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Den etiske læser: Om K. E. Løgstrup og den etiske vending i litteraturteorien
Authors: Hansen Nils Gunder
Published: October 2018

The Ethical Reader: K. E. Løgstrup and the Ethical Turn in Literary Theory:Literary studies have on an international level witnessed a turn to ethics in the past fifteen years, but in Denmark the ethical turn in literary theory was anticipated in the 1960s by K. E. Løgstrup, theologian and philosopher. Løgstrup worked in the tradition of phenomenology (Martin Heidegger and Hans Lipps) and explored the fundamental structures of everyday life. His basic claim was that interhuman phenomena such as trust and compassion are of an inherent and spontaneous ethical nature. Løgstrup regarded literature as a reservoir of highly elaborated case studies of human and ethical life. According to him literature could capture human experience in a concrete manner that was not possible for the conceptual systems of philosophy.In this article Gunder Hansen summarizes Løgstrup’s position and compares it to some of the recent American studies in ethics and literary theory by James Phelan, Robert Pippin and Dorothy Hale. And he finds a great amount of compatibility between Løgstrup and the recent ethical turn.Løgstrup furthermore developed his own theory of the reader’s emotional and existential response to the moral education presented in literature. He finds that the emotional involvement of the reader does not have an illusionary or »parasitic« nature. On the contrary, in reading we demonstrate the ethical response that would be the natural reaction to certain events in real life. However in real life we often fail to react as we should due to selfishness and pragmatic constraints. The reader’s response is, however not only spontaneous but also contains a process of reflection and general evaluation due to the exemplary artistic presentation of events in the fictional world.At the end of the article Gunder Hansen distinguishes between two paradigms in the ethical turn, one of existentialism and one of »political correctness«. He regards the latter as problematic as it posits the reader so situated in gender, culture, minority etc. that he cannot experience self-transgression in literature but only confirmation or insult according to his norms and values.
Et manifest på dansk må omhandle modersmålet og angribe fædrelandet: Litteraturhistoriske forstudier om kunst og sprog
Authors: Juhl Carsten
Published: October 2018

A Manifesto in Danish has to deal with the Mother tongue and attack the Fatherland: Some preliminary studies about art and language presented from the point of view of the history of literature:The study follows five lines of reasoning: The first deals with the impossibility of formulating a manifesto in general; the impossibility of advocating the use of violence and on the other hand the impossibility of using dialogue. So the system of prescriptions and promises normally used in a manifesto no longer have sense.The next line of reasoning concerns the impossibility of presenting fictional preoccupations in the mass media and explaining why literature in Danish has to deal with its contents and form outside the current commentary and celebration hosted by the mass media. In this second line the Vico legacy is introduced to explain a conflict in Danish literature concerning its lack of an epic centre of historical and aesthetical understanding. Benjamin’s defence of the epicity in the work of Brecht is similarly discussed in this second part of the study. The third line of reasoning is presenting some older investigations on Danish prose into this question of what an epic dimension in the residual Danish culture might have been about in the last century. But all the investigations presented failed to get to the point. The point of dissidence was too weak and the point of national-socialism too clever to be manifest: It could easily hide behind the general cover up of theological aesthetics dominating Lutheran Denmark.So the fourth line of reasoning deals with political theology as a sort of interiorised state of mind in Denmark.The fifth line of reasoning presents two examples of something radically different and rather excluded in the political culture of Denmark: The Danish Council of Freedom (Danmarks Frihedsråd) during WWII which failed when it came to attacking the collaboration between Danish democracy and the Third Reich; and the Danish School of Writing (Forfatterskolen) which has been attacked by the local establishment since it was born 25 years ago.
En ny verden set fra udkanten: Europa-forestillinger hos Snorri Sturluson
Authors: Hermann Pernille
Published: October 2018

A New World Seen from the Edge: Snorri Sturluson and Images of Europe:In the beginning of the 13th century, the Icelander Snorri Sturluson wrote the Prose Edda. The prologue to this text describes how the linguistic, political and religious preconditions for Northern Europe were to be found in Asia. Snorri’s perspective was determined by his position in the Christian world, and his work articulates both Christianity’s universality and history’s teleological character. Like other learned people in Medieval Europe, Snorri was guided by his knowledge of the high cultures, Antiquity’s and Christianity’s, and these were decisive for the description he gives of the North. This essay shows how the Nordic countries, positioned on the periphery of the Christian world, through the assimilation of Trojan emigrants and pre-historical Nordic people, were in the Edda assigned a status equivalent to those of the high cultures. Through a cultural translatio, Snorri modified the prevailing centre-periphery division of the world and the view that the North was subordinate to the high cultures.
Forord
Authors: K&K Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

Forord
I FLOW GENNEM BYEN - FÆNOMENET “PARKOUR” I DET SENMODERNE BYRUM
Authors: Klausen Maja
Published: October 2018

