Self-recognition Process Research Articles

Toward a Method of Paying Attention: The Ethics of Magnification in William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch

Abstract: Utilizing Donna Haraway's trope of the scanning electron microscope, this article shows how, by magnifying bodily porosity, multiplicity, and vulnerability, William Burroughs's Naked Lunch trains its readers in a certain ethical and affective posture toward people who use drugs, which the author calls "paying attention." As a method of reading addiction literature, "paying attention" means reading closely but not in order to diagnose. It also means prioritizing description over interpretation, while "paying attention" to real people who use drugs means striving to remain in open and reciprocal (rather than closed and hierarchical) relationship with them. In other words, we are moved to empathy and self-modification through a process of self-recognition in their struggle and approaching the question of "recovery" collaboratively and only insofar as they have defined what such positive change looks like for them.

Engineered π⋯π interactions favour supramolecular dimers X@[FeL3]2 (X = Cl, Br, I): solid state and solution structure.

Ditopic bis-pyrazolylpyridine ligands usually react with divalent metal ions (M2+) to produce dinuclear triple-stranded helicates [M2L3]4+ or, via π⋯π interactions, dimers of monoatomic complexes ([ML3]2)4+. The introduction of an additional benzene ring at each end of ligand L increases the number of aromatic contacts within the supramolecular aggregate by 40%, driving the self-recognition process in an irreversible manner. Consequently, the mixing of new bis-pyrazolylquinoline L2 with FeX2 salts leads to crystallization of the tripartite high-spin assemblies (X@[Fe(L2)3]2)3+ (X = Cl, Br or I). The aggregates exhibit exceptional stability, as confirmed by a combination of paramagnetic 1H NMR techniques, demonstrating their persistence in solution. Our investigations further reveal that the guests Br- and I- are retained inside the associate in solution but Cl- is immediately released, resulting in the formation of the empty supramolecular dimer ([Fe(L2)3]2)4+.

Differentiating from TV Representations: Shame and the Process of Gay/Lesbian Identification Among Chilean Television Viewers

ABSTRACT The representation of gays and lesbians on Chilean television has increased steadily over the last decades. This paper offers an analysis of the role these images had in the processes of sexual identification of a sample of 25 members of the audience who identify as gays or lesbians. Through a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews, it is shown that the respondents believed that the televisual representations of homosexuality have contributed to further marginalize gay and lesbian lives. This strengthened damaging feelings that fed into a sense of shame that was originating from multiple institutions and texts, thus complicating their processes of self-recognition and self-acceptance during their childhood and adolescence. Taking examples of how participants described their relationship with these representations and the ways in which they circulated socially, it is argued that they could only articulate their identification as gays or lesbians by disassociating themselves from these images and establishing a clear difference in regard to them. This was in a process in which several other informational and experiential opportunities came into play, which allowed them to resignify the categories gay/lesbian and lead less conflictive processes of identification.

Проблема памяти в романе «Лунный тигр» Пенелопы Лайвли

The aim of the research is to identify the peculiarity of the structure in the novel “Moon Tiger” by the British writer Penelope Lively. The paper analyses the narrative features of the image of the protagonist. The heroine’s memories and reflection are a way of reconstructing memory, as well as a continuous process of self-recognition and realising her own individuality. The heroine possesses a strong and unique character, but at the same time, the author embodies the traits of a hero who absorbed the traumatic experience of the wars of the XX century in her image. The research makes a theoretical contribution to the study of modern English literature and the peculiarities of representation of the problem of memory. The scientific originality of the paper lies in examining narrative strategies in Penelope Lively’s novelistic works that are necessary for building a narrative in which a person’s thinking process is constructed in close relationship with memories. The paper analyses an atypical figure of a diegetic narrator characterised by internal focalisation. As a result of studying the narrative structure of the novel, it has been proved that the violation of the principles of the epic in the novel and the tendency to deconstruct the events of the past, but at the same time the rejection of the objectivity of the narrative and the desire for individualisation in the subjective text of the protagonist allow the novel to be attributed to postmodern literature, where the whole world is reflected in the history of one person.

