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Fitting the Zeitgeist
Authors: Almagor Laura
Published: January 2023

This chapter shows that Jewish political movements like the Freeland League did not function in isolation from their wider political and geopolitical contexts, even if such movements have often been studied as if they were barely affected by the non-Jewish world in which they existed. By discussing the Territorialists' navigation of geopolitical realities, the chapter helps to shed new light on the development of concepts related to population politics, agriculture and ‘agro-industry’, colonialism and post-colonialism, and the notion of ‘empty space’. These concepts helped forge the Freelanders' ideological direction that was largely decided in the interwar period. The chapter also looks at the year 1945, which often serves as a watershed moment, ushering in a new humanitarian geopolitical era. In reality, as the Territorialism's social engineering project demonstrates, striking continuities in geopolitical trends challenge this romantic interpretation. The chapter lays bare new aspects of such continuities before and directly following the Second World War, thereby defying the notion of 1945 as a ‘year zero’. It investigates how the Territorialists' new home, the United States, had become the almost undisputed global power centre, housing many of the political and scientific architects of the post-1945 world order. The chapter also reveals the manner in which the Freeland League adjusted to these changing global realities.
Community Support
Authors: Russ-Fishbane Elisha
Published: January 2023

This chapter highlights the role of the community when family support was unavailable. Given the cultural expectations of filial care, a number of rabbinic sources describe the means available to Jewish courts to compel families to care for their elders in cases of genuine neglect. The chapter looks at Genizah letters from adult children to older parents expressing guilt and regret at not being able to fulfil their filial duty. The chapter discusses alternatives to elder care as reliable facilities did not exist in Jewish communities before the early modern period, such as appealing directly to communal welfare officials for assistance. Another option was to formally and publicly enlist as an ongoing recipient of public welfare, while the other option was to pay for private help, whether in the form of a domestic servant or a contracted aide.
Facing Mortalitu Towards a Hebrew Poetics of Ageing
Authors: Russ-Fishbane Elisha
Published: January 2023

This chapter examines the image of ageing in medieval Hebrew poetry. In contrast to earlier scholarship that interpreted the motif of old age as the negative counterpart to idealized youth, the chapter proposes that key poets deliberately flipped expectations by depreciating youth and idealizing old age. It also discusses how the poets focused on the spiritual potential of old age, once one is no longer a slave to passion and instant gratification. The chapter describes how the Hebrew poetics of ageing celebrates the potential of old age by deliberately addressing the young or those on the cusp of senescence. The underlying power of these poets' verses is their call to consciousness, to stir the soul to its higher calling even before the physical ageing of the body.
Introduction
Authors: Russ-Fishbane Elisha
Published: January 2023

This chapter uncovers the historical dimensions of a key element of medieval Jewish family life, intergenerational dynamics, and milestones in the life cycle. It fills a considerable lacuna in the study of Jewish history, emphasizing a critical area of medieval Jewish life that will finally emerge from the shadows. The focus on old age offers a novel approach to the study of Jewish history and widens the scope to include the cultural valence. The chapter addresses questions and problems of ageing, such as ideas about the onset of senescence for men and for women, life expectancy, longevity, geriatric medicine, and a range of responses to the physical, mental, social, and sexual challenges associated with ageing. It also covers theoretical paradigms and ideal conceptions of old age in medieval Jewish literature, drawing on a range of sources from ethics and law to literature and philosophy.
Establishing Means
Authors: Prideaux Desirée
Published: January 2023

