George Braziller Research Articles

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Jürgen Habermas and the Public Intellectual in Modern Democratic Life

Teaching & Learning Guide for: Jürgen Habermas and the Public Intellectual in Modern Democratic Life

Mapping Participation: Lawrence Halprin's RSVP Cycles Meets Richard Barrett's fOKT

Visionary landscape architect Lawrence Halprin’s The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment (1969, New York: George Braziller) is an interdisciplinary model for collaborating through and with notation. In this article, I outline RSVP’s potential to articulate undertheorised connections between notation, collectivity, and improvisation in the work of a number of present-day composer-performers through the case study of British composer-improviser Richard Barrett’s fOKT series (2005). At the same time, I show this music can help redress a number of blind spots in Halprin’s own ideas about scores—especially the inclusive, participatory political vision that grounded them.

The CCTV Headquarters—Horizontal Skyscraper or Vertical Courtyard? Anomalies of Beijing Architecture, Urbanism, and Globalisation

The CCTV Headquarters—Horizontal Skyscraper or Vertical Courtyard? Anomalies of Beijing Architecture, Urbanism, and Globalisation

Impact of COVID-19 on the Perinatal Period Through a Biopsychosocial Systemic Framework.

The perinatal period involves major developmental transitions which can be conceptualized through a biopsychosocial (BPS; Engel in Science 196:129–136, 1977, 10.1126/science.847460, in The American Journal of Psychiatry 137:535–544, 1980, 10.1176/ajp.137.5.535), systemic (von Bertalanffy, General system theory: Foundations, development, applications, George Braziller, New York, 1968) framework. Thus, no one domain of health in the perinatal period can be understood without exploring how the other domains are both impacted by and impacting the others. As a result of COVID-19, popular media is paying special attention to the biomedical domain of women in the perinatal period as it relates to health outcomes and changes in perinatal healthcare policies; however, considerably less attention is being paid to the other BPS health domains and systemic impacts. This paper will outline U.S. changes in healthcare as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic for individuals, couples, and families within the perinatal period (i.e., family planning and conception, prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum) and explore the unique psychosocial, systemic impacts. Recommendations for care, including telehealth and virtual support options, and future directions for research will be provided.

The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment

Abstract What follows is from the introductory section of the now out of print book, The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment, by Lawrence Halprin (George Braziller: New York 1969). The book considers ‘scoring’ as a way in which to make processes visible and as a way of enabling participation. This work was developed with his wife and dancer Anna Halprin. She has utilized and extended the RSVP cycle extensively, using it to elaborate and structure interactions between people within, in particular, community movement practices. The RSVP score makes elements of the creative process visible and seeks to aid communication within artistic collaborations. As such it offers a significant framework for articulation, making accessible that which is usually hidden and implicit. Thereby editors felt that it was an important resource to include in this special issue, encompassing insights into the value of scoring, which might be seen as modes of articulation in their own right, and also because the RSVP cycles offer a way through which creative processes can be better understood.

An Integrated SS-VSA Analysis of Changing Job Roles

This paper presents a first attempt at an integrated Service Science (SS) and Viable Systems Approach (VSA) analysis of the real-world phenomenon of changing jobs roles. Changing job roles is important to quality of life and yet understudied by systems scientists. Today, individuals changing jobs multiple times during their working life is the norm. The average person born in the later years of the US baby boom held 10.8 jobs from age 18 to age 42 (BLS [BLS 2008. Number of jobs held, labor market activity, and earnings growth among the youngest baby boomers: Results from a longitudinal survey. US Bureau of Labor Statistics. USDL 08-0860. URL: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsoy.pdf]). The viability of societal systems depends on both entities changing job roles offered and individuals changing job roles filled (Spohrer and Maglio, [Spohrer, J. C., Maglio, P. P. 2010b. Toward a Science of Service Systems: Value and Symbols. In The Handbook of Service Science, Maglio, P. P., Kieliszewski, C. A., Spohrer, J. C., Springer, New York, NY.]). Societal systems interact with their environment via individuals in job roles, and the behaviors and dynamics of these diverse types of viable systems are not easy to explain and predict (Beer, [Beer, S. 1972. Brain of the firm. The managerial cybernetics of organization. The Penguin Press.]). Both Service Science (SS) and Viable Systems Approach (VSA) can be seen as less well known specializations of General Systems Theory (von Bertalanffy, [von Bertalanffy, L. 1968. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. George Braziller, New York.], Spohrer and Kwan, [Spohrer, J., Kwan, S. K. 2009. Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Design (SSMED): An Emerging Discipline – Outline & References. Int. Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector, 1(3).], Barile [Barile, S. 2009. Management sistemico vitale. Giappichelli, Torino.], Golinelli, [Golinelli, G. M. 2010. Viable Systems Approach (VSA). Governing Business dynamics. Kluwer, Cedam, Padova.]). Like General Systems Theory, these emerging analytic frameworks advocate a worldview and specialized vocabulary that provide a framework for analysis and decision making. Also, these nascent analytic frameworks aim to improve our understanding of complex systems and improve their design. By refining the concept of the identity of a system from SS and VSA perspectives, the contributions of this paper include providing an abstract framework for enumerating all job roles and transitions between job roles as well as a practical recommendation to prepare a next-generation of individuals to compete better in a world of accelerating job role change. Specifically, our analysis of changing job roles will result in a recommendation for increasing the ratio of T-Shaped Professionals (T-SP possess both broad communication skills and deep problem solving skills) to I-Shaped Professional (I-SP possess only deep problem solving skills) in the labor force of nations and businesses to improve their viability in a complex environment of accelerating change (Donofrio et al. [Donofrio, N., Sanchez, C., Spohrer, J. 2010. Collaborative Innovation and Service Systems: Implications for Institutions and Disciplines, in Holistic Engineering Education, Edited by Domenico Grasso.]). [Service Science, ISSN 2164-3962 (print), ISSN 2164-3970 (online), was published by Services Science Global (SSG) from 2009 to 2011 as issues under ISBN 978-1-4276-2090-3.]

