epidemiology, 2017). Alcohol use is highly comorbid with PTSD in returning veterans (Seal et al., 2011). There are several models for the complex relationship between these two constructs including self-medication models or as an attempt to regulate emotion. Sleep disturbances have been linked to PTSD and alcohol use (Conroy & Arnedt, 2014) and could be driving the relationship. It is also possible that difficulties in emotion regulation could be part of this relationship either independently (Kelly & Bardo, 2016; Perlick et al., 2017) or in conjunction with sleep disturbances (Fairholme et al., 2013). This study used 14 days of experience sampling data collected from 59 veterans about PTSD symptoms, alcohol use, sleep disturbance, and emotion regulation. Participants answered several questions throughout the day using an application on their phone. They received an actigraph to approximate their sleep parameters including sleep efficiency and total sleep time. Multi-level modeling was used to explore the temporal relationships at the between- and within-subjects level of PTSD symptoms, alcohol use and problems, sleep disturbance and emotion regulation. Multimethod data collection using self-report, objective approximation of sleep measures (actigraphy), and experience sampling in the same study is innovative. Results of the study suggested that sleep disturbances did not have significant associations with PTSD symptoms, emotion regulation, or alcohol consumption in multilevel models, there were some significant correlations. Exploratory analyses using other objective sleep approximations and a subjective sleep variable mimicked these results. Future studies would benefit from a more diverse sample and a variety of assessment methods for subjective and objective experiences of sleep

Vachel Lindsay: How his life affected his works

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityNicholas Vachel Lindsay, born in Springfield, Illinois, on November 10, 1879, was the son of Esther Catherine Frazee Lindsay, a tireless worker in missionary work and women's clubs, and Doctor Vachel Thomas Lindsay. Mrs. Lindsay decided from the very beginning that her son would be an artist as she herself had unsuccessfully wished to be, and therefore she brought him up to be an artist as well as a Disciple of Christ, or Campbellite as she and her husband were. The atmosphere in the home was very devout and Vachel imbibed the feeling as well as the idea that he was a smart boy and destined to do great things in the field of art. Doctor Lindsay felt that his son was becoming too effeminate and tried to counteract any tendency to it by reading him the Uncle Remus stories and telling him about the negroes of his youth. The main influences from his life which led to his poetry may be summarlzed under three headings, his parents, his education, and his travel. The four main influences that affected Lindsay's works are then, his parents, his education, his travels, and his concepts, specifically his concepts of religion, art, idealism, heroism, and Springfield. In conclusion it may be said that Lindsay's life, through the four main influences, were directly responsible for his propaganda poetry, materially affected his "in-between" poetry, and were in the background of all of his best poetry

Instrumentation for measurement of cosmic noise at 750, 1225, and 2000 kHz from a rocket Final technical report

Design and performance characteristics of rocketborne instrumentation system to measure radio frequency noise energ

Analysis of airborne Doppler lidar, Doppler radar and tall tower measurements of atmospheric flows in quiescent and stormy weather

The first experiment to combine airborne Doppler Lidar and ground-based dual Doppler Radar measurements of wind to detail the lower tropospheric flows in quiescent and stormy weather was conducted in central Oklahoma during four days in June-July 1981. Data from these unique remote sensing instruments, coupled with data from conventional in-situ facilities, i.e., 500-m meteorological tower, rawinsonde, and surface based sensors, were analyzed to enhance understanding of wind, waves and turbulence. The purposes of the study were to: (1) compare winds mapped by ground-based dual Doppler radars, airborne Doppler lidar, and anemometers on a tower; (2) compare measured atmospheric boundary layer flow with flows predicted by theoretical models; (3) investigate the kinematic structure of air mass boundaries that precede the development of severe storms; and (4) study the kinematic structure of thunderstorm phenomena (downdrafts, gust fronts, etc.) that produce wind shear and turbulence hazardous to aircraft operations. The report consists of three parts: Part 1, Intercomparison of Wind Data from Airborne Lidar, Ground-Based Radars and Instrumented 444 m Tower; Part 2, The Structure of the Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer as Revealed by Lidar and Doppler Radars; and Part 3, Doppler Lidar Observations in Thunderstorm Environments

