Paradigm Of Self Research Articles

TRAUMATIC CHANGE: THE DYNAMICS OF CHARACTER AND CHRONOTOPE WHEN BAKHTIN’S ‘OTHER’ IS HARMFUL

Bakhtin’s world is predicated on the identity forming paradigm of self and other in dialogue. This dialogue occurs within the chronotope—the time-space—unique to the self. Yet this world does not consider the impact of trauma on the self, nor the way in which traumatic change shifts identity, and informs the relationships between self-chronotope and self-other. Reading concepts of literary trauma theory into Bakhtin’s world enables writers to create resonant characters that meaningfully depict the lived experience of trauma.

Intoxicated Writing: Onda Writers and the Drug Experience in 1960s Mexico

Among the signifiers that codified 1960s counterculture, the psychedelic drug experience opened possibilities for social and literary experimentation. Mexican Onda writers imported the international counterculture into their writing, as a counter-hegemonic strategy—an attempt to question conventional paradigms of self, representation, and language. Through altered states of consciousness, these writers construct a subjectivity rooted outside national boundaries and projected onto an alternate reality. The drug experience in these works constitutes an aesthetic device that questions the 1960s Mexican polity. In this paper, I present four processes connected to the psychedelic drug experience—“initiations,” “intoxications,” “translations,” and “reproductions”—that culturally and aesthetically frame a selected corpus of Onda texts.

Semiotic Paradigms of Self and Person: The Perspectives Model of Communicology as the Logic Foundation of Human Science

Semiotic Paradigms of Self and Person: The Perspectives Model of Communicology as the Logic Foundation of Human Science

La metropoli dell’agente ich=Spaik: Libidissi di Georg Klein

My paper focuses on Georg Klein’s Libidissi (1998) as an example of a new spy-story in contemporary German literature. Combining the analysis of the role of the German spy ich=Spaik, the main figure of Klein’s novel, with a mapping of the geographies of the city Libidissi, I will point out to what extent the author poses a challenge to the tradition of the spy-story and in what way he considers Ich=Spaik’s activities, intending them not only as an operation of espionage, but especially as a persistent questioning of a problematic identity, of a figure, who is continuously confronting the image of his native country, his original belonging with the Other. The representation of ich=Spaik’s ‘displaced’ identity and his approach to the landscape, the (in)visible town Libidissi, will be debated on two specific aspects: the paradigms of Self vs Other and of center vs periphery.

Presentations and Representations of Contact. James Cook and Joseph Banks at Tahiti. The Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771

European representations of cultural contacts in the Pacific have often been examined and conceptualised within postcolonial paradigms of Self and Other but the move away from these perspectives is embodied in recent studies which address encounter from other than oppositional stances. Just one example is Frédéric Regard’s work which in British Narratives of Exploration (2009) examines the “shifting politics of intersubjectivity.”I would like to build on this growing focus on intersubjectivity and develop a broad notional framework which may account in additional ways for the complex, contradictory practice of contacts in the South seas context, particularly at Tahiti. I will attempt then to identify the ethical and egological tenor of presentations and representations of these encounters during James Cook’s first voyage (1768-1771) through the examination, in addition to the Cook and Banks journals, of a little-used resource in previous scholarship, the Endeavour log.

Experimental analysis of the fatigue of shape memory alloys through power-law statistics

In this paper, fatigue failure is investigated by studying the collective motion of defects inside a NiTi shape memory alloys material. To this end, an experimental study of the statistical distributions of acoustic emissions avalanches due to these defects along cycling is presented. It is found that these distributions follow power-law statistics for which the evolutions of exponents through cyclic driving are estimated. The goal is to track changes in the dissipation modes through the shifts of the power-law exponents and consequently identify fatigue failure precursors. It’s shown that these fatigue precursors can be interpreted using the paradigm of self organized criticality (SOC).

