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The indexical and the concept of medium specificity, pp. Aug, 2009 indexicality and the concept of medium specificity mary ann doane. This article serves as an introduction to this special issue and explores in depth three concepts integral to the links between science and documentary. In 1895 reason is equated with thought as genuine triplicity and as a mediating third ms. Double indemnity adaptation and medium specificity. What does the principle of specificity actually mean. Peirces concept of semiotic mediation 47 1885 peirce used the word reason to describe the relationship between sign and thing signified in the case of iconic signs, that is, as meaning a possible quality. In relation to words in a spoken utterance or written text, a count of the tokens would be a count of the total number of words used regardless of type, whilst a count of the types would be a count of the different words used, ignoring repetitions. The indexical and the concept of medium specificity. It is important, as doane advises in the indexical and the concept of medium specificity, to disentangle the iconicity from indexicality and to recognize that the indexical sign is a pointing to the real rather than any representation of it. The short film humorous phases of funny faces, released in 1906 and directed by j stuart blackton 18751941, is considered to be one of the earliest examples of cinematic animation. Edited by robin kelsey and blake stimson, sterling and francine clark art institute, williamstown, massachusetts, 2008.

Specificity definition of specificity by medical dictionary. Exploring childrens indexical encounter with real and digitised archive photographs using tablet and large flat screen technologies. Critical attention to krausss term postmedium condition and the arguments which support it has been paid by two influential film theorists who have refashioned the question of cinemas medium specificity in the context of the rise of digital media. She also noted that peirces concept of the index comprises the two quite disparate aspects of the trace and the deixis. The indexical and the concept of medium specificity mary ann doane.

Today, it could be argued, it is the indexicality associated with the analogical. In film and video intermediality, janna houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions what is meant by video. With a basis in sourceoriented studies, such as noveltostage and stagetofilm adaptations, this volume also seeks to highlight the new and innovative aspects of adaptation studie. A journal of feminist cultural studies mary ann doane the indexical and the concept of medium specificity let us merely note in passing that the holy shroud of turin combines the features alike of relic and photograph. Eric ej333646 the specificity of media in the arts. Jan 01, 2007 read the indexical and the concept of medium specificity, differences. Analogue nostalgia and the aesthetics of digital remediation. However, chandler has an equally forceful and recognizable stylistic influence, and he can be credited with much of the suggestive dialogue and rapidfire banter that has come to define double indemnity. By using samples of known disease status, values such as sensitivity and specificity can be calculated that allow its evaluation. The specificity of media in the arts noel carroll i the ideawhich i shall call the medium specificity thesisthat each art form, in virtue of its medium, has its own exclusive domain of development was born in the eighteenth century, almost at the same time that the distinctions between the aesthetic and the nonaesthetic and between the. As ducrot and todorov point out, in language everything that relates to deixis is an index. A journal of feminist cultural studies on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The role of factive predicates in the indexicalization of. The ambulatory aesthetics of yvonne rainers trio a.

Download citation on mar 1, 2007, mary ann doane and others published the indexical and the concept of medium specificity find, read and cite all the. Frontiers how to analyze intentional consciousness in. In linking these two words to form the phrase mediumspecificity, a composite definition can be made. It is that which appropriates the techniques, forms, and social significance of other media and attempts to rival or refashion them in the name of the real. The principle of specificity also implies that to become better at a particular exercise or skill, you must perform that exercise or skill. View or download all content the institution has subscribed to. The oed defines medium, in terms of the arts, as any raw material or mode of expression used in an artistic or creative activity. The post medium condition and the explosion of cinema jihoon kim. Indexical inscription constitutes the privileged mode of signifying within gothic fiction. Dec 01, 2009 how would adding glucose to this medium affect the results. The key difference between video and film is that videotape is magnetically coated and contains codes that trigger electronic signals to the projection apparatus, whether it be a tv monitor or a projector. Image documentary in the soviet union, 19271932, journal of linguistic anthropology on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. The invisible display design strategies for ambient.

In a sense, the task of defining the concept of curriculum is perhaps the most difficult of. How would adding glucose to this medium affect the results. Sensitivity and specificity when developing diagnostic tests or evaluating results, it is important to understand how reliable those tests and therefore the results obtained are. Medium specificity is a consideration in aesthetics and art criticism. By releasing art from the specificity of the medium, krauss argues, broodthaers effectively equated it to its pure exchange value. In order to identify a common theoretical basis for dance and media, the essay then relates this successive motion to the concept of automatisms, which film scholars have used to challenge medium specificity in response to the rise of digital cinema. In semiotics, linguistics, anthropology and philosophy of language, indexicality is the phenomenon of a sign pointing to or indexing some object in the context in which it occurs. What matters in our cinematic experience is then less mediumspecificity than. Aug 20, 2017 what does the principle of specificity actually mean. Universal cancer screening is a conceptually intriguing approach to fill the current gap. Medium specificity with the introduction of digital film and video, dvds, the internet, and multimedia, video may become, retrospectively, an intermediary stage between cinema and digital media. Recent evidence from neuroscience and the visual brain not only corroborates this claim but provides important new findings that can help delineate which graphic features relate to biologicalgenetic criteria. Doane indexicality and the concept of medium specificity. A sign that signifies indexically is called an index or, in philosophy, an indexical the modern concept originates in the semiotic theory of charles sanders peirce, in which indexicality is one of the three.

Doan on medium specificity shroud of turin representation. The specificity principle simply states that training must go from highly general training to highly specific training. Qualitative research based on content analysis ca, was carried on having as its locus the walter. The kind of authenticity mobilized in the electoral context must be distinguished from the philosophical concept of authenticity. The visual brain, perception, and depiction of animals in. The paper presents and defends a metadoxastic view on intentional consciousness that is novel in four respects.

