PROXÉMIE/Proxemics

Danuta Stanulewicz, Tadeusz Z. Wolański, Joanna Redzimska (eds) Lingua Terra Cognita II. A Festschrift for Professor Roman Kalisz, Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2010

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

Cross-device interactions enable ad hoc sharing of content and control in co-located collaboration. Cross-device research often draws from proxemics theory for designing interactions based on detection of spatial relations such as distance and orientation between people and devices. However, detection of human-human or human-device proximity also constrains flexibility in co-located social interaction. We suggest a proxemics-based approach to designing flexible cross-device interactions. From observations in a field study, we articulate how co-located sharing practices are shaped by the interplay between everyday mobile devices and the physical environment. Based on these insights, we present three cross-device prototypes as proofs-of-concept, demonstrating three design sensitivities for considering proxemics beyond proximity; incorporating features in the environment, enabling flexibility in interpersonal distance and orientation, and providing multiple alternative action possibilities. Drawing from characteristics of our prototypes, we discuss concrete proposals for designing cross-device interactions to enable flexible social interaction.

Australian Journal of French Studies, 2016

Distance and proximity: two concepts which refer to the space, literal or metaphoric, between two things, two beings, two moments in time. The terms mean to stand apart and to be near; yet, the literal and ostensibly spatial nature of the terms quickly yields to their many figural uses. The easy slippage between the literal and metaphoric, the spatial and temporal, means that the two terms, however banal and transparent they may appear at first, belie a hidden complexity which invites us to see similarity in difference, and difference in similarity. This article explores how the two terms function across time in French and Francophone Studies in Australia and presents the complexities that arise in the articles gathered together in this special number of AJFS. Distance and proximity: two concepts which refer to the space, literal or metaphoric, between two things, two beings, two moments in time. Etymologically, the words derive respectively from the Latin terms distare, to stand apart, and proximitas, or nearness. Yet the literal and ostensibly spatial nature of the terms quickly yields to their many figurative uses: for example, to signal an affective or relational éloignement or rapprochement, as in un cousin lointain, une amie proche, prendre ses distances, or again, to signify relative danger or safety, as in garder à distance, garder proche, à une distance sûre, dangereusement proche. Moreover, it is not just the spatial but the temporal that is so often inscribed in these terms: un passé lointain, un futur lointain, un futur proche. The easy slippage between the literal and metaphoric, the spatial and temporal, means that the two terms, however banal and transparent they may appear at first, belie a hidden complexity. Not only is each term marked by the other, but they are perhaps not as far apart as we think: "in the long term, proximity creates a strange kind of distance", writes Quebec journalist

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2024

Poetics Today, 2001

Parlant du rythme, c'est de vous que je parle, c'est vous qui parlez, les problèmes du rythme sont les votres. La critique du rythme n'a pas de conclusion. Elle est ouverte sur l'historicité du langage, de la litterature, de la théorie . . . . C'est le rythme de la critique du rythme, puisque la théorie, comme la poésie, ne se fait qu'avec l'inconnu.

The seven of us have never met; at least, our material bodies have not shared the same geographical space. We are a becoming-assemblage, drawn to write together through encountering Deleuze and others in col- laborative writing workshops in the UK and the United States in 2010 and 2011. This paper explores, expresses and creates, through the trajectories and surprises of zigzagging nomadic inquiry, our continuing engagement with Deleuze and his collaborators’ conceptualisations. In the stutterings of our emerging minoritarian language(s) we create and write ourselves into our assemblage in all our particularities, our differing and contrast- ing affective and geographical landscapes alive as our writing moves and flows: between each other; between the ‘then’ of the workshops and the ‘now’ of our lives since; between daylight and darkness; between summer and winter; and as we seek to disrupt these and other such binaries. In this paper, through the always zigzagging movements of our writings we ex- plore and inquire within our different accounts of the workshops we each experienced and offer something that writes to and with what has emerged, and is emerging, for us as a consequence of engaging in them. We write with the paradox of a seven never having been in the same material space simultaneously and with intensive materiality, material and affective flows, with each other, with Deleuze, Deleuze and Guattari, Deleuze and Parnet, Deleuze and ... and ... —with Deleuze there is always ‘and’—we open up (a) space(s) where we write between-the-seven.

The Writing Instructor, 1989

2010

When Charles Morris defined different branches of semiotics in Founda-tions of the Theory of Signs (1938), he envisaged a triad consisting of: syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. 70 years later this division is not suf-ficient in terms of an educational approach to arranging curricula for teaching students of Humanities or Linguistics.

Current Anthropology

A disregard for human traditions, the brutality of predation, sacrifice, and sexual desire are ingrained in languages across cultures. This paper concerns a key linguistic feature reflecting this predicament: utterances that encapsulate their opposite and effectuate a U-turn in meaning. This mode of communication stands out as a representation of the friction between incommensurable worlds-conceived together. An enemy's perspective or an unpalatable reality finds a host within language. I embark upon a multidisciplinary search for examples of such utterances and present an assemblage of five pertinent images. Each of these makes a distinct conceptual contribution. Vigilance and an awareness of other points of view underpin most of the utterances under study, which I propose to call "sharp communication" at the intersection of opposing perspectives.