Certain State Of Mind Research Articles

Performative Cinema and Its Techniques

The aim of this paper presentation is to analyze in-depth the transition and transformation of performance art into the world of cinema, creating the notion of performative cinema – a notion that is very present in today`s cinematic language, however not enough recognized as a movement in itself. The core mantra of performative cinema is the involvement of the spectator – both the emancipation of the viewer in an age of consumerist blockbusters and his awakening into a certain state of mind (in some cases, performative cinema can even lead towards transcendental meditation). The paper will briefly follow the origins of performative cinema and its techniques, with roots in the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Pere Portabella, while reaching into the present through works of film auteurs like Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Yorgos Lanthimos. The presentation will focus to unveil and analyze the approaches of performative cinema, conveying how it works as a piece of performance art in itself – and how its relay into cinema can be direct, with a dadaesque influence through a transgressive political message (`Holy Motors` by Leos Carax representing an example), or more subtle – through nuances and refined directorial interventions (Weerasethakul`s `Memoria`). The systematic analysis of these movies as core examples of performative cinema means an enterprise into both the narrative elements and the visual identity of the films, with the purpose of classifying a genre that has remained unknown for too long, deserving the treatment of a cinematic wave in itself.

Conceptual views on the migration phenomenon

In recent years, migration processes have been significantly stimulated and accelerated by the transformations produced in the post-communist space. In this context, the Republic of Moldova presents an example of a country with an intense emigration of the population, determined by the precariousness of the current economic situation. The data regarding the number of labor migrants from the Republic of Moldova attest to a certain state of mind, an orientation, which sees emigration as a solution to the problem of survival. It is obvious that the tendency towards emigration strongly marks the social-psychological atmosphere of reality in Moldova, as well as in other post-communist areas. The theoretical and methodological foundation of the study of migration involved the research of several aspects related to migration. Thorough knowledge of migration theories provides an overview of the evolution over time of the migration phenomenon.

Contrastive Analysis of Presupposition Triggers in English and Chinese and a Review of Translation Strategies

The definition of presupposition is the fact and information accepted by mutual parties and the presupposition is usually conveyed with common sense or professional knowledge, which is a very common pragmatic phenomenon. For example: Please open the door. A simple request is likely to presuppose that the door is closed and the recipient is capable and willing to open the door. The factors to trigger the presupposition come from a certain phrase or word in a sentence, even the syntactic structure and context. Then these factors are called presupposition triggers. The presupposition triggers are divided into lexical presupposition triggers and syntactic presupposition triggers according to the existing form, vocabulary and sentence pattern of the language. Lexical presupposition triggers include proprietary descriptors, factual verbs, judgment verbs, state-changing verbs, meaning verbs, and repetitions. By contrast, syntactic presupposition triggers include non-restrictive relative clauses, splitting sentences, comparative sentences, time clauses, and subjunctive conditional sentences with opposite conditions. In both Chinese and English, presupposition triggers have similarities and differences. For example, when actual verbs are used as presupposition triggers in English, they are usually passive. Meanwhile, actual verbs are not converted into passive in Chinese. That is to say, when causative verbs are implemented, they are always written in active voice. However, factual verbs as presupposition triggers also indicate a certain state of mind no matter in English or Chinese. Through this paper, readers can have a deeper understanding of the presupposition triggers and the application in the translation process of people's daily English and Chinese in two different languages. Understanding presupposition triggers is very helpful in communicative life and the triggers can be used to summarize the the process of translation and the translation methods in English and Chinese.

Wisdom Humor from Upcountry Maine

A common assumption in literary studies is that laughter is, if not the chief goal of humor, certainly a desirable and increasingly necessary one. Can there even be such a thing as humorless humor? I argue that upcountry language and humor are a search for home and belonging, literally as the State of Maine and, when unavailable, as a longing and expression of a certain state of mind and practice of simple living. These following stories and anecdotes make a case for a humor that gently displaces funny by FUN, using language as a universal search for home and belonging: literally when in the State of Maine, and universally as a state of mind that focusses on the humble practice of simply living a worthy human life.

