The contribution aims to examine the co-implications between Serres’work and posthumanist ideas of body and subjectivity.This scope is pursued primarily through the methodological choice of a gerund,such as silencing...The contribution aims to examine the co-implications between Serres’work and posthumanist ideas of body and subjectivity.This scope is pursued primarily through the methodological choice of a gerund,such as silencing,and the harnessing of its performative,processual,and relational value.Building on Serres’conception of silence as a dilation of the me the paper will follow Serresian anti-Cartesian reflections on the interchangeability of subject and object,his conception of the pre-positional body,and his thematization of the soul-body relationship.In close inter-implication with the employment of silencing is then the choice,again as a methodological device,of the preposition trans,made to act in order to explore the affinities/overlaps/assonances between Serres’theorization of the body,dimension of the human,and posthumanist conceptions of body/subjectivity.展开更多
Faced with the challenge of arguments about the relation of post-,and trans-humanism,putting forth questions on their“antagonism”,or“convergence”,I propose to(re-)evaluate/highlight the relevance of the thinking o...Faced with the challenge of arguments about the relation of post-,and trans-humanism,putting forth questions on their“antagonism”,or“convergence”,I propose to(re-)evaluate/highlight the relevance of the thinking of Michel Serres for posthuman debates.It specifically seems to me that Serresian idea of bodily hominescence can be read as a suggestion of“convergence”of post-and trans-humanism.Starting from the assumption that the body is a crucial node of both of them in that its consideration by one and the other marks a major front of their divergence(tool body according to transhumanism,dimensional body according to posthumanism),I seem to grasp,within the Serresian theme of the hominescent body as totipotent/virtual,the idea of bodily virtuality as a point of their convergence.Following Serres’s argument that,due to its virtuality/potentiality(intended as the totality of the possibilities),the body,though always involved in(technological)hybridization processes,is difficult to be artificially reproduced and to be reduced to information,I assume virtuality as an“operational concept”capable of“producing”convergence of post-and trans-humanism.Such a concept allows me,in fact,to read the body(re-)invested,by technology as an infiltrative agent,of a dimensional role as hybridizer(and in this sense normalized).Through virtuality,therefore,I think to be able to understand the body as a meeting ground between trans-and post-component,in the sense that technological“intervention”no longer constitutes an enhancement of the body,but a hybridizing event not implying dis-incarnation but rather normalization of body’s dimensional value;precisely such,due eminently to hybridization with otherness within a process of technological infiltration.The body normalized by such a technology is therefore a trans-posthuman body,in the sense of being contaminated by technological processes keeping it in its dimensionality.In order to better illustrate this idea,I propose to examine Serresian metaphor of the body as a trunk without branches with cultural cut twigs,which seems to me to effectively express the theme of the body as a ground/condition of hybridization,i.e.,as an anthropo-techno-poietic dimension.I aim so at showing the relevance of Serres’s thought to conceive,in a convergent perspective,a body,not to be strengthened,but to be normalized in its dimensionality,namely,a trans/posthuman body in a trans/posthumanist context.展开更多
The regional distribution of perceived temperatures （PT） for 28 major weather stations in South Korea during the past 22 years （1983-2004） was investigated by employing a human heat budget model, the Klima-Michel ...The regional distribution of perceived temperatures （PT） for 28 major weather stations in South Korea during the past 22 years （1983-2004） was investigated by employing a human heat budget model, the Klima-Michel model. The frequencies of a cold stress and a heat load by each region were compared. The sensitivity of PT in terms of the input of synoptic meteorological variables were successfully tested. Seogwipo in Jeju Island appears to be the most comfortable city in Korea. Busan also shows a high frequency in the comfortable PT range. The frequency of the thermal comfort in Seoul is similar to that of Daejeon with a relatively low frequency. In this study, inland cities like Daegu and Daejeon had very hot thermal sensations. Low frequencies of hot thermal sensations appeared in coastal cities （e.g., Busan, Incheon, and Seogwipo）. Most of the 28 stations in Korea exhibited a comfort thermal sensation over 40% in its frequency, except for the mountainous regions. The frequency of a heat load is more frequent than that of a cold stress. There are no cities with very cold thermal sensations. In this study, we found the decreasing trend of mortality with an increasing PT. If the PT is over any critical temperature point, however, the mortality rate increases again. The mortality variation with the PT of a station seems to be associated with the latitudinal location of the station, implying that it results from a regional acclimation effect of inhabitants.展开更多