Chapter Two reviews the development of the clue-puzzle and the Detection Club’s playful ‘rules’ for the genre. The crime-writing women of the interwar period and the feminisation of crime fiction that accompanied their dominance in the genre are considered. Discussion then turns to the centrality of death in clue-puzzles. It is argued that irreverent murder mysteries filled a postwar need to consider death on a small, explicable scale, and that they licensed moving beyond sorrow and into laughter at the absurdity of death. Christie’s knowledgeable use of poisons, and audacious flouting of genre rules in texts such as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Mysterious Affair at Styles are explored. These preliminary investigations not only confirm Christie’s technical brilliance in handling the clue-puzzle plot, but also establish the sustained tone of irony that characterises her experiments in pressing the bounds of the genre. Importantly, they establish Christie’s modus operandi.
Peripheral Visions, or Paris Orbital
Authors: Blatt Ari J.
Published: January 2023

Chapter Two takes readers to the city limits, and then extra muros into the urban fringe, and considers a corpus of photographic representations of the outskirts, most notably in the zones and banlieues that surround France’s capital. The chapter examines a cluster of photographers like Patrick Tourneboeuf, Mathieu Pernot, and Camille Fallet among others, whose work orbits around the capital city’s atmosphere and seeks to recalibrate the way we see what Victor Hugo once called the “bastard countryside” of the suburbs. These views, considered within the context mainstream French culture’s flawed “peripheral vision,” make some of the most vernacular, marginal, and comparatively unseen sites around Paris’ iconic central core more conspicuous. In doing so, they render the peri-urban periphery more intelligible to a public that neither inhabits nor frequents these places and which has been conditioned to see them as a cliché.
Mission: France
Authors: Blatt Ari J.
Published: January 2023

Chapter Three delves into the archive of collective photographic ventures designed and supported by various institutions to document and appraise the evolution of modern French space. Resonating with groundbreaking government-backed commissions like the Mission héliographique of 1851 and the Mission photographique de la DATAR from the 1980s, the chapter focuses on two, more recent group projects: the ongoing, state-sponsored Observatoire photographique du paysage, inaugurated in 1991, and the more proteiform France(s) territoire liquide project from 2011-2014. Both missions bring together a team of artists who, each in their own way, visualizes the “infranational territory” of France—its small towns and borderlands, from regional parks and parking lots to out-of-the way places and seemingly insignificant spaces—to explore how these local landscapes have adjusted to commercial and industrial development and disruption, migration and immigration, and ecological change.
Roots and Routes
Authors: Blatt Ari J.
Published: January 2023

Chapter Five studies celebrated grand reporteur Raymond Depardon’s foray into the world of large-format landscape photography in his important series, La France de Raymond Depardon (2010). Depardon’s project revolves around an inherent tension opposing two distinct ways of seeing France. This tension echoes a fractured politics in French society. For while the hundreds of photographs that Depardon made in and around villages and towns across the Hexagon between 2004 and 2010 might at first seem to project a conservative, nostalgic view of a sclerotic nation in decline and resistant to change, they in fact challenge this retrograde vision and hint, instead, at a more expansive, inclusive, and open approach that embraces what France has become and hints to where it is headed.
‘Heaven’s Brandy’
Authors: Callaghan Madeleine
Published: January 2023

Apparently resolutely of this world, Byron is often viewed as an ‘outsider’ puncturing any residual pretensions of Romanticism, an intelligent man but ‘no philosopher’. But this position pretends to a detachment to eternity that the work never has. Byron might dispose of philosophical theories of eternity but not of eternity itself. Byron’s protean and shifting approach to eternity sees him experiment with finding a means to articulate what eternity can signify to a mortal poet. Byron does not argue in favour of a specific version of eternity, even sometimes denying its existence entirely in early letters, but toys with, and even embraces, a number of philosophical possibilities. Flashing between positions, Byron explores eternity’s clash with and attraction for humanity, moving from position to position, without resting in false certainty.
Afterword: “Alive to the Sound of Muzak”
Authors: Towlson Jon
Published: January 2023