Confounded Dwelling: Architectures of Association in W. G. Sebald’sAusterlitz

Confounded Dwelling: Architectures of Association in W. G. Sebald’s<i>Austerlitz</i>

The essence of stalking as a socially dangerous act and the role of information of private character with signs of secrecy in the formation of tactics behavior of pursuer

he article examines the feasibility of criminalizing obsessive persecution, the so-called «stalking». A concept that has grabbedattention over the past thirty years abroad, having become the subject of a significant amount of research. The reasons for the formationof a trend to consolidate responsibility for stalking are analyzed, which took shape in the early nineties of the last century and todayhas become part of the legislation of large parts of the world. At the same time, the very concept of stalking appeared in the scientificliterature long before that, being mainly the subject of research by psychiatrists, characterized it as a certain state of mind. Attention isdrawn to the fact that now stalking has already become somewhat stratified, being considered primarily as a type of illegal behavior.The latter infringes on the inviolability of private life and information of private character with signs of secrecy, which is the source ofthe formation of tactics of stalker behavior. The latter, in turn, aims to control the victim, forcing her to abandon her usual way of life.In this context, it is questioned that domestic legislation does not recognize such behavior as illegal, as well as the lack of relevantstatistics on the number of persecuted persons. In this regard, the official data on other countries that are actively studying this phenome -non are considered. According to their data, up to 15% of people have been persecuted at least once in their lives, which indicate a seriousprevalence of this behavior, which is definitely not limited to a single country or continent. This gives grounds to assert that Ukraineis not an exception either, and the absence of any statistics does not mean the absence of this problem. The latter only indicates a lackof attention to the problems of stalking and an underestimation of the possible consequences.All this gives grounds to assert that today the victims of persecution are almost defenseless, and the existing legal regulation isunable to protect citizens from obsessive persecution. Separately, the presence of a sufficient level of public danger from stalking isassessed to be recognized as a criminal offense at the level of law. Attention is focused on the danger of stalking, which has a widerange of manifestations and is characterized by unpredictable consequences. After all, it was precisely the cases of grave consequencesthat received a public response that prompted a number of Western countries to recognize stalking as a criminal offense.Summing up the results, the position on the criminalization of stalking is given, in this connection; it is proposed to amend thecurrent Criminal Code of Ukraine. At the same time, this should not be realized by changing the existing norms, but precisely by creatinga new separate norm. As an approach that turned out to be the most effective in ensuring the protection of human rights and freedoms.Among other things, this will also perform a preventive function against crimes that infringe on information of private characterwith signs of secrecy.

The Cognition of Severe Moral Failure: A Novel Approach to the Perception of Evil.

I describe the perception of evil as a categorization judgment, based on a prototype, with extensive feedback loops and top-down influences. Based on the attachment approach to moral judgment (Govrin, 2014, 2018), I suggest that the perception of evil consists of four salient features: Extreme asymmetry between victim and perpetrator; a specific perceived attitude of the perpetrator toward the victim's vulnerability; the observer's inability to understand the perpetrator's perspective; and insuperable differences between the observer and perpetrator's judgment following the incident which shake the observer no less than the event itself. I then show that the perception of evil involves a cognitive bias: The observer is almost always mistaken in his attributions of a certain state of mind to the perpetrator. The philosophical and evolutionary significance of this bias is discussed as well as suggestions for future testing of the prototype model of evil.

Producing rural spaces for consumption: proper states of mind

By drawing from rural, tourism and working life studies, this article constructs a framework for understanding the concurrent processes of production and consumption in a rural space. In the specific context of the Finnish countryside, the article investigates the practices of the self-employed who run firms providing rural spaces for practising dog sports. Those practising dog sports, in particular, seek functional spaces, adapted to their needs to train dogs and spend their leisure time. In addition to providing this physical resource, the entrepreneurs in this study, as service-sector workers, must also provide their customers with a certain state of mind. Using interviews and observations of six firms, this article demonstrates how space and state of mind are produced simultaneously and, consequently, entrepreneurs' personalities are entirely invested in their labour, challenging theoretical assumptions of rural areas as places of specific types of consumption only.

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The inner life of a rational agent: in defence of philosophical behaviourism

A radical approach to the philosophy of mind, in which states of mind are identified with dispositions to behave in certain ways. The approach taken by Rowland Stout is a thoroughly up-to-date version of behaviourism, although not a form of behaviourism that denies the existence of consciousness, free will, rationality, etc., nor aims to reduce these to other sorts of things. Properly understood, the idea of being disposed to behave in a certain way is seen to be exactly as rich and interesting as the idea of being in a certain state of mind. The fact that our ways of behaving are sensitive to practical rationality is taken to be an essential aspect of our nature as conscious agents. And in describing such a version of practical rationality Stout claims we are describing the mental state of someone whose behaviour is sensitive to it. His account of behaviourism rests on two central notions - that of a causal disposition to behave and that of sensitivity to practical rationality. He explains and develops these notions in some detail, and then uses them to construct powerful and original accounts of belief, intention, knowledge, perception and consciousness. Key Features * A systematic and completely original theoretical approach to the philosophy of mind * A re-evaluation of the history of the philosophy of mind based on a rejection of the generally accepted arguments in the 1960s and 1970s used by functionalists against behaviourists * A serious engagement with the intuitively compelling issues concerning behaviourism.

Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire

Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical DesireRuth SteinRuth Stein1. 355 East 72 Street, #3AB, New York, NY 10021Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:April 2006https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2006.93.2.201PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Cited byCited by1. The rise of fundamentalist narratives - a post-9/11 legacy? Toward understanding American fundamentalist discourseOnline publication date: 30 August 2021. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar2. Reverberating Disquietude: A response to Shalini Masih’s “A Sustained Note of Disquiet”Online publication date: 12 March 2020. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar3. Terrorist organizations: Group-analytic and psychoanalytic perspectivesOnline publication date: 5 November 2019. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar4. Paradoxical Representation: The Royal Road to CreativityOnline publication date: 18 November 2019. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar5. Can psychoanalysis contribute to the understanding of fundamentalism? An introduction to a vast questionOnline publication date: 9 May 2018. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar6. Fundamentalist mindsetOnline publication date: 16 October 2017. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar7. Introduction: The Feeling of Certainty, Towards a Psychosocial ApproachOnline publication date: 11 November 2017. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar8. Between Ultimate Sacrifice and Yearning for DeathOnline publication date: Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar9. BibliographieOnline publication date: Go to citation Crossref Google ScholarErwin Flaxman10. The Cambridge Spies: Treason and Transformed Ego IdealsOnline publication date: 30 August 2010. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar11. Idealization, Splitting, and the Challenge of HomophobiaOnline publication date: Go to citation Crossref Google ScholarCharlotte Kahn12. Culture EndangeredOnline publication date: 16 April 2008. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar13. “Other”-Less, “Other”-More, “Other”-Like: A Response to DiscussionsOnline publication date: Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar14. Father regression: Clinical narratives and theoretical reflectionsOnline publication date: 31 December 2017. Go to citation Crossref Google Scholar Volume 93Issue 2Apr 2006 Information© N.P.A.P.PDF download

Peace and Paradise: Searching for Identity

The concept of "peace" from a religious point of view is complex and multifaceted. On the one hand, "peace" is a state of affairs opposite to that of war; on the other, it is a certain state of mind, characterized by calmness and lack of anxiety, a grace bestowed. All the world's religions give special meaning to this concept and use it to express their best wishes. Greetings from Jews, Christians, and Muslims sound like "peace to you", Christians wishing each other peace during worship ("Peace be with you"). "Peace" is desirable both in real earthly life and in another, better world, represented in these religions as "paradise", the heaven of heavens, the kingdom of God, various degrees of heaven (seventh heaven, virgin heaven).

The Charter and intoxication: some observations on possible Charter challenges to an Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Self-Induced Intoxication), 1995, C-72

When a person is accused of a criminal offense in Canada, a variety of basic rules come into play. These rules are part of what is more broadly considered to be the of which is articulated in the utterances of judges (common law), the Criminal Code and, more recently, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. One of the functions of the Rule of Law, which is cherished as a foundation of a free and democratic society, is to make it very clear and certain under what circumstances people can be deprived of or have constraints placed upon their freedoms and rights. Over many years, in attempts to pin down the nature of these circumstances, successive legislatures and courts have required that when people are accused of offenses, certain conditions must be met in order to secure a legitimate conviction and to impose legitimate sanctions. Among these conditions are: 1. The accused must be shown to have committed an offense through the presentation of evidence by the prosecution. This condition is often referred to as the presumption of innocence, which is now enshrined as section 11 (d) of the Charter. Another aspect of this condition is that the burden of proof of an offense is upon the prosecution. 2. In certain types of offenses (usually the most serious), the accused must be shown to have possessed a certain state of mind at the time of the wrongdoing. This state of mind varies from one offense to another, but it may involve the demonstration of intention, recklessness or negligence. For example (and generally speaking), the crime of murder requires demonstration of to kill (among other things), while the crime of manslaughter requires only that the accused be indifferent or reckless as to the outcome of his or her actions. Offenses requiring proof of a particular state of mind to secure a conviction are often called specific intent offenses; those that do not require it are called intent offenses. Much controversy surrounds the rationality and usefulness of this distinction, but the point for present purposes is that when there is a requirement to prove a certain state of mind (the so-called principle of (mens rea or guilty mind), it is a right of the accused under section 7 of the Charter to have this element of the offense proved against him or her. Section 7 of the Charter says that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or security of the person except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice. Proof of requisite state of mind is a tenet of the principles of fundamental justice according to most judges and legal scholars. Charter issues raised by the intoxication defense The argument that intoxication cannot give rise to a defense to crimes of general (such as sexual assault) troubles some judges and legal scholars because they say it offends section 7 of the Charter and possibly section 11(d) also. By artificially limiting an accused person's right to claim lack of requisite state of mind because of intoxication is to fly in the face of the requirements of fundamental justice (s. …

