Deconstruction Method Research Articles

SUBJECT-SUBJECT RELATIONS OF THE STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF B. N. CHICHERIN

Aim. The study of the political and philosophical teachings of B. N. Chicherin on the rule of law and its influence on political processes in Russia.Methodology. The research is based on general scientific approaches of cognition, including the comparative legal method, the method of deconstruction, the historical and biographical method.Results. The study uses Russian empirical material to analyze B. N. Chicherin's key ideas on political-legal structure in the context of evolution from subject-object to subject-subject relations of state and society. Attention is paid to the main milestones of formation of legal state and democratization in the history of Russia, electronic communications of the state and society.Research implications. The theoretical significance lies in determining the role of B. N. Chicherin's ideas on the development of the rule of law in Russia. Chicherin's works are important in understanding the evolution of legal systems and the role of legal thought in shaping political systems.

Mind and muscle: Deconstructing the uniform of masculinity in the time of AIDS

Perceptions of the boundaries of masculinity have often been questioned in menswear, with the masculine ideal continually reimagined to create a balance between itself and its counterpart, femininity. During the 1980s AIDS crisis, this adopted uniform of masculinity was subverted within queer society leading to a new male identity that contested tacit knowledge of menswear design. The focus of this article is to showcase this shift in male image and to explore how gay semiotics was associated with the development of the modern gay male stance through clothing and social empowerment, opposing the negativity that surrounded the AIDS virus. This research is personally motivated by the primary author, where he seeks to delve further into the under-researched area of queer masculinity utilizing a practical, experimental methodology. Representation of what is seen as queer masculinity is often shown as biased within society, characterizing the gay man. This project presents, through the practices of menswear design, how this characterization has developed within the context of the male body. It aims to contest the boundaries of traditional men’s tailoring, its formality and the masculine ideal that it represents, by juxtaposing it with the homoerotic art of the time and the craft of AIDS sufferers of the 1980s period. Using object-study and practical methods of deconstruction and repair of case study (bespoke and non-bespoke) men’s tailored jackets, the research manifests in physical experimentation and aesthetic visualization, which is recorded in a creative process journal. The acts of physical deconstruction and the practice of repair are then analysed through the process of design development (drawing, sourcing and sampling). The synthesized findings draw parallels with deconstructed tailoring found in vintage photographs of men at work, which are further triangulated with homoerotic photographic art of the 1980s and the act of repair found in the stitch therapy of AIDS sufferers. These are embedded in the construction of the final artefact through the practice of garment design (drawing, pattern-cutting, toiling and making) and craftsmanship (stitching by hand). The processes employed and final artefact produced document and present how ideals of masculinity in the time of AIDS can be both physically and metaphorically deconstructed, then reconstructed as a garment-based outcome (men’s tailored jacket) in practice-led research. The final artefact showcases delicacy in design through the act of stitching by hand and the repair of the deconstructed robust exteriors found in tailoring and associated with the masculine ideal.

RFID supply chain data deconstruction method based on artificial intelligence technology

Abstract Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a broad rapidly evolving skill in the past few years. It is characterized by non-contact identification, fast read and write speed, small label size, large data storage capacity, and other technical advantages. RFID technology for goods movement has completely changed the traditional supply chain management, greatly improved the operational efficiency of enterprises, and has become an important method for the development of supply chain logistics. This work mainly studies and analyzes the RFID supply chain, introduces the development and application of RFID supply chain sector technology, and discusses the operation of the supply chain in detail. Then, according to the existing RFID supply chain, a RFID supply chain artificial intelligence (AI) based approach to technology is proposed, and the data analysis of RFID supply chain is introduced in detail. In this work, through the research experiment of AI technology RFID supply chain data analysis, the experimental data show that there are several time-consuming links in the supply chain system. The time consumed in the AI RFID system is 9.9, 3.4, 3.5, and 29.9 min, respectively, while each link in the original system takes 13.4, 4.9, 4.9, and 34.9 min. It can be seen from the above data that the amount of time in each system link of the AI RFID supply chain system is less than that of the original supply chain system, which shortens the entire product passing cycle and greatly improves work efficiency.

