Imaginary Space Research Articles

Touching the screen: on visual textuality and knowledge construction in Anne Carson’s poetry

ABSTRACT This article addresses the connections between material strategies and knowledge construction in contemporary literature. Through two case studies, Anne Carson’s Nox (2010) and The Beauty of the Husband (2001), this article argues that by capitalising on the material, often visual component of literature, Carson heightens an embodied reading process that encourages affective forms of knowledge. To this end, my reading builds on theories of visual textuality by Anne-Marie Christin and Johanna Drucker in conversation with insights from cognitive theory. Through an emphasis on visual patterns, the analysis demonstrates how the knowledge worlds evoked in these long poems, understood as referring to the epistemological premises and possibilities afforded by the literary work, are shaped by the visual screen of the page and of the literary work as a whole. As physical and imaginative spaces, Nox and The Beauty of the Husband thus stage intricate relationships between matter and knowledge, which are foregrounded in poetic and multimodal works but are present in all literary works to a certain extent. The implication is that readers can only know as much about a literary work as they can see and feel.

The Construction of the Female Image and Social-Cultural Metaphor in Tuya's Marriage from the Perspective of Space Narration

The rural film Tuya's Marriage, directed by Wang Quan'an, constructs profound and rich spatial metaphors, promotes the development of film narrative, shapes the character characteristics of female characters and completes the unique expression of the female experience. Based on the theory of space narration, this paper makes an in-depth analysis of three narrative Spaces, which are enclosed space, social space and imagination space. It reveals the internal relationship between spatial metaphor and the image-building of female characters in movies as well as the profound cultural connotation. The film focuses on the living conditions, the expression of true emotions and the construction of female individual subjectivity of women in marginal areas, which further promotes the writing of female images in films.

HYPERBOLIC SPACE AND VIOLETA DINESCU'S MUSICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE ‘WOMAN'S SOUL’

AbstractThis paper proposes an approach to the representation of mental musical space, understood here as a mental ‘hologram’ of a musical structure created while composing or listening to a piece of music. Composers claim to ‘hear’ music in their mind and ‘see’ it in their spatial imagination; normally we see music graphically represented on two-dimensional staves, but we could mentally decode it in a three- or multi-dimensional space, and I argue that Violeta Dinescu's musical vision occupies a non-Euclidean imaginary musical space rather than the Western classical-music template. Dinescu's graphical design suggests a hyperbolic space, distorting the musical parameters accordingly. Two of her works are discussed: Gehen wir zu Grúschenka, for cello with voice ad libitum, and Herzriss – Aus deinem Herzen kannst du die Liebe nicht ausreißen, an opera for solo voice(s), percussion and cello. The first views the behaviour of musical parameters as if in an imaginary hyperbolic space; the latter exemplifies intertextuality in a cultural hyperbolic space. Both are metaphors of the woman's soul.

ACQUIRED MOTOR DISABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN ADULTS SURVIVORS OF SEVERE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS: A RETROSPECTIVE CLINICAL AND PROJECTIVE STUDY

The researcher addressed the study of evaluating the context of resilience in adults who, for over three (03) years, have experienced a severe traffic accident resulting in complete lower paralysis. Drawing on psychoanalytic exploration of resilience on one hand, and clinical and psychodynamic analysis of acquired motor disability in adults on the other hand, the concept of resilience was considered within the adopted definition as a dynamic context culminating in the integration of compounded shock (facing real threat of death and the shock linked to self-loss). This is followed by a rebound and identity reconstruction, ultimately leading to the resumption of life in a new direction, intertwined with a new body. Emphasis was placed on the idea that the context is influenced by the continuous interaction between each participant's internal psychological resources and external resources represented by their family and social environment, which they might have access to. To achieve this, the researcher resorted to qualitative analysis, employing semi-structured clinical interviews and projective techniques, including the Rorschach test and the Thematic Apperception Test (T.A.T). Furthermore, certain dimensions of psychological functioning were considered, such as the breadth of imaginative space, mentalization’s quality, the adaptive use of defense mechanisms and finally, the process of identity reconstruction. On the other hand, the external reality was approached through the potential encounter of the participants with a supporting person that assists them in regaining their re-narcissization. The results unveiled variations in the paths each participant took towards achieving resilience. This was linked to the diverse and effective interplay between their inner psychological reality and individual resources. The presence of a good resilience caregiver was noted to assist in surpassing the traumatic experience. A few participants displayed superficial resilience, while the results also demonstrated a diversity in the meaning assigned to the compounded traumatic event,including divine punishment, predestination, self-validation, and the discovery of new meaning in life

