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Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.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
Estimasi Laju Sedimentasi di Perairan Ekosistem Mangrove, Bulaksetra - Kab. Pangandaran, Jawa Barat dengan Teknik Isotop Alam 210Pb.
No full textPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan umur dan laju akumulasi
sedimen hingga 150 tahun ke masa lalu dengan menggunakan isotop alam 210Pb.
Pengambilan sampel sedimen dilaksanakan di Kawasan Mangrove Bulaksetra,
Pangandaran, kemudian dianalisis di laboratorium Pusat Aplikasi Isotop dan
Radiasi, BATAN, Jakarta Selatan. Sedimen core yang didapat sepanjang 119 cm
dipotong menjadi beberapa potong setebal 2 cm, 4 cm, 6 cm, 8 cm, 11 cm dan 20
cm, kemudian diukur menggunakan detektor PIPS Alfa spektrometer. Hasil
pengukuran total 210Pb menunjukkan suatu tren dari fungsi penurunan
eksponensial. Estimasi laju akumulasi sedimen mengalami fluktuasi setiap
tahunnya. Nilai estimasi tertinggi dari laju akumulasi sedimen terjadi pada
kedalaman 14 - 18 cm sebesar 4.61 kg m-2 tahun-1, sedangkan nilai estimasi
terendah pada kedalaman 30 - 38 cm sebesar 0.88 kg m-2 tahun-1. Masing-masing
nilai tertinggi dan terendah tersebut diperkirakan terjadi pada kisaran tahun 1964
dan tahun 1863. Hal ini diduga terkait perubahan fungsi peruntukan lahan dan
fenomena bencana alam disekitar wilayah Bulaksetra dan disepanjang aliran
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Kajian Stok Karbon Organik Mangrove di Tanjung Batu, Kecamatan Kepulauan Derawan, Berau-Kalimantan Timur
No full textPeningkatan emisi CO2 di atmosfer akibat faktor antropogenik secara global telah terjadi sejak revolusi industri dan cenderung meningkat dari tahun ke tahun hingga saat ini. Akibat peningkatan konsentrasi CO2 di atmosfer, maka efek gas-gas rumah kaca meningkat dan terjadi pemanasan global. Tanjung Batu-Kepulauan Derawan memiliki mangrove yang luas dan diperkirakan mampu berperan dalam upaya pengurangan CO2 di atmosfer. Mangrove berperan mengurangi emisi CO2 di atmosfer melalui proses fotosintesis dan penyimpanan karbon pada biomassa maupun sedimen. Secara umum, tujuan studi adalah mengkaji peran mangrove Tanjung Batu dalam menyimpan karbon di biomassa dan sedimen.
Penelitian dilakukan bulan Februari-November 2018. Pengambilan data di 5 titik stasiun yang mewakili komunitas mangrove tepian pantai (Stasiun 1, 2 dan 3) dan komunitas mangrove tepian sungai (Stasiun 4 dan 5). Pengukuran data mangrove meliputi perhitungan jumlah pohon, identifikasi jenis mangrove, pengukuran diameter at breast height (DBH), sedangkan pengambilan sedimen dengan menggunakan pipa stainless. Sampel sedimen yang diambil digunakan untuk pengukuran karbon organik (Metode Walcky black), stok karbon sedimen dan Pb-210 (umur dan akumulasi karbon). Pengukuran karbon organik menggunakan sampel sedimen dengan interval kedalaman 4, 6 dan 8 (pada kedalaman 0-50 cm dilakukan di Stasiun 1, 3 dan 5), sedangkan dengan interval kedalaman 5 cm (pada kedalaman 0-15 cm di Stasiun 2 dan 4). Pengukuran tekstur sedimen menggunakan sampel sedimen dengan interval 5 cm pada kedalaman 0-15 cm di semua titik stasiun. Pengukuran Pb-210 menggunakan sampel sedimen berdasarkan interval 5 cm (pada kedalaman sedimen 0-15 cm), dan interval 2 cm (pada kedalaman 48-50 cm) yang digunakan sebagai Pb-210 supported (Stasiun 1 dan 3). Stasiun 5 dipotong dengan interval 4, 6 dan 8 cm pada kedalaman 1-50 cm. Sampel mangrove digunakan untuk identifikasi struktur komunitas mangrove dan estimasi stok karbon di biomassa (above-ground biomass/AGB dan below-ground biomass/BGB) menggunakan persamaan allometrik, sedangkan sampel sedimen digunakan untuk pengukuran