Memória social dos quilombos do Cariri um acervo virtual em construção

The lack of registration of the oral traditions of quilombola communities and the urgent need to strengthen the quilombos in a context of persecution and invisibility justify this research, which seeks to contribute to the production of knowledge as well asto collect memory and oral tradition of the Quilombo Serra dos Mulatos, in Jardim/CE. In a qualitative approach, we used bibliographical research and documental survey. In a later stage, field research will becarried out with the application of interviews and complementary methodologies. The objective is to capture and understand the memories that permeate the process of self-recognition and the potential impact of preserving the quilombola memory in the reality of the community. This is an important contribution to valuing the country's cultural diversity and to strengthening the remaining quilombo communities, ensuring that future generations have access to those oral traditions and the memory of their ancestors.

Coordination-driven chiral self-assembly: Synthesis, structures and vapor adsorption properties of Zn(II) and Ag(I) complexes derived from two helical pyridylamide ligands

Four complexes were synthesized and characterized from two helical pyridylamide ligands. A view of the geometry of these complexes discloses the self-discriminating and self-recognition process in the coordination-driven chiral assembly. • Four new complexes derived from two helical pyridylamide ligands have been synthesized and characterized. • The crystal structures of the four complexes reveal the chiral self-assembly process in the coordination reaction. • Cyclic voltammetric measurements and methanol vapor adsorptions for the complexes are investigated. Two helical pyridylamide ligands N 2 ,N 6 -bis(2-(nicotinamido)phenyl)pyridine-2,6-dicarboxamide ( L 1 ) and N 2 ,N 6 -bis(2-(isonicotinamido)phenyl)pyridine-2,6-dicarboxamide ( L 2 ) have been designed and synthesized. Four complexes, namely, {[Zn( L 1 )I 2 ]‧2CH 3 OH‧H 2 O} n ( 1 ), [Ag 2 ( L 1 ) 2 ]‧(NO 3 ) 2 ( 2 ), {[Ag( L 2 )NO 3 ]‧H 2 O} n ( 3 ), and {[Ag( L 2 ) 2 ]‧2H 2 O} n ( 4 ) were obtained via the solvent evaporation method from the reaction of the ligands with Zn(II) or Ag(I) ions respectively. The two ligands together with four complexes were structurally determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and additionally characterized by infrared spectroscopy, element analysis and powder X-ray diffraction. The crystal structures reveal different chiral self-assembly processes in the reaction of the helical liands with Zn(II) or Ag(I) ions. Complexes 1 , 2 and 4 exhibit as a heterochiral coordination polymer or binuclear metallamacrocycle, while complex 3 exists as a homochiral coordination polymer. Besides, the structural differences between complexes 3 and 4 show that the reaction ratio of the ligand with metal ions has obvious influences on the coordination configuration. Furthermore, thermogravimetric analysis and methanol vapor adsorption properties of the synthesized complexes have been investigated, and cyclic voltammetric measurements of complexes 2 – 4 were carried out as well.

Synthesis, crystal structures, electrochemical and gas adsorption properties of two 1D silver(I) coordination polymers constructed from racemic helical ligands

Two helical ligands (L1 and L2) were designed and synthesized by Schiff base condensation reaction. Two Ag(I) coordination polymers (CPs), namely, {[Ag2(L1)2(NO3)2]·3H2O}n (1) and [AgL2NO3]n (2) were synthesized and characterized via elemental analysis, FT-IR spectra and single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. The crystal structures show that both Schiff base compounds exist as racemic ligands with equal amounts of P- and M-helicity. CP 1 exists as a 1D homochiral helical chain polymer via self-recognition process, and CP 2 exists as a 1D looped chain polymer. The cyclic voltammetric properties of the two CPs were investigated. Furthermore, gas and vapor adsorption measurements show that both CPs exhibit good adsorption capacity toward CH3OH over CO2 and N2.