Reading in Uncertain Times

Reading in Uncertain Times

The virtual reality technologies in the educational processes in Kemerovo State Institute of Culture

The virtual reality (VR) development made it suggestible to test and endorse these technologies in educational processes of Kemerovo State Institute of Culture (KSIC). The VR visualizes the knowledge, clarifies information on complex processes and phenomena, demonstrates buildings interiors, musical instruments, architecture, and geographic locations, creates the illusion of exposure to imaginary space. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the possibilities of applying VR in educational, learning, creative and professional activities of the higher educational institution. The scientific originality of theoretical value of the study resides in the fact that the VR technology is approbated at the Kemerovo State Institute of Culture.The researchers applied the scientific methods of document flow analysis, content analysis of websites of RF Ministry of Culture academic institutions, content analysis of textual sources on designing and applying VR -technologies in education as well analysis of applying VR-technologies in KSICВ.They discuss VR-projects designed for key specialities of KSIC, and characterize the program “VR-technologies” for the students in various fields of study. The examples of using VR-technologies in professional and extra-curricular activities of the higher educational institution are provided. Applying VR-technologies to the educational processes permits to preserve cultural heritage and to make it attractive to the users.The program of “VR-technologies” supports building relevant skills of designing modern products with 3D-models. Further development of VR-projects for educational processes in Kemerovo State Institute of Culture is a promising area of studies.

Hollywood’s Racial Order and the Re-throning of White Supremacist Identity

Abstract Released during a period of heightened racial tension over the impact of racism in the United States and Europe, the 2021 films Stillwater and Dune Part One reveal the pervasiveness of Arab Muslim misrepresentations in Hollywood and the subtilty of white supremacist ideology as it re-emerges in new cinematic productions. With many symbolic and pronounced references to the delusions of the “great replacement” theory, the foundational blueprint of white supremacist identity in both stories, this article contends that these films recentre whiteness to either villainise Arab Muslims or totally erase them. Stillwater disguises the stereotypes on which Arab racialisation is predicated by embedding them in the details of a subplot. Dune, by contrast, is set in an imaginary Arab space with no Arabs, and yet portrayals of Arabs and Islam are front, and centre and it imagines a world with fierce but “generic” coloured people serving their great white leaders.

Reconstruction of Communicative Rationality: A Study on the Digital Mass Media Society in Indonesia

Purpose: This study looked at the cognitive response of Indonesian society (i.e. people using digital media) to narratives constructed by digital media. Theoretical framework: It is necessary to establish an argumentative relationship of "communication" between digital media and society, since the narratives constructed by digital media are particular interests. Method: This study used a qualitative approach, conducting a sociological analysis of narratives in the community of digital mass media users, especially mass resources for convergence (kompas.com, tempo.co and tribunnews.com). The technique of triangulation of technical sources and theories to demonstrate the validity of narrative data of people using digital media. Results and Conclusions: The digital society can create and create imaginary spaces based on its law and culture. Therefore, a word of "communication" between the two is needed to come to terms with rational language. This relationship is a communication society based on the value of emancipatory critical rationality to achieve "consensus". Therefore, the problem posed in this study is: "how is the cognitive response and shape of the digital society in Indonesia, within the age of digital media?". Research Implications: Knowing the digital narrative of the media is solid and changes its passive role to be "interactive" (in itself as a subject) with the media. Right now, the community doesn't have much resilience. Originality/value: Meanwhile, the relationship between digital society and communication technology has three options, namely, first, digital society positions itself as technology; second, humanize technology as itself; and third, dialectically compromising the potential of humanity and technology.

