Power Of Imagination Research Articles

Unsphered, Disorbed, Decentred: Shakespeare’s Astronomical Imagination

ABSTRACT Recent findings by historians of science focus on London at the turn of the seventeenth century as one of the most fascinating places to investigate the reception of the new astronomy propelled by the Copernican revolution and observational discoveries. However, literary critics and editors typically place Shakespeare’s imagery within the geocentric model of the universe, firmly anchored in the medieval paradigm, denying any impact of the new models of cosmos on his ingenuity. Drawing on the cumulative argument derived from the history of astronomy and literary linguistic analysis, we argue that Shakespeare’s references to the unsphered and disorbed planets and stars are better understood when viewed in the light of the disputes of the times, the decline of the concept of the celestial orbs in particular. The simplified and much overused dichotomy between geo- vs. heliocentrism does not give justice to the complex intellectual climate of the late sixteenth century and obscures the imaginative power of these references. Our essay foregrounds the influence and instability of the competing worldviews, the specificity of London astronomical inquires, and the consistency of Shakespeare’s recurrent representations of cosmic disruptions.

Transcending Self-Consciousness: Imagination, Unity and Self-Dissolution in the English Romantic and Sufis Epistemology

English Romantic literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries often recounts an individual life journey which depicts physical and spiritual pilgrimage and traverses both the inner and outer world to liberate the self and reach a revelatory moment of unification where the division between human mind and the external world is reconciled. For the Romantic poets this reconciliatory state cannot be achieved through rational investigation but via the power of imagination. In this regard, there is striking resemblance between the mystical and philosophical thought of Sufism and the idealistic thought of the English Romantic poets as they both strive for a sense of unification with the Divine or the Ultimate reality, and they both rely on imagination and intuitive perception to apprehend reality. Applying an analytical-comparative approach with specific reference to Northrop Frye’s anagogic theory (1957) which emphasizes literary commonalities regardless of direct influence or cultural or theological distinctions, this study endeavors to depict that certain Romantic poets’ longing for the reconciliation of subject and object dualism via imagination and its sublime product, poetic language, echoes the mystic’s pursuit of transcendental states of consciousness and unification with the divinely infinite. Through analysis of the concept of self-dissolution (fana) in Islamic mysticism and Sufi literature, particularly the poems of Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi (1207-1273) known in the West as Rumi, the outcome of this study reveals that the Romantics’ yearning for a state of reconciliation, which is prevalent in the major works of the Romantic poets such as William Blake (1757-1827), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), and John Keats (1795-1821), corresponds to the mystic’s pursuit of unity or the Sufi’s concept of self-annihilation or fana.

Tangram Proficiency Leading to Numeracy Skills Enhancement

This study focused on determining the ways in which numeracy skills are enhanced through tangram. An exploration on ways of solving patterns in tangram, power of imagination, enhancement of logical, analytical and critical thinking, and desirable characteristics being formed in playing tangram became part of this study. The community quarantine in the Philippines due to COVID-19 caused the design of this study to gather data through online tangram tournament. Seven learners accepted the seven-day challenge. They solved 55 tangram puzzles and answered 6 qualitative questions. After a week of tangram challenge, the following findings were established. In solving tangram puzzles, players can consider (1) looking into the details, (2) trial-and-error, or (3) planning. The best ways to solve tangram puzzles are (1) focusing on the whole portion, (2) focusing on the bigger portions, or (3) focusing on the smaller portions. Imagination plays an important role because (1) it makes things clear and the solution easier to obtain, (2) it put things into proper perspective, and (3) it reduces useless effort. Logical, analytical and critical thinking are enhanced because (1) proper flow of thought in the process of making decisions or conclusion is exercised, (b) deep thinking in considering different ways and solutions is given importance, and (c) correct reasoning based from facts or evidence is practiced. Numeracy skills are enhanced due to the following reasons: (1) Tangram can train the mind in dealing with abstracts and apply them in concrete things, (2) Tangram can assist in molding right attitude towards achieving goals and success, thereby improving skills like numeracy, (3) Tangram can aid learners in looking at the big picture without taking for granted the small details, and (4) Tangram can enhance skill in solving word problems. Desirable characteristics were discovered by-products of playing tangram.