This short concluding chapter argues that the extremity of Dawn of the Dead continues to be enjoyed by audiences around the world. Its resonance is just as profound now, in the age of ‘disaster capitalism’, as it was in the 1970s – if not more so. Although critical theorists and economists tell us that we have moved on from the era of consumer-capitalism, Romero’s commentary on the failure of government in the wake of disaster gives Dawn of the Dead continuing relevance. The book concludes that as a sci-fi-horror-disaster film, Dawn of the Dead does not seek to rehabilitate patriarchal authority, but instead depicts authority in the film as ultimately disclaiming responsibility for the welfare of those under its protection. In this way, Dawn of the Dead continues to stand as oppositional cinema.
The Script – The Anatomy of Terror
Authors: Haberman Steve
Published: January 2023

This chapter examines Poe’s original story, its history of adaptation in film and how Roger Corman decided to make it the seventh in his series of Poe movies. It also chronicles the writing of the script, from rejected first efforts to the first draft by Charles Beaumont to the final shooting script by R. Wright Campbell. In the process, Corman constantly guides the writing process, injecting his own personal themes and story-telling techniques.
Pre-Production – Join Me in the Glory of Hell
Authors: Haberman Steve
Published: January 2023

This chapter details the decision to shoot the movie in England for financial reasons, the first of two Corman Poe films shot there. Bringing his American production designer, Daniel Haller, and star Vincent Price with him, Corman takes advantage of a higher than usual budget to order beautiful sets and cast supporting actors from Britain’s impressive thespian community.
Post-Production – Sic Transit in Glorio Mundi
Authors: Haberman Steve
Published: January 2023

As he did in production, Corman used his relatively small budget wisely in postproduction, getting the most from talented artists, optical technicians and the music composer, David Lee. In England, the British Board of Film Censors forced Corman to remove several scenes of Satanism that offended them, but the movie was not censored for America
Production: From Previsions to Afterthoughts
Authors: Wilson D. Harlan
Published: January 2023

Advances in FX have enabled the evolution of SF cinema, ranging from the early experimentalism of George Méliès to the digital “synthespians” of contemporary CGI. Many breakthroughs in FX have occurred within the genre. Distinguished by bleach-bypass cinematography, Minority Reportwas the first film to have a fully digital production design and charted new ground. Spielberg consulted a group of experts in science and technology. He held a ‘Think Tank Summit’ in order to achieve a plausible futuristic setting; the result was a “2054 Bible” that screenwriters, art directors, and FX technicians used as a guidebook. The long road from story to screen took years. The screenplay went through several iterations while Spielberg tried to align his schedule with star Tom Cruise, whose box-office marketability enhanced the film’s monetary success. Minority Report was a critical success, too, symbolising another stage of Spielberg’s maturation, according to many reviewers.
Trawling Lives and Culture – A Portrait up to 1976
Authors: Byrne Jo
Published: January 2023

This chapter provides an important baseline for understanding the subsequent maritime disruption that is the subject of the book. Using secondary sources and new oral histories, it gives an overview of the development of Hull’s distant-water fishery up to the 1970s, with a focus on the post-war period. The chapter defines the operation and culture of the industry, examining the established rhythms of life in the 1950s and 1960s for those at sea, on shore and at home. It introduces Hull’s fishery as strongly place-centred, situated in the locality of Hessle Road. Dockside facilities were Hull owned and the industry operated for a domestic market. Long trips to the Arctic fishing grounds with predominantly Hull crews began and ended in the city, masking the international dependencies of this ‘local industry’. By the early 1970s, an expanded fleet of cutting-edge stern freezer trawlers was beginning to change long held practices, whilst the continuation of older vessels still nodded to the past, even as the industry prepared for the future. However, a global shift in the politics of fishing meant that for Hull a trawling future was not to be.
Living through the Aftermath
Authors: Byrne Jo
Published: January 2023

This chapter conveys the lived experience of Hull’s trawling community as they faced the loss of their livelihood and lifeworld. It describes the scrapping of older ships that in popular memory became a potent symbol of demise. As the sale of Hull’s modern, cutting-edge freezer fleet followed, the impact was felt in an extensive secondary and supply-based economy. The chapter conveys tales of unemployment and precarity in the catching and ancillary sectors, whilst depicting a more managed contraction for fish merchants and processors, whose businesses could survive by sourcing fish from new suppliers.
“F – R – Double E – D – D – O – M! Spells?” – Introductions
Authors: Sage Tyler
Published: January 2023

