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  Gans - Originary Narrative
The representations that accomplish "the deferral of violence through representation," the endlessly renewed process of generating transcendence out of immanence, are what we call "culture." The basis of the transcendent vs immanent dichotomy is the linguistic relation between sign and thing, which is doubled as signifier vs signified.
Representation is precisely what separates the object qua worldly referent from the object qua signified/"Idea," so that we come to resent the material object’s occupation of the place of permanent Being that belongs to the sign’s ideal referent-in-general.
The minimal, ostensive conception of the originary sign as the representation of the present central object by means of an "aborted gesture of appropriation," affirms the object’s centrality in the face of the mimetic rivalry of the subjects who are about to appropriate it.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/anthropoetics/ap0302/narrative.htm   (7469 words)

  
 20th WCP: Liberalism, Civic Reformism and Democracy
The mode of access to citizenship determines the scope of the bilateral relation that binds the citizen to the state.
The mode of access separates the legal status of citizens from that of non-citizens, granting to each mode unequal expectations of inclusion: unattainable in the case of natural belonging and reachable, under certain conditions, in the other.
Liberalism assumes political representation to be a necessary mediation for the institutional complexity of modern societies, though it does not mean to abandon the assumption of participation as the full accomplishment of the civil condition.
www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Poli/PoliRosa.htm   (2559 words)

  
 Rhetoric and the Postmodern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Based on this theory of linguistic representation, or meaning, Nietzsche reaffirmed the antimodernist position on the value of rhetorical study; although, as we will see later, this rhetorical theory of meaning may establish a role for rhetoric in postmodern philosophy.
Although Burke's basic concern is identical to Vico's, he responds to a new structure of the institutions of knowledge, a new turn of the scientific screw: the human sciences.
Unlike the first, allopathic mode of treatment which would overcome the ailment through an infusion of the eternalizing forces of religion, art, and music (e.g., Wagner), Nietzsche's later assessment concluded that the goal of a critical overcoming is itself a principle of modernity.
www.missouri.edu /~engjnc/texts/rhetoric_postmodern.html   (1656 words)

  
 What Is bureaucracy
Rather, it is an institution based on voluntary participation which attempts to influence power-either to participate in it, or to capture it by rallying a mass of individuals around a program of demands.
We were afraid to admit that the transformation of the mode of social domination could involve a profound modification of the antagonistic terms described by Marx and, consequently, would call for a revision of his model.
It obtains on two levels: it acts on the level of representation where the function of imagination cannot be confused with that of symbols which establish the possibility of social communication and make up the shell of the economic-political field.
www.generation-online.org /h/fplefort.htm   (14331 words)

  
 TV: Battleground of Representation
In this tension between criticisms of an industrial institution that cares too little and is insensitive to small differences, and an institution that knows too much and begins to know everything about these nuances, theoreticians of culture fall over themselves.
Institutional knowledge then is not simply the will to control, it is also the will to know, and knowledge of course is power, a power also claimed by theoreticians.
In turn,it is these institutions that control or manage the representation of what we as human beings are.
www.culture.com.au /techtonic/flux1/tvbattle5.htm   (729 words)

  
 LLT Vol10 Num2: MODE, MEANING, AND SYNAESTHESIA IN MULTIMEDIA L2 WRITING
These essays related directly to topics the students were writing on in their composition classes, and their assignment was to develop a short piece (three to five pages, in the written language mode) on a topic relating to language, culture, and identity, which were the dominant themes of their composition course readings and discussions.
One caveat before I go on: notwithstanding Ally’s successful appropriation of conventional representations in her piece, the role of audience and the threat to authorship posed by stereotyped images are consequential issues, a further treatment of which is to follow.
Mode refers to any organized, regular means of representation and communication, such as still image, gesture, posture, and speech, music, writing, or new configurations of the elements of these" (p.
llt.msu.edu /vol10num2/nelson/default.html   (9142 words)

