Recently added articles from Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue:
Editorial: group and grouping.(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2008; Van Den Berg, Dirk ... Notions of 'group' and 'grouping' and their manifold cognates appear to be limitless in variety, application and relevance. To open this rich thematic field I propose an imaginative exploration of a number of metaphorical images as emblematic devices in order to attract, gather and ...
Urban discourses and neural networks: the relevance of Deleuzian characteristics of group for neurons/brains and bodies/cities.(Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari )(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; McGaw, Janet ... INTRODUCTION This article arises from an interdisciplinary conversation between an architect and a psychiatrist on the different ways groups function at macro and micro levels; specifically, groups of bodies in cities and groups of neurons in brains. Traditional paradigms of ...
Architectural quality in the group design of historical sacred places and its decline in modern architecture.(Temple Complex of Apollo and the Inner Shinto Shrine)(Martin Heidegger's conception of the fourfold)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Mare, Estelle Alma ... INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL PREMISE My aim is to interpret and evaluate the architecture of sacred precincts in terms of Martin Heidegger's conception of the fourfold, thus offering a special application of that idea. After having briefly explained the philosophical basis of ...
Grouping selves and others: the art of Willem Boshoff (1).(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Snyman, Johan ... The experience of cultural domination has been articulated in various ways over the past sixty years. The division of the world into, for example, civilised and uncivilised people--a perspective ensuing from "civilised" people as a matter of course, proclaiming with the division the ...
Conducting focus groups: experiences from nursing research.
Jun 01, 2008; Webb, Christine ... The focus group is a prevalent methodology in contemporary nursing research. Its favour amongst nursing graduate students probably reflects their perception that qualitative research in general is easier, and that focus groups in particular are simpler and more expedient than other ...
Evaluating advanced video-conferencing interfaces for remote teamwork.
Jun 01, 2008; Hauber, Jorg ... 1. INTRODUCTION Video-mediated communication (VMC) offers groups of geographically dispersed people the possibility of rich real-time communication and collaboration. Being able to see each others' faces while speaking to one another is generally assumed to be beneficial and ...
Monument, 100th & Riverside.(Poem)
Jun 01, 2008; Brody, Patricia ... <Pre> MONUMENT, 100th & Riverside In the snow the mother holds a fallen still-warm child who is a man his throat bared to the snow. Snow falls on his naked arm the hand dangles to the snow, heaped around her feet. Her pieta, draped over ...
The Shipwreck.(Poem)
Jun 01, 2008; Roberts, Kim ... Painted in 1850, part of a retrospective of the works of J M W Turner exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC <Pre> The Shipwreck In Turner's painting The Shipwreck everything leans and moans, even the glowering clouds. Three small wooden ...
The Crows.(Poem)
Jun 01, 2008; Arcana, Judith ... <Pre> The Crows Middle-aged women are flocking to see the crows. They stand on sidewalks, on lawns, and they stare at the tops of telephone poles, the highest branches of trees; they sit on picnic tables in the park, perch at the fountain's edge to watch the crows walk ...
The Back Boot Project.(ARTISTS' PAGES)(moving exhibition/library)
Jun 01, 2008; Muirhead, Anna ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INTRODUCTION The Back Boot Project happened around Dunedin, New Zealand, during 2007 and was first conceived of as "Little Politic", an exhibition which would refer to material-specific, small objects with an emphasis on the intimacy of the ...
Grand Canyon.(FICTION)(Short story)
Jun 01, 2008; Paul, Dawn ... They had driven across fourteen states only to end up doing the same things they did back home. Kimmie watched a housefly buzz up and down, up and down, between the kitchen window and screen. Beyond the baffled fly, Derek's old Ford Econoline was stranded up on cinder blocks, surrounded by ...
Excerpt from a memoir-in-progress.(MEMOIR)
Jun 01, 2008; Barrington, Judith ... When you look back on your life, some decisions just can't be explained--decisions you are reluctant to declare purely random. It's as if you were acting on some knowledge you couldn't possibly have had--as if you could see into whichever future will turn out to be right for you and ...
Dear co-authors: epistolary revelations of five writing center directors.(REFLECTIONS)(Essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Geller, Anne Ellen ... COLLABORATION, THE PERSONAL, AND THE SELF: MICHAEL'S LETTER TO THE READER Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford recently called, as they have done in the past, for reflective accounts of collaborative processes among writers. (1) They don't mean to encourage simple enthusiasms or mere ...
Cento for an anthology of women poets.(POETS' PAGES)
Jun 01, 2008; Fisher-Wirth, Ann ... INTRODUCTION Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2008) is an anthology of contemporary women's poetry that documents the flourishing of a large electronic discussion group. However, the vibrant listserv named in the book's subtitle ...
Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young (eds), Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Evans, Marian ... Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young (eds), Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies (New York and London, Routledge, 2008). When I last flew to Sydney, to research a paedophile ring, I chose to view The Nanny Diaries (2007) from among the many movies available; and ...