Chiral Self-Recognition and Self-Discrimination Processes in Different Subphthalocyanine Aggregation Regimes

We have recently shown that, as a result of its rigid cone-shaped structure, racemic SubPcs trisubstituted with peripheral amides can self-assemble in two distinct regimes as a function of the solvent environment.1 In toluene, an apolar aromatic medium that can efficiently solvate p-surfaces, such compounds associate as tail-to-tail dimers (regime A). In methylcyclohexane (MCH), in contrast, they undergo a cooperative supramolecular polymerization process to yield non-centrosymmetric head-to-tail columnar stacks (regime B).2 SubPcs, being intrinsically chiral molecule, constitutes an ideal probe to study chiral self-sorting processes, which is the objective of this work. As depicted in the figure below, a racemic mixture of a trisubstituted SubPc can in principle self-assemble into different species. Homochiral dimers/polymers may form through a chiral self-recognition process: each enantiomer has a preference to aggregate with itself leading to helical supramolecular structures with a preferred handedness. At the other extreme, heterochiral dimers/polymers would be instead formed via a chiral self-discrimination process, where each enantiomer prefers to associate with the other, yielding purely racemic dimers/polymers displaying no predilection for a given helical sense. As an intermediate case, the enantiomers might show no strong self-sorting preference and yield statistical dimers/polymers.[1] C. G. Claessens, D. González-Rodríguez, M. S. Rodríguez-Morgade, A. Medina, T. Torres, Chem. Rev. 2014, 114, 2192.[2] (a) J. Calbo, J. Aragó, P. M. Viruela, E. Ortí, T. Torres, D. González-Rodríguez, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 2543; (b) M. J. Mayoral, J. Guilleme, J. Calbo, J. Aragó, F. Aparicio, E. Ortí, T. Torres, D. González-Rodríguez, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020 , 142, 21017. Figure 1

Melusine as Emblem of Truth: Philosophical tentacles, themes and approaches explored in the audiovisual essay The Mystery of Melusine

This article introduces the philosophical underpinnings, themes and approaches explored in the audiovisual essay The Mystery of Melusine (2021). Its footage consists of a dramatic performance in which I am enacting the contents of a philosophical poem authored by myself as the titular character. The narrative of the film essay explores the nature of truth and espouses an ontology of magic through a re-interpretation of the myth of Melusine. In European folklore, Melusine is the reclusive and mysterious wife who agrees to marry upon the condition that she is granted her privacy every Saturday. On Saturdays, she spends her solitude secretly bathing her fish tail until one day her husband peeps through the keyhole of her bathing chamber. She learns he has broken his promise to not impede her privacy, and so she evanesces. In my film essay, Melusine is a metaphor for the secretiveness and elusiveness of truth, and the way life unfurls itself in secretive and clandestine ways. The notion of truth as elusive and secretive derives its inspiration from the philosopher Martin Heidegger, and this film essay can be considered a mythic interpretation of some of his ideas. In addition to a mythic interpretation of truth, the film essay provides a narrative for the way life meets itself through otherness and recounts the journey of personal transformation in which the querent must reconcile to truth; this is elaborated as a process of self-seeing and self-recognition that takes place through the alien other.

The resurgence of the Selk'nam. Dynamics of ethnoheterogenesis, ethnicity, and legal recognition in the Tierra del Fuego

This article has two central objectives, on the one hand, to analyze the process by which the Selk'nam population was declared extinct on the island of Tierra del Fuego, putting special emphasis on the process of colonization and the consequences this brought, especially the process of assimilation and ethnocide. Subsequently, a theoretical review is made of the concepts of ethnicity and ethnogenesis as processes through which the resurgence of groups of individuals who currently recognize themselves as members of the indigenous Selk'nam group can be explained. In this sense, the concept of Ethnoheterogenesis is linked as a model through which the current processes of self-recognition of individuals with ethnic groups can be explained. To conclude the article focuses the discussion on recognizing those cultural aspects present today, the action of ethnic groups, and the need for legal and symbolic recognition of the current existence of Selk'nam ethnic groups.

Nine new Pristionchus (Nematoda: Diplogastridae) species from China.

The model organism Pristionchus pacificus and the genus Pristionchus, Kreis, 1932 have been intensively studied in the last decade with contemporary work focusing on the development, evolution, ecology, behavior, neurobiology, and genomics of this group of organisms. In particular, mechanistic studies on the development and evolution of mouth-form plasticity, predation and associated self-recognition processes enabled unique insight into life history strategies and the evolution of novelty. These studies include a comparative research agenda making use of the 39 available species of Pristionchus, all of which can be studied in living cultures. Sampling efforts revealed that Asia represents a biodiversity hotspot for Pristionchus worms. However, previous samplings have a bias towards northern and island areas, largely for logistic reasons. Here, we report on two extensive sampling trips to the Yunnan and Shaanxi provinces in Mainland China. We report the isolation of nine new Pristionchus species by morphology, morphometrics, mating experiments and genome-wide sequence analysis.

