Dead Man Research Articles

Cartography of a Dead Man's Room

Cartography of a Dead Man's Room

What Men are Made Of, and: Again the Mind Apart

What Men are Made Of, and: Again the Mind Apart Justin Wymer (bio) What Men are Made Of Animus, anus, junebugs in the britches.A voice with a father's jawline behind it.In line at the feedstore, staring at calves hauling shaped, then trying to read the wall.Dip-lipped, drowsy, never over suckling. I have a lump therefore a breast.I have similitude to how menverb nouning as too squirrely. I wear my nailsdelicate. Heresy's a pretty name forthe baby. Calling me Baby can beheretical, even in the mind, orso had said a man. To be clear: I didn't die from the pastor come get mefor over-avid honeysuckle consumption.Man, after all, must survive his station. His body is notational: crossstick / choke / center edge / scrape / let ring /rim shot / bell / edge the bell / let ring. What pleasure isn't notional? What man doesn't want to be beautiful? Let me rubthe angry blush from your ears. I'm sorryfor knowing how to please youbut letting knowledge stand for act: The wild grape vine swung across the ravine oncan't ever root, it crawls the hardwood torsoup to find where canopy slits to sun. [End Page 71] Again the Mind Apart I exist in memory and portent. No father or father yes. A man I met fell in love with a poet like the father of the man I ruined myself for. He talks of cruising in Kentucky, how many taps it takes to get to the center of longing. I never got the chance. Green hills, murmured into, I. Dog brought a deer hip to the door rug as a gift. Out of pride. Out of anger at those who live better. Hidden in proverbs, the child of eventual legal ravishing. We couldn't always pay for haircuts. On the table now a pack of cigarettes, lentil soup bowl, book of Spanish proverbs, passport, key, a tissue I hardly remember ruining. I would rather come from anywhere the anonymity loves. The looks drip off me like oil on a bulb. So I try to compass. To count the hair shops, escape into apothecaries where recipes promise reasons not to close. Try to bow like a dead man petitioning to see grass again. Collect laughter and unstifle it. Who told you that, I want to ask, was it about the stain above my pocket? Drink more acid, rub the oily yellow peel over my hands before washing, not say "hands" too often, let them linger on my shoulder without thinking we're figures hanged in a cave together, and buy some house shoes. To be my own conduit, a single louse caught in a wave, trying to say yes. At dawn I put on my face again. I breathe out faded envelopes. One thought is a dale, the gift of green murmur; one, a humming pelvis; one, a man confused at the twenty-nine jasmine hanging from his heart. [End Page 72] Justin Wymer Justin Wymer is an Appalachian poet, editor, and educator. He has been awarded fellowships from the University of Iowa, Spanish Ministry for Culture and Sport, Academy of American Poets, Radcliffe Institute, and Harvard Office for the Arts as well as a Rockefeller International Experience Grant. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at the University of Denver, where he curated a folio on queer-trauma-related literature for Denver Quarterly. His first collection, Deed, won the 2018 Antivenom Poetry Prize and will be published by Elixir Press in 2019. He lives in Denver. Check out his website at justinwymer.com. Copyright © 2019 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents

Tuvinian Fairytales Based on the Mongol Story Plots: “Magic Dead Man” Collection of Short Stories

