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L’Accès aux cours suprêmes – rapport français
Authors: Mekki Soraya Amrani
Published: October 2019

The text presents the issue of access to the Cassation Court in France. The author argues that the functions of the Cassation Court are strictly interconnected with the rules determining the access to it. According to the author, the French model can be described as democratic, as opposed to aristocratic, because it depends on purely legal criteria.
The author divided restrictions in the access to the Cassation Court into direct ones and indirect ones. The former are specifically aimed at controlling the flow of cases. Being purely technical in nature, they determine the admissibility of cassation. On the other hand, they also include restrictions which enable the court to examine the substance of the case and evaluate it in a discretionary way. The author suggested that the court’s obligation to provide grounds of refusal to examine cassation weakens the ability of this filter toimprove theefficiency of the Cassation Court. Issuing such decisions takes the same amount of time as examining the substance of the case. Moreover, merely 30% of cassation complaints are not accepted for further examination.
Therefore, the author underlined the importance of indirect restrictions in the access to the Cassation Court. As far as indirect filters are concerned, she stressed the positive role of cassation lawyers who specialize in filing cassations. She also pointed out at an interesting legal solution enabling the opposite party to ask the court to suspend the cassation proceedings if the party who filed the cassation did not comply with an enforceable judgment of a lower instance court. In practice it often happens that a cassation is withdrawn as a consequence of this motion.
Admissibility of Remedies Filed to the Supreme Court of the Republic of Macedonia in Civil Matters
Authors: Zoroska-Kamilovska Tatjana , Shterjova Tatjana
Published: October 2019

The text provides the genesis of the existing regime for access to the highest judicial body in Macedonia, the particularities of that regime and an assessment on its effects on the judicial system. The authors provide insight into two different modes of revision in Macedonian legal system, namely the ordinary revision and the leave to file a revision, depending on the goals each of these remedies primarily strives to achieve – individual justice in a particular dispute or uniform application of law and harmonisation of the judicial practice. The text also presents the issue of granting a leave to appeal, which has a number of specificities in comparison to its German and Austrian counterparts. Finally, it offers a critical assessment of recent reforms and provides statistical data on the Supreme Court’s caseload in Macedonia.
Cassation Attorneys in the Polish Civil Proceedings
Authors: Gołąb Agnieszka
Published: October 2019

The text presents selected issues concerning parties’ obligatory professional representation in Polish cassation proceedings. It depicts the present regulation against a historical and comparative background. As its shape kept evolving over the years, its premises have been regularly revisited in the course of a doctrinal discussion. In recent times especially one question came to prominence. It touches upon an idea to introduce a special group of legal representatives who would be endowed with an exclusive right to act in the proceedings before the Supreme Court. The text recreates historical background of this institution in the Polish law and juxtaposes it with the present state, taking into account the nature of cassation proceedings, as well as the prospects of introducing such a legal specialisation in the future.
Income Assistance Receipt among Off-reserve Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Authors: Park Jungwee
Published: October 2019

This study demonstrated income assistance (IA) receipt among Aboriginal people living off-reserve using data from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS), a national survey of First Nations people living off reserve, Métis, and Inuit. In 2011, 12% of Aboriginal people living off-reserve received IA. It focused on socio-demographic, labour market and health characteristics found in different types of IA receipt. For almost half of the Aboriginal IA receivers, IA was their only source of income; it was the main (but not sole) source of income for 27%; and for the remaining 28%, IA was a secondary source of income.  The receipt of IA was associated with socio-demographic characteristics such as never having been married; female; younger; less than high school levels of education; and living in lone-parent households.  About 20% of IA recipients were employed in 2011. Compared with other Aboriginal workers not receiving IA, they were more likely to have a job with short tenure; to be part-time workers or temporary workers; and to work in the sector of sales and services. Compared to non-recipients, recipients of IA also reported significantly poorer mental and physical health conditions. The associations between health status and IA remained significant after controlling for other demographic factors. These results have important implications for policy makers and other stakeholders interested in IA for Aboriginal people. The complexity of employment, health, and other risk factors of IA need to be considered in further understanding these issues.
Diversity and main properties of soils of the Gronfjord area (Svalbard archipelago)
Authors: Iavid Elizaveta Iaroslavovna , Kondakova Veronika Nikolaevna , Polyakov Vyacheslav Igorevich , Abakumov Evgeny Vasilyevic
Published: October 2019

Svalbard archipelago is characterized by specific climate conditions, high air temperature and relative air humidity, which are not typical for high latitudes. Such conditions affect soil-forming processes. Classification and morphological structure of the soil cover on the Spitsbergen archipelago are still poorly understood. The aim of current research was to reveal diverse soil taxons in the Gronfjord area and characterize framework of its formation. As the results of this work, the authors provide the description of the investigated soils and their taxonomy in accordance with World Reference Base for Soil Resources (IUSS Working Group 2015) and the new Russian soil classification system. Chemical parameters of the soil, as well and the data on soil horizons properties were measured using vertical electric resistivity sounding method. In total, 15 soil profiles were made and the studied soils were referred to six Soil Reference Groups with domination of Leptosols and Regosols. The profiles were made in different landscapes that allowed to determine the similarities and differences in soil cover of the area. The main factors affected soil formation are cryogenic processes combined with gleyfication and cambic alteration of soil material.
Mineral magnetic properties of granodiorite, metagabbro and microgabbro of Petermann Island, West Antarctica
Authors: Ponomar Vitalii Pavlovych , Gavryliv Liubomyr Igorovych
Published: October 2019