Stok karbon organik di sedimen menunjukkan stok karbon terbesar dengan persentase 66.24 %, selanjutnya AGB sebesar 23.34 % dan BGB sebesar 10.41 %. Hasil stok karbon organik berkisar 173.49 – 672.65 Mg C ha-1, dengan rata-rata 378.98 Mg C ha-1. Penyimpanan stok karbon organik tersebut berasal dari pembentukan biomassa maupun pengendapan reruntuhan komponen biomassa di dalam sedimen serta berasal dari biomasa/karbon dari lokasi lain yang terperangkap. Tingginya stok karbon sedimen diduga oleh akumulasi dari keberadaan mangrove dan proses-prosesnya yang telah berlangsung pada masa lalu sampai saat ini. Rata-rata laju akumulasi karbon organik selama 20 tahun terakhir di stasiun 1, 3 dan 5 secara berurutan adalah 31.79, 28.28 dan 55.03 g C m-2 tahun-1 . Stasiun 5 yang terletak di area dekat daratan dan sungai memiliki rata-rata laju akumulasi tertinggi. Hasil studi menunjukan bahwa ekosistem mangrove sebagai karbon biru memberikan kontribusi nyata secara alami untuk penyerapan dan penyimpanan
karbon dalam bentuk material organik. Hal ini bermanfaat sebagai upaya mitigasi perubahan iklim secara global dan secara khusus di Tanjung Batu Kecamatan Kepulauan Derawan Kabupaten Berau, Kalimantan Timur
Distribusi Spasial Klorofil-a, Produktivitas Primer, dan TSS di Teluk Jakarta dengan Menggunakan Citra Satelit Landsat-ETM Tahun 2002 - 2011
No full textMeasurements of chlorophyl-a, primary production, and TSS concentration using Landsat-ETM images during the period of 2002 – 2011 particularly for southeast monsoon (dry season) have been used in order to study the dynamics of those parameters in Jakarta Bay. Chlorophyl-a and primary distributions in Jakarta Bay show higher concentration in the coastal water than open water, meanwhile TSS concentration in Jakarta Bay show a fluctuative value. On the other hand, temporal analysis produces distribution trend of the chlorophyl-a towards out of the Jakarta Bay. Distributions of primary production tend to stay in the coastal of Jakarta Bay with increased value of spreading. While the distributions trend of TSS tend to varies. In general, the distribution patterns of chlorophyl-a and primary productions are similar, but they are different with TSS distributions. Overall, the changing parameters are influenced by human activities (anthropogenic) in Jakarta Metropolitan Area
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
Get PDFThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
Pemodelan Pasut di Teluk Bone
No full textPerairan Teluk Bone menjadi lokasi penelitian pemodelan pasang surut karena dari bentukan perairan ini yang setengah tertutup yang dikelilingi sebagian besar oleh daratan. Penelitian ini ditujukan mengkaji perambatan gelombang pasut dan pola arus residu yang terbentuk di perairan Teluk Bone. Lokasi penelitian berada di Perairan Teluk Bone, yang terletak pada koordinat 2,6o LS – 5,4o LS dan 120,1o BT - 122o BT. Model hidrodinamika yang digunakan pada penelitian ini dikembangkan oleh Chris Dallimore, Centre for Water Research (CWR) dan dinamakkan Estuary Lake Coastal Ocean Model (ELCOM). Hasil pemodelan perambatan gelombang pasut K1 terwakili secara cukup baik dengan hasil elevasi amplitudo yang kurang dari 10 cm, dan perbedaan nilai fase terbesar mencapai 58 menit, bila dibandingkan dengan komponen pasut K1 di kedua stasiun lapang milik DISHIDROS. Pada hasil pemodelan perambatan gelombang pasut M2 juga terwakili secara cukup dari hasil elevasi amplitudo yang kurang dari 10 cm dan perbedaan nilai fase terbesarnya 39 menit, dibandingkan dengan DISHIDROS. Pola perambatan gelombang komponen M2 menunjukkan pola yang teratur, yakni dari mulut teluk, bagian selatan, gelombang pasut masuk dan menyebar secara merata dari bagian timur lalu ke bagian barat Teluk Bone. Nilai amplitudo terendah berada pada bagian selatan teluk yakni sebesar 0,56 m dan nilai yang tertinggi berada pada bagian kepala teluk sebesar 0,68 m. Pola arus residu M2 paling cepat pada daerah kepala teluk dengan gradien kedalaman perairan paling besar, yakni sebesar 0,1 m/s, dan paling lambat berada di perairan dekat dengan