Faced with a socio-political-mediatic arena that continues to return the ballet of pandemic,climate change,fourth industrial revolution,sixth mass extinction,war etc.,the reflection of Michel Serres and Posthumanism p...Faced with a socio-political-mediatic arena that continues to return the ballet of pandemic,climate change,fourth industrial revolution,sixth mass extinction,war etc.,the reflection of Michel Serres and Posthumanism put forth instances for silencing of the anthropocentric logos,and for recognition of the multiplicity,variety,possibility of things and of the human in co-belonging with them,as well as instances for working on these same multiplicities,varieties,possibilities,that are often absences,black holes,repressed of philosophical thought.展开更多
Short,momentary,temporary,transient,precarious,and labile are adjectives that the current post-pandemic,ecological,climatic,war,political,economic,and social contingencies have accustomed us to employ almost compulsiv...Short,momentary,temporary,transient,precarious,and labile are adjectives that the current post-pandemic,ecological,climatic,war,political,economic,and social contingencies have accustomed us to employ almost compulsively and indiscriminately by now,and that,beyond everything,are synonyms inter-implicit with and in the ephemerality,which deserves reconsideration in its literalness as epìheméra(for a day),that can take place through a sort of its“double”,not quite mainstream but nonetheless suggestive and perhaps even effective,such as the artistic one of dance.Therefore,it is worth pausing to try and see which streaks/implications of the ephemerality itself the dance-ephemeral conveys and/or produces:the neuralgic concretions that the latter seems to me to involve and permeate,in a perspective of re-cognition/re-discovery/awareness,are time,space and the body,evidently inter-implicated.展开更多
The finite element method to form Michell truss in three_dimensions is presented.The orthotropic composite with fiber_reinforcement is employed as the material model to simulate Michell truss.The orientation and densi...The finite element method to form Michell truss in three_dimensions is presented.The orthotropic composite with fiber_reinforcement is employed as the material model to simulate Michell truss.The orientation and densities of fibers at nodes are taken as basic design variables.The stresses and strains at nodes are calculated by finite element method.An iteration scheme is suggested to adjust the orientations of fibers to be along the orientations of principal stresses, and the densities of fibers according to the strains in the orientations of fibers.The strain field satisfying Michell criteria and truss_like continuum are achieved after several iterations. Lastly, the Michell truss is showed by continuous lines, which are formed according to the orientations of fibers at nodes. Several examples are used to demonstrate the efficiency of the presented approach.展开更多
Starting from the question of whether there is still a space for religious experience in posthumanist reflection,and if so,how this space can be configured,the contribution first examines nerve nodes/junctions,such as...Starting from the question of whether there is still a space for religious experience in posthumanist reflection,and if so,how this space can be configured,the contribution first examines nerve nodes/junctions,such as body/nudity,bonds/intersections,Biogea/Sciences of Life and Earth,in which the thought of Michel Serres,at the same time,is intertwined,so to speak,with the posthumanist one,and develops its Franciscanism.Through this analysis,the contribution opens itself the possibility of identifying/proposing,in an idea of religion(religio)as etymologically understood by Serres in the sense of bond/relationship/universal binder of livings(religare),humans and things,the space/justification of religious experience in and for the posthumanism.Mysticism of immanence within the Posthumanism?Maybe…But even further:the way is in fact that of bonding,inclusion,synthesis.展开更多
Michel Serres’s and Posthumanism’s reciprocally isomorphic reflections may offer not mainstream suggestions of an overall human repositioning,now,in times of war,pandemic/post-pandemic,environmental crisis,political...Michel Serres’s and Posthumanism’s reciprocally isomorphic reflections may offer not mainstream suggestions of an overall human repositioning,now,in times of war,pandemic/post-pandemic,environmental crisis,political,economic,and cultural problems,more mandatory than ever.If in fact,as it seems,it is question of de-anthropocentering/de-anthropomorphizing the world,to allow common principles and interrelationships between entities to emerge from within,Serresian and Posthumanist variations on the theme of the parasite/virus and the recognition of the world would provide profitable ideas on this way.展开更多
Delivering a public speech is to produce a work of verbal art.As other kinds of art,the intelligent use of techniques along with rich and true feelings makes public speech attractive.On September 4th,Michelle Obama ad...Delivering a public speech is to produce a work of verbal art.As other kinds of art,the intelligent use of techniques along with rich and true feelings makes public speech attractive.On September 4th,Michelle Obama addressed a speech at the Democratic National Party Convention for his husband-Barack Obama's re-election.In the speech,many stylistic techniques are employed that deserve a specific analysis to exhibit what they are,and how they help the speech win an active reaction from the audience.The analysis will be carried out from four perspectives,namely,phonological,lexical,syntactical and semantic analy ses.展开更多
