Search results for "Esthetics"

Geography of Emotions Across the Black Mediterranean: Oral Memories and Dissonant Heritages of Slavery and the Colonial Past

2019

AbstractThis contribution is dedicated to analysing oral memories about the Black Mediterranean through interviews with people from or culturally linked to the Horn of Africa. The aim is to consider how the interviewees make use of archives to voice their feelings about the past and present in Africa and Europe. I introduce the concept of a “geography of emotions” as a set of different perceptions of Europe and its past. The mobilization of these memories in new interpretative perspectives is part of a dissonant heritage which is actively working inside the European borders in order to produce new cultural identities, to reiterate forms of belonging to black diasporic communities, and to in…

Contro il dominio dell’Arte. L’estetica quotidiana dei Futuristi

2020

Uno degli aspetti più significativi del Futurismo è la violenta ribellione contro l’arte aulica del passato. Tale polemica si traduce nella proclamazione di una nuova estetica incentrata sul corpo in movimento e sulle sue relazioni polisensoriali con l’ambiente circostante. Per mettere a fuoco questa prospettiva estetica si prenderanno in considerazione le cosiddette “ambientazioni futuriste”. Esse segnano il momento cruciale in cui la creatività futurista si allarga dall’arte allo spazio quotidiano sia pubblico sia privato, sia domestico sia urbano. Inoltre le ambientazioni attestano il ruolo pionieristico che i futuristi hanno avuto nell’ avviare una riflessione sullo spazio vissuto che m…

Ornamenti un Simetrijas: Ornamentālo Rakstu Zīmju Valoda (intervija ar Modri Tenisonu)

2010

Ornaments and Symmetry: Language of Signs of Ornamental Tracery (see interview with Modris Tenisons http://www.blip.tv/file/3173653) In his first interview Modris Tenisons explains language of ornamentalistic signs for national ornamental belts using his discovered law of sieve displacement, which gives base duality element in ornamentalistic signs, and routine how to generate 240 elements of signs from 10 “seeds of chaos” sufficient to produce all ornametal belts of first order. He tells also about his discoverd 16 sign alphabet, that does the same. Pirmajā mutvārdu liecinājumā Modris Tenisons stāsta par ornamentālo rakstu zīmju veidošanās likumsakarībām sakrustojot divu krāsu diegus audum…

Gender and the superhero narrative

2019

As the title of the volume promises, Gender and the Superhero Narrative offers an insight into the ways gendered norms and ideals have been negotiated in superhero narratives. Yet this is not all i...

Of Termites and Ovaries on Strike: Rethinking Medical Metaphors of the Female Body

2017

AbstractThis article explores how problematic or detrimental metaphors of the female body can be reimagined. Metaphors that compare the body to a machine or factory influence the ways in which wome...

Zoomasculinities: At the Intersection Between Animals, Animality, and Masculinity

2020

The diversity of GABAA receptors. Pharmacological and electrophysiological properties of GABAA channel subtypes.

1998

The amino acid gamma-aminobutyric-acid (GABA) prevails in the CNS as an inhibitory neurotransmitter that mediates most of its effects through fast GABA-gated Cl(-)-channels (GABAAR). Molecular biology uncovered the complex subunit architecture of this receptor channel, in which a pentameric assembly derived from five of at least 17 mammalian subunits, grouped in the six classes alpha, beta, gamma, delta, sigma and epsilon, permits a vast number of putative receptor isoforms. The subunit composition of a particular receptor determines the specific effects of allosterical modulators of the GABAARs like benzodiazepines (BZs), barbiturates, steroids, some convulsants, polyvalent cations, and et…

Mechanism of Anesthetic Action: Oxygen Pathway Perturbation Hypothesis

2001

Although more than 150 years have past since the discovery of general anesthetics, how they precisely work remains a mystery. We propose a novel unitary mechanism of general anesthesia verifiable by experiments. In the proposed mechanism, general anesthetics perturb oxygen pathways in both membranes and oxygen-utilizing proteins such that the availabilities of oxygen to its sites of utilization are reduced which in turn triggers cascading cellular responses through oxygen-sensing mechanisms resulting in general anesthesia. Despite the general assumption that cell membranes are readily permeable to oxygen, exiting publications indicate that these membranes are plausible oxygen transport barr…

Femininity and the Salon

2020

This chapter concerns Salon Culture and its role as a distributor of philosophy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, marking the importance of the mostly unacknowledged contribution by female thinkers. The salon presents the space between private and profession in which the participants could try out new roles and change old ones. Thus, the establishment of sentimental circles such as the Tugendbund around Henriette Herz, the extensive net of communication and representation established by Rahel Varnhagen, the opportunity to publish under either pseudonyms or hidden behind a male editorship used by writers such as Dorothea Schlegel may all count as first attempts to form a role as sa…

Klein, Hurwitz, and the “Jewish Question” in German Academia

2018

Mathematicians love to tell stories about people they once knew or perhaps only heard about. If the story happens to sound believable, others are apt to repeat it, possibly embellishing on the original tale. Such mathematical folklore occasionally finds its way into print, and once it does, readers are apt to take such stories at face value, lending them additional credibility. Occasionally, though, alleged facts come under scrutiny, and established stories are exposed as fiction. Yet even when someone comes along with decisive evidence refuting an earlier account it can easily happen that the original story just refuses to die.