10 research outputs found
Uncovering a Feminist Spirituality: Christianity as a Visual Framework in Leonora Carrington\u27s Iconography
No full textLeonora Carrington’s paintings are rife with symbolic tension—swirling interactions and narratives that seemingly beg to be untangled. According to feminist art historian Susan Aberth, however, in Carrington’s work “it is not that certain embedded symbols have no meaning; it is that these symbols cannot and do not ‘illustrate’ ideas in the manner we are accustomed to.” Unlike the biblical images that colored her Catholic upbringing, Carrington’s work possesses no legend to reveal the hidden significance of her symbolisms, which serve more aptly as self-portraits than didactic allegories. Carrington spent years struggling to escape her Catholic family, and she pokes fun at crystalized Christian motifs throughout her artistic career by repurposing their traditional narrative language. Carrington utilizes the iconographies as a platform for communicating the widespread spiritual and philosophical influences she has become known for commingling in her work, from occultism and hermeticism to Jungian symbols. The goal of this paper is to trace Carrington’s repeated reconstructions of traditional Christian representational frameworks as an evolution parallel with her changing conceptions of masculine and feminine power. The research seeks to capture Christian imagery both as the foundation of Carrington’s deliberately indecipherable iconographic language and as a device for subverting patriarchal notions of religion in favor of a revived, yet novel feminine spirituality. The paper will accomplish its aims with a survey of both the specific symbols and techniques that Carrington employs in her painting that indicate deliberate and potentially unintended Christian influence. While the far-reaching codes embedded in Carrington’s oeuvre are nearly innumerable, deconstructing her Christian imagery provides insight into the beginnings of a feminist religious iconography for the modern era
Uncovering a Feminist Spirituality: Christianity as a Visual Framework in Leonora Carrington's Iconography
No full textLeonora Carrington’s paintings are rife with symbolic tension—swirling interactions and narratives that seemingly beg to be untangled. According to feminist art historian Susan Aberth, however, in Carrington’s work “it is not that certain embedded symbols have no meaning; it is that these symbols cannot and do not ‘illustrate’ ideas in the manner we are accustomed to.” Unlike the biblical images that colored her Catholic upbringing, Carrington’s work possesses no legend to reveal the hidden significance of her symbolisms, which serve more aptly as self-portraits than didactic allegories. Carrington spent years struggling to escape her Catholic family, and she pokes fun at crystalized Christian motifs throughout her artistic career by repurposing their traditional narrative language. Carrington utilizes the iconographies as a platform for communicating the widespread spiritual and philosophical influences she has become known for commingling in her work, from occultism and hermeticism to Jungian symbols. The goal of this paper is to trace Carrington’s repeated reconstructions of traditional Christian representational frameworks as an evolution parallel with her changing conceptions of masculine and feminine power. The research seeks to capture Christian imagery both as the foundation of Carrington’s deliberately indecipherable iconographic language and as a device for subverting patriarchal notions of religion in favor of a revived, yet novel feminine spirituality. The paper will accomplish its aims with a survey of both the specific symbols and techniques that Carrington employs in her painting that indicate deliberate and potentially unintended Christian influence. While the far-reaching codes embedded in Carrington’s oeuvre are nearly innumerable, deconstructing her Christian imagery provides insight into the beginnings of a feminist religious iconography for the modern era.SUNY BrockportSUNY Undergraduate Research Conferenc
A critical examination of visualized femininity: selective inheritance and intensification of gender posing from historical painting to contemporary advertising
No full textBody Surveillance on Instagram: Examining the Role of Selfie Feedback Investment in Young Adult Women’s Body Image Concerns
No full textCommunity Internet of Things as Mobile Infrastructure: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities
No full textFrom smart devices to homes to cities, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have become embedded within everyday objects on a global scale. We understand IoT technologies as a form of infrastructure that bridges the gaps between offline spaces and online networks as they track, transmit, and construct digital data from and of the physical world. We examine the social construction of IoT network technologies through their technological design and corporate discourses. In this article, we explore the methodological challenges and opportunities of studying IoT as an emerging network technology. We draw on a case study of a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN), a cost-effective radio frequency network that is designed to connect sensors across long distances. Reflecting on our semi-structured interviews with LPWAN users and advocates, participant observation at conferences about LPWAN, as well as a community-based LPWAN project, we examine the intersections of methods and practices as related to space, data, and infrastructures. We identify three key methodological obstacles involved in studying the social construction of networked technologies that straddle physical and digital environments. These include (a) transcending the invisibility and abstraction of network infrastructures, (b) managing practical and conceptual boundaries to sample key cases and participants, and (c) negotiating competing technospatial imaginaries between participants and researchers. Through our reflection, we demonstrate that these challenges also serve as generative methodological opportunities, extending existing tools to study the ways data connects online and offline spaces
