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Alien theory : the decline of materialism in the name of matter
Full text linkThe thesis tries to define and explain the rudiments of a 'nonphilosophical'
or 'non-decisional' theory of materialism on the basis of a
theoretical framework provided by the 'non-philosophy' of Francois
Laruelle. Neither anti-philosophical nor anti-materialist in character, non-materialism
tries to construct a rigorously transcendental theory of matter by
using certain instances of philosophical materialism as its source material.
The materialist decision to identify the real with matter is seen to retain a
structural isomorphy with the phenomenological decision to identify the real
with the phenomenon. Both decisions are shown to operate on the basis of a
methodological idealism; materialism on account of its confusion of matter
and concept; phenomenology by virtue of its confusion of phenomenon and
logos. By dissolving the respectively 'materiological' and
'phenomenological' amlphibolies which are the result of the failure to effect a
rigorously transcendental separation between matter and concept on the one
hand; and between phenomenon and logos on the other, non-materialist
theory proposes to mobilise the non-hybrid or non-decisional concepts of a
'matter-without-concept' and of a 'phenomenon-without-logos' in order to
effect a unified but non-unitary theory of phenomenology and materialism.
The result is a materialisation of thinking that operates according to matter's
foreclosure to decision. That is to say, a transcendental theory of the
phenomenon that licenses limitless phenomenological plasticity,
unconstrained by the apparatus of eidetic intuition or any horizon of
apophantic disclosure; yet one which is simultaneously a transcendental
theory of matter, uncontaminated by the bounds of empirical perception and
free of all phenomenological circumscription
Quasi-beliefs and crazy beliefs : subdoxastic states and the "special characteristics" of the unconscious
No full textSocial dissonance
No full text149 p.Este proyecto cuenta de dos partes: una teoríca en la que se desarrolla el concepto de disonancia social y otra práctica que toma la forma de una partitura. Esta partitura toma el 4,33 de John Cage como punto de partida pero aquí cambia el emfasis de lo sonoro a las relaciones sociales. Esta tesis investiga el concepto de alienación y extrañamiento tanto en Marx como en la estética y los reconsidera teniendo en cuenta nuevos descubrimientos que se estan dando en la neurociencia y que ponen en entredicho el Yo. Estos temas son tratados por el neurofilósofo Thomas Metzinger en su libro Being No-One. Durante esta investigación se ha desarrollado el concepto de disonancia social que tiene que ver con la discrepancia que existe entre como el capitalismo mediante la tecnología impulsa cada vez mas una subjetividad individualista y narcisista pero al mismo tiempo expande nuestra capacidad para socializar. Esta discrepancia genera una confusión respecto a lo que consideramos la libertad en la cual se fusionan el yo y el individuo con el sujeto. Pero como comprobamos durante la investigación nuestra perspectiva respecto al yo vemos que es una ilusión, que la noción de individuo va totalmente ligado a un concepto juridico y que la noción de sujeto tiene que ser reconsiderada ya que la expresión de su libertad en las condiciones actuales del capitalismo contemporaneo se vuelve cada vez mas problemática en tanto que cada vez estamos mas determinados por intereses económicos. El punto de partida para esta investigación sale de mis experiencias dentro de las escenas de la improvisación y el ruido donde la idea de libertad sigue acompañada de la expresión del yo -aunque esta sea de manera colectiva- y donde el énfasis sonoro es tratado desde una perspectiva fenomenológica. Estas prácticas presuponen el yo como propietario de sus experiencias, idea que vamos desmontando a lo largo de la ivestigación. El concepto de disonancia social nos ayuda a entender mejor esta distorsión de como nos entendemos a nosotros mismos y como realmente somos. Mediante la interpretación de la partitura ingestigamos de manera práctica como nos entedemos a nosotros mismos en un contexto artístico. En esta partitura que se esta realizando como parte de documenta14, los interpretes improvisan constantemente con la noción de Brecht de Verfremdungseffekt utilizando al público como instrumento. La gran diferencia con Brecht es que aquí, que no hay personajes ya tanto los interpretes como el publico se representan así mismos. La partitura de disonancia social utiliza técnicas de la música experimental para explorar la distorsion que hemos mencionado antes, aquella que sale de la del del concepto disonancia social que hemos desarrollado durante nuestra investigación
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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