This chapter introduces the film and details the circumstances of its production. It also covers the history of the film's reception and the accusations of "anti-Americanism" that have attended it. A biography of director William Klein and an overview of his work as a photographer is also included.
Introduction
Authors: Sweeney David
Published: January 2023

This section outlines the themes and concerns of The OA, placing it in the context of streaming television series in general and, particularly, those produced by Netflix. The section identifies the specific elements of the series which are addressed in each individual chapter and indicate other texts to which The OA will be compared.
The section also includes brief synopses of the series two seasons.
Introduction
Authors: Marcus Lisa Algazi
Published: January 2023

Representations of breast-feeding in French narrative of the nineteenth century does not reflect the lived experience of Frenchwomen, but rather the hopes and dreams of the mostly male authors, artists, and moralists who created them.
Realism, Naturalism, and the Eroticization of Breast-Feeding
Authors: Marcus Lisa Algazi
Published: January 2023

The concept of sexual pleasure while breast-feeding circulates in a variety of French texts written by men in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This chapter examines how the male gaze constructs meaning by reaffirming the pleasures of nursing for the sake of the infant or revealing a desire to take the place of the child.
Breast-Feeding, Literature, and Politics in the Third Republic
Authors: Marcus Lisa Algazi
Published: January 2023

The concept of maternal breast-feeding as a civic duty during the French Revolution returned with the founding of the Third Republic in France in the 1870s. This chapter will analyse the relationship between the construction of the Third Republic and the rebirth of breast-feeding imagery in French literature, medicine, and politics, from the 1870s to the turn of the century.
Affectivity and Ecology in Baudelaire’s Twilight
Authors: Lübecker Nikolaj
Published: January 2023

This chapter first considers Baudelaire’s prose poem ‘Le Crépuscule du soir’ from Le Spleen de Paris. It argues that Baudelaire’s poem troubles common (humanist and liberal) ideas about agency, choice and decision-making. In order to understand how change is then produced in the poem, the chapter turns to the writings of Brian Massumi, explaining how Massumi invites us to think human beings as dynamic mediations of their environments. The second and third part of the chapter further explores the conception of subjectivity put forth in Baudelaire’s writing, positioning the arguments in relation to three Baudelaire-readers: Georges Poulet, Ross Chambers and Jacques Rancière. Particular weight is given to Rancière’s description of the Baudelairean subject as ‘an infinite network of sensations’ (Le fil perdu, 2014: 104) that opposes traditional socio-political structures.
Conclusion
Authors: Lübecker Nikolaj
Published: January 2023

The Conclusion returns to the key question – how do Baudelaire, Verlaine and Mallarmé speak to the present? – and answers that their texts can be viewed as a practice in non-anthropocentric ontology. This answer is placed in relation to the well-known debates about depersonalisation in modern poetry, and it is argued that both the proponents and the opponents of depersonalisation have overlooked the ecological potential of the poetry.
‘And so the idea of the Collection was born’: The Macpherson Collection of Maritime Prints from its Inception to the First Display at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Authors: Massa Silvia
Published: January 2023

This chapter examines the significance of the Macpherson Collection of Maritime Prints at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Silvia Massa argues that the Macpherson Collection has national significance as a visual display of Britain’s sea power, and is therefore far more than a repository of art works that depict the sea. It is proposed that the prints helped to shape the discourse around national identity in Great Britain during the nineteenth century. Consideration is also given to the role of a national maritime museum and its display practices. In particular, the author illuminates how the Macpherson collection shifts in meaning according to how it has been curated over time.
Coda
Authors: Munro Martin
Published: January 2023