Exploring the potential of latent space in the inner city of Pretoria

This dissertation explores the potential of latent space in the inner city of Pretoria. The exploration is guided by the intention of finding architectural remedies for regenerating and weaving urban fabric. Urban morphology refers to the study of change in built fabric over time and focusses on the patterns of growth. The unique urban morphology of Pretoria produced an opportunity within the blocks, where fragmented spaces are locked away. These ill-defined in-between spaces in blocks are referred to as latent spaces, so-called due to their hidden potential. The overarching intention of the architectural solution is to delineate a new relationship between the inner city user, buildings, and latent space, to create off-street user-relief spaces, through the application of palimpsetic strategies developed from urban, architectural, heritage, contextual, programmatic and technological investigations. These strategies were conceptualised as the design approach, consisting of additions and alterations to the existing built fabric as well as new infill through connections, insertions, extensions, and appropriations. The strategies are further developed to form structural components used in combination to intervene with the existing. The components generate the technological response, and it is here that the freestanding strategy is included, which refers to new infill separate from the existing buildings. A programmatic framework of low, middle and high-end functions is outlined to further enable the activation of latent spaces. The intervention is nestled within the geometry, history and current needs of the site, morphing from the context. Through using a palimpsetic approach to design with old buildings, a new layer is added to the built fabric whilst adapting and transforming the old to be improved. This approach weaves the fragmented internal and external latent spaces together to form a threshold dialogue where the inner city fabric is regenerated. Furthermore, the dissertation reimagines a building from a single element to a thread of spaces. This action leads to an architecture of dispersed internal spaces, interwoven with open, external communal space, where the realm of the citizen is extended past the existing buildings, in-between the new architecture and up-onto new raised public accessible platforms. Complexity and diversity occur by encouraging brief encounters, greetings and interactions through the diverse programme that mixes multiple stakeholders and activities in the same spaces.Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2019.ArchitectureMArch (Prof)Unrestricte

Sources for the history of sport in Britain: A bibliographical compilation and analysis with particular reference to the problems of bibliographical control

The purpose of this study is to identify, discuss the merits of, list and analyse the bibliographical control of secondary and selected primary sources for the history of sport in Britain. The Introduction sets sport in its social setting, traces the emergence of sports history as a field of study, identifies historiographical trends and barriers to progress. Following a review of the literature, it is concluded that a major barrier to research and improved scholarship is a perceived lack and awareness of source material. Part A identifies both primary and secondary sources for the sports historian, both in general terms and in relation to specific areas of research and topics of investigation. This includes detailed discussions of their merits, problems associated with their use, identification and location. The need is stressed for a comprehensive bibliography of secondary works and a listing of manuscript material. Part B attempts to document all secondary sources (monographs, periodical articles, conference papers, chapters in books, festschriften, theses, and typescripts, including reference works), on the history of sport and physical education in Britain published in the English language, in a classified order designed to meet the needs of the sports historian and all those otherwise interested in the development of sport in Britain and its literature. Part C attempts to index sporting manuscripts held in public record offices and by national governing bodies of sport. An overview describes problems experienced by the author during the course of the study and analyses the effectiveness of existing bibliographical control in efficient literature searching. This thesis concludes that whilst sporting records have been sadly neglected by the sporting bodies, by professional archivists and in librarians' divisions of human knowledge, considerable source material of value to the sports historian does exist but that this is scattered and fragmented. Existing bibliographical sources do not serve the interests of the researcher in sports history well. For sport, as perhaps for several other 'low status', multi-disciplinary subject areas, the most efficient strategy for comprehensive literature searching within the existing bibliographical network is to start with the most extensive 'form' bibliographies and to then eliminate unwanted items

Illuminating the Trauma of the Closet Among Sexual Minorities: A Cinematic-Phenomenological Study of Existential Rights

