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The Abbey of Thélème: an enclave withdrawn from reality and the climax of an elitist society
Get PDFCet article se donne pour ambition de questionner l’Abbaye de Thélème imaginée par François Rabelais afin d’en saisir le programme utopique initial tout en en observant les contours et les limites. Il s’agira alors de situer cette œuvre à un carrefour où se croisent les valeurs humanistes, les apports de More, les crises spirituelles mais aussi et surtout un besoin nécessaire de renouveau et d’inédit qui résulte d’une critique sociale et politique. C’est à partir de ce constat liminaire que nous tenterons ensuite d’approcher la structure, le projet et les lois qui règlementent et organisent cette société utopique avant d’en saisir les limites. Nous pourrons alors en apprécier la construction, tant physique que théorique, en dressant un parallèle révélateur avec l’architecture du couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette imaginé par Le Corbusier. Nous verrons enfin comment le jeu de la langue chez Rabelais outrepasse le projet idéologique au profit d’une écriture novatrice, complexe et protéiforme. Il faudra dès lors en entendre les paradoxes qui permettent de comprendre et saisir l’importance littéraire qui au final se détache progressivement de l’utopie initiale.This article aims to analyze the Abbey of Thélème imagined by François Rabelais to get a clear idea about the initial utopian programme, by means of observing its shapes and limits. It will situate this work at an intersection between humanitarian values, contribution from More, spiritual crisis, and above all a pressing demand for renewal and novelty, resulting from societal and political criticism. It is from this opening statement that we will try to approach the structure, the project and the laws regulating and organizing this particular utopian society, before determining its limits. Attention will be paid to its construction, concrete and theoretical, in a parallel with the architecture of the convent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette designed by Le Corbusier. Thus, we will demonstrate how Rabelais’ linguistic games overstep the ideological project for the benefit of a new type of writing, complex and multifaceted. We will have to understand a lot of paradoxes which allow us to determine the importance of the literature beyond the initial utopian project
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
Esthétiques de l'Utopie : l'architecture inquiétée par l'art contemporain
No full textAesthetics of Utopia : architecture queried by contemporary art In 1516, the English humanist Thomas More wrote Utopia and thereby designated a full genre which, far from being a new notion, will question and shake the whole artistic and philosophical domains. Through our research, we will approach this elusive «place of nowhere» with an interdisciplinary work where architecture and contemporary art will question each other. Therefore, we must understand Utopia in the proper space and time of contemporaneity and contemporary which is, as Giorgio Agamben stressed, «the one which is slapped in the face by the beams of darknesses that comes from his time». Far from the codes and the logics of History and chronology, we will attempt to understand Utopia within a network where philosophy, aesthetic, literature, poetry, psychoanalysis and of course, architecture and plastic arts challenge and question each others. Based on the model of a mind map, where paths that are going nowhere are running into each others, we must see this research as an intimate, attractive and lyrical promenade. A stroll towards motives such as the journey, the disaster/shipwreck, the door, the threshold, the maze, the tower, the tree, the pyramid, the island, the refuge, or the building site, the ruin, the home et cetera. Finally, it is necessary to note that it is from and through works of art that our statement will progress, strenghtened by their creative and lyrical powers which are also set in motion by utopia.En 1516, l’humaniste anglais Thomas More écrit l’Utopie et nomme ainsi un genre à part entière qui, loin d’être une notion inédite, va questionner et secouer l’ensemble des champs artistiques et philosophiques. A travers notre recherche, il s’agit d’approcher cet insaisissable « lieu de nulle part » par le prisme d’un travail interdisciplinaire où s’interrogent réciproquement architecture et