El rol de la Einbildungskraft en la filosofía de Fichte y de Novalis. La relación finito-infinito en el idealismo "de lo" absoluto

En el presente artículo se analiza la relación filosófica entre la obra de Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) y de Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis) (1772-1801). En particular se estudia el modo en que uno y otro concibieron el rol de la imaginación (Einbildungskraft) en el marco de sus ideas y pensamientos sobre filosofía. A su vez, este análisis conlleva determinar cuál es el tipo de relación metafísica que ellos establecieron entre los conceptos de lo finito y de lo infinito. Esto último se presenta al interior de una clase particular de filosofía, a saber: el idealismo “de lo” absoluto o de lo finito, por contraposición al dogmatismo filosófico y al idealismo absoluto –encarnado en la filosofía de Hegel. Como consecuencia de este estudio en que se ponen en comparación las posturas de Fichte y de Novalis, se concluye que, para poder comprender de manera coherente sus posiciones, se tiene que resaltar el sentido moral de su pensamiento, en particular respecto de la fuerza de la imaginación en paralelo con los alcances de la facultad de la razón. También se subraya la continuidad de sus planteos respecto de la filosofía crítica y práctica de Kant.

A Cognitive Linguistic Study of the Persuasive/Attention Strategies Used in Selected American English E-Advertisements

The present paper aims to examine the use of the persuasive rules in texts and images to determine the role of these visual modes in recalling or adding what they mention. Such a study helps set clearly which visual mode is much more convincing, the image or the text. Scholars generally agreed that the visual mode is more persuasive. However, such a statement is general as it does not state exactly which type of visual mode is more convincing. Accordingly, the research questions highlighted here are: What are the persuasive strategies invested in any of these two visual modes, texts and images? And, what is the role these visual modes play to enhance the sense of persuasion? To achieve the objectives, the researchers will adopt the cognitive linguistic theory of frame semantics by Fillmore (1995). Since the study is qualitative, the study’s data will be limited to four randomly selected American English advertisements posted on Facebook. Findings have revealed that the number of the evoked frame units is unlimited and subjective, reflecting, as a result, a person’s imagination power, his needs, and desires. The study has concluded that the visual, written text is more persuasive than the pictures and photos. The text reflects a bricolage of various persuasive strategies that help pull the attention. Besides, the images provided played a vital role, though secondary to the texts, supporting the textual information and flavor it realistically.

Con Captain Spirit somos tres. Sobre mecánicas y elecciones significantes

El personaje de Captain Spirit pone en manifiesto el poder de la imaginación en la capa ludonarrativa, pues no se limita a ser un avatar más a manejar por el jugador, ni un álter ego de su creador, el pequeño Chris. A nivel narrativo, Captain Spirit forma parte de la psicología de nuestro protagonista, nos habla de quién fue, quién es, cuáles son sus miedos y sus sueños. También es un vehículo prefecto que nos conduce a la empatía a través de las fases esenciales de la tragedia aristotélica. Y, a nivel lúdico, Captain Spirit se manifiesta a través de mecánicas significantes evidenciando sus diferencias con la persona que le imaginó. En este texto repasaremos algunas cuestiones que conforman el motor ludonarrativo de videojuegos que cuentan con un diseño de elecciones o ramificaciones aplicándolas al estudio de caso de The Awesome Adventure of Captain Spirit (Dontnod Entertainment, 2018), un spin-off de la franquicia Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment, 2015-) que sirve de puente entre las dos primeras entregas y cuya estrategia radica en limitar el marco de agencia del jugador y construir un vínculo emocional con el personaje a través de su imaginación.

