Great Stone Research Articles

Review: Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, by Tina Post

Book Review| June 01 2023 Review: Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, by Tina Post Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, by Tina Post Lauren Treihaft Lauren Treihaft LAUREN TREIHAFT is a PhD candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University and adjunct instructor at both CUNY and NYU, where she teaches courses on subjects ranging from dark humor to postwar Italian cinema. The subject of her dissertation project is the resurgence of cinematic deadpan as an aesthetics of recession in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis. Her writing has been featured in Film Quarterly and Social Text Journal. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Tina Post, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression. New York: NYU Press, 2023. $89.00 cloth; $30.00 paper. 272 pages. Film Quarterly (2023) 76 (4): 103–105. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.103 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lauren Treihaft; Review: Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, by Tina Post. Film Quarterly 1 June 2023; 76 (4): 103–105. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.4.103 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFilm Quarterly Search BOOK DATA Tina Post, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression. New York: NYU Press, 2023. $89.00 cloth; $30.00 paper. 272 pages. Though the expression or inexpression of deadpan is most commonly associated with silent-film star Buster Keaton (“the Great Stone Face”), the comic actor known for the impassiveness of his face and the imperviousness of his body, Tina Post’s Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression reconsiders the historical legacy of the concept outside of traditional accounts of comedy and humor studies by offering an impressive “investigation of the aesthetic affects at work at the intersection of blackness and embodied inexpressions” (3). Most descriptions of deadpan invoke a certain concreteness or frankness as the de facto qualities of the gesture or comic mode. Post astutely recontextualizes the notion of deadpan through the lens of a black historical intervention that begins in the early nineteenth century with the science of specimenization... You do not currently have access to this content.

Perspectives of the China-Belarus’ «Great Stone» industrial park development as an eco-industrial park

Proposals have been developed for the transition of the Chinese-Belarusian industrial park “Great Stone” to the model of an eco-industrial park. A review of the Chinese experience in the formation of eco-in-dustrial parks was carried out. Based on the results of a sociological survey of residents of the Chinese-Belarusian industrial park “Great Stone”, the conditions and directions for strengthening its environmental orientation were determined. The expediency of creating an ecological center in the park management structure is substantiated and the directions of its activity are proposed.

Белорусско-китайские отношения на современном этапе

The paper characterizes the main stages of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Belarus in the 1990s and in the 21st century. Special attention is paid to the interaction between the leaders, the governments and legislative bodies of the two states in the political and socio-economic spheres. A detailed characterization of bilateral humanitarian cooperation is given. The main directions of interaction between the two countries within the framework of the implementation of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative are shown. The specifics of the development of the Chinese-Belarusian relations within the Great Stone Industrial Park, which has become a kind of symbol of cooperation between the two countries, are determined. Attention is also paid to such an important Chinese-Belarusian project as the Belji automobile plant.

Teotihuacán as a solar city in its graphic representation

AbstractIn this work, we present a proposal for the identification of the origin of the name of the pre‐Columbian urban center of Teotihuacan, the city of gods, based on its toponym structured in geographic accidents or the work of its inhabitants. A historical investigation was carried out, contrasted with an ethnohistorical work and, finally, a series of field observations. We concluded that the name Teotihuacán corresponds to the image registered in the Codex Xólotl, corresponding to a real, observable and measurable event, which is the sunrise located behind the three main buildings of the city, on certain dates of the year, which tells us that the entire city was designed, thought and planned on basis of the sun′s movement in the sky. This is not a new fact, frequently observed in other ancient sites in Mesoamerica. However, in the particular case of Teotihuacan, these events were of such importance and so unique that they lead us do not to discard the idea that the city constituted a great stone clock and a stone calendar, and that it was an unique mark for all inhabitants of the central plateau of Mesoamerica during the classical period. And that even in the post‐classical period it was still remembered precisely as such, as the City of the Sun, a singular place where one can perfectly see the solar alignments at different periods of the year, which are also related to the dry or rainy seasons of the central plateau, associated with the corresponding agricultural cycles. And this leads us to conjecture that the Teotihuacan knowledge of astronomy and agricultural cycles was an important mark of this city, bringing together all the knowledge in turn gathered in these fields by the other civilizations of Mesoamerica.