Vindictive virgins: animate images and theories of art in some thirteenth-century miracle stories

Vindictive virgins: animate images and theories of art in some thirteenth-century miracle stories

Light-Air-Portals: Visual Notes on Differential Mobility

Light-Air-Portals: Visual Notes on Differential Mobility

A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans. Ed. Persis M. Karim and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami. New York: George Braziller, 1999. 286 pages. $30 hardcover; $18.50 paper; and Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora. Ed. Persis M. Karim. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas, 2006. xxx + 352 pages. $49.95 hardcover;

A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans. Ed. Persis M. Karim and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami. New York: George Braziller, 1999. 286 pages. $30 hardcover; $18.50 paper; and Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora. Ed. Persis M. Karim. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas, 2006. xxx + 352 pages. $49.95 hardcover;

Black, For Butter

Black, for Butter Aracelis Girmay (bio) 15 is Butter up & down the 405, one hand on the shift. (He has a real name, Butter, calls & says it's Roman sometimes, but I just say I'll drive with him for an uncommitted while to the record store, Lorna's, the Swapmeet or a mall.) Rumor has it he's done It all kinds of ways, but the windows rolled & the engine on, the two of us just driving. & me, still shy on this pretty gold-chained Santa Ana boy with swoosh-sign shoes, long eyelashes, my legs crossed closed in the passenger's seat of his cousin's champagne Corolla, sugar-scratch raspy Tupac pitching lyrics at the FM dial while cars knot into accident traffic. Black, black Tupac like a siren, like a siren, going round & round, ambulatory, as we first & second & third gear whole city perimeters P=2(length) + 2(width) using gas. [End Page 843] But no formulaic, algebraic equation could ever claim to be, sufficiently, the outer bound- ary or distance around this car all spelled with basement sonnets riding bass in to tenor, syrup treble choruses carrying a procession of mothers, mothers, fire hydrant, honeys, crackhead, hammer, dodge, dictionary, microphone emcees, turntablist soldiers galloping-like on tricked-out bikes, graffiti gods, hydraulic blue poplockers, uprockers & low ride, baby oil, bandanna love sent through woofer-speaker volume into pitch black beautiful space Aracelis Girmay Aracelis Girmay received the MFA from New York University. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in such periodicals as 42opus, Rattapallax II, and Ploughshares. Her picture book for children, Changing, Changing, was published by George Braziller, Inc., in 2005. Copyright © 2006 Charles H. Rowell

In the Beginning: David Malouf’s *An Imaginary Life*

The study of David Malouf's work-in-progress for An Imaginary Life offers insights into the author's intentions in this important second novel, first published by George Braziller in New York in 1978. Malouf's account of the composing of the novel in late 1976 is highlighted, along with the changes from draft to draft of a key passage in Part I, which relate to the title of the novel that was changed only late in the piece from its working version, 'Letter from Pontus'.

The re‐emergence of “emergence”: A venerable concept in search of a theory

Despite its current popularity, “emergence” is a concept with a venerable history and an elusive, ambiguous standing in contemporary evolutionary theory. This paper briefly recounts the history of the term and details some of its current usages. Not only are there radically varying interpretations about what emergence means but “reductionist” and “holistic” theorists have very different views about the issue of causation. However, these two seemingly polar positions are not irreconcilable. Reductionism, or detailed analysis of the parts and their interactions, is essential for answering the “how” question in evolution -how does a complex living system work? But holism is equally necessary for answering the “why” question -why did a particular arrangement of parts evolve? In order to answer the “why” question, a broader, multi-leveled paradigm is required. The reductionist approach to explaining emergent complexity has entailed a search for underlying “laws of emergence.” Another alternative is the “Synergism Hypothesis,” which focuses on the “economics” – the functional effects produced by emergent wholes and their selective consequences. This theory, in a nutshell, proposes that the synergistic (co-operative) effects produced by various combinations of parts have played a major causal role in the evolution of biological complexity. It will also be argued that emergent phenomena represent, in effect, a subset of a much larger universe of combined effects in the natural world; there are many different kinds of synergy, but not all synergies represent emergent phenomena.

