Beckett et l’art minimal américain

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Théorème de Bochner et feuilletage minimal

The starting point of this work is the Bochner theorem on harmonics 1-forms stated at 1946. We show that many results on minimal foliations of codimension one and two on compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds are at the origin of this theorem. We also prove the non existence of minimal Riemannian foliations of codimension one defined by a 1-form with finite global norm on complete non compact Riem...

Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson

This article analyses the work of the twentieth-century late modernist Samuel Beckett, in light of the turn-of-the-century anti-rationalist Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and the eighteenth-century neoclassicist Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). What unites these three very different thinkers is a concern over habitual, automatic and involuntary behavior, which in all three cases has a distinctly neurolog...

The Phenomenal Presence of Invisible Legs: Beckett and the Actor

ed, and conceptualized” (Garner “‘Still Living Flesh’: Beckett, MerleauPonty, and the Phenomenological Body” 448). 2. Kuhn’s influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), specifies that landmark scientific advancements such as Newton’s Principia should be understood as paradigms because “[t]heir achievement was sufficiently unprecedented to attract an enduring group of adher...

LART: Flexible, Low-Power Building Blocks for Wearable Computers

To ease the implementation of different wearable computers, we developed a low-power processor board (named LART) with a rich set of interfaces. The LART supports dynamic voltage scaling, so performance (and power consumption) can be scaled to match demands: 59-221 MHz, 106-640 mW. High-end wearables can be configured from multiple LARTs operating in parallel; alternatively, FPGA boards can be ...