Roland Betancourt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Betancourt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland |
| FAMILY NAME | Betancourt |
| SIGNATURE | BETANCOURT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6190-4650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Atom and the Amoeba
In 1953, when Walt Disney was looking to construct his first amusement park, he turned to a leading think tank to find him a suitable site for his venture, the Stanford Research Institute, whose “An Analysis of Location Factors for Disneyland” exemplified a distinctly Cold War aesthetic for how information was purposed, presented, and operationalized. The postwar think tank was tasked with communicating a complex host of research findings to aid …
Cybernetic Amusement
On December 1, 1954, Edward L. Schott of Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati introduced a Disneyland representative to his colleagues gathered at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the National Association of Amusement Parks, Pools, and Beaches in Chicago. Disneyland would eventually open in Anaheim, California, on July 17, 1955, but amusement park leaders already had a great interest in Walt Disney's venture into their industry. Schott, wh…
Concluding Roundtable
Introduction
White
Between Wonder and Omen
In the year 944, two wonders arrived in Constantinople from the eastern borders of the empire: First, the Mandylion, a textile that Christ had miraculously imprinted with an image of his face, was brought to the city from Edessa. Second, to the awe of the city’s inhabitants, male conjoined twins arrived from Armenia. In this article, I focus on the depiction of both events in the Madrid Skylitzes historical chronicle (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional …
Practices of Commentary
From Plane to Space
The Geodesia is a Byzantine mathematical treatise intended as an appendix to a guide on siege warfare. Looking at the use of diagrammatic illustrations in the manuscript (BAV, Vat. gr. 1605), this article argues that the progression from two-dimensional drawings onto three-dimensional representations follows the “narrative arc” of the text from abstract mathematics to their application for siegecraft
Il n’y avait pas de mot pour ça et pourtant c’est arrivé »
Intersectionnalité, race, genre, transgenre font partie des termes et concepts centraux apparus ou réapparus dans la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales depuis l’émergence des études de genre, des études queer ou postcoloniales à partir de la décennie 1970-1980. De fait, ils semblent étroitement attachés aux problématiques de notre époque. Bien que les études de genre constituent depuis longtemps un champ bien établi au sein de la médiévis…
Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past
Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past. Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, and Nina Rowe, eds. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. xi + 308 pp. $70. - Volume 75 Issue 4
Bellicose things
The Poliorcetica (Vat. gr. 1605) is a Byzantine treatise on siege warfare, composed by the so-called Heron of Byzantium, which was illuminated with drawings and schematics for the construction and use of military tools and structures in the eleventh century. Using an object-oriented lens, this article looks closely at the word-image relations used by the Poliorcetica’s author to engage the manuscript’s illuminations. The article considers how the…
Representation as indwelling
Through terms that articulate the arts as the results of divine possession or inspiration, the writings of Byzantine thinkers repeatedly expressed the manner in which representation was believed to operate as a form of divine indwelling occurring beyond the skill and originality of the artist, writer, or performer. Beyond ideas of naturalism or style, the literary, visual, and performance arts arose through the event of divine participation. The …
Puddles of Time
Writing in mid-twelfth-century Constantinople, Anna Komnene begins the Alexiad, a chronicle of her father Emperor Alexios I Komnenos’s deeds and reign, by reflecting on the nature of time and the r
About the Cover
Imagined encounters
Tempted to Touch
Genre as Medium on YouTube
Byzantium/Modernism
"Byzantium/Modernism features contributions by fourteen international scholars and brings together a diverse range of interdisciplinary essays on art, architecture, theatre, film, literature, and philosophy, which examine how and why Byzantine art and image theory can contribute to our understanding of modern and contemporary visual culture. Particular attention is given to intercultural dialogues between the former dominions of the Byzantine Emp…
Introduction
Byzantium/Modernism
"Byzantium/Modernism features contributions by fourteen international scholars and brings together a diverse range of interdisciplinary essays on art, architecture, theatre, film, literature, and philosophy, which examine how and why Byzantine art and image theory can contribute to our understanding of modern and contemporary visual culture. Particular attention is given to intercultural dialogues between the former dominions of the Byzantine Emp…
Introduction
About the Cover
Imagined encounters
Tempted to Touch
Genre as Medium on YouTube
Puddles of Time
Writing in mid-twelfth-century Constantinople, Anna Komnene begins the Alexiad, a chronicle of her father Emperor Alexios I Komnenos’s deeds and reign, by reflecting on the nature of time and the r
Representation as indwelling
Through terms that articulate the arts as the results of divine possession or inspiration, the writings of Byzantine thinkers repeatedly expressed the manner in which representation was believed to operate as a form of divine indwelling occurring beyond the skill and originality of the artist, writer, or performer. Beyond ideas of naturalism or style, the literary, visual, and performance arts arose through the event of divine participation. The …
Bellicose things
The Poliorcetica (Vat. gr. 1605) is a Byzantine treatise on siege warfare, composed by the so-called Heron of Byzantium, which was illuminated with drawings and schematics for the construction and use of military tools and structures in the eleventh century. Using an object-oriented lens, this article looks closely at the word-image relations used by the Poliorcetica’s author to engage the manuscript’s illuminations. The article considers how the…
From Plane to Space
The Geodesia is a Byzantine mathematical treatise intended as an appendix to a guide on siege warfare. Looking at the use of diagrammatic illustrations in the manuscript (BAV, Vat. gr. 1605), this article argues that the progression from two-dimensional drawings onto three-dimensional representations follows the “narrative arc” of the text from abstract mathematics to their application for siegecraft
Il n’y avait pas de mot pour ça et pourtant c’est arrivé »
Intersectionnalité, race, genre, transgenre font partie des termes et concepts centraux apparus ou réapparus dans la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales depuis l’émergence des études de genre, des études queer ou postcoloniales à partir de la décennie 1970-1980. De fait, ils semblent étroitement attachés aux problématiques de notre époque. Bien que les études de genre constituent depuis longtemps un champ bien établi au sein de la médiévis…
Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past
Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past. Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, and Nina Rowe, eds. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. xi + 308 pp. $70. - Volume 75 Issue 4
White
Between Wonder and Omen
In the year 944, two wonders arrived in Constantinople from the eastern borders of the empire: First, the Mandylion, a textile that Christ had miraculously imprinted with an image of his face, was brought to the city from Edessa. Second, to the awe of the city’s inhabitants, male conjoined twins arrived from Armenia. In this article, I focus on the depiction of both events in the Madrid Skylitzes historical chronicle (Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional …
Practices of Commentary
Concluding Roundtable
Introduction
The Atom and the Amoeba
In 1953, when Walt Disney was looking to construct his first amusement park, he turned to a leading think tank to find him a suitable site for his venture, the Stanford Research Institute, whose “An Analysis of Location Factors for Disneyland” exemplified a distinctly Cold War aesthetic for how information was purposed, presented, and operationalized. The postwar think tank was tasked with communicating a complex host of research findings to aid …
Cybernetic Amusement
On December 1, 1954, Edward L. Schott of Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati introduced a Disneyland representative to his colleagues gathered at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the National Association of Amusement Parks, Pools, and Beaches in Chicago. Disneyland would eventually open in Anaheim, California, on July 17, 1955, but amusement park leaders already had a great interest in Walt Disney's venture into their industry. Schott, wh…
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