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Tradition as a Communication System. A Pragmatic Approach
A context of my paper is the debate on reason, tradition and traditional
communities, in which this moral and epistemological issues were
discussed as a part of general socio-philosophical theory of modernity.
In particular I intend to locate my considerations in the context of
formal-pragmatic theory of modern communicative rationality
developed by JĂŒrgen Habermas and Robert Brandom. I will provide a
competitive model of the rationality of tradition by applying a
conceptual toolkit of pragmatically oriented analysis to explain
practices connected with vocabulary of tradition. I argue that tradition
as a communication system has a fully rational structure. My main claim
is that communicative structure of tradition has a rational structure of
language game. This structure includes defined principles of
communication for members of closed tradition-grounded community
and rule of inclusion for potential new members.
Firstly I consider closely internal principles of communication
within the framework of tradition contrasting them shortly with
normative-deontic rules of the postenlightenment idea of pragmatic
communication discussed by JĂŒrgen Habermas and Robert Brandom.
After that I examine the rule of inclusion â the rule, which mediates
between closed system of tradition-based community and his
environment.Numer zostaĆ przygotowany przy wsparciu Ministerstwa Nauki i Szkolnictwa WyĆŒszego
The Translocal Event and the Polyrhythmic Diagram
This thesis identifies and analyses the key creative protocols in translocal performance practice, and ends with suggestions for new forms of transversal live and mediated
performance practice, informed by theory. It argues that ontologies of emergence in dynamic systems nourish contemporary practice in the digital arts. Feedback
in self-organised, recursive systems and organisms elicit change, and change transforms. The arguments trace concepts from chaos and complexity theory to virtual multiplicity, relationality, intuition and individuation (in the work of Bergson, Deleuze, Guattari, Simondon, Massumi, and other process theorists). It then examines the intersection of methodologies in philosophy, science and art and the
radical contingencies implicit in the technicity of real-time, collaborative composition. Simultaneous forces or tendencies such as perception/memory, content/
expression and instinct/intellect produce composites (experience, meaning, and intuition- respectively) that affect the sensation of interplay. The translocal
event is itself a diagram - an interstice between the forces of the local and the global, between the tendencies of the individual and the collective. The translocal is
a point of reference for exploring the distribution of affect, parameters of control and emergent aesthetics. Translocal interplay, enabled by digital technologies and network protocols, is ontogenetic and autopoietic; diagrammatic and synaesthetic; intuitive and transductive. KeyWorx is a software application developed for realtime, distributed, multimodal media processing. As a technological tool created by artists, KeyWorx supports this intuitive type of creative experience: a real-time, translocal âjammingâ that transduces the lived experience of a âbiogram,â a synaesthetic hinge-dimension. The emerging aesthetics are processual â intuitive, diagrammatic and transversal
Towards a Phenomenology of Grief : insights from Merleau-Ponty
This paper shows how phenomenological research can enhance our understanding of what it is to experience grief. I focus specifically on themes in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in order to develop an account that emphasizes two importantly different ways of experiencing indeterminacy. This casts light on features of grief that are disorienting and difficult to describe, while also making explicit an aspect of experience upon which the possibility of phenomenological inquiry itself depends
Toward a Unified Timestamp with explicit precision
Demographic and health surveillance (DS) systems monitor and document individual- and group-level processes in well-defined populations over long periods of time. The resulting data are complex and inherently temporal. Established methods of storing and manipulating temporal data are unable to adequately address the challenges posed by these data. Building on existing standards, a temporal framework and notation are presented that are able to faithfully record all of the time-related information (or partial lack thereof) produced by surveillance systems. The Unified Timestamp isolates all of the inherent complexity of temporal data into a single data type and provides the foundation on which a Unified Timestamp class can be built. The Unified Timestamp accommodates both point- and interval-based time measures with arbitrary precision, including temporal sets. Arbitrary granularities and calendars are supported, and the Unified Timestamp is hierarchically organized, allowing it to represent an unlimited array of temporal entities.demographic surveillance, standardization, temporal databases, temporal integrity, timestamp, valid time
Doubting Legal Language: Interpretive Skepticism and Legal Practice
The present paper revisits and critically reconstructs one central tenet of interpretive legal skepticism, which I will label the \u201cequivocity thesis\u201d. According to this thesis, each statutory provision and judicial opinion can be constructed or interpreted in many ways, due to the plurality of the admissible hermeneutic techniques, methods, doctrines, and normative theories (\u201cplurality thesis\u201d) and their equal legal value (\u201cparity thesis\u201d): this leaves the interpreter with a discretional power to choose the legal solution he deems more correct (\u201cnormative unbindingness thesis\u201d). The main purpose of this essays consists in investigating the scope of these thesis and their philosophical and rhetoric/strategic relations with a more general semiotic skepticism, according to which the belief that communication requires both mutual understanding and sharing linguistic meanings is unjustified. More precisely, I\u2019ll first explore how interpretive legal skepticism can be grounded on Quine\u2019s and Davidson\u2019s indeterminist conclusions (\ua73) and on deconstructionism (\ua74), and then test the possibility of employing against interpretive legal skepticism a criticism of these conceptions, based on Wittgensteinian arguments and developable along various lines by \u201cpractice-based\u201d conceptions of meaning (\ua75)
Development of Stresses in Cohesionless Poured Sand
The pressure distribution beneath a conical sandpile, created by pouring sand
from a point source onto a rough rigid support, shows a pronounced minimum
below the apex (`the dip'). Recent work of the authors has attempted to explain
this phenomenon by invoking local rules for stress propagation that depend on
the local geometry, and hence on the construction history, of the medium. We
discuss the fundamental difference between such approaches, which lead to
hyperbolic differential equations, and elastoplastic models, for which the
equations are elliptic within any elastic zones present .... This displacement
field appears to be either ill-defined, or defined relative to a reference
state whose physical existence is in doubt. Insofar as their predictions depend
on physical factors unknown and outside experimental control, such
elastoplastic models predict that the observations should be intrinsically
irreproducible .... Our hyperbolic models are based instead on a physical
picture of the material, in which (a) the load is supported by a skeletal
network of force chains ("stress paths") whose geometry depends on construction
history; (b) this network is `fragile' or marginally stable, in a sense that we
define. .... We point out that our hyperbolic models can nonetheless be
reconciled with elastoplastic ideas by taking the limit of an extremely
anisotropic yield condition.Comment: 25 pages, latex RS.tex with rspublic.sty, 7 figures in Rsfig.ps.
Philosophical Transactions A, Royal Society, submitted 02/9
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