Raising Public Awareness in Preserving Historical Heritage Sites Of Patah Sembilan Stone in Langkah Serentak Limbai Seayun Land

This journal aims to examine the historical events or relics that developed in the Senamat Ulu Village, Bathin III Ulu Sub-district, Muaro Bungo Regency, Jambi Province. This article uses historical methods by library research, including archival studies, observations and interviews with related sources. Departing. From the history, uses with make sense and conscience things to know the history around us, the existence of the Batu Patah Sembilan historical become the tools to tell the importance of the presence of this site in the birth of civilization on Earth "Langkah Serentak Limbai Seayun". With the preservation of the existing historical sites, it will be able to provide many benefits to various aspects of people's lives in the Ulu Senate as well as identification of that village. A historical relic from the Great Stone Age (Megalithic) to this day can still be able to know by its history and existence, and also about the historical stories that have developed in the civilization of society from generation to generation.

Suzhou industrial park and its role in the belt and road initiative: the great stone industrial park in Belarus

PurposeIn recent years, the People's Republic of China has made remarkable progress in science and technology. The Chinese industry is competing for leadership in cutting-edge technologies such as 5G, robotics, artificial intelligence, aerospace and green energy. This article aims to analyze: What role do industrial parks, especially Suzhou Industrial Park, play in upgrading technology to encourage independent innovation and economic development? How SIP is related to the Belt and Road Initiative?Design/methodology/approachThis research summarizes China's most important scientific and technological reforms and policies and in particular the Torch Program. In addition, it develops a case study of the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) by analyzing documents, bibliography and presenting data. It ends with a case study of the role of SIP in the Belt and Road Initiative analyzing the Great Stone Park in Belarus.FindingsThis article highlights that: China's experience clearly shows that the "visible hand" of the State plays a very important role in economic development and technological catch-up. All of them are implemented from a strategy linking the national objectives with the local ones, this is done from a top-down perspective. As an important aspect of economic and social development, China's experience in promoting indigenous innovation in science and technology provides a relevant example for developing countries.Research limitations/implicationsThere are few academic literature on Great Stone Industrial Park.Practical implicationsThe international cooperation of the SIP with the technology parks throughout the BRI-countries provides relevant information to deepen collaboration in this field and could contribute to closing the technological gap in developing countries.Originality/valueThe role of the SIP in the Belt and Road initiative is an under research topic. There is few bibliography discussing the impacts of the cooperation in science and technology in the framework of the BRI.

Carbon Storage Resource Assessment of the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Offshore Region