The Conceptual Framework of Smart TOD: An Integration of Smart City and TOD

Smart City (SC) is a booming model of urban development with great potential, armed to be one of the urban development’s most powerful developing weapons. However, the development of SC is far from satisfactory. Therefore, finding new paths for SC becomes imperative. Transit Oriented Development (TOD), which often focuses on the core areas of SC, is believed to be a substantial contributor to the development of SC. Nonetheless, the relationship between SC and TOD and the effects of TOD in promoting SC are rarely studied. In this study, we proposed a conceptual framework of Smart TOD (S-TOD), which could highlight TOD 5.0 but more than that. S-TOD is an integration of SC and TOD, utilizing the deconstructive method and the abductive method. We first defined S-TOD, which integrates SC and TOD as the twin sources. Then, we employed the concept of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) to construct S-TOD in a cross-boundary path as the connection between DNA and its twin subchains can perfectly reflect the inner relationship between S-TOD and its twin sources, SC and TOD. Finally, we built up the structure of S-TOD with three layers, i.e., the cloud layer, the tactile layer, and the land zones layer. The purpose of this paper is to enhance the practical value of SC, from a perspective that has been neglected, that is, the combination with TOD, provide a new perspective for the research and practice of the integration of SC and TOD, and effectively facilitate the advantages of SC and global sustainable development.

Limitations and Barriers Affecting Rural Married Women in Resorting to Modern Contraceptive Methods

Limitations and barriers affecting the use of modern contraceptive methods among rural married women in centering the research topic in an experimental space focused on identifying the limitations and barriers affecting the use of modern contraceptive methods among rural married women as the main research objective. In that way, by identifying the individual- centric factors, household-centric factors, sociological factors and socio-cultural factors that influence rural married women to resort to modern contraceptive methods, attention is paid to the policy requirement of inducing modern contraceptive methods to rural women and presenting positive solutions and proposals. A sample of 100 people was taken as purposive sampling under non- random purposive sampling method for the study. Primary data was collected through interviews under survey method. According to the results, identification of barriers and barriers affecting the use of modern contraceptive methods among rural married women. In the study, it was verified that the influence of husband, social support, family culture, social influence and lack of contraceptive education are barriers and restrictions affecting rural married women to refrain from using modern contraceptive methods. Modern deconstructive methods should be disseminated to the rural woman by understanding the wrong attitudes and knowledge centered in social knowledge. Also, it was evident through the study that policy makers and mediators should focus on providing formal education and emphasis on the reproductive rights of rural women.

Deconstructing three periods of geographical thought in Brno

This article deals with ways of geographical thought at academic institutions in Brno. The paper analyses texts using the deconstruction method. The selected texts come from authors interested in human geography or the theory of geography. This study focuses on the period from the establishment of the first Department of Geography at Masaryk University to the turn of the millennium, which brought a significant personnel and institutional break. The article identifies three crucial developmental phases. The first of these phases concerns the interwar period, which was characterised by the emancipation of human geography as a distinct discipline, particularly with regard to settlement/urban geography. The following phase was characterised in particular by its emphasis on calculable objective space and also by the Marxist ideological background that formed the basis of economic geography. The last of the described phases is characterised by the decentralisation of academic geography in Brno and its epistemological differentiation. The result is a comprehensive view of the long-term development of geographic thought at Brno institutions.

The Rebirth of the Madrasa Through Deconstructive Architecture: The Case of the College of Islamic Studies in Qatar

Architectural movements such as modernism, postmodernism, and deconstructivism emerged during the twentieth century. These movements drastically affected the discipline of architecture, with such divergences from traditional forms demonstrating how building design could be influenced by architectural history to guide its development. The College of Islamic Studies (CIS), also known as the Minartein, in Doha, Qatar, is an example of how architectural theory can affect building design and create structures that cater to different and novel ideas and philosophies. The unconventional, postmodern, parametric building creates a vital link that unites history, theory, and religion in a modernized form of the traditional Islamic madrasa. This article recounts how the architect, Ali Mangera, has realized the vision of originality, plurality, and contemporaneity through post-deconstructive architecture at the CIS. It also examines how architectural concepts such as abstraction, the juxtaposition of contradicting shapes and forms, surface manipulation and construction, massing techniques, non-rectilinearity, and fragmentation can all contribute to a better understanding of the symbolic significance of the building. The article demonstrates how the use of deconstructive methods for disassembling the architecture of famous madrasas may have influenced the architecture and design complexity of the building.

Intercultural Communication in An Undergraduate English Coursebook in Mainland China: A Discourse Analysis Perspective

In recent years, intercultural communication education is occurring frequently in Chinese English textbooks. However, there is a lack of study on how these textbooks present the knowledge of intercultural communication and competence. To fill this gap, this article proposes to conduct a qualitative analysis of one English textbook (College English Intercultural Communication Course) published in mainland China. With Derrida’s deconstructive thinking, the topics, characters, contents, exercises and point of view provided by the textbook are evaluated via discourse analysis. Based on the deconstructive reading of the textbook, two cultural problems are found: (1) western-centric ideas; (2) essentialism and othering. There is an internal conflict between the deconstructive method of presenting intercultural communication and competence claimed by the textbook and an inner-circle unitary cultural center it actually constructs.

