Symbolic Space Research Articles

Kutatások a szimbolikus térhasználat témakörében: áttekintés és szintézis

The study analyzes the symbolical space using practice in the period from the social-political turnaround of Romania in 1989 to the present in Szeklerland. The aim is to present the trended changes in the symbolical space using practice in the public space since the regime change. The study is based on results of research programs conducted at WAC – Centre for Regional and Anthropological Research. Analyzing the results of the research programs, we determined three intervals from 1990 to the present. In the first interval, symbolical space using practice was dominated by rehabilitation processes. In the second interval, creating new symbolic spaces and events was more typical. In the last interval, new processes have emerged, such as integration and individualization. In addition to analyzing the changes, we also aim at presenting the social function of symbolical space using practice in different time intervals.

Duality, BMO and Hankel operators on Bernstein spaces

In this paper we deal with the problem of describing the dual space (Bκ1)⁎ of the Bernstein space Bκ1, that is the space of entire functions of exponential type (at most) κ>0 whose restriction to the real line is Lebesgue integrable. We provide several characterizations, showing that such dual space can be described as a quotient of the space of entire functions of exponential type κ whose restriction to the real line are in a suitable BMO-type space, or as the space of symbols b for which the Hankel operator Hb is bounded on the Paley–Wiener space Bκ/22. We also provide a characterization of (Bκ1)⁎ as the BMO space w.r.t. the Clark measures of the inner function ei2κz on the upper half-plane, in analogy with the known description of the dual of backward-shift invariant 1-spaces on the torus. Furthermore, we show that the orthogonal projection Pκ:L2(R)→Bκ2 induces a bounded operator from L∞(R) onto (Bκ1)⁎.Finally, we show that Bκ1 is the dual space of a suitable VMO-type space or as the space of symbols b for which the Hankel operator Hb on the Paley–Wiener space Bκ/22 is compact.

Sufficient condition for a topological self-similar set to be a self-similar set

A self-similar set always possesses a self-similar topological structure coded by the shift space (symbolic space), which is considered as the coordinate system for this set. On the contrary, it is known that given a compact set K with self-similar topological structure, there may not exist a metric d such that (K,d) is a self-similar set with the same topological structure. We provide an easy-to-use sufficient condition for the existence of such metric d in terms of the associated graph with respect to the self-similar topological structure. Therefore, one can easily construct a required self-similar set from the shift space by specifying the topological structure.

Royal Ceremonies at Kyŏngbok Palace During the Reign of King Yŏngjo and Their Representations in Court Ceremony Paintings

This study analyzes three court ceremony paintings to reconstruct the perceptions of King Yŏngjo and the participants in ceremonies held at Kyŏngbok Palace, during his reign. King Yŏngjo repurposed Kyŏngbok Palace, which had been left in ruins after the Japanese Invasion of 1592, as a venue for these court ceremonies. Kŭnjŏngjŏn Chŏngsido 勤政殿庭試圖 commemorates the first court ceremony held at Kyŏngbok Palace in 1746, a royal state examination personally attended by King Yŏngjo. It is believed to have been produced by royal command as part of a commemorative screen marking the occasion. Kyŏngjung Haengsado 宮中行事圖 is the only remaining panel from a multi-panel folding screen. It is presumed to be part of a ceremonial painting depicting the reception ceremony held in 1763 to commemorate King Yŏngjo’s 70th birthday at Kŭnjŏngjŏn Hall. This painting was created by those who participated in the ceremony. The final painting, Yongmyojo Kukwŏlchinjakto 英廟朝久闕進爵圖 in the Ŭiryŏng Nam Family Commemorative Album, offers a personal perspective from the scholar-officials who participated in the 1767 royal ceremony at Kyŏngbok palace. These three paintings depict ceremonies held at the site of the former Kyŏngbok Palace, each reflecting different perspectives: that of the king, the participating officials, and the family of a participant. King Yŏngjo used Kyŏngbok Palace, as a symbolic space that carried on the legitimacy of the early Chosŏn Dynasty. While the first painting specifically emphasized the significance of the location by excluding participants to represent Yŏngjo’s stance, the second painting balanced both the event scene and the background from the perspective of the participating officials. The third painting, though it focused solely on the event rather than the Kyŏngbok Palace background, included additional illustrations in the album depicting episodes of Chosŏn’s founding king, T'aejo, and the ancestors of this family. Whereas Yŏngjo emphasized the connection to the early Chosŏn Dynasty through ceremonies held at Kyŏngbok Palace, this album corresponded to that intention by illustrating how a single family produced officials who served both T'aejo and Yŏngjo closely.