Extending advice response theory to the advisor: Similarities, differences, and partner-effects in advisor and recipient advice evaluations
No full textWe extended advice response theory by drawing from construal-level theory to understand advisors’ evaluation processes and how advisors’ and recipients’ evaluations impact each other. An actor-partner interdependence model (N = 130 dyads) indicated, for both advisors and recipients, advisor expertise assessments were positively associated with advice facework and efficacy evaluations, which were positively associated with advice quality ratings. Advisors rated certain aspects of their advice more favorably than recipients, viewed absence of limitations as more important when rating advice quality, and were less influenced by their relational satisfaction when evaluating message features. We examined how recipient-to-advisor and advisor-to-recipient significant effects manifested in conversations using post-hoc qualitative analyses and found that behaviors are role-dependent and may reflect role-specific construal levels
Advisor Interaction Goals and Verbal Messages: Merging a Multiple Goals Approach and the Integrated Model of Advice Giving
No full textBased on the integrated model of advice giving and theorizing about interaction goals, we examined how advisors’ goal intensity and complexity predicted perceptions of advisor harmfulness and helpfulness. We also examined predictors of goal intensity and complexity, such as advisors’ relational satisfaction with recipients, which generally increased goal intensity and complexity. Recipients and advisors rated advisors’ behaviors as more helpful when advisors reported greater intensity of the problem-solving goal but not the other three goals (emotional support, eliciting disclosure, and facilitating reappraisal). However, recipients and advisors rated advisors’ behaviors as more harmful when advisors had low versus moderate or high goal complexity. Qualitative analyses of conversation transcripts revealed patterns of interaction behavior associated with goal intensity and complexity. We discuss how goal intensity and complexity may relate to advisors’ messages and interaction patterns during the conversation, and therefore recipient and advisor perceptions of advisors’ helpfulness and harmfulness
Author Correction: A MHz-repetition-rate hard X-ray free-electron laser driven by a superconducting linear accelerator
No full textGermline determinants of outcome and risk in colorectal cancer
No full textGenome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified germline single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) that are associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) susceptibility.
This thesis applies the same approach to the identification of germline determinants of
prognosis in CRC, attempts to verify potential susceptibility loci, and examines the
relationship between SNPs and some forms of non-SNP based germline variation.
The GWAS for prognosis used 931 patients enrolled in the VICTOR trial in the
discovery phase, screening 309,200 autosomal SNPs for an association with disease-free
survival (DFS). Following the application of selection filters based on statistical
significance levels and performance of the genotyping, 40 SNPs were identified to be
examined in further cohorts. The verification phase consisted of 1338 patients in the
PETACC 3 trial and three population based cohorts: 899 patients from Scotland, 599
patients from Denmark, and 962 patients from Finland.
The SNPs that came closest to genome-wide significance in stage 2 and 3 CRC was
rs7556894, 15kb from Actin-related protein 2 (ARP2) on chromosome 2, part of the
ARP2/3 complex essential for cell shape and motility, with p=8.96e-07. The impact on
prognosis of rs7556894 was estimated as HR=1.52 (95% CI 1.17-1.96).
Because of the failure to reach genome-wide significance (p<1e-07), two further
approaches to the discovery phase are presented: the meta-analysis of two discovery
cohorts to increase event rate and subject numbers and a GWAS for predictive markers
for the benefit of adjuvant 5-FU chemotherapy. Formal verification of either approach
was not undertaken as part of this thesis.
Further loci were subjected to specific analyses of association with prognosis or CRC
susceptibility: rs6983267 and the previously identified CRC susceptibility loci to a survival
analysis, and not found to be associated; rs6687758, previously identified as a potential
CRC risk locus to a susceptibility verification, confirming a significant association with
HR=1.15, 95% CI 1.10-1.21, p=5.04e-08; and a variety of hypothesis driven potential
risk loci to a screen for an association with CRC susceptibility, none was found but the
LD relationship between tagSNPs and insertion/deletion polymorphisms appears to be
the same as for ‘normal’ SNPs.
Overall, the data presented in this thesis quantify further the contribution of germline
variation to CRC susceptibility, exclude a major effect of such variation on prognosis, and
verify rs6687758 as a further low-penetrance CRC susceptibility locus
