Entanglement Of Life Research Articles

THE METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT OF «LABYRINTH»IN B.ANTONENKO-DAVYDOVYCH’S CREATION

The article is devoted to the research of the peculiarities of the artistic content of the concept of «labyrinth» in B.Antonenko-Davydovych’s creative heritage. The structure of the labyrinth is defined not only by its direct meaning as a building from which it is difficult or impossible to find a way out, but also by the entanglement of relationships, situations, thoughts, actions etc.B.Antonenko-Davydovych’s works do not have the word «labyrinth» in their titles, but the life collisions of the characters in these works appeal to this very concept, which is a symbol of being, the idea of eternal return, the circle of life, relentless search, constant choice etc. The writer represents the existence of the characters as a labyrinth with a large number of decisions and a choice of actions, both true and false, in order to achieve spiritual balance. His characters often find themselves in a kind of labyrinth of events, feelings, emotions and, most importantly, their own interpretations of these events. The artist appeals to the metaphorical representation of the concept of «labyrinth» in order to focus attention on the complexity and entanglement of life in the chaos of the era. In the author’s works, the concept of «labyrinth» embodies the idea of searches, random movement, deviation from a rational path.In B.Antonenko-Davydovych’s creation the functioning of the concept of «labyrinth»as wanderings caused by the revolution and as the entanglement of life’s path and fate is highlighted in the novel «Za shyrmoiu» («Behind the curtain»), the stories «Smert»(«Death»), «Tuk-tuk», «Zavyshcheni otsinky», «Shchastia».The peculiarity of the labyrinth is that its construction involves finding an exit or is marked by the impasse. One of the consequences of getting out of the life labyrinth can be death –one’s own («Tuk-tuk»), a loved one’s («Za shyrmoiu» («Behind the curtain»)), someone else’s («Smert»(«Death»)). In the story «Shchastia» the exit from the labyrinth is marked as the understanding of the life, the acceptance of the past, that is a kind of rebirth.The story «Zavyshcheni otsinky» contains an indication of the impasse of the main character from the labyrinth

Margins of the Archive: Torture, Heroism, and the Ordinary in Prison No. 5, Turkey

This article focuses on the court documents produced during the 1980 military court trials of Kurds charged with crimes against the Turkish state. Tracing the unauthorized movement of documents to a group of human rights advocates, Kurdish activists, and defense lawyers, it asks how an archive of criminal proceedings transformed into an alternative one bearing political aspirations of various kinds. Instead of reading the archive as a textual artifact whose hermeneutic interpretation is under the strict control of the sovereign, this piece approaches it within a framework of action and scrutinizes how the textual form and symbolic meaning of an archive was altered as Kurds defended themselves before the court, inscribed their own stories on the documents in prison, and circulated them outside for archiving. I argue that despite the kind of semantic violence inflicted by the 1980 coup d'etat, the material remainders of that period disclose that Kurds stitched together their world by construing a language of struggle that promises another form of social existence in the here and now. Thus, the archive-in-making is an archive of not only state violence, but also of revolutionary struggle and aspirations for the ordinary. This article views such archiving practices as a form of making that is conducive to new entanglements of life, violence, and law.

Vital Texts and Bare Life: The Uses and Abuses of Life in Contemporary Fiction

The problem of writing life is one that has not dissipated in contemporary literature, if anything it has intensified. Past forms of countertexts turned to the subversive power of life, either with the avant-garde dissolution of text into life or by the modernist merging of life into the text. These forms often deployed a literary vitalism, which claimed a countertextual force through staking a claim on the power of life to overflow textual and political determinations. These currents, however, risk reinforcing forms of literary and capitalist value that draw on the powers of life. Instead, I argue, a different form of countertextuality can be found in contemporary autobiographical or confessional works, which by foregrounding the life of the author render the smooth translation of life into the text problematic. In particular, the work of the contemporary US writer Chris Kraus probes the relation between ‘vital texts’ and the experience of ‘bare life’ – life left exposed to power. Reconstructing her intervention, especially in her novel Summer of Hate (2012), reveals the possibilities of a new countertextual sensibility that turns to subjectivity and life without simply celebrating the expressive powers of life as the ground of literary and cultural value. Instead of a countertext that claims to express the power of life beyond the literary, Kraus develops a countertext in which life is exposed to abstract forms of power and so she allows us to trace the entanglement of life with value.

Correlation and entanglement of a three-level atom inside a dissipative cavity

We discuss the correlation and entanglement of a three-level atom with a single-mode quantized field in a coherent state inside a phase-damped cavity. We analyze the influence of dissipation on the quantum and classical entropy. It has been shown that the quantum, classical and nonextensive entropy are sensitive to any change in the initial state setting of the atom and the quantized field. The relation between the long lived entanglement and dissipation is observed. On the other hand, a short disentanglement can be generated through special values of the atomic motion parameter.