Collaborating on referring expressions

This paper presents a computational model of how conversational participants collaborate in order to make a referring action successful. The model is based on the view of language as goal-directed behavior. We propose that the content of a referring expression can be accounted for by the planning paradigm. Not only does this approach allow the processes of building referring expressions and identifying their referents to be captured by plan construction and plan inference, it also allows us to account for how participants clarify a referring expression by using meta-actions that reason about and manipulate the plan derivation that corresponds to the referring expression. To account for how clarification goals arise and how inferred clarification plans affect the agent, we propose that the agents are in a certain state of mind, and that this state includes an intention to achieve the goal of referring and a plan that the agents are currently considering. It is this mental state that sanctions the adoption of goals and the acceptance of inferred plans, and so acts as a link between understanding and generation.

The Alcatraz Effect: Belief and Postmodernity

Visitors to Alcatraz Island, former Federal Penitentiary, know what to expect. To make the excursion worthwhile, however, demands a certain state of mind; their knowledge must be left hanging in the balance of a suspension of disbelief. Seeing, after all, is believing, which is no less than the commodity fetish of a tourist industry, content to trade in forms (as the phrase goes) of organized escapism. If that is so, then the trip out to Alcatraz should be impossible, a false re-staging of a prisoner's impossible escape, except in reverse. We go there, however, as guests of the liberal authorities to see an object-lesson of the law at work, and in splendid isolation, cut off from the social and geographical body and thus fetishized for our comfort and curiosity as the flipside of the desert island of imaginary pleasure. Our interest, then, in learning about the exacting conditions of incarceration firsthand, is not self-contained, but is predicated upon its very obverse accession to the belief that escape is possible all the same, despite being repeatedly reminded that is not. What thus came as a revelation to Ken Kesey, the very contours of a parable of modernity, may have been little more than quotidian logic to the scholastic rule of thumb: credo ut intellegam, under which rubric doubt was always already a conventional province of belief, a desert for an oasis, but containing too. Hence the surprise of another tourist, Freud in Athens for the first time, discovering, as he cast his eyes around the terrain of the Acropolis, that it really does exist, an equivocal response in the light of his confidential desire that turn out to be too good to be true, that the glamorous spell cast by the classical education of his childhood might still be preserved intact, tucked into the memory of his original landscape of desire and the heroic feats performed there upon his mother's body. The truth of this revelation would never be found to reside in any purely empirical setting, like the real scandal of coming across the Loch Ness monster stranded upon the

Infanticide

Infanticide is a unique offence. The law decrees that the possession of a certain state of mind at the time that a recently delivered mother kills her child is sufficient to reduce her criminal responsibility for her actions. The law does not require evidence of a direct connection between the state of mind and the killing, and the consequences are not defined. She is to be dealt with as if she were guilty of the offence of manslaughter.

Max Löwy. The scope of one phenomenon of uneasiness: hallucination of a call by name (in connection with delusions of attitudes or without such). Ueber eine Unruheerscheinung: Die Hallucination des Anrufes mit dem eigenen Namen (ohne und mit Beachtungswahn). Iahrbüchern für Psychiatrie und Neurologie XXXIII. Band

The author summarizes the results of his research on this issue as follows:1. Hit on the shoulder, nod, exclamations hey, hello, being called by name all these impressions have the common feature that they all mean a call, a call. Their task is to draw the attention of a given person to an event that is about to take place and to cause him a feeling of expectation of something undetermined, but having an important meaning for him.Thus, a certain state of mind is created in the given person called, which gives the words or gestures addressed to him the character of a call.This state of mind is formed on the one hand from the feeling that these words or gestures mean this particular person, refer directly to him, on the other hand, from a feeling of undefined expectation and a sense of importance, significance (Importanrgefhl).There is a strong associative connection between the mental state of the call and the auditory impression of the pronunciation of one's own name.2. The main rule of the mental process is that the associative path between two mental elements can be traversed in both directions.