The research focuses on studying the magnetic properties and mineralogy of iron-bearing minerals of granodiorite, metagabbro, and microgabbro of Petermann Island, West Antarctica. The predominant iron-bearing minerals of the rocks are ilmenite, magnetite, and iron sulphides. Magnetite in metagabbro and microgabbro is pointed out to be present as two morphological types with different grain size and morphology. The rocks owe their magnetic properties to the presence of different amounts of magnetite with the Curie temperatures of 570–575°C for granodiorite, 555–560°C for metagabbro and 560–565°C for microgabbro. Magnetite in the rocks is stable under heating to 650°C. A slight decrease in magnetisation at 350–400°C is attributed to the conversion of maghemite or maghemite-like phase into hematite. Variation of the magnetite content within each sample has a strong expression in the saturation magnetisation. The latter increases in sequence: granodiorite (0.8–1.3 Am2/kg), microgabbro (1.8–3 Am2/kg) and metagabbro (3.1–3.5 Am2/kg). The saturation magnetisation of rocks increases with the increasing content of iron. However, the inverse relation is observed for metagabbro and microgabbro due to the replacement of titanite for magnetite in the latter. The magnetic fraction of microgabbro reveals the wasp-waisted hysteresis loop suggesting bimodal size distribution. According to X-Ray Diffraction, the characteristic peaks (d-spacing) of pure magnetite are identified for magnetic fraction of granodiorite and metagabbro, while magnetite of microgabbro form stable intergrowth with titanite and chlorite.
Leptoclinides (Ascidiacea, Didemnidae) from Brazil: new records and two new species
Authors: Oliveira Livia M. , Carvalho João Paulo , Rocha Rosana M.
Published: October 2019

Twenty-two samples of Leptoclinides Bjerkan, 1905 collected along the Brazilian coast between 1998 and 2017 were examined. Herein we describe two new species (Leptoclinides coronatus sp. nov. and Leptoclinides lotufoi sp. nov.). We also extend the distribution of L. latus F. Monniot, 1983 and report that, for the first time, L. torosus F. Monniot, 1983 was found outside its type locality.
La competencia aprender a aprender en la universidad: propuesta de modelo teórico
Authors: Gargallo López Bernardo , Pérez-Pérez Cruz , García-García Francisco Javier , Giménez Beut Juan Antonio , Portillo Poblador Nuria
Published: October 2019

Aprender a aprender es una de las competencias claves fijadas por la Comisión Europea (2005 y 2006) para los sistemas educativos de los países miembros. Las últimas investigaciones ponen de relieve la importancia de que los estudiantes universitarios aprendan a aprender, por lo que este estudio se ubica en la universidad. El objetivo es concretar un modelo teórico sobre dicha competencia que permita su operacionalización en los grados universitarios. Para ello se ha realizado una revisión de la literatura sobre el tema. Después de estudiar su fundamentación científica y la normativa reguladora, se analizaron múltiples modelos -especialmente provenientes de la literatura europea- y se propuso uno propio. Esta propuesta incluye cinco dimensiones, tres de las cuales (cognitiva, metacognitiva y afectivo-motivacional) provienen de la psicología cognitiva y de las teorías sobre estrategias de aprendizaje y aprendizaje autorregulado. La cuarta (social/relacional) está vinculada al enfoque sociocognitivo y la quinta (ética) es una aportación del equipo investigador, que la consideró fundamental para el desarrollo personal y social del aprendiz. La propia Comisión Europea, en su reformulación de la competencia en 2018, incluye elementos éticos dentro del aprender a aprender. Estas dimensiones se concretaron en subdimensiones, de las que se aporta su descripción. A partir de este modelo se llevará a cabo el diseño curricular de la competencia para los grados universitarios de tres grandes áreas de conocimiento: Educación, Ciencias de la Salud e Ingenierías. Se especificará asimismo lo que tal diseño debe suponer en cuanto a objetivos y métodos de enseñanza/aprendizaje y evaluación.
Gamification experience in the subject of descriptive geometry for architecture
Authors: Álvaro-Tordesillas Antonio , Alonso-Rodríguez Marta , Poza-Casado Irene , Galván-Desvaux Noelia
Published: October 2019