Analysis and Design of Multistorey Building

The primary focus of this research is to analyze and design a multi-storey building (3D-dimensional reinforce concrete frame), the designing of building begins with making the plan of specific building which include the position of rooms, kitchen, toilet etc. the design should be such that it is up to mark of customer requirements and comport nowadays vastu shastra is also kept in mind while designing. The second step is to design the reinforced concrete part which includes designing of slabs, columns, beams, staircase and footing these designing’s were done manually and all the calculations were done according ACT code and the outcomes were compared using STAAD PRO. I design an office building which is made of reinforced concrete frames and the building has three floors with 12 offices on each floor which sum up to 36 offices and the maximum area of a floor is (21.9*40.9) m2. To complete the architectural design, I AutoCAD program and for analyzing and designing the structure of building I used software known as STAAD Pro v8iSSS.and after both the designing I got the results as the map of a building which is architectural and structural safe. For designing the structural plan and architectural design one requires high imagination power as well as theoretical knowledge and also keen knowledge of science of structural engineering and should know the recent design codes, laws and before designing he should have adequate experience and mind set to reach conclusion. STAAD PRO is a very user friendly software it is and easy to understand and operate. We can input the material properties, load value, dimensions and we can also draw the frame within the software and after taking all the data it analyze the whole structure and design the member with reinforced detail for concrete frame and all the designs are done under specified criteria. These criteria are implemented to keep careful balance between economy and safety.

British Romantic Insomnia and Creative Subjectivity

ABSTRACT Insomnia emerged for the first time in the Romantic period as a disorder with its own unique pathology and psychology, and was newly considered a separate state of consciousness, situated liminally between sleeping and waking. Poets of the period adopted this new vocabulary into their poetry, using it to investigate their negotiations of these two states: sleep’s visionary potential and the waking poetic will. Insomnia is therefore both an aesthetic and philosophic mode through which poets channel integral Romantic questions about the nature of creative genius and power of the individual imagination. Through this new consciousness is built a Romantic subjectivity that challenges traditional modes which rely on depth. Instead, through lyric insomnia, Romantic poets found a creative identity on multiplicity and disunity.

Kenabian di dalam Cerpen Ra’i al-Ganam Karya Thaha Husein: Analisis Semiotika Charles Sanders Pierce / Prophethood in The Short Story "Ra'i al-Ganam" by Thaha Husain: Charles Sanders Pierce 'S Semiotics Analysis

تهدف هذه المقالة إلى كشف ومعرفة العلامات المتعلقة بنبوة محمد باعتباره شخصية رئيسية في القصة القصيرة “راعي الغنام”. لكشف معنى العلامات المتعلقة بنبوة محمد، استخدم الباحثان نظرية السيميائية لتشارلز ساندرز بيرس، والمنهج الوصفي التحليلي، والنهج الموضوعي. رأى بيرس العلامة على أنها تحتوى على العلاقة الثلاثية: التمثيل والموضوع والمفسر. سيركز الباحثان على العلاقة بين الممثل والموضوع لأن بروس يرى أن هذه العلاقة أهم علاقة وأكثر أساسيا من غيرها. وتتكون تلك العلاقة من العلاقة الأيقونة والعلاقة القرينة والعلاقة الرمزية. وأما نتيجة البحث فتشير إلى أن النبوة في القصة القصيرة “راعي الغنام” سر من أسرار الله وغير مكتسبة لايعرفها إلا الله. لا أحد يستطيع أن يعرف النبوة ويفهمها تمامًا. ومع ذلك، هناك العديد من علامات النبوة التي يمكن فهمها من خلال العقل. ومحمد باعتباره نبيا في القصة يكون صورة مثالية لأمته وله أيضًا ثلاث خصائص (قوة التخيل وقوة النظرية وقوة النفس).الكلمات المفتاحية: النبوة; العلاقة الثلاثية; الأيقونة; القرينة; الرمزية.Abstract:This article aims to reveal and know the meaning of the signs relating to the prophethood of Muhammad as the main character in the short story Ra’il Ganam. In order to reveal the meaning of the sign associated with Muhammad's prophethood, the researcher uses Charles Sanders Pierce's semiotics theory, analytical descriptive method, and objective approach. Peirce sees sign as a triadic structure, representament, object, and interpretant. The researcher will focus on representament relation with object namely icons, indices and symbols because the relation, according to Pierce, is the most fundamental part of the sign. This study resulted that the prophethood in the short story Ra'il Ganam is the secret of God and cannot be achieved by human effort. No creature can know and understand it perfectly. Muhammad as a prophet in the short story became an ideal human being for people and also has three features (the power of imagination, the power of vision, and the power of the soul).