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a critical technology for ensuring a range of clean energy options are available to meet future energy demands. Offshore storage can be linked to large point-sources of carbon dioxide (CO2) while avoiding many of the logistical difficulties and potential risks encountered when siting onshore projects, especially in densely populated areas of the East Coast of the United States. Offshore storage along mid-Atlantic region was studied under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded Mid-Atlantic U.S. Offshore Carbon Storage Resource Assessment Project (MAOCSRAP) and as a subtask under the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP). The assessment was conducted as a technical collaboration between Battelle, Rutgers University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, state geological surveys of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania, United States Geological Survey-Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, and Harvard University. Major objectives were to complete a systematic carbon storage resource assessment of the of the mid-Atlantic offshore coastal region from the Georges Bank Basin (GBB) through the Long Island Platform (LIP) to the southern Baltimore Canyon Trough (BCT), examine offshore storage risk factors, and engage industry and regulatory stakeholders through development of a Road Map to assist future project planning and implementation. Various publicly available data sets, such as seismic data, well-logs, and core data, were integrated to define geologic characteristics of candidate storage sites and calculate prospective CO2 storage resources for Cretaceous- and Jurassic-age sandstone sequences of the mid-Atlantic offshore sub-regions. The combined dataset helped to identify and map potential storage zones within sequences of the Logan Canyon, Missisauga, and Mohawk formations, as well as the regionally extensive caprock comprised of the Dawson Canyon shale. Prospective storage resource estimates and formation-specific storage efficiency values were calculated with static volumetric and dynamic methods. Regional-scale estimates range from 150 to 1136 gigatonnes (Gt) for the combined storage zones, with high estimated storage resource (≥ 2.4 megatonnes [Mt] CO2/km2) occurring in the northern BCT near the Great Stone Dome (GSD) structure. Results of local scale simplified dynamic reservoir simulation in the GSD indicate that injection rates of 1 Mt CO2/year may be sustained within the time and pressure constraints assumed for a commercial storage project. An initial, qualitative assessment of technical risk factors present in mid-Atlantic offshore areas was conducted. Overall, the mid-Atlantic offshore area benefits from the large spatial extent, thick sequences of sands, lack of previous oil and gas wellbores, and distance from populated development. Geomechanical stability, reservoir variability, and soft sediment deformation were identified as moderate risk factors in some areas. No highly critical risk factors were identified that would impede CO2 storage along the study areas. Input and participation from government, industry, and environmental groups helped to address next steps needed for future CCS project planning and implementation in the study region. Recommended near-term actions are to develop site screening through advanced geologic modeling, implement stakeholder outreach and risk mitigation strategies, identify industry and research goals, and develop regulatory pathways. Recommended mid-term actions are to validate subsurface properties with new data, conduct a cost-benefit analysis, and develop a monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) plan. Long term-recommended actions are to implement a plan for large-scale CCS operations using the previous findings, conduct site design, permitting, and construction, and upscale infrastructure. This project represents an important first step by completing a high-level CO2 storage resource assessment and building the knowledge infrastructure necessary to support the development of full-scale offshore carbon storage.

Индустриальный парк «Великий камень» как зона роста инноваций

The article considers the importance of industrial development for the economy of the Republic of Belarus. The dynamics of indicators that characterize the level of sustainable development of medium- and high-tech industries is presented. Trends in the creation of innovative infrastructure entities are described. The activities of the China-Belarus industrial Park "Great stone" and its importance are described. Industrial Park’s main investment projects for the creation of production facilities are presented. The platforms of the China-Belarus innovation center for commercialization of scientific and technical achievements are presented.

