87 research outputs found
Solitary confinement
No full text"This website is dedicated to examining the practice of solitary confinement in its various forms. It is designed to accompany the Sourcebook on Solitary Confinement and expand on issues discussed therein. The website is managed and maintained by Sharon Shalev." - Home page, 11 January 2013
Listening Voices: On Actualizing Memories
No full textThis chapter presents an artist’s vision of the notion of ‘voice’ in relation to that of memory. Under the auspices of her own practice, Esther Shalev-Gerz explores the modalities of voice as illustrated by three of her own artistic projects. The notion of voicing requires becoming vocal and this in turn suggests a demand or need for the contrapuntal – being listened to. The author considers the modes of voicing and listening which have allowed her to ask broader questions about the relationship of the artist to formations of community and society and to investigate the question of belonging from the perspective of the artist as ‘nomad
The Blue Mountain of Meir Shalev: A Reading Post-Zionist of the Israeli Society
No full textO século XX representou para os judeus dispersos pelo mundo uma dupla reviravolta; por um lado, seis milhões deles foram eliminados pela matança ordenada da II Guerra Mundial, na Shoá. Nestes mesmos anos conturbados chegou ao ápice a busca de uma solução territorial e nacional para o povo. Sustentados pelos ideais desenvolvidos e estipulados pelo Sionismo, o movimento que buscou recolocar o povo judeu no antigo solo bíblico e ali tornar a fazer dele uma nação, depois de anos de embates, criou-se o Estado de Israel, o lar nacional dos judeus. A história desta luta e concretização de um sonho foi escrita por autores que baseados em seus ideais e nos da nação, redigiram-na a partir de sua face heróica, conforme o modelo que lhes fora apresentado. Nas décadas de 1980 e 1990, Israel porém presenciou um novo fenômeno cultural e político: o revisionismo histórico. Os historiadores dessa corrente (Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé, Simcha Flapan, Benny Morris, Tom Seguev) ao negarem a história oficial que conforme a sua concepção está baseada em mitos sionistas, promoveram uma reescrita da história, o que originou grandes debates na sociedade israelense. Tal fato repercutiu nos mais diversos segmentos do país e, em particular, na literatura, um dos focos desta tese. A obra abordada nesta tese é Roman Russi de Meir Shalev (1988), versão em português A Montanha Azul (2002). No romance A Montanha Azul, o escritor israelense contemporâneo Meir Shalev recria o cotidiano de várias famílias de pioneiros ao longo de três gerações no Vale de Jezreel, na região da Galiléia: a geração dos pais fundadores chegados à Palestina no início do século XX com a 2ª aliá; a geração dos nascidos no ishuv e, portanto, os que ajudaram a fundar o Estado judaico; e a geração nascida após a criação de Israel. A Montanha Azul nos mostra que alguma coisa deu errado, que o sonho não se concretizou em sua totalidade, que tanto esforço em parte desmoronou. A obra sinaliza para o fato de que um povo que renuncia aos seus mitos é responsável por seu próprio declínio. A obra de Shalev foi recebida como sendo anti-sionista, porém na realidade o autor critica às novas gerações que negligenciaram os valores sionistas. Não obstante, o autor aponta uma esperança quando Uri, o sabra rebelde, dá uma nova direção ao Sionismo. Esta tese se propõe a indicar como a reviravolta da história pode ser adequadamente abordada por meio de uma obra ficcional.The 20th century represented for the Jews scattered around the world a double great change; on one hand, 6 millions of them were killed at the Shoah, the organized II WW massacre. During these same disturbed years, search for a territorial and for a national solution for the Jewish people reached its apex. Supported by ideals developed and stipulated by Zionism, the movement that intended to restore the Jewish people in the ancient biblical soil and transform it into a nation, after years and years of clashes, the State of Israel, Jews national home was created. History of this struggle and of the rendering of the dream was written by authors that relied on their own ideals and on those of the nation; they composed it from its heroic face, according to the national model that was presented to them. But in the 80s and 90s Israel witnessed a new cultural and political phenomenon: a historical revisionism. These trends historians (Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé, Simcha Flapan, Benny Morris, Tom Seguev) by denying official history which according to their conception is based in Zionist myths, promoted a rewriting of history, and this caused big debates in Israels society. This