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Molly House
No full textWhat is a Molly House? “Molly houses” were locations in Britain where, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, mollies, or Queer men, met for companionship. This project is trying to investigate how architecture can contribute to a more diverse society. This project is architecture based on a hidden voice, in this case Norway’s first known drag performer, and first foreman of The Oslo Student Organization, Peter Munch Wang.
Peter Munch Wang was born in 1792 in Trysil. He moved to Gudbrandsdalen when he was 11. When he was a late teenager he moved to Christiania for studies. Here he became an actor and the first foreman for the Oslo Student Organization. According to old diaries he had four main interest: He was an expert on hosting tea parties, an activity which was called female in his time. He was eager to get new literature into the studies. He was also a well known actor in female clothes, and loved it. He also carried a secret, he was most likely homosexual. He was thrown out of the boys dorm in Christiania after accusations of sodomy. He was forced back to his farm in Gudbrandsdalen. Here he continued hosting festivities, mostly weddings. He drank the alcohol that was left behind after his arrangements, and he died 49 years old, probably from depression and drinking. In the church book he is titulated ”student”.
His four main interests (tea, literature, drag and his secrets), his personality and history has inspired this project, in terms of materiality, construction, the program and the spacial investigation. What happens if you starting point of creating architecture is a hidden voice, an unkown story from the society we live in. Will we end up with a more diverse architecture if we let hidden voices inspire us?
DIVERSITY IN ARCHITECTURE
The city of Oslo appears today with a certain story. A certain narrative. Our society is slowling getting more and more diverse, but does the story the architecture tells follow the diverse development in humans?
NEW STORIES INTO THE LIGHT
If we want to create a city we can feel we belong in, feel ownership to and feel a part of, the solution might not be to create spaces for ”everyone”. Will we end up feeling more connected to the surrounding architecture, if we in stead make spaces specific for someone? And will these spaces in the end be for everyone after all? Hidden stories should be brought into the light, and they should affect us when we walk down a road, or when we enter a building. If we revealed some of the diversity that has allready existed in Oslo during it’s time as a place for humans, will the diverse humans of Oslo connect more to the architecture?
THE DIG
I will try to dig into our own history and bring hidden voices from the past up an into the our awareness.
And let one hidden voice inspire my diploma.
MY DIPLOMA
In my work with this diploma I started out studying hidden voices, and which voices that might have been forgotten through the years. As I personally has a great interest in queer art and social life, I was curious to find out who Norway’s first drag perfomer was. I was quite sure that he was still alive, and my hopes was to interview this person. To my surprise, he was not a live at all. In fact he was born in 1792 and his name was Peter Much Wang.Why hadn’t I heard of him?I started my research about him and found old journals and old recensions from plays he participated in. In addition to being Norway’s firs drag performer, he also was a part of founding Norway Student Organization.
Why isn’t this a man I have heard of?
According to old diaries he had four main interest: He was an expert on hosting tea parties, an activity which was called female in his time. He was eager to get new literature into the studies. He was also a well known actor in female clothes, and loved it. He also carried a secret, he was most likely homosexual. He was thrown out of the boys dorm in Christiania after accusations of sodomy. He was forced back to his farm three hours away from Oslo. Here he continued hosting festivities, mostly weddings. He drank the alcohol that was left behind after his arrangements, and he died 49 years old, probably from depression and drinking. In the church book he is titulated ”student”.
WORKING METHOD
I let my main man, Peter Munch Wang decide my program:
DRAG CLUB - TEA HOUSE - LIBERARY - SECRETS
It became a queer culture house, with these four programmes in mind. I have mainly worked in models.
During my investigation in models I asked myself these questions:
-Like a person with secrets, how can architecture inhence this state of mind?
-How can architecture keep a secret?
-How can a building awake curiousness?
-How can architecture be safe, but not exposed?
-How to keep the queer society exposed - yet still safe?
VOCABULARY
I reflected on the queer community today, and how this part of society is growing quickly. It’s easy to observe queer humans when you walk in the streets of Oslo, but not that easy to see in our surrounding architecture. I created a vocabulary I wanted to work with which both could be terms in architecture and in a queer life:
-Observe
-Learn
-Contemplate
-Curiousity
-Meet
-Hide
-Explor
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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