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Literature and the Post-secular: The Case of Julian Barnes
No full textThe recently emerged post-secular literary studies is a response to what Jürgen Habermas dubs as ‘postsecularisation.’ While the definition of the term remains obscure, a post-secular criticism of literary texts overcomes this elusiveness by identifying the possible areas of scholarly interest and attempting to establish a scope of interpretive frameworks. The body of post-secular texts constantly grows, and this paper suggests yet another one, by contemporary writer, Julian Barnes, whose fiction and non-fiction contribute to the makeup of post-secular moments. The present paper takes as a focus The Survivor, the fourth chapter of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters; Nothing to be Frightened of is also considered along with the interviews with the writer. In this reading of The Survivor, based on existing interpretive models, a ‘revisionary return’ (McClure) in the life of the central female protagonist, a secular doubter, is presented as provisional and non-final. In resisting master narratives and challenging the secular/religious binary, Barnes uses postmodernist poetics and invokes the practices of Pyrrhonism, such as the suspension of judgement, or what has been called epochē. Furthermore, the literary manifestations of the post-secular are put in a broader context, as the paper also discusses ways of amplifying the theory of ‘post-secular,’ suggesting similarities between the contemporary post-secular and the early modern, and thus emphasising the tradition of religious scepticism and doubt in English literature since the time of the Renaissance
FORMAL METHODS IN DEVELOPMENT OF SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEM SOFTWARE
No full textČlánek se zaměřuje na využití formálních metod při vývoji softwaru pro bezpečnostně kritické systémy v dopravě. Takové systémy mají narůstající složitost a musejí vyhovovat určitým požadavkům na kvalitu. Formální metody jsou zařazeny do procesu vývoje softwaru. Použití vybrané formální metody Event-B je demonstrováno na specifikaci chování železničního přejezdového zabezpečovacího zařízení.This article focuses on using formal methods in development of safety critical system software in transport. Such system has an increasing complexity and has to meetcertain quality requirements. Formal methods are set in the software development process. The use of formal method Event-B is demonstrated on a railway level crossing protection equipment specification
OVERALL CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL
No full textPředkládaný článek poskytuje základní přehled o vývoji mezinárodního normy v oblasti konceptuálního a logického datového modelu a fyzického formátu pro kódování geografických databází pro aplikace a služby inteligentních dopravních systémů (ITS). Hlavní zaměření je na aplikace kooperativních ITS systémů, automatizované systémy řízení a související informace o pozemních komunikacích a jízdních pruzích.Paper introduces the basic approach to development International Standard in the area of conceptual and logical data model and physical encoding format for geographic databases for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications and services. The focus is on Cooperative-ITS services and automated driving systems, and relevant information about road lanes
Redefining the Terms of National Belonging in War and Peace in Randolph Bourne’s Critique of the Great War
No full textThis paper looks into Randolph Bourne’s cultural critique at the time of the United States entry into World War I. As one of the few intellectuals who opposed the war, Bourne brought into light the interdependence between war and the State: “War is the health of the State” is his phrase and has resonated ever since. He looked well beyond nationalist hysteria and economic imperialism to examine the reasons for the State to support militarism, but he also sought concrete pacifist alternatives to the U.S. intervention in the war that involved the intellectuals in particular. This paper sheds light on these alternatives based on Bourne’s anti-war writings, namely his proposals for an educational service to prepare the nation for creative rather than destructive action, and the intellectuals’ renewal of the dialogue between democracy and pacifism en route to a transnational understanding of community and belonging
Formable Fluidity: The Key Consequence of Information Flow in Cyberpunk Fiction
No full textCyberpunk is one of the most recent subgenres to emerge in science fiction. In the represented world of this subgenre, information is the constituting element of all the flows, frameworks and interactions. Within the cyberpunk world, information exercises both fluidity and formability in its manipulations. The fluidity occurs when information manipulates different aspects of the represented world through commodifying and simulative operations, and the formability and containment of the fluidity occur when the conventional conceptualizations of aspects such as time and labor resist losing ground to simulations and its various informational manipulations. As a result, an uneasy coexistence of formability and fluidity is materialized in various aspects of the cyberpunk world, a coexistence which the present study will address as formable fluidity. Through reviewing some key works in the subgenre, the present study investigates the impact of the formable fluidity on the temporal and the occupational aspects of the presented world in cyberpunk fiction. The study assumes that due to the highly fluid and speculative nature of information in cyberpunk fiction, time loses its durational historicity. This subgenre also favors modalities of ownership, capital and labor which have the highest level of mobility and networking, with the commitment to conventional fixities and centralities in the occupational aspects becoming contingent, unstable and temporary
DESIGN OF STRUCTURE AND KINEMATIC LAYOUT OF PARTS OF MECHANISM WITH ROTATING CYLINDERS