In the course of historical development, cultural contacts of the Tuvinian people with the Mongol-speaking peoples were very diverse and intensive. Tuvinian-Mongol folklore literature contacts, which are one aspect of close cultural interactions of the peoples of Central Asia and Sayan-Altai regions, are of a great interest for researchers. One of the most prominent phenomena in the Tuvinian-Mongol folklore interrelations is a wide range of Central Asian versions of the Geser, Dzhangar, Khan-Kharanguy and other series of epic tales, along with various collections of Old Mongolian literature stories, which added a new plot and creative stylistic content and new genre form, the framed fairy tale, to the Tuvinian folklore. Thus, in Tuvinian folklore, there were common plots adopted from the Mongolian literature in the framed novelette genre – Arzhi-Bordzhi, The Magic Dead Man, The Tales of a Parrot as well as Bigarmidzhid and Panchatantra , which, due to an active dispersion of Buddhism at the end of the 18 th – the beginning of the 19 th century began to spread in Tuva and Tuvinian folklore in fairytale form together with the religious literature. The theoretical and methodological basis of the given research is structured around the works of leading experts in oriental, literature and folklore studies. A great contribution into the study of intercultural literary connections and folklore literature interconnections of the oriental people was made by E.M. Meletinsky, I.D. Serebryakov, P.A. Grintser, S.U. Nekludov, A.D. Tsendina, E.N. Afanasyeva and other researchers in the works and articles. The aim of this research is to define the role and importance of Mongolian literary monument “Magic Dead Man” (Mong.: Shiditu hūr ) in the expansion of Tuvinian folklore repertoire and enriching its plot and motif components as well as the introduction of a new genre form in the Tuvinian folklore – the framed fairytale , which comes from the genre of a framed novelette , which was created within the Ancient Indian literary tradition. The study was held on the complex approach level with the implementation of the comparative-typological and comparative-textological methods, which allowed completing a systematic analysis of the literary and folklore poetic and stylistic models. The Tuvianian storytelling tradition, based on the ancient epic one, appeared to be accessible for perceiving the international elements and a prosperous foundation, which created fresh aspects in the form of new fairytale plots. The analyzed fairytales prove that the Tuvinian people not only mechanically adopted these plots, but were also able to creatively transform them in their creative writing.

Dwie śmierci upiora. O końcu fantastyki na przykładzie polskiej prozy fantastycznej połowy XIX wieku

The aim of the article is to examine how the figure of a revenant evolved in Polish Romantic literature. The author juxtaposes short stories from the 1830s (Romantyk [The Romantic] by Lucjan Siemieński and Opowiadanie nieboszczyka [The Dead Man’s Story] by Kazimierz Wójcicki) with those from the 1850s and 1860s (Dwie siostry [Two Sisters] by Michał Bałucki, Śliska do przepaści droga [A Slippery Road to the Abyss] by Józef Dzierzkowski and Smętarz [Cemetery] by Antoni Pietkiewicz). The comparison shows how conventional and clichéd the motif of a revenant became.This was due to the overexploitation and omnipresence of this figure in Romantic literature and also the birth of modern psychology and the ongoing debate over unconsciousness. Consequently, in 1860, a revenant was treated as an ostentatious metaphor of the unconscious.The author discusses the conventionalisation of the motif of a revenant in the context of both the development of psychology in Polish lands (primarily in Feliks Szokalski’s work) and the evolution of the fantastic as a genre (according to Tzvetan Todorov’s theory claiming that psychoanalysis killed the fantastic).

Philosophical Quest and Growing up Motif in Ambiguous Adventure by Chiekh Hamidou Kane and Dead Men’s Path by Chinua Achebe

In literary tradition, some of the innovative and formative trends that characterise production and consumption of mimetic art in most third World countries of Africa focuses extensively on formation of the personal agents- specifically, the protagonist.This phenomenon has characterised most of the 21st Century texts and classed them under the literary sub-genre known as Bildungsroman. Bildungsroman is viewed primarily as a nineteenth-century literary phenomenon and the term is used so loosely and broadly that any novel – and even an epic poem like Iliad and Odyssey by Homer – that include elements of coming-of-age narrative might be labelled as a “Bildungsroman”.It is true that the type of novel commonly referred to as the “Bildungsroman” flourished in British literature in Victorian age, and was extremely popular among the realist writers. This accounts for early British publication of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and others who employed the pattern, for their novels of character formation into the fictional model of the Bildungsroman literature; a genre that consists of the literary treatment of the process of development and formation of a character in relation to society. As it were, the variety of Philosophical Bildungsroman is an advance variant of Bildung that offers the necessary extension and complexity to the phenomenological literary concern of Martin Heidegger, who posits the philosophical experience of the individual as the “Dasine”. Dasien is Heidegger’s philosophical concept which means “being there”. As a concept in existential philosophy, Heidegger employs it to explain the very concept of personhood. The philosophical quest in this case is attained through the process of “unconcealment” meaning “the disclosure of truth”. Meanwhile, in rethinking Ambiguous Adventure and Dead Men’s Path as typical Bildung texts, the real unconcealment will be extricated from the “thingly character or the constitutive elements” (Poetry Language Thought, 54)of the protagonists, so as to determine, and have a clear vision and beauty of a (realist) representation of these agent (s) maturing in relation to the modern demands of society woven in universalistic model of growth and development via social background. Thus, ‘‘beauty becomes one way in which truth occurs as unconcealdness’’ (The Origin of the Work of Art, 55). This is because in philosophical Bildung, the attainment of successful maturation remains the object of our inquiry and concern, and this is framed within a large-scale diachronic model of human existence; who engages in the act of “thinking a thought, this kind of thinking concerns the relation of being to man” (Letter to Humanism, 1) and remains the prototype of a true Bildung character and texts understudy, namely: Ambiguous Adventure and The Dead Men’s Path. Therefore, this paper opens up a new pattern of thought by investigating philosophical quest and growing up motif in this two novels using Heidegger’s notion of dasien and unconcealment.

Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory by Elsie Walker, and: Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects ed. by Kathryn Kalinak

Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory by Elsie Walker, and: Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects ed. by Kathryn Kalinak Nick Poulakis Elsie Walker Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory. Oxford University Press, 2015. 448 pages; $37.55 paperback; $99.00 hardcover; $33.20 kindle. Kathryn Kalinak, editor Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects Rutgers University Press, 2015. 224 pages; $26.95 paperback; $80.00 hardcover; $26.95 epub/pdf. Cinema has always been considered a modern spectacle of vision. But, although film substance consists of both sound and images, it is a fact that the aural dimensions of this audiovisual medium have been regularly disregarded in academic and journalistic reviews. On the other side, there have also been certain works that deal with the so-called “film musicology,” which tend to employ extremely specialized music-centred examples, comparisons and terminology that are mainly accessible only to a small number of musicology experts. Today, scholars wonder if there is an alternative: to put it simply, how can we apply cultural theories to film music and sound in order to better appreciate and explain films? Elsie Walker’s brand-new book Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory tries to answer these fundamental questions in a methodical way. It applies to film music and sound analysis five of the most common critical theories used in film studies, in particular genre studies, postcolonialism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. This monograph draws attention by means of a rigorous examination of films to the [End Page 30] capacity of both music and sound to reveal diverse filmic meanings, uncovering not only the “unheard melodies” (as earlier scholars of this field would put it) but also the “unseen images” of cinema. Currently serving as an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Salisbury University (Maryland), Elsie Walker has considerable experience in theoretical and educational approaches to film in three different countries: New Zealand, England and the USA. Through her published work, she has also contributed greatly to recent film and sound scholarship. Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory is the outcome of five years of research on how to attentively bringing together film and music/sound studies with critical conceptions of literature and culture. Practically, this multifaceted perspective yields a book that is adequately accessible to a great range of students, tutors and other audiences, whether expert or non-expert in this domain. The book has an instantly identifiable structure. It is divided into five general parts, each of which is motivated by one of the main theories mentioned above. These parts consist of three individual chapters apiece: the first contains a transparent theoretical preview of the subject matter, whereas the others focus, respectively, on two case studies of film and music/sound analyses. There is also a comprehensive introduction in which the film Brokeback Mountain (2005), directed by Ang Lee, music by Gustavo Santaolalla, operates as an opening case study, and a coda that sums up and, what is more, reassigns the book’s major outlines to a very recent production: Gravity (2013), directed by Alfonso Cuarón with music by Steven Price. The book also includes a glossary of terms, an index, as well as a list of films quoted and analyzed. The bibliography cited in the text is placed at the end of each part, thus framing almost autonomous sections of this engaging book. The first part of Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory starts with Rick Altman’s input concerning joint sound and genre theories of film. After that, Walker continues with the analysis of two westerns, The Searchers (1956), directed by John Ford, music by Max Steiner and Dead Man (1995), directed by Jim Jarmusch, music by Neil Young, from the perspective of the semantic and the syntactic components of this particular genre. The first one is a mainstream film of an earlier period, the second a present-day independent creation. While these offer two totally different kinds of soundtracks, they make the author’s scholar analyses more productive. The second part of the book is titled “Postcolonialism” and it begins with a brief prelude by Robert Stam and Louise Spence on colonialism, racism and representation. Based on the above mentioned theoretical perspective and...

