MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1779
William Burns
{"title":"‘Something like words for | motion’: Ian Patterson’s Shell Vestige Disputed","authors":"William Burns","doi":"10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1779","url":null,"abstract":"What should we make of this series of opaque observations and reflections, composed in what might strike an unfamiliar reader at first as a peculiarly rapid form of shorthand? Looked at again, these stanzas constitute two remarkably sustained syntactical performances, whose respective hypotaxis and parataxis are, however, hard to construe: a crisscrossing of a remembered past tense and second-order commentary that in each case leaves their speaker’s temporal location uncertain. This figure’s spatial movement in the first stanza, although similarly occluded, provides one route into the poem, while at the same time introducing its own form of hesitancy. I find myself liable to fall foul of ‘to step on’, with what might be sensed as its apparently incomplete preposition, and leaning into it conversely seems to risk trampling over the poem entire.","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"112 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139893576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1777
Abhik Maiti
{"title":"From Strings to Sensors: Movement Representation in AI Theatre","authors":"Abhik Maiti","doi":"10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1777","url":null,"abstract":"The assimilation of AI technology into theatre practices has inaugurated an expansive frontier of possibilities for both thespians and spectators. In terms of movement, this involves the use of avatars, which inhabit a customary screen milieu (encompassing three-dimensional in-world scenography) that necessitates simultaneous consideration of a tridimensional theatrical space and coexisting performers, within a moment of real-time inception and interconnectedness. This complex confluence raises questions pertaining to the ‘avatarisation’ of corporeal embodiments on the theatrical stage and the consequent emergence of novel performative methodologies. Within AI-enabled performances, the use of motion capture technology, commonly known as ‘mocap’, entails the recording of skeletal data from physical actors, referred to as ‘mocaptors’, who wear a geo-spatial system for motion capture. This is then translated into digital data that can subsequently be used to animate digital characters or avatars.","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139893534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1774
Laura Thorn
{"title":"‘But within are secrets’: Space in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling","authors":"Laura Thorn","doi":"10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1774","url":null,"abstract":"\"Serious-minded people may then say with the poet, ‘It’s a marquetry casket, and that’s all.’ Echoing this reasonable opinion, the reader who is averse to playing with inversions of large and small, exterior and intimacy, may also say: ‘It’s a poem and that’s all.’ ‘And nothing more.’ In reality, however, the poet has given concrete form to a very general psychological theme, namely, that there will always be more things in a closed, than in an open, box. To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.\"\u0000\u0000In his analysis of spatial imagery in poetry, Gaston Bachelard calls attention to the suggestiveness of an enclosed space that has not been opened yet. Using what he calls ‘topoanalysis’, he uses spaces and especially ‘the house as a tool for analysis of the human soul’. The Changeling is a play full of enclosed spaces, many of which are strongly guarded. The reasons for this secrecy, however, are often complicated.","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"34 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1785
Karen Jane Cannon
{"title":"The Forest Navigator","authors":"Karen Jane Cannon","doi":"10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1785","url":null,"abstract":"is a cartographer \u0000 of rolling sound \u0000a mapper \u0000 of sonar valleys circumnavigating \u0000 grid references \u0000 fine as hair","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"14 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1776
Jennifer Kenyon
{"title":"Connecting with India: E. M. Forster’s ‘Some Books’ and Louis MacNeice’s ‘India at First Sight’","authors":"Jennifer Kenyon","doi":"10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1776","url":null,"abstract":"In 1942, in a radio talk broadcast to India on the BBC’s Eastern Service, E. M. Forster noted that, while the time in the London recording studio was ‘quarter to two’, in India, the clock ‘points to some other hour, which prompts in me the fancy that the connection between us is a connection outside time’. Forster broadcast 145 talks on the BBC between 1928 and 1963, embracing radio’s power to move beyond physical borders in order to explore the possibility of a deeper relationship between speaker and listener. While critical studies initially focused on Forster’s broadcasts for British audiences, the publication of a selected edition of his BBC talks in 2008 marked the beginning of a growing interest in his transmissions to India. Most episodes ran under the self-effacing title ‘Some Books’, though they shared recommendations and reviews of a wide range of plays, music, and exhibitions alongside fiction, biographies, and histories. Forster was optimistic about the potential for ‘connection’ between Britain and India, yet his Eastern Service career began in 1941, just six years before the Partition of India and the dissolution of the British Raj. While this period was defined by volatility and political unrest, critics of ‘Some Books’ have tended to disregard the problematic power dynamics inherent in the act of broadcasting from the centre of the empire to a colony under British control.","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"11 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139897124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1769
Daniel Lewis
