Theoretical Apparitions of Haiku : An Intermedial Interrogation of Modernity

Au tournant du XXe siècle, la traduction et la réception de la poésie du haïku en Occident a permis de faire des apparitions théoriques au-delà du dispositif littéraire. Le haïku s'est réinventé comme une pratique de poésie devenue une technique audiovisuelle : le haïku comme ligne de fuite, médium d'une autre relation à la langue et à l'image. Modèle hybride des arts modernistes (poésie, photographie, cinéma), le haïku a véhiculé de multiples théories pour articuler l'expérience d'une nouvelle économie spatio-temporelle des images. Mode d'écriture par fragments laconiques, gestes du quotidien et ombres de mémoire, le haïku a mobilisé une relation de mouvement, d'opacité et de distance à la langue.At the turn of the twentieth century, the translation and the reception of haiku poetry allowed for theoretical advances beyond the purview of the literary. The haiku-idiom reinvented itself as a practice of poetry as audio-visual technique : haiku as a line of flight, medium of another relationship to language and to images. A hybrid-model of the modernist arts (poetry photography, film), the haiku-idiom became a vehicle for theories articulating the experience of a new spatio-temporal economy of images. As a mode of writing in laconic fragments, gestures of everyday-life, and shadows of memory, the haiku-idiom mobilized for others a relationship of movement, opacity, and distance to language

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Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society (Geoffrey Harpham) (Reviewed by James O’Rourke, Florida State University) The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (Angela Esterhammer) (Reviewed by Thomas Pfau, Duke University) British Romanticism and the Science of Mind (Alan Richardson) (Reviewed by Irving Massey, State University of New York, Buffalo) Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production (Thomas Pfau) (Reviewed by Karen A. Weisman, University of Toronto) The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy (David P. Haney) (Reviewed by Paul Youngquist, Penn State University) Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out (Paul Elledge) (Reviewed by William D. Brewer, Appalachian State University) Nationalists and Nomads (Christopher L. Miller) (Reviewed by Louise M. Jefferson, Wayne State University) The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects (Rene´e L. Bergland) (Reviewed by Richard Sax, Madonna University) Imagining the King’s Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide 1793–1796 (John Barrell) (Reviewed by Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University) The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics (John Plotz) (Reviewed by Heidi Thomson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) James Joyce’s Judaic Other (Marilyn Reizbaum) (Reviewed by Natania Rosenfeld, Knox College) Voices and Values in Joyce’s Ulysses (Weldon Thornton) (Reviewed by Marshall Needleman Armintor, Rice University

A sureth version of the east-syriac dialogue poem of mary and the gardener

In the present paper, a Sureth version is published of the dialogue poem of Mary and the Gardener. As a first attempt to reconstruct the history of this text, the poetic version in the vernacular is compared with five manuscript witnesses of the Classical Syriac original. The poem is presented as part of an intertextual web of Classical Syriac hymns for Easter and Pentecost that are preserved in late liturgical collections and appear to be narrative and rhetorical expansions of John 20:11-17. Formal and thematic parallels to the poem are then found in the broader framework of Christian and Jewish hymnography written in varieties of Late Aramaic

A Sureth Version of the East-Syriac Dialogue Poem of Mary and the Gardener

In the present paper, a Sureth version is published of the dialogue poem of Mary and the Gardener. As a first attempt to reconstruct the history of this text, the poetic version in the vernacular is compared with five manuscript witnesses of the Classical Syriac original. The poem is presented as part of an intertextual web of Classical Syriac hymns for Easter and Pentecost that are preserved in late liturgical collections and appear to be narrative and rhetorical expansions of John 20:11-17. Formal and thematic parallels to the poem are then found in the broader framework of Christian and Jewish hymnography written in varieties of Late Aramaic

Blended Sonification: Sonification for Casual Interaction

Tünnermann R, Hammerschmidt J, Hermann T. Blended Sonification: Sonification for Casual Interaction. In: ICAD 2013 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display. Łódź, Poland; 2013: 119-126.In recent years, graphical user interfaces have become almost ubiquitous in form of notebooks, smartphones and tablets. These systems normally force the user to attend to an often very specific and narrow screen and thus squeeze the information through a chokepoint. This ties the users’ attention to the device and affects other activities and social interaction. In this paper we introduce Blended Sonifications as sonifications that blend into the users’ environment without confronting users with any explicitly perceived technology. Blended Sonification systems can either be used to display information or to provide ambient communication channels. We present a framework that guides developers towards the identification of suitable information sources and appropriate auditory interfaces. We aim at improving the design of interactions and experiences. Along with the introduction and definition of the framework, this paper presents interface examples, both for mediated communication and information display applications

Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wider use in many interactive products are quickly transforming further areas of our life, which results in the emergence of various new social phenomena. Many countries have been making efforts to understand these phenomena and find answers on how to put the development of artificial intelligence on the right track to support the common good of people and societies. These attempts require interdisciplinary actions, covering not only science disciplines involved in the development of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction but also close cooperation between researchers and practitioners. For this reason, the main goal of the MIDI conference held on 9-10.12.2021 as a virtual event is to integrate two, until recently, independent fields of research in computer science: broadly understood artificial intelligence and human-technology interaction

Early detection of heterogeneous disaster events using social media

This article addresses the problem of detecting crisis‐related messages on social media, in order to improve the situational awareness of emergency services. Previous work focused on developing machine‐learning classifiers restricted to specific disasters, such as storms or wildfires. We investigate for the first time methods to detect such messages where the type of the crisis is not known in advance, that is, the data are highly heterogeneous. Data heterogeneity causes significant difficulties for learning algorithms to generalize and accurately label incoming data. Our main contributions are as follows. First, we evaluate the extent of this problem in the context of disaster management, finding that the performance of traditional learners drops by up to 40% when trained and tested on heterogeneous data vis‐á‐vis homogeneous data. Then, in order to overcome data heterogeneity, we propose a new ensemble learning method, and found this to perform on a par with the Gradient Boosting and AdaBoost ensemble learners. The methods are studied on a benchmark data set comprising 26 disaster events and four classification problems: detection of relevant messages, informative messages, eyewitness reports, and topical classification of messages. Finally, in a case study, we evaluate the proposed methods on a real‐world data set to assess its practical value