Moment Of Complexity Research Articles

Новий науковий здобуток як чинник виховання особистості

The creation of any innovation as a direct subject of scientific activity requires a special methodological discourse. Moreover, it is about an educational innovation (methodology or technology). The specificity of the creative search is determined by the fact that formulating a new educational idea is possible only at the crossing of psychological and pedagogical reality, which already creates a moment of complexity. The usual (traditional) approach to educational innovations was reduced to the restructuring of independent (external) variables and the tracing of qualitative shifts in internal variables (factors) – personal qualities, traits, and values.The research involved the discovery of a psychological phenomenon of an emotional nature, which can be established as the internal basis of the actual educational action, procedurally deployed in the sequence of operations of the educator and student. This will act as a concrete method in action.Such an emotional phenomenon was a complex desire as a form of spiritual and moral need. It sounds like a statement: “I want to desire for justice, dignity, care, etc.”This emotional duality of desire doubles its energy force that caused increased significance of the object (for example, justice). Therefore, the directed spiritual value becomes a real motive for the corresponding act. This educational idea is consistently concretized in the systematic interactions of the educator and students, which can defined as an innovative educational psycho-methodology.The developmental perspective of an individual who has gone through a system of directed spiritual and moral education is revealed.

Asymptotic Analysis of the kth Subword Complexity.

Patterns within strings enable us to extract vital information regarding a string’s randomness. Understanding whether a string is random (Showing no to little repetition in patterns) or periodic (showing repetitions in patterns) are described by a value that is called the kth Subword Complexity of the character string. By definition, the kth Subword Complexity is the number of distinct substrings of length k that appear in a given string. In this paper, we evaluate the expected value and the second factorial moment (followed by a corollary on the second moment) of the kth Subword Complexity for the binary strings over memory-less sources. We first take a combinatorial approach to derive a probability generating function for the number of occurrences of patterns in strings of finite length. This enables us to have an exact expression for the two moments in terms of patterns’ auto-correlation and correlation polynomials. We then investigate the asymptotic behavior for values of . In the proof, we compare the distribution of the kth Subword Complexity of binary strings to the distribution of distinct prefixes of independent strings stored in a trie. The methodology that we use involves complex analysis, analytical poissonization and depoissonization, the Mellin transform, and saddle point analysis.

Thirty Years of the Brazilian Constitution: The Republic That Is Yet to Be

The article is an overlook of the thirty years of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, celebrated on October 5th, 2018. The text references observations made by the author on articles written on the occasion of the Constitution’s 10th and 20th anniversaries, contrasting them to the current scenario, arguably a moment of greater complexity. The article is a critical analysis of the last 30 years, identifying important achievements, as well as negative aspects that need to be overcome. In his conclusion, the author notes that Brazil still lacks important structural reforms, in order to defeat corruption and become a truly developed country, pushing to the sidelines of history the extractivist elites that appropriated themselves of the State and of the limited resources that non-inclusive political and economic institutions generate.

Fine Arts: 1. Art During the Transition Period Between Paleolithic and Neolithicon the Territory of Romania

Abstract This material refers to one of the many transition periods from the History of Art on the territory of Romania - that is the period which separates Paleolithic from Neolithic: Epi-Paleolithic, with its endcalled (and accepted, first of all!) by some researchers: Mesolithic. As we will see, we will refer to the art of this moment of great complexity and diversity. From an artistic pointof view, Epi-Paleolithic already has tools which can be placed in the category of technical beauty, as far as form is concerned, precision becomes more and more important,and also the skillfulness of their production and the delicate, refined finishing; also connected to the artistic side of the period, the interest for beauty for creating geometrical-abstract decorations increases, obviously becoming a coherent ornamental motif. In the final phase of Epi-Paleolithic, the Mesolithic period comes with an art which is different from the one of the culture Schela Cladovei, characterized by ornaments with simple geometrical motifs, liniar incisions, oblique or in a network, this geometry leading to the main compositional textures of decoration of the oldest phase of the future Neolithic culture Criș.

Parasite in the system: Self-reflexivity in emerging network culture

Abstract This article aims to provide an account of self-reflexivity through recent debates that pertain to thinking about contemporary network culture. It focuses on the shifts from the mechanistic to the organic, and then towards the post-organic, pertaining particularly to current debates around an understanding of systems and structures. Although it employs a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from philosophy to mathematics, this article traces the lineage from modern art towards thinking about systems. This work is part of an ongoing research objective that is directed towards practice-based research, particularly aimed at art practice that seeks to intersect with emerging network thinking and culture. One of the intentions of this article is to consider the account of self-reflexivity towards the implication of a ‘system as the medium’ in contemporary art practice, which is found in the writing of Francis Halsall. The research is part of an agenda that seeks to explore the conditions of production in contemporary culture, as a supplement to practice-based research. This article frames the debates around self-reflexivity through the chapter entitled ‘Strange loops’ by Mark C. Taylor, which is found in his book The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (2001). It traces the lineage that Francis Halsall provides in his book Systems of Art: Art, History and Systems Theory (2008), and seeks to provide an account of self-reflexivity towards his consideration of the system as medium, found in the chapter entitled ‘Systems aesthetics and the system as medium’. In this chapter, Halsall provides an inclusive account of the medium that arguably covers the extent of contemporary art practices, through his contribution to system aesthetics. The account of self-reflexivity introduced in this article follows a parallel pathway to some of the major points in Halsall’s development of the system as medium. These include the ontologically stable modernist art object; the impact of cybernetics and information theory on art practice and discourse; and art that seeks to intersect with the environment.

