scholarly journals Condition—Suspension

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Choy ◽  
Jerry Zee
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Matsutake Mushroom

Atmospheric scenes compel anthropology into a dilution: a shift in concentration. Working through suspension as a condition through which to ask into life in the air, this Opening pauses with moments of arrest, distribution, and deposit by various airs. Such moments compel a reorientation of attention toward airy things even as they model a recomposition of anthropological inquiry by atmosphere. Exploring how sands shift and settle in a Chinese wind tunnel and how matsutake mushroom solids become aromatic vapors in Seoul, we move from considering materials in airborne states to a condition of suspension in atmosphere to which particulates and people alike are held. What could an anthropology in suspension become when its anthropos is subject to vaporization into a thing among others in the atmosphere’s composition?

Automated Fiber Placement of Composite Wind Tunnel Blades: Process Planning and Manufacturing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramy Harik ◽  
Joshua Halbritter ◽  
Dawn Jegley ◽  
Ray Grenoble ◽  
Brian Mason
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Process Planning ◽  
Fiber Placement ◽  
Automated Fiber Placement

‘Disappointed romantics’: Troubled Heritage in the BBC's John le Carré Adaptations

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Oldham
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Working Through ◽  
John Le Carre ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The One ◽  
Television Medium

This article analyses three serialised adaptations of John le Carré novels produced by the BBC: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Smiley's People (1982) and A Perfect Spy (1987). It aims firstly to position them in the context of developments and trends during the period of the serials' production. It explores how, on the one hand, they were produced as variants on the classic serial model which aimed for a more contemporary focus and aesthetic in response to concurrent developments in British television drama, and on the other, how they have a complex and ambivalent relationship with the genre of television spy fiction. Secondly, this article builds upon this positioning of the serials to explore how the themes of le Carré’s novels are interpreted specifically for the television medium. Central to this is the issue of temporal displacement, as television's process of ‘working through’, often considered as characteristic of the medium's immediacy and ‘liveness’, is in this case delayed over many years by a cycle of continual adaptation. Here a particular narrative – the defection of Kim Philby in 1963 – resonates across three decades and is worked through in a variety of approaches, initially in the novels and subsequently reworked on television. It then examines how this manifests in the television adaptations in a contemporary heritage aesthetic which is complex and highly troubled.

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