Historical Books: Joshua–2 Kings

Historical BooksJoshua–2 Kings Christopher T. Begg, Fred W. Guyette, J. Edward Owens, John M. Halligan, Rhiannon Graybill, Jeremy Corley, and Thomas Hieke 404. [Dtr] Sang-wan Lee, "Der Umgang mit der Kulteinheitforderung in sekundären Einschreibungen im Deuteronomistichen Geschichtswerk," Eigensinn und Entstehung, 331-38 [see #789]. In Dtr, the requirements for worship of Yhwh alone (Kultreinheit) and worship of Yhwh at a single designated sanctuary (Kulteinheit) are repeatedly alluded to. Some scholars posit that the two requirements derive from different Deuteronomistic hands, but L., following E. Blum, argues that both requirements were elements of the original Deuteronomist's presentation of the history of Israel and Judah. At the same time, there are, L. further argues, a variety of secondary elements within Dtr containing allusions to the above double requirement, these including mentions of cultic places and cultic activities that take place outside of and/or prior to the Jerusalem Temple. A particularly noteworthy case in point is the account of Elijah's altar on Mount Carmel in 1 Kgs 18:30ff., which postdates the construction of the Temple but which nonetheless is (apparently) legitimated by the presence of a Yhwh prophet and Yhwh's own sending fire to consume the sacrifice on Elijah's altar. According to L., all the secondary texts identified by him, while they do derive from secondary Deuteronomistic hands, do not stand in contradiction with the primary Deuteronomist's combined requirement of worship of Yhwh and worship of him at one central sanctuary; in fact, the focus of many of these secondary texts is on concerns other than Dtr's double cultic requirement (e.g., in Josh 24:26, the center of attention is not on the "great stone" erected by Joshua at Shechem, but rather on the "book of the law" that he is said to have deposited there).—C.T.B. 405. [Dtr; Jeroboam I; "High Places"] Kristin Weingart, "Jerobeam und seine Kulthöhen. Geschichte als Argument in religiösen Diskurs der Perserzeit," Eigensinn und Entstehung, 315-30 [see #789]. The Deuteronomistic History (Dtr) features recurrent references to the "sins of Jeroboam" which resulted in the eventual overthrow of the Northern Kingdom. What were those "sins" exactly? In the extant text of 1 Kgs 12:26-32, one finds juxtaposed two categories of such sins: Jeroboam's erection of the bull-images in Bethel and Dan on the one hand and his establishment of "houses" for worship on the high places and the inauguration of a non-Levitical priesthood to service these sites on the other. In her article, W. identifies the latter set of "sins of Jeroboam" as deriving from a Persian-period redaction of Dtr, found in 1 Kgs 12:31-32; 13:31-33; 2 Kgs 17:24-30; and 23:16-20, which, in contrast to the original Dtr stratum, in 1 Kgs 12:26-30, as well as the story of the "man of God at Bethel of 1 Kgs 13:1-30 (for which 1 Kgs 12:31-32 and 13:31-32 function as a redactional frame), is directed not against the Bethel cult and its bull image but rather against the cult of the Samaritans of the Persian era with its central Yahwistic sanctuary on Mount Gerizim, which, from the Judean perspective, was viewed as an offense against the sole legitimacy of the Jerusalem sanctuary.—C.T.B. [End Page 135] 406. [Joshua–Judges; Divine and Human Kingship] Sarah Dalrymple, "Ephraim or Judah? Divine Sovereignty and the Potential for Kingship in Joshua–Judges," The Seed of Promise, 50-74 [see #797]. From which of the twelve tribes would God's promised messiah come? One place where we might begin to look is in the story of Joseph (Genesis 37–50). The narrative of Joseph and his brothers is suffused with themes of divine sovereignty, wise leadership, and royal power. Or we might follow a thread that runs through the story of Joshua, from the tribe of Ephraim. Joshua was the warrior and shepherd-leader chosen to follow Moses. How about Caleb, who was from the tribe of Judah? Joshua and Caleb were eager to settle in the Promised...

Lifting Work and Building Time at the 4th Dynasty Pyramids

"Earlier studies about how long it took to build the great stone pyramids focused on the cubic amounts of masonry which is not an adequate parameter for determining the achievement of pyramid builders. Rather, the appropriate parameter is lifting work measured in Joules – in brief, the product of mass multiplied by lifting height. Provided lifting of a block took on average the same time at the 4th dynasty pyramid construction sites, then there was a proportion between lifting work and building time. The upper limits of the resulting building times depend on the length of Kheops’s reign."

Lithic Corporeality: Elemental Philosophy in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories

AbstractWhile a focus on landscape and nature is typical of the Romantic period, the detailed attention that Hawthorne devotes to the corporal or material aspects of specific elements without engaging the perspective of his characters is rather unusual. Hawthorne's treatment of stones can be seen as corresponding to a certain degree with alchemical teachings of mystical natural philosophers. As such, it departs from the more common Romantic treatments of nature that imagine the human entanglement with their environment as a poetic mental capacity. Rather than a mental correspondence between characters and Nature, Hawthorne's tales repeatedly indicate a material transcorporeal relation, a point demonstrated by the careful situating of rocks in Hawthorne's short stories “Roger Malvin's Burial” (1831), “The Great Carbuncle” (1835), and “The Great Stone Face” (1850).