  
 Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine
(a) "Class I institutional pharmacies" are those institutional pharmacies in which all medicinal drugs are administered from individual prescription containers to the individual patient and in which medicinal drugs are not dispensed on the premises, except that nursing homes licensed under part II of chapter 400 may purchase medical oxygen for administration to residents.
However, an institutional pharmacy located in an area or county included in an emergency order or proclamation of a state of emergency declared by the Governor may provide dispensing and consulting services to individuals who are not patients of the institution.
Every institutional pharmacy that employs or otherwise utilizes pharmacy technicians shall have a written policy and procedures manual specifying those duties, tasks, and functions which a pharmacy technician is allowed to perform.
www.leg.state.fl.us /Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0465/ch0465.htm   (11022 words)

  
 Whatever Happened to Neorealism?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
However, to understand the cinema in terms of a language, and, with Lacanian psychoanalysis, in terms of the symbolic, is to miss the specificity of cinema which I see as its ontological subversion and refusal of codes that are forever taken for granted in such analyses.
Moreover, this contrast is illuminated also in their different modes of writing, with the former producing a systematic (over)comprehensive two volume work on the cinema, while the latter's work is for the most part fragmentary, almost journalistic, based in reviews.
This truth, or rather the coming-to-understanding that purports to reveal this truth, is projected back onto the figure of Tarkovsky, who comes to stand in both for the makers of the documentary (who, by reconstructing his presumed subjectivity erase their own presence) and for the spectator, who is to identify with Tarkovsky as foiled director.
www.art.man.ac.uk /SPANISH/staff/Writings/bazin.html   (5991 words)

  
 Fourmodes.rtf
Thus, within the framework of our institutional practices-in lectures, discussions, reading texts, and evaluating written work-our primary mode of engaging undergraduate students is intellectual, and students naturally strive first and foremost to grasp textual ideas in terms of their logical relationships and coherence.
While somatic modes of acquiring knowledge are integral to athletics, performing arts, and the like, we rarely attempt to engage students at this level in religious studies.
My pedagogical strategy in negotiating the four modes has been to bring the intellectual and intuitive modes of engagement fully into the classroom, to open possibilities for affective engagement through lecture and discussion, and to provide opportunities for deeper affective and somatic engagement at the individual level when queried.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~munno/Learning/Fourmodes.htm   (2869 words)

  
 In what ways could Italian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Pasolini went on to point out that film is a direct representation of what is in front of the camera, thus it possesses a: " special relationship to language that no codified language enjoys." This is all very well, but what I hope to point out in the next paragraph shall contradict this view.
What is meant by this is that the class and/or culture which holds the most dominant position in society, speaks on behalf of all society - whether the rest of society likes it or not.
Karl Marx once said that "The ruling ideas of any age are those of the ruling class." Films and film-makers are a bourgeois institution, thus it is common practice for them to depict bourgeois ideology.
members.tripod.com /mattserendipity/essays/italian.htm   (2076 words)

  
 Strategic Planning Process
With implementation of the institutional strategic plan in AY 98-99, the strategic planning process outlined will have achieved two of its three stated outcomes, namely the development of an institutional plan which provides a sense of direction to guide NMSU's actions and broad participation in institutional priority-setting and the choice-making which follows.
The most uniform piece of advice given by institutions which have undertaken a strategic planning process is to take advantage of the assistance and expertise of an experienced planning consultant at the beginning of the process.
The consultant may be an appropriate source/facilitator of the initial assessment of institutional culture and values also--a neutral outside party offering initial perceptions and questions for consideration in the planning process.
www.nmsu.edu /Strategic/process/process.html   (2801 words)

  
 Chronicles of Love & Resentment CCCXXVI
This context is, however little we are conscious of it, a collective one; the sign is a mode of communication whose reduction to a solipsistic recording of thought distorts its function beyond repair.
We need not speculate on the stages by which the linguistic sign detached itself from the ritual ensemble; as its minimal, "symbolic" element, it is from the outset detachable from the scene as a whole and therefore from its reproduction.
The sacred is difficult to isolate and define independently of institutional religion because in the absence of an institutional guarantee, the experience of interdiction that distinguishes the sacred from the significant has no objective, "meaningful" existence.
www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /views/vw326.htm   (1410 words)