What Cannot Be Deconstructed? Truth

In this paper, I discuss the interpretation of the method of deconstruction in David J. Gunkel’s Deconstruction (MIT Press 2021). I focus on the relationship between deconstruction and truth. I hold that the concept of truth is indispensable for deconstruction since truth introduces correctness conditions for the deconstructive method. However, I claim that truth, being essential and primitive for deconstruction, is fundamentally inaccessible for being analyzed by the latter.
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 Received: 19/10/2022. Reviewed: 13/12/2022. Accepted: 20/12/2022.

Motherhood dalam Novel Chanson Douce Karya Leila Slimani: Analisis Dekonstruksi Derrida

Motherhood ideology is commonly found in literary works, including narratives depicting the figure of a mother. In literature, especially in Europe, the figure of a mother is mystified and is often associated with the figure of the Virgin Mary. This is closely related to the oppression experienced by women due to the inequality of gender construction produced by society. The novel Chanson Douce by Leila Slimani narrates two mothers with different backgrounds. This study aims to carry out a deconstruction reading, especially on the discourse of motherhood. In interpreting something we are always dominated by dominant hierarchies and superior poles which are considered as "single truth". This single truth can lead to vulnerability to discrimination or service. The deconstruction method used in this study uses the concepts of trace and difference, in readings that lead to the meaning of texts that are "friendly" to the others. The results of this study lead us to new questions regarding the challenges of motherhood in this post-industrial era.

Motherhood dalam Novel Chanson Douce Karya Leila Slimani: Analisis Dekonstruksi Derrida

Motherhood ideology is commonly found in literary works, including narratives depicting the figure of a mother. In literature, especially in Europe, the figure of a mother is mystified and is often associated with the figure of the Virgin Mary. This is closely related to the oppression experienced by women due to the inequality of gender construction produced by society. The novel Chanson Douce by Leila Slimani narrates two mothers with different backgrounds. This study aims to carry out a deconstruction reading, especially on the discourse of motherhood. In interpreting something we are always dominated by dominant hierarchies and superior poles which are considered as "single truth". This single truth can lead to vulnerability to discrimination or service. The deconstruction method used in this study uses the concepts of trace and difference, in readings that lead to the meaning of texts that are "friendly" to the others. The results of this study lead us to new questions regarding the challenges of motherhood in this post-industrial era.

CONNECTIVIST APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS IN SLOVAK POSTMODERN LITERATURE

The Purpose of the Study is the analysis of spiritual symbols in the works of Slovak postmodernists - D. Dušek, D. Mitana, P. Vilikovsky and M. Vadas, as well as the verification of the principles of connectivism within the framework of literary studies. The Research Methodology is based on hermeneutic and deconstruction methods, as well as on the connectivist approach, which allow the interpretation of deconstructed motifs at the level of connecting individual elements into a secondary semantic network. The Scientific Novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time in Slovak literary studies, connectivism was used for the study of postmodern literature. It is concluded that a complete denial or confirmation of religiosity as such can be achieved, for example, by combining religious meanings from different novels. The Conclusions. The analysis of religious symbols with the principles of connectivism shows how the authors reveal the strong desire of humanity to have a stable core, which is absent in modern society. Therefore, considering how much evil has been committed in the world, the writers choose a version that describes the reign of Lucifer himself. Slovak postmodern literature works FeliksSHTEINBUK, Vanessa STRAPAC MASSAYOVA6 Innovations in the scientific, technical and social ecosystems. Issue 4. 2022hard to create its own models of reality, in which authors allow their stories to arbitrarily organize and create connections between the material and transcendental realms, thus providing a unique perspective on the complex system of reality

Deconstructing forearm casting task by videos with step-by-step simulation teaching improved performance of medical students: is making working student's memory work better similar to a process of artificial intelligence or just an improvement of the prefrontal cortex homunculus?

