54 research outputs found
Déclaration remise à noble Bonnet, Seigneur ancien Sindic, membre de la commission chargée de la révision des édits de la République
No full textpar Mr. Marc Conrad Chappuis, & quelques autres citoyens ou bourgeois, le Jeudi 17 Juin 1779Analyse de Rivoire: Contre les changements que contient le projet de la commission et ses défauts : les sources n'y sont pas indiquées ; l'ordre des anciens Edits a été changé ; le plan est trop vaste. Puis suivent des critiques sur le fond même du projet
Analysis of the microbial communities in soils of different ages following volcanic eruptions
No full textEl primer autor agradece la beca de investigación de la Fundación Alexander von Humboldt y la Sociedad Max Planck, Alemania.The first author acknowledges the research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society, Germany
6. O inominável do corpo nas obras de Melville
No full textInvestigação sobre as relações entre corpo e linguagem na obra do autor de Moby Dick. É no capítulo XXVIII de Moby Dick que nasce a originalidade e a modernidade da escrita melviniana, que tem o seu fundamento na transposição literária do corpo « inominável », essa mesma escrita que mais tarde tanto influenciará certos escritores como Conrad, Kafka, ou ainda Beckett.
Palavras-chave | escrita | voz | silêncio
Abstract
Research on the relationship between body and language in the works of the author of Moby Dick and Bartleby. It can be found in Chapter XXVIII of Moby Dick the originality and the modernity of Melville’s writing style, which has its basis in literary transposition of the "unspeakable" body. This same writing style that will so influence later certain writers as Conrad, Kafka, or Beckett.
Keywords | writing | voice | silence
YVES-MICHEL ERGAL é autor de diversos ensaios sobre literatura, dança e cinema, professor e persquisador da Universidade Marc Bloch, Strassourg, França.
YVES-MICHEL ERGAL is author of numerous essays on literature, dance and cinema. Currently he is professor and researcher at the Marc Bloch University, Strassourg, France
Poiesis and Obstruction in Art Practice
No full textThis PhD thesis examines the concept of poiesis, that is ‘calling into existence that which was not there before’, in the context of obstruction in studio practice. It poses the question ‘Is there a methodology that engages with obstruction which in turn calls new work’? In this thesis, the concept of poiesis emerging from the late Dr. Murray Cox’s ‘Aeolian Mode’, is analyzed alongside a concept of praxis, (a philosophical companion to poiesis), familiar to artistic practice. This thesis describes the orientation of the original idea, The Aeolian Mode, clinically developed by Dr. Murray Cox in Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital. This PhD seeks to identify if there are similar ‘tenets of approach’ held within the methodology of ‘The Aeolian Mode’, that would be useful or are identifiable in artistic studio practice. This thesis draws on the work of the philosopher, Professor Richard Kearney, specifically Kearney’s ideas on the necessity of ‘the other’ for ‘radical possibility’ to occur. It maps a context of both Freudian and Jungian interpretations of art practice, identifying how these ideas have shaped the way art is seen today. Furthermore, it challenges the Freudian idea of ‘pathography’ and favours a Jungian approach of ‘individuation’ in the understanding of creative processes. It develops a ‘methodology of the conversation’, interviewing students, established artists, tutors about their approaches to obstruction/poiesis in art practice. Additionally, it examines my own obstruction to painting and identifies the methodology that released me from this obstruction. Conducting these interviews on art practice has enabled me to confirm my initial concerns about Freudian ‘pathography’ whilst validating the possibility of the Jungian concept of ‘individuation’ being of use to art practice. Finally, this PhD discusses the implications for further study and research, which have emerged during the ‘methodology of the conversation’ and the task of dissolving my obstruction to painting
WildCLIP: Scene and animal attribute retrieval from camera trap data with domain-adapted vision-language models
No full textWildCLIP: Scene and animal attribute retrieval from camera trap data with domain-adapted vision-language models ############# Authors: Valentin Gabeff, Marc Russwurm, Devis Tuia & Alexander Mathis Affiliation: EPFL Date: January, 2024 Link to the article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11263-024-02026-6 -------------------------------- WildCLIP is a fine-tuned CLIP model that allows to retrieve camera-trap events with natural language from the Snapshot Serengeti dataset. This project intends to demonstrate how vision-language models may assist the annotation process of camera-trap datasets. Here we provide the processed Snapshot Serengeti data used to train and evaluate WildCLIP, along with two versions of WildCLIP (model weights). Details on how to run these models can be found in the project github repository. Provided data (images and attribute annotations): The data consists of 380 x 380 image crops corresponding to the MegaDetector output of Snapshot Serengeti with a confidence threshold above 0.7. We considered only camera trap images containing single individuals. A description of the original data can be found on LILA here, released under the Community Data License Agreement (permissive variant). We warmly thank the authors of LILA for making the MegaDetector outputs publicly available, as well as for structuring the dataset and facilitating its access. Adapted CLIP model (model weights): WildCLIP models provided: [New] WildCLIP_vitb16_t1.pth: CLIP model with the ViT-B/16 visual backbone