FLOWING THROUGH THE CITYThis article discusses the phenomenon of “parkour” and characterises it as a global, urban subculture closely connected to the space of the city and to the use of the digital camera, a mobile technology. The article starts out by framing parkour firstly through its relation to the Situationist International, more specifically the psycho-cartographic technique of the “dérive” and the “détournement”; and secondly through a comparison with the flâneur, which like the Situationist International is a concept tied to modernity. However, it is pointed out that parkour differs from its modern predecessors in its subversive qualities and recontextualising potential, which alternates the way we think of and use the city. Parkour is also analysed through neovitalistic theories represented by Deleuze and Guattari, and Amin and Thrift’s “new urbanism” paradigm. Referring to the concept of new urbanism, the article starts by indicating that parkour and the city co-evolve with one another through the concept of “flow”. For the practitioner of parkour (the “traceur”), flow means moving smoothly through the city, and in doing so the traceur incorporates the movements and fluxes of the city. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari and Scott Lash, parkour is described as puissance – defined as “a will to” – which creates a Deleuzean “smooth space” in the “striated space” of the city. Thus parkour is seen as the creative, critical and subversive use of spaces in the city which otherwise could be said to lack experiential potential.
Realismen og det unaturlige
Authors: Mäkelä Maria
Published: October 2018

REALISM AND THE UNCANNY. | Maria Mäkelä observes that the emergent trend of unnatural narratology has drawn most of its impetus from the strikingly transgressive, illogical or anti-mimetic elements of narrative construction, and that, consequently, texts that have established the firm ground of literary conventions – such as classical realist novels – have been playing the part of default narratives both in their representational design as well as in their experiential parameters. Mäkelä, howeverP– discussing in this essay salient examples from Dickens, Flaubert, and Tolstoy – finds that narratives under the heading of realism may have even more narratologically transgressive potential than the manifestly anti-experiential or anti-narrative extremes. Mäkelä’s text thus – inspired by some of Viktor Šklovsky’s seminal insights – aims at recovering the unnatural essence of the conventional in narrative fiction.
Ukronier i Svend Åge Madsens forfatterskab
Authors: Kraglund Rikke Andersen
Published: October 2018

NON-MIMETIC SCENARIOS IN SVEND AAGE MADSEN’S WRITINGS | In 2010 the article “Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models” appeared in the American journal Narrative, where the theory of an ‘unnatural narratology’ waspresented. This theory opposes the claim that the basic elements of narrative can be explained by models based on real-world parameters. According to this theory, narratives that feature impossible or anti-mimetic elements have been marginalized in existing narratological frameworks. This article discusses some of the concepts that are developed in the first manifesto of unnaturalnarratology and illustrates the applicability of these concepts in relation to a small selection of the numerous non-mimetic scenarios found in Svend Aage Madsen’s works.
Anmeldelse: Migrationslitteratur
Authors: Simonsen Karen-Margrethe
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af SØREN FRANK, 2008Migration and Literature(New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 248sider)
DU KAN IKKE TALE OM DAS BECKWERK; DU ER ALLEREDE I DAS BECKWERK
Authors: Das Beckwerk Den navnløse tidligere leder af
Published: October 2018

YOU CAN’T TALK ABOUT DAS BECKWERK; YOU ARE ALREADY IN DAS BECKWERK | Subjected to a one-year ban on performances in the public spaces of Scandinavia, the former CEO of the Copenhagen-based enterprise Das Beckwerk held a lecture on 9th December 2011 solely for the ears of the rising star of fictionality and narratology Richard Walsh from the University of York. The lecture dealt not only with the disappearing boundaries betweenreality and fiction but also with how novel characters have become legal citizens, while the author is turned into fiction. Finally the former CEO dismisses the judgment in the famous trial “Thomas Skade-Rasmussen Strøbech versus Gyldendal and Helge Bille Nielsen”. He calls it unjust and a neglect of the fictional character’s right to a personal name, story and picture.
FØLELSESSTRUKTURER
Authors: Williams Raymond
Published: October 2018

”Structures of Feeling” is a chapter from Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
PRIVILEGIETS PROBLEM - MELLEM DEN HUMANITÆRE OG DEN KYNISKE FORNUFT
Authors: Sharma Devika
Published: October 2018

THE PREDICAMENT OF PRIVILEGE: BETWEEN HUMANITARIAN AND CYNICAL REASON | In this article I explore a contemporary structure of feeling closely but ambivalently related to what moral anthropologist Didier Fassin has termed ”humanitarian reason”. I label this specific affective disposition ‘the predicament of privilege’. In the first part of the article I relate the predicament of privilege to various critiques of humanitarianism for being a ”feeling culture” depoliticizing questions of inequality, justice and social conflict. The latter part of the article examines ”the predicament of privilege” by way of analyzing a recurring Danish TV-fundraiser in terms of the various ugly feelings represented, produced and circulated by this particular charity show. My overall suggestion is that we can hardly understand the affective-moral dimensions of globalization without exploring the cultural forms and social functions of the ugly, unprestigious and amoral feelings pertaining to being globally privileged: sentiments such as boredom, indifference, compassion fatigue, cynicism, bad conscience and sheer reluctance to engage emotionally in the ethical claims made on us.
STRINDBERGS VREDE STEMME
Authors: Rösing Lilian Munk
Published: October 2018