The hasty changes in the curricula that have occurred in recent years in the School of Architecture of XXX have generated some problems in the subject of Descriptive Geometry that have been added to others that had been ongoing for many years. A Teaching Innovation Project (TIP) seeks to provide a solution to the problems raised with new methods of teaching inside and outside the classroom and greater interaction between the students and the professor. This way, geometry is no longer something abstract, unrelated to the professional practice of the architect. Thereby, it is intended to structure a new subject that provides students not only with graphic and spatial techniques but also with teamwork, cooperation, training, sufficiency and autonomy resources that help them in the development of their future career. In order to carry out this new methodology for teaching, a course based on gamification has been designed, which allows the students to focus on the subject from a more playful point of view with the aim of motivating and involving them. Based on a three-year experience of comparative work between the traditional and the proposed systems, the conclusions obtained with regards to the withdrawal rate, academic performance and perception of the teaching method are presented in this paper. The incorporation of techniques based on games had a motivating effect on the students, who discovered a way of learning by playing what they previously perceived as a tedious subject.
Competencias socioemocionales autopercibidas en el profesorado universitario en España
Authors: Llorent Vicente J. , Zych Izabela , Varo-Millán Juan Carlos
Published: October 2019

Estudios científicos muestran que las competencias socioemocionales en los docentes se relacionan con el éxito educativo del alumnado. Tanto la UNESCO como la OCDE señalan que para que se dé una formación integral deben desarrollarse tanto áreas académicas como sociales y emocionales. Hay iniciativas políticas para incluir las competencias socioemocionales en el currículum universitario, pues el desarrollo de la inteligencia emocional y estas competencias en educación superior podrían generar futuros profesionales más capacitados, lo que tendría un impacto positivo en la sociedad. No obstante, se sabe muy poco sobre el nivel de estas competencias en el profesorado de las diferentes ramas del conocimiento. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo describir el nivel de las competencias socioemocionales del profesorado universitario, mediante encuesta donde han participado 1252 profesores de 49 universidades de España. Los resultados mostraron que el profesorado se percibe con un nivel elevado en las competencias socioemocionales, si bien sigue habiendo posibilidad de mejorarlas. Los resultados de este estudio muestran que las mujeres puntúan más alto que los hombres en las competencias socioemocionales y sus factores autoconocimiento y conciencia social y prosocialidad, pero no en toma de decisiones responsable. También se hallan diferencias significativas según el macro área de conocimiento, donde el profesorado de Ciencias de la Salud señala mayores puntuaciones que el resto. A raíz de esta investigación se recomienda llevar a cabo acciones formativas para promover las competencias socioemocionales en la universidad, comenzando por su valoración en la evaluación en todo el profesorado universitario.
Rompiendo la brecha entre teoría y práctica: ¿Qué estrategias utiliza el profesorado universitario para movilizar el conocimiento sobre educación inclusiva?
Authors: Moliner García Odet , Arnaiz Sánchez Pilar , Sanahuja Ribés Aida
Published: October 2019

Parece que en estos últimos años la educación inclusiva no avanza al ritmo deseable, lo que se atribuye, entre otros factores, a la existencia de una importante brecha entre el conocimiento que genera la investigación en educación inclusiva y el utilizado por el profesorado en su acción educativa. Para  indagar al respecto, el presente artículo analiza las estrategias que utiliza el profesorado universitario para movilizar el conocimiento sobre educación inclusiva y hacer que se difunda y llegue a la práctica. El estudio se llevó a cabo con 17 profesores universitarios de nueve universidades españolas, pertenecientes en un 70% a la Red de Universidades y Educación Inclusiva (RUEI), mediante la realización de tres grupos focales desarrollados en tres universidades diferentes. Se trata de un estudio descriptivo comprensivo de carácter cualitativo, en el que se ha realizado un análisis de contenido, a través de un modelo de desarrollo de categorías deductivas. Los resultados muestran que el profesorado participante usa estrategias de interacción mucho más que de información. A pesar de ello,  se evidencia la importante brecha existente  entre teoría y práctica, que pone de manifiesto que el uso de estrategias de difusión y de transferencia que utiliza el profesorado universitario no son las más adecuadas, ya que mayoritariamente son ignoradas tanto por la política educativa como por el profesorado en su quehacer diario en los centros de educación primaria y secundaria. Se concluye exponiendo la necesidad de romper esta brecha mediante la utilización de estrategias de construcción y co-construcción del conocimiento, más acordes con la investigación en educación inclusiva. Ello posibilitará conectar la mejora educativa y la transformación social, y romper con la idea de que el conocimiento se genera en la academia por parte de los investigadores para ser transmitido a los prácticos.
Modelo estructural de factores extrínsecos influyentes en el flipped learning
Authors: Mengual-Andrés Santiago , López Belmonte Jesús , Fuentes Cabrera Arturo , Pozo Sánchez Santiago
Published: October 2019

