The purpose of this article is the phenomenological description of theatrical performance throughout the revision of some of the key-concepts of Hans Thies-Lehmann’s and Erika Fischer-Lichte’s ...reception theories from the perspective of Marc Richir’s thought concerning the architectonical transposition of experiencing. This revision includes the Freudian concept of “evenly hovering attention” (gleichschwebende Aufmerksamkeit) that Lehmann describes as the spectator’s optimal disposition of reception, and the concept of “perceptual multistability” which in Fischer-Lichte’s theory is meant to outline the spectator’s instability in the perception of the actor and the represented character. I will rethink the phenomenalization of the above mentioned phenomena primarily by introducing Marc Richir’s thoughts concerning the primacy of phantasia over perception and his description of the experience of the sublime. I will argue that the phenomenon of theatrical performance (in several cases) can be the ground of a collectively performed act of symbolic and aesthetic Stiftung.
This report describes the physics case, the resulting detector requirements, and the evolving detector concepts for the experimental program at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The EIC will be a ...powerful new high-luminosity facility in the United States with the capability to collide high-energy electron beams with high-energy proton and ion beams, providing access to those regions in the nucleon and nuclei where their structure is dominated by gluons. Moreover, polarized beams in the EIC will give unprecedented access to the spatial and spin structure of the proton, neutron, and light ions. The studies leading to this document were commissioned and organized by the EIC User Group with the objective of advancing the state and detail of the physics program and developing detector concepts that meet the emerging requirements in preparation for the realization of the EIC. The effort aims to provide the basis for further development of concepts for experimental equipment best suited for the science needs, including the importance of two complementary detectors and interaction regions. This report consists of three volumes. Volume I is an executive summary of our findings and developed concepts. In Volume II we describe studies of a wide range of physics measurements and the emerging requirements on detector acceptance and performance. Volume III discusses general-purpose detector concepts and the underlying technologies to meet the physics requirements. These considerations will form the basis for a world-class experimental program that aims to increase our understanding of the fundamental structure of all visible matter
Abstract A highly bino-like Dark Matter (DM), which is the Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP), could be motivated by the stringent upper bounds on the DM direct detection rates. This is ...especially so when its mass is around or below 100 GeV for which such a bound tends to get most severe. Requiring not so large a higgsino mass parameter, that would render the scenario reasonably ‘natural’, prompts such a bino-like state to be relatively light. In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), in the absence of comparably light scalars, such an excitation, if it has to be a thermal relic, is unable to meet the stringent experimental upper bound on its abundance unless its self-annihilation hits a funnel involving either the Z-boson or the Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson. We demonstrate that, in such a realistic situation, a highly bino-like DM of the popular Z 3-symmetric Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) is viable over an extended range of its mass, from our targeted maximum in the vicinity of the mass of the top quark down to about 30 GeV. This is facilitated by the presence of comparably light singlet-like states that could serve as funnel (scalars) and/or coannihilating (singlino) states even as the bino-like LSP receives a minimal (but optimal) tempering triggered by suitably light higgsino states that, in the first place, evade stringent lower bounds on their masses that can be derived from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments only in the presence of a lighter singlino-like state. An involved set of blind spot conditions is derived for the DM direct detection rates by considering for the very first time the augmented system of neutralinos comprising of the bino, the higgsinos and the singlino which highlights the important roles played by the NMSSM parameters ‘λ’ and tan β in delivering a richer phenomenology.
The article focuses on the role played by the critique of technology in the thought of German philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979). We argue that Marcuse has developed not only an important ...criticism of modern technology but also an original theory on the new possibilities of technique, based on the concept of new sensibility, developed mainly in the books An Essay on Liberty (1969) and Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972). On the basis of this hypothesis, our essay first pays particular attention to Marcuse’s analysis of instrumental rationality, where we show that according to the author’s perspective, despite technology’s use for instinctive domination, it carries emancipatory possibilities. In the second part, we analyse the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, from Karl Marx, pointing that his proposition of a freed sensibility in human’s relation to nature deeply contributes to Marcuse’s perspective of emancipation. Finally, we analyse Marcuse’s thesis developed during the 1960’s and 1970’s, showing how the author builds the proposition of new sensibility in relation to emancipatory possibilities of imagination, arguing that his analysis leads to a new form of science and to a new approach to nature.