The dragon’s AR: Narrative augmentation in Russell’s The Dragon Defenders

The use of augmented reality (AR) in literature has predominantly focused on providing instructional tools for educators and learners, emphasizing its capacity of enhancing engagement and supporting immersive learning. Aside from its central literacy purpose, AR in children’s literature appears in the form of digital pop-up books or as add-on games, which are usually located outside of the main narrative. In this sense, AR risks disrupting the flow of a story instead of enriching the continuous imaginative space of the narrative. The Dragon Defenders series, by James Russell, uses AR as a narrative tool in ways previously unseen in children’s literature. Russell puts the reader into the shoes of his main characters, Paddy and Flynn, using AR to show the reader what the boys themselves see. There are moments in these books where the AR system and traditional narrative system fully overlap, integrate and enhance the narrative dimension of the story. While readers navigate through the book by turning physical pages, the addition of AR at specific moments in the story not only provides a more immersive reading experience but, in this case, advances the narrative to great effect. This case study asks how AR can be used to enhance the narrative structure and flow in a text-based novel, using formal gameplay analysis to examine how the AR and narrative systems interact and identifying which examples of this interaction work to the best effect. It analyses the AR moments in the context of the book, deconstructs the unusual first-person perspective from the protagonist’s point of view and explores how these AR experiences help drive and truly augment the core narrative. The larger context of this study seeks to emancipate AR from its predominantly technological ontology and contribute to the development of AR as a genuine narrative device in fiction storytelling.

Reconstruction of Communicative Rationality: A Study on the Digital Mass Media Society in Indonesia

This study examined the cognitive response of Indonesian society (namely, the people who use digital mass media) to the narratives built by digital mass media. Establishing an argumentative “communication” relationship between digital mass media and society is necessary because the narratives built by digital mass media tend to represent particular interests. Therefore, between the two, an argumentative “communication” relationship is needed to reach a consensus through the expression of rational language. This relationship actually forms a communicative society based on the value of emancipatory critical rationality to achieve "consensus". Thus, the problem posed in this study, ‘How is the cognitive response and form of digital society in Indonesia within the scope of the digital mass media era?’ To answer that question this study used a qualitative approach by conducting a sociological study of the narratives in the digital mass media user community, especially convergence mass media (kompas.com, tempo.co, and tribunnews.com). While the technique of the validity test of the narrative data of people who use digital mass media uses was the triangulation technique of sources and theories. This study found that digital society can create and produce imaginative spaces based on its own laws and culture. Its awareness of the digital mass media narrative is solid and shifts its passive role as an object to be ‘interactive’ (itself as a subject) with mass media. Meanwhile, the relationship between digital society and communication technology has three options, namely, first, digital society positions itself as technology; second, humanize technology as itself; and third, dialectically compromising the potential of humanity and technology.

Narrative Perspective and Imagined Space: Understanding Japanese-American Experience in Hawaii through Murayama’s Fiction

This paper contextualizes the intricate relationship between language, culture, and place in Milton Murayama’s All I am Asking for is My Body, underlining the dynamic of the Japanese-American diasporic experience in Hawaii. The econarratological analysis delves into the spatial representation and homodiegetic narration employed by Murayama to immerse readers in the plantation labor experience and the linguistic landscapes of Hawaii. The study examines the complex dynamics between Standard English and Hawaiian Creole English (HCE) in Murayama’s work, highlighting their role in shaping the cultural and linguistic identity of the characters. By employing immersive textual cues, such as vivid descriptive imagery and the strategic use of language styles, Murayama creates a mental model of narratives that accurately depicts the historicity of the Nikkei community, focusing on the plantation labor experience. This paper argues that the deliberate blending of Standard English and HCE in Murayama’s fiction enhances readers’ engagement and understanding of the Nikkei experience and contributes to broader discussions on language, culture, and identity within the context of diaspora literature.

Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography

Making space for a radical trans imagination: Towards a kinder, more vulnerable, geography

Extraordinarily Hazardous

This article examines the disruptive role that fog and associated weather conditions play in human livelihood activities undertaken on and around the Grand Banks of the north-western Atlantic, the affective atmosphere they create and their effect on human participants. After an introduction to the position and nature of the Grand Banks, relevant weather systems, ocean currents and iceberg trajectories through the region, the article profiles the nature of fishing (and, subsequently, oil extraction) in the area, of the precarity of livelihood activities undertaken and their reflection and inscription in various media. This approach identifies the manner in which aquapelagos (integrated terrestrial and marine systems) are not necessarily safe or stable entities – even in the shortest of terms – and can, indeed, represent assemblages in which humans are stressed and threatened. Within this, the case study examines the manner in which fog is not so much an uncomfortable intrusion into an otherwise manageable industrial operation as a key characteristic to be accommodated. The experience of fog is crucial to the social experience of the Grand Banks and of the aquapelago that is constituted around it. Substantial consideration is also given to the atmospherics of Grand Banks fog in literature and visual art and of the imaginative space created for it.

