Concrete Abstract: Exploring Tactility in Abstract Animations from Early Avant-garde Films to Contemporary Artworks

After witnessing social chaos and the collapse of values at the beginning of the twentieth century, avant-garde artists insert new thought patterns and progressive aesthetic into the traditional perception of art. Being enthralled by the new film medium, former painters like Viking Eggeling, Walther Ruttman and Hans Richter start to experiment with light in two-dimensional film formats, they animate lines, stripes, basic shapes, play with the foreground and the background, and, most important of all, they construct a temporality within the visual order of the screen. Viking Eggeling’s Symphonie Diagonale (1921-24), Walther Ruttman’s Opus I (1921) and Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21 (1921) show such temporality built in, which is caught by the idea of music as their titles suggest. These short abstract animation films attempt to discover the artistic possibilities of the new developing medium, film. Like the pioneer avant-garde abstract filmmakers, today’s artists still seek to stimulate a new perception for a possible embodiment that will activate the sense of touch in the audience. Tactility, enhanced by the material, opens up a new network of spatio-temporal relationships in the viewer's consciousness and subjecthood. This essay aims to bring a historical perspective to the abstract moving images of which the tactile or haptic experience is a defining characteristic. Through a selection of abstract animations, the materiality of the film image and the screening site will be elaborated upon according to the haptic features that are corporally embodied by the viewers. In the light of historical abstract animation, the aim is to dwell upon the dynamics of a continuous tendency to capture tactile instances to help bring forth the spatial resonances as well as visualize and reedify the rhythmic passing of time.

“Who I Am Now, Is More Me.” An Interview Study of Patients’ Reflections 10 Years After Exhaustion Disorder

Aim: To achieve a deeper understanding of the patient’s perception regarding individual aspects related to the development of exhaustion, hindering and supporting factors in the recovery process, and potential remaining consequences, 7–12 years after receiving an exhaustion disorder diagnosis.Participants and Methods: Twenty patients previously diagnosed with and treated for exhaustion disorder were interviewed 7–12 years after onset of the disease. The semi-structured interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed with inductive content analysis.Results: Three main themes with patterns of shared meaning resulted from the analysis: “it’s about who I am,” “becoming a more authentic me,” and “the struggle never ends.” The interviewees described rehabilitation from exhaustion disorder as the start of an important personal development toward a truer and more authentic self-image. They perceived this as an ongoing long-lasting process where learned behavior and thought patterns related to overcommitment and overcompliance needed to be re-evaluated. The results also convey long-term consequences such as cognitive difficulties and reduces energy, uncertainty about one’s own health, and the need to prioritize among one’s relationships.Conclusion: Patients with exhaustion disorder are still struggling with dysfunctional strategies and functional impairments such as cognitive problems which limit their lives, 10 years after receiving their exhaustion disorder diagnosis. While informants describe some positive consequences of ED, the results also emphasize the importance of acknowledging that the patients are embedded in systems of relationships, in working life as well as in family life. This needs to be considered, together with other aspects, when working toward prevention of stress-related mental health problems.

Internalisasi Nilai Universal Islam dalam Dakwah di Era Revolusi Industri 4.0

The development of science and technology in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 is very rapid. Patterns of interaction and human thought patterns and even religious patterns can change. Thus, it is necessary to internalize islamic values into the soul of the Muslim community. This paper wants to study how the method of internalizing universal Islamic values into da’wah activities.AbstrakPerkembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi di era revolusi industri 4.0 sangat pesat. Pola interaksi dan pola pikir manusia bahkan pola beragama pun dapat mengalami perubahan. Dengan demikian perlu dilakukan internalisasi nilai-nilai Islam dalam diri masyarakat muslim. Tulisan ini ingin mengkaji bagaimana metode internalisasi nilai-nilai universal Islam ke dalam kegiatan dakwah.

Language and thinking: a contrastive characterization of English, French, German and Russian, with its application to language pedagogy

This paper seeks to give in a concise manner a holistic characterization of English, French, German and Russian, revealing at the same time the types of thinking (or thought patterns) involving these languages. The four languages are characterized respectively as being experiential/pragmatic, rational/ dualistic, idealistic, and antithetical. Based on these observations, some suggestions as to the pedagogy of foreign languages are also made.

Efek Penggunaan Gadget terhadap Social Behavior Mahasiswa dalam Dimensi Globalisasi