Organicism's other

If what follows appears mainly to be concerned with art, and perhaps marginally with science, that is only because it is written primarily with reference to architecture-from the outside looking in, as it were. I emphasize this since the disciplinary topologies involved in such an effort are very much at issue in the material under consideration, the formally architectural dimensions of which emerge only via an itinerary that, unfortunately, must begin at the end. end in question is marked by a single event: the publication in 1972 of an essay by Robert Smithson entitled The Spiral in Arts of the Environment, the last volume of the Vision + Value book series published by George Braziller and edited by artist and writer Gyorgy Kepes.1 Smithson's essay begins with a straightforward description of his interest in redtinted salt lakes, and his eventual decision to locate a work of ambiguous nature in the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Along the shores of that lake he encounters wreckage sunken into the salt flats, and a field of oil seeps with rusted pumps and a ruined hut, a site that gave evidence of a succession of man-made systems mired in abandoned hopes.2 One mile to the north is Rozel Point, which Smithson selects as a site for the work he is planning. As he describes his choice, his text begins its rapid acceleration into the spinning series of disjunctive cross-references that links its structure to the logic of its subject.3 This series ultimately doubles back on itself with the insertion of Smithson's spiraling piece of land art, completed in 1970, into a mediatic spiral instigated by the filming of the construction process (a film is a spiral made up of frames4), in which that footage is combined with images of prehistory: The movieola becomes a 'time-machine' that transforms trucks [seen carting the Jetty's boulders] into dinosaurs.5 By Smithson's account, from the outset-on location, that is-the process of producing the Spiral Jetty thus set off a certain disorientation: My dialectics of site and nonsite whirled into an indeterminate state, where solid and liquid lost themselves in each other.6 And perhaps in his textual imagination more than in the actual film (relatively sober and documentary by comparison), the spatiotemporal collapse thus precipitated was reduplicated in cinematic form:

A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian Americans, edited by Persis M. Karim and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami New York: George Braziller, 1999, xxvii + 254 pp.

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BOOK REVIEWS

Journal Article BOOK REVIEWS Get access Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhism. By June Campbell. George Braziller, 1996. 225 pages. $27.50 Miranda Shaw Miranda Shaw University of Richmond Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 4, Fall 1997, Pages 882–884, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/65.4.882 Published: 01 October 1997

Environmental history in Australia: Nature, the oldest actor

Stephen Dovers (ed.): Australian Environmental History: Essays and Cases . Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. Tim Flannery: The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of Australasian Lands and People . Chatswood, NSW: Reed Books, 1994. Distributed in the USA by George Braziller Inc., New York. Stephen J. Pyne: Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia , New York: Henry Holt, 1991.

For Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech, translated by Kenneth Whitehead &amp; Kevin Anderson. Preface by the editors, Publisher’s Statement by George Braziller. 302 pages. New York: George Braziller, 1994. $14.95 (Paper) ISBN 080761355x

For Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech, translated by Kenneth Whitehead &amp; Kevin Anderson. Preface by the editors, Publisher’s Statement by George Braziller. 302 pages. New York: George Braziller, 1994. $14.95 (Paper) ISBN 080761355x - Volume 29 Issue 1

AN INTERVIEW WITH SUE WARD

The Art BookVolume 2, Issue 2 p. 21-21 AN INTERVIEW WITH SUE WARD George Braziller, George BrazillerSearch for more papers by this author George Braziller, George BrazillerSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1995 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8357.1995.tb00262.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume2, Issue2June 1995Pages 21-21 RelatedInformation

Vivian B. Mann, Thomas F. Glick, and Jerrilynn D. Dodds, eds., Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain. New York: George Braziller, in association with the Jewish Museum, 1992. Pp. xiii, 264; color frontispiece, 35 color illustrations, 53 black-and-white illustrations. $50.

Vivian B. Mann, Thomas F. Glick, and Jerrilynn D. Dodds, eds., Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain. New York: George Braziller, in association with the Jewish Museum, 1992. Pp. xiii, 264; color frontispiece, 35 color illustrations, 53 black-and-white illustrations. $50.

A Guide to Musical Analysis Nicholas Cook Music Analysis in Theory and Practice Jonathan Dunsby Arnold Whittall

Nicholas Cook. A Guide to Musical Analysis. New York: George Braziller, 1987 and Jonathan Dunsby and Arnold Whittall. Music Analysis in Theory and Practice. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988 Cook Nicholas. A Guide to Musical Analysis. New York: George Braziller, 1987.Dunsby Jonathan and Whittall Arnold. Music Analysis in Theory and Practice. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Lora L. Gingerich Lora L. Gingerich Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music Theory Spectrum, Volume 14, Issue 1, Spring 1992, Pages 99–102, https://doi.org/10.2307/746085 Published: 01 March 1992