Foucault versus Habermas: Modernity as an unfinished endeavor vs. the theory of power: An inevitable conflict or possibility of communication

The paper considers the possibility of detecting points of contact between Michel Foucault’s theory of power and the theory of communicative agency formed by Jurgen Habermas. In the beginning, the development of the philosophical discourse of modernity, which Habermas analyzes in his work bearing the same title, is laid out, with the aim to gain insight into the nature of Habermas’s critique of Foucault. After having reviewed some of the basis of Foucault’s theory, the author points out Habermas’s depiction of the theory of power as the pinnacle of Nietzschean, anti - modernist stream of the philosophical discourse. The critique is based on Habermas’s assumption that Foucault’s analyses of power fails to comprehend the complexity of modernity. Foucault, according to Habermas, over - emphasizes one dimension of the process of modernization - gradual strengthening of the disciplinatory power based on the "control of the spirit". The author, however, wishes to point out the importance the theory of power ascribes to the preservation of insight into the complexity of history. Through the insight into multiple and divergent nature of historical processes that are responsible for the formation of modern society, the individual becomes historically self - conscious and able to step out of the paradigm of self - relating subject. As the theory of communicative agency also tends to transcend the "limits of the subject - philosophy", the author concludes that Foucault’s work is, to the same extent as Habermas’s, imbued with the idea of "modernity as an unrealized undertaking". Towards the end of the paper the author analyzes Foucault’s relation to Enlightenment, in order to show the essentially modern nature of his thought.

Culture, Cognition and Jean Laplanche’s Enigmatic Signifier

Empathy is widely touted as a springboard for social change. Within the academy, ‘identification’ is often used to promote the social value of literary and cultural studies. But to what degree have scholars, in seeking to defend the value of literary and cultural studies, conceived the act of reading in problematic ways? ‘An Ethics of Reading’ argues that adopting a Lacanian paradigm of self (reader) and text (other) to discuss the act of textual interpretation reduces a complex event involving multiple actors to a simple dualism, while ineluctably consigning any act of interpretation to simple projection. Turning instead to psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche’s concept of the enigmatic signifier, this article rethinks the relation between reader and cultural text – reconceiving the act of interpretation by situating it within a dynamic of transference, as opposed to projection. When conceived via this Laplanchian framework, reading becomes not only an effective path to cognition and knowledge, but a radical means of subjective transformation.

Strategies for Increasing Commitment as a Condtion for the Success of Self-Organizing Systems

An emerging paradigm of self organizing systems suggests that in order to cope with increasing environmental uncertainty, organizations need to qualitatively restructure themselves on a continual basis. For this to happen successfully, there must be commitment by organizational members to the change. This paper investigated the conditions under which commitment to the radical change of self organizing systems will increase. The dimensions of self-organizing systems (SOS) were operationalized based on: creation of autonomous fluctuations, self-transcendence, meta-cooperation, and teleonomy. Empirical data was used to investigate the relationships between characteristics of SOS and organizational commitment (OC). Using a LISREL (Linear Structural Relations) approach, findings indicate that an increase in OC is associated with attention to the characteristics of SOS. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Rheumatoid factors, B cells and immunoglobulin genes

The paradigm of self, non-self discrimination in the immune system is under review as autoreactive B or T cells are increasingly delineated within normal individuals. The products of autoreactive B cells are, mostly, polyspecific IgM antibodies of low affinity. These 'natural' antibodies include rheumatoid factors (RF) encoded by unmutated germline immunoglobulin genes. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA) the RF may be of the IgM, IgG or IgA isotype, show evidence of somatic mutation and have increased affinity; consistent with maturation of an antigen driven immune response. This response could be initiated or driven by an auto-immunogenic form of IgG or an exogenous cross-reactive antigen. Changes in galactosylation of IgG have been reported to be a valuable diagnostic and prognostic indicator in RA. Speculation that these changes may precipitate some of the disease processes is critically reviewed.