To compare two teaching methods of a forearm cast in medical students through simulation, the traditional method (Trad) based on a continuous demonstration of the procedure and the task deconstruction method (Decon) with the procedure fragmenting into its constituent parts using videos. During simulation training of the below elbow casting technique, 64 medical students were randomized in two groups. Trad group demonstrated the entire procedure without pausing. Decon group received step-wise teaching with educational videos emphasizing key components of the procedure. Direct and video evaluations were performed immediately after training (day 0) and at sixmonths. Performance in casting was assessed using a 25-item checklist, a sevenitem global rating scale (GRS Performance), and a oneitem GRS (GRS Final Product). Fifty-two students (Trad n = 24; Decon n = 28) underwent both day zero and sixmonth assessments. At day zero, the Decon group showed higher performance via video evaluation for OSATS (p = 0.035); GRS performance (p < 0.001); GRS final product (p < 0.001), and for GRS performance (p < 0.001) and GRS final product (p = 0.011) via direct evaluation. After sixmonths, performance was decreased in both groups with ultimately no difference in performance between groups via both direct and video evaluation. Having done a rotation in orthopaedic surgery was the only independent factor associated to higher performance. The modified video-based version simulation led to a higher performance than the traditional method immediately after the course and could be the preferred method for teaching complex skills.

Character Analysis Analysis of Deconstruction on the Character of Kiran in ‘Tuhan Izinkan Aku Menjadi Pelacur!’ Novel by Muhidin M Dahlan

This study aims to describe the deconstruction form of Kiran’s life, the main character in the ‘Tuhan Izinkan Aku Menjadi Pelacur!’ novel, by Muhidin M Dahlan. In this study, the novel itself served as the source of data and it was analyzed by using Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction method. This study shows how the main character's desire to struggle against a religious culture is being deconstructed. She ultimately carried out the destruction and rebellion in the construction that he had previously accepted and solemnly believed in because of the disappointment felt by God and men. A reversal situation of someone who was once quite religious, to someone who no longer obeys his religion and God. She even disregarding His teachings and eventually losing faith in God's power. There are attempts to shake, break, and destroy Kiran's resistance in this instance.

Towards a new aesthetic: Noumenism and Noumenist poetics

Since each term only has significance in contrast to its negation, the distinction between the noumenal and the phenomenal is a Kantian philosophical postulation that is as arbitrary as any binary (e.g., presence–absence) when submitted to Jacques Derrida’s method of deconstruction. According to Noumenism – a philosophy founded on the non-dualistic reinscription of phenomena and noumena – works of art possess elements which are simultaneously sense-data, and no data to any mind. This paradoxical status is achieved by means of an artist-invented mechanism which allows its generative workings to run amok. The mechanism itself is a ‘compound-image’ formed by the paranoiac-critical activity of abolishing the mutual exclusivity of two or more different systems (i.e., the organization of related elements into complex wholes, methods, procedures, techniques, etc.). To illustrate this, an analysis of ‘No. 6’ from Noumenist poet Jason Johnson’s Hymns from Purgatory is undertaken. As they develop, refine or adopt their own philosophies of art, today’s artists and tomorrow’s are challenged to reckon with the ideas put forward in this article.

LEGAL DECONSTRUCTION OF TAX AUDIT ON THE TAX-PAYER’S REFUND APPLICATION FOR TAX OVERPAYMENT IN INDONESIA

There is still an empirical and philosophical juridical gap in tax audits on Overpayment Tax Returns (SPT) as referred to in Article 17 and Article 17B of the KUP Law. It is necessary to conduct philosophical research in the field of non-positivistic law with the method of legal deconstruction and use the theory of justice as fairness that John Rawls has put forward in answering the two existing problems. This study yields two conclusions. First, legal texts related to Article 17 and Article 17 B of the KUP Law and Regulation of the Minister of Finance Number 17/PMK.03/2013 in conjunction with Regulation of the Minister of Finance Number 184/PMK.03/2015 in conjunction with Regulation of the Minister of Finance Number 18/PMK.03/ 2021 does not meet the theory of justice as fairness to taxpayers. Second, it is necessary to carry out legal deconstruction of Article 17B of the KUP Law so that a definitive legal text in tax audits is produced based on the theory of justice as fairness. It is recommended that there be reforms to tax laws and regulations related to the provisions on the examination of Overpayment Tax Returns (SPT) that take into account the following matters, among others, the abolition of the 12-month audit period of Overpayment Tax Returns (SPT) while maintaining the same examination period and equal treatment of administrative sanctions in exchange for interest fairly.

Recovery as a minor practice.

