Peripheral Visions Research Articles

Dialectics of perception and imagination: Embodied politics of atmosphere in Xiqiao Road, Nanjing

In the social media era, scholars tend to reduce the online digital images of cities to readable visual-centric texts dominated by ideologies such as platform capitalism and symbolic consumerism, treating symbols and affects as antagonistic. This study attempts to deconstruct this dichotomy and explain the visual-centric paradigm in digital images from the perspective of affective atmospheres based on an ethnography of 20 participants on Nanjing's Xiqiao Road. Built on atmosphere theory and material imagination theory, we suggest that an embodied politics of atmosphere is constituted by perception and imagination. Perceptions foster a holistic understanding of place among participants through peripheral visions, which is potentially consistent with the logic of online dissemination of digital images. In contrast, material imagination represents the creative pole of the body and establishes a new surface aesthetics of digital images. Faced with visual-centric notions of place in contemporary digital images, illustrating the embodied politics of the affective atmosphere can help motivate people to transcend existing paradigms and experience place through a more creative vision.

Peripheral Visions: STS and Digitalisation in the Non-West

Peripheral Visions: STS and Digitalisation in the Non-West

Talking Back through Peripheral Visions and Negotiating Identity: Kokborok and Bengali Films and Music Videos in Tripura

Talking Back through Peripheral Visions and Negotiating Identity: Kokborok and Bengali Films and Music Videos in Tripura

Behind the scenes of “Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland”

ABSTRACTIn commemoration of its 30th anniversary, Industry and Innovation renewed the tradition of awarding a ‘Best Paper Prize.’ This prize aims to honour the best article published in the journal each year, starting from 2021. In this revived initiative, the Editorial Board evaluates all papers published in the reference year and identifies the most relevant and original articles. Within this shortlist, the members of the Editorial Advisory Board cast their vote on the best paper of the year. Looking back at the work published in an issue during 2021, the article ‘Peripheral Visions: The Film and Television Industry in Galway, Ireland,’ by Dominic Power and Patrick Collins, was distinguished for being conceptually novel and methodological bold while inviting us to reconsider the value of peripheries in innovation studies. In this Interview Article, the authors provide insights into their research journey and enrich our understanding of their work’s context and significance.

‘In from the Periphery’? Re-framing the Reach of the Nineteenth-Century French Literary-Scientific Imagination

ABSTRACT By investigating what it calls the literary-scientific imagination, this article refocuses critical attention towards new nineteenth-century French scientific knowledge in texts outside the realist ‘canon’. Chateaubriand’s Atala (1801) reveals French natural scientific nomenclatures illuminating significant, non-Western, knowledge. Scientific discovery in ‘provincial’ France proves discipline- and genre-defining in Adrien Cranile’s little-studied Solutré (1872). Sand’s fantastical-dystopian Laura ou Voyage dans le Cristal (1864) demonstrates important re-educational review of imperial scientific progress. The shared peripheral visions, effets de l’irréel and critical-creative scientific possibility of these indicative texts demonstrate the richness of the (nineteenth-century) French literary-scientific imagination for onward study.

The importance of peripheral vision when searching 3D real-world scenes: A gaze-contingent study in virtual reality.

Visual search in natural scenes is a complex task relying on peripheral vision to detect potential targets and central vision to verify them. The segregation of the visual fields has been particularly established by on-screen experiments. We conducted a gaze-contingent experiment in virtual reality in order to test how the perceived roles of central and peripheral visions translated to more natural settings. The use of everyday scenes in virtual reality allowed us to study visual attention by implementing a fairly ecological protocol that cannot be implemented in the real world. Central or peripheral vision was masked during visual search, with target objects selected according to scene semantic rules. Analyzing the resulting search behavior, we found that target objects that were not spatially constrained to a probable location within the scene impacted search measures negatively. Our results diverge from on-screen studies in that search performances were only slightly affected by central vision loss. In particular, a central mask did not impact verification times when the target was grammatically constrained to an anchor object. Our findings demonstrates that the role of central vision (up to 6 degrees of eccentricities) in identifying objects in natural scenes seems to be minor, while the role of peripheral preprocessing of targets in immersive real-world searches may have been underestimated by on-screen experiments.

Peripheral visions: the film and television industry in Galway, Ireland

ABSTRACT This paper attempts to blur the periphery versus centre binary by considering the emergence of a small, but vibrant, agglomeration of cultural industries in Galway, Ireland. Key agents in this story include postcolonial activists, Irish language supporters, Hollywood directors, and local politicians. This is an example of an industry agglomeration in a ‘peripheral’ setting and in the context of a threatened language. Language, culture and community are argued to be fundamental to the case and can be traced back to an underrepresented community finding a voice for itself. It is argued that studies of industry and innovation should not ignore small scale or peripheral cases; that being in the periphery can be an asset in terms of entrepreneurship, creative freedom and field formation; that periphery must be set in a relational framework; and that the medium of cultural production must be part of understanding industrial dynamics and innovation.