Los avances tecnológicos han provocado que el ámbito de la educación se vea influenciado por la aparición de nuevos modelos de enseñanza y aprendizaje mediados por la gran cantidad de recursos digitales y dispositivos electrónicos que cuenta hoy el profesorado. Uno de los enfoques metodológicos que está emergiendo como consecuencia de la innovación educativa es el flipped learning. Este modelo de enseñanza y aprendizaje se sustenta en la idea de que los discentes puedan visualizar y trabajar los contenidos de las próximas sesiones presenciales en el aula fuera del entorno académico, con la finalidad de dedicar el mayor tiempo posible en clase a la resolución de problemas y al despliegue de un trabajo más práctico, participativo y activo. De tal modo, se consigue una mayor motivación y –por consiguiente– una mejora en la eficacia del aprendizaje. El objetivo de este estudio se ha centrado en conocer la incidencia de factores externos como el contexto familiar, la autonomía, la autoestima y la motivación del alumnado sobre la eficacia del flipped learning. Para ello se ha desarrollado un método cuantitativo a través de un diseño experimental de corte longitudinal y de naturaleza descriptiva y correlacional. Se ha tomado una muestra diacrónica (2013-2018) de 607 discentes de la Facultad de Educación, Economía y Tecnología de Ceuta (España). Para la recogida de datos se ha empleado un cuestionario ad hoc previamente validado. Los resultados revelan que los estudiantes que cuentan con un contexto familiar idóneo, además de adecuados valores en la autonomía, motivación y autoestima alcanzan mayores índices de eficacia en el aprendizaje. Asimismo, los discentes de mayor edad obtienen niveles más óptimos sobre la misma. En cambio, los que disponen de obligaciones laborales reflejan un descenso de esta, siendo el sexo de los participantes no determinante sobre la eficacia.
Incorporating a Digital Game Into the Formal Instruction of Algebra
Authors: Kapon Shulamit , Halloun Angela , Tabach Michal
Published: October 2019

We compared students' learning gains in authentic seventh-grade classrooms (N = 144) in 4 different interventions that incorporated a computer game that aims to teach players to solve linear equations. Significantly higher learning gains were measured in the implementations that were specifically designed to mediate the attribution of algebraic meaning to objects, actions, and rules in the game by engaging students in analogical mapping between these constructs and their algebraic counterparts and an exploration of the boundaries of this isomorphism. These findings suggest that learning disciplinary content and skills from a digital game requires learners to attribute disciplinary meaning to objects, actions, and rules in the game. Moreover, this process does not necessarily occur spontaneously and benefits from instructional mediation.
Produção de açaí na região norte do Brasil
Authors: D'Arace Larissa Martins Barbosa , Pinheiro Klewton Adriano Oliveira , Gomes Jaqueline Macedo , Carneiro Francimary da Silva , Costa Nisangela Severino Lopes , Rocha Eduardo Saraiva da , Santos Mario Lima dos
Published: October 2019

O estudo tem como objetivo analisar a produção de açaí na região norte do Brasil nos anos de 2011 a 2017. Para isso foi realizado um levantamento de dados secundários do sistema de produção da extração vegetal de açaí nos estados da região norte do Brasil. A produção média de açaí os estados do Pará, Amazonas e Acre apresentaram maior produção de açaí no período de 2011 a 2017, respectivamente. Enquanto que os estados do Amapá, Rondônia, Roraima e Tocantins apresentaram menor produção, respectivamente. No período de estudo o estado do Pará foi o maior produtor de açaí região norte do Brasil. É necessário manter o equilíbrio entre produção açaí para a geração de emprego e renda ao mesmo tempo manter a biodiversidade, através do seu manejo adequado.
Nuevas formas y soportes de escritura poética en Latinoamérica
Authors: López Fernández Laura
Published: October 2019

En este artículo se exploran distintas modalidades de escritura experimental en Latinoamérica, desde la perspectiva de la función que ejercen los medios y tecnologías en el proceso compositivo. A pesar de la heterogeneidad de estilos, se hace hincapié en ciertas constantes y en sus implicaciones discursivas debido a que proponen un cambio de paradigma estético y cultural que rompe con las expectativas tradicionales de lo que se entiende por texto, poema, autor y lector. Dentro de esta línea creativa se sitúan escrituras como IP Poetry de Gustavo Romano, la biopoesía de eduardo Kac, las instalaciones e intervenciones poéticas de José Aburto, así como otros modos de escritura poética como la performativa o la videopoesía.

This article explores different modalities of experimental writing in Latin America from the role of mediums and technologies in the compositional process. Despite the heterogeneity of styles, emphasis is placed on certain constants and their discursive implications that propose a change of aesthetic and cultural paradigm, breaking with traditional expectations of what is meant by text, poem, author and reader. Within this creative line we can include IP Poetry by Gustavo Romano, eduardo Kac’s biopoetry, installations and poetic interventions by José Aburto, as well as other styles of poetic writing such as performative and videopoetry.
Datafied Research
Authors: Andersen Christian Ulrik , Cox Geoff
Published: October 2019

We produce, share, collect, archive, use and misuse, knowingly or not, massive amounts of data, but what does its “capture” do to us? What are the inter-subjective relations between data-commodity and human subjects? In asking these questions, the articles in this journal seek insights into the logics of data flows between materials, things, data, code, software, interfaces and other stuff that permeates the cultures of datafication. Rather than merely mimicking the sciences’ use of (big) data, the arts and humanities must explore what kind of sensorium datafication generates for things and humans. What are the implications of being data? What are the darker forces involved in capturing and using data?
Zombification
Authors: Soon Winnie
Published: October 2019