fact reflected in most sections of the country, particularly in literature, one of the focus of this thesis. The thesis deals with Meir Shalevs novel Roman Russi (Hebrew original, 1988, Montanha Azul, in the Portuguese version of 2002). In this novel, Israeli writer Meir Shalev (1948) recreates daily life of several pioneers families through three generations in Jezreel Valley, Galilee: the generation of founding fathers which arrived to Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century with 2nd aliyah, the generation of native yishuv born, hence those that helped to create the Jewish State and the generation born after the States birth. Blue Mountain signalizes that something went wrong, that the dream didnt come completely true, that such big effort fell partially to pieces. The book points to the fact that a people that renounces to its myths is responsible for its own decline. Shalevs book was received as an anti-Zionist novel, but as a matter of fact the author censures the new generations that neglected Zionist values. Notwithstanding, the author points to some hope when Uri, the rebel sabra, signals to a new direction in Zionism. This thesis proposes to point out how the complete turning of history can be suitably approached by means of fiction
To see the gnomos: close rading of the novel Esau by Meir Shalev
No full textO objetivo deste trabalho é sugerir uma análise detalhada do romance Essav (Esaú) pelo autor israelense Meir Shalev. O romance foi publicado em 1991, e é essencialmente uma espécie de saga, que transmite a história de algumas gerações de uma família judia, desde os primeiros dias da colonização sionista na terra de Israel. Meir Shalev começou a escrever no final dos anos oitenta e pertence à geração pós-modernista. Sua escrita mostra influências das características de seu tempo. Mesmo assim, ainda podemos detectar em seu trabalho tendências modernistas que estão sendo manifestadas na busca de encontrar um sentido para a vida e na tentativa de representar sua complexidade. A metodologia da análise detalhada do romance se baseia em várias fontes teóricas: a primeira é Close Reading, um termo cunhado por Richards, um dos líderes da escola nova crítica. O procedimento desta leitura é focar atentamente nas palavras escritas, na tentativa de descobrir e descrever todos os efeitos de suas relações linguísticas. Outra fonte metodológica é o ensaio famoso de Roland Barthes e sua afirmação de que o autor está morto. A morte do autor permite o nascimento do leitor que pode assumir novas autoridades para com o texto na frente dele. O \"dialogismo\" de Bakhtin fornece uma outra base teórica importante. Segundo esta teoria, qualquer expressão verbal provoca relações intertextuais com muitos outros discursos. Desde o romance Essav é rico em alusões e citações da Bíblia e da literatura ocidental, a intertextualidade é igualmente uma ferramenta interpretativa importante. A análise do romance começa com uma tentativa de descobrir os princípios que organizam a sua estrutura, o que pode parecer uma espécie de colagem ou uma colcha, feita de diferentes ítens que estão ligados sem qualquer orientação distinta. O romance apresenta um conceito de que os acontecimentos históricos são, na verdade, ciclos repetitivos. Uma tentativa de compreender a natureza do tempo é outro tema embutido nele. O romance também trata de questões humanas e as relações entre o homem, a terra e a natureza, elementos que recebem teor mitológico no romance. Estes temas estão também ligados à questão da ideologia sionista e seu impacto sobre a estratificação social das primeiras gerações de assentamento pioneiro. 6 Outros temas derivam da análise dos fundamentos bíblicos no romance, especialmente as histórias sobre o relacionamento e o destino dos gêmeos Jacó e Esaú. Temas centrais adicionais, típicos na poética de Meir Shalev, são aqueles de realização e perda e de relação entre a ficção e a realidade. Este ultimo tema é construído pelo uso massivo de citações e alusões à literatura mundial e por um estilo de narrativa de um trovador. Este estilo rompe a ilusão de realidade, salientando o ato de narrar em si só.The purpose of this work is to suggest a detailed analysis of the novel Esav (Esau) by the Israeli author Meir Shalev. The novel was published in 1991, and is essentially, a type of saga, which conveys the story of four generations of Jewish family starting from the first days of Zionist settlements in the land of Israel. Meir Shalev, who started writing in the late eighties, belongs to the postmodernist generation, and his writing shows influences of the tendencies of his time. Even so, we can still detect in his work, clear modernist trends, which are being manifested in a search for meaning and in portraying the complexity of life. The