This article investigates the methodological potential of interdisciplinary research to generate collective rather than interpretive or reflective knowledge practices for the study of recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol. The question that informs this investigation of knowledge practices is how researchers participate in knowledge production and the possibility of building alternative interdisciplinary methods that connect experts to treatment services and service-users in new ways. In the first part, we trace and evaluate methodological debates on research methods in academic, professional and treatment service settings. In so doing we consider the role sociologists have played in engaging qualitative, quantitative and deconstructive methods for researching recovery from addiction, and the strengths and limitations of empirical and critical research methodologies in responding to drug policy on recovery. In the second part of the article, describing a research collaboration with the sociologists Nicole Vitellone and Lena Theodoropoulou, the visual artist and filmmaker Melanie Manchot, and research participants' from creative recovery services in Liverpool, we outline the possibilities offered by the concept of recovery as a minor practice to reconfigure the role of experts, methods, and participants in new collaborative lines of inquiry. Turning to observations of a set of cinema-based pilot workshops from 2019 and 2020 with people in recovery, we describe the effects and consequences of an interdisciplinary methodology for enabling a different way of thinking about recovery as a minor practice. In rethinking and reimagining recovery as a minor practice, the article provides a distinctive interdisciplinary approach for recovery-oriented practice and policy.

Deep learning-based image deconstruction method with maintained saliency

Visual properties that primarily attract bottom-up attention are collectively referred to as saliency. In this study, to understand the neural activity involved in top-down and bottom-up visual attention, we aim to prepare pairs of natural and unnatural images with common saliency. For this purpose, we propose an image transformation method based on deep neural networks that can generate new images while maintaining the consistent feature map, in particular the saliency map. This is an ill-posed problem because the transformation from an image to its corresponding feature map could be many-to-one, and in our particular case, the various images would share the same saliency map. Although stochastic image generation has the potential to solve such ill-posed problems, the most existing methods focus on adding diversity of the overall style/touch information while maintaining the naturalness of the generated images. To this end, we developed a new image transformation method that incorporates higher-dimensional latent variables so that the generated images appear unnatural with less context information but retain a high diversity of local image structures. Although such high-dimensional latent spaces are prone to collapse, we proposed a new regularization based on Kullback–Leibler divergence to avoid collapsing the latent distribution. We also conducted human experiments using our newly prepared natural and corresponding unnatural images to measure overt eye movements and functional magnetic resonance imaging, and found that those images induced distinctive neural activities related to top-down and bottom-up attentional processing.

LEGAL DECONSTRUCTION OF TAX AUDIT ON THE TAX-PAYER’S REFUND APPLICATION FOR TAX OVERPAYMENT IN INDONESIA (PART 2 OF 2)

There is still an empirical and philosophical juridical gap in tax audits on Overpayment Tax Returns (SPT) as referred to in Article 17 and Article 17B of the KUP Law. It is necessary to con-duct philosophical research in the field of non-positivistic law with the method of legal deconstruction and use the theory of justice as fairness that John Rawls has put forward in answer-ing the two existing problems. This study yields two conclu-sions. First, legal texts related to Article 17 and Article 17 B of the KUP Law and Regulation of the Minister of Finance Number 17/PMK.03/2013 in conjunction with Regulation of the Minis-ter of Finance Number 184/PMK.03/2015 in conjunction with Regulation of the Minister of Finance Number 18/PMK.03/ 2021 does not meet the theory of justice as fairness to taxpay-ers. Second, it is necessary to carry out legal deconstruction of Article 17B of the KUP Law so that a definitive legal text in tax audits is produced based on the theory of justice as fairness. It is recommended that there be reforms to tax laws and regula-tions related to the provisions on the examination of Overpay-ment Tax Returns (SPT) that take into account the following matters, among others, the abolition of the 12-month audit pe-riod of Overpayment Tax Returns (SPT) while maintaining the same examination period and equal treatment of administrative sanctions in exchange for interest fairly.

Reading Derridean Deconstruction on the Repetitive Visuals of an Avant-garde Design

This article focuses on Hussein Chalayan’s Memory Dress as a case study and applies content analysis on it so as to point out the similarities between the critical avant-garde method of Derridean deconstruction and avant-garde fashion design. A coding schema is utilized to standardize the content analysis conducted on the variety of styles of the Memory Dress. The study focuses on the design details of the Memory Dress such as the convertible high-stand collar, the shiny button, the vertical needle stitch, the horizontal double stitches and the chest patch pocket and studies each category separately under the Derridean concepts of intertextuality, trace and différance. The coding schema reveals the visual equivalence of each Derridean concept through the qualitative analysis conducted on the visual images of the garment. This way, the article explains an avant-garde garment’s structure in relation to deconstructivist norms. With such intention, the article demonstrates how a garment structurally embodies and visually communicates the Derridean notions of intertextuality, trace and différance. By materializing abstract, philosophical terms on design details, and motifs, the article highlights the parallelism between postmodern critical thinking, and avant-garde creativity.