Invisible Figures Research Articles

An Interpretation of the A Wind-storm in the Forests——from the Perspective of Material Ecocriticism

An analysis of A Wind-storm in the Forests from the perspective of Material Ecocriticism reveals that Storm has a threedimensional connotation of the agentic power, the ability to generate meaning and narrative capacity. The Storm has the agency 
 to nourish and soothe the trees, and to present its invisible figure through the trees. Under the construction of social discourse, 
 the storm represents the ecosystem of all living things, linking humans and trees into an interactive community with equal role. 
 The Storm also tells the story of the human initiative into the wilderness and the equality between man and trees, reflecting 
 the ecological text of humans interacting with non-human matters and coexisting with nature equally under the contemporary 
 discourse.

Giving contours to invisible figures: Post-reflections on Migrations. Narratives. Movements. exhibition at Villa des Arts, Rabat

Noticing the growing precariousness of migrants in Morocco, ‘Giving contours to invisible figures’ is a commentary on the lessons learned from my collaboration with ‘Arts for Advocacy’ on Migrations. Narratives. Movements., an exhibition held at Villa des Arts, Rabat. The article engages with migration in the broad sense, and how it is addressed by curatorial practice. It discusses the display’s theoretical apparatus in the light of bold uncertainties due to the invisibility of the figure of the migrant, and the apparent disjuncture of my expectations with regard to the Moroccan context. I argue that the subject of migration calls for a widening of the borders of curatorial practice, at least in Morocco, precisely because of the geographies of mobility, heterogeneous ideas of globalization and common sense overlap.

Blowing the Whistle? A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Formal and Discretionary Powers of Referees in Swedish Football

This article is about football, and in that, not very exceptional. However, the focus is on the referee, a relatively invisible figure, on the pitch as well as in sports sciences. By focusing on the referees’ social background and their interest in football, by taking a departure in formal and discretionary powers, and by discussing rules and norms, this article will shed light on the referee and his complicated position and career. The reasoning has a general interest, regardless of the fact that the empirical material depends on a study of Swedish referees.

Children's Theory of God's Mind: Theory-of-Mind Studies and Why They Matter to Religious Education

Theory-of-mind research has been carried out for over three decades, examining the ways children understand the minds of others—their perspectives, intentions, desires, and knowledge. Since the early 21st century, theory-of-mind studies have begun exploring the ways in which children think and reason about the minds—not only of ordinary, visible figures such as humans or animals—but of invisible figures such as spirits, angels, imaginary friends, and God. This growing body of research provides insight into children's cognitive development generally, but also into what could be called a “theory of religious mind.”

Effects of closure on the processing of invisible figures: an ERP study

Effects of closure on the processing of invisible figures: an ERP study

Understanding Misreading: A Hermeneutic-Deconstructive Approach

This paper puts forward a conception of specialised literary criticism, more specifically deconstructive readings, as a mode of communicative interaction which can be described through a pragmalinguistic account. Schleiermacher's conception of the hermeneutic circle provides an adequate bridge between literary criticism and speech production, once we attend to the possible developments of the theory of the hermeneutic circle understanding it as both a temporal process, and an interactional one. This paper, therefore, presents for the purpose of comparison several critical conceptions originating in different schools and dealing with a range of objects of study in criticism. The comparison yields a common element whose outline becomes gradually visible as we proceed, as each of these conceptions (hermeneutics, deconstruction, modernist aesthetics, pragmalinguistics...) brings out aspects which are implicit in the others. This exercise might be compared to the drawing of lines between stars to form a constellation, allowing us to see a previously invisible figure. The lines in constellations may seem too insubstantial as a term of comparison, but the paper will go some length towards the deconstruction of the clear-cut opposition between what is substantial and what is constructed by the imagination, at least as far as the field of interpretive theory is concerned. The thread connecting the critical approaches examined here is the retrsopective rereading of a narrative and its hermeneutic consequences. These consequences might be summarized by saying that the passing of time alters everything, even the past itself, once so safely stored.

Nanoscale and Painting

Filipe Rocha da Silva creates very large paintings depicting extremely small, almost invisible figures. In this text he tries to explain why he does so and considers the possible relationship of these works to nanoscale phenomena and technology, which have been so influential in the 21st century.

Perception of Object Unity in a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Perception of object unity was studied in an 18‐year‐old female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) using a two‐choice delayed matching‐to‐sample task. The subject was trained with two rod‐shaped figures which were exactly identical except that one of them had a small gap at its center. After mastering this baseline task, she was shown the figure with its center occluded by a colored rectangle. We examined the perception of the subject's matching response on either the complete or the broken rod to investigate how she perceived these partly invisible figures. In four separate experiments, the alignment and the movement of the portions above and below the occluding rectangle were manipulated. She matched the partly occluded stimuli to the complete rod as long as the alignment was sufficient. The results suggest that like human adults, the chimpanzee can perceive unity of physically separated figures.

Demeter's daughter: Notes on a journey: The process of making a play

Demeter's Daughter presents the journey of a writer from the germ of an idea to the rehearsed reading of the play by professional performers. It deals with the way in which a mythological subject is approached from a feminist point of view, and with the strategies used to tap the resources of the unconscious and dream in order to find an appropriate theatrical language and form. The writer describes her struggle to avoid stereotypes of both male and female varieties, and to achieve a positive image of the daughter, a silent or invisible figure in much of the available literature. She also confronts the realities of the theatrical process today, within current economic, political and aesthetic constraints.

Taxation, Tax Farming, and Merchants in Sixteenth-Century Russia

The merchant is a shadowy if not invisible figure in the accounts of the political and economic life of the Russian state in the sixteenth century. Apart from a few exceptional cases, very little is known of his commercial dealings. His political-administrative activities rarely appear in discussions of the reigns of Ivan the Terrible and his immediate successors. Because few sources survive that permit an investigation of the merchant's place in the Russian economy, some scholars have concluded that the part the merchant played was minor.