Roland Barthes,the outstanding thinker as well as the semiologist of France,has left great contribution to us human beings.His The Death of the Author made a strong,polemical argument against the centrality of the fig...Roland Barthes,the outstanding thinker as well as the semiologist of France,has left great contribution to us human beings.His The Death of the Author made a strong,polemical argument against the centrality of the figure of the author in literary study.It states that the intentions of the author are meaningless to the interpretation of a text.Michel Foucault,the famous French philosopher and the historian in the ideology field,in his What is An Author,shows the idea of the author,as a timeless,irreducible category,is,rather,a "function" of discourse which has changed in the course of history.The author means quite different in their ideas.But what the author really is?展开更多
文摘The contribution aims to examine the co-implications between Serres’work and posthumanist ideas of body and subjectivity.This scope is pursued primarily through the methodological choice of a gerund,such as silencing,and the harnessing of its performative,processual,and relational value.Building on Serres’conception of silence as a dilation of the me the paper will follow Serresian anti-Cartesian reflections on the interchangeability of subject and object,his conception of the pre-positional body,and his thematization of the soul-body relationship.In close inter-implication with the employment of silencing is then the choice,again as a methodological device,of the preposition trans,made to act in order to explore the affinities/overlaps/assonances between Serres’theorization of the body,dimension of the human,and posthumanist conceptions of body/subjectivity.
文摘Faced with the challenge of arguments about the relation of post-,and trans-humanism,putting forth questions on their“antagonism”,or“convergence”,I propose to(re-)evaluate/highlight the relevance of the thinking of Michel Serres for posthuman debates.It specifically seems to me that Serresian idea of bodily hominescence can be read as a suggestion of“convergence”of post-and trans-humanism.Starting from the assumption that the body is a crucial node of both of them in that its consideration by one and the other marks a major front of their divergence(tool body according to transhumanism,dimensional body according to posthumanism),I seem to grasp,within the Serresian theme of the hominescent body as totipotent/virtual,the idea of bodily virtuality as a point of their convergence.Following Serres’s argument that,due to its virtuality/potentiality(intended as the totality of the possibilities),the body,though always involved in(technological)hybridization processes,is difficult to be artificially reproduced and to be reduced to information,I assume virtuality as an“operational concept”capable of“producing”convergence of post-and trans-humanism.Such a concept allows me,in fact,to read the body(re-)invested,by technology as an infiltrative agent,of a dimensional role as hybridizer(and in this sense normalized).Through virtuality,therefore,I think to be able to understand the body as a meeting ground between trans-and post-component,in the sense that technological“intervention”no longer constitutes an enhancement of the body,but a hybridizing event not implying dis-incarnation but rather normalization of body’s dimensional value;precisely such,due eminently to hybridization with otherness within a process of technological infiltration.The body normalized by such a technology is therefore a trans-posthuman body,in the sense of being contaminated by technological processes keeping it in its dimensionality.In order to better illustrate this idea,I propose to examine Serresian metaphor of the body as a trunk without branches with cultural cut twigs,which seems to me to effectively express the theme of the body as a ground/condition of hybridization,i.e.,as an anthropo-techno-poietic dimension.I aim so at showing the relevance of Serres’s thought to conceive,in a convergent perspective,a body,not to be strengthened,but to be normalized in its dimensionality,namely,a trans/posthuman body in a trans/posthumanist context.
基金supported by the Research and Development Program of KMA (GrantNo.:metri-2008-B-10)
文摘The regional distribution of perceived temperatures （PT） for 28 major weather stations in South Korea during the past 22 years （1983-2004） was investigated by employing a human heat budget model, the Klima-Michel model. The frequencies of a cold stress and a heat load by each region were compared. The sensitivity of PT in terms of the input of synoptic meteorological variables were successfully tested. Seogwipo in Jeju Island appears to be the most comfortable city in Korea. Busan also shows a high frequency in the comfortable PT range. The frequency of the thermal comfort in Seoul is similar to that of Daejeon with a relatively low frequency. In this study, inland cities like Daegu and Daejeon had very hot thermal sensations. Low frequencies of hot thermal sensations appeared in coastal cities （e.g., Busan, Incheon, and Seogwipo）. Most of the 28 stations in Korea exhibited a comfort thermal sensation over 40% in its frequency, except for the mountainous regions. The frequency of a heat load is more frequent than that of a cold stress. There are no cities with very cold thermal sensations. In this study, we found the decreasing trend of mortality with an increasing PT. If the PT is over any critical temperature point, however, the mortality rate increases again. The mortality variation with the PT of a station seems to be associated with the latitudinal location of the station, implying that it results from a regional acclimation effect of inhabitants.