A escena contra el ejercicio de poder a través del cuerpo: el pelo en la búsqueda de la libertad.

This article explores the complex relationship between the body, identity, and territory, focusing on how social and cultural pressures exert control over the body, specifically through the lens of hair and its symbolic power. Using a dialogue format, the authors reflect on their personal experiences with societal expectations regarding appearance and discuss how these seemingly minor decisions are deeply influenced by broader structures of power and control. The body is presented not only as a physical entity but also as a symbolic and cultural space where norms, gender, and power dynamics intersect. The text further analyzes how capitalism and contemporary digital spaces reinforce these mechanisms, while also highlighting the importance of resistance and personal autonomy in constructing identity.

Interrelations of Social, Physical and Symbolic Space – Assessing Residents’ Spatial Perceptions of Gentrifying Neighbourhoods with Multiple Factor Analysis

ABSTRACT Adopting a Bourdieusian perspective on the trialectic relationship between symbolic, social, and physical space, we assess how perceptions, evaluations, and expectations towards one’s surroundings interrelate and are associated with social status and physical location. We analyse survey data from two German neighbourhoods undergoing gentrification, arguing that in this process, residents of different class backgrounds and with different expectations towards their residential area live side-by-side. To reconstruct residents’ symbolic space of spatial perceptions, we apply multiple factor analysis (MFA) to several sets of variables on neighbourhood perception, and relate these to residents’ location in physical space (different neighbourhoods) and social space (socio-demographics). We find that differences between neighbourhoods in levels of social cohesion and disorder are the most important dimension in symbolic space, emphasizing the crucial role of social bonds in residents’ perception of their surroundings. Expectations towards neighbourhood change, the second dimension, are strongly influenced by socio-demographic characteristics.

Solid bases and functorial constructions for (p-)Banach spaces of analytic functions

Abstract Motivated by new examples of functional Banach spaces over the unit disk, arising as the symbol spaces in the study of random analytic functions, for which the monomials $\{z^n\}_{n\geq 0}$ exhibit features of an unconditional basis yet they often don’t even form a Schauder basis, we introduce a notion called solid basis for Banach spaces and p-Banach spaces and study its properties. Besides justifying the rich existence of solid bases, we study their relationship with unconditional bases, the weak-star convergence of Taylor polynomials, the problem of a solid span and the curious roles played by c0. The two features of this work are as follows: (1) during the process, we are led to revisit the axioms satisfied by a typical Banach space of analytic functions over the unit disk, leading to a notion of $\mathcal{X}^\mathrm{max}$ (and $\mathcal{X}^\mathrm{min}$ ), as well as a number of related functorial constructions, which are of independent interests; (2) the main interests of solid basis lie in the case of non-separable (p-)Banach spaces, such as BMOA and the Bloch space instead of VMOA and the little Bloch space.

METRIC RESULTS FOR THE EVENTUALLY ALWAYS HITTING POINTS AND LEVEL SETS IN SUBSHIFT WITH SPECIFICATION

We study the set of eventually always hitting points for symbolic dynamics with specification. The measure and Hausdorff dimension of such fractal set are obtained. Moreover, we establish the stronger metric results by introducing a new quantity [Formula: see text] which describes the maximal length of string of zeros of the prefix among the first [Formula: see text] iterations of [Formula: see text] in symbolic space. The Hausdorff dimensions of the level sets for this quantity are also completely determined.

“But who do you say that I am?” Affectus Fidei and Bonds of Trust in Psychoanalytic Practice

Affective bonds that span our lives rest on a foundation of credibility and truth. This study proposes an introductory description of theological and psychoanalytic elements that build a conceptual model resting on the fundamental truths of Christian faith. Theological elements are used to form a floor whereon psychotherapeutic work can rest and build the path that runs from the awareness of symptoms and asking for help to the attainment of enduring and authentic happiness. Affectus fidei (the affection of faith) emerges as the central theological concept that ties together the existential-relational elements of human life as observed in the here-and-now of therapeutic work, toward the development of confidence and self-understanding that leads toward growth and health. The here-and-now of therapeutic attainments depends on the symbolic space that opens between past and future, the real and the imaginary, the desired and the unhoped for. Without a foundation of credibility and truth, the symbolic activity of therapy that aims at a more mature look at one's life cannot emerge. When the affective space of therapy is recognized as credible, the symbolic dimension emerges and the work of therapy flourishes. Only then do the members of the therapeutic couple surrender confidently to the persuasive affective bond that rests on the credibility of the good.