Learn how to calculate basic accuracy statistics such as sensitivity, specificity, likelihood ratios and auc 2. Basic microbiology notes online microbiology notes. Get unlimited access to the best stories on medium and support writers while youre at it. Another distinction between sign vehicles relates to the linguistic concept of tokens and types which derives from peirce peirce 193158, 4. Several aspects of the depiction of animals in rock art can be explained by certain perceptual correlates relating to the visual brain and evolutionary factors. May 01, 2007 the indexical and the concept of medium specificity. Doane indexicality and the concept of medium specificity shroud. The indexical and the concept of medium specificity differences. A medium in our culture can never operate in isolation. Finally, i would like to thank my spouse, stephanie, for her love and dedication, without which none of. The medium thus appears as an intermediary, as the means to an end or the agent of an operation.

Doane indexicality and the concept of medium specificity free download as pdf file. It is most closely associated with modernism, but it predates it. Indexicality and the concept of medium specificity rowan. According to clement greenberg, who helped popularize the term, medium specificity holds that the unique and proper area of competence for a form of art corresponds with the ability of an artist to. Peirces concept of indexicality, which has permeated film theory. Doane, ma 2007 the indexical and the concept of medium specificity. In fact, a multiorgan approach may be the only logical strategy to screen lower prevalence cancers in a. The purpose of this book is to be an instant, working glossary of terms for fine art students within byam shaw school of art, london.

Download citation on mar 1, 2007, mary ann doane and others published the indexical and the concept of medium specificity find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. By susan jones, lynne hall and j hilton download pdf 4 mb. Parallels and contradictions in the theory and practice of. I understand that by adding more to the agar, you arent allowing as much to grow. Mediumspecificity is based on the distinct materiality of artistic media.

The routledge companion to adaptation offers a broad range of scholarship from this growing, interdisciplinary field. In response to mary ann doanes the indexical yumpu. The indexical and the concept of medium specificity researchgate. On the history and theory of animated motion ryan pierson, ph. Although this survey has necessarily been incomplete, we may conclude that sound symbolism has an integral place in the general framework of english. And undergirding the entire project, the original nihilism of cains novella remains pal pable, making this film an especially potent. The invisible display design strategies for ambient media in the urban context dietmar offenhuber art university linz. A discourse perspective margaret field linguistics department, ijniversity of new mexico, humanities bldg.

According to clement greenberg, who helped popularize the term, medium. The postmedium condition by alexandra zimnicaru on prezi. Jan 01, 2008 in this issue of the journal of physiology, the results of study by burgomaster et al. The concept of medium specificity has been addressed as a set of codes and conventions that are marked by the limitations and virtues of its material base. Jihoon kim, the post medium condition and the explosion of cinema, screen 50, no. Now, modernist theorization makes fidelity to the medium into the very principle of art, inverting the perspective. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e. Medium specificity video film, children, tv, director. The indexical and the concept of medium specificity the indexical and the concept of medium specificity doane, mary ann 20070101 00. Sound symbolism in its many forms has the same functions as the rest of the language, and in large part, the same forms and structures.

It was an 11minute silent 35mm montage film projected onto a metre high monolith standing at the end of the darkened hall. The aim of this paper is to propose a model indexical representation, using the syntagms referring to the names of diseases, symptoms and signs recorded in the evolution of notes in patients record, aiming the organization and access to information of these documents with greater precision. Based on confirmed cases, sensitivity and specificity are easy to obtain, and these then help to calculate diagnostically important predictivities with the help of bayes rule. Rivista italiana di filosofia del linguaggio issn 20366728 the works published in this journals are released under creative commons licence attribution non commercial. In the case of photography this meant a focus on the use of cameras, silver nitrate, negative celluloid film and positive paper prints. Mediascape ucla school of theater, film and television. This thesis has significance for educational policy, e.

Curriculum, however, can be defined as prescriptive, descriptive, or both. Kevin sherman and georg koszulinski were also very helpful, offering me hours upon hours of discussion, some of which assuredly shows up in the pages below. Mary ann doane, the indexical and the concept of medium specificity, differences 18 2007 p. Or is it born of an upending of the indexical relationship between image and viewer. A rejoinder to noel carrolls the philosophy of motion. Mary ann doane, indexicality and the concept of medium specificity, differences. The paraindexicality of the cinematic image openedition journals. But as a medium with its own properties, it plays an important role in the history of media institutions and aesthetics. In 2011 the british artist tacita deans installation film opened in the turbine hall of the tate modern in london as part of the unilever series. How can film and video be defined as distinct, specific media. Media specificity negotiated the discourse on photography in the twentieth century focused on a notion of media specificity, understood as a characteristic expression derived from the techniques and materials used. Download pdf this work is licensed under a creative commons attribution 3.

Philosophical authenticity pertains to a personal ethic of being true to ones self, borne out through selfknowledge and an ongoing negotiation with the demands of society berman, 1970. Glossary of fine art wikibooks, open books for an open world. Doane ma 2007 the indexical and the concept of medium specificity. The medium specificity thesis that says each art form has its own domain of expression and exploration is discussed. Indexicality and the concept of medium specificity mary ann doane. Elsevier journal of pragmatics 27 1997 799814 the role of factive predicates in the indexicalization of stance.

This medium to whose specificity one must be faithful is no. Chapter 1 the nature of curriculum sage publications. University of pittsburgh, 2012 this dissertation examines some key assumptions behind our prevailing idea of animation, arguing that our idea of animation is not, as is often implicitly assumed, an ahistorical. The indexical and the concept of medium specificity, mary anne doane notes that within film theory, confronted with the threat andor promise of the digital, indexicality as a category has attained a new centrality doane, 2007, 18.