Embodiment Of Time Research Articles

Embodying Time and Futurity in the Short Stories of Tendai Huchu and Temitayo Olofinlua

ABSTRACT: One of the defining features of sf, Africanfuturism included, is the depiction of the relationship between embodiment and time. This article examines two short stories, "Egoli" by Zimbabwean writer Tendai Huchu (2020) and "The Last Brown Roof" by Nigerian author Temitayo Olofinlua (2022). This article demonstrates how the stories examine the ways in which past, present, and future are interrelated, melt into each other, and form a seamless temporality. The future cannot be imagined without drawing on the past and the present. I argue that nostalgia, and especially its futurity, are important in allowing the retrospective, introspective, and prospective understandings of embodiment in its relationship to space and time. I make use of the idea of Sankofa, a bird in Ghanaian cosmology that flies forward while facing backward, to draw on the wisdom and knowledge of the past. Engaging with the idea of "speculative sankofarration" proposed by Brook et al. (2017), as well as on Boym's concept of "reflective nostalgia," I argue that such an embodiment of time in Huchu and Olofinlua's stories makes it possible to tap into the past and its cosmology to imagine different futures. The futures imagined in the stories highlight not just the plasticity of space and time but, more importantly, the liberation of imagination from the constrictive thinking of time and space as fixed and rigid.

‘Doing’ research relationships: reflections on a qualitative longitudinal project with young people leaving secure care

ABSTRACT In this article I reflect on research relationships in a qualitative longitudinal (QL) project from a relational perspective, understanding agency as interdependent and evolving. My reflections are based on a study involving repeated interviews over eight years with young people who have experienced secure care, which is the most intrusive form of intervention for troubled youths in the Swedish child welfare. Research using a QL methodology requires a delicate balance in maintaining professional boundaries in relationships between the researchers and participants and emphasizes how time and place are embedded in relations. I explore the complexities of research relationships over time and the effect of repeated research encounters on understandings of time. My reflections are grouped into three themes: emotional footing, intersections of time and place, and evolving research agencies. While emotions from early encounters became a resource for my reflections as a researcher, return interviews turned me into an embodiment of time, producing linear-time narratives of progress, and the agencies of both me and young people evolved within and beyond the research project. I offer some conclusions for qualitative social work research regarding the effects of emotional, temporal and spatial dimensions on researcher vulnerability and research relationships over time.

Образ Андемиркана в северокавказской драматургии: о неопубликованной пьесе З.П. Кар-дангушева

The dramaturgy of the North Caucasus people remains an unresearched field of modern literary criticism. This article presents the introduction issues of scientific circulation and studying of the unpublished manuscript of the play “Andemirkan” (1943), placed in the RSALA fund by the Ka-bardian ethnographer, folklorist, playwright and artist Z.P. Kardangushev. This paper considers textological analysis and preparation for publication of the manuscript (85 pages with author’s comments and corrections). Analysis of the manuscript’s content makes it possible to present the translation processes of the author’s thoughts into a literary word and to reconstruct the creative history of his literary work. In practical terms, the analysis of the dramatic texts by Z.P. Kardan-gushev on Andemirkan is crucial for the study of the early twentieth century North Caucasian drama and identification of the artistic characteristics in the embodiment of time, place, and dra-matic conflict.

Studio Visit, and; Let Us Talk About It as Though It Existed

"Studio Visit" is a poem about the painting process as an embodiment of time and a resistance to narrative.

The Concept of Recovery and Temporality in Drug User´s Stories

Abstract: Background: Temporality and the embodiment of time is an important dimension in different recovery models, as well as in drug users’ recovery stories. Aim: The main objective of this article is twofold: first, to perform a critical analysis of prominent recovery models and their multiple temporalities, and second, to explore of how female drug users, enrolled in drug treatment, narrate their recovery process. Methods: The empirical data is drawn from a previous work, which focused on female drug users, their experiences of drug use, and of being enrolled in drug treatment. That study, which is now revisited, was designed as a qualitative case study based on semi-structured, tape-recorded, and transcribed interviews with 29 recovering drug users. Results/Conclusion: The findings in this study indicate the existence of different recovery stories – a therapeutic story, a cognitive one, and a twelve-step story. These stories embody differing motives and temporalities. In the process of developing new stories of themselves, the women in recovery reorder their narratives and open up to connect with the past and present, and thereby initiate a process leading to new interpretations of self.