STRINDBERG’S ANGRY VOICE | The article argues that the affect or emotion of a literary text could be regarded as a dimension of its voice and tone. ”Voice” is found on the level of the narrator, ”tone” on the level of the implied author. In cinematic metaphors the article proposes ”voice” to be analogous with the voice-over in film, and ”tone” to be analogous with the background music. The article develops its concept of textual voice from Horace Engdahl, and its concepts of affect, emotion and tone from Sianne Ngai. The literary text to be analysed is August Strindberg’s Le Plaidoyer d’un fou that is known as one of the texts in which he voices his monomaniac misogynist anger. The article tries to describe the quality of this angry voice through analysing structures of narration, genre, address, and style, discovering feverish volatility and paranoia to be its characteristics. The feverish volatility is shown to be linked to the shifting images of Woman that the text exposes. The paranoia is understood through Sianne Ngai’s definition of paranoia as an ”ugly feeling”, and jealous paranoia as connoting femininity. Thus the voice and tone of Strindberg’s text are discovered to be much more complex than simple misogynist aggression.
Mellem kommunikation og kreativitet – deltagelse som æstetikkens missing link?
Authors: Eriksson Birgit
Published: October 2018

The French philosopher Yves Michaud modernity has characterised modernity by three utopias: the utopia of democratic citizenship, which deals with freedom and equality; the utopia of labour, which deals with social change; and the utopia of art, which deals with inter-subjective communication and community. He has argued that the utopia of art, which since the late 18th century has been closely linked to the utopia of democratic citizenship, is coming to an end. Building upon this argument, the article examines two opposing tendencies in contemporary art and culture: On the one hand, the creativity and promise of novelty, traditionally belonging to the art world, has spread culturally, and creativity is often represented as the most important tool for individual and social change. On the other hand, the idea of art as sustaining participation has been revitalized in the art world by the “relational” or “social” aesthetics, and the “dialogical” or “participatory” art of the last 20 years. But how do these tendencies relate to the modern utopia of art – and to each other? What are the problems inherent in relating art to beautiful ideals of community and creativity, and (how) can the recent focus on aesthetic participation transgress these problems? The article examines these questions, drawing on theories and an analysis of contemporary culture.
Roskilde Festival - et socio-æstetisk landskab
Authors: Pedersen Kristine Munkgård
Published: October 2018

Roskilde Festival is the largest Danish music festival and provides an empirical basis for a discussion of the relationship between the social and aesthetic in contemporary cultural events. With the unfolding of the concept of social aesthetics, it becomes clear that the aesthetic potential of the festival is not limited to what is going on “on-stage”, but unfolds throughout the festival landscape. Based on ethnographical observation and phenomenological analysis of two different experience positions: “the panorama” and “the performative mass”, it is discussed how participation unfolds in the socio-aesthetic landscape of the festival. Through a review of the mass as an aesthetic phenomenon it is discussed how the aesthetic of participation succeed in transcending the dichotomy between subject and object ultimately leading to an aesthetic of dissolution.
At jamme med byens rytmer – selvorganiserede forhandlinger af tid og rum
Authors: Sand Anne-Lene
Published: October 2018

Focusing on the city, this article examines the relation between the specific (body and place) and more abstract (time and space), in order to understand how people negotiate the affordances of materiality, space and time. Based on a two year anthropological multi-sited fieldwork, 38 people have shown and told me how they organize themselves in the city through music and dance. Focusing on the phenomenon self-organization as a special form of participation, the main argument of the article stresses that people create their own use of the city by exploring and sensing the social spaces and rhythms of the city. They improvise in their use of places that are not framed institutionally or pre-established in advance. In order to understand how people transform the city into a space for self-organization, the analytical framework of the article is the French neomarxist and urban philosopher Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis. The rhythmanalysis enables us analyze the dialectical relationship between the body and the city. The first part of the article analyzes three spatial elements of the self-organized practice: How spaces become exciting, the framing of a space through sound and light and the embodied exploration of space. Secondly, the article combines observations from a jam session with Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis and specifies the main argument of the article: self-organization is a practice of improvisation and is conceptualized as a way of “jamming with urban rhythms.”
At læse efter generne
Authors: Houe Ulf
Published: October 2018

Literary Darwinism challenges mainstream literary scholars by claiming that literary phenomena can be explained by biological theory. The Darwinists claim that modern literary studies lack a solid scientific base and that this is due to the influence of the postmodernists. Rather than idle speculations about textual autopoiesis and the death of the author, literary scholars should adopt the methodologies of the natural sciences and thus produce real explanations.This essay argues that even though there is certainly much of so-called postmodernism that can be criticized and that modern literary studies lack a thorough debate about the nature of scientific inquiry, the study of literature remains fundamentally the study of text. Thus, text sets the criteria for proper scientific procedure and methodology in the field of literary studies.This is not to deny that man is the product of natural selection or that bodies and brains are the readers and writers of text. But these facts are but conditions of possibility. Knowledge of biological theory will only to a very limited extent give real explanations of literature and culture: in fact, such explanations are almost always trivial and thus incapable of producing new knowledge.Biology is not only ill suited to give us new insights; it cannot provide a scientific base. This is because in order to obtain objective knowledge of literary phenomena, the object of inquiry is not human nature but real text. Instead, we must look to intertextuality and constructivism to provide the criteria of proper science.
Fiktionaliteten imellem os
Authors: Nørgaard Palle
Published: October 2018

Louise Brix Jacobsen og Stefan Kjerkegaard (et al): Fiktionalitet. København: Samfundslitteratur, 2013, 168 sider
Masserepræsentation
Authors: Borch Christian
Published: October 2018