Coupling national geo-political economic strategies and the Belt and Road Initiative: The China-Belarus Great Stone Industrial Park

The joint development by Belarus and China of the Great Stone Industrial Park (GSIP) is designed to establish a high-tech industrial zone and an eco-friendly satellite city of Minsk as a key node on the Eurasian Land Bridge linking China with the Eurasian Economic Union and the European Union. The development and organization of the GSIP are explained in the light of a coupling of the strategic goals of the two countries in the context of a new Chinese model of external engagement called an emergent geo-political economic culture. These goals include Belarus' desire to reduce its dependence on Russian gas and oil, upgrade and diversify its economy, strengthen its integration with Eurasia and find new partners, by attracting Chinese and other foreign direct investment in the context of China's Going Out and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). An analysis of the roles of national leaders Aliaksandr Lukashenka and Xi Jinping and of different stakeholders in the predominantly top-down design, development and governance of the park reveals the way in which a BRI cooperation platform permits the coupling of Chinese and Belarusian interests and strategies in ways through which each side expects to benefit.

Привлечение прямых иностранных инвестиций как фактор устойчивого развития

The article analyzes the instruments of state investment policy in the Republic of Belarus to attract foreign direct investment in the interests of sustainable development. Particular attention is paid to the creation of special preferential regimes in the Sino-Belarusian Industrial Park "Great Stone", the Belarusian High-Tech Park, free economic zones. An assessment of the effectiveness of stimulating direct foreign investment is given, the position of Belarus, Russia and other EAEU member countries in the leading world investment ratings is presented. The proposals on improving the investment climate in the Republic of Belarus to achieve the goals of sustainable development are justified.

Carbon dioxide storage resource assessment of Cretaceous- and Jurassic-age sandstones in the Atlantic offshore region of the northeastern United States

Carbon capture and storage is a critical technology for ensuring a range of clean energy options are available to meet future energy demand in the United States and abroad. A total of 1079 industrial CO2 emission sources are located in the northeastern United States, where challenging surface and subsurface conditions limit onshore CO2 storage potential. A systematic resource assessment was conducted using industry-standard resource classification methods established by the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Storage Resources Management System to characterize CO2 storage resources in the middle–northern Atlantic offshore region along the eastern United States. Storable CO2 quantities and storage efficiencies were estimated for Cretaceous- and Jurassic-age sandstone sequences. Regional data integration and analysis were conducted to estimate storable quantities and storage efficiencies using probabilistic methods with static volumetric calculations and dynamic simulations. Offshore storage efficiencies range from 1% to 13%, with regional-scale estimates of 37–403 billion t (Gt) of CO2 classified as prospective storage resources. Dynamic CO2 injection simulation in a middle Cretaceous sequence on the eastern flank of the Great Stone Dome suggests 30–51 million t of CO2 can be stored and contained within the time and pressure constraints assumed for a commercial storage project. The regional Cretaceous and Jurassic plays identified in the offshore study region have prospective storage resources sufficient for long-term storage of CO2 from nearby industrial sources onshore. Continued resource discovery efforts are recommended to assess the development and commerciality of the potential storage identified near the Great Stone Dome.

The Eurasian Economic Union Custom – Tariff Regulation of the Trade with the People's Republic of China

China is the second most important (after the European Union) economic partner of the EAEU. This Partnership has a strategic long-term character. In the early 90s liberalization of economy in China and market reforms in Russia and the other countries of the EAEU affected the increasing commodity turnover between China, Russia and other states. Due to the increasing role of People's Republic of China in a foreign trade turnover of EAEU it would be relevant to consider the features of custom-tariff regulation between China and the EAEU. The article is devoted to the problems of the theoretical and legal framework of the trade and economic cooperation between China and the the манушинаEAEU countries, the problem of the Eurasian Economic Union, custom-tariff regulation system (with the example of The Great Stone) and the analysis of its peculiarities. The key problems of the Eurasian Economic Union custom-tariff regulation system of the trade with the People's Republic of China based on the statistics from the national statistics committees, the ways of its development aimed at improving trade efficiency and also the possible effects are estimated.