The final chapter considers some of the ways in which, following abolition, notions of race continued to be figured around the senses, and particularly hearing, as certain anthropologists sought means of measuring hearing acuity, within the context of a discipline that was generally concerned with asserting the superiority of the white race, intellectually, morally, and in relation to sensorial capacity. Extending the focus beyond the Caribbean, to the Torres Straits expedition and the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, allows us to contextualize the earlier material, and serves as a coda to the long period of Atlantic slavery, just as the twentieth century begins, bringing with it advances in sound and visual technology that would continue to be crucial in shaping ideas of race and culture in ways that echo the past but also suggest something of the new struggles and triumphs that the century would bring. There is also a brief consideration of the role of technology in Jamaican music. As such, the chapter serves as a conclusion, but also as a bridge to my next book, which will continue to develop the field of Caribbean sound studies, with a focus on 20th-century material.
Vector
Authors: Baek Jiewon
Published: January 2023

Vis-à-vis a future without a foreseeable exit from environmental and social ruin, the capacities for positive, collective projection must be generated out of a sense of anxiety and vulnerability to the outside. This chapter presents attentional and communicative vectors as a figural means for conceptualizing both the negative and positive implications of stories, that is, their pharmacological potential, on collective projection. Two novels constitute the focus of analysis: Thierry Beinstingel’s Ils désertent (2012) and Leslie Kaplan’s Mathias et la Révolution (2016). While derived from definitions of mathematical, biological, and media vectors, attentional and communicative vectors specifically concern the labor of stories to orient individuals’ attentions beyond isolated movements within local geographies and digital echo chambers. This ethical framework is hence different from the political and economic lenses of Arendt’s idea of the web of relations, Lazzarato’s capital war machine, or Wark’s vectoralist capitalism.
Conclusion
Authors: Baek Jiewon
Published: January 2023

The creative capacities for future-oriented, collective meaning-making are ethical capacities that give moral reason, which the book has attributed to cultural production as a form of labor. The Conclusion considers the significance of the ethics of fictional labor in light of tumultuous protests and disruptions in the recent years of 2016 – 2021, including the Gilets jaunes and the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to reactionary revolts that repeat the violence in history, fictional labor must generate both a turning against and turning towards the realization of positive, collective projection. Since fictional labor is neither limited to the four figures presented in the book nor limited to the specific works of art that were chosen for analysis, the book invites readers to launch further expressions of fictional labor. The persistence of fictional labor will continue to be critical for addressing the most pressing ethical questions of the 21st century, including environmental ecologies, the survival of life, and climate change.
Bibelotic Buddhas: Decadence and its Critics
Authors: Bootle Sam
Published: January 2023

In the late nineteenth century, Western interest in Buddhism was frequently invoked in cultural critique as a symptom — and indeed cause — of cultural decline. Widely seen as a nihilistic religion that promoted apathy, Buddhism was condemned by critics who deemed it to be undermining faith in progress, and sapping the willpower of a generation that ought to be seeking revenge against Germany. Jules Clarétie’s 1888 novella Bouddha fuses this argument with a denunciation of France’s war with China in South-East Asia, which is held to be a distraction from the pursuit of revenge: in it, a Buddha statue symbolises the futility of the Sino-French War, and indeed of colonialism in general. Within the logic of the text, the Buddha statue becomes a fetish, prefiguring in certain ways Freud’s account of fetishism and its problematic treatment of gender. Indeed, the gender binary maps onto a cultural binary that is established between positive, progressive ‘Western values’ and decadent, pessimistic Buddhism.
Anticolonial Exoticism in Octave Mirbeau’s Le Jardin des supplices
Authors: Hibbitt Richard
Published: January 2023