trained on data with captions following template 1. Trained on both base and novel vocabulary (see paper for details). [New] WildCLIP_vitb16_t1_lwf.pth: CLIP model with the ViT-B/16 visual backbone trained on data with captions following template 1, and with the additional VR-LwF loss. Trained on both base and novel vocabulary (see paper for details). WildCLIP_vitb16_t1_base.pth: CLIP model with the ViT-B/16 visual backbone trained on data with captions following template 1. Model used for evaluation and trained on base vocabulary only. (previously named WildCLIP_vitb16_t1.pth) WildCLIP_vitb16_t1t7_lwf_base.pth: CLIP model with the ViT-B/16 visual backbone trained on data with captions following templates 1 to 7, and with the additional VR-LwF loss. Model used for evaluation and trained on base vocabulary only. (previously named WildCLIP_vitb16_t1t7_lwf.pth) We also provide the CSV files containing the train / val / test splits. The train / test splits follow camera split from LILA (https://lila.science/datasets/snapshot-serengeti). The validation split is custom, and also at the camera level. train_dataset_crops_single_animal_template_captions_T1T7_ID.csv: Train set with captions from templates 1 through 7 (column "all captions") or template 1 only (column "template 1") val_dataset_crops_single_animal_template_captions_T1T7_ID.csv: Validation set with captions from templates 1 through 7 (column "all captions") or template 1 only (column "template 1") test_dataset_crops_single_animal_template_captions_T1T8T10.csv: Test set with captions from templates 1, 8, 9 and 10 (columns "all captions") Details on how the models were trained can be found in the associated publication. References: If you find our code, or weights, please cite: @article{gabeff2024wildclip, title={WildCLIP: Scene and animal attribute retrieval from camera trap data with domain-adapted vision-language models}, author={Gabeff, Valentin and Ru{\ss}wurm, Marc and Tuia, Devis and Mathis, Alexander}, journal={International Journal of Computer Vision}, pages={1--17}, year={2024}, publisher={Springer} } If you use the adapted Snapshot Serengeti data please also cite their article: @article{swanson2015snapshot, title={Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna}, author={Swanson, Alexandra and Kosmala, Margaret and Lintott, Chris and Simpson, Robert and Smith, Arfon and Packer, Craig}, journal={Scientific data}, volume={2}, number={1}, pages={1--14}, year={2015}, publisher={Nature Publishing Group} }ECEOZENODO
La ciudad simultánea: La ciudad, el siglo XXI y los escenarios posibles desde la subjetividad de las vaguedades
No full textThe author proposes to reformulate the idea of the city of our time
as well as its imaginary �rooted in 19th-century industrialized
modernity�, just as the renaissance triggered it with its active
impulse to begin with. To do so, it takes some critical postures:
towards the city as of now, considering it a byproduct of the neoliberal
policies so unobjectionably accepted in Latin America; towards
the public and private instances that perpetuate its reproduction;
and towards undergraduate and graduate schools that legitimate
it indirectly. At last, the author coins a new term to denominate
and further study the contemporary city by means of calling on his
own reflections and researches, as well as on the work of various
thinkers �Henri Poncairé and Conrad Hal Waddington�s
non-linear and complex systems, Francesc Muñoz�s urbanality,
Thomas Kuhn�s paradigm (as a symptom of the transformation
a society goes through at any given time), Marc Augé�s non-places,
Zygmunt Bauman�s liquid modernity, Gilbert Durand�s vagueness
(origin of both fecund rains and devastating storms that shape the
world), Francois Ascher�s announced transformations, and Jacques
Attali�s futuristic vision�: the simultaneous city.El autor propone reformular la idea y el imaginario de la
urbe de nuestro tiempo �que surgió de la modernidad
decimonónica e industrializada�, tal y como lo provocó
el Renacimiento en su impulso activo hacia la modernidad.
Fija posturas críticas frente a la ciudad actual,
producto de la política neoliberal que se pasea rampante
por Latinoamérica, frente a las instancias públicas y privadas
que la reproducen, y frente a las enseñanzas que
deambulan por las aulas universitarias, que de manera
indirecta la legitiman. Finalmente el autor, apoyado en
los sistemas no lineales y complejos de Henri Poncairé
y Conrad Hal Waddington, la urbanalidad de Francesc
Muñoz, el paradigma de Thomas Kuhn �entendido
como una manifestación de las transformaciones que gesta
la sociedad en un momento determinado�, los no-lugares
de Auge, la modernidad líquida de Zygmunt Bauman, las
vaguedades de Gilbert Durand �de las que provienen
tanto las lluvias fecundantes como las tormentas devastadoras
que transforman al mundo�, las transformaciones
que anuncia Francois Ascher, la visión futurista de Jacques
Attali, y en sus propias investigaciones y reflexiones, acuña
un nuevo término para denominar y estudiar la ciudad
contemporánea: la Ciudad Simultánea
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The invisible scissors: Media freedom and censorship in Switzerland
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.At first glance, the very idea of analysing the freedom of the media and of researching
censorship in Switzerland seems absurd. After all, the Federal Constitution explicitly guarantees freedom of the media, and censorship is forbidden. Furthermore, this small, federal, multilingual and multicultural landlocked country in the middle of Europe is universally praised as a model of democracy. Indeed, in a country whose people have a far greater say in government than anywhere else, one could easily assume that the freedom of the media is a foregone conclusion.