Stefan Jonsson, Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism. New York & London: Columbia University Press, 2013, 321 sider
TV-kokken som kønsopdrager
Authors: Leer Jonatan
Published: October 2018

This article explores the gendering of a series of new formats of food television in which male TV-chefs goes from being lifestyle expert to social and moral entrepreneurs as they engage in food activist project to better national food culture. These readings draws on Foucault’s term “governmentality,” the reworking of this concept in relation to food education and food literacy. The article argues that we see a tendency in which male celebrity chefs use cooking classes and promises of food literacy to make distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate gender identities. These hierarchies are not only created between men and women, they also create hierarchies between middle-class and working-class masculinity.
Når smerte er for det fælles bedste
Authors: Mortensen Maria , Madsen Karen Hvidtfeldt
Published: October 2018

In a case study of a pain performance by Canadian Matthew Menczyk this article examines self-afflicted pain as a phenomenon both capable of transgressing dichotomous interpretations and creating connections between bodies, as well as oppositional concepts such as privat/public, mental/physical and personal/collective. By reading a sample of contemporary cultural-analytical pain-research, we demonstrate how pain is conceptualized within a framework of binary thinking. We question these dualistic understandings of pain, hereby showing how the Cartesian division is haunting the ontology of pain. The case of Menczyk is analyzed with reference to Michel Foucault’s writings on punishment and power. We show how self-afflicted pain points to the potential of pain as a place of resistance and healing and conclude that pain is not only to be understood as a condition-of-the-body, but rather as a phenomenon-in-and-of-the-world.
Lykken i tilbagetrækningen
Authors: Andersen Michael Høxbro
Published: October 2018

The concept of happiness becomes of great political importance in France during the Great Revolution. But 19th century French literature will question the possibility of producing a truly modern happiness through society. Withdrawing from post-revolutionary society then becomes a topos of the novel. As I argue in my paper, this is the case in the novels of Stendhal in particular. Inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s modern concept of otium, Stendhal articulates an opposition between an attitude that is strategic and histrionic, and a withdrawal into contemplation, with only the latter procuring any happiness: a happiness of sensation.
Jean-Jacques Rousseaus bonheur
Authors: Eliassen Knut Ove
Published: October 2018

The eighteenth century bears witness to the emergence of a new, politicized notion of “happiness”. Elaborated conceptually by Greek philosophy as a moral concept, “happiness”, the Age of Enlightenment employs the term to identify and articulate a possible nexus between the self-realization of the individual and the virtues and material blessings of peaceful communal life. It is against such a backdrop that the role played by le bonheur in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s writings becomes fully understandable. Like the author himself, his literary alter egos – Jean-Jacques, Saint-Preux, Emile et al. – share one fundamental drive, “the pursuit of happiness”. While in general Rousseau’s various accounts of these different life projects draw considerable narrative energy from the malheur experienced by their protagonists, they nevertheless contain moments of sublime quality where happiness is experienced as a fulfillment of both spiritual and corporeal nature. Whether happiness is found in the collective joy of a community, in the immediate communication between two lovers, or in the reveries of a solitary wanderer, the experience of happiness becomes the symptom of a way of living that successfully mediates between man’s two conflicting natures, his social and his natural existence. What this article sets out to show is how the idea of happiness as a manifestation of what Rousseau calls le sentiment intérieur is used to explore the possibility of a political order that successfully negotiates the social and the natural, the communal and the individual. Rousseau’s œuvre can thus be read as a systematic investigation into the possibility of establishing a social bond based on affective relations of varying size and complexity: The polis, the family and the individual. My main argument is that there is a clear development in Rousseau’s writing that eventually leads to the renunciation of the political utopism of his early writings to the advantage of a politics of the individual manifest in the old philosopher’s self-elected internal exile.
Lykke i ulykkens tid
Authors: Thomsen Torsten Bøgh
Published: October 2018

Taking its point of departure in two contemporary Danish poets, Victor Boy Lindholm and Theis Ørntoft, the article discusses affective poetic responses to the climate crisis. The concepts of ‘eco-mourning’ and ‘climate-melancholia’ are examined in order to deliberate the possibility for human happiness in late modernism. Poems by the writers are analysed with Sara Ahmed’s theories on happiness and perspectives from posthumanist theory (Cary Wolfe) and Timothy Morton’s notion of dark ecology. It is argued that the teleology, autonomy and futurism that, according to Ahmed, is inherent to the promise of happiness, is rendered impossible by the climate crisis and accordingly problematized stylistically in some works of climate poetry. This leads to a discussion of the poetry of Lindholm and Ørntoft in relation to Freud’s theory on mourning and melancholia, which ends by concluding that Lindholm’s poetry can be seen as representative of a mourning that reproduces dynamics of desire in a dialectical oscillation between optimism and pessimism. In contrast, Ørntoft’s poetry marks a melancholy dispensation of the structures that this desire works within. The conclusion is that in an age of climate crisis, mourning can be seen as a problematic speculation in future and continuation of the structures of happiness and desire that produced the crisis to begin with, whereas melancholia is a mental mode that brackets out such dialectical thinking and promises of future happiness.
Kritikkens fortsættelse - Interview med Sianne Ngai
Authors: Bolt Mikkel , Sharma Devika
Published: October 2018