The Hermeneutic Circle of Data Visualization

In this article, we show how postphenomenology can be used to analyze the Affinity Map: a data visualization that reveals the hidden dynamics that exist between individuals within large organizations. We make use of the Affinity Map to expand the classic postphenomenology that privileges a ‘linear’ understanding of technological mediations and introduce the notions of ‘iterativity’ and ‘collectivity.’ In the first section of the paper, we discuss both classic and more recent descriptions of human-technology-world relations in order to transcendentally approach the discipline of data visualization. In the second section, we use the Affinity Map case study to consider three elements: 1) the collection of data and the design process; 2) the visual grammar of the data visualization, and 3) the process of self-recognition for the map ‘reader.’ In the third section, we introduce the hermeneutic circle of data visualization. Finally, we suggest that the Affinity Map, because of its ethical and political multistability, might be seen as a material encounter between postphenomenology, actor-network theory (ANT), and hermeneutics.

Know Place: Heaven’s Gate and American Gnosticism

Abstract Bonnie Nettles and Marshall Applewhite, the founders of the millenarian movement Heaven’s Gate, began teaching at a retreat they called Know Place, where one came to “know thyself” in the “no-place of Utopia.” This initial phase set the stage for a process of self-recognition that would become the hallmark of conversion to the movement, much as Gnosticism employed in the first centuries of the common era. The parallels between late antique Gnosticism and Heaven’s Gate are remarkable. Both posited two breeds of humans, one a material husk and the other an enlightened soul temporarily trapped on earth. Both proposed radical gender equality and maintained a rigorous ascetic regime. Both proffered death as a return to a prior state of gnosis rather than a disjuncture into a new life and afterlife. This paper examines the rhetoric of self-verification employed by both movements as it relates to a modified monotheism.

História das mulheres na arte: autorretrato como escrita de si

O presente artigo é parte da Tese de Doutorado intitulada Lídia Baís: Imagens da Transgressão Feminina na História (1920-1940), ainda em processo de escrita. Pretende-se analisar, compreender e problematizar o processo de silenciamento e ocultamento das mulheres na História, bem como, nas Artes Plásticas. Compreender o que determina esse ocultamento feminino na arte ocidental é preocupação primeira desse estudo. No segundo momento pretende-se analisar os mecanismos de resistência e ressignificação do ser mulher através da produção de autorretratos. Compreendemos que a produção de autorretratos nas artes para as mulheres tem um sentido de resistência quando as mesmas se utilizam dele para ressignificar e reescrever suas histórias, bem como o utilizam como um processo de reconhecimento de si.

Self-face Captures, Holds, and Biases Attention.

The implicit self-recognition process may take place already in the pre-attentive stages of perception. After a silent stimulus has captured attention, it is passed on to the attentive stage where it can affect decision making and responding. Numerous studies show that the presence of self-referential information affects almost every cognitive level. These effects may share a common and fundamental basis in an attentional mechanism, conceptualized as attentional bias: the exaggerated deployment of attentional resources to a salient stimulus. A gold standard in attentional bias research is the dot-probe paradigm. In this task, a prominent stimulus (cue) and a neutral stimulus are presented in different spatial locations, followed by the presentation of a target. In the current study we aimed at investigating whether the self-face captures, holds and biases attention when presented as a task-irrelevant stimulus. In two dot-probe experiments coupled with the event-related potential (ERP) technique we analyzed the following relevant ERPs components: N2pc and SPCN which reflect attentional shifts and the maintenance of attention, respectively. An inter-stimulus interval separating face-cues and probes (800 ms) was introduced only in the first experiment. In line with our predictions, in Experiment 1 the self-face elicited the N2pc and the SPCN component. In Experiment 2 in addition to N2pc, an attentional bias was observed. Our results indicate that unintentional self-face processing disables the top-down control setting to filter out distractors, thus leading to the engagement of attentional resources and visual short-term memory.