The Influence of Beatrice Hinkle and Jungian Psychology on the Early Progressive School Movement in the United States

Until the 21st century, the so-called progressive education movement in the United States was most often attributed to dead white men, especially John Dewey and others, including Colonel Francis Parker, William Heard Kilpatrick, and Harold Rugg. More recently, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Caroline Pratt, and other women have also been given credit as founders of progressive education. Less attention has been given to the psychological underpinnings that informed progressive schools. This case study briefly reviews some of the psychological foundations of progressive education and documents the contributions of Dr. Beatrice Hinkle, M.D. the first woman pioneer of analytical psychology in the United States, to the early progressive school movement.

Once upon a market dreary: the prescient marketing principles of Edgar Allan Poe

ABSTRACTAn American icon, Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) is famed for his fiendish tales of fear and trembling, and premature burial. He is less well known as a businessperson, let alone a marketing thought leader. Poe, though, was not only an entrepreneurially inclined self-promoter of genius, but he practised prescient marketing principles that are pertinent to present circumstances. In a world where dark tourism, dead celebrities and disinterred brands loom large, Poe’s principal principles – perversity, poetry, plagiary, plasticity – are prior portents of marketing precepts. Written in an appropriately literary style, this paper shows that dead men do foretell tales. Of markets dreary.

John 11 in the Book of Mormon

AbstractIn a 1978 study, Krister Stendahl traced the use of Johannine theology in the Book of Mormon’s most central narrative: the climactic story of the resurrected Jesus visiting the ancient Americas. According to Stendahl, the reproduction of the Sermon on the Mount with occasional slight variations suggests an attempt at deliberately recasting the Matthean text as a Johannine sermon. Building on Stendahl’s work, this essay looks at the use of John earlier in the Book of Mormon, in a narrative presented as having occurred almost a century before the time of Jesus. In an inventive reworking of the narrative of John 11, the story of the raising of Lazarus, the Book of Mormon suggests that it bears a much more complex relationship to the Johannine theology than its unhesitant embrace at the book’s climax indicates. Broad parallels and unmistakable allusions together make clear that the Book of Mormon narrative means to re-present the story from John 11. But the parallels and allusions are woven with alterations to the basic structure of the Johannine narrative. As in John 11, the reworked narrative focuses on the story of two men, one of them apparently dead, and two women, both attached to the (supposedly) dead man. But the figure who serves as the clear parallel to Jesus is unstable in the Book of Mormon narrative: at first a Christian missionary, but then a non-Christian and racially other slave woman, and finally a non-Christian and racially other queen. But still more striking, in many ways, is the fashion in which the Book of Mormon narrative recasts the Lazarus story in a pre-Christian setting, before human beings are asked to confront the Johannine mystery of God in the flesh. Consequently, although the Book of Mormon narrative uses the basic structure and many borrowed phrases from John 11, it recasts the meaning of this structure and these phrases by raising questions about the meaning of belief before the arrival of the Messiah. The Book of Mormon thereby embraces the Johannine theology of a realized eschatology while nonetheless outlining a distinct pre-Christian epistemology focused on trusting prophetic messengers who anticipate eschatology.