Oversat af Christine Strandmose Toft
På råbeafstand af marxismen. Et bidrag til kritik af kritikken af kritikken (Latour, Foucault, Marx)
Authors: Bolt Mikkel
Published: October 2018

In the last couple of decades, critique has come in for a heavy beating: Critique is based on problematic notions of depth and exposure where the critic takes up a position of critical distance that presumes mastery over the material by revealing hidden depths beneath the surface. This article traces significant episodes in the development of this anti-critical critique by embedding it in a longer historical trajectory that has to do with an initially internal Marxist self-critique that paves the way for a downright dismissal of Marxism and the critical analysis of the capitalist mode of production. The article moves backward starting with Bruno Latour and his analysis of critique’s collapse to Michel Foucault and his complicated relationship to Marx and Marxism, ending with a call for a return to an analytic position that is in shouting distance to Marxism.
Den totale transvisualitet
Authors: Troelsen Anders
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af Tore Kristensen, Anders Michelsen & Frauke Wiegand (red.): Transvisuality. The Cultural Dimension of Visuality. Volume I: Boundaries and Creative Openings / Volume II: Visual Organizations. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2015.
I tvivlsomme kampe. Strejken og romanen, 1850-1950
Authors: Lund Nicklas Freisleben
Published: October 2018

Through the analyses of Émile Zola’s Germinal (1885) and Martin Andersen Nexø’s The Great Struggle (1909) the article investigates the strike as a topos in Western literature between 1850 and 1950. The article argues that the strike should be not considered a passive object; something that is merely being portrayed. Rather the strike has an active and formative function in the texts in which it appears, as it generates a distinct literary form – the Strike Novel – that among other things is characterized by a peculiar and ambivalent political outlook. An ambivalence emerging from the strike’s own characteristics as a practical form of political resistance linking the phenomenon closely to the question of how to act politically.
Købmandskab i tyrker-frygtens tid
Authors: Madsen Peter
Published: October 2018

Attempts from the side of the Holy See to undercut commercial relations with the Near Orient were never particularly successful, not even after the Fall of Constantinople when fear of the Turks was on the rise. Two German literary works from the following half century demonstrate how the viewpoint of the merchants is articulated within a horizon of experience that is far from religious or geo-political concerns. In Rosenplüt’s carnival play Des Türken Fastnachtspiel the Turkish Sultan is depicted as representing an idealized state (not least when it comes to the conditions of commerce) contrasting the multifarious deficiencies of the Holy Roman Empire; in the anonymous novel Fortunatus the conditions and institutions of commercial relations are foregrounded, exemplified by Alexandria and with a focus on the rational logic of commerce.
De glemte drømmes historie
Authors: Kjærulff Berit Merete
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af Bertel Nygaard: Kærlighedens samfund - Romantiske utopier i 1800-tallets Danmark. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus, 2016.
Antikapitalistisk, samtidskritisk og usamtidig kunsthistorieskrivning
Authors: Larsen Steen Nepper
Published: October 2018

Anmeldelse af Mikkel Bolt: Samtidskunstens metamorfose, 248 sider. Antipyrine, Aarhus, 2016.
Det sovjetiske samfund og oppositionen
Authors: Agger Gunhild
Published: October 2018

Det sovjetiske samfund og oppositionen
Den fortrængte virkelighed
Authors: Busk-Jensen Lise , Andersen Tine
Published: October 2018

Den fortrængte virkelighed
Litteratur og historie
Authors: Kultur og klasse Redaktionen
Published: October 2018

Redaktionens forord
Efter Guldalderkonstruktionens sammenbrud
Authors: Jensen Johan Fjord
Published: October 2018

Efter Guldalderkonstruktionens sammenbrud
Udviklingstendenser og problemer i fremtidens mediestruktur
Authors: Grodal Torben Kragh
Published: October 2018

Udviklingstendenser og problemer i fremtidens mediestruktur
Omkring >>Jordens Salt<<
Authors: Andersen John , Jørgensen Claus
Published: October 2018

Omkring >>Jordens Salt<< - en analyse af en film og dens tilblivelse
Artaud’s Hyeroglyphic Sign and Böhme’s Aesthetics of Atmosphere: The Semiotic Legacy of the Avant-Garde’s Recognition of the Materiality of Sound
Authors: Ovadija Mladen
Published: October 2018

Materiality of the sign/sound in theatre appears when various sensory materials remain on the side of the signifier, not trying to reach the signified but energetically pulsating from the stage instead. The semiotics of sound would benefit from exploring the process where the theatrical sign or sound is caught naked in its flight between deliverance and reception, not yet clothed in its signifying dress. Such a semiotics follows oral/aural signs becoming other signs in the area where the senses signify. I suggest that voice and stage sound/noise figure as catalysts of an intermedial flux between sensual, visual, kinetic, and architectural elements of performance, marking a legacy of the avant-garde recognition of the materiality of sound. I demonstrate this using Artaud’s concept of a hieroglyphic idiom as the “expression in space [in which] objects themselves begin to speak through the collusion of objects, silences, shouts and rhythms,” and through Boehme's aesthetics of atmospheres as the art of the set that creates a poetics/technèof postdramatic theatre focused on orality/aurality.
A Juggler on the Moon: How Sounds Think in Tom Stoppard's Darkside
Authors: Verma Neil
Published: October 2018

