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Merleau-Ponty and neuroaesthetics: Two approaches to performance and technology
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Digital Creativity, 23(3-4), 225 - 238, 2012. Copyright @ 2012 Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14626268.2012.709941.Assisted by the rapid growth of digital technology, which has enhanced its ambitions, performance is an increasingly popular area of artistic practice. This article seeks to contextualise this within two methodologically divergent yet complimentary intellectual tendencies. The first is the work of the philosopher Merleau-Ponty, who recognised that our experience of the world has an inescapably ‘embodied’ quality, not reducible to mental accounts, which can be vicariously extended through specific instrumentation. The second is the developing field of neuroaesthetics; that is, neurological research directed towards the analysis, in brain-functional terms, of our experiences of objects and events which are culturally deemed to be of artistic significance. I will argue that both these contexts offer promising approaches to interpreting developments in contemporary performance, which has achieved critical recognition without much antecedent theoretical support
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Construction, conformity and control : the taming of the Daily Herald 1921-30
The period from 1921 to 1930 saw the Daily Herald come under the direct control of the organised Labour movement - jointly owned by the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress. It seperates an earlier incarnation of independent left radicalism from a subsequent identity as a commercial daily tied to an official political line.
It is a period of commercial and competitive failure - the 500,000 circulation constantly evoked as a target was only attained in times of exceptional political or industrial excitement. Reliant on movement subsidies for capital finance it was unable to match the new features and inducements - notably insurance schemes - that competitors provided in a period of rapid expansion and intense circulation battles.
Editorially it was torn between the radicalism of its staff, the journalistic instinct to avoid predictability and the desire of Labour's moderate leaders for an automatically reliable supporter in the national press. As leadership pressures mounted it increasingly became the voice of the centre lecturing followers, with debate restricted - but independent instincts were never totally curbed.
Failure to attract the desired mass readership cannot be wholly attributed to poverty. Initially developed as the voice of a committed, informed radical political elite it continued to reflect their interests - and would always choose to educate rather than entertain. In the absence of a mass counterculture this left it seeking a popular readership with a serious approach. Realisation that a different approach was needed to win such a readership combined with recognition that this would need capital investment beyond the means of the movement to force the partnership formed with Odhams Press in 1929, ending exclusive movement control
RDA : Catalog Discovery Tool
As part of the practicum experience, the practicum student focused on collection management, reference, and cataloging at the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library under the supervisor of music bibliographer Scott Landvatter and music cataloger Kevin Kishimoto. Collection management, reference, and cataloging are essential core competencies of a library and are especially critical in managing a library’s music collection. This paper focuses on “music cataloging,” an area that the student concentrated on during the second half of the practicum. The first half of the practicum was mostly based on music collection management, particularly preservation and reference. As a result of the experiences during this practicum (within the three month period), the student acknowledges that a library in which librarians possess cataloging skills has a significant impact on improving the public’s view of records. Understanding the challenges that arise in cataloging and having an awareness of best practices in dealing with these challenges can significantly enhance the level of service that a librarian can provide to library patrons. Within the cataloging scope, this paper's primary emphasis is to show how Resource Description and Access (RDA) that is the new data formulating system today, changed the public's view of the library catalog. Looking behind catalogs' scenes, understanding how information is recorded in these catalogs, and knowing the kind of information they contain made it possible for this student to understand providing better access to library users
2003 Commencement Program
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New 3,4-seco ent-kaurenes from Croton caracasana flowers
Two new 3,4-seco- ent-kaurenes, caracasine (1) and caracasine acid (2), were isolated from non-polar extracts of the flowers of Croton caracasana (Euphorbiaceae), together with six known terpenes, stigmasterol (4), stigmastenone (5), 2,6-dimethylocta-3,7-diene-2, 6-diol (6), spathulenol (7), caryophyllene oxide (8), and aromadendrene (9), and the flavonoid tribuloside (10). The chemical structures were determined by spectroscopic means and chemical correlations. All isolated compounds are being described for the first time for this species
2000 Commencement Program
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1964 Commencement Degree Reviewed Candidates - Summer
Fort Hays Kansas State College Degree Reviewed Candidates 1964/07/30https://scholars.fhsu.edu/commencement/1726/thumbnail.jp
Semantic Technologies for Manuscript Descriptions — Concepts and Visions
The contribution at hand relates recent developments in the area of the World Wide
Web to codicological research. In the last number of years, an informational extension
of the internet has been discussed and extensively researched: the Semantic Web. It
has already been applied in many areas, including digital information processing of
cultural heritage data. The Semantic Web facilitates the organisation and linking of
data across websites, according to a given semantic structure. Software can then process
this structural and semantic information to extract further knowledge. In the area
of codicological research, many institutions are making efforts to improve the online
availability of handwritten codices. If these resources could also employ Semantic
Web techniques, considerable research potential could be unleashed. However, data
acquisition from less structured data sources will be problematic. In particular, data
stemming from unstructured sources needs to be made accessible to SemanticWeb tools
through information extraction techniques. In the area of museum research, the CIDOC
Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) has been widely examined and is being adopted
successfully. The CRM translates well to Semantic Web research, and its concentration
on contextualization of objects could support approaches in codicological research.
Further concepts for the creation and management of bibliographic coherences and
structured vocabularies related to the CRM will be considered in this chapter. Finally, a
user scenario showing all processing steps in their context will be elaborated on
Honor Roll of Donors
Published in the Loyola Lawyer, a list of friends, donations, gifts-in-kind, and other annual contributions to Loyola Law School from July 1, 1992 to June 30, 1993
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