57 research outputs found
W.J.T. Mitchell
Full text linkUIDB/00417/2020
UIDP/00417/2020W.J.T. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in both the English and the Art History departments. Particularly focussed on the history and theories of media, visual art and literature, from the eighteenth century to the present, his research explores the relations of visual and verbal representations in the culture and iconology. Professor Mitchell edits the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry, a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences, which under his editorship has published special issues on public art, psychoanalysis, pluralism, feminism, the sociology of literature, canons, race and identity, narrative, the politics of interpretation, postcolonial theory, among many other topics. He has lectured at universities and art museums throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand and the Far East. His awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize Fellowship to the American Academy in Berlin and the Morey Prize in art history given by the Colege Art Association of America. In 2003, he received the University of Chicago’s prestigious Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. As an author, his numerous publications include the books Mental Traveler: A Journey through Schizophrenia (2020), Metapictures: A Cloud Atlas of Images (2020); Image Science: Iconography, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics (2015); Seeing Through Race (2012); Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present (2011), What Do Pictures Want? Essays on the Lives and Loves of Images (2005, awarded James Russell Lowell Prize by Modern Language Association, and Laing Prize by University of Chicago Press); Picture Theory (1994, awarded Charles Rufus Morey Prize for art history by College Art Association, and Laing Prize by University of Chicago Press), Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986), and Blake’s Composite Art (1977). W.J.T. Mitchell is currently finishing a book entitled Seeing Through Madness.publishersversionpublishe
Words and Pictures in the Age of the Image: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
No full textAn interview conducted by Andrew McNamara with W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, editor of Critical Inquiry, and author of Iconology (1987), Picture Theory (1994), The Last Dinosaur Book (1998) and What Do Pictures Want? (2005). McNamara and Mitchell discuss a range of issues around the distinction between words and images, visual and verbal texts. \ud
This interview was conducted in 1996 and published in Eyeline magazine
VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES AND THE PICTORIAL TURN ISSUE IN W.J.T. MITCHELL?S WORKS
Full text linkНастоящая статья посвящена рассмотрению постановки проблемы пикториального поворота в работах У.Дж.Т. Митчелла, являю-
щегося одним из основоположников современных визуальных исследова-
ний. Целью статьи является прояснение методологических и теоретиче-
ских возможностей использования предложенного Митчеллом концепта
пикториального поворота и прояснение смыслов, вкладываемых в дан-
ное понятие его автором. Основным выводом, сделанным на основании
предпринятого рассмотрения, является предположение парадигмального
значения исследований визуальной культуры для развития философской
мысли второй половины XX в.This report considers the pictorial turn issue in W.J.T. Mitchell?s works. W.J.T. Mitchell is one of the most influential researchers in contemporary visual studies. The report aims to clarify the methodological and theoretical perspectives for using the term "pictorial turn" proposed by Mitchell, and explicate the meanings putting in this concept by its author. The main conclusion drawn on the basis of undertaken review is the assumption of paradigmatic significance of visual culture studies for the development of philosophical thought in the second half of the XXth century.280-28
The one-arm exponent for mean-field long-range percolation
Full text linkConsider a long-range percolation model on Zd where the probability that an edge {x; y} 2 Zd × Zd is open is proportional to ║x-y║2 -d-α for some α > 0 and where d > 3 min{2; α }. We prove that in this case the one-arm exponent equals ½ min{4; α}. We also prove that the maximal displacement for critical branching random walk scales with the same exponent. This establishes that both models undergo a phase transition in the parameter α when α = 4
VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES AND THE PICTORIAL TURN ISSUE IN W.J.T. MITCHELL?S WORKS
No full text280-285Настоящая статья посвящена рассмотрению постановки проблемы пикториального поворота в работах У.Дж.Т. Митчелла, являю-
щегося одним из основоположников современных визуальных исследова-
ний. Целью статьи является прояснение методологических и теоретиче-
ских возможностей использования предложенного Митчеллом концепта
пикториального поворота и прояснение смыслов, вкладываемых в дан-
ное понятие его автором. Основным выводом, сделанным на основании
