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Foxcroft presenta ante público morelense sus investigaciones
No full textThis paper evaluates the nature and significance of Nigel Foxcroft’s current research into the worldview of the late Modernist writer, Malcolm Lowry by considering the latter’s search for new ways of understanding the world, based on his ideas relating to the soul. In considering various influences on his life and work, it highlights the theme of shamanism and the relationship between Lowry’s creative mind and the cosmological concepts held by the indigenous peoples of Mexico, such as the Aztec and Zapotec civilizations. The different planes of reality in Under the Volcano are considered, as are Surrealist influences emanating from Edward Burra and Diego Rivera. Lowry’s interest in Russian literature - for example in Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Lev Tolstoy is discussed. Gogol’s novel, Dead Souls is deemed as being particularly influential in its interface with the Day of the Dead Festival in Mexico
West Sussex Author Explores World of Malcolm Lowry:Angmering author Nigel Foxcroft explores the world of English late modernist writer Malcolm Lowry in his new book
Full text linkThe Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans invites you to step into my world. It will take you on a highly topical journey into the life and works of the English late modernist writer, Malcolm Lowry. Born in New Brighton, Wirral, this great fiction author had close links to Sussex. Writing in the first half of the twentieth century, he was fascinated by the complex and interrelated realm of his experiences: it was – and is -one where ancient and contemporary cultures meet. Join me on an expedition which spans the continents of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. We shall trace Lowry’s steps by venturing to Russia, Mexico, Canada, and the Far East on a quest to decipher the hidden secrets of cultures and civilizations. My interdisciplinary book will provide you with a historical lens which highlights literature’s role in heightening awareness of contemporary issues of global significance too. These include current economic and political uncertainties, environmental concerns, and ecological degradation. I hope readers will share a glimpse into Lowry’s colourful, yet often disturbing works, whilst being prompted to see some of our own society’s challenges from a different perspective
West Sussex Author Explores World of Malcolm Lowry:Angmering author Nigel Foxcroft explores the world of English late modernist writer Malcolm Lowry in his new book
Full text linkThe Kaleidoscopic Vision of Malcolm Lowry: Souls and Shamans invites you to step into my world. It will take you on a highly topical journey into the life and works of the English late modernist writer, Malcolm Lowry. Born in New Brighton, Wirral, this great fiction author had close links to Sussex. Writing in the first half of the twentieth century, he was fascinated by the complex and interrelated realm of his experiences: it was – and is -one where ancient and contemporary cultures meet. Join me on an expedition which spans the continents of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. We shall trace Lowry’s steps by venturing to Russia, Mexico, Canada, and the Far East on a quest to decipher the hidden secrets of cultures and civilizations. My interdisciplinary book will provide you with a historical lens which highlights literature’s role in heightening awareness of contemporary issues of global significance too. These include current economic and political uncertainties, environmental concerns, and ecological degradation. I hope readers will share a glimpse into Lowry’s colourful, yet often disturbing works, whilst being prompted to see some of our own society’s challenges from a different perspective
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
Ep. #181 - Nigel Clark
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic discuss a strange effort to police sugar packet play on this week’s podcast. Then (15:52) we are delighted to welcome Nigel Clark to the conversation. Nigel is Chair of Social Sustainability and Human Geography at Lancaster University (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/nigel-clark ). He is the author of Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet (2011) and co-editor of Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World (2012), Material Geographies (2008) and Extending Hospitality(2009). We start things off by talking about a new book he is working on called The Anthropocene and Societythat he is working on with Bron Szerszynski and what it means to rethink humanity through planetary strata, flows, and multiplicity. We turn from there to Australian feminism, phosphates, Aotearoa New Zealand as a space of settler grassland experiments, wealth, and geocide. Then we touch on fire and its excess, our brittle life on an earth’s surface caught between solar and geothermal vitalities, metamorphosis, the early connection between gunpowder and combustion engines and European geotrauma. A special birthday week shout-out to our very own eternal Cymene Howe :
Social theory and the sociological imagination: an interview with Nigel Dodd (1 of 2)
No full textPart I of our interview with Nigel Dodd, interviewed by Riad Azar. Nigel Dodd is Professor in the Sociology Department at the LSE. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1991 on the topic of Money in Social Theory, and lectured at the University of Liverpool before joining the LSE in 1995. Nigel’s main interests are in the sociology of money, economic sociology and classical and contemporary social thought. He is author of The Sociology of Money and Social Theory and Modernity (both published by Polity Press). His most recent book, The Social Life of Money, was published by Princeton University Press in September 2014
Maine Interview piece with Nigel Calder of Alna, author of the Boatowners\u27s M
No full textMaine Interview piece with Nigel Calder of Alna, author of the Boatowners\u27s Mechanical and Electrical Manual, which has sold over 90,000 copies, and a number of other books, including The Cruising Guide to the Northwest Caribbean and Cuba: A Cruising Guide
Modern vacuum practice
No full textModern Vacuum Practice is an easy-to-understand introduction to high vacuum technology suitable for anyone using high vacuum as a tool. The author provides a fundamentally non-mathematical treatment of the subject, assuming little or no prior vacuum knowledge throughout. With its emphasis always on providing practical information, the book gives the reader the knowledge to set up, use, maintain and troubleshoot a vacuum system
The Writer Walking the Dog: Creative Writing Practice and Everyday Life
No full textCreative writing happens in and alongside the writer’s everyday life, but little attention has been paid to the relationship between the two and the contribution made by everyday activities in enabling and shaping creative practice. The work of the anthropologist Tim Ingold supports the argument that creative writing research must consider the bodily lived experience of the writer in order fully to understand and develop creative practice. Dog-walking is one activity which shapes my own creative practice, both by its influence on my social and cultural identity and by providing a time and space for specific acts instrumental to the writing process to occur. The complex socio-cultural context of rural dog-walking may be examined both through critical reflection and creative work. The use of dog-walking for reflection and unconscious creative thought is considered in relation to Romantic models of writing and walking through landscape. While dog-walking is a specific activity with its own peculiarities, the study provides a case study for creative writers to use in developing their own practice in relation to other everyday activities from running and swimming to shopping, gardening and washing up
Semiometrics: Applying Ontologies across Large-Scale Digital Libraries
No full textAs large-scale digital libraries become more available and complete, not to mention more numerous, it is clear there is a need for services that can draw together and perform inference calculations on the metadata produced. However, the traditional Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) model, while efficiently constructed and optimised for many business structures, does not necessarily cope well with issues of concurrent data updates and retrieval at the scale of hundreds of thousands of papers. At the same time the growth of RDF and the increasing interest in Semantic Web technologies perhaps begins to present a viable alternative at a scalable, practical level. This paper considers a specific application of large-scale metadata analysis and conducts scalability tests using real-world data. It concludes that RDF technologies are both a scalable and performance-realistic alternative to traditional RDBMS approaches. It also shows that for relationship-based queries on large-scale metadata stores, RDF technologies can significantly out-perform traditional RDBMS approaches by allowing both retrieval and updating of data in a timely manner
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