  
 Formalism and its discontents by Dana B. Polan
Representation gives way to presentation: the ways in which films present their contents become visible.
Namely, what a society considers as fitting or subverting its systems of representations is not something in, or objectively definable in, the art itself but rather is a definition by the society of the place of that art.
What formalism institutes is a clear-cut split between two practices — representational art and representational ways of seeing on the one hand and innovative art and innovative ways of seeing on the other — and it irrevocably decides which side certain films belong on.
www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC26folder/DistantObserver.html   (7189 words)

  
 SECTION 1 - 2
My focus was the combination of artificial intelligence (mainly knowledge representation), multimedia computer technology and Internet, applied in the context of public participation in decision making by government agencies, within the domain of impact assessment review for large development projects (infrastructure shortfalls and environment).
In this chapter I describe the main settings of the case, concerning what was the object of decision, who was involved in it, how the situation had evolved at the time my research became a part of the process and in which conditions the research project was set.
In the sequence of the work generated by the IMS Expert Panel, I began circulating among all institutional actors, namely the environmental NGO’s, facility promoter, governments (national and local) and public administration, a first version of the proposed FAQ structure and a seed list of questions.
web.mit.edu /uis/people/pfa/thesis/thesis-s1-s2.html   (3700 words)

  
 Lupton/Miller: Deconstruction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
We argue that deconstruction is not a style or "attitude" but rather a mode of questioning through and about the technologies, formal devices, social institutions, and founding metaphors of representation.
This approach represents a rather cheerful response to the post-structuralist theme of the "death of the author" and the assertion that the interior self is constructed by external technologies of representation.
Deconstruction has lived in a variety of institutional worlds, from university literature departments to schools of art and design to the discourse of popular journalism, where it has functioned both as a critical activity and as a banner for a range of styles and attitudes.
www.designwritingresearch.org /essays/deconstruction.html   (4633 words)

  
 Table of Contents and Excerpt, Grant, Film Genre Reader III
At the same time, a heightened concern with the operation of ideology in art, stimulated by the importation to film of theoretical work by John Berger, Louis Althusser, Brecht, Freud, and others, shattered the operating assumption that an understanding of a film's director and his or her oeuvre would provide the key to interpretation.
Paul Schrader discusses film noir primarily from a stylistic perspective, and although he begins by asserting that film noir is actually not a genre, it would seem that his analysis, and the work of later critics, has demonstrated that it may indeed be considered one.
Mark Reid considers the representation of race in his discussion of fl gangster films, and Timothy Shary outlines the parameters and permutations of the teen film, a genre uniquely defined in terms of the age group represented in the narrative.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exgrafi3.html   (2662 words)

  
 The Clash of Civilizations - Economic Model   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
All other kinds of physical and institutional infrastructure will be handled at the provincial level or higher.
Institutional infrastructure covers educational and religious institutions, as well as banking systems etc. A list of the infrastructure categories that I've got so far are in the table below.
Next to taxes in icon should be a representation of how the people are taking it, and if you change tax rate you see estimated result immediately.
cullivan.com /coc/models/Model-Economic.shtml   (10480 words)

  
 Longacre on McQuire
Part 1, 'The Ruins of Representation', is mostly a succinct and well-organized narrative of the decline of photography's supposed autonomy and the 'positivist' authority of its images from its inception in the 1830s through the invention and rise of cinematography in the 1890s and early 1900s.
This ambivalent crisis of representation is where the trajectory of photography and cinema has taken us, into a no man's land of neither this nor that.
Or, in other words, 'representation is no longer shaped to fit what is real; instead, the world is called on to live up to its images' (101).
www.film-philosophy.com /vol6-2002/n39longacre   (2832 words)

  
 Aquarius--Software for Water Allocation
Aquarius can be used in a fully deterministic optimization mode, for general planning purposes, or in a quasi-simulation mode, with restricted foresight capabilities.
The model distinguishes between the period of analysis, used to specify the length of the whole segment of time for which the model will simulate system operation, and the optimization horizon, used to specify how far into the future the model should look to build the optimal operational policies.
Because institutional barriers and market failures commonly affect Western water, actual water allocations may be different from the economically efficient allocations achieved using Aquarius.
www.fs.fed.us /rm/value/aquarius.html   (1107 words)