This essay explores Tom Stoppard’s 2013 radio play Darkside, which incorporates elements of Pink Floyd’s 1973 album TheDark Side of the Moon, and dramatizes a series of thought experiments. I show how the combination of these three forms necessitates a rethinking of how sounds operate in radio drama, chart the play’s habits of diversion and evasion, and discuss how these tendencies are brought to bear on the central theme of climate change. At the heart of this essay is a proposal that the idea of the “sound of thought” embodied in Darkside may prompt a new approach to the theory of radio, one that begins not with what sounds mean, but with how sounds “think”.
Le son, le signe, la scène
Authors: Helbo André
Published: October 2018

L’article interroge d’abord la question de la pertinence d’une sémiotique du son au théâtre. Après un bref survol historique, il situe la problématique du son spectaculaire dans la crise de l’agir et du ressentir propres au théâtre postdramatique. Il définit trois modalités principales de l’architecture acoustique dans le contexte du spectacle vivant d’aujourd’hui et de la libération sensorielle. Il évoque la modélisation de l’expérience acoustique. Il trace enfin quelques pistes en vue de la construction d’une sémiotique spécifique du matériau sonore.
Produire, diffuser et transmettre des savoirs portant sur la pauvreté et l’intervention sociale en milieu rural
Authors: Pagès Alexandre
Published: October 2018

Tout en reprenant les enseignements de travaux de recherche conduits en France au sujet de la pauvreté et de l’intervention sociale en milieu agricole et rural, ce texte montre les conditions d’élaboration de savoirs s’appuyant sur des connaissances issues des sciences humaines et sociales et sur des observations conduites par et avec des professionnels de l’action sociale. Au-delà du repérage de situations qui caractérisent les espaces ruraux, il souligne l’apport de différentes méthodes d’investigation pour affiner le regard sur les conditions de vie des plus pauvres, les capacités d’adaptation dont ils disposent et les dispositifs qui leur sont destinés.
Les intervenants face à la problématique de l’accessibilité aux services pour les jeunes ruraux en situation de vulnérabilité1
Authors: Alberio Marco , Handfield Mario
Published: October 2018

Basé sur une recherche qualitative et quantitative menée en partenariat avec COSMOSS La Mitis auprès de jeunes âgés de 16 à 35 ans vivant dans la MRC de La Mitis, au Bas-Saint-Laurent, et d’intervenants du milieu, cet article propose d’explorer les trajectoires d’exclusion individuelles et collectives des jeunes en milieu rural à partir de la perspective des intervenants. À travers ce texte, nous posons un regard sur l’enjeu et les mécanismes d’accès aux services pour ces jeunes ruraux. Nous émettons l’hypothèse que plusieurs phénomènes ruraux tels que la force des liens sociaux et le contrôle social, l’enjeu de la mobilité et le manque d’un bon réseau de transports collectifs, et les obstacles au travail d’intervention en termes de ressources disponibles ou de vulnérabilité de la clientèle sont des facteurs susceptibles de se transformer en barrière à l’utilisation des services. De plus, la crainte d’une stigmatisation, le manque d’anonymat, la faible présence de ressources d’aide alternatives, ainsi que la culture de la « débrouillardise » complexifient les processus d’accès aux services pour les jeunes, surtout les plus vulnérables, nuisant ainsi à leur intégration socioéconomique. Mettant de l’avant les enjeux et les stratégies d’action des intervenants, l’article conclut également sur quelques pistes de solution pour le milieu de l’intervention et les décideurs politiques.
Difficultés éthiques liées à l’intervention auprès des femmes victimes de violence conjugale qui ne désirent pas dénoncer la violence qu’elles vivent aux autorités
Authors: Lalande Célyne , Gauthier Sonia , Bouthillier Marie-Ève , Montminy Lyse
Published: October 2018

Cet article vise à expliciter certaines difficultés éthiques rencontrées par les intervenantes qui pratiquent auprès de femmes qui ne dénoncent pas aux autorités les agressions commises à leur endroit par leur conjoint alors que leur sécurité est compromise. Des entrevues réalisées auprès d’intervenantes psychosociales du Grand Montréal qui pratiquent auprès de ces femmes ont mis en lumière le fait que ces situations génèrent des défis éthiques complexes pour lesquels seuls quelques moyens de résolution sont disponibles. Quelques pratiques novatrices qui gagneraient à être implantées dans toutes les régions du Québec sont suggérées.
Carles Batlle & Enric Gallén (curs.), «Adrià Gual. Teoria escènica», Lleida/Barcelona, Punctum / Institut del Teatre, 2016, 343 pp.
Authors: Bacardit Ramon
Published: October 2018

Ressenya sobre el llibre de Carles Batlle & Enric Gallén (curs.), Adrià Gual. Teoria escènica, Lleida/Barcelona, Punctum / Institut del Teatre, 2016, 343 pp., ISBN: 978-84-945790-0-4 (Punctum) i 978-84-9803-758-6 (Institut del Teatre)
Sharon G. Feldman & Francesc Foguet: «Els límits del silenci. La censura del teatre català durant el franquisme», Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2016, 272 pp.
Authors: Fernández Poza Óscar
Published: October 2018