art contemporain. Il faut dès lors saisir l’utopie dans l’espace et le lieu propre de la contemporanéité et du contemporain qui, comme le souligne Giorgio Agamben est, « celui qui reçoit en plein visage le faisceau de ténèbres qui provient de son temps ». Loin des attentes et des présupposés de l’Histoire et de la chronologie, nous tenterons d’entendre l’utopie au sein d’un maillage où s’interrogent et s’interpellent philosophie, esthétique, littérature, poésie, psychanalyse et, bien évidemment, architecture et arts plastiques. Basé sur le modèle de la carte heuristique, où s’entremêlent les chemins qui ne mènent nulle part, il faut entrevoir cette recherche sous les traits d’une promenade intime, esthétique et poétique. Promenade à la rencontre de motifs privilégiés tels que : le voyage, le naufrage, la porte, le seuil, le labyrinthe, la tour, l’arbre, la pyramide, l’île, le refuge, la grotte, la caverne ou encore le chantier, la ruine, le chez-soi, et cetera. Enfin, il est nécessaire de noter que c’est à partir et à travers les œuvres d’art que cheminera notre propos, renforcé par leurs puissances poïétiques et poétiques intrinsèques qui sont aussi mises en acte au sein même de l’utopie
Aesthetics of Utopia : architecture queried by contemporary art
No full textEn 1516, l’humaniste anglais Thomas More écrit l’Utopie et nomme ainsi un genre à part entière qui, loin d’être une notion inédite, va questionner et secouer l’ensemble des champs artistiques et philosophiques. A travers notre recherche, il s’agit d’approcher cet insaisissable « lieu de nulle part » par le prisme d’un travail interdisciplinaire où s’interrogent réciproquement architecture et art contemporain. Il faut dès lors saisir l’utopie dans l’espace et le lieu propre de la contemporanéité et du contemporain qui, comme le souligne Giorgio Agamben est, « celui qui reçoit en plein visage le faisceau de ténèbres qui provient de son temps ». Loin des attentes et des présupposés de l’Histoire et de la chronologie, nous tenterons d’entendre l’utopie au sein d’un maillage où s’interrogent et s’interpellent philosophie, esthétique, littérature, poésie, psychanalyse et, bien évidemment, architecture et arts plastiques. Basé sur le modèle de la carte heuristique, où s’entremêlent les chemins qui ne mènent nulle part, il faut entrevoir cette recherche sous les traits d’une promenade intime, esthétique et poétique. Promenade à la rencontre de motifs privilégiés tels que : le voyage, le naufrage, la porte, le seuil, le labyrinthe, la tour, l’arbre, la pyramide, l’île, le refuge, la grotte, la caverne ou encore le chantier, la ruine, le chez-soi, et cetera. Enfin, il est nécessaire de noter que c’est à partir et à travers les œuvres d’art que cheminera notre propos, renforcé par leurs puissances poïétiques et poétiques intrinsèques qui sont aussi mises en acte au sein même de l’utopie.Aesthetics of Utopia : architecture queried by contemporary art In 1516, the English humanist Thomas More wrote Utopia and thereby designated a full genre which, far from being a new notion, will question and shake the whole artistic and philosophical domains. Through our research, we will approach this elusive «place of nowhere» with an interdisciplinary work where architecture and contemporary art will question each other. Therefore, we must understand Utopia in the proper space and time of contemporaneity and contemporary which is, as Giorgio Agamben stressed, «the one which is slapped in the face by the beams of darknesses that comes from his time». Far from the codes and the logics of History and chronology, we will attempt to understand Utopia within a network where philosophy, aesthetic, literature, poetry, psychoanalysis and of course, architecture and plastic arts challenge and question each others. Based on the model of a mind map, where paths that are going nowhere are running into each others, we must see this research as an intimate, attractive and lyrical promenade. A stroll towards motives such as the journey, the disaster/shipwreck, the door, the threshold, the maze, the tower, the tree, the pyramid, the island, the refuge, or the building site, the ruin, the home et cetera. Finally, it is necessary to note that it is from and through works of art that our statement will progress, strenghtened by their creative and lyrical powers which are also set in motion by utopia
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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