  
 Takis Fotopoulos - The Myth of Postmodernity
Therefore, the Federalist conception of representation, and particularly that of Hamilton, was intended to act as a filter, i.e.
Those controlling the market economy (with the support of other social groups which were benefiting by the institutional framework) aimed at marketising labour and land as much as possible, that is, at minimising all social controls aiming at protecting labour and land, so that their free flow, at a minimum cost, could be secured.
The economic crisis which erupted in the 1970s, as a result of the incompatibility between statism and internationalisation (and, not as it is usually stated, because of the oil crisis, which was simply the immediate cause that precipitated the crisis), led also to the rise of the neoliberal movement.
www.democracynature.org /dn/vol7/takis_postmodernism.htm   (10052 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Burroughs, Gysin, Balch, and Cut Ups (1)
Cinema also works on the level of formal apparatus, and the hegemony of industrial and economic superiority in the mainstream is matched by a domination of formal and aesthetic “pleasures” in which the spectator is posited.
This was achieved and solidified in the editing and filming practices of an Institutional Mode of Representation as described by Noel Burch
There is emergent here a primary concern with the articulation of “narrative” and the representation of a spatially and temporally coherent film world in which psychologically motivated characters operate (Bordwell).
www.brightlightsfilm.com /39/cutups1.htm   (3437 words)

  
 Narrative
Turner is not troubled by the fact that all of his evidence for the cognitive structure of parable is, if not exclusively "literary" in the narrow institutional sense, certainly linguistic, that is, only available in language.
It is the default mode of representation, when we recognize one stimulus as similar to another.
On the contrary, the level of cognitive representation they require is no more than what we share with the rest of the animal world.
www2.bc.edu /~richarad/lcb/fea/mla01rvo.html   (1595 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 90050406
Burch's major thesis is that, on the contrary, film language has a social and economic history, that it evolved in the way it did because of when and where it was constructed--in the capitalist and imperialist West between 1892 and 1929.
Central to the Institutional Mode are the principles of visualization--camera placement and movement, lighting, editing, mise-en-scene--that filmmakers and audiences came to internalize over the first three decades.
Special emphasis is laid on the all-important change that occurred in the placing of the spectator, from a position of exteriority to the film image--implicit in both film-form and viewing conditions during the primitive era (pre-1909)--to the imaginary centering of the spectator-subject--completed only with the generalization of lip-synch sound after 1929.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ucal041/90050406.html   (336 words)

  
 BISC Program; Soft Computing
In a paper entitled, Outline of a Computational Approach to Meaning and Knowledge Representation Based on a Concept of a Generalized Assignment Statement (1986), he introduced the concept of a generalized constraint -- a concept which subsequently played a key role in the development of the computational theory of perceptions.
In a paper entitled, A Computational Theory of Dispositions (1987), he developed a theory of dispositions which provides a realistic model for commonsense reasoning and is likely to become a widely used tool for the management of uncertainty in knowledge-based systems and the design of intelligent controllers for industrial use.
In a paper entitled, Knowledge Representation in Fuzzy Logic, (1989), he described a fuzzy- logic-based approach to the representation of imprecise and commonsense knowledge.
www.cs.berkeley.edu /~zadeh/acprco.html   (1492 words)

  
 The Modern Library | Authors | David Liss
I decided to set my novel, "A Conspiracy of Paper," in the London of 1719 -- around the period leading up to the South Sea Bubble, the first stock-market crash of the English-speaking world -- because I was interested in how people react to major shifts in the nature of finance.
Today, we live in a time in which money is changing from one mode of representation (paper) to another, more complex mode(electronic/informational).
And best of all, from a story-telling standpoint, these kinds of outrages were all new - never before seen - and no one quite knew what to make of stock swindles and government cover-ups and crime lords.
www.randomhouse.com /modernlibrary/dliss.html   (759 words)

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