Reversing The “Eclipse of Relationality”

The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber talked about, living under the shadow of Auschwitz, that humanity lived with the ‘eclipse of God’. I now wonder if we have moved beyond this ‘eclipse of God’ to a time of the ‘eclipse of relationality’. This article argues that the eclipse of relationality is enabled through a predominant worldview in which the world is understood as mechanical and dead – observed and experienced in increasingly abstract form. In this way of being, the world and the ‘other’, cannot be loved. In light of this eclipse, this article offers two pathways back to life, particularly for practitioners concerned with healing culture. The first is ontological – a new way of being that is experienced through a living polarity between the ideas enfolded within Jung’s theory of individuation and Buber’s dialogical theorising. The second is phenomenological – a new kind of social and ecological practice linked to a perceptivity of living process, traced from Carl Jung and James Hillman, to Mary Watkins, Henri Bortoft and Allan Kaplan. The key wisdom from this article, from travelling down these two pathways - the key theorising of a way forward for cultural healers - is that people increasingly spend so much of their life separated, a-part, lacking intimacy with another, or with the world, or the manifestations of the world that are all around them, and within them. Something is then missing – call it connection, which ensouls the world – the aliveness that invites an anticipatory and participatory relationship with the world, and importantly, a world experienced as both profound Otherness, as well as deeply Oneness. The consequences for people and the world are profound – for the experience of alienation enables abstractions to flourish, exclusions to expand, and rushed interventions to proliferate – the ‘eclipse of relationality’ beckons.

Factorization method for solving nonlocal boundary value problems in Banach space

This article deals with the factorization and solution of nonlocal boundary value problems in a Banach space of the abstract form B1u = Au − SΦ(u) − GΨ(A0u) = f, u ∈ D(B1),where A, A0 are linear abstract operators, S, G are vectors of functions, Φ, Ψ are vectors of linear bounded functionals, and u, f are functions. It is shown that the operator B1 under certain conditions can be factorized into a product of two simpler lower order operators as B1 = BB0. Then the solvability and the unique solution of the equation B1u = f easily follow from the solvability conditions and the unique solutions of the equations Bv = f and B0u = v. The universal technique proposed here is essentially different from other factorization methods in the respect that it involves decomposition of both the equation and boundary conditions and delivers the solution in closed form. The method is implemented to solve ordinary and partial Fredholm integro-differential equations.

Reflections on the Context of the Change of War

In order to understand and explain the changes of war in a very complex operational environment and in a continuous transformation, we must anticipate, render in an abstract form and create solutions for successful decisions. The estimates of this communication resulted from a combined analysis of the conditions of war without winners and losers, given that humanity has evolved towards modernity from the perspective of changing the forms of consciousness, reshaping relationships and social structures, technological developments, or reporting the individual to the environment around him. In this context, identifying the relationships between the phenomenon of war and the other aspects (domains) of social life becomes a real challenge.

Representation and Presentation of Culinary Tradition as Cultural Heritage

This paper presents a knowledge representation framework and provides tools to allow the representation and presentation of the tangible and intangible dimensions of culinary tradition as cultural heritage including the socio-historic context of its evolution. The representation framework adheres to and extends the knowledge representation standards for the Cultural Heritage (CH) domain while providing a widely accessible web-based authoring environment to facilitate the representation activities. In strong collaboration with social sciences and humanities, this work allows the exploitation of ethnographic research outcomes by providing a systematic approach for the representation of culinary tradition in the form of recipes, both in an abstract form for their preservation and in a semantic representation of their execution captured on-site during ethnographic research.

Between facts and ambiguity: Discourses on medical cannabis in Swedish newspapers

Aim: This study examines the discursive construction of medical cannabis in Swedish newspapers, with the aim of understanding how the news media recontextualise the medical potential of cannabis. Design: The study is centred on the concept of recontextualisation, which focuses on how discourses are reinterpreted and reshaped when moving from one context to another, with a special focus on recontextualisation in relation to the media. Methodologically, the study uses critical discourse analysis to qualitatively analyse 134 articles of different subgenres, published in four Swedish newspapers between 2015 and 2020. Results: The study shows that medical cannabis is constructed around myriad topics and contexts, ranging from news that focuses on the medical potential of cannabis to articles where medical cannabis is mentioned in passing and constructed in a more abstract form. The media have difficulties retaining a conceptual boundary between medical and recreational cannabis. Moreover, the study shows that the medical potential of cannabis is discursively constructed using three different discourses: patient discourse, strong science discourse, and weak science discourse. Conclusions: The study suggests that there is a widening of the debate on cannabis in the Swedish public sphere, giving more recognition to the potential medical use of cannabis. The media, however, show difficulties in refining discourses on medical cannabis, which results in an altering between constructions that are strongly connected to science, and those that are not.

