• 제목/요약/키워드: Postmodern Science

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윌리엄 블레이크와 지식의 네트워크 -시와 과학의 소통을 중심으로 (William Blake and the Network of Knowledge: Centering on the Communication of Poetry and Science)

  • 이성범
    • 영어영문학
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    • 제58권4호
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    • pp.723-752
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    • 2012
  • Although his mythic poetry deals with the fall and resurrection of Albion as the origin of humankind, William Blake (1757-1827) simultaneously links it to the professionalization and unification of disciplinary knowledge itself. He particularly takes a great interest in the cross-referential relation of poetry to science. He argues for the communication of poetry and science on equal footing with each other without the former's prioritization over the latter, or vice versa. In his works Vala, or The Four Zoas (1797-1807) and Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804-1820), on which I focus in this essay, Blake's primary problematic is to display strong conflicts among different systems of knowledge. I approach this issue in light of the ideological clash of Newtonian thought, Romantic thought, and postmodern thought. In his poetry, Blake thematizes the very clashes of these different thought patterns. From the standpoint of Romantic thought, first of all, Blake problematizes Newtonian Enlightenment. He criticizes abstract universalization both in poetry and science, which Urizen, one of four Zoas, propagates. Protesting against Urizen's Newtonism, Los values "living form." Thus, Blake demonstrates, through this figure, that poetic imagination and scientific organicism are discursively communicative. Blake, however, also questions the network of Romantic science and Romantic poetry so as to suggest what current critics would call postmodern thought. Blakean postmodernism pursues the self-similarity of organic structure in science and poetry. Precisely, Blake sees polypus as a proliferation of organic body; he arranges four Zoas' self-repetitive stories in a non-linear way. Blake aspires for the conflicting coexistence of different thought patterns.

Experiencing the Art/Craft/Handmade/Studio Furniture Aesthetics in Postmodernism Theoretically(II) -Interpreting the Postmodern Furniture Aesthetics in terms of Symbol and Metaphor-

  • Moon, Sun-Ok
    • 한국가구학회지
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    • 제19권6호
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    • pp.498-506
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    • 2008
  • This study explored interpretation of the symbolical and metaphorical aesthetics in experiencing art/craft/handmade/studio furniture theoretically for 'wood culture experience class' or 'wood love experience class' by the Korea Forest Service because the class tends to focus on making simple wood works involved just in the practical part. Qualitative conceptual analysis as the principal methodology was used to achieve the theoretical context in the experience programs. After the lesson one on defining the postmodern aesthetics in New Design furniture as metaphor in the previous paper, I developed lesson two for an aesthetics of art and everyday life with wood furniture which expresses the metaphorical and symbolical aesthetics appeared as New Design furniture in postmodernism. As statement of objective in the second lesson, I explored that students in elementary schools personally transform and interpret the postmodern aesthetics of New Design furniture metaphorically with the meanings of symbol. As a result, the students will be able to write about the aesthetics of New Design furniture as metaphor in interpretation transformed by his/her perspective of a piece of selected New Design furniture.

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포스트모더니즘과 간호의 이슈 (Postmodernism and the Issue of Nursing)

  • 공병혜
    • 대한간호학회지
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    • 제34권3호
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    • pp.389-399
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    • 2004
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to illustrate the main stream of postmodernism which has influenced theory and research in the nursing science, and then to consider the meaning and value of what the postmodern perspective has meant to nursing science in the 21st century. Method: Derrida and Foucaults philosophical thoughts that characterized postmodernism through the interpretation of their major literature was studied. Based on their philosophy, it was shownhow Derrida's idea could be applied in de constructing the core paradigm in modern nursing science. In terms of Foucault's post-structuralism, reinterpretation of the nursing science in relation to power/knowledge was completed. Result: Postmodernism created multiple and diverse paradigms of nursing theory as well as nursing research. This was accomplished by de constructing the modernism of nursing science which was based on the positivism and medical-cure centralism. Specifically, the post-structuralist perspective revealed issuesaround the relationship of power and knowledge, which dominated and produced modern nursing science. Contemporary nursing science accepts pluralism and needs no unitary meta-paradigm, which can reintegrate multiple and diverse paradigms. Conclusion: In considering the issue of nursing science in postmodernism, it can be summarized as follows: the postmodern thinking discovers and reveals diverse and potential nursing values which were veiled by the domination of western modem nursing science. These were motivated to create nursing knowledge by conversation in interpersonal relationships, which can contribute to practical utilities for the caring-healing situation.

Illustrative Mechanism and Fantastic Organism in Postmodern American Science Fiction

  • 김일구
    • 영어어문교육
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    • 제11권3호
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    • pp.25-38
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    • 2005
  • Postmodern American science fiction authors often dramatize the human fear and hope for the newly emerging artificial life forms. For example, Helen as an advanced artificial intelligence Richard Power's Galatea 2.2 shows that the student's memorizing efforts for exams can be useless someday. In Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash machines are liable to be infected with viruses like human bodies. In He, She and It, Piercy's parallel of an artificial human (Yod) and a mythic personification (Golem) allegorically reveals the pandora-like unpredictable effect of advanced technology. More than the mechanical entities (the diffusion and linear models for Latour), these biologically artificial entities reveal the limitations of even the fantastically idealized technology simply because the human being as the creators or impersonators of these machines are not perfect. Compared to illustrative mechanism, biologically artificial entities (Latour's transition or whirlwind models) are inherently rebellious because of their closeness to the creators. The Butler's organic environmental interaction of the Earthseed convincingly demonstrates how the wrong use of science ruins the holy earth and also how human beings survive through the right use of effective science with the aid of anthroposophy.