Yet, in reality, this shining image is more than a little tarnished. The "Prototype for
Europe" – as the former Federal President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker once described Switzerland – experiences the same forms and mechanisms of censorship as any other democratic country. Of course, in Switzerland "undesirable" journalists are
not threatened with murder, but critically discerning authors do risk becoming social
outcasts. Switzerland prohibits governmental pre-censorship, but the advertising
industry has on occasion attempted to shape the content of the media by means of
post-publication censorship in the form of boycotts. Switzerland is a constitutional state, yet the paragraphs of its penal and civil codes hang over media workers like the sword of Damocles. Then there are structural problems such as the lack of proper journalistic education. However one looks at it, the freedom of the media in Switzerland is officially, materially and structurally restricted.
However, most people remain unconcerned by and indeed unaware of this state of affairs. Thomas Jefferson's reminder that, "to preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to
martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement”*, has long been forgotten in Switzerland.
The Swiss appear to be basking in their country’s reputation as a place without media
problems. It therefore came as no surprise to us when, both in our quantitative and
qualitative research, many of those interviewed were surprised and even irritated at our 2 questions about possible threats to freedom of the media in Switzerland. Some people even felt that they were being personally attacked and responded along the lines that "Instead of fouling our own nest we ought to describe the advantages of our country and our democratic system". Or: "In comparison with Russia or China we are living in a paradise": It seems that only the most critical among the media personnel, media experts and media scientists are willing to pinpoint the problems faced by the contemporary Swiss media. All the others are convinced that we have the best media on earth.
This attitude of part indifference, part ignorance and part wishful thinking, was the
catalyst for our research on the freedom of the Swiss media and the potential dangers
and mechanisms which threaten it. Our findings reveal that all that glitters is not gold and that the Swiss media scene is, in some ways, reminiscent of a Potemkin village. *Jefferson, Thomas, Letter to William Green Mumford, 18 June 1799
(http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/jefferson.htm, consulted 15 June 2006
Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark
No full textDanmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth-Century Denmark C.C.Thomson, University of Edinburgh, 2003 This thesis centres on the contemporary Danish novel as a conduit for national imagining. Chapter one begins with a discussion of Benedict Anderson's account of the ability of novels to facilitate an imagining of the national community in time and space. Critical responses to Anderson's hypothesis are then situated in the context of late twentieth-century debates on the 'postnational' and 'posthistorical'. Recent Danish historiography attempts to negotiate national histories that recognise not only the contingency of established historical accounts but also their narrative nature, employing textual strategies such as resisting linear chronology and causality, historicising space and place, and fusing (individual) memory and (collective) history. Such texts, hybrid narratives between histories and stories of Denmark (or Danmarkshistorier), implicate a Danish national model reader who is alive both to the homogenising contemporary discourse of danskhed (Danishness) and to its self-ironising subversion. Contemporary Danish literature, it is argued, shares this concern with what Bhabha identifies as the symbiosis of nationalist historical pedagogy and narrative performance. Chapters two to four focus on three novels which map out the Danish experience of the twentieth century and sit at the intersection of the genres which have marked Danish literature in the 1990s: the punktroman and the encyclopedic novel. Thus all three texts explore temporalities alternative to Anderson's interpretation of Benjamin's 'homogenous empty time', and they construct shifting textual communities of national subjects predicated on the liminalities of cultural identities, on the boundaries between historical fact and fiction, and on the tension between privileged and marginal forms of narrative. In chapter two, Peter Høeg's Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede (1988) is discussed as an anthropological novel which pastiches postcolonial and magical realist writing to critique the longing for order inherent in national historiography and fiction. Peer Hultberg's Byen og verden (1992) is read, in chapter three, as a spatial history of a community in which local, national and global places and times of belonging can coalesce. Chapter four examines the configurations of individual and collective memory, trauma and event, the epochal and the everyday in Vibeke Grønfeldt's I dag (1998). The thesis concludes with a discussion of the novels in question as sites of textual memory, in which 'postnational' spacetimes, including the term of the millennium and the glocal, can be negotiated
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