Ressenya sobre el llibre de Sharon G. Feldman & Francesc Foguet: Els límits del silenci. La censura del teatre català durant el franquisme, Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2016, 272 pp., ISBN: 978-84-9883-879-4.
Lluís Meseguer (ed.), «La traducció literària. Estudis sobre la traducció i la literatura valenciana. Homenatge a Joan Francesc Mira i Casterà», València, AVL, 2017, 315 pp.
Authors: Navarro i Miralles Joan M.
Published: October 2018

Ressenya sobre el llibre de Lluís Meseguer (ed.), La traducció literària. Estudis sobre la traducció i la literatura valenciana. Homenatge a Joan Francesc Mira i Casterà, València, AVL, 2017, 315 pp., ISBN: 978-84-482-6200-6.
Evaluation of Value Capture Strategies for Public Private Partnership Projects in Railway System Projects to be Built in Istanbul City
Authors: İNAÇ Hakan , DÖNMEZ Cem Çağrı
Published: October 2018

For urban rail lines, there is a need for resources at all stages such as planning, construction and operation. In financing these structures with large budgets and requiring specialized construction, it is possible to implement not only the use of state resources but also many models of Public-Private Partnership (PPP). This method, which can be called alternative financing, will make a significant contribution to the realization of investment auctions and will also contribute to the rapid commissioning / finalization of investments. This model has been tried many times in the world and it has been evaluated that it will be more successful for all the types of the metro (cable car, light subway, monorail, street tram which can be called as a relatively light subway investment. For rail lines when alternative financing is required, it would be appropriate to increase the diversity of income items in feasibility reports. In this context, in addition to travel revenues, real estate value tax, Tax credit financing, goodwill and real estate development partnership can provide income. Real estate prices increase in the area where rail system investment is made and this situation is used as a direct marketing tool by construction companies. On the other hand, in cases where Station structures have to be constructed outside the public area, the cost of expropriation for the project is increasing and financing needs are increasing. For the transportation investment projects carried out as Public-Private Partnership Project (PPP), the use of value increase strategies other than passenger revenues will be beneficial in terms of financing. The demographic and geographic features of the project will be decisive in the determination of the Value Capture Strategies (VCS) to be used. Within the scope of this project; VCS strategies were evaluated in PPP models by using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) with expert opinion in rail system projects to be carried out in Istanbul.
Effects of Different Applications and Designs on Emission Reduction in a Gas Burner
Authors: YANGAZ Murat Umut , ÇİFTÇİOĞLU Gökçen Alev , KADIRGAN Mehmet Arif Neşet
Published: October 2018

Inefficient energy usage is one of the main reasons of
depletion of resources at a faster rate and global warming due to the
higher-level emissions, which may be also an indicator of incomplete
combustion. Bulk systems or large-scale systems generally are the biggest
contributors to the problems stated above.

Industrial burners
are widely used in metal forming industry and the process of large-scale
production of electricity. There are strict rules for both carbon and nitrogen
based emissions in these sectors. Therefore, this study aims to provide an
enhancement in combustion efficiency and reduction in emissions using different
techniques for minimization of environmentally hazardous pollutants, which
includes concepts and designs such as oxy-fuel combustion, internal flue gas recirculation
(IFGR) or premixing. All the results has been compared with each other and they
have given in the form of tables of various outputs and temperature contours.
It has been shown that some of the concepts have greater effect than the other
ones in terms of performance and emissions.
Kesirli Nötral Diferensiyel Denklemlerin Çözümlerinin Kalitatif Davranışları Üzerine
Authors: ADIGÜZEL Hakan
Published: October 2018

.Bu çalışmada, kesirli nötral diferensiyel denklemlerin bir sınıfı
dikkate alınmıştır. Yeni karşılaştırma teoremlerine dayanarak, salınımlılık
sonuçları elde edilmiştir. Elde edilen sonuçlar literatürdeki çalışmaları
tamamlamış ve genelleştirmiştir
Çift Kür Olabilen Hidrofob Kaplamaların Mekanik, Yüzey ve Termal Özelliklerinin İncelenmesi
Authors: ÇAKIR Mustafa
Published: October 2018

Önemli
kaplama teknolojilerinden biri olan ultraviyole (UV) ışıkla sertleştirme
yöntemi, artan uygulama alanları ve diğer yöntemlere kıyasla var olan
avantajları ile birlikte her geçen gün daha fazla tercih edilmektedir. Bu
makalede, bir izosiyanat akrilat olan ICA (Laromer® LR 9000) reçinesi ile
monoetilen glikol (MEG), dietilen glikol (DEG) ve dialkol ile sonlandırılmış
perfloropolieter türevi olan floro alkol (Fluorolink® E10-H) içeren reçine
sistemleri kullanılarak kaplamalar hazırlanmıştır. Bu reçine sistemlerinin ısı
ve UV ile sertleştirilmesi sonucunda farklı oranlarda flor içeren serbest
filmler elde edilmiş ve ayrıca alüminyum levhalar üzerine de bu formülasyonlar
kaplama yapılmıştır. Elde edilen serbest filmlerin; çekme testi, termogravimetrik
analiz (TGA) ve diferansiyel taramalı kalorimetre (DSC) yardımıyla mekanik ve
termal özellikleri belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca alüminyum levha üzerine yapılan
kaplamaların özellikleri ise; kalem sertlik testi, çapraz kesme testi,
parlaklık testi ve temas açısı testi ile gözlemlenmiştir. Sonuçlar
incelendiğinde hidrofobik ve parlak bir kaplama elde edildiği görülmüştür.
Ayrıca farklı oranlarda eklenen floro alkolün monoetilen glikol içeren yapı ile
dietilen glikol içeren yapının mekanik özelliklerinde farklı etkiler yarattığı
tespit edilmiştir.
The effect of external lateral stabilization on the control of mediolateral stability in walking and running
Authors: Mahaki Mohammadreza , Bruijn Sjoerd M , H. van Dieën Jaap
Published: October 2018