Octave Mirbeau’s novel Le Jardin des supplices (The Torture Garden; 1899) depicts an exoticized fictional image of a Chinese ‘torture garden’ in order to hold up an allegorical mirror to European hypocrisy in the fin de siècle. Although France under the Third Republic may see itself as a civilized country, the treatment of Alfred Dreyfus and the barbaric violence inflicted on indigenous peoples in north Africa by French colonial forces belies such a claim. But the novel reads as political allegory and as exploitative piece of lurid Orientialism; seemingly complicit with the very system that it critiques, it both celebrates and condemns the Decadent fascination with the exotic Other. Developing an insight by Brian Stableford, this essay reads Le Jardin des supplices alongside Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), which also uses a fictitious journey as a means to critique contemporary mores, including public hanging and military expansion. Following Homi Bhabha, it argues that Mirbeau presents this anti-colonial exoticism in order to suggest a third space beyond the dichotomy of East and West: like More’s island of Utopia, Mirbeau’s fictional China points to a third, hybrid space which transcends the limitations of the French and Chinese polities.
Decadent Colonial Saigon in Fin-de-siècle French Literature
Authors: Suwanwattana Wanrug
Published: January 2023

This chapter explores representation of Saigon as a colonial and colonised ‘decadentscape’ and ‘heterotopia’ in three fin-de-siècle French texts by Claude Farrère (1876-1957) and Myriam Harry (1869-1958). It argues that Decadence, while abetting colonialism, nevertheless allows for an unexpectedly ambiguous articulation of colonial experiences through intercultural contact. In examining the interplay between fin-de-siècle decadent sexuality and French colonial discourse, I focus on three configurations of border crossing and boundary transgression that structure interracial interactions in Saigon, at a time when fixing and maintaining boundaries was crucial to the transition of French Indochina into bourgeois rule. These are the native concubine or congai, the mimic femme fatale, and the homosexual. The trope of decadent Saigon deployed in these texts while reproducing pro-colonial attitudes and categories politicizes Decadence by inscribing it back into its historical contingency, revealing the ambiguity of the real and imagined everyday Franco-Indochinese contact. I propose the term ‘colonial Decadence’, characterised by the inherent oppositional potential of Decadence to disrupt the colonialist narrative, to signify this political dynamic that lies at the heart of Decadence in the colonial context.
Conclusion
Authors: Panaite Oana
Published: January 2023

The conclusions summarize the conclusions of each chapter highlighting the formal and symbolic features of necrofiction as instantiated in the works discussed in the book. It shows that the genre combines strategies of representation (fictionalization of history, characterization, reenactment of past events) with the critique of storytelling (fragmentation, generic heterogeneity, theorization) to overcome the negative aesthetics of trauma writing, or its dead letters, without falling into the trap of “capturing” (Butler) the limits of human existence that it seeks to convey. The literary tomb cultivates instead forms of “attentional activism” (Citton) that guide but do not overdetermine the readers’ understanding of necropolitics which defines the contemporary world. Moreover, it invites readers to overcome the totalitarian attraction for the myth of death as a sacrificial act for the salvation of any religious, ethnic, or political community. Neither complacently mimetical nor laboriously archival, neither locked in aphasia nor elegiacally loquacious, necrofiction does not imply a history of salvation or a symbolic teleology. It enables writers and readers to moves from the dead letters of trauma to the projective energy of the literary tomb.
Everyday Violence in Jewish Communities of the Commonwealth
Authors: Rosman Moshe
Published: January 2023

This chapter takes a look at intra-Jewish violence, a much less studied vexation of Jewish communal life. It constructs a typology of Jewish violence with accompanying qualitative analysis. The chapter reviews the familiar Jewish sources as well as newly available ones. Next, it looks at how Jewish communal charters (privilegia) mandated that criminal matters involving Jews be adjudicated outside Jewish communal and rabbinical courts in the court of the non-Jewish ‘judge of the Jews’ (judex judaeorum), or the court of the local nobleman, royal town official, or municipality. Moreover, despite Jewish exhortations and edicts against the practice, Jews did turn voluntarily to non-Jewish courts at times to adjudicate even civil matters. A main conclusion is that intra-Jewish violence was neither random nor the result of social anomie. Rather, the violence was typically an outgrowth of existing issues or conflicts between the antagonists.
Littéralement et dans tous les sens
Authors: Rey Jean-Michel
Published: January 2023