Spam appears everywhere on the Internet, from downloaded emails to server-based blogs, forums and social media communications. This article explores this notion of the living dead in the context of spam culture. How is spam actively and repetitively produced with different identities? I adopt the term ‘zombie’ to describe spam because, notably, the concept of zombies has been used extensively in popular culture and entertainment, such as films, games and literature to describe the phenomenon of mindless slaves. They are usually situated in an environment that has suffered a viral outbreak with contagious effects. Critiques have compared zombies to dead labour, such as the slavery in Haiti and the labour in the United States: that is, the exploitation of labour through the concept of alienation, from Marx’s theory, and labour practices in global capitalism. Within the context of spam production, as datafied phenomenon, this paper uses the figure of the zombie to describe the computational and network processes of spam automation, which I call ‘zombification’ — alluding to the broader topic of datafication and its consequences. The assumption here is that life once datafied is zombification.
Surveillance Countermeasures
Authors: Howe Daniel C.
Published: October 2019

The browser remains a key focal point for much of the surreptitious data gathering and surveillance that pervade the web. There are a multitude of vectors by which corrupt advertisers, repressive governments, and other malicious players can attack the browser to identify its user and access valuable personal data without consent. One avenue that has shown promise in frustrating data collection in the browser, however, has been obfuscation. Obfuscation, has in part proven successful as a strategy due to the ubiquity of the browser itself. While a web service provider may be able to filter out unwanted requests from individuals, it is far more difficult when tens of thousands of different users are attempting to pollute their captured data in this way. As such, obfuscation may represent a useful avenue of resistance against contemporary datafication in online space.
Being with one another
Authors: Sützl Wolfgang
Published: October 2019

The first problem encountered by many in approaching the subject of sharing is its lack of distinction. “The majority of daily sharing of food, money, and possessions goes unnoticed and is invisible to most people for whom it is routine,” consumer researcher Russell Belk observes. This inconspicuousness of sharing makes it difficult to theorize in any objectifying way: according to the hypothesis I wish to suggest, there is no object here that science could examine, no behavior that is distinct enough to be objectively studied, or work new enough to be exhibited. Therefore, enquiring into the concept of sharing will need to pass through the lens of the everyday: that which tends to pass unnoticed. As an aspect of the everyday (as in the French quotidian), sharing can then be considered not as a specific action or form of communication that appears in front of a neutral background, but as written in the “prose of the world,” as Hegel called the everyday experience. Prose is language in its ordinary form, not privileged in any way, that against which poetry is the exception.
Oblomov’s Dream
Authors: Doran Aideen
Published: October 2019

A refusal to engage with, or to share in, a digital network culture that demands a permanent state of receptivity can be a powerful statement both personally and politically. In this paper I discuss how strategies of resistance to the technological enframing of experience in the network world may be developed through a kind of ‘radical boredom,’ developed in response to the ‘radical distraction’ (Morozov) of the network world. I explore this in relation to my 2015 video work Oblomov’s Dream, referencing Jan Verwoert’s concept of performing dissent through embracing ‘I Can’t’ as a form of agency.
The Testimony of Structure
Authors: Jones Nathan
Published: October 2019

Many contemporary theorists have observed the increasing directness of the relationship of language to economics through technology. This entwinement of language as and with technology is most evident in the form of code, wherein machinic innovations themselves take the form of language, as software. But the narrow field of software production is clearly not the most profitable means by which finance can be drawn from what is linguistic – rather, social media corporations have found new ways of mining, quantifying and selling the testimony as the performance and recording of subjective experience. This article pursues the moment of the testimony in the context of this technologisation of language, and asks how contemporary literature might withdraw its innovations from the role they play in “industry of the means of production” through intimate sharing.
Cum Deus Calculat, Fit Mundus, or The Will to Technology
Authors: Schiølin Kasper
Published: October 2019

The understanding of technology as rational means to well-defined ends does not make sense anymore. To a still greater extent the usage of digital technologies is compulsive, and without clear purpose. It would be tempting to interpret such repetitive and useless behaviour in a Batailleian sense as an accumulation of excess energy, which would cause a state of ecstasy that encounters the hegemony of utility. However, the compulsive behaviour is only apparently useless. The circuit of exuberant energy produced by the compulsive user is the very life nerve of the anonymous digital industry, which absorbs every click, finger slide, retweet, like or Google-search – deliberately as well as compulsively – to ensure its growth and power. In this sense, technology seems to be neither a sheer material extension of human rationality, nor an abundant source of excess energy, but a blind, ravenous, and limitless will to nothing but itself. Bataille’s notion of excess energy is indeed an obvious choice for interpreting the compulsive behaviour of digital culture. Although Bataille’s reception of Nietzsche is evident, he only slightly touches upon the obvious relationship between his notion of excess energy and the will. Adopting the metaphysics of will, developed by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and others in the 19th century will help to diagnose an already arrived future, where no energy is left to transgress binary logic.
Sharing
Authors: Sollfrank Cornelia , Sützl Wolfgang
Published: October 2019