A Simple Electronic Circuit for an Automatic Train Safety Stop System

A particular safety system known as “dead man’s circuit” detects the presence of human command in the conduction of the trains operated by the Brazilian Company of Urban Trains (CBTU) in Recife, Brazil, thus consisting a security mechanism that makes automatic braking of any train composition circulating in the transportation system of the city feasible in incidents of loss or apparent loss of driving. Originally, the electrical signal indicating human control in the conduction of the vehicles came from the descent of the traction lever in the driving cabins, which caused the switching of a pair of electrical contacts. Given the importance of the system and the need to avoid repetitive strain injuries to drivers, the need to push the traction knob was eliminated by the use of an electronic device developed by an outsourced company and deployed in the trains of the older fleet. However, the high failure and downtime rates associated with the circuit acquired from the referred contracted company, caused the need to develop a more robust and maintenance-friendly design for the dead man’s system. In fact, despite the good performance of the purchased system, the strength of the resin coating that accommodated the capacitive touch sensor assembly at the end of the traction lever prevented the corresponding electronic circuit from any access for research or corrective interventions. Thus, the content of this paper essentially presents the specifications and the description of operation of the alternative electronic circuit designed for the dead man’s system, which is operating normally without electrical defects in 4 old trains for almost a year..

Dial P for psychiatry: two short essays about Alfred Hitchcock

Dial P for psychiatry: two short essays about Alfred Hitchcock

Collaborating with a Dead Man: The Cultural Politics of Ahmed Yerima’s Otaelo

Collaborating with a Dead Man: The Cultural Politics of Ahmed Yerima’s Otaelo

‘More Powerful Than The Day After’: The Cold War and the Making of Dead Man’s Letters (1986)

This article explores the production and reception of Dead Man’s Letters (1986), a Soviet response to the American television movie The Day After about the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. It offers a case study of a film that has now largely been forgotten in writing the history of late Soviet-era Cold War cinema. It draws upon original archival research to document both the contexts of production and the political and ideological difficulties encountered by its director Konstantin Lopushansky in bringing to the screen a film that both challenged official Cold War doctrine and represented a form of ‘auteur’ cinema.

Dead man walking? Current European interest in the ordoliberal tradition

During the years of the financial crisis, ordoliberalism became the target of a European‐wide critical campaign. This school of thought is widely perceived as the ideational source of Germany's crisis politics, which has even led to an “ordoliberalisation of Europe”. This essay questions the validity of such assessments. It focuses on two aspects that are widely neglected in current debates. One is the importance of law in the ordoliberal vision of the ordering of economy and society. The second is its cultural and religious background, in particular in German Protestantism. The influence of the ordoliberal school on European law, so the essay argues, is overrated in all stages of the integration project. Anglo‐American neoliberalism rather than German ordoliberalism has been in the ideational driver's seat since the 1980s. In the responses to the financial crisis, the ordoliberal commitment to the rule of law gave way to discretionary emergency measures. While the foundational synthesis of economic and legal concepts became indefensible, the cultural underpinnings of the ordoliberal tradition survived and developed a life of their own, in particular in German political discourses.

The Medusean Eye in Thomas Hardy

The eye in Thomas Hardy’s fiction is often felt as a menace, like the “oval pond” in Far from the Madding Crowd, glittering “like a dead man’s eye”. The unblinking eye can be an “evil eye”, full of voracity, endowed with a Medusean power, the power to petrify or to kill. Indeed eyes do kill in Hardy’s stories: Mrs Yeobright is killed by the “bad sight” of her daughter-in-law looking at her from a window and not opening the door – the “small black eye” of the live adder later regarding her being a duplicate of Eustacia’s “ill-wishing” dark eyes. At what point does the gaze, which normally makes manifest the “positive, dynamic and productive dimension of desire” (Jane Thomas, Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the Self, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, back cover) turn Medusean? Jacques Lacan’s concept of the unspecularizable “object-gaze” will help us to understand this, and throw a new light on the fictional use which Hardy made of “the evil eye” – a superstition known in Dorset as “overlooking”.