On the radicality property for spaces of symbols of bounded Volterra operators

In [1] it is shown that the Bloch space B in the unit disc has the following radicality property: if an analytic function g satisfies that gn∈B, then gm∈B, for all m≤n. Since B coincides with the space T(Aαp) of analytic symbols g such that the Volterra-type operator Tgf(z)=∫0zf(ζ)g′(ζ)dζ is bounded on the classical weighted Bergman space Aαp, the radicality property was used to study the composition of paraproducts Tg and Sgf=Tfg on Aαp. Motivated by this fact, we prove that T(Aωp) also has the radicality property, for any radial weight ω. Unlike the classical case, the lack of a precise description of T(Aωp) for a general radial weight, induces us to prove the radicality property for Aωp from precise norm-operator results for compositions of analytic paraproducts.

Level-2 IFS thermodynamic formalism: Gibbs probabilities in the space of probabilities and the push-forward map

We will denote by M the space of Borel probabilities on the symbolic space Ω = { 1 , 2 ⋯ , m } N . M is equipped Monge–Kantorovich metric. We consider here the push-forward map T : M → M as a dynamical system. The space of Borel probabilities on M is denoted by M . Given a continuous function A : M → R , an a priori probability Π 0 on M , and a certain convolution operation acting on pairs of probabilities on M , we define an associated Level-2 IFS Ruelle operator. We show the existence of an eigenfunction and an eigenprobability Π ^ ∈ M for such an operator. Under a normalization condition for A, we show the existence of some T -invariant probabilities Π ^ ∈ M . We are able to define the variational entropy of such Π ^ and a related maximization pressure problem associated to A. In some particular examples, we show how to get eigenprobabilities solutions on M for the Level-2 Thermodynamic Formalism problem from eigenprobabilities on M for the classical (Level-1) Thermodynamic Formalism; this shows that our approach is a natural generalization of the classic case.

Comparing the complexity of written and molecular symbolic systems

Symbolic systems (SSs) are uniquely products of living systems, such that symbolism and life may be inextricably intertwined phenomena. Within a given SS, there is a range of symbol complexity over which signaling is functionally optimized. This range exists relative to a complex and potentially infinitely large background of latent, unused symbol space. Understanding how symbol sets sample this latent space is relevant to diverse fields including biochemistry and linguistics.We quantitatively explored the graphic complexity of two biosemiotic systems: genetically encoded amino acids (GEAAs) and written language. Molecular and graphical notions of complexity are highly correlated for GEAAs and written language. Symbol sets are generally neither minimally nor maximally complex relative to their latent spaces, but exist across an objectively definable distribution, with the GEAAs having especially low complexity. The selection pressures guiding these disparate systems are explicable by symbol production and disambiguation efficiency. These selection pressures may be universal, offer a quantifiable metric for comparison, and suggest that all life in the Universe may discover optimal symbol set complexity distributions with respect to their latent spaces. If so, the “complexity” of individual components of SSs may not be as strong a biomarker as symbol set complexity distribution.

Reimagining Recreational Landscapes: A Generative AI-Aided Comparative Study of Academic Greenspaces at IPB University and UP Los Baños

Abstract A systematic examination of recreational landscape users’ behavioral patterns on university campuses is needed to fill the knowledge gap in implementing healthy academic greenspaces. To do so, a study is made to see the general behavioral patterns vis-à-vis cross-cultural factors in two campuses in Indonesia and the Philippines using the following methods: 1) behavioral mapping (BM) to record landscape activities data, 2) literature review to create the coding system, and 3) generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) application to aid generate images for the recommendations. The time frame, time-frequency, density, facilities, academic greenspace codes, and images were recorded using the BM. The study revealed that outdoor recreation in academic greenspaces is experienced in disparate physical spaces with various combinations of four dimensions: social space, symbolic space, active space, and experience space. The devised coding system helped align the study areas, determining commonalities, dissimilarities, and unusual findings. Common lacking features extracted from the data analysis were used as text prompts, while site images were used as image prompts. Using the prompts, landscape scenarios were generated using the GenAI application-Midjourney. Rendered figures suggest prominent landscape intervention ideas that feature enhancements of visual resources and the addition of placemaking elements.

