153 research outputs found
Making of Earths
No full textTo observe a total eclipse, one would need to be in the umbra, the darkest part of the shadow cast by an occluding body, the moon, over the main source of light, the sun. Green and eerie lavender shadows would settle as the sky darkens in an awed hush, the obscured sun would black out, like glowing coal. The history of predicting the celestial event was also the history of linear time, storm prediction, the global market.
The film circuits inside a cinema-globe situated at the centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Thai and Chinese ground-stations, climate research centres, conference halls and landscapes under transformation. Through the documentary’s disorientating gaze, the film unsettles the certainty of knowing by tracing threads of strategic collaborations within a growing network of bodies gathering data on the changing Earth
Evidence of Suess solar-cycle bursts in subtropical Holocene speleothem δ<sup>18</sup>O records
No full text Several studies indicate that changes in solar activity may have driven Holocene subtropical monsoon variability on decadal and centennial timescales, but the strength and nature of this link remains debated. In this study, we combine a recent mapping of the Holocene solar-cycle activity with four subtropical speleothem δ18O records, which allows a strong test of the link between solar activity, monsoon activity (or intensity), and the hydrological cycle. This is possible because the speleothem δ18O records mainly reflect changes in local rainfall composition, which is controlled by changes in total moisture loss along the atmospheric transport path and monsoon intensity. We find that the spectral density distributions of the speleothem records exhibit particularly significant ~210 yr cyclicities that tend to coincide in time with the three Suess solar-cycle bursts, i.e. intervals around 1850–3200 BP, 4500–5700 BP, and 7750–8850 BP when the ~210 yr solar cycle was particularly strong. The speleothems from Dongge Cave (China) and Sofular Cave (Turkey) appear to have recorded all three Suess bursts, whereas the speleothems from Heshang Cave (China) and Pink Panther Cave (southwestern USA) only recorded the first and last Suess bursts, and the middle Suess burst, respectively. The temporal relationship between the Suess solar cycle and particularly significant 210 yr oscillations in the speleothem δ18O records therefore supports the notion that solar variability played a significant role in driving centennial-scale changes in the hydrological cycle in the subtropics during the Holocene. </jats:p
Overland, There's Shorter Time to Dream
No full textThe low pressures in the atmosphere over the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts create windy conditions in the area during late winter and early spring. Loose top soils are picked up by westerly winds, pulling these sands into an increasingly intense Asian dust storm. Freezing all activity in its path, these storms have become an annual occurrence in western China, compared to half a century ago when each phenomenon struck only once every seven or eight years. Their movements have become an increasing threat to the bourgeoning infrastructural projects of the Belt and Road Initiative which stretch across their paths. In this talk and discussion, we begin from inside the dust storm. It is here where we learn how geographies that have long appeared in the peripheries of popular imagination, have been central in the formation of supply chain capitalism—contingent upon state support, concentration and monopolization of capital power, and the organization of weather and the environment itself. Such 'random acts of violence' brought by these storms call for an urgent need to shift our common-sense understandings and contemporary culture in ways which are both imaginary and epistemological. While the Belt and Road imaginary evokes a liquid and mobile world of commodity exchange, its political infrastructures are generating closures as much as openings, stasis as much as flow. These new geometries mark not only the geopolitical reorganization of goods, people, capital, and ideas, but also forms of resistance expressed through movements, grain by grain. The symposium will draw on Solveig’s documentary-led research into the New Silk Road, mapping these constellations through interviews, field recordings, found WeChat videos with excerpts from her documentary AAA Cargo (2018).https://aap.cornell.edu/news-events/desert-questions-coloniality-and-toxicit
”Babes in the wood?”: Intertekstuaalisuus ja subteksti Solveig von Schoultzin novellissa ”Även dina kameler”
No full text”Babes in the wood?” – Intertextuality and subtext in the short story ”Även dina kameler” by Solveig von Schoultz
In my article I examine three central intertexts in the short story “Även dina kameler” (Even your camels) written by the Finland-Swedish author Solveig von Schoultz in 1965. The short story includes several, “odd” intertextual fragments, which all seem to point at a secret of some kind, hidden from the reader. In my analysis I use the definition of the term “subtext”, put forward by the literary critic Michael Riffaterre in his book Fictional Truth, in order to show how the mysteriousness of the text is constructed, how the intertexts build up the “subtext” of the short story and what the secret is that the story both hides and signals of. This way one gets a picture of how the seemingly plain and realistic text is actually built up in an effective and elaborate way and characterised by high textual density.