Cornelia Sollfrank interviews Wolfgang Sützl around the notion of “sharing,”where this interest comes from and how it is embedded in the larger context of his work. In his answers, Sützl argues for the need of a better understanding of sharing to gain more clarity about the limits of exchange and neoliberal rationality.
Ways of Machine Seeing
Authors: Cox Geoff
Published: October 2019

Algorithms do not act alone or with magical (totalising) power but exist as part of larger infrastructures and ideologies. Some well-publicised recent cases have come to public attention that exemplify a contemporary politics (and crisis) of representation in this way. The problem is one of learning in its widest sense, and “machine learning” techniques are employed on data to produce forms of knowledge that are inextricably bound to hegemonic systems of power and prejudice.
Interview with an Etherbox
Authors: Authors Various
Published: October 2019

“Etherbox” is the name of a configuration of software and hardware that was in use during the Machine Research workshop co-organised with Constant and held at Brussels World Trade Center, 24-26 October 2016. Speaking “in” and “from” the situation, the platform was used to collectively write the Questions and Answers of this interview by the workshop participants.
Language Redux
Authors: Thornton Pip
Published: October 2019

How much are words worth in a digitally networked society? How has the language we use to communicate and express ourselves become infused – and indeed compromised – by the pervasive and invasive neoliberal market logics of proprietary tech companies such as Google? It might seem like an obvious received wisdom to say that the value of language is subjective; irreducible to – and unconstrainable by – financial quantification, and that language is not fixed – in meaning or aesthetic value – but rather it is fluid, liquid, limitlessly deferable. But these are assumptions that do not take into account the forces and logics of ‘linguistic capitalism’, whereby words are given an economic value, and auctioned to advertisers through Google’s AdWords platform as tools with which to claim and colonise the prime locations on a search results page. This contribution presents an artistic intervention as a response to the commodification of language and a critique of linguistic capitalism.
Algorithmic Facial Image
Authors: Azar Mitra
Published: October 2019

Facial tracking technologies have been incorporated in digital cameras for many years, and are offered to users of social networks such as Facebook to facilitate and automatize tagging (the process of recognizing one’s face in a picture and associating it with a user’s profile) and image sharing. Nevertheless, in recent times, facial recognition technologies seem to have taken a new turn, and from the simple recognition of faces with cameras and social networks they have become embedded in mainstream security technologies as much as in entertaining ‘face swap’ apps, transforming the social and cultural implications of the selfie. This paper examines the political implications of new technologies for facial recognition, and proposes a new type of selfie aesthetic characterized by new forms of human and machinic agency. The paper argues that when the selfie becomes mediated by new tracking technologies for security system and entertainment based on face-recognition algorithms, the selfie becomes an ‘Algorithmic Facial Image’.
Thinking Beyond Biometrics
Authors: Michelsen Lea Laura
Published: October 2019

Today, digital biometrics are proliferating. Based on scans of biological traits – from faces, fingerprints and gait to vein patterns, heart rhythm, brain activity, and body odor – biometrics are known to be able to establish the identity of a human subject. When reading humanities research on biometrics, though, it becomes evident that we are altering a lot more than just our faces. This article proposes a study of a wave of artistic counter-biometrics in order to enable thinking beyond the biometric box, practicing the ‘art of disappearing’ from the biometric gaze. With an outset in Zach Blas’ Face Cages (2013- 16) and his “Fag Face” mask from Facial Weaponization Suite (2011-14) the article argues that biometrics produces an aesthetics, and that it should be treated as such. This shifts our perspective from the technical media to the narratives we inscribe in these media and the aesthetic output enabled by that. Activating a counter- biometric aesthetics is far from naïve. On the contrary, engaging in the aesthetics of biometrics is a valuable and urgently needed research strategy for dealing with the physiognomic renaissance biometrics brings about.
Unravelling A Regulation Machine
Authors: Mylonaki Dionysia , Tigas Panagiotis
Published: October 2019

Computational censorship in the form of fake news and toxic comments regulation is a subject that comes up quite often in the public discourse, as a result of the volatile political circumstances on a global scale and due to the unquestionable impact of journalism on these circumstances. Public attention has been directed to the role of mainstream and other media in the formation of public opinion, either in the form of articles or in the form of usergenerated comments. The purpose is to analyse and allow a deeper understanding of a project that is under development, namely, computational-censorship and to show that algorithmic regulation is not a solution, but rather another layer to a more fundamental problem.

