Remembering the body: Deleuze's recollection-image, and the spectacle of physical memory in Yip Man/Ip Man(2008)

This article explores how Gilles Deleuze’s conceptualization of the flashback, as‘recollection-image’, can assist our understanding of the rendering spectacular of physical memory in contemporary Chinese martial arts movies. The focus is a prominent flashback in the climactic duel in the kung fu movie, Yip Man/Ip Man (Yip, 2008). This recollection-image demonstrates how trained bodies in Chinese martial art movies suggest a slightly different understanding of time and affect from that which Deleuze formulated, based on his observation of US and European films. On textual, cultural and historical levels this article explores the usefulness of martial arts movies for developing our understanding of physicality in cinema, and for reconsidering Deleuze’s ideas in light of the Eurocentrism of some of his conclusions

KONTRIBUSI PEMIKIRAN HANS KUNG DAN FALSAFAH HIDUP TORANG SAMUA CIPTAAN TUHAN BAGI PERDAMAIAN DI SULAWESI UTARA

Perdamaian merupakan isu global yang hangat diperbincangkan dewasa ini. Perdamaian sangat menarik untuk dikaji dengan berbagai pendekatan dan perspektif, karena perdamaian merupakan kondisi sosial yang diharapkan seluruh manusia, sebab tanpa perdamaian manusia akan sulit menikmati dan mencapai tujuan hidup. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kontribusi pemikiran Hans Kung dan falsafah hidup masyarakat Sulawesi Utara yaitu Torang Samua Ciptaan Tuhan bagi perdamaian di Sulawesi Utara. Dengan menggunakan metode penelitian yang bersifat deskriptif telah menghasilkan sumbangsih pemikiran Hans Kung dan falsafah hidup Torang Semua Ciptaan Tuhan terhadap proses memelihara dan menjaga perdamaian di tanah Nyiur Melambai. Membangun dialog antar agama dengan pendekatan kearifan Lokal dan memiliki sikap keterbukaan dan menghargai perbedaan adalah sebuah keharusan menuju kehidupan yang damai

Repetitive Component Based Motion Learning with Kinect

Today’s world wants quick, smart and cost effective solutions to their problems. People want to learn everything online. They are interested in learning new techniques and every kind of art in a limited amount of time because they are busy with their own work and have very short time to take in class instructor led training. This is an attempt to fulfill the same so that the people can easily learn and master a new kind of art by themselves by using Kinect. The focus of this project is to master Kung-Fu, an ancient form of Chinese Martial Arts. Kung-Fu requires a good amount of practice and therefore needs a Kung-Fu expert mentoring all the time, which is quite expensive. Therefore, the idea is to develop an application which will help the user in imitating the actions performed by the experts and then comparing the performed actions with the captured recordings of experts. While doing the same motions like a master, users can judge themselves by using Kinect. The User Interface is developed in such a way that it will give the user the summary of his performance by comparing his motions with the recorded motions along with the instructions for the next step and with the suggestions to improve, if user fails to do that . The UI provides User Progress Information on the completion of each task. It also provides a record and replay option which helps the user in reviewing his/her actions. Application focuses on simple Kung-Fu punch movement patterns to do quality analysis and data quantity. This project is a combination of Bio-Mechanical principles and Neural Networking technology. It implements real time motion tracking, coaching and evaluation by providing real time feedback using artificial neural network while capturing motion

Fists of Zen and A Touch of Fury: Identity struggles in Hong Kong martial arts cinema