文摘Faced with a socio-political-mediatic arena that continues to return the ballet of pandemic,climate change,fourth industrial revolution,sixth mass extinction,war etc.,the reflection of Michel Serres and Posthumanism put forth instances for silencing of the anthropocentric logos,and for recognition of the multiplicity,variety,possibility of things and of the human in co-belonging with them,as well as instances for working on these same multiplicities,varieties,possibilities,that are often absences,black holes,repressed of philosophical thought.
文摘Short,momentary,temporary,transient,precarious,and labile are adjectives that the current post-pandemic,ecological,climatic,war,political,economic,and social contingencies have accustomed us to employ almost compulsively and indiscriminately by now,and that,beyond everything,are synonyms inter-implicit with and in the ephemerality,which deserves reconsideration in its literalness as epìheméra(for a day),that can take place through a sort of its“double”,not quite mainstream but nonetheless suggestive and perhaps even effective,such as the artistic one of dance.Therefore,it is worth pausing to try and see which streaks/implications of the ephemerality itself the dance-ephemeral conveys and/or produces:the neuralgic concretions that the latter seems to me to involve and permeate,in a perspective of re-cognition/re-discovery/awareness,are time,space and the body,evidently inter-implicated.
文摘The finite element method to form Michell truss in three_dimensions is presented.The orthotropic composite with fiber_reinforcement is employed as the material model to simulate Michell truss.The orientation and densities of fibers at nodes are taken as basic design variables.The stresses and strains at nodes are calculated by finite element method.An iteration scheme is suggested to adjust the orientations of fibers to be along the orientations of principal stresses, and the densities of fibers according to the strains in the orientations of fibers.The strain field satisfying Michell criteria and truss_like continuum are achieved after several iterations. Lastly, the Michell truss is showed by continuous lines, which are formed according to the orientations of fibers at nodes. Several examples are used to demonstrate the efficiency of the presented approach.
文摘Starting from the question of whether there is still a space for religious experience in posthumanist reflection,and if so,how this space can be configured,the contribution first examines nerve nodes/junctions,such as body/nudity,bonds/intersections,Biogea/Sciences of Life and Earth,in which the thought of Michel Serres,at the same time,is intertwined,so to speak,with the posthumanist one,and develops its Franciscanism.Through this analysis,the contribution opens itself the possibility of identifying/proposing,in an idea of religion(religio)as etymologically understood by Serres in the sense of bond/relationship/universal binder of livings(religare),humans and things,the space/justification of religious experience in and for the posthumanism.Mysticism of immanence within the Posthumanism?Maybe…But even further:the way is in fact that of bonding,inclusion,synthesis.
文摘Michel Serres’s and Posthumanism’s reciprocally isomorphic reflections may offer not mainstream suggestions of an overall human repositioning,now,in times of war,pandemic/post-pandemic,environmental crisis,political,economic,and cultural problems,more mandatory than ever.If in fact,as it seems,it is question of de-anthropocentering/de-anthropomorphizing the world,to allow common principles and interrelationships between entities to emerge from within,Serresian and Posthumanist variations on the theme of the parasite/virus and the recognition of the world would provide profitable ideas on this way.
文摘Delivering a public speech is to produce a work of verbal art.As other kinds of art,the intelligent use of techniques along with rich and true feelings makes public speech attractive.On September 4th,Michelle Obama addressed a speech at the Democratic National Party Convention for his husband-Barack Obama's re-election.In the speech,many stylistic techniques are employed that deserve a specific analysis to exhibit what they are,and how they help the speech win an active reaction from the audience.The analysis will be carried out from four perspectives,namely,phonological,lexical,syntactical and semantic analy ses.
文摘Roland Barthes,the outstanding thinker as well as the semiologist of France,has left great contribution to us human beings.His The Death of the Author made a strong,polemical argument against the centrality of the figure of the author in literary study.It states that the intentions of the author are meaningless to the interpretation of a text.Michel Foucault,the famous French philosopher and the historian in the ideology field,in his What is An Author,shows the idea of the author,as a timeless,irreducible category,is,rather,a "function" of discourse which has changed in the course of history.The author means quite different in their ideas.But what the author really is?