Seasons of the Storm by Elle Cosimano

Reviewed by: Seasons of the Storm by Elle Cosimano Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor Cosimano, Elle Seasons of the Storm. HarperTeen, 2020 [480p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-285424-7 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-06-285426-1 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 7-10 Every year, each Season must kill their predecessor to keep the natural order of the world in balance, and that is why Jack, a Winter, has found himself annually destroyed by Fleur, a Spring, for the last twenty-seven years. Somehow in the short times they’ve shared together before Fleur does her duty, they’ve fallen in love, a serious breach of protocol. Fleur’s growing reluctance to kill Jack puts her in danger of being terminated by Chronos, the embodiment of Time, and Jack is determined to get himself and Fleur away from Chronos’ rule. This blend of mythology, folklore, and science fiction plays a little loose with its world’s established rules, but the premise of Seasons, the thrill of Jack and his crew’s escape, and the swoony romance between Jack and Fleur are more than enough to make up for it. Narration alternates between Jack and Fleur, adding some depth to the action, and their [End Page 393] fumbling growth toward realizing that their love is not the only significant thing in the world is realistic. It’s the scenes wherein the Seasons whip up their elemental powers that really grab attention, though, with vivid descriptions of murderous vines, killer waves, and suffocating fire. Fans of Holly Black and April Genevieve Tucholke will hope that their time with these characters is not yet up. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Torlasco’s “Philosophy in the Kitchen”: image, domestic labor, and the gendered embodiment of time

ABSTRACT This essay explores domestic labor, gender, and time in Domietta Torlasco’s video essay ‘Philosophy in the Kitchen.’ A digital archive of European art cinema’s panoply of images of domestic labor, Torlasco’s video essay presents iconic images of women engaged in housework, which despite their utter familiarity have failed to elicit a broader discussion about the nature of the labor they portray. These images are reappropriated and repurposed both as a feminist project of making visible that which has been rendered invisible and as an audiovisual meditation on the ontology of cinema. Engaging a broader philosophical framework, the essay reads Torlasco’s digital articulation of housework through the nexus of Beauvoirian immanence and the Deleuzian time-image. The result opens up a radical rethinking of cinema history and its gendered configurations.

Children's psycho‐spatial understanding of affect‐based time: The developmental trajectories of ego‐ and event‐moving perspectives

AbstractTime is closely linked to people's representation of spatial experience. Previous research showed that adults primed with positive affect judged that they were approaching the event (ego‐moving), whereas those primed with negative affect reported that the event was approaching them (event‐moving). The present research investigated the developmental sensitivity towards psycho‐spatial understanding by examining the role of positive and negative affect on children's perception of time. In Study 1, when tested in a within‐subjects design, 5‐, 7‐, and 9‐year‐olds as well as adults made ego‐moving judgments in response to an object of the positive event that was to happen in 2 days. However, by 9 years, children made adult‐like event‐moving responses to an object that stood for the negative affect. Five‐year‐olds continued to make ego‐moving judgments in the negative valence condition, whereas 7‐year‐olds' responses were in transition. Study 2 replicated the full developmental pattern found in Study 1, even when the positive and negative affect events were towards the identical object in the between‐subjects design and the time span was shortened to a few minutes. Implications of the affective spatiotemporal perception of time were further discussed in relation to the sense of agency.Highlights We uncover the pattern of developmental sensitivity towards the psycho‐spatial embodiment of time, in relation to a positive or negative event. Vignettes were used to ascertain participant's psycho‐spatial view of time in relation to valence; 9‐year‐olds had an adult‐like understanding. Teaching children to use different psycho‐spatial agentic perspectives has the potential to help children at risk of anxiety and depression.

Terminality

This article is an attempt, through a personal encounter with terminal cancer, to elaborate some of what terminality consists in, compared with other similar concepts, such as living in prognosis, dying, or suspension. The terminal body is a body from which promise, hope, and potential have been withdrawn. Linking it in part to the secular elimination of the afterlife and the confinement of person to a finite body whose time is limited entirely to itself, such that time and body become coterminous, the author argues that terminality changes the embodiment of time in a specific way: feeling temporality as a countdown in hours, days, or months, terminality is experienced as a body ticking with the sound of its own end.

The Spatial Hierarchy in the Poetics of Anna Akhmatova: Ontological, Mythological and Psychological Aspects

Objectives: The article aims at understanding the role of the space and time categories in the artistic world of Anna Akhmatova. The problem is considered in ontological, mythological and psychological aspects. Methods: In terms of methodology the article is based on research of the Russian Acmeism as a literary movement and creative works of Anna Akhmatova as one of its leading poets. We perceive Acmeism within the limits of a system-typological approach – not as a static reality, but as a tendency of purposes and principles common to a number of authors. The analysis used sociocultural, biographical, cultural-historical and comparative-typological methods of research. Findings: Anna Akhmatova as a representative of Russian Acmeism in her polemics with Symbolists and with their characteristic loci, both abstract and generalized, focused her attention on the concept of real life, on the image-motive embodiment of time and space. The external space in the lyrics of Akhmatova includes three areas – the space of home, of the city, and the nature, each of which is characterized by the materiality and the Artifact. There is a gradual evolution of mythological connotations, the formation of the semiotic opposition “top – down” and accentuation of the vertical axis of natural coordinates of “heaven – earth”. In the work of Anna Akhmatova dd.1930-1960-ies the disposition “top – down” remains, however the “top” begins to be associated with harmonious existence, and “bottom” – with death, grave. In those years the antique intertext starts to appear in her works, producing impression that the poet is going back to the origins of civilization, but it was associated with the Soviet ideology and its polytheistic pantheon headed by the “Father of all peoples”. Novelty: The space-time bases of Anna Akhmatova’s artistic world has been changing during her work, the transformation of semiotic opposition “top – bottom”, a shift from the abstract to the tangible materiality, from the external to the mental.