This article examines the implicationsof developing Machine Leraning/Artificial Iintelligence (ML/AI) which aims to regulate the internet and we attempt to allow a glimpse into the technical aspect of the problem as a way to back arguments that could be re-jected by the ML/AI research community as “non-pragmatic”. Finally, it aims to highlight the absurdity of the current approach to research in this area, which is the exact opposite of the rationalism that the field claims to be embracing.
Economy, Knowledge And Surveillance In The Age Of The Cryptocene
Authors: Andaluz César Escudero , Nadal Martin
Published: October 2019

This artistic intervention – in the form of a map and an accompanying text – addresses how knowledge has been placed at the service of production, describing a new expression of power generated by the accumulation of information in the networked world. The map and accompanying text emphasise the historical context of relations between intellectual property, piracy, consumption goods and homogeneity of money is counterbalanced by cultural movements and communities defending the open society, proposing free access to information and speculating with non-monetary futures.
Feeling, failure, fallacies
Authors: Cox Geoff , Andersen Christian Ulrik
Published: October 2019

Digital culture has become instrumental for capturing and managing what RaymondWilliams would once have called “structures of feeling”. The journal issue A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Machine Feeling alludes to this, and points to a material analysisof aesthetics and culture, including its technical and social forms, and in the way thatthis concept was originally employed as an acknowledgment of the importance of thehard to capture dimensions of everyday life. What potential new sensibilities andstructures of feeling may arise in such normalized registers of our habits? What newcultural and social forms and practices emerge in the coming together of machinelearning and structures of feeling? In each their own way, the authors in this journalexplore these questions
Queering Geographic Information information Systems
Authors: Dada Maria
Published: October 2019

What’s the relationship between GIS and the political subject? In an effort to address this question, this paper traces the movement from the map to GIS. The map is shown to be the performative utterance of the state, one that supports its national discourse and narrative. GIS, on the other hand, is shown to be a device of neoliberal governmentality, its non-representational economic practices, divided discourse and subjectivities. Despite the seemingly hopeless situation surrounding GIS, however, certain simulation and modelling practices are attempting to construct subjectivities out of economic neoliberalism’s fractured narratives. They do this by reading meaning into otherwise mathematical datasets and models. These practices could form a basis for queering GIS.
I forced a bot to read over 1,000 papers from open access journals and then asked it to write a paper of its own. Here is the result. Or, a quasi-materialist approach to bot-mimicry
Authors: Erslev Malthe Stavning
Published: October 2019

The article develops an approach for close reading of auto-generative writing agents (i.e. bots). It introduces the concept of bot-mimicry (a practice of writing in a bot-esque style), and argues that bot-mimicry inherently entails that reader and writer alike imagine a conceptual (fictional) bot which could have written the text. As such, it investigates the concept as a fruitful way of engaging with cultural, aesthetic and political conceptions and imaginaries surrounding bots. Furthermore, and through an example reading of the “Olive Garden tweet”, the paper develops, introduces and applies a quasi-materialist approach, where seemingly immaterial elements such as implicit conceptual bots are considered through a framework inspired by materialist media theory from the fields of software studies, media archaeology, and electronicliterature.
POV-Matter, cinematic POV and algorithmic POV between affects and umwelten
Authors: Azar Mitra
Published: October 2019

The essay refers to affect theory as a conceptual toolbox to draw a genealogy of POV (Point of View) that goes from the formation of the first organic POV to the reinvention of POV by the cinematic apparatus up to the latest development of algorithmic POV in machine vision and AI. The essay engages with Bergson’s conviction that there’s no perception without affection, and tests it against a phenomenological, cinematic and machinic notion of POV. To do so, the essay introduces what the German biologist Jacob von Uexküll has called Umwelt — the ecological niche emerging from the affordances between organisms, space, and (when applicable) technology. Furthermore, fundamental categories of both phenomenology and psycho-analysis are put at work in relation to cinematic POV and to the algorithmic POV produced by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), which seems to re-invent the relationship between seeing/seen (Merleau-Ponty) and eye/gaze (Lacan). This re-invention confirms the category of Umwelt and affect as markers for understanding the transformation between a phenomenological, cinematic and algorithmic notion of POV.
Spectacular machinery and encrypted spectatorship
Authors: Heras Daniel Chávez
Published: October 2019

This paper argues certain types of contemporary computation have a spectacular dimension which is consumed today as magic. Using popular images created through Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) as a case study, I analyse the conditions of production and consumption of imagery generated through machine learning as a type of popular culture, I then compare this creative use of computing with magic shows and the cinema of attractions of the early twentieth century. This approach combines notions of digital cultural materialism with theories of early film spectatorship to suggest an emergent cultural trend: monstrative global computation as a form of spectacle.
Operative image
Authors: Lee Rosemary
Published: October 2019

Visual media is increasingly impacted by algorithmic approaches to image production, which introduce new modalities into existing notions of the image. Rather than a fundamentally new phenomenon, current methodologies instead expand upon the automation of image production described by previous theories regarding the technological character of the image. The “operative image” (Farocki) acts as a central theory to describe attributes of new forms of visual media engaged with algorithmic processes. Introducing and elaborating on the concept of the operative image, comparisons are drawn between existing notions of the image and new features which result from the use of algorithmic processes in the creation of images. This paper aims to develop an understanding of how algorithmic image production affects defining aspects of images.
Dalbavancin to Treat Infected Massive Endoprostheses: A Case Report and Cost Comparison Analysis
Authors: Azamgarhi Tariq , Donaldson James , Shah Ashik , Warren Simon
Published: October 2019

