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Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century by Stephanie LeMenager
No full textBart H. Welling reviews Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Cenutry by Stephanie LeMenager
Ökopornó: A nem-emberi megjelenítésének korlátairól
No full textBart H. Welling tanulmánya az ökopornográfia mibenlétét, jellemzőit és funkcióját próbálja meghatározni. Munkájának első felében az ökopornót mint pornót vizsgálja, de nem a szexuális izgalom felkeltésének célja felől határozza meg, hanem az aszimmetrikus, szexualizált ábrázolásmódokra fordít figyelmet. A tanulmány amellett érvel, hogy az ökopornográfia antropomorfizált, idealizált látványként tárja a néző szeme elé a nem-emberi világot (mind az állatokat, mind a tájakat), és előre meghatározott, ám a néző számára rejtett hatalmi viszonyokba ágyazza ezt a látványt, ami elősegíti a nem-emberi világ kizsákmányolását. A tanulmány második részében olyan alkotásokon, kampányokon és elterjedt képeken keresztül mutatja be az ökopornográf ábrázolásmódot, mint a floridai puma reprezentációja, PETA kampányok, természetfilmek, illetve az ökopornográfia paródiái. | The study examines ecopornography, a concept that describes nature-centered photography
as having parallels to human-based pornography. Through his article, Welling expands
upon the concept of ecoporn, noting that „ecoporn-as-porn places the viewer in the same
asymmetrical, sexualized relationship to its subjects as standard pornography, even if its
primary goal is not sexual arousal.” Ultimately, Welling argues that environmentalists need
to rethink the human place in its relationship to these nonhuman subjects and develop
new visual practices that break out of the commercializing, anthropocentric goals of
ecopornography and can help us think up new ways of seeing a nature that „looks back.
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World by Timothy Morton
No full textWelling reviews Timothy Morton\u27s book Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013)
Petronarratology: A Bioregional Approach to Oil Stories
No full textIn “Petronarratology: A Bioregional Approach to Oil Stories”, Bart Welling argues that ecocritics and narratologists have an important role to play in challenging the narratives that help perpetuate the modern world’s catastrophic addiction to fossil fuels. Welling builds on the concept of reinhabitation, a central idea in the grassroots bioregional movement, as he explores strategies through which authors have reinhabited (i.e., transformed from within) not just oil-polluted places but problematic energy narratives, such as narratives that euphemize hydrocarbons as “energy” in the first place. Focusing on books by David Gessner and Stephanie LeMenager, Welling identifies six features of reinhabitory petronarratives: (1) they acknowledge their authors’ personal debts to oil; (2) they own up to the enmeshment of environmentally oriented ways of thinking in our hydrocarbon-fuelled culture; (3) they make room for the voices of ordinary residents of this culture, including people whose political perspectives clash with those of the authors; (4) they take seriously the reinhabitory capacities of nonhuman beings; (5) they rethink petroleum itself as a new kind of character in the fictions of “petromodernity”; and (6) they describe physical encounters with unprocessed hydrocarbons, thus addressing the massive problems posed by fossil fuels on a productively non-apocalyptic scale
Block Copolymer Ordering in Cylindrical Capacitors
No full textWe investigate the morphologies of block copolymers confined in the region between two concentric and charged cylinders. The relative stability of a concentric lamellar phase compared to one where the lamellae are oriented in the radial direction is determined from the competition between long-range elastic and electrostatic forces. We find in weak and strong segregation and by single-chain-in-mean-field simulations that under sufficiently strong voltage difference there is a phase transition from concentric to radial lamellae containing defects. Above a threshold voltage the block copolymer melt develops an interfacial instability at a finite wavelength.German Science Foundation [Mu 1674/11-1
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
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