Political graffiti in Prague as a reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Central Europe

In February 2022, the Russian army attacked Ukraine, which aroused resistance across Europe. The aim of the paper is to analyse spatial concentration and the meaning of associated political graffiti in Prague, Czechia, reflecting reactions to this geopolitical shift. Our approach focuses on the spatial aspect of the socio-semiotic analysis, revealing how urban symbolism shapes graffiti placement, modes, and interpretation. We have mapped it in the areas where we previously had noted a concentration of political graffiti in 2019 and 2020. Thanks to these timelines, we follow the development of political graffiti before and after the invasion and verify if the political symbolic space based on political relations between inhabitants and objects in the urban space influence variations in political graffiti prevalence. We have discovered what opinions resonated in the Czech society and how the meaning of graffiti signs was changing over time, in the space, and among objects of reference.

Problematika Angkringan Tradisional (AT) di Yogyakarta: Pembacaan Kondisi Empiris Angkringan Tradisional (AT) Menggunakan Konsep Modernitas dan Gentrifikasi

Angkringan has become a cultural symbol, urban feature and social space for the people of Yogyakarta and its surroundings. However, deculturalization and modernity have been considered to be the main challenges for the existence of traditional angkringan (TA) in the city of Yogyakarta. This research aims to explain the potential problems faced by traditional angkringan in the midst of the urban modernity process that is occurring and its relationship with institutional attitudes towards modernity. This research was conducted around the university area of Gadjah Mada University and Yogyakarta State University. Data collection methods were carried out through field observations, informal interviews, and literature review data. The results of this research show that development with the concept of modernity which is interpreted in a limited way, the shift from informal spaces to formal spaces, business competition, technological developments and social changes have more or less influenced the existence of traditional angkringan. Apart from that, modernity can be said to have shifted the role, function and physicality of traditional angkringan from public spaces

χὠς ἴδον, ὣς ἐμάνην. Space, Desire and the Female Gaze in Hellenistic Poetry

Abstract This paper studies the female gaze at the intersection of space, genre and gender in three Hellenistic poets who have explored the female viewpoint in their works, namely Apollonius of Rhodes, Theocritus and Herodas. The female gaze covers all the stages of desire from erotic fantasy to sexual fulfillment, and is contingent on both aesthetic factors and the sociocultural background of gender roles. It reflects the power dynamics between male and female and also becomes a means of subverting male authority by the gazing female. In Hellenistic poetry, the various degrees of female liberation through the control of the gaze vary depending on the spaces occupied by women. I argue that women, initially confined in the oikos according to the conventions of epic poetry, are represented as being gradually liberated in natural and urban spaces, the emblematic spaces of the neoteric genres of the bucolic idyll and the mime; this shift in gender dynamics is conveyed through the illustration of the female gaze in distinct genres of poetry and their respective symbolic spaces, namely the house, the natural landscape, and the city.

EXTENTION OF THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF MYTHONIM “ODYSSEY” IN THE ADVERTISING DISCOURSE OF ITALY 2000-2021

The object of this article is mythonyms that move into another class of proper names - pragmatonyms or verbal trademarks. The subject of the article was chosen mythonyms from the ancient Greek poem “The Odyssey” by Homer, which are widely used in modern advertising and commercial practice in Italy to name various products: furniture, interior items, clothing, jewelry, food, technical and medical equipment. The purpose of the article is to refute the generally accepted idea that the meaning of an onym (in our case, a mythonym) is impoverished during transonymization into a verbal trademark. The article identified mythonyms from the Odyssey that most often become pragmatonyms - Odysseus, Penelope, Polyphemus. As a result of their analysis, it was demonstrated that peripheral semes of meaning that are not relevant in the mythonym are actualized in the Italian advertising discourse of 2000-2021. Thus, the semantic field of the mythonym, functioning as a trade name, expands and enriches, and not vice versa. The article highlighted the following updated components of meaning: Odysseus - masculinity and freedom, Penelope - thriftiness and beauty, Polyphemus - creative force in the service of man. In the last mythonym, the core meaning of “the destructive power of the savage” completely changed the meaning to “civilizational power of creation”, and the vector of assessment changed. In this case, advertising discourse reflects the linguistic and cultural tendency that exists in Southern Italy to master and appropriate the symbolic space of Mediterranean culture not so much through the figure of Odysseus, but through the Sicilian Polyphemus. The study used a two-stage corpus analysis method: a continuous sample of product names to identify mythonyms from the Odyssey (68 product names) and a representative sample of products with the names Odysseus, Penelope, Polyphemus.