ELLIPSOIDAL TONTOR STEP MODEL OF SENSORS FOR AUTOMATED MECHATRONIC SYSTEMS

Modern medicine widely uses mechatronic modules in systems of various purposes, such as automated systems of diagnostics, scanning, irradiation. Recently, mechatronic modules in robotic surgical complexes are gaining importance. Thus, with the use of integrated sensors in mechatronic modules, executive manipulators of automated systems, positioning accuracy in defined spatial coordinates can be maintained. This data helps the medical staff to diagnose, monitor the patient's condition and make treatment decisions. The main purpose of sensor support in mechatronic systems is to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the system's functioning. Sensors must be sensitive and stable enough to provide measurements with high accuracy and respond to changes in real time. In addition, similar mechatronic modules are combined with sensors to create bionic limb prostheses, to restore human movement functions in various orthopedic diseases.
 At the same time, the trajectory of the movement of the executive bodies of the mechatronic medical system, regardless of its purpose, during spatial transformations of searching for the coordinates of a real object, must be determined taking into account possible deformations.
 Therefore, the accuracy of real-world displacement in space is determined by sensors that measure the parameters of physical objects. Thus, real transformations can be defined by spatial deviations that can be described using an ellipsoidal model. Accuracy, like the strength of the mechatronic module of a robot arm, is a variable value. They depend not only on the number of joints and the mobility of the hinges, but also on the position of the manipulators in space. At one point of coordinates, the module can apply more force than at another. The same is true for positioning accuracy, where the positioning error is greater at some points than at others. Therefore, an important actual problem in the creation of medical robotic systems is to determine the step-by-step movement of such a module in the workspace.
 Therefore, the purpose of this work is to determine the ellipsoidal TONTOR step model of sensors for automated mechatronic systems, as the motion of the executive manipulators and sensors of the system during transformations from imaginary coordinate space to real space determines trajectory errors. Based on the existing opportunities analyzed in the work application of mechatronic modules in automated medical systems, relevant tasks related to maintaining the positioning accuracy of diagnostic manipulators and sensors are defined. The importance of sensory complexes in measuring various biological parameters that determine the patient's condition is noted. And this involves the application of models of spatial movement of the sensor in the working space of automated equipment, in particular, a robotic mechatronic complex.
 In the work, it is proposed to use the TONTOR step model to increase the accuracy of the realization of the movement trajectory of the sensors of the mechatronic automated system. The results of creating an ellipsoidal model of the TONTOR step, which most accurately reflects the features of moving an object in space during transformations of the transition to real space, are given.

Analisis Perubahan Desain Karakter dalam GIM SERI DREADOUT Pendekatan Manga Matrix

Game is an interactive media that can create a space of imagination. DreadOut is a digitale game that adapts Indonesian culture as an entertainment aspect in the game, By bringing Indonesian ghosts. In its development, visual appearance is important in building an interesting game, one of which is the characters. There are differences in kuntilanak and tuyul characters in Dreaout 1 and Dreadout 2. This research dissects the differences between these characters using a manga matrix approach. It is hoped that this research will be a reference as a development of visual creation of characters in the game, in order to develop interesting characters according to the intended target market.

ЛАБИРИНТЫ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОГО МИФА: ВЛИЯНИЕ ОБРАЗОВ ПОДЗЕМЕЛЬЯ НА ГОРНЯЦКУЮ МИФОЛОГИЮ

There are several reasons for addressing the problems of mining mythology. The first of them is that in the modern information situation there is an active expansion of the space of imagination, part of which are the plots of myths. New myths are being created, partially accepting, but to a greater extent distorting the principles of organization of the mythical world. The second reason concerns the problems of social mythology, where professional mythology has special features. The third reason makes us pay attention to the mining mythology, which has common features for different regions of the world, but, most importantly, has an exceptionally strong influence on the mentality of the miners.

The Collaboration Between Space Form and Islamic Cultural Rituals on the Cultural Landscape Pattern of Cirebon City

There is a collaboration between spatial forms and Islamic (Javanese) cultural rituals in Cirebon city, which has the potential to shape the uniqueness of the cultural landscape. The research object is the Kanoman Sultanate which conducts the annual ritual, 'M(a)uludan' tradition. The aim is to describe the collaboration between the physical forms of the Keraton Kanoman and the M (a)uludan Tradition, which is the Islamic or Javanese culture. This involved using the qualitative description method through cultural participation for a period of 8 years. The results showed the existence of an imaginary space formation strung together by the presence of residents from 31 villages as followers (wargi) of the Keraton Kanoman. Moreover, the spatial form of the ritual route was discovered to have been formed for several generations. The people strongly believe that the presence and involvement of these routes can bring them virtue, blessings, prosperity, as well as protection from misfortune. This research argues that the imaginary space forms were created by these cultural events.