It is still unclear how humans control mediolateral (ML) stability in walking and even more so for running. Here, foot placement adjustment as a main mechanism of active control of mediolateral stability was compared between walking and running. Moreover, to verify the role of foot placement as a means of active control of ML stability and associated metabolic costs in both modes of locomotion, this study investigated the effect of external lateral stabilization on foot placement control. Ten young adults participated in this study. Kinematic data of the trunk (T6) and feet (heels) as well as breath-by-breath oxygen consumption data were recorded during walking and running on a treadmill in normal and stabilized conditions. Coordination between ML trunk Center of Mass (CoM) state and subsequent ML foot placement, step width, and step width variability were assessed. Two-way repeated measures ANOVAs (either normal or SPM1d) were used to test for effects of walking vs. running and of normal vs. stabilized locomotion. We found a stronger association between ML trunk CoM state and foot placement in walking than in running from 90-100% of the gait cycle and also a higher step width variability in walking, but no significant differences in step width. The association between trunk CoM state and foot placement was significantly decreased by external lateral stabilization in walking and running, and this reduction was stronger in walking than in running from 75-100% of gait cycle. Surprisingly, energy cost significantly increased by external lateral stabilization, which was more pronounced in running than walking. We conclude that ML foot placement is coordinated to the CoM kinematic state to stabilize both walking and running. This coordination is more tight in walking than in running and appears not to contribute substantially to the energy costs of either mode of locomotion.
Biochemical analysis and comparative studies on Diospyros kaki extracts
Authors: Zreen Zohra , Kiran Shumaila , Hameed Amjad , Gulzar Tahsin , Farooq Tahir
Published: October 2018

Background: Limited study on different organs of Diospyros kaki in biochemical figure of Pakistani plants still require considerable research activities due to its remarkable antioxidant properties.

Objective: This study was an effort to characterize antioxidant properties regarding Diospyros kaki with special reference to its detailed biochemical analysis and linked health claim.

Method: The biochemical analysis according to the role of certain bioactive molecules in different plant organs of Diospyros kaki viz enzymatic, non enzymatic antioxidants, hydrolytic enzymes and few other biochemical parameters such as total antioxidant activity, total oxidant status, total soluble sugars and protein along with pigments like chlorophyll ( total, a and b), carotenoids and lycopene were studied. Results: Among enzymatic antioxidant, catalase and ascorbate peroxidase along with protease activity, total antioxidant capacity, total phenolic contents, tannins and pigments like chlorophyll (total, a and b) were observed highest in leaves. Unripe fruit showed significant α-amylase, ascorbic acid, non reducing sugars, total soluble sugars, total carotenoids, lycopene and significantly lowest total oxidant status. Similarly, remarkable highest amount of superoxide dismutase and proteins were predicted in ripe fruit whereas peroxidase activity and reducing sugars were investigated in bark. However, highest esterase activity was indicated in stem.

Conclusion: Our present findings concluded the fact that leaves, bark, stem, ripe and unripe fruit of Diospyros kaki could be exploited in pharmacology due to sufficient presence of different antioxidants but large number of antioxidants reflected in leaves and unripe fruit extract make them more potent and profound therauptic agents.

Future perspective: Keeping in mind the above facts and research findings, further pharmacological and biochemical explorations are needed to discover natural products.
Recurrent loss of HMGCS2 shows that ketogenesis is not essential for the evolution of large mammalian brains
Authors: Jebb David , Hiller Michael
Published: October 2018

Apart from glucose, fatty acid-derived ketone bodies provide metabolic energy for the brain during fasting and neonatal development. We investigated the evolution of HMGCS2, the key enzyme required for ketone body biosynthesis (ketogenesis). Unexpectedly, we found that three mammalian lineages, comprising cetaceans (dolphins and whales), elephants and mastodons, and Old World fruit bats have lost this gene. Remarkably, many of these species have exceptionally large brains and signs of intelligent behavior. While fruit bats are sensitive to starvation, cetaceans and elephants can still withstand periods of fasting. This suggests that alternative strategies to fuel large brains during fasting evolved repeatedly and reveals flexibility in mammalian energy metabolism. Furthermore, we show that HMGCS2 loss preceded brain size expansion in toothed whales and elephants. Thus, while ketogenesis was likely important for brain size expansion in modern humans, ketogenesis is not a universal precondition for the evolution of large mammalian brains.