The analyzed intertexts all relate to certain topics: a mother, who is distant or dead, a woman’s identity and changes in it, and how words get or loose their meaning. All in all, the short story shows both on its explicit and hidden level how the death of the protagonist’s mother – the hidden secret of the text – has lead to the creation of a language of one’s own. The significance of language is, then, connected to loss. The strange words and allusions the woman protagonist uses also put forward the metalinguistic and poetic message of the story; the importance of language, and how language can both carry meanings, and become empty of meaning. In this way the story is even connected to the author’s own enterprise
Rewrite-ability. Making the catalogue rewritable, challenging author-ities
No full texthttps://syllabus.radicalcatalogue.net/session6.htm
Geosyllabus
No full textThe Signal & Storms Laboratory expands on the concept of ‘Geocinema,’ which seeks to address the challenges of representation in an increasingly algorithmic world. Most imaging techniques today are operationalised in ways that escape immediate visibility or perceptibility by humans — they are far too complex, too dispersed, too fast. Processes of recording, archiving, distribution, and visualisation of data are overwhelming in their amounts and scales, where the notion of an image as well as the notion of a recording device can be seen to have already been expanded while embedded in geological formations as much as in geopolitical configurations.https://freeport.institute/resultados/geosyllabus
Aesops Fabler
No full textThis slim book of some 24 pages was apparently a Christmas gift of the Bergen Faktorforening. In fact, Wiig had done a 1951 translation of Aesop 106 pages in length, illustrated by Johan Berle Reidar and published by J.W. Eides. I have found a copy available and have ordered it. I am delighted to find this book from Bergen and from a Bergen bookseller because I did not have time to seek out booksellers during our short stay there this summer. Strong endpapers offer a forest with a lion attacking, a squirrel (?) fleeing, and a donkey prancing. The Aesop of the cover and title page look to me as though they were in India. That cover has a background of green and gold for its line-drawing of the seated fabulist. In the book's first illustration, miller and son both are bent in dejection. I need a good Norwegian to tell me what happened to their ass! There are two strong, highly interpretative illustrations for OR and three for FG. Similarly, the artist takes two moments to picture in AD. The second pictures quite dramatically and minutely the ant biting the big toe of the hairy hunter. Is that Androcles in the last picture? Is there a text to accompany this picture? It is a feather in the cap of this collection that a rare book like this becomes available here. Online I could find only four copies. Two are in Denmark, one is in China, and the last is at the University of Southern California. This copy has a slightly musty smell.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: NorwegianLimited to 300 copiesOversatt av Hanna Wii
Solveig to Dear friend - James Meredith (Undated)
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Literacy Events in Writing Play Workshops with Children Aged Three to Five: A Study of Agential Cuts with the Artographic Triple Dimensions as a Lens
No full textThe aim of this article is to explore how the multiple perspectives offered by an artographer’s lens contribute to three literacy events generated by writing play activities for children three to five years old. These events are part of a more comprehensive study of emergent literacy in writing play workshops, focusing on writing in different displays and with different writing tools. The artographer in the comprehensive study is Solveig Åsgard Bendiksen, also the first author in this article. The two other co-authors contribute with artographic methodology and with concepts from agential realism in the analysis of three literacy events. The intra-actions between the artographer, the children, the affects, the affordance of rich materials, and the context as performative agents in diffractive reading produced a number of findings concerning emergent writing literacy, especially concerning emergent cultural literacy
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