The anti-relativist architectonic of Marc Richir allows us to rethink the foundations of psychiatry, more particularly the phenomenological psychiatry of A. Tatossian and the non-relativistic ...ethno-psychiatry of G. Devereux in their respective articulation with psychoanalysis. Instead of seeing the unconscious of psychoanalysis as universal, Richir sees it as the symbolic unconscious of our culture based first of all on the symbolic institution of philosophy. Marc Richir is thus situated in an anti-relativist perspective, which nevertheless takes into account the relativity of cultures. While a relativist says that psychic pathology is defined by reference to the sociocultural norm in every society, Marc Richir would say that it is defined in relation to a non-realization of certain psychic processes on a transcendental level that is a common fund to all humanity, a phenomenological basis which by architectonic transposition will give rise to various symbolic institutions. There is no human without a phenomenological anchorage, but no human either without a symbolic institution and every symbolic institution, in the sense of culture and even of civilization, generates a symbolic unconscious of its own.
What is a damaged life? What kind of theoretical and metaphysical problems are challenged by Adorno’s moral philosophy? In this paper we argue that the reflections delivered by Adorno after the ...catastrophe of the Second World War must be read from the scope of a systematic use of reason present in modern enlightenment philosophy as well as in modern market society. We claim the traditional concepts of moral autonomy and ethical life (Sittlichkeit) are both guided by the exchange principle developed by bourgeois society. We focus in the systematic architecture of Hegel’s social philosophy with a view to identify an antimony shared with bourgeois society: the boundless expansion of the market and rational knowledge. The role of the synthetic concept of infinity is discussed in an ideological sense, stressing labor’s division consequences. Finally, we set forth a discussion about the limits of Adorno’s theoretical criticism, especially on his use of dialectical categories and the ways in which they can be integrated in the core of a Critical theory.
Marc Richir has made innumerable mentions of architectonics in most of his major works. The very name comes from Kant’ s Critique of Pure Reason where it refers to an “art of systems” which status is ...rather elusive. Yet, the stringent systematicity of Kant’ s thought may give the feeling that it is nothing more than a monstrous theoretical construct, that which Marc Richir would denounce as Gestell. His fascination for architectonics nevertheless endures while he radicalises the dichotomy between the Gestell – a machine-like logical automaton – and a newly coined version of the Kantian sublime to locate the “phenomenon as nothing-but-phenomenon”. Phenomenology, especially in Husserl’ s legacy, struggles to establish itself as a rigorous science and fails to acquire the required “transcendental theory of methodology” for doing so. Marc Richir, while tackling head on the same aporia in his Phenomenological Meditations (1992), hopes for a solution in promoting an utterly radicalised phenomenology solely concerned with nascent phenomena with no regard to epistemological concerns of methodology. I suggest that such aporia may prove indomitable as long as the phenomena which phenomenology undertakes to explore only exist as scriptural descriptions, i.e. as text(s).
Benjamin’s philosophy has often been discussed without considering the sensible nature of thinking and the peculiar role the individual obtains in this conception from his early writings on. This ...article wants to point out the key role of the individual between sensibility and perception through language.
In this paper I elaborate on a somewhat cryptic notion of the late Adornian thinking, on the notion of ‘intellectual experience’ geistige Erfahrung. I argue that this concept plays a crucial role in ...understanding the deeper motives of Adorno’s critique of Enlightenment and reveals a utopic potential in his thinking.
This paper is to examine how an Adornian moral philosophy could be conceived, in defiance of the ascertainment by Adorno himself that the realisation of such a practical philosophy has been made ...impossible today. At its heart is the idea of a reflexive subjectivity able to fully apprehend its object, and thus capable of ethical acts that are an expression of resistance through the execution of particular negation.
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