{"title":"In the Realm of Ends: The Fate of Moveable Type","authors":"Daniel Lewis","doi":"10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1769","url":null,"abstract":"There is something strange, perhaps, in producing a journal called ‘Moveable Type’ that has never appeared in print, or been anywhere near a press. How or why the editors of the first volume landed on the name is lost to history, or at least in need of some research. But what is certain is that the journal, born (enrolled?) in the (academic) year 2004-5, is a child of the Internet. A thoroughly digital native; assembled, uploaded, published, downloaded and read—one hopes—online. There is, perhaps, a further irony in the fact that, until recently, Moveable Type was a repository for papers delivered at the UCL English Department’s annual graduate conference, and so a record of the spoken word. And last year, the journal made a tentative move into the realm of podcasts. From the oral to the written to the digital, from written record to sound recording. We appear to be leaving the Gutenberg Galaxy.","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"52 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139897164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1783
Jordan Casstles
{"title":"Enter the Luciferous Hexichasm: On the Savage Theoryfiction of Gruppo di Nun in Revolutionary Demonology","authors":"Jordan Casstles","doi":"10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1783","url":null,"abstract":"Theoryfiction: weird, reality-warping hybrid born of critical theory, esoterica, Qabala, cyberpunk and Gothic horror. More than mere academic auto-fiction or an intellectual strain of hysterical realism, theoryfiction deliberately attempts to actively infect and colonise the ‘real world’ with its own twisted vision: it is ambivalent in extremis towards the limitations of consensus reality, proving to be capable of incubating accelerationist philosophies and acting as a vehicle to reshape conscious reactions to culture simultaneously. In 1940, Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius predicted the form; between 1997 and 2003, the experimental cultural theorist collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) brought it into being, only for English philosopher Nick Land to lead the group from a state of cyberfeminism to a growing neoreactionary cyberfascism.","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1773
Lisa van Straten
{"title":"Going Nowhere, Being No One: Navigating Space and Identity in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea","authors":"Lisa van Straten","doi":"10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1773","url":null,"abstract":"Identity has arguably been the most prominent theme in the works of postcolonial theorists and has been approached from various viewpoints that generally fall into two groups: a melancholic idiom of ‘in-betweenness’ or a celebratory focus on hybridity and multiculturalism. These conceptions of identity implicitly rely on notions of (cultural) space as largely homogenous and demarcated by boundaries, which can either (I) exclude, resulting in artificial, essentialised identities and in-between non-identities, or (II) include, enabling connections that can result in multicultural assemblages. As such, they seem to reflect what Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote and Maoz Azaryahu in their work Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative (2016) have called the two principal ways for conceptualising space: space as container and space as network. For writer and theorist Stephen Clingman, however, these abstractions fail to reflect the complexity of reality in which spaces, and by extension identities, are culturally entangled rather than determined by a single culture or a composite of cultures. Consequently, he seeks to transcend these categories by emphasising identity as a transcultural process of linguistic and physical navigation; an idea he maps out in his revolutionary work The Grammar of Identity (2009) aided by an analysis of several novels, including Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966).","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139893527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv125jph0.22
Mark Gorham
{"title":"Cost of Living","authors":"Mark Gorham","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv125jph0.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv125jph0.22","url":null,"abstract":"like how a trolley rams into another trolley in the line of trolleys outside, its cagey nose – no it’s a headbutt through the other trolley’s backside and all the trolleys look like this when they’re lined up covered from rain awaiting the next customer trolley smacked into the queue. Nick says he once saw an angry guy still carrying his satsumas do a run up and dive through the rear trolley flap and make it through perhaps like three clanking trolleys’ arses before his momentum died. And trolleys take breaths when they’re not bunched together like that, when they’re being pushed around the supermarket, wonky-wheeled, sticky handlebar the kid in the seat based on the mousetrap design unwrapped that before mum’d paid for it. Nick and the boys once put cheese on one of those seats (don’t tell their manager, he’s called Tim, been here since 2005, it was shop cheese, unexpired) they left it overnight to see if there’d be a nibbler in the morning and if there was I guess their laughter and jostling would dampen as the lads considered while communicating without communicating, if you know what I mean, if they really were gonna slam the seat against the frame. But when they got in the people who restock overnight had put it all away even though they said on the group chat (Tim isn’t in it) not to.","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"30 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MovementPub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1779
William Burns
{"title":"‘Something like words for | motion’: Ian Patterson’s Shell Vestige Disputed","authors":"William Burns","doi":"10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1779","url":null,"abstract":"What should we make of this series of opaque observations and reflections, composed in what might strike an unfamiliar reader at first as a peculiarly rapid form of shorthand? Looked at again, these stanzas constitute two remarkably sustained syntactical performances, whose respective hypotaxis and parataxis are, however, hard to construe: a crisscrossing of a remembered past tense and second-order commentary that in each case leaves their speaker’s temporal location uncertain. This figure’s spatial movement in the first stanza, although similarly occluded, provides one route into the poem, while at the same time introducing its own form of hesitancy. I find myself liable to fall foul of ‘to step on’, with what might be sensed as its apparently incomplete preposition, and leaning into it conversely seems to risk trampling over the poem entire.","PeriodicalId":517017,"journal":{"name":"Movement","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139896980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}