Editorial

When we put out our call for papers on Entanglements of Architecture and Comfort beyond the Temperate Zone at the end of 2018, we were not expecting such a response as to require a double issue. Yet it is clear that this is an issue that a wide range of scholars are working on at the moment. Many of the papers look at how seemingly peripheral visions of comfort from the Global South were not so peripheral at all, investigating the power dynamics and changing cultural expectations around being...

Improved Thermal Comfort of Helmets for Two-Wheeler Motorcycles: Technical Note

A helmet used by motorcyclists is always of critical importance for the safety of the rider. A well-designed helmet should be able to absorb as much energy as possible and to diffuse it to the whole helmet during an impact. This project is intended to improve the design features with respect to thermal comfort of Helmet shell. The vital design features of helmets are extent of protection, ISO head form, and peripheral visions. Thermal discomfort can cause rider fatigue thereby reducing the overall concentration during driving. Various design concepts, such as adding ventilation holes, increasing clearance between the helmet shell and the head and covering the shell with reflective materials, are used to improve the thermal properties. The existing design of helmets does not account for the thermal comfort of the helmet shell into consideration so, a new design prototype is developed. At this stage, attention was also paid to structural safety, appearance and manufacturability. The thermal comforts that can be derived from this design are significantly improved over other commercially available helmets.

Foveated near-eye display for mixed reality using liquid crystal photonics

Foveated near-eye display is one of the most promising approaches to deliver immersive experience of mixed reality. However, it is challenged to conceive a compact optical system. Here, we introduce a method to use polarization optics via liquid crystal photonics to improve the foveated display performance. We demonstrate a benchtop prototype of this idea. We implement and combine two display modules for peripheral and foveal visions. A peripheral display consists of a polarization selective lens (PSL) module, a polarization selective diffuser (PSD), and a slanted projection system. An 80^circ diagonal field of view is achieved by on-axis optical configuration of the PSL module and the PSD. A foveal holographic display is composed of a spatial light modulator (SLM), a volume grating lens, and a microelectromechanical system mirror possibly in combination with a switchable polarization selective grating module. The holographic reconstruction using the SLM enables accurate focus cue generation and high resolution above 30 cycles per degree within 15^circ by 15^circ field of view. We explore and discuss the liquid crystal photonics in the prototype that has a novel optical design using volume gratings with polarization selectivity.

Introduction

In negotiating the positionality of peripheral visions (in answering the question, peripheral in relation to what?),those of us who work with words must remain critically alert to the potential domestication of the peri-feral;to, that is, the periphery’s inextricable interrelation to that rapidly evolving, rabidly de-radicalising, yet deceptively hegemonic centre against which itsets its visions. This special issue of TEXT seeks to investigate peripheral visions of past, present and future;of figures and forms, fractures and erasures. Inspired by the AAWP’s 2018 annual conference held in Perth, Western Australia, we invited writers and scholars to think deeply and broadly about the purpose and potential of writing of all kinds. Authors were encouraged to tackle, for example, unconventional wisdom, unsettled perspectives,lapsed borders—that which is beyond and outside the accepted or obvious. By this means, we hoped that various worlds, ideas, fictions and verities would emerge, compete, coalesce, fragment and challenge. During a period of elevated consciousness, when countless voices vie for attention, we believe there is a need for vibrant and rigorous scrutiny of writing’s potential to interrupt, corrupt and disrupt, as well as to rouse, revivify and heal—in other words, for writing that explores and encourages various forms of peripheral vision.

‘Peripheral Visions’: A Conference Celebrating the Contribution of Jeremy Holmes and 20 Years of Psychoanalytic Studies at Exeter University, UK

British Journal of PsychotherapyVolume 35, Issue 2 p. 215-216 ‘Peripheral Visions’: A Festschrift for Jeremy Holmes, 2018 ‘Peripheral Visions’: A Conference Celebrating the Contribution of Jeremy Holmes and 20 Years of Psychoanalytic Studies at Exeter University, UK Mary Hepworth (formerly Target), PhD, Corresponding Author Mary Hepworth (formerly Target), PhD m.hepworth@ucl.ac.uk Professor of Psychoanalysis, UCLSearch for more papers by this author Mary Hepworth (formerly Target), PhD, Corresponding Author Mary Hepworth (formerly Target), PhD m.hepworth@ucl.ac.uk Professor of Psychoanalysis, UCLSearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12457Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume35, Issue2May 2019Pages 215-216 RelatedInformation

Postscript

British Journal of PsychotherapyVolume 35, Issue 2 p. 287-289 ‘Peripheral Visions’: A Festschrift for Jeremy Holmes, 2018 Postscript Jeremy Holmes, Jeremy HolmesSearch for more papers by this author Jeremy Holmes, Jeremy HolmesSearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12442Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume35, Issue2May 2019Pages 287-289 RelatedInformation

Special Section Introduction: “Peripheral Visions: Security By, and For, Whom?”

ABSTRACT In this introduction to the special issue on “Peripheral Visions: Security by, and for, whom?”, we summarise the core themes of the special issue and outline our relational approach to peripheralisation research in security studies. We explain how and why the papers that form part of the special issue address the power geometries that result from, and contour, uneven landscapes of resilience and (in)security. Taking our cue from current scholarship that conceptualises peripheralisation and polarisation as relational socio-spatial processes, we examine how constructions of centrality and peripheralisation unfold in, and underpin, security politics. We argue that processes of peripheralisation underlie security politics in ways that make peripheralised subjects and places simultaneously central to the production and maintenance of uneven geometries of power. Adding further insights to debates on the power geometries of security, papers in the special issue explore how securitisation builds on, remoulds and (re)produces the peripheralisation of certain people and places (including their discursive construction as peripheral), how peripheralisation relates to uneven productions of (in)security, and how those whose security is most placed at risk through processes of peripheralisation qua securitisation rework dominant logics and policies in their security visions and practices. Our focus is, on the one hand, on the relations through which peripheralised actors, spaces and materialities become central to sustaining privileged securities and, on the other hand, on the everyday practices of securitisation through which risks and precarities are tackled and contested by those peripheralised.

The Geography of Revolutionary Art

This article argues that a focus on Ukraine challenges the general understanding of culture in the revolutionary period, which either focuses on artists working in Moscow making Soviet art, or on non-Russian (Ukrainian, Jewish or Polish) artists in the regions making “national” art. Neither paradigm captures the radical shift in infrastructure during the imperial collapse and civil war. Placing the regions at the center of analysis highlights how Kyiv was an important cultural center during the period for later artistic developments in Europe and in the USSR. It shows that revolutionary culture is fundamentally wartime culture. Finally, the article argues that peripheral visions are central to a full geography of culture in order to trace how cultural infrastructures collapse and are re-constituted.

Book Review: Peripheral Visions

Book Review: <i>Peripheral Visions</i>

Peripheral (Re)Visions: Moving Online Writing Centers from Margin to Center

Peripheral (Re)Visions: Moving Online Writing Centers from Margin to Center

Effects of acute peripheral/central visual field loss on standing balance.

Vision impairments such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and glaucoma are among the top risk factors for geriatric falls and falls-related injuries. AMD and glaucoma lead to loss of the central and peripheral visual fields, respectively. This study utilized a custom contact lens model to occlude the peripheral or central visual fields in healthy adults, offering a novel within-subject approach to improve our understanding of the etiology of balance impairments that may lead to an increased fall risk in patients with visual field loss. Two dynamic posturography tests, including an adapted version of the Sensory Organization Test and a virtual reality environment with the visual scene moving sinusoidally, were used to evaluate standing balance. Balance stability was quantified by displacement and time-normalized path length of the center of pressure. Nine young and eleven older healthy adults wore visual field occluding contact lenses during posturography assessments to compare the effects of acute central and peripheral visual field occlusion. The results found that visual field occlusion had greater impact on older adults than young adults, specifically when proprioceptive cues are unreliable. Furthermore, the results suggest that both central and peripheral visions are important in postural control; however, peripheral vision may be more sensitive to movement in the environment.

Peripheral Visions: Engaging Nordic Literary Traditions on Orkney and Shetland

This article examines the reception of Old Norse literature and culture in the literatures of the Scottish islands of Orkney and Shetland. It compares in particular the work of Shetland author James John Haldane Burgess (1862-1927) and the Orcadian author George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) and it evaluates the ways in which these two figures use their geographically peripheral positions as unique vantage points from which to reframe Nordic identity in their writing. By re-orientating the Scottish Islands from the periphery of Britain to the centre of important scenes in Nordic history, Haldane Burgess and Mackay Brown each construct a distinctive sense of geographical and cultural place. This approach allows the boundaries of the Nordic cultural sphere to be extended, and for a new and complex third space to emerge, in which the islands connect the Nordic and Anglo-Celtic realms and situate them within world literature.

A Review E. Peeren, H. Stuit, A. Van Weyenberg (eds.), “Peripheral Visions in The Globalizing Present, Space, Mobility, Aesthetics” (Leide, Boston Brill, 2016)

A Review E. Peeren, H. Stuit, A. Van Weyenberg (eds.), “Peripheral Visions in The Globalizing Present, Space, Mobility, Aesthetics” (Leide, Boston Brill, 2016)