Konstruksi Keilmuan Islam (Studi Pemikiran Ibnu Rusyd tentang Ontologi dan Epistimologi)

This study aims to deeply construct Islamic scholarship from the point of view of the great Islamic scholar Ibn Rushdi. This research is a qualitative type of literature method. Data collection techniques were taken from relevant reference sources from research sources and primary books. The results of the research show that broadly speaking, ontology and epistemology are related to two main questions (a) what can be known? (what can be known?) and b) how can it be known? (how can it be known?). The first question relates to the source of knowledge, the second question relates to how to acquire knowledge. Based on this, ontology and epistemology are related to two main studies, namely where knowledge comes from, and how knowledge should be extracted. According to Ibn Rushd, human knowledge is obtained through three potentials, namely the power of the senses (al-quwwah al-ḥasāsah), the power of imagination (al-quwwah al-mutakhayyilah), and the power of thought (al-quwwah an-nāṭiqah). To get general conclusions from the observations on particular objects above, there are three stages mentioned by Ibn Rushd, namely: 1) abstraction, 2) combination, 3) assessment.

REDEFINING URGENCY: SOCIAL IMPACT LEADERSHIP AND DYNAMIC RESILIENCE

AbstractAnderson details her transition from a career as a management consultant to the chief executive officer (CEO) position of Global Health Corps (GHC), which is “a leadership development and global health nonprofit committed to building the next generation of health equity leaders.” She describes the high levels of resilience required within herself and throughout the organization during the COVID‐19 pandemic. She describes status versus dynamic resilience, and what the latter means for equity‐driven leaders. She outlines and describes “key tactics have helped me build my own, my teams’, and our community’s dynamic resilience during this time.” In her words, they are (1) tap into the power of imagination, (2) prioritize connection and reflection, (3) show vulnerability, (4) model and codify self‐care, (5) redefine urgency, and (6) let your values guide you. For instance, within point 3, Anderson writes, “The transition from a behind‐the‐scenes architect of GHC’s programming to an external face of our organization as CEO over the past couple years has forced me to get more comfortable with demonstrating vulnerability than ever before.” And within point 4: “I’ve found that the single most powerful tool I have for fostering self‐care and boundary setting on my team is to practice it myself, without apology.”

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science

‘Reason’s Sympathy’ and its Foundations in Productive Imagination

AbstractThis paper argues that Kant endorses a distinction between rational and natural sympathy, and it presents an interpretation of rational sympathy as a power of voluntarya posterioriproductive imagination. In rational sympathy we draw on the imagination’s voluntary powers (a) to subjectively unify the contents of intuition, in order to imaginatively put ourselves in others’ places, and (b) to associate imagined intuitional contents with the concepts others use to convey their feelings, in such a way that those contents prompt feelings in us that are like their feelings.

Melchior Palágyi: Der Gegensatz von Geist und Leben. Schriften zur schöpferischen Verbindung von Erkenntnistheorie und Vitalismus. Edited by Heiko Heublein. München: Albunea Verlag, 2018. 232 pp.

Like no other, the Hungarian psychologist and philosopher Melchior Palágyi recognized the power of imagination not only as a prerequisite for the ability to imagine and think, but also as a fundamental condition for movement and perception. With the original theory of the “virtual imagination”, Palágyi’s ideas inspired Philosophical Anthropology and medicine after his death. Today, however, he and his theory seem to have been forgotten. The following review is therefore dedicated to the work “Leben und Geist” (Life and Spirit), edited by Heiko Heublein and published in 2018, which is a representative cross-section of Palágyi’s work. The review focuses on his reflections on the theory of perception, which are the core not only of the anthology, but of his oeuvre. The most important cornerstones of Palágyi’s theory of perception are the “theory of intermittent perception” and the “virtual imagination”.