daratan, sebesar 0,005 m/s. Pola perambatan gelombang pasut K1 menunjukkan bahwa nilai amplitudo yang paling kecil berada di paling selatan/mulut teluk dan nilainya meningkat seiring keberadaannya sampai di posisi kepala teluk/di bagian utara. Secara umum pola perambatan gelombang K1 yang dibentuk mirip dengan pola perambatan gelombang M2. Nilai amplitudo terkecil sebesar 0,313 m dan nilai amplitudo yang paling besar sebesar 0,33 m. Pola arus residu K1 paling cepat pada daerah kepala teluk dengan gradien kedalaman paling besar, yakni sebesar 0,02 m/s dan paling lambat berada di perairan dekat dengan daratan, sebesar 0,015 m/s
Assessing the George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms
Get PDFIn one of the first volumes assessing the full two terms of the George W. Bush presidency, Wroe and Herbert have gathered the work of leading American and European scholars. In fifteen succinct and incisive chapters, authorities such as Jim Pfiffner, John Maltese, Graham Wilson and Alan Gitelson offer assessments of the Bush administration's successes and failures. Extensive attention is paid to Bush's foreign policy, including 'The War on Terror' but the focus is broadened to absorb not only the Bush Doctrine and its repercussions, but also his trade and homeland security policies. The president's domestic leadership in economics and social policy is investigated, as are his dealings as president with the other institutions of the U.S. political system. The result is a comprehensive guide to the Bush presidency and its legacy
PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY OF JAKARTA BAY IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS
No full textJakarta Bay receives direct impact from the rapid development of infrastructure and landbased industries which contributed to the increase in pollution and nutrient, and at the same time facing climate change. This condition influenced growth of chlorophyll- and primary production. To investigate changes of primary production in Jakarta Bay due to anthropogenic and climate change impacts, a field measurement, laboratory experiment and collection of several data sets have been conducted. The study showed that impact of anthropogenic, particularly sediment load from the land to primary production is important. The intensification of primary production occurs in the middle region of Jakarta Bay, while the chlorophyllconcentration is high in the river mouth area. The anthropogenic impact is indicated by the land use change that has increased to 73% during the last ten years. The laboratory experiments by injecting CO in the waters, as a global warming simulation, have shown a decrease in chlorophyll- and primary production. Therefore, the combination of anthropogenic and climate changemay have a double impact on the Jakarta Bay ecosystem.Key words: Primary production, Jakarta Bay, anthropogenic, climate change, impac
Study on Carbon Cycling in The Indonesian Seas: Present Status and Future Direction
No full textRole or the Indonesian seas in regulating global climate system has heen investigating intensively, particularly the physical processes and the Indonesian throughflow. However, little is yet known ahout the Indonesian seas' role in the glohal carbon cycle. In addition, the gap of knowledge whether the coastal seas act as a source or sink for atmospheric is still relevant for scientific question. This paper aims to evaluate carhon cycling processes in the coastal and open seas in global ocean level and to present a preliminary result and future direction for the Indonesian seas study. The fate of organic carbon input from rivers to coastal seas and its transport mechanism from the shallow to deep seas is the main issue in this paper, including vertical mixing as a physical forcing
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
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