Ruin Hills at the Threshold of the Netherworld

Summary In the Ba‘al Cycle’s description of the threshold separating the realms of the dead from that of the living, the key reference point is described as “the two tells (at) the boundary of the netherworld” (CAT 1.4 viii, 4). The specific word used to describe both topographical features is tl, the tell, an object well known in the archaeology of the Near East. The objects here are significant because they are literally ruin hills; specifically, they represent artificial topographical features. This nuance of the word tl distinguishes it from concepts of cosmic mountains shared with other cultures, but relates it to occurrences of the Sumerian cognate in terms such as DU6 KU3 (“Sacred Tell”) and SA%AR.DU6.TAG4 (roughly translated as “burial tell”). This paper will begin with an archaeological and philological analysis of the Semitic term tl, informed by Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, in order to foreground the mythological valence of the two tells in the Ugaritic epic myth. The meaning instantiated by the word tell, as “ruin” and “hill,” allowed it to serve as an embodiment of time and space in the Ba‘al Cycle and other ancient Near Eastern literatures, demarcating cosmological thresholds and delineating boundaries of competing space.

Rethinking shiftwork: mid‐life nurses making it work!

Many current analyses of shiftwork neglect nurses' own voices when describing the dis/advantages of a shiftworking lifestyle. This paper reports the findings of a critical re-analysis of two studies conducted with female mid-life Australian nurses to explore the contention that the 'problem-centred' focus of current shiftwork research does not effectively address the 'real' issue for mid-life nurses, that is, how to develop and maintain shiftwork tolerance. Participants used shiftwork to: (i) manage, navigate and negotiate various aspects of their nursing work and the workplace itself; (ii) facilitate more manageable work/life negotiations; and (iii) self-identify opportunities to engage in their own self-care (body work and mind work). The findings thus went beyond simply exposing what nursing bodies do in time and space by bringing to the fore discussions of 'time-body' relationships, the embodiment of time and nurses re/configuration of that time demonstrating that the frequently unacknowledged positive aspects of shiftwork, when centred in discussions, give voice to other ways to think about shiftwork and a shiftworking lifestyle. Thus, our contention is that the 'problem-centred' focus of current shiftwork debates does little to address the 'real' issue for shiftworking mid-life female nurses - the development and maintenance of shiftwork tolerance.

A Multidimensional and Multigranular Model of Time for Medical Knowledge-Based Systems

In temporal reasoning there are two interrelated issues; how to model time per se and how to model occurrences. In medical temporal reasoning the need for multiple granularities and multiple conceptual temporal contexts arises in relation to a model of time. Some occurrence can then be expressed with respect to different temporal contexts. This paper presents a multidimensional and multigranular model of time for knowledge-based problem solving, primarily for medical applications. Both the conceptual issues and the design issues underlying the implementation of the proposed model are discussed. The presented model of time has been developed in the context of a time ontology for medical knowledge engineering, whose principal primitives are the time-axis and the time-object. The notion of a time-axis constitutes the primitive for the proposed model of time, while the notion of a time-object aims to integrate time with other essential forms of knowledge, such as structural and causal knowledge, in the expression of different types of occurrences, thus resulting in the integral embodiment of time in such occurrences. The notion of a time-object and the overall ontology of occurrences is given only a cursory mention in this paper. The focus of the paper is the time model. More specifically, the paper presents the notion of a time-axis in the context of the overall time ontology and discusses at length the two classes of time-axes, namely the atomic axes and the spanning axes. The assertion language which has been developed, for the entire ontology, for the expression of axioms (deductive rules and integrity constraints), attribute constraints and propagation methods is presented and illustrated. The implementation of the time model in terms of a layered object-based system is also presented.

The Poetics of City and Nature: Towards a New Aesthetic for Urban Design

Abstract This essay describes a new aesthetic of landscape and urban design, an aesthetic that encompasses both nature and culture, that embodies function, sensory perception, and symbolic meaning, and that embraces both the making of things and places and the sensing, using, and contemplating of them. This theory is based upon an understanding of nature and culture as comprising interwoven processes that exhibit a complex, underlying order that holds across vast scales of space and time. This basis in process yields a view of urban form as dynamic, as evolving over time, in predictable and unpredictable ways. The idea of dialogue, with its embodiment of time, purpose, communication, and response, is central to this theory. The form of the city is seen as the result of complex, overlapping, and interweaving narratives that, together, comprise the context of place and the storylines that connect the place and all those who dwell within it. The issues of time and change, process and pattern, order and randomness, being and doing, and form and meaning are inherent to this theory. These issues are also central to recent theoretical currents in other fields, including art, music, and science. Although this aesthetic prompts a new appreciation for forms of the past, it also demands new forms, new modes of notation and representation, and new processes of design, construction, and cultivation.