предпринятого рассмотрения, является предположение парадигмального
значения исследований визуальной культуры для развития философской
мысли второй половины XX в.This report considers the pictorial turn issue in W.J.T. Mitchell?s works. W.J.T. Mitchell is one of the most influential researchers in contemporary visual studies. The report aims to clarify the methodological and theoretical perspectives for using the term "pictorial turn" proposed by Mitchell, and explicate the meanings putting in this concept by its author. The main conclusion drawn on the basis of undertaken review is the assumption of paradigmatic significance of visual culture studies for the development of philosophical thought in the second half of the XXth century
High-dimensional incipient infinite clusters revisited
Full text linkThe incipient infinite cluster (IIC) measure is the percolation measure at criticality conditioned on the cluster of the origin to be infinite. Using the lace expansion, we construct the IIC measure for high-dimensional percolation models in three different ways, extending previous work by the second-named author and Járai. We show that each construction yields the same measure, indicating that the IIC is a robust object. Furthermore, our constructions apply to spread-out versions of both finite-range and long-range percolation models. We also get estimates on structural properties of the IIC, such as the volume of the intersection between the IIC and Euclidean balls. Keywords: Percolation; Incipient infinite cluster; Lace expansion; Critical behavio
Numeriek grondwatermodel voor Plan Waterman
No full textDeze deelstudie "Numeriek grondwatermodel" is gedaan als onderdeel van een hoofdstudie naar de haalbaarheid van een alternatief waterhuishoudings-systeem voor Plan Waterman. Plan Waterman is een geplande kustuitbreiding door zandsuppletie tussen Den Haag en Hoek van Holland. In de ontstane land-aanwinst ziet initiatiefnemer ir. R. Waterman mogelijkheden voor vestiging van woningbouw,tuinbouw, lichte industrie en natuurbouw. Van oudsher wordt in polders in Nederland tijdens droge perioden (zomer) water ingelaten en tijdens natte perioden (winter) het overtollige water afgevoerd. Gebieden die hun waterhuishouding zo regelen zijn sterk afhankelijk van hun omgeving (spuiverboden, watertekorten). Een doelstelling bij het ontwerp van plan Waterman is o.a. dat het gebied zoveel mogelijk een zelfstandig funktionerende eenheid moet vormen en een goede weerspiegeling moet zijn van de stand van de (waterbouw-) techniek van deze tijd. Door nu het wateroverschot van de winter niet af te voeren maar op te slaan en dat zomers weer te gebruiken om het tekort te dekken maken we het gebied goeddeels onafhankelijk van het achterland. De grondwaterstand mag hierbij slechts binnen vrij nauwe grenzen varieren. De geohydrologie van het gebied is zo kompleks dat het onmogelijk is het verloop van waterstanden en stroomsnelheden naar tijd en plaats analytisch te bepalen. We hebben te maken met een twee-lagensysteem, met een inzijg- en een kwelgebied en bovendien spelen dichtheidsverschillen een rol. In de hoofdstudie hebben we voor het zomerseizoen analytisch een stationaire situatie kunnen bepalen. De waterstanden die we daar berekend hebben, gaven de hoop dat het systeem dat wij voor ogen hebben uitvoerbaar is. Nauwkeuriger berekening is echter nodig omdat enkele grootheden, die in de berekening konstant gesteld waren, in werkelijkheid periodiek varieren. Uit verschillende oplossingsmethoden voor grondwater-problemen (vierkantennet, elektrisch analogon,etc) hebben we de numerieke methode gekozen. De andere methoden zijn veel bewerkelijker. Zeker als we diverse situaties willen bekijken.VloeistofmechanicaHydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
High-dimensional incipient infinite clusters revisited
Full text linkThe incipient infinite cluster (IIC) measure is the percolation measure at criticality conditioned on the cluster of the origin to be infinite. Using the lace expansion, we construct the IIC measure for high-dimensional percolation models in three different ways, extending previous work by the second author and Jarai. We show that each construction yields the same measure, indicating that the IIC is a robust object. Furthermore, our constructions apply to spread-out versions of both finite-range and long-range percolation models. We also obtain estimates on structural properties of the IIC, such as the volume of the intersection between the IIC and Euclidean balls
Structures in supercritical scale-free percolation
Full text linkScale-free percolation is a percolation model on Zd which can be used to model real-world networks. We prove bounds for the graph distance in the regime where vertices have infinite degrees. We fully characterize transience versus recurrence for dimension 1 and 2 and give sufficient conditions for transience in dimension 3 and higher. Finally, we show the existence of a hierarchical structure for parameters where vertices have degrees with infinite variance and obtain bounds on the cluster density
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