“Imaginative Power” in “The Yellow Wallpaper”

From the beginning of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman focuses on the narrator’s internal conflict, for, although she is a somewhat unconventional wife who “disagree[s]” with her hu...

Inventing Artificial Intelligence in Ethiopia

ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has always been embedded in complex networks of cultural imagination, corporate business, and sociopolitical power relations. The great majority of AI research around the world, and almost all commentary on that research, assumes that the imagination, business, and political systems of Western culture and the Global North are sufficient to understand how this technology should develop in future. This article investigates the context within which AI research is imagined and conducted in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, with implications for public policy, technology strategy, future research in development contexts, and the principles that might be applied as practical engineering priorities.

Schreiner’s Karoo, Blackburn’s Joburg: Revisioning the Colonial Novel; or, From the Story of a Colony to a ‘South African’ Story

Schreiner criticism over the last two decades or so has shown greater interest in her ideas than in her literary imagination. Without setting up ‘silos’ of approach – thought and imagination, after all, are inextricably bound – I revisit the power of the literary imagination in the works of both Olive Schreiner and Douglas Blackburn against a context of contemporaneous ‘colonial fiction’: that is, against a context that accentuates, in contrast, the substance and seriousness of the two novelists on whom I focus. Can these two novelists be seen to chart a shift from the story of a colony to a ‘South African’ story? We may conclude, in any case, that between them Schreiner and Blackburn revisioned the colonial novel
 Keywords: Schreiner, Blackburn, colonial South Africa, fiction, imagination/ideas, then/now

Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology: Multiple, contested, commodified

Visions of the future are omnipresent in current debates about the digital transformation. This introductory article and the full special issue are concerned with the function, power, and performativity of future visions and how they relate to the making and governing of digital technology. Revisiting existing concepts, we particularly discuss and advance the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries. In difference to ephemeral visions and partisan ideas, imaginaries are collectively held and institutionally stabilized. Nonetheless, we hold that they are multiple, contested, and commodified rather than monolithic, linear visions of future trajectories enacted by state actors. Introducing and summarizing the articles of the special issue, we conclude that imaginaries are increasingly dominated by technology companies that not only take over the imaginative power of shaping future society, but also partly absorb public institutions’ ability to govern these very futures with their rhetoric, technologies, and business models.

Professional Mental Rehearsal: the Power of "Imagination" in Nursing Skills Training.

Background: Mental rehearsal is a form of training used by nurse educators to enhance the performance of clinical skills. The use of imagination may facilitate cognitive and affective modification and subsequently may even reduce extraneous cognitive load.Objective:The aim of the study was to investigate the efficacy of mental rehearsal in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training of nursing students.Methods:This is a comparative study with a random sample of 52 Nurse-Assistant students who were randomly divided into two groups. A 10-minute educational video on CPR and defibrillation was shown to both groups with the experimental group having additional time to be coached on mental rehearsal. Student performance was subsequently timed and errors/overall performance recorded. Descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney test was used for group comparisons analysis.Results:Students in the control group needed 8.5 minutes on average as compared to 6.2 minutes for the experimental group to complete cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. This equals to a difference of 2.5 minutes faster time for the experimental group (p<0.001). For overall mistakes the mental rehearsal group had 1.3 fewer mistakes on average (p=0.003). In terms of mistakes when executing cardiopulmonary resuscitation training there were 0.9 fewer mistakes in the experimental group (p=0.021).Conclusion:The use of mental rehearsal might be the first step in improving the teaching of nursing skills. Differences in skill acquisition in favor of mental rehearsal are important, especially when this technique is used in the teaching of life-saving skills such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of defibrillate.