Abstract. We report a case of an infected massive endoprosthetic replacement treated successfully with 2 stage surgery and off-label dalbavancin. Dalbavancin was used due to a limited number of antimicrobial options that could be administered safely in an outpatient setting and to avoid the need for daily dosing.
Les directions d’école s’expriment sur le rôle de la formation dans l’exercice de leurs fonctions en contexte francophone minoritaire
Authors: Boudreau Lyne Chantal
Published: October 2019

Cet article s’intéresse aux études en éducation qui identifient l’importance du rôle clé que jouent les directions d’école pour assurer l’atteinte de la double mission des écoles francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick en contexte minoritaire. En fait, très peu de recherches ont été réalisées sur la qualité des formations disponibles pour aider ces directions d’école à exercer pleinement leurs fonctions. Et les formations visant à les aider à exercer un leadership gagnant qui permet aux apprenantes et apprenants de développer un sentiment d’appartenance et une identité culturelle francophone dans les écoles situées en contexte linguistique minoritaire se font plutôt rare.
ENFANTS EXPOSÉS À LA VIOLENCE CONJUGALE : ÉTAT DES LIEUX DES RECHERCHES (1995-2018)
Authors: Paul1 Olivia , Zaouche Gaudron Chantal , Fontaine-Benaoum Elodie , Lamarque Marie
Published: October 2019

La problématique de l’exposition à la violence conjugale des enfants n’est que peu prise en considération en France. L’objectif de cet article est de recenser les études scientifiques réalisées dans différents pays sur le développement des enfants exposés à la violence conjugale. Notre méthodologie a permis de repérer 58 publications scientifiques. Le premier niveau d’analyse porte sur les spécificités théoriques et méthodologiques des travaux. Le second se centre sur les thématiques analysées dans les études et leurs principaux résultats concernant le développement des enfants. Enfin, le dernier niveau s’attache à appréhender les caractéristiques individuelles des enfants pouvant avoir un effet sur leur développement.
La concepción kantiana de la verdad: Entre la correspondencia y la argumentación
Authors: Andaluz Romanillos Ana María
Published: October 2019

Este artículo estudia la teoría kantiana de la verdad atendiendo a dos criterios: la concordancia con el objeto y la comunicabilidad. Se indaga la posible conexión sistemática entre objeto e intersubjetividad. En la investigación se descubre en la Crítica de la razón pura la siguiente secuencia: la orientación de la verdad hacia la objetividad; la ecuación entre objeto y validez objetiva; la equivalencia de estos con universalidad y validez universal; y la perspectiva de la universalidad como una perspectiva de carácter intersubjetivo o participativo, que en algunos momentos parece acercarse al paradigma de la verdad como argumentación.
El placer de crear
Authors: Sivera Sílvia
Published: October 2019

Estoy sentada en el travesaño de una letra hache inmensa, capitular. Balanceo los pies como en un columpio, mientras observo el mar aparentemente calmado de las palabras alineadas que me esperan ahí abajo. No sé qué me voy a encontrar, pero, en cuanto baje, me sumergiré en cada detalle, me fijaré en el orden de los adjetivos, en los puntos y coma que ya nadie ve y ojalá pueda deslizarme por el trazo de alguna ilustración como si fuera un tobogán.
Minding the Gap: A (Re)consideration of Influences on Student Success
Authors: Worthington Tracy
Published: October 2019

Drawing partly on publicly accessible commentary on 2015 Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) scores (Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development, [OECD], 2016),i this article reminds educators of the need to reflect on past, present, and possible
future interventions and strategies to help all students be academically successful. Discussion includes how a STEM/STEAM-based 21st century skills framework can have a positive impact on student achievement by creating an engaging, challenging, rigorous, student-centered
teaching and learning environment. The article stresses the importance of taking a unified ecological approach involving home, school, and community settings when attempting to understand how and why students have been academically successful, and conversely unsuccessful. Reminding educators
of the importance of reform across the entire PK-21 setting, this article provides a timely (re)discussion of a perennial yet crucial educational topic on how to meet the needs of current and future students in a rapidly changing world.
Cerebellar climbing fibers encode expected reward size
Authors: Larry Noga , Yarkoni Merav , Lixenberg Adi , Joshua Mati
Published: October 2019

Climbing fiber inputs to the cerebellum encode error signals that instruct learning. Recently, evidence has accumulated to suggest that the cerebellum is also involved in the processing of reward. To study how rewarding events are encoded, we recorded the activity of climbing fibers when monkeys were engaged in an eye movement task. At the beginning of each trial, the monkeys were cued to the size of the reward that would be delivered upon successful completion of the trial. Climbing fiber activity increased when the monkeys were presented with a cue indicating a large reward, but not a small reward. Reward size did not modulate activity at reward delivery or during eye movements. Comparison between climbing fiber and simple spike activity indicated different interactions for coding of movement and reward. These results indicate that climbing fibers encode the expected reward size and suggest a general role of the cerebellum in associative learning beyond error correction.