Virtual sources for structured partially coherent light fields.

A virtual source (VS) is a hypothetical source instead of an actual physical entity, but provides a distinctive perspective to understand physical fields in a source-free area. In this work, we generalize the VS theory to structured partially coherent light fields (PCLFs) by establishing the partially coherent inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation, then demonstrate that PCLFs can be generated from the incoherent extended VS in imaginary space. Especially, we put forward an understanding of the Gaussian Schell-model beam, which consists of a group of partially coherent paraxial complex rays. The mutual coherence between these rays depends on the included angle between them. In previous studies, the analytical solution of the partially coherent Airy beam was obtained with difficulty by the Huygens-Fresnel integral; however, by applying the VS, we put forward, to our knowledge, an unprecedented analytical solution for a partially coherent Airy beam. We believe this example will qualify the VS as an important perspective to understand structured PCLFs.

Liminality, Madness, and Narration in Hassan Blasim’s “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” and “Why Don’t You Write a Novel Instead of Talking about All These Characters?”

The fiction of Hassan Blasim addresses the horrors of contemporary Iraq and centers on the crisis of identity that is part of the immigrant’s experience. Blasim’s protagonists try to forget past traumas related to their homeland by developing new identities ingrained solely in the present. Yet, the past resurfaces in the form of nightmarish dreams, madness, and fractured narratives where fiction and reality intersect and overlap. Inhabiting a constant state of liminality imprints itself on the body and psyche of the border crossers and leads to their physical or mental demise. Drawing on theories of madness, liminality, and narration advanced by Shoshana Felman and Michel Foucault, I analyze Blasim’s two short stories “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” and “Why Don’t You Write a Novel Instead of Talking About All These Characters?” I argue that the imaginative space of literary narration, an in-between, liminal space between reality and fiction, is the space where ethico-political paradoxes and the absurdity of real-life trauma, death, and chaos are transformed into a meaningful literary dialogue that can expand reality and offer new spheres of understanding of the trauma that shapes the lives of Blasim’s characters.

Dis-locative Spaces and Digital Interactions

The concept of space constantly is growing with the advancement of technology. The spatial interactions using digital media provide new possibilities to bridge between physical and digital spaces. Location is not all about longitude and latitude, but all the added digital layer which may change the idea of positioning. Over the last decades, space studies faced many conceptual perceptions. The approach of having/imagining the different worlds and spaces, such as cyberspace and physical space, has been mostly formed by distinguishing them. Adriana de Souza e Silva (2006) drew a chronology for these imaginary spaces from cyberspace to virtual and hybrid space. Hybridizing of space with the advancement of nomadic technology like mobiles become more popular and indicates how the interfaces are transparent in our everyday life. So, hybridity occurs when the interconnection of the spaces is accessible for the people who can interact with, through the devices, wearable, headsets, etc. In this respect, the physical space needed to be filled with data, as Manovich (2006, p.226) defined this as augmentation of the space through “overlay[ing] physical space with layers of data.”
 The question of reality may not be valid anymore since both are affecting each other. And, maybe it is time to think about the interlinked worlds and their effects rather than separating and labelling them by real and unreal. Technology can play a crucial role in changing our interaction with space.
 The paper will investigate the concept of hybrid spaces in relation to production of dis-locative space. The dislocation environment that reveals the interconnected spaces and their realities through new ways of interactions and narratives. The realities that are created under the influence of each other. The paper will use the art project Shadows from Another Place as a case study. It will explore the idea of dis-location through spatial interaction and digital technology. The paper will profit from the theories including Production of Space by Henry Lefebvre, Supermodernity and Non-places by Mark Augé, and Relational Spaces by Scott McQuire.
 Paula Levine is a scholar and media artist who experiments with maps, geolocation data, and the dynamic of spaces. Shadows from Another Place is a web-based project using transposed maps, including three artworks San Francisco <-> Baghdad, The Wall, and TheWall-TheWorld. In this series, she tries to challenge the reality of geographical distances by hybridization of the spaces. Shadows from Another Place is a series of artwork that examines the discussion around dis-locative space, and spatial interaction using digital technology. The paper investigates with three questions of locations and dislocation, real and unreal, and intervening in the physical space by the virtual world and vice versa. Question of Location ‘where am I’? What is un/real? How virtual world affects physical world and vice versa?