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How to Make Our Ideas ClearCharles Sanders Peirc

Recent developments of existential graphics and their consequences for logic

“Desarrollos recientes de los gráfi cos existenciales y sus consecuencias para la lógica” es la ponencia que Peirce pronunció en 1906 ante la Academia Nacional de Ciencia. Consiste en dos manuscritos parcialmente inéditos (MS 499 y MS 490). El primero es una presentación sobre el valor del sistema de gráfi cos existenciales para la lógica. El segundo es la presentación del sistema de gráfi cos existenciales y ha sido parcialmente publicado en los Collected Papers. Hay cierto grado de certeza en que este último manuscrito fue realmente leído durante el encuentro de la Academia Nacional de Ciencia pues contiene la exposición más directa del sistema de gráfi cos existenciales y porque aparecen anotaciones al margen sobre el tiempo estimado de lectura (35 minutos a lo máximo); no obstante, el primer manuscrito es una buena introducción al tema y si se hubiera leído también la presentación no habría sobrepasado la hora.“Desarrollos recientes de los gráfi cos existenciales y sus consecuencias para la lógica” es la ponencia que Peirce pronunció en 1906 ante la Academia Nacional de Ciencia. Consiste en dos manuscritos parcialmente inéditos (MS 499 y MS 490). El primero es una presentación sobre el valor del sistema de gráfi cos existenciales para la lógica. El segundo es la presentación del sistema de gráfi cos existenciales y ha sido parcialmente publicado en los Collected Papers. Hay cierto grado de certeza en que este último manuscrito fue realmente leído durante el encuentro de la Academia Nacional de Ciencia pues contiene la exposición más directa del sistema de gráfi cos existenciales y porque aparecen anotaciones al margen sobre el tiempo estimado de lectura (35 minutos a lo máximo); no obstante, el primer manuscrito es una buena introducción al tema y si se hubiera leído también la presentación no habría sobrepasado la hora

Manacled to Identity: Cosmopolitanism, Class, and ‘The Culture Concept’ in Stephen Crane

This article begins with a close reading of Stephen Crane’s short story ‘Manacled’ from 1900, which situates this rarely considered short work within the context of contemporary debates about realism. I then proceed to argue that many of the debates raised by the tale have an afterlife in our own era of American literary studies, which has frequently focused on questions of ‘identity’ and ‘culture’ in its reading of realism and naturalism to the exclusion of the importance of cosmopolitan discourses of diffusion and exchange across national borders. I then offer a brief reading of Crane’s novel George’s Mother, which follows Walter Benn Michaels in suggesting that the recent critical attention paid to particularities of cultural difference in American studies have come to conflate ideas of class and social position with ideas of culture in ways that have ultimately obscured the presence of genuine historical inequalities in US society. In order to challenge this critical commonplace, I situate Crane’s work within a history of transatlantic cosmopolitanism associated with the ideas of Franz Boas and Matthew Arnold to demonstrate the ways in which Crane’s narratives sought out an experience of the universal within their treatments of the particular

Symbiotic modeling: Linguistic Anthropology and the promise of chiasmus

Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising; but, in spite of our enhanced awareness, little deliberate attention is devoted to modeling or grounding such phenomena. Attending to both linguistic and extra-linguistic modalities of chiasmus (the X figure), a group of anthropologists has recently embraced this challenge. Applied to contemporary problems in linguistic anthropology, chiasmus functions to highlight and enhance relationships of interdependence or symbiosis between contraries, including anthropology’s four fields, the nature of human being and facets of being human

Narrative Personae and Visual Signs: Reading Leonard’s intimate photo-memoir. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

In this paper, I look at Joanne Leonard’s Being in Pictures and engage in a critical dialogue with an assemblage of visual and textual narratives that comprise her intimate photo memoir. In doing this I draw on Hannah Arendt’s take on narratives as tangible traces of uniqueness and plurality, political traits par excellence in the cultural histories of the human condition. Being aware of my role as a reader/viewer/interpreter of a woman artist’s auto/biographical narratives, I move beyond dilemmas of representation or questions of unveiling “the real Leonard”. The artist is instead configured as a narrative persona, whose narratives respond to three interrelated themes of inquiry, namely the visualization of spatial technologies, vulnerability and the gendering of memory. Key words: gendered memories, narrative persona, spatial technologies, photo memoir, vulnerabilit