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Grant Stevens : Are You Upset with Me?
No full textGrant Stevens is ambivalent. The young Brisbane artist made his name with a series of computer-generated animated-text videos that explore clichés but seem undecided as to whether they are trivial and vacuous, profound and authentic or somehow both at once. Stevens plunders mass-media sources (the familiar image repertoire dished up by Hollywood, television, pop music and the Internet) as readymade content. He explores this everyday language, sometimes for its ambiguity, but more often for its almost uncanny lucidity. Resembling meditation and relaxation guides, his recent videos beg the question: what made us so anxious?\ud
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This book examines Stevens' artistic output over the first ten years of his practice. It includes essays by Mark Pennings and Chris Kraus.\u
Lecture by Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan, given at Florida International University, April 7, 2006
No full textMark Stevens and Annalyn Swan read from and discuss their book de Kooning: An American Master.
This lecture is the 100th lecture of the Steven and Dorothea Green Critics\u27 Lecture Series.
Introduction by Dahlia Morgan
The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
Get PDFContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
025. Mark 12:28-37
No full textChapel Sermon by David Stevens from Mark 12:28-37 on Monday, October 10, 2005
Friend or foe? Social media's legal pitfalls
No full text Social media platforms are a double-edged sword: they are very useful for promoting a business or gaining influence, but they can cause great harm to a business' reputation when used incorrectly. Mark Stevens helps to find a balance in social media policies </jats:p
How care homes can make the most of the apprenticeship levy
No full text The apprenticeship levy is now effect, with big businesses across the UK beginning to pay in. In this article, Mark Stevens explains what this levy is, what its intended purpose is, and how care homes can make use of the additional funding that it offers </jats:p
Grant Stevens : questioning the return
No full textThis article examines the oeuvre of contemporary Brisbane artist Grant Stevens. It looks at a range of works in which he appropriates Hollywood films and edits them to produce segmented, repetitive loops. In so doing, he focuses upon the psychological dimensions of mass entertainment as well as highlighting the artifice of cinematic forms. He explores other formal considerations that constitute the filmic form and how these can be applied to art. He also translates such cinematic material into aesthetic statements
Use of social media in the workplace: take-home messages from cautionary tales
No full text Social media can be a boon for clinics wishing to promote themselves, but a curse should it be abused by an employee, maliciously or otherwise. Clinics which ignore potential issues in this area risk serious commercial damage. Mark Stevens outlines what employers need to know, what actions should be taken to manage a breach of company social media policy, and how to avoid employment tribunals </jats:p
At limits of life: multidisciplinary insights reveal environmental constraints on biotic diversity in continental Antarctica
Get PDFData source: Supporting information, http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044578#s5Multitrophic communities that maintain the functionality of the extreme Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, while the simplest of any natural community, are still challenging our knowledge about the limits to life on earth. In this study, we describe and interpret the linkage between the diversity of different trophic level communities to the geological morphology and soil geochemistry in the remote Transantarctic Mountains (Darwin Mountains, 80uS). We examined the distribution and diversity of biota (bacteria, cyanobacteria, lichens, algae, invertebrates) with respect to elevation, age of glacial drift sheets, and soil physicochemistry. Results showed an abiotic spatial gradient with respect to the diversity of the organisms across different trophic levels. More complex communities, in terms of trophic level diversity, were related to the weakly developed younger drifts (Hatherton and Britannia) with higher soil C/N ratio and lower total soluble salts content (thus lower conductivity). Our results indicate that an increase of ion concentration from younger to older drift regions drives a succession of complex to more simple communities, in terms of number of trophic levels and diversity within each group of organisms analysed. This study revealed that integrating diversity across multi-trophic levels of biotic communities with abiotic spatial heterogeneity and geological history is fundamental to understand environmental constraints influencing biological distribution in Antarctic soil ecosystems.Catarina Magalhães, Mark I. Stevens, S. Craig Cary, Becky A. Ball, Bryan C. Storey, Diana H. Wall, Roman Tűrk and Ulrike Ruprech
Tennis players Mark Stevens (left) and Coleman Clark, 1938
No full textPlaying table tennis are, from left, Mark Stevens and Coleman Clark, 1938https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1930s/1944/thumbnail.jp
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