Formation Character Based On Philosophy Of Sapta Bayu: Spirit Sri Kesari Warmadewa

This paper explains the philosophy of the Meaning of Sapta Bayu Spirit Sri Kesari Warmadewa which is an abstract form of value points from Raja Sri Kesari Warmadewa. This research uses a qualitative approach, with an interpretive approach and a critical paradigm. In this paper, the assumptions of interpretive philosophy are used as a paradigm that has characteristics for understanding and explaining the social world. Sapta Bayu value points, namely (1) God Almighty; (2) Developing Asta Brata's Spirit of Leadership; (3) Serving Almamater, Society, Nation and State; (4) Excellence in work; (5) Upholding Honesty and Self Integrity in Thinking, Saying, and Acting; (6) Maintaining and Respecting Diversity to Strengthen Unity, and (7) Environmentally Friendly, based on the Tri Hita Karana instilled in Warmadewa University academicians who in this paper specialize in Accounting Students who are deemed necessary to instill local cultural values. policies to be applied later in professional accountant practice.

EVALUATION OF PHOTOREALISTIC AND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONS IN GERHARD RICHTER WORKS

Gerhard Richter, who experiences different styles, production methods and methods together in his works; offers the audience different variations in artistic orientation and expressions. Gerhard Richter draws his own artistic boundaries with photorealistic paintings in which images and representations are reflected exactly, and abstract works created with an informal shaping attitude. While photographs, digital prints, blurring images are encountered in his photorealistic works, textured and vibrant colors are encountered in his abstract works. While Gerhard Richter includes figures, portraits, family photographs and landscapes in which grays are intense, with the traces of social associations formed in memory in the photorealistic period, he reflects the authentic values on the canvas surface in an ambiguous way. The abstract canvases reflecting the physicality and the intensity of the composition of colors, on the other hand, appear as the continuation, reflection and alteration of photographs, blur and ambiguity. In the research, it is aimed to examine the periods of the artist, which starts with photography and ends with abstract works, with production methods and methods. Diversity in production and styling, content representations reflected in the transformation of photographic images into pictorial forms; It turns into covered narratives with the transfer of the traces in the artist's memory to the artwork. The literature on Gerhard Richter and his works was scanned and the available data were analyzed with a descriptive method. In both periods shaped by social influence and spiritual impressions, it is observed that the artist diversified his production and included the language of expression shaped in concrete or abstract form through experimental practices in his works. Keywords: Gerhard Richter, photorealism, photography, abstract expressionism

A brief history of ball lightning observations by scientists and trained professionals

With thousands of eyewitness reports, but few instrumental records and no consensus about a theory, ball lightning remains an unsolved problem in atmospheric physics. As chances to monitor this transient phenomenon are low, it seems promising to evaluate observation reports by scientists and trained professionals. The following work compiles 20 published case histories and adds 15 from the author's work and 6 from a Russian database. Forty-one cases from eight countries, 1868–2020, are presented in abstract form with a synthesis. The collection of cases does not claim to be complete. Six influential or notable ball lightning cases are added. It is concluded that well-documented cases from trained observers can promote fieldwork and stimulate and evaluate ball lightning theories. Scientists who have not reported their experience are invited to share it with the author.

‘Immanent’ Visibility and ‘Transcendental’ Vision in Japanese Calligraphy

The premise of the approach in the present paper is the interpretation of Japanese calligraphy as an artistic act and the reception of the calligraphic work of art as the object of the aesthetic relation. By combining the theoretical analysis of the main artistic functions of calligraphy –as both a representative and an expressive art – with the practice of calligraphic art, the present endeavour aims to identify the factual and artistic poetics of this visual (pictorial) and verbal art. As such, our study focuses on the particularities of the calligraphic work of art, given by its means of existence: its object of immanence is concurrently a physical and an ideal object (through its linguistic scriptural contents). In our analysis, the Japanese calligraphic art becomes the object of a reading that exploits the Western and Eastern aesthetic poetic theories, in an attempt to explore this art’s means of existence, functioning, and reception, by revealing its calligraphicity, or its artistic-aesthetic quality. As a reflection on the relation between the image and the word, and on the coherence of the vision triggered by it, based on the characteristics of the visible, our study is an original approach that analyses and interprets the vocabulary and the formal style of a unique artistic field that begins with a linguistic expression, as a means of representation, and culminates with an abstract form of expression, as a means of presentation.

Bi-interior Ideal Elements in ∧e-semigroups

All the results on semigroups obtained using only sets, can be written in an abstract form in a more general setting. Let us consider a recent paper to justify what we say. The bi-interior ideals of semigroups introduced and studied by M. Murali Krishna Rao in Discuss. Math. Gen. Algebra Appl. in 2018, follow for more general statements about ordered semigroups. The same holds for every result of this sort on semigroups based on right (left) ideals, bi-ideals, quasi-ideals, interior ideals etc. for which we use sets. As a result, we have an abstract formulation of the results on semigroups obtained by sets that is in the same spirit with the abstract formulation of general topology (the so-called topology without points) initiated by Koutsk ́y, Nöbeling and, even earlier, by Chittenden, Terasaka, Nakamura, Monteiro and Ribeiro. As a consequence, results on ordered Γ-hypersemigroups and on similar simpler structures can be obtained.