초월적 포스트휴먼 : 미래의 몸, 몸의 미래

Transcendence (2014), filmed by Wally Pfister, shows an explosive and innovative self-replicating ability of artificial intelligence (AI), and draws attention on how human beings are coping with it. There is a boundary between human and machine, along with the physical superiority of the machine; the possibility of control on the machine may be the most difficult and urgent problems facing human beings living in a post-human era. Human desire to extend life, rebuilt after the human body is destroyed and the dead are resurrected, is unfolding in Transcendence and Black Mirror. These two films commonly share their memories and voices of dead men with a computer through embodying their figures. More precisely, with all the information about someone uploaded on the computer, AI enables their friends or family to associate somebody’s traces by organizing it. Hoping immediately to see their faces, eventually they long to reproduce their perfect bodies. The main point is on tracing the phase and scope of the posthuman being. What is noteworthy is where and how humanity can be guaranteed. In particular, what roles human memory and cognitive ability play in brain science, and what problems can arise in the functioning of consciousness and memory.

Protectionist ban on imported used clothing

Called mitumba (bundles) in Kenya, obroni wawu (dead white men’s clothes) in Ghana and salaula (select by rummaging) in Zambia, imported used clothing is frequently blamed for the low level of domestic apparel manufacturing in Africa.

Transmedia Storyworlds, Literary Theory, Games

This article focuses on some of the connections between digitally transmitted stories, games, narrative processes, and the discipline whose ostensible job is the study of storytelling, namely literature. My observations are limited to the specific case of computer games, storytelling, and what is often unproblematically referred to as “literature,” in order to focus attention on historical and contemporary features of the development of the relationship between the two that remain largely unexamined. Further, this article addresses the dissemination of narrative on/through various platforms before mass-media, such as textually transmitted stories that anticipate digitally disseminated narrative. This includes specific examples as well as a more general a re-examination of claims made on the topic of literature, narrative and computer games, via a brief review of disciplinary insights from the study of digital games and narrative. The article is therefore intended as a view of games and (literary) narrative in pre-digital forms as an attempt to build bridges between media studies and other disciplines by calling for a longer, developmental history of games, narrative and/or literature that considers them together rather than as separate territories.

Design and evaluate intelligent control safety systems on the TOMI robot

Aimed to design safety systems and evaluate the behaviours about Robot grass cutting named TOMI, the false tree analysis, failure mode effects tree analysis methods were used for review and analysis about the TOMI robot, it would be liability and legislation; TOMI robot management embedded guidelines and knowledge such as Agricultural Engineering, Design and manufacture of agricultural machinery, Mechanic Theory, Mathematics, Electronics, Grass science, Computer science and several software programs; Procedure and Reliability analysis for robots TOMI safety systems are key features,the safety systems of Agricultural Robot such as TOMI should be checked in various working circumstance; With the full consideration of engineering practicability, the solutions to the safety problems of the TOMI robot are promoted, Technology Route and models about TOMI’s safety system were built, Process Management, continual improvement tools and Techniques and effects analysis were built in the new safety systems of TOMI robot. TOMI function measurements such as braking, throttle and pedal force were tested and analysed. TOMI’s Mechanical system, Hydraulics and Electrical Systems were tested for checking safety and evaluated, some sensors and laser such as Distance sensors, SICK, GPS, Dead man handle, safety red button and bumpers were built up and developed the TOMI robot’s new safety systems; To ensure the safety and reliable operation is a system engineering, it is involved to various TOMI robot design, production, operation, adjust, and management; to improve the TOMI robot reliability and reduce the failure frequency was an important way to improve the robot inherent safety; The Evaluation Criteria of Robot grass Cutting DFMEA occurrence may be suggested to use multiple complex technology knowledge and design with more experience. Application built with Microsoft Robot Development studio was run over on the www.webfarming.com. The hazard and risk analysis were detailed about the safety problems of TOMI robot and deeply studied. Development more practical and safety TOMI robot would be carried out at northwest China in the future.

The Dead Man Test: a Preliminary Experimental Analysis.

Behavior analysts often invoke the "Dead Man Test" as a means of distinguishing behavior from other things, but the assumption underpinning this test, that behavior is absent in vitality-challenged individuals, lacks systematic empirical support. In a field experiment, three individuals who reasonably could be considered as deceased each were observed under three conditions in which behavior might have been observed. None was detected. These results are consistent with predictions derived from the Dead Man Test, although, due to limitations of the experiment, that foundational concept of behavioral measurement cannot yet be considered as validated.