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No Way Out: The (Im)possibility of Posthumanism in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island
No full textThis article traces two opposed tendencies in Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island with respect to the contemporary discourse surrounding posthumanism. On the one hand, the text continuously hints at the emergence of an immersive mode of being which does justice to exteriority, while on the other it subverts the potential for such a being’s actualization. While most of the criticism surrounding McCarthy’s novel has optimistically emphasized the former intimation of a posthuman engagement with materiality, the present reading centralizes the latter tendency, attempting to show that the novel lucidly rejects such an optimistic view. Ultimately, I will attempt to show that McCarthy’s Satin Island critiques a naïve contemporary ‘choice’ to be posthuman
Artificial Intensities: The Question of Reality and Immersion in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder
No full textThis paper aims to analyze the methods through which reality may be attained in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder. Through a post-structuralist, chiefly Deleuzian lens, I argue that Remainder presents the reader with a return to the postmodern conception of the ‘real’, while also affirming the necessity, both subjective and objective, of moving beyond it. Such a stance is, I argue, only apparently paradoxical, absurd. In Remainder, this article proposes, reality is achieved through artificiality, and not around it, by accelerating a process of performative immersion which facilitates what Deleuze and Guattari consider to be a fundamental property of artificiality: its tendency to self-destruct
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (ed.), Theory as World Literature, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 284 p.
Get PDFTheory as literature: it is easy enough to grasp how these two terms may admit to a relationship of sorts. Certainly, one may very well reject this ‘as’, in an understandable attempt to starkly differentiate the two registers, drawing a line between the philosophical and the aesthetic. Or, conversely, it is equally justifiable to affirm an intimacy between theory and literature, to the point that either one may be considered an extension of, or towards, the other. Irrespective of one’s positioning, there is a rich conceptual tradition to back up either claim, and, in both cases, it makes perfect sense to discuss and problematize theory as literature. Thus, three of four words in the title of this collection, edited by Di Leo, can be comfortably dealt with. The fourth term, however, is much more problematic, and, as if that weren’t enough, it also forms the conceptual core of this collection. What is a ‘world’? What does it mean for literature to be ‘world’ literature, and for theory to subsequently be defined ‘as world literature’? The ‘worlding’ of theory and literature is a most pressing issue precisely because, despite one’s wholly understandable confusion with respect to the term ‘world’, a pervasive process of neoliberal globalization of cultural manifestations is undoubtedly taking place as we speak. The problem of such a globalization, as Di Leo describes it in the introduction to this collection, is that it risks disintegrating the cultural specificity of the many theories and literatures of the world into an impossibly convoluted yet also thoroughly homogenized “babble” (4). Regrettable though such consequences of the global age may be, Di Leo keenly argues that a return to isolationist preservations of aesthetics and philosophies is certainly not an adequate solution: “To bracket and not consider them [globalization, postmodernity] because of their potential to provide an “infinite, ungraspable canon of works” in the name of world literature rather than a finite, graspable one is to bury one’s head in the ground of contemporary literary and cultural theory. That is to say, globalization does not go away as a concern for world literature just because it greatly complicates it” (5). We cannot turn against the world, and yet, simultaneously, globalization as an instrument for cultural loss ought to be resisted. We must have a worlding of theory and literature, while at the same time rejecting the world in its globalizing sense
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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