El cine de artes marciales hongkonés se ha desarrollado históricamente a lo largo de dos subgéneros: el cine wuxia y el cine kung fu; dos subgéneros semejantes, de orígenes coincidentes y evolución en diálogo, pero que muestran características semánticas y sintácticas particulares. En este sentido, el presente trabajo propone su caracterización desvelando tanto las diferencias palpables entre ambos como la coherencia interna de cada uno de ellos. Para ello, se ahonda en la etimología de los vocablos con los que habitualmente se identifican, con la intención de aclarar algunas confusiones terminológicas y exponer las singularidades a las que dichas expresiones aluden. Seguidamente, se exponen las tradiciones culturales con las que se vincula cada género, demostrando que las diferencias entre ambos géneros reproducen divisiones geohistóricas superiores, que son fundamentales en la cultura china. Finalmente, se comparan algunas de las características temáticas, narrativas y estéticas de cada categoría textual atendiendo a su coherencia interna y a su particular vinculación a las tradiciones culturales antes expuestas.Hong Kong’s martial arts cinema has developed historically along two subgenres: wuxia and kung fu films. Though similar subgenres with coincidental origins and dialectical evolutions, both show specific semantic and syntactic elements. In this sense, the present work suggests their characterization, revealing their tangible differences as well as their internal coherence. In order to do so, the text examines the etymology of the words usually identified with these subgenres. The aim is clarifying some terminological misunderstandings and exposing the singularities that these expressions allude to. Then, I refer to the cultural traditions to which each genre is linked, demonstrating that the differences between the two reproduce superior geohistorical divisions fundamental to Chinese culture. Finally, I compare some of the thematic, narrative and aesthetic features of each textual category considering their internal coherence as well as their particular link to the cultural traditions above discuss

On the Pursuit of Static and Coherent Weaving

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) has been shown to be a useful model for software development. Special care must be taken when we try to adapt AOP to strongly typed functional languages which come with features like type inference mechanism, polymorphic types, higher-order functions and type-scoped pointcuts. Specifically, it is highly desirable that weaving of aspect-oriented functional programs can be performed statically and coherently. In [13], we showed a type-directed weaver which resolves all advice chainings coherently at static time. The novelty of this paper lies in the extended framework which supports static and coherent weaving in the presence of polymorphic recursive functions, advising advice bodies and higher-order advices

Kung Fu Panda, Go Home!

It seems that boycott fatigue has finally hit the Chinese, in a year that has lurched from one boycott to another—against such entities as a French supermarket chain, a Hollywood star, and an American cable channel. When the latest clarion call was issued by a performance artist named Zhao Bandi赵半狄 against Kung Fu Panda, he was greeted with jeers and mockery. Zhao presented his case in a blog: Hollywood is morally corrupt for churning out loathsome personalities like Sharon Stone (who betrayed schadenfreude over the Sichuan earthquake as “karmic retribution” for Tibet) and Steven Spielberg (who quit his role as artistic advisor to the Olympics over Sudan). Therefore it should not be allowed to profit, in China,and so soon after the earthquake, from China’s most iconic “national treasure” (国宝)—the panda. And for Chinese to help line the pockets of the Hollywood reprobates would be tantamount to stripping valuables off the bodies of the quake victims. The banner that Zhao strung up outside the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television, telling Kung Fu Panda to go home (《功夫熊猫》滚出去！), was taken down within 20 minutes by plainclothes police (see picture above). The movie opened in multiple cities on June 20 as scheduled to huge mirthful crowds. But Zhao’s effort was not a complete failure: the release of the movie was delayed for one day in Sichuan—home of the panda reserve and site of the earthquake—over concerns about possible “misperceptions” and hurt feelings. For this minor victory, Zhao received a phone call from an irate Sichuanese who gave him a bank account number and demanded that a suitable sum be deposited into it. For what? To compensate for the psychological loss he allegedly sustained for being prevented from enjoying the movie simultaneously with his dear compatriots throughout the rest of the country (全国人民)

Constituent structure of a Tagalog text

This paper is an inductive look at the constituents found in a randomly selected Tagalog text, Bob Ong’s Alamat ng Gubat (Makati City, MM: Visual Print Enterprises, 2004). The analysis is based on the full text, but we will only be able to go through the first few lines of the text here, which we will do one by one, and discuss the structures found in each line of the text in bullet format after the relevant line. At the end of the paper we will bring up some important questions about the structures found in Tagalog based on this text

Book Review: Christianity and World Religions. Paths of Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism

A review of Christianity and World Religions. Paths of Dialogue with Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, by Hans Küng with Josef van Ess, Heinrich von Stietencron, and Heinz Bechert; translated by Peter Heinegg