The Chinese-Belarusian "Industrial Park "Great Stone" as a Special Zone of Economic Growth for Belarus and the Neighbouring Countries

The Chinese-Belarusian "Industrial Park "Great Stone" as a Special Zone of Economic Growth for Belarus and the Neighbouring Countries

Walking as Practice and Prose as Path Making: How Life Writing and Journey Can Intersect

Walking as Practice and Prose as Path Making: How Life Writing and Journey Can Intersect

Вознаграждение вечностью: особенности погребальной практики в древних культурах тихоокеанского бассейна на рубеже эр

The paper deals with various aspects of the complex academic issue of studying the culture genesis in the Pacific Region based on the archeological data. Periods of strong cultural surges, milestones in the development of technologies and economy, crucial events in economy and social domain are of acute interest within the scope of the outlined problem. Such periods include the era turn (the 2nd century BC – 3–4th centuries AD), i. e. “The time of great leaders and stone tombs”. The research focuses on two regions – the southern part of the Japanese Archipelago (Kyushu, Ryukyu and Okinawa islands) and the tropical zone of the Pacific coast of America (from Western Mexico to the northern Chile) – and to individual parts of the South-Eastern Asia (the Philippines, Indonesia). The findings obtained in the course of the research confirm the hypothesis about similar formation scenarios of the tribal elite and accompanying components of architecture, arts and commerce in objects of “prestigious technologies” in the ancient cultures of the tropical and subtropical zones of the Pacific Region.

Roll Me a Great Stone: A Brief Historiography of Megalithic Construction and the Genesis of the Roller Hypothesis

SummaryThe idea that prehistoric, megalith‐building communities used cylindrical, wooden rollers to transport enormous stones – the ‘roller hypothesis’ – is ubiquitous within archaeological literature and public discourse on megalithic architecture. The likelihood that such devices were actually used to transport megaliths during prehistory remains highly questionable, yet the roller hypothesis has now dominated discussions of the subject for some 400 years. At its heart lies the assertion that fewer people were needed to transport large stones with rollers than without them. A review of experimental and ethnographic studies of megalith transport casts doubt on this central claim and suggests that simpler, better‐attested and more reliable methods were probably used. So when and why did the roller hypothesis become so popular? The historiography of the idea reveals how its advocates succeeded in rationalizing it within wider, paradigmatic beliefs about their contemporary worlds and the deep past. The roller hypothesis is bound up in outmoded, even jingoistic perspectives of megalithic construction and the evolution of technology. To advance our understanding of megalithic construction a more critical stance is herein advocated.

Evaluación de las potencialidades turísticas del paisaje natural protegido La Gran Piedra, para el desarrollo de modalidades de Turismo Rural

La presente investigación asume como objetivo: Evaluar las potencialidades turísticas del paisaje natural protegido La Gran Piedra para el desarrollo de modalidades de Turismo Rural. Su realización se auxilió de métodos teóricos y técnicas de recopilación de información, como encuestas y cuestionarios con criterios de evaluación. Se utilizaron herramientas científicas como la Matriz Diferencial I y II para analizar la competencia, la Matriz de potencialidades para evaluar el potencial turístico y la Matriz DAFO para el análisis estratégico de la situación actual del área. Se emplearon además programas computacionales como el software de Decisión 1.0 para la validación de expertos y el SPSS en su versión 15.0 para el procesamiento de encuestas. La metodología aplicada demostró que la zona estudiada tiene altas potencialidades para el desarrollo del Turismo Rural, que este paisaje se encuentra como líder en la modalidad de Turismo de Naturaleza en la provincia. Se evidenció que el Paisaje Natural Protegido Gran Piedra tiene atractivos y comunidades aledañas que podrían incluirse en la gama de ofertas y ser comercializado de manera sostenible como parte de la Modalidad de Turismo Rural, lo que permitió proponer un grupo de estrategias y acciones con el fin de potenciar en un futuro el área, como posible producto de Turismo Rural.