Dès qu’on prend en compte des séquences d’histoire, individuelle ou collective, on est confronté à des traces à rebours, destinées à produire le caractère homogène de ce qu’on présente. On voit ici tout l’intérêt de ce que Bergson a appelé « l’illusion rétroactive ». C’est un éclairage aux effets multiples dans la perspective d’un temps fabriqué pour des intérêts spécifiques.
Prendre son masque pour son visage
Authors: Morel Alexandre
Published: January 2023

L’implicite est ce qui va sans dire. Comme le transfert. Ce dernier s’y entend pour défaire notre goût du sens. Quel jeu possible dans un système de contraintes identificatoires nous pousse à prendre corps et parole en séance ? En suivant les routes et les déroutes d’un moment de cure, dans la tension constante entre la mise en sens et le déploiement d’un certain nombre d’apparitions ou de personnages en séance, on pourra se demander : « Mais pour qui se prend-on ? »
Indifferenz versus neutralité
Authors: Quéméré Philippe
Published: January 2023

L’auteur se donne ici pour tâche de revisiter le mot indifferenz , que Strachey traduisit par neutralité, traduction qui aura des destins divers, parfois néfastes, sur la technique psychanalytique. Après avoir, sur les pas de Freud, déployé la polysémie d’ indifferenz et souligné l’écart avec indifférence et neutralité, l’auteur propose, filant la métaphore nautique, de la comparer au point fixe de l’étoile Polaire, assurant un cap idéal au navigateur analytique, lui évitant, bien qu’il soit inévitablement attiré par le chant des passions transférentielles, la dérive fatale vers les récifs du « simulacre d’humanité ».
S’incliner devant la jouissance ?
Authors: Solal Jean-François
Published: January 2023

En proposant la pulsion de mort couplée à la libido, Freud paraît souscrire à son habituel dualisme scientifique. Il constate toutefois que ces pulsions s’expriment de façon intriquée, comme dans la contrainte de répétition. Prenant appui sur le second exemple freudien, celui du masochisme, Lacan donne une place majeure à la jouissance. Sans jamais l’écrire, il tend ainsi à un monisme des pulsions : elles fusionnent quand vie et mort expriment la passion. Nous en donnons l’exemple chez Francis Bacon. La clinique contemporaine du trauma, notamment en temps de pandémie, et celle de l’addiction confirment la pertinence du concept de jouissance.
Naissance d’une notion : le coup d’État
Authors: Cherrier Emmanuel
Published: January 2023

Si les racines de la notion de coup d’État (d’origine française) remontent au Moyen Âge, son émergence au xvi e  siècle est liée à celle de la raison d’État. Elle désigne alors un acte majeur accompli dans l’intérêt général par le titulaire du pouvoir, dont la légitimité inscrit la violation du droit commun dans un ordre juridique supralégal spécifique au seul souverain. L’évolution des théories de la raison d’État ainsi que l’indétermination des bornes de l’intérêt général ouvrirent cependant, dès la fin du xviii e  siècle, le champ du concept aux non-détenteurs du pouvoir (ce que Brumaire illustre). Cette reconfiguration de sa définition fait alors aussi de lui un acte toujours illégal et à la légitimité incertaine (ce que le 2 Décembre enracine), sans pour autant remplacer le sens premier. Cette polysémie entretient alors la confusion autour d’un concept aussi souvent employé que mal cerné.
La république des « conseils ». Des comités secrets au Conseil de défense et de sécurité nationale
Authors: Arboit Gérald , Arboit Gérald
Published: January 2023

Comités secrets du Parlement et conseils de Défense des IV e et V e  République sont des organes spéciaux prévus par la Constitution. Leurs pratiques sont