No full textČlánok sa zaoberá konštrukčným návrhom kinematického usporiadania mechanizmu s rotujúcimi valcami a jeho využitia najmä v piestových spaľovacích motoroch v modifikácii zážihového alebo vznetového a to dvojtaktného alebo štvortaktného motora. Celý mechanizmus bude navrhovaný s cieľom úplnej eliminácie bočnej (normálovej) sily na piest tým spôsobom, že uhol β kyvu ojnice musí byť v každej polohe mechanizmu nulový. To bude zabezpečené kinematikou ojnice, ktorá by sa mala pohybovať iba v osi valcaThe paper deals with the constructional design of kinematic arrangement of mechanism with rotating cylinders and its use especially in piston combustion engines (spark-ignition engine and diesel engine), which may be two or four-stroke engines. The entire mechanism will be designed with the aim to completely eliminate the side (normal) force acting on the piston by ensuring a zero angle of connecting rod swing β at each mechanism position. This will be ensured by connecting rod’s kinematics – it should only be moved in the cylinder axis
HIERARCHY OF OPERATIONAL-ORGANIZATIONAL MEASURES IN RAILWAY PASSENGER TRANSPORT
No full textCharakteristickou črtou železničnej osobnej dopravy je jej vysoká prepravná kapacita. Predurčuje ju, aby vytvorila nosný dopravný systém. Základnou prekážkou je však kvalita dopravnej infraštruktúry, nakoľko v mnohých členských štátoch EÚ neexistujú vysokorýchlostné železničné trate. Cieľom príspevku je analyzovať základné problémy prevádzky a organizácie osobnej železničnej dopravy a navrhnúť opatrenia na zvýšenie jej efektívnosti, atraktívnosti, lepšieho obrazu v očiach verejnosti, ale najmä zvýšenie prepravných výkonov. Stanovením vhodných prevádzkových, organizačných a infraštruktúrnych parametrov sa zlepší konkurencieschopnosť železničnej dopravy.The characteristic feature of rail passenger transport is its high transport capacity. It predetermines the railway to create the key mode of transport. Main bottleneck is the transport infrastructure quality. There are no high-speed rail links in many European Union Member States. The aim of the contribution is to analyse the basic problems of the operation and organization of rail passenger transport and to propose measures for increasing its efficiency, attractiveness, better image in the eyes of the public, but especially the increase of transport performance. By setting the appropriate operational, organizational and infrastructure parameters, the competitiveness of rail transport will be enhanced
OVERALL CONCEPTUAL DATA MODEL
No full textPředkládaný článek poskytuje základní přehled o vývoji mezinárodního normy v oblasti konceptuálního a logického datového modelu a fyzického formátu pro kódování geografických databází pro aplikace a služby inteligentních dopravních systémů (ITS). Hlavní zaměření je na aplikace kooperativních ITS systémů, automatizované systémy řízení a související informace o pozemních komunikacích a jízdních pruzích.Paper introduces the basic approach to development International Standard in the area of conceptual and logical data model and physical encoding format for geographic databases for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications and services. The focus is on Cooperative-ITS services and automated driving systems, and relevant information about road lanes
Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun and the Centenary of the End of the Great War
No full textIn November 2018, the centenary of the end of “the war to end all wars” was commemorated all around the world. World War I affected millions of people and had a profound impact on literature and culture. The paper discusses Dalton Trumbo’s 1939 pacifist novel Johnny Got His Gun and its late 20th century legacy. Although the novel was published long after the war’s end, it remains one of the most powerful anti-war statements. Contrary to more famous World War I novels it does not deal with the disillusionment of the post-war generation. The story of a quadruple amputee which takes place entirely in the main protagonist’s head is a claustrophobic and nightmarish journey into the mind of a young boy trapped in himself, imprisoned in darkness. The novel frequently fell out of favor during the 20th century but it enjoyed its share of popularity in Czechoslovakia, thanks to Trumbo’s communist sympathies
The Habsburg Monarchy from a Roman Perspective: Potential Insights of the “Nuncial Reports from Germany” for International Historical Research
No full textrom the very beginning of the edition “Nuncial reports from Germany” in the late nineteenth century, the publication of sources was extended beyond the century of Reformation to the time of the Thirty Years’ War. The fourth series, dedicated to the first half of the seventeenth century, was finished in 2016. There are six substantial volumes which document the core phase (around 1630) of the Thirty Years’ War with its decisive change to the disadvantage of the emperor, the Habsburgs and the Catholic faction of the Holy Roman Empire up to the intensive efforts to make peace, the Peace of Prague in 1635 and the concurrent European extension of the Thirty Years’ War with Sweden’s and France’s entry into the war in 1630/1635. With these volumes, a cohesive documentation of sources of European rank was achieved. 2018 marked the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, thus it is worth looking at this edition as a prime collection of sources of European history, particularly of the Papal–Habsburg relations at the height of the Thirty Years’ War.rom the very beginning of the edition “Nuncial reports from Germany” in the late nineteenth century, the publication of sources was extended beyond the century of Reformation to the time of the Thirty Years’ War. The fourth series, dedicated to the first half of the seventeenth century, was finished in 2016. There are six substantial volumes which document the core phase (around 1630) of the Thirty Years’ War with its decisive change to the disadvantage of the emperor, the Habsburgs and the Catholic faction of the Holy Roman Empire up to the intensive efforts to make peace, the Peace of Prague in 1635 and the concurrent European extension of the Thirty Years’ War with Sweden’s and France’s entry into the war in 1630/1635. With these volumes, a cohesive documentation of sources of European rank was achieved. 2018 marked the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, thus it is worth looking at this edition as a prime collection of sources of European history, particularly of the Papal–Habsburg relations at the height of the Thirty Years’ War