This short paper aims to critically analyze a contemporary Taiwan Residents film, The Fourth Portrait, directed by Meng-Hung Chung, from the perspective of Delenzian theories. In Deleuze＇s two books on cinema, the di...This short paper aims to critically analyze a contemporary Taiwan Residents film, The Fourth Portrait, directed by Meng-Hung Chung, from the perspective of Delenzian theories. In Deleuze＇s two books on cinema, the discussion of images demonstrates the entangled juxtaposition of the three levels： brain-thought, cinema-screen, and world-images that compose the cinematic consciousness. Through the interacted movement-images and time-images, the film unfolds the storyline within the aesthetic pleasure of poetic sentiment that gradually leads the audience to learn that a wandering boy, Hsiao-Hsiang, after the death of his father, has had several adventurous encounters that gradually expose the secrecy of his traumatic family： His birth mother has no decent job and his step-father has killed his own brother. This broken family has been haunted by the shared guilt and the undead memory as Derrida famously claims that hauntology precedes ontology. As the past coexists with the present, Deleuze analyzes the concept of I, with a central fracture in its pure form of the past demonstrating an ontological enigma that remains forever a secret. When the director uses the four portraits to indicate the four important events of this wandering boy, he deliberately leaves empty the fourth portrait, the self-portrait of the boy; it remains as an incomplete piece which symbolizes an enigma of his own life. It shows certain constitutive unnamable forces acting within the boy that seduces him forever to painfully misrecognize himself.展开更多
Objecive To observe the eventual thermic effects of stimulaing Tàixī (太溪 KI 3) by telethermography. Methods Nine individuals of both sexes, chosen randomly, paricipated in this study. The temperature of the ro...Objecive To observe the eventual thermic effects of stimulaing Tàixī (太溪 KI 3) by telethermography. Methods Nine individuals of both sexes, chosen randomly, paricipated in this study. The temperature of the room where the experiment was carried out was not above 21 ℃. At the start of the experiment the volunteer stayed for exactly ten minutes in the room for acclimaizaion, then the first thermographic image was recorded for standardizaion purposes. Following this, an acupuncture needle was inserted at KI 3 only in the right leg, whose depth was limited to obtain Deqi, only manual stimulation for 15 min permanence in the site. Ater this period, new images were recorded. Results Significant reduction of all the right leg temperatures, by about 1.1 ℃ in all the volunteers that received the acupuncture at the Kl 3 was noted, with a coefficient variaion of P<0.0001 that was staisically highly significant, while on the other not simulated leg the variaion that occurred was around 0.7 ℃, with no significant coefficient variation of P>0.05. Conclusion The results of this study demonstrate that manual simulaion of the Kl 3 influences significantly peripheral vascular circulation, by means of sympathetic stimulaion causing vasoconstricion.展开更多
文摘This short paper aims to critically analyze a contemporary Taiwan Residents film, The Fourth Portrait, directed by Meng-Hung Chung, from the perspective of Delenzian theories. In Deleuze＇s two books on cinema, the discussion of images demonstrates the entangled juxtaposition of the three levels： brain-thought, cinema-screen, and world-images that compose the cinematic consciousness. Through the interacted movement-images and time-images, the film unfolds the storyline within the aesthetic pleasure of poetic sentiment that gradually leads the audience to learn that a wandering boy, Hsiao-Hsiang, after the death of his father, has had several adventurous encounters that gradually expose the secrecy of his traumatic family： His birth mother has no decent job and his step-father has killed his own brother. This broken family has been haunted by the shared guilt and the undead memory as Derrida famously claims that hauntology precedes ontology. As the past coexists with the present, Deleuze analyzes the concept of I, with a central fracture in its pure form of the past demonstrating an ontological enigma that remains forever a secret. When the director uses the four portraits to indicate the four important events of this wandering boy, he deliberately leaves empty the fourth portrait, the self-portrait of the boy; it remains as an incomplete piece which symbolizes an enigma of his own life. It shows certain constitutive unnamable forces acting within the boy that seduces him forever to painfully misrecognize himself.
文摘Objecive To observe the eventual thermic effects of stimulaing Tàixī (太溪 KI 3) by telethermography. Methods Nine individuals of both sexes, chosen randomly, paricipated in this study. The temperature of the room where the experiment was carried out was not above 21 ℃. At the start of the experiment the volunteer stayed for exactly ten minutes in the room for acclimaizaion, then the first thermographic image was recorded for standardizaion purposes. Following this, an acupuncture needle was inserted at KI 3 only in the right leg, whose depth was limited to obtain Deqi, only manual stimulation for 15 min permanence in the site. Ater this period, new images were recorded. Results Significant reduction of all the right leg temperatures, by about 1.1 ℃ in all the volunteers that received the acupuncture at the Kl 3 was noted, with a coefficient variaion of P<0.0001 that was staisically highly significant, while on the other not simulated leg the variaion that occurred was around 0.7 ℃, with no significant coefficient variation of P>0.05. Conclusion The results of this study demonstrate that manual simulaion of the Kl 3 influences significantly peripheral vascular circulation, by means of sympathetic stimulaion causing vasoconstricion.
