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SUNYATA IN THE WEST
Get PDFI argue that sunyata, or something like it, manifested itself in early Western thought. While Plato and Aristotle resisted emptiness or nothingness, they nevertheless felt themselves obliged to venture close to its edge in order to ground their explanations of changing reality to unchanging principles. These principles (Plato’s receptacle and Aristotle’s prime matter) embody much of the indeterminancy long associated with the Mahayana understanding of sunyata. Although their function was to enable lasting (static) explanations of reality by putting change out of play, they themselves shade off toward a featureless being evocative of non-being. Moving along a somewhat different track, Greek atomists embraced emptiness (or void) so as to permit self-existent, fully self-contained atoms to move about. In their system, non-being, a foundational principle of reality, paradoxically coexists with being. Interestingly, modern science has undone the self-containment of atoms—emptied them of properties once thought to be innate—and thereby removed yet another Western safeguard against change. It seems that change cannot be put out of play, though it does slope off toward sunyata-like emptiness
Karawitan Tari Saraswati ISI Yogyakarta Karya Sunyata
No full textPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan proses kreatif Sunyata dalam menciptakan Karawitan Tari Saraswati. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif analisis. Sunyata adalah seorang komposer karawitan yang menciptakan Karawitan Tari Saraswati. Sunyata lahir pada tanggal 26 Mei 1959 di Dusun Daguran, Glagahwangi, Polanhardjo, Klaten Jawa Tengah. Bakat kreatif dan keterampilan seninya diperoleh dari lingkungan keluarga, pendidikan akademik, dan pengalaman proses pengkaryaan di berbagai tempat. Berbekal dari kemampuannya, Sunyata mampu menciptakan komposisi Karawitan Tari Saraswati yang digunakan sebagai iringan Tari Saraswati. Karawitan Tari Saraswati diciptakan sebagai pengiring Tari Saraswati yang merupakan salah satu identitas Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta. Karawitan Tari Saraswati merupakan patner Tari Saraswati yang tidak bisa disajikan sendiri-sendiri. Keberadaan Karawitan Tari Saraswati menjadi sangat penting karena selalu disajikan dalam Sidang Senat Terbuka Institut Seni Indonesia. Karawitan Tari Saraswati dibuat dengan inspirasi dari garap karawitan tradisi, sehingga terdapat garap yang menyerupai karawitan tradisi dan garap yang menyimpang dari karawitan tradisi. Karawitan Tari Saraswati terdiri dari tujuh bagian dengan garap ricikan dan garap vokal. Karawitan Tari Saraswati memiliki beberapa bentuk gending dan garap khusus pada ricikan gamelan dan vokal yang digunakan.
Kata kunci: Karawitan, Saraswati, ISI Yogyakarta, proses kreatif, garap
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
From nihilism to Sunyata: Zen on the problem of Nietzsche\u27s nihilism
No full textMy thesis is about Nietzshe\u27s metaphysical and existential nihilism. In nihilism, a duality arises between non-being/nothingness and being. Due to this duality, one is caught in the standpoint of relative nothingness -a nothingness that is seen in complete opposition to being. If nothingness is seen this way, the suchness of things becomes veiled to us. As a solution to this problem, this thesis attempts to throw our prejudice when it comes to dualistic thinking so that people will be able to realize that being and non-being are actually in unison. Only through this unity will we be able to experience the suchness of things. In existential nihilism, there is a spiritual malady that I believe one has to go beyond. My solution for going beyond existential nihilism is to face it squarely, pursue it further, push it further, and see it as a turning point to be able to reach the standpoint of absolute emptiness or sunyata the standpoint of which both the yin and yang of Life is seen. One then no longer drowns in the sea of despair and angst that nihilism entails, because in the standpoint of sunyata there is no longer attachment to these paralyzing emotions. But rather these are seen as temporary things that one has to go through to experience the deepest and most pristine aspects of what it means to be human
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