Artefacts of disaster risk reduction: conceptualizing bottom-up initiatives of climate action in informal settlements

PurposeDisaster risk reduction is of prime importance in informal settlements in the Global South, where several forms of vulnerability coexist. Policy and official programmes, however, rarely respond to the needs and expectations of citizens and local leaders living in these settlements. Even though these agents constantly attempt to reduce risks in their own way, we know very little about their activities, motivations and effective impact on risk reduction. Here we seek to conceptualize bottom-up initiatives to better grasp their origins, limitations and success.Design/methodology/approachThrough a four-year action-research project in Colombia, Cuba and Chile, we theorize about the production of change by local agents. Through detailed case studies we explored the activism of 17 local leaders. Through narrative analysis we studied their motivations and explanations. Finally, by documenting 22 initiatives, we revealed effective changes in space.FindingsIn the face of risk and disasters, residents and leaders in informal settings engaged in symbolic, physical and social spaces of interaction. Their actions were guided by trust, emotions, time cycles and activism. Local agency was justified by narratives about risk and climate change that differ from those of authorities and scholars.Research limitations/implicationsThere is still limited understanding of bottom-up initiatives in informal settings. It is crucial to conceptualize their origins, limitations and success. The focus on three specific countries necessitates further research for broader applicability and understanding.Practical implicationsA better comprehension of bottom-up actions is crucial for informing policies and programmes aimed at reducing risk in informal settings. Stakeholders must recognize the political, social and cultural roles of these actions for more impactful climate action.Originality/valueWe borrow Simon’s concept of “artefact” to introduce the notion of “Artefacts of Disaster Risk Reduction”, providing insights into the multifaceted nature of bottom-up initiatives. We also emphasize the simultaneous political and phenomenological character of these actions, contributing to a deeper understanding of their origins and impact.

All That Moves Us: The Semantic Density of Clothing and Objects in El Buen Vestir-Tlakentli’s Choreographies of Indigenous Movements

This article explores El Buen Vestir-Tlakentli 2 (2017 and 2019) and argues that the two iterations of this dance-theatre piece are powerful explorations—through dance and the artists’ sensate relation to objects—of the moving journey that led artists Leticia Vera and Carlos Rivera Martínez from Mexico to Canada and from a sense of estrangement from their Indigeneity to an encounter with their ancestors’ complex and resistant negotiations with the oppressive forces ushered in by settler colonialism in Mexico. Shedding and layering clothes and leveraging the knowledges they encode, the artists remind us of all that moves us in the world. Through inhabiting clothes saturated with meaning, the dancers embody their ancestors throughout the performance, returning to them to better understand the past, its violence, and its joy and imagine a future remapped through decolonial geographies. This future, the author contends in conversation with the artists’ own words, takes the form of a hopeful reconfiguration of the symbolic space of Aztlán. Critical of its problematic past entanglement with race yet mobilizing its transformative power, the artists create a space where Indigeneity is no longer relegated to the past, where kinship is articulated on radically different terms, and where it might be possible to shed the layers of settler-colonial violence—gendered violence in particular–that continue to impact the everyday life of Indigenous women and girls.

A Book Review of Lissette Lopez Szwydky and Glenn Jellenik’s Edited Collection Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century

Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century is one of the latest additions to the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture, an outstanding series dedicated to exploring new ways of reflecting on the dialogue between adaptation and visual culture. With an underlying impulse to obliterate the unidirectional perception of adaptation as a derivative version of a source text, the series encompasses a broad range of media as symbolic spaces of multiplicity that generate connections and continuities between all forms of texts and narratives. Adaptations are treated as “complexly multiple” texts that are connected to “other pervasive plural forms” such as “sequels, series, genres, trilogies, authorial oeuvres, appropriations, remakes, reboots, cycles and franchises” (Szwydky & Jellenik, 2023, blurb). As such, the books published in this series offer a rich and thought-provoking ground not only for scholars of adaptation studies but also for scholars of literary studies, cultural studies and film studies who seek fresh perspectives and like to think outside the box.