Browsing by Subject "Embodiment"

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    Mapping the body: major conceptions of human embodiment from the West
    (1998) Ayaş, Ahmet Murat
    Within the humanistic and social sciences of the western world, the human body, the state of being embodied, and the indelible interrelatedness of mind and the body have long been neglected in favour of the mind that is supposedly self-contained. The major reasons for that are claimed to be the philosophy of Cartesianism and mainstream Structuralism that foster the hegemony of dichotomous thought, which asserts that mind and the body are clearly distinct. Deconstructionist tools, however, have shown the impossibility of such an unequivocal distinction as well as pure totality and isolated presence. The main theme of this study is to map the major western conceptions that either implicitly or explicitly have developed notions of the body and embodiment which are in various fashions away from the constraints which have opposed the body to mind or which have considered the body as a closed, universal, nonhistorical biological entity. The notions that are developed in that way have the capacity to show that the body, as much as the psyche and the subject, is both cultural and historical product bearing peculiar natural qualities that position it as both an object and subject with powers of being affected and to affect others. The study concludes with a discussion on the significance and importance of the need to develop an adequate understanding of the body that eventually would enrich the ethical and political actions as well as the approach to art, design and architecture.
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    Observational cinema and embodied vision
    (2011) Uslu, Ayşe
    The aim of this study is to discuss the notion of embodiment in respect of Merleau Ponty's philosophy of phenomenology and its relation to observational cinema. For this aim, this thesis dwells on the embodied nature of perception of seeing and its relation to epistemological approaches that understand the process of thinking and knowing either based on dualisms of body and mind, subject and object or interdependency of them. It is argued that phenomenological understanding of bodily experience provides a basis for the constitution of knowledge without a separation of thought and sensuous experience, self and other. Thus, when the cinema is considered as a way of thinking through images or producing knowledge via images, phenomenological perspectives allows us to understand filmmaking, film viewing and film experience in general considering embodied recprocity between images of 􀁒􀁗􀁋􀁈􀁕􀂶􀁖􀀃􀁅􀁒􀁇􀁌􀁈􀁖􀀃and our own bodily experience in the world. Since the underlying idea is that language and body involve in each other within experience as being in the world and the body as the house of the language is the structuring structure of it by preceding it.
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    Optimal pattern of technology adoptions under embodiment: a multi-stage optimal control approach
    (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2011) Saglam, C.
    By deriving the necessary conditions for a multi-stage optimal control problem where the endogenous switching instants appear as an argument of the state equation, we analyze the optimal pattern of technology adoptions under embodiment with a finite planning horizon. We show that the optimal pattern of technology adoptions depends crucially on how the growth rate advantage compares to the adjustment and the obsolescence costs inherent to embodiment. We obtain non-stationary lifetimes for the adopted technologies due to finite planning horizon. We analyze numerically the effects of planning horizon, speed of adjustment to the new technology, growth rate of technology and the impatience rate on the optimal pattern. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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    Optimal timing of an energy saving technology adoption
    (2011) Harmankaya, Mehmet Fatih
    In this thesis, we use two stage optimal control techniques to analyze the optimal timing of energy saving technology adoptions. We assume that the physical capital goods sector is relatively more energy intensive than consumption goods sector. First, we solve a benchmark problem without exogenously growing energy saving technology frontier. In such a case, the economy sticks either to the initial technology or immediately switches to a new technology, depending on the growth rate advantage compared to the obsolescence and adjustment costs. In the second step, we introduce exogenously growing energy saving technology frontier. The anticipated level of the technology provides incentives to delay the adoption and generates an interior switching time. Finally, we analyze numerically the e§ects of the speed of adjustment to the new technology, growth rate of technology, subjective time preference and planning horizon on the optimal timing of technology adoption.