methodology of the detailed analysis of the novel relies on several theoretical sources: the first is \'close reading, a term coined by Richards, one of the leaders of the new criticism school. The procedure of close reading focuses on the words on the page, in an attempt to discover and describe all the effects of their linguistic relations. Another methodological source is the famous essay of Roland Barthes and his assertion that the author is dead; the death of the author allows the birth of the reader, who can assume new authorities towards the text in front of him. Bakhtins Dialogism provides another important theoretical basis. According to this theory, any verbal utterance provokes intertextual relations with many other utterances. Since the novel Esav is rich with allusions and quotations from the Bible and Western literature, intertextuality is also an important interpretative tool. The analysis of the novel begins with an attempt to uncover the principles that organize its structure, which might appear to be a kind of collage or a quilt, made of different items that are attached together, without any distinct guideline. The novel presents a concept that historical events are actually repeating cycles. An attempt to understand the nature of time is another theme embedded in it. The novel also deals with human relationships and mans attitude to earth and nature, elements that receive a mythological design in the novel. These themes are also connected to the question of Zionist ideology and its impact on the social stratification of the early generations of pioneering settlement. More themes derive from the analysis of the role of the biblical infrastructure of the novel, especially the stories about the relationship and the fate of the twins Jacob and Esau. Other central themes, typical of Meir Shalevs poetics, are those of fulfillment and loss, and the relationship between fiction and reality. The last theme is established by a massive use of quotations and allusions to world-literature and by a narrative style of a troubadour. This style breaks the illusion of reality and thus, emphasizes the act of telling in itself
Efficient learning with partially observed attributes
No full textWe describe and analyze efficient algorithms for learning a linear predictor from examples when the learner can only view a few attributes of each training example. This is the case, for instance, in medical research, where each patient participating in the experiment is only willing to go through a small number of tests. Our analysis bounds the number of additional examples sufficient to compen-sate for the lack of full information on each training example. We demonstrate the efficiency of our algorithms by showing that when running on digit recognition data, they obtain a high prediction accuracy even when the learner gets to see only four pixels of each image. Copyright 2010 by the author(s)/owner(s)
Effect of Aggregate Sentiment on Perceived Credibility, Perceived Likability, and Intent to Follow
No full textThis research examines how people decide whether to follow other users on online review platforms and how this relates to the aggregate sentiment that a potential followee expresses
On the Gowers trick for classical simple groups
No full textIf A, B, C are subsets in a finite simple group of Lie type G at least two of which are normal with |A||B||C| relatively large, then we establish a stronger conclusion than ABC=G. This is related to a theorem of Gowers and is a generalization of a theorem of Larsen, Shalev, Tiep and the second author and Pyber
The orders of nonsingular derivations of modular Lie algebras
No full textWe extend the results of Shalev [Sh] on the orders of nonsingular derivations of finite-dimensional non-nilpotent modular Lie algebras.The author is grateful to Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica, Italy, for financial support to the project “Graded Lie algebras and pro-p-groups of finite width”.</p
The orders of nonsingular derivations of modular Lie algebras
No full textWe extend the results of Shalev [Sh] on the orders of nonsingular derivations of finite-dimensional non-nilpotent modular Lie algebras.The author is grateful to Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica, Italy, for financial support to the project “Graded Lie algebras and pro-p-groups of finite width”.</p
On the Gowers trick for classical simple groups
No full textIf , , are subsets in a finite simple group of Lie type at
least two of which are normal with relatively large, then we
establish a stronger conclusion than . This is related to a theorem of
Gowers and is a generalization of a theorem of Larsen, Shalev, Tiep and the
second author and Pyber.Comment: 13 page
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