This dissertation is a phenomenological research study about the lived experience of being in the closet as a sexual minority. This study’s research findings are represented in two distinct but overlapping ways: a traditional written hermeneutic interpretation, and a short film called “Illuminate” which cinematically brings to life the closeted lifeworld. To produce this film, I developed an innovative research method called “cinematic-phenomenology.” As a researcher, I conducted phenomenological research interviews with five self-identified sexual minorities about their lived experiences of being in the closet. During interviews, I helped participants describe their felt sense of the closet through symbolic imagery, by guiding them to language their feelings using Eugene Gendlin’s body-focused psychotherapy technique Focusing. I also conducted a thematic interpretation of participants’ data using Max Van Manen’s approach to hermeneutic phenomenological interpretation. My research findings led to the following key insight: that the phenomenon of the closet entails a traumatic loss of existential rights—the right to truth, freedom, love, hope, and power. Then, as a filmmaker, I collaborated with cinematographers, actors and musicians to produce a phenomenological short film called “Illuminate” which visually illustrates these existential themes of the closet via poetic cinematography. All imagery in the film is directly inspired by research participants’ embodied and metaphoric descriptions of what being in the closet felt like for them personally. The final short film can be viewed at www.illuminatethecloset.com. It seeks to make visible the invisible trauma that the closet inflicts, illuminate how sociopolitical oppression deprives marginalized minorities of their existential rights, and instill empathy, compassion, and hope among viewers. “Illuminate” is the first film to be produced by the Phenomenological Film Collective, a community-engaged filmmaking group I have founded which utilizes my cinematic-phenomenological research method to produce social advocacy films (pfcollective.com

Social inequality before farming? Multidisciplinary approaches to the study of social organization in prehistoric and ethnographic hunter-gatherer-fisher societies

Archaeological investigations over the past 50 years have challenged the importance of domestication and food production in the emergence of institutionalized social inequality. Social inequality in the prehistoric human past developed through multiple historical processes that operate on a number of different scales of variability (e.g. social, economic, demographic, and environmental). However, in the theoretical and linguistic landscape of social inequality, there is no clear definition of what social inequality is. The lifeways of hunter-gathererfisher societies open a crucial intellectual space and challenge to find meaningful ways of using archaeological and ethnographic data to understand what social inequality exactly is with regard to variously negotiated or enforced cultural norms or ethoses of individual autonomy. This interdisciplinary edited volume gathers together researchers working in the fields of prehistoric archaeology and cultural and evolutionary anthropology. Spanning terminal Pleistocene to Holocene archaeological and ethnographic contexts from across the globe, the nineteen chapters in this volume cover a variety of topics organized around three major themes, which structure the book: 1) social inequality and egalitarianism in extant hunter-gatherer societies; 2) social inequality in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (c. 45,000–11,500 years ago); 3) social inequality in prehistoric Holocene hunter-gatherer-fisher societies globally. Most chapters in this volume provide empirical content with considerations of subsistence ecology, demography, mobility, social networks, technology, children’s enculturation, ritual practice, rock art, dogs, warfare, lethal weaponry, and mortuary behaviour. In addition to providing new data from multiple contexts through space and time, and exploring social diversity and evolution from novel perspectives, the collection of essays in this volume will have a considerable impact on how archaeologists define and theorize pathways both towards and away from inequality within diverse social contexts

Badr Sha kir al-Sayyab: The Man and His Poetry.

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the life and poetry of Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (1926-1964) and ascertain his place in modern Arabic literature. By visits to the scenes of al-Sayyad's life, by personal interview and correspondence with people who knew him, by access to his unpublished poetry and to official documents relating to his education, government position and medical treatment, the author supplemented the knowledge obtained from the poet's published works and from other materials. The picture of the poet emerging from this study is that of one deeply hurt by life. Since boyhood, the death of his mother and the desertion of his father leave him in constant search for love and security. The realization in adolescence that he is ugly, the failure of his love affairs in high school and college, and his sensitivity to social oppression make him join the Communist Party. His poetry meanwhile is romantic and rebellious. Be introduces free verse and helps to create a new movement in Arabic poetry. His struggle against his government causes him to lose his job and enter prison many times. After a short self-exile, he returns home having renounced communism and continues, after his marriage, to oppose his government and criticize Arab society in realist poems achieving literary fame. He welcomes the revolution against the monarchy but later attacks the republican regime for its communist leanings. He uses myths of death and resurrection in his poetry to express his disillusionment and his hopes for Iraq and the Arab nation. He then becomes afflicted with paralysis and spends the last three years of his life being treated at home and abroad, and writing of his pathetic experience with approaching death. His poetry represents the malaise of the Arab world and ushers a new era in Arabic poetry