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The humanities between global integration and cultural diversity
\"The disposition of the humanities formed in the age of modernity has come under scrutiny. Pushed by digitization, globalization, and new concepts for the study of culture, the humanities were forced to reorient themselves. Focusing on the relational dynamics between global integration and cultural diversification, this volume explores the transdisciplinary and transnational reconfiguration of the humanities under the impact of globalization\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Humanities between Global Integration and Cultural Diversity
Modernization and digital globalization have proven to mark major thresholds where paradigmatic shifts and realignments take place. This volume aims to capture the reconfiguration of humanistic study between the forces of global integration and cultural diversification from a full range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.
The key issue is discussed in three major parts. The first chapter examines transnational interpolations of the humanities as potential indicator for a globalizing humanistic research. The second chapter deals with humanistic revisions of modernity with and against globality. The third chapter discusses the ambiguous constitution of cultural diversity as a complement and counter-movement to global integration, ideologically moving between social cohesion and exclusion. The final chapter outlines what the threshold-crossing from modern to global humanities will mean for the future of humanistic research.
The multidisciplinary study of culture within the history of the humanities documents and reflects the mobility and migration of its concepts and methods, moving and translating between disciplines, research traditions, historical periods, academic institutions, and the public sphere.
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(Dis-)Embedding Museums: On the Creation of New Urban Museumscapes in Hong Kong and Seoul
Driven by global economic and cultural competition, Asian megacities seek future-oriented local and global self-representation using cutting-edge museums of contemporary art. This article analyzes the embedding of two vanguard museum projects, the \"Museum+\" in Hong Kong, China, and the new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, into long-term urban planning strategies and concepts. In order to understand the intended purpose and process of how the new museums of contemporary art are devised as public spaces of cultural self-representation and urban identity building, the study monitors the complete design process from the city government's urban and institutional planning strategies over architectural design to the museum's mission statement and collection strategy. By comparatively tracing the museum projects in Hong Kong and Seoul, the evidence shows that, although they share a common global cities agenda, their pathways of urban place-making and community-building vary greatly. These variations depend on the historical role and current geopolitical repositioning of each city.
Journal Article
(Ideo-)Logical Alliances between Image and Script: Calligraphic Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Art
In East Asian culture, image and script form a very strong alliance. Because (artistic) forms of visual representation grew out of a script/literate culture, a specific mode of scriptural iconicity developed. When Western body and performance art found its way into Chinese contemporary visual arts in the nineties, this traditional scriptovisual paradigm was challenged and infiltrated. The author argues that in response to the challenge of Western models of body representation and embodiment, calligraphy as scriptural body projection, as well as traditional print and stamp practices, were revived and reconfigured by contemporary Chinese body and performance artists, be it to redefine cultural, personal, and bodily identity, or to undermine critically the socialist cultural paradigm of writing as pre-scription and in-scription into the body. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Nature's Hand
In the history of abstract art, the bodily gesture of writing represents one path leading to abstraction. The significance of the scriptural, or rather scribbling gesture for abstract painting has been stressed with particular regard to American Abstract Expressionism, and among this principally action-painting. Beside these expressive and explosive modes of artistic self-creation, a more quiet and introspective, although nonetheless energetic, approach to abstraction with references to pictorial writing can be found throughout American and European tendencies of gestural abstraction. It is most pronounced in French Tachist and Informel artists who preferentially departed from handwriting and script/ure. Because the vast majority of these artists—among them being André Masson, Georges Mathieu, Henri Michaux, Pierre Soulages, and Michel Tapié—adopted calligraphy and other forms of ideographic and pictorial writing, this tendency of abstraction was also named “calli-graphic abstraction.”
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Functional role of TASK-1 in the heart: studies in TASK-1-deficient mice show prolonged cardiac repolarization and reduced heart rate variability
TASK-1, a member of the recently identified K2P channel family, is mainly expressed in the heart and the nervous system. TASK-1 is regulated by several physiological and pathological conditions and functions as a background potassium channel. However, there are limited data concerning the significance of TASK-1 in cardiac physiology. We studied the functional role of TASK-1 in the heart by cardiac phenotyping the TASK-1-deficient mouse (TASK-1
−/−
). TASK-1 was predominantly expressed in the ventricles of control animals. Real-time PCR and immunoblot demonstrated that the expression of seven other K2P channels was unchanged in TASK-1
−/−
mice. No structural or functional abnormalities were found by histology and echocardiography. Electrophysiological studies recording monophasic action potentials (MAPs) showed a significant prolongation of action potential duration in spontaneously beating and atrially paced hearts, respectively. Surface ECGs of TASK-1
−/−
mice revealed a significant prolongation of the rate corrected QT interval. Telemetric ECG recordings for 24 h, during physical and pharmacological stress testing and after ischemia/reperfusion injury did not result in a higher incidence of arrhythmias. Infarct size was comparable in both genotypes. However, TASK-1
−/−
mice had a higher mean heart rate and significantly reduced heart rate variability (HRV). Time and frequency domain measurements as well as baroreceptor reflex testing revealed a sympathovagal imbalance with a shift to an increase in sympathetic influence in TASK-1
−/−
mice. In conclusion, TASK-1 plays a functional role in the repolarization of the cardiac action potential in vivo and contributes to the maintenance of HRV.
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