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수학에서의 포스트모던 경향 -퍼지논리를 중심으로

  • 박창균
    • 한국수학사학회지
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    • 제12권2호
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    • pp.135-141
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    • 1999
  • It can be said that postmodernism shows a tendency to be anti-Descartes in the sense that it criticizes modern rationality which has started from Descartes. This paper suggests the relationship between modernism and postmodernism and that between. traditional Mathematics and fuzzy logic in three aspects, and shows that fuzzy logic tends to be a postmodern science in Mathematics.

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Critical Discourse of Postmodern Aesthetics in Contemporary Furniture (III) - Consideration of the Ecology of Our Environment in New Design Furniture in terms of the Postmodern Aesthetics of Communication

  • 문선옥
    • 한국가구학회지
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.23-34
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    • 2003
  • 이 논문은 우리 환경의 생태계 보호를 위하여 뉴 디자인 가구가 어떻게 창조되고 있는지를 연구하였다. 즉, 오늘날 포스트 모던 시대에 뉴 디자인 가구 디자이너들이 환경 문제의 해결점의 하나로 새롭고 다른 방향으로 자신들의 가구를 창조할 수 있는가에 관한 담론이다. 우리가 안고 있는 생태계 보호를 위한 가구를 디자인할 때 필요한 재사용 및 재활용이 가능한 재료들, 유행을 초월한 가구, 가구의 견고성, 대량 생산 가구 등이 심각하게 분석되었다. 이 분석에 따르면 뉴 디자인 가구 디자이너들은 재활용된 재료들, 주거 환경 및 지속성, 새로운 가구 미학을 내포한 새로운 가구 디자인 철학을 얻을 수 있었다. 대량 생산된 가구는 경제성 때문에 많은 대중에게 접근되는 좋은 점보다는 우리에게 더 많은 쓰레기 더미를 준다라는 사실이 뉴 디자인 가구 다자이너들에게는 매우 심각한 문제였다. 따라서 가구 디자이너들이 양보다는 질에 중점을 둔 가구를 창조하는 것이 필요하다는 것이다. 결론적으로 환경적 책임을 느낀 뉴 디자인 가구 디자이너들은 튼튼하면서 재활용될 수 있으며 유행을 초월한 기능적이면서도 미적인 가구를 창조할 때만이 뉴 디자인 가구론 구입하는 소비자들이 뉴 디자인 가구를 올바른 방향에서 인식할 수 있을 것이다.

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포스트모던 생태학과 공생과 차이로서의 환경정의 (Postmodern Ecology and Environmental Justice as Symbiosis and Difference)

  • 최병두
    • 대한지리학회지
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    • 제36권3호
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    • pp.292-312
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    • 2001
  • 오늘날 생태위기는 흔히 주체와 객체, 인간과 자연간의 데카르트적 이분법에 기초하여 자연을 대상화하고 도구적으로 정복한 근대성의 결과라고 이해된다. 이에 따라 근대성에 반대하고 나아가 생태위기를 해결하기 위한 새로운 환경론이 중요한 의미를 가지게 되었다. 본 논문은 근대성에 반대하여 새로운 담론 및 정치를 구축하고자 하는 포스트모던 패러다임 특히 탈구조주의자들의 주장이나 이론들 속에 함의되어 있는 생태학적 논의들을 검토하고. 나아가 이러한 포스트모던 생태학에 근거한 환경정의론의 가능성을 모색함을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 본 논문은 우선 탈구조주의 일반에서 찾아 볼 수 있는 생태학적 논의와 환경윤리적 함의를 검토하고, 탈구조주의자들 가운데 가장 명시적으로 생태학적 논의를 담고 있는 들뢰즈의 철학에서 '행동학'과 '리좀적 자연주의'에 초점을 두고 그의 뛰어난 생태학적 통찰력을 고찰하며, 끌으로 포스트모던 관점에서 '차이'를 이론화하고자 한 생물지역주의 그리고 특히 들뢰즈의 생태학에서 핵심을 이루고 있는 공생과 타이를 환경정의의 입장에서 이해하고자 한다.

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엘리자베스 머레이 작품에 나타난 '바이오 형상성'에 관한 문제 (The Problem of 'Bio morphism' in the works of Elizabeth Murray)

  • 박지숙
    • 조형예술학연구
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    • 제4권
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    • pp.91-122
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    • 2002
  • `Bio morphism` are constituted in paintings where the artists try to embody the elementary properties of living creature as of growth and durability. They are the most appropriate concept of painting to harmonize human being with nature closely. The formative ways of them attach great importance to both unconsciousness and desire , as well as variations or dynamics, by noticing a flow of natural senses and feelings of human being. In other words, the formative ways are based on a recognition of nature as the intrinsic force of life, with the result that aesthetics of incompleteness is embodied in images. Therefore they are clearly distinguished from that of functional, geometric images. A tendency of painting at that time, in a word, 'return to figure and expression', means a conversion into organic images like the incomplete, atypical, and biomorphic forms, while denying the mechanical or geometric. Elizabeth Murray are analyzed, for these works are remarkable in the characteristics of 'Bio morphism'. Consequently the features of organic images, that is, 'the formative acceptance of natural figures, or an informality' and 'the force of free will, or an incompleteness', could obviously be revealed. It is a type that obtains a motif out of natural figures like an animal, a plant, or the concrete figures of human being. In conclusion, this thesis is focused on not only emphasizing that 'Bio morphism' were a major tendency among the various trends of postmodern painting in the 20th century, but also analysing both the painterly formation of organic images and the structure of them. In addition to these points, it is a central aim to evoke that Bio morphism should accurately be evaluated and positioned in postmodern painting. A new recognition of 'Bio morphism' is a peculiarity of the times that reflects a cultural aspect of the present, hence it should be recognized as another way to approach the postmodern painting.

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