Kehadiran gadget ditengah-tengah masyarakat kontemporer dalam arus globalisasi berpotensi memberikan dua sisi yang berbeda, positif maupun negatif. Tantangan utama sistem pendidikan di Indonesia saat ini adalah bagaimana para praktisi pendidikan proses pembelajaran yang dapat menjaga moralitas dan religiusitas dalam diri generasi muda dari pengaruh buruk globalisasi tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan dalam rangka mengeksplorasi dampak penggunaan gadget terhadap sikap social behaviour mahasiswa di perguruan tinggi. Metode penelitian menggunakan pendekatan mix method dengan menggabungkan kualitatif melalui teknik wawancara dengan kuantitatif dengan teknik questioner. Pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik random sampling. Adapun partisipan pada riset ini sejumlah 75 orang. Lalu data yang ditemukan dilapangan dianalisis dan divalidasi oleh ahli. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya relevansi koneksitas antara penggunaan gadget dengan perubahan dinamika perilaku sosial pada mahasiswa di perguruan tinggi. 43,80% mereka menghabiskan waktu lebih 10 jam perhari menggunakan gadget, Whatsapp menempati rangking pertama dalam pilihan platform, 45,90% lebih menyukai gadget dari pada aktivitas sosial, 83,80% memiliki ketergantungan terhadap gadget. Globalisasi menjadi salah satu faktor penyebab perubahan arus aktivitas dan pola pemikiran pada masyarakat modern khususnya generasi milennial.The Effects of Using Gadgets on Student Social Behaviour in Globalization DimensionsThe presence of gadgets during contemporary society in the flow of globalization provides two different sides, positive and negative. The main challenge of the education system in Indonesia today is how to start a learning process education that can maintain morality and religiosity in creating the bad effects of globalization. This study aims to explore the impact of using gadgets on the social behaviour attitudes of college students. The research method used a mixed approach method by combining qualitative through interview techniques with quantitative questionnaire techniques. Collecting data using random sampling techniques as participants in this research several 75 people. Then the data found in the field are analysed and validated by experts. The results showed the relevance of the connectivity between the use of gadgets and changes in the dynamics of social behaviour in college students. 43.80% of them spend more than 10 hours using gadgets, WhatsApp has been ranked first in the choice of platform, 45.90% prefers gadgets to social activities, 83.80% have a dependency on gadgets. Globalization is one of the factors causing changes in the flow of activities and thought patterns in modern society, especially the millennial generation

The impact of social isolation and changes in work patterns on ongoing thought during the first COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom

The COVID-19 pandemic led to lockdowns in countries across the world, changing the lives of billions of people. The United Kingdom’s first national lockdown, for example, restricted people’s ability to socialize and work. The current study examined how changes to socializing and working during this lockdown impacted ongoing thought patterns in daily life. We compared the prevalence of thought patterns between two independent real-world, experience-sampling cohorts, collected before and during lockdown. In both samples, young (18 to 35 y) and older (55+ y) participants completed experience-sampling measures five times daily for 7 d. Dimension reduction was applied to these data to identify common “patterns of thought.” Linear mixed modeling compared the prevalence of each thought pattern 1) before and during lockdown, 2) in different age groups, and 3) across different social and activity contexts. During lockdown, when people were alone, social thinking was reduced, but on the rare occasions when social interactions were possible, we observed a greater increase in social thinking than prelockdown. Furthermore, lockdown was associated with a reduction in future-directed problem solving, but this thought pattern was reinstated when individuals engaged in work. Therefore, our study suggests that the lockdown led to significant changes in ongoing thought patterns in daily life and that these changes were associated with changes to our daily routine that occurred during lockdown.

Nilai Kepuasan Pengunjung Saung Angklung Udjo

Customers are important people in business organizations, do not depend on the company, not people for debate, so that customer desires are the company's duty to be realized. The study purpose is to explain customer satisfaction value as an impact of implementing customer value. The verification method is used to explain the effect of customer value on customer satisfaction with regression analysis. The results explain that Saung Angklung Udjo performance art is a traditional art performance producing beautiful tones, can foster audience enjoyment and satisfaction, the impact of the growing value of performing arts, service, personal, image and cost value. The growth in visitor value has an impact on the growth of visitor satisfaction so as to foster knowledge, a sense of pleasure and the return of fresh feeling to people who experience boredom from their daily routines. This is an important aspect in society that can be used as a reference in the process of interaction as well as a pattern of behaviour and group thought patterns that are mutually recognized in travelling

Beyond the Limitations of Binary Thinking: Mindfulness and the Tetralemma

Various dimensions of the cultivation of mindfulness in its early Buddhist historical setting can be better appreciated in the light of their doctrinal background. One aspect of this doctrinal background is the ancient Indian tetralemma, which differs from the Aristotelian logic that has informed much of Western thought. The tetralemma proposes that, in addition to affirmation and denial, at times a particular situation may be more appropriately captured by a combination of both (partly yes and partly no). Or else, another situation may call for neither affirmation nor negation. Although at first sight the resultant fourfold perspective can appear puzzling, closer inspection shows this model of thought to have a considerable potential for countering mental rigidity and enabling the transcendence of binary thought patterns, thereby being perhaps relevant to research on the relationship between mindfulness and cognitive flexibility.

Error Analysis – Types and Causes of Errors in English Writing among Chinese Students

This article analyzes errors with regard to the types and causes of errors commonly committed by Chinese EFL (English as a foreign language) learners. It covers the concepts and theories concerning error analysis, synthesizes previous research, as well as identifies the flaws and gaps found in those literatures. This article provides several teaching suggestions based on previous analyses, which have found that the misuse of verbs and articles are the most common errors in English writing among Chinese students. Based on this, most studies attributed those errors to the negative transfer of Chinese due to the thought patterns and disparities between Chinese and English.

Pengembangan Modul untuk Guru dalam Meningkatkan Self Efficacy Sains Siswa SMA

Students often interpret science lessons as more difficult lessons compared to other subjects because these subjects require more learning effort and when students lose their desire to follow science subjects, they tend to perceive less ability in the field of science, this can have an impact on unsatisfactory student learning outcomes. Self-efficacy is the strongest predictor of academic achievement, because self-efficacy influences behavioural choices, namely choosing the field to be mastered, determining how much effort is exerted and influencing thought patterns and emotional reactions. Self-efficacy can be grown and learned. Therefore, the teacher's role is very important in increasing student self-efficacy. This study was conducted to find out the description of the self-efficacy of high school students towards science lessons, the factors that cause science high school students to have low self-efficacy, what efforts have been made and what efforts have not been made by teachers to overcome the problems of students who have low science self-efficacy. Based on the results of data collection, a module for teachers was compiled which aims to increase students' self-efficacy towards science lessons.