Sustainability, Complexity and the Negotiation of Constraint

We are living in a moment of unprecedented complexity, when things are changing faster than our ability to comprehend them. This is a time of transition betwixt and between a period that seemed more stable and secure and a time when, many people hope, equilibrium will be restored. Awash in a sea of information that seems to have no meaning and bombarded by images and sounds transmitted by new media, many people have lost a sense of direction and purpose and long for security and stability. Stability, security, and equilibrium, however, can be deceptive, for they are but momentary eddies in an endlessly complex and turbulent flux. In the world that is emerging, the condition of complexity is as irreducible as it is inescapable. While the moment of complexity inevitably generates confusion and uncertainty, today's social, economic, political, and cultural transformations are also creating possibilities for apprehending ourselves in new ways. To understand our time, we must comprehend complexity, and to comprehend complexity, we must understand what makes this moment different from every other.

“We're at Now, Now”: Spaceballs as Parodic Tourism

The shift from modernity to postmodernity reflects a fundamental restructuring of social and cultural life. At such dizzying and disorienting moments of social change, culture's inhabitants seek out new cultural art forms—forms that offer symbolic resources for negotiating the contours of the emerging social landscape. This essay contends that Mel Brooks's 1987 film Spaceballs constituted an innovative form of storytelling known as parodic tourism. As rhetorical analysis demonstrates, by drawing upon the cultural memory of viewers through intertextual allusions, the film fosters an interactive experience that offers viewers the mental equipment needed to navigate life in postmodernity. [R]apid and pervasive change creates the need to develop new ways of understanding the world and of interpreting our experience.— Mark C. Taylor (2001), The Moment of Complexity, p. 19

Complexity and Novelty: Reading Mark C. Taylor

In this article the author maintains that complexity theory relies on reductionist assumptions, showing itself not to be completely convincing in dealing with the issue of novelty. First, an outline of Mark C. Taylor's The Moment of Complexity is presented as an exemplary case, particularly for his attempt to import complexity theory into the social sciences. Then, the connection between complexity theory and evolutionism is considered, arguing that this connection prevents complexity theory from giving a convincing account of the emergence of novelty. A provisional conclusion is offered by arguing that novelty should be conceived as arising from a “widening” of reduction at the individual level.

Book Reviews

David G. Myers The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in a Time of PlentyStephen G. Ray, Jr. Do No Harm: Social Sin and Christian ResponsibilityEd. Uwe Siemon‐Netto One Incarnate Truth: Christianity's Answer to Spiritual ChaosLee E. Snook What In The World Is God Doing? Re‐imagining Spirit and PowerDorothee Soelle Against the wind: Memoir of a Radical ChristianDorothee Soelle The Silent Cry: Mysticism and ResistanceMark C. Taylor The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network CultureSarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, Jennifer Tolbert RobertsAncient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural HistoryDavid Ratke Confession and Mission, Word and Sacrament: The Ecclesial Theology of Wilhelm Löhe

The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (review)

The Moment of Complexity is an interesting, frustrating, and ultimately unsatisfying book. Or, rather, it is two books. In the first—the bulk of the text—Mark Taylor aims to unite two disparate academic discourses: one found in the textual web of humanities, literary analysis, Western philosophy, and cultural studies, and the other in the technological web of computer networking, computational theory, biological science, and complexity studies. His claim is that new "nontotalizing structures that function as a whole" embodied in society's complex, emerging, internet-based "network culture" provide the answer to the nihilistic (and self-contradictory) postmodernist assertion that all totalizing theories and projects are fatally counterproductive (pp. 12, 5).

The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. Mark C. Taylor

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. Mark C. Taylor Andrea C. WhiteAndrea C. White Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Religion Volume 83, Number 1Jan., 2003 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/491254 Views: 3Total views on this site Copyright 2003 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Book Review: The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture

Book Review: The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture

'Self' and the Problem of Consciousness

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Discrimination of teleseismic events in Central Asia with a local network of short period stations

The difficult problem of distinguishing underground nuclear explosions from earthquakes at teleseismie distances was approached using short period seismic data from 6 stations in South and Central Finland. The events were nuclear tests mostly from the Semipalatinsk and Lop Nor test sites and earthquakes from adjacent areas. The magnitude range of the events was from 4.1 to 6.6. The features of the two classes of events were examined by computing spectral ratio, third moment of frequency (TMF) and complexity from P wave signals. The spectral discrimination parameters were extracted from spectra computed in 5 different ways in order to obtain all possible information even from weak events. The standard FFT spectra were computed from. raw data, after noise adaption and data adaption, from correlograms and using combinations of adaption and correlation: methods. This was done to employ not only the spectral differences of the events but also the temporal variation of energy and lack of it as a function of frequency. The optimum frequeney windows for spectral ratio and TMF were defined using stacked spectra of about 10 events from both classes. No single discriminant could classify all the events. Their performance varied significanfly for different stations, but on average the spectral discriminants had slightly higher discrimination capability than complexity. The distributions of all discriminants were studied and a group separation function was formed using an optimum set of discriminants. Instead of discriminant values their relative positions in the corresponding distributions of nuelear tests and earthquakes were used as inputs to the function. A weight for each discriminant was derived from the amount of overlap in the distributions of earthquakes and nuelear tests. All 75 events in the data set were correctly classified with the method. The testing was performed with a jack knife method to create an independent test data base