310 research outputs found
Raab Galerie Berlin 40 year Anniversary
No full textExhibition, including work by Philip Braham. Other artists included David Hockney, Rainer Fetting, Jim Dine, Chuck Close, Alex Kat
Jim Dine – Printmaking and the Tools of his Trade
Get PDFThis article draws upon a public conversation between Dine and the author at Chelsea College of Art in London on 25 November 2015. It identifies some of the qualities of prints that are most important to Dine and addresses many of the motifs in his repertoire, especially the one perhaps most closely associated with him, namely tools. The article concludes with a discussion of A History of Communism, Dine’s epic series of 45 lithographs with etching and engraving, completed in 2012
Detectable Gravitational Wave Signals from Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis
Get PDFIn Affleck-Dine baryogenesis, the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe
is generated through the evolution of the vacuum expectation value (VEV) of a
scalar condensate. This scalar condensate generically fragments into
non-topological solitons (Q-balls). If they are sufficiently long-lived, they
lead to an early matter domination epoch, which enhances the primordial
gravitational wave signal for modes that enter the horizon during this epoch.
The sudden decay of the Q-balls into fermions results in a rapid transition
from matter to radiation domination, producing a sharp peak in the
gravitational wave power spectrum. Avoiding the problem of gravitino
over-abundance favours scenarios where the peak frequency of the resonance is
within the range of the Einstein Telescope and/or Decigo. Therefore, we show
this scenario provides an observable signal, providing a mechanism to test
Affleck-Dine baryogenesis.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, author order determined by coin-fli
Images of the Algerian War french fiction and film ; 1954 - 1992
No full textThis is the first full-length survey in any language of the fiction and film generated in France by the Algerian war (1954 - 1962)Although part of a much wider process of decolonization, the conflict was so traumatic decolonization, the conflict was so traumatic that it brought France to the verge of civil war. Its memory continues to haunt French society today. Like America's experience in Vietnam, it has been understood as a paradigm of the collapse of Western certainties in the post-war period. Philip Dine's ground-breaking study examines the novels and films which deal with the war in an attempt to understand the lasting impact of the conflict. By locating texts within institutional and public discourses, it addresses issues of historical agency and ideological dissemination and casts light on the mechanics of literary mystification. Among the writers discussed are Camus, Etcherelli, Millecam, Peree, Cesbron, Clavel, Ikor, Larteguy, Saint-Laurent, and Jules Roy, and the book also explores the films of directors including Godard, Schoendoerffer, Resnais, Tavernier, and PontecorvoAll quotations in French are accompanied by English translations. Innovative and accessible, Images of the Algerian War will interest all teachers and students of the culture and politics of modern France, together with all those concerned with issues of decolonizatio
Affleck-Dine leptogenesis with varying Peccei-Quinn scale
Get PDFThe Affleck-Dine leptogenesis scenario along the LHu flat direction is reconsidered. It is known that successful Affleck-Dine leptogenesis requires that the lightest neutrino mass is extremely small. This situation can be significantly relaxed if the neutrino mass in the early universe is different from the present one. We consider a supersymmetric Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky (DFSZ) type model, which provides a solution to the strong CP problem and generates a SUSY μ-term and right-handed neutrino masses. If the PQ scale during lepton number generation is much larger than the present value, leptogenesis is very efficient so that enough baryon number can be generated without introducing a hierarchically small neutrino mass. The final baryon asymmetry is related to the μ-term, and hence linked to the level of electroweak fine-tuning. We also show the PQ breaking scalar dynamics that keeps a large PQ breaking scale during inflation and lepton number generation. The μ-term generating superpotential plays an important role for preserving the lepton asymmetry during saxion oscillation. In this scenario, the axion isocurvature perturbation is naturally suppressed. © 2017, The Author(s)1111Nsciescopu
From phantasmagoria to mundanity: the fetishization of the automobile in 20th-century French representations
No full textThe automobile is an object that has been systematically consumed to become part of the fabric of society, hence its impact and its perception make the car a particularly precise means of studying cultural values. As it grew in popularity, the automobile conditioned the texture of modern life. The particularly car-centred society of modern and contemporary France is thus apt for such an examination. Precisely because the automobile became so ubiquitous, people from all classes interacted with it, making it part of the national cultural fabric. The automobile thus provides us with an accurate prism through which to examine the evolution of French society in the modern and post-modern eras.
This thesis explores how the capacities of the automobile are displaced and consumed to create an object of desire, specifically a desire to acquire and use the automobile in what became systems of automobility. The practices which are scrutinised have often led to the object acquiring a special position. The evolution of the status of the automobile is examined as it became valorised in such a way that it was perceived to be enhancing human capacities. Taking the Second World War as a pivotal period in the development of France, this thesis demonstrates how the automobile was consumed and fetishized in two distinct ways before and after this conflict. More specifically, Marx\u27s concept of the phantasmagoria of the fetishized commodity forms the conceptual basis of the first part of the analysis. The second part examines how the specific phantasmagoria of the fetishized automobile was subsequently modified in French society, and here Baudrillard\u27s examination of the system of objects helps explore the second-stage fetishizing of the car as a symbol of mundanity. This theoretical refinement and this social evolution together allow us to view French culture \u27through the window\u27 of the automobile as it embodied technology and progress in 20th-Century France.2023-01-3
Pragmatic utopia and Romantic science: Colonial identities and Saint-Simonian influences in the writings of Thomas Ismaÿl Urbain (1812-1884) and Henri Duveyrier (1840-1892)
No full textIn the nineteenth century, the Southern Mediterranean was a region of special significance for the Western imagination. This was particularly true for the French following the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt of 1798-1801 and, from 1830 France's establishment of its most significant colonial presence in Algeria. Moreover, it remains a crucial region for present-day global relations. This thesis examines the influence of the Saint-Simonian social utopian movement, which had developed in response to social and religious changes in post-Revolutionary France, on the writings of two little-known figures: Thomas Ismayl Urbain (1812-1884) and Henri Duveyrier (1840-1892). It directs special attention to the distinctive forms of Romantic Orientalist thought promoted by Saint-Simonian philosophy as they are reflected in these figures' writings. In a broader perspective, this study also examines their writings in terms of approaches to issues of colonial relations, subsumed under the term la question indigène, and seeks to assess these figures respectively as exemplars of arborescent and relational identities. To this end, it applies postcolonial theory to their writings, including the work of Said, Butler, Chamoiseau and Glissant on concepts of exile, performative identity, créolisation, hybridity, opacity, errance, empathy, occidentalism and mythic constructions of Western and colonised identities. Key themes variously addressed in the writings of Urbain and Duveyrier across a number of genres include the following: depictions of the colonial other, including nomadic Saharan tribes such as the Tuareg; attitudes toward Islam; the impact on the colony of events in metropolitan society such as revolution, war, and the rise of nationalism and the interactions of European settlers and indigenous populations on the development of colonial society in Algeria. This thesis thus seeks to produce an innovative analysis, elucidated through the adoption of a comparative methodology, which reflects the complexity of both figures' respective oeuvres and the issues which they address.2017-12-1
Sport and the Pursuit of War and Peace from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
No full textJapan; cinema; soldier-athlete; victim; representation; spor
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