Sul "doppio gioco" delle norme. A partire da Macherey, lettore di Canguilhem e Foucault

According to Macherey, the genealogy of the subject is to Foucault what vitalism in sciences is to Canguilhem. The author of De Canguilhem a Foucault and Le sujet des normes clarifies the meaning and function of the force of norms, the Leitmotiv that links the works of the two French philosophers and points to the persistent boost determined by all that resists to historical-political and theoretical-scientific systematization, i.e., to normalization. On the one hand, the political and multidisciplinary use of this method leads towards an anti-essentialist vision of care-related life forms; on the other hand, it reformulates the terms of self-recognition processes, performed within and against power relationships.

CUIDADORES FAMILIARES CAMPESINOS: DEPRESIÓN, TIEMPO DE CUIDADO Y DEPENDENCIA

Objective: To establish the association of the burden of family caregivers with care time and the degree of functionality of the elderly peasant. Materials and methods: quantitative study with cross-sectional correlational range, with a sample of 50 family caregivers. It was applied: one sociodemographic survey; Zarit scale, measuring caregiver burden, and the Barthel Index, which measures the degree of functional dependence. Results: Family caregivers are usually women (76%); over 60 (50%), married (40%) and single (30%); with low socioeconomic status (94%) and education (66%).No significant association between caregiver burden and the degree of functionality (p = 0.249) was found, nor between caregiver burden and time as caregiver (p = 0.476). Conclusions: A high proportion of rural women are family caregivers. The study reports that caring time and degree of functionality are not predictors of elder care burden on the peasant family caregiver. More research and inquire is needed to determine if there are cultural aspects that influence the experience and meaning construction of care. The need for educational programs for rural carers through processes of self-recognition and self-determination in accordance with their culture and capabilities is suggested.

ЕTHNOPEDAGOGIC REFLECTION IN THE SYSTEM OF TEACHER-TRAINING

Integration of folk upbringing traditions and theoretical and methodological statements of scientific pedagogy in the process of teacher-training is highly topical nowadays. The ethnopedagogic process in university we define as the sum total of such components as ethnopedagogic education, ethnopedagogic activity, ethnopedagogic reflection. Ethnopedagogic education embraces all pedagogic and psychological disciplines, forming a person‟s self-determination as a certain ethnic culture bearer and the creative understanding by students of the possibilities of ethnopedagogic ideas and traditions use in their future pedagogic activity. Professional disciplines form scientific knowledge that help to learn the ethnopedagogic ideas and traditions, to realize them in future pedagogic activity. Ethnopedagogic education is impossible without ethnopedagogic reflection, underlying in the basis of valuation corrective activity. In the process of future teachers‟ training the reflection promotes deliberate development of their professional qualities, formation of all components of ethnopedagogic readiness, inclusion into subject-subject relations. In connection with the above the ethnopedagogic reflection in students‟ university training is understood by us as the process of self-recognition as a bearer of a certain national culture, during which a student sets identification and reproduction of oneself in accordance with historic memory of his nation on the basis of ethnopedagogic education and ethnopedagogic activity.

Sisters’ Self-Recognition Represented in Family Relationship: in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart

Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart is a feminist drama that represents the self-recognition of sisters in family relationships. In this play, sisters attempt to free themselves from their subordinate status in the patriarchal society. In this process, it portrays men as negative figures. They gave violence, oppression, pain, and sadness to sisters; however, it goes without saying that there are exceptions. This process of self-recognition represents a grandparent-grandchildren relationship, parent-children relationship, and sisters-relationship. Their grandparent-grandchild relationship is not portrayed as ideal in the play. The parent-child relationship is very important, but has troubles. Their father deserted his family, causing the mother of the three sisters to commit suicide. The sisters are unable to hold healthy relationships with boyfriends. The parents, generally, have an important role in aiding their daughters to find their “self,” but these sisters’ parents were unable to do it. The relationship among sisters plays a positive role in each of their self-recognition. They come to attain self-recognition by sisterhood. The three sisters become an independent and positive self through the process of self-recognition.

Molecular self-recognition: a chiral [Mn(II)6] wheel via donor-acceptor π···π contacts and H-bonds.

A multinucleating ligand capable of establishing different types of intermolecular interactions, when combined with acetate groups leads to the assembly of a chiral [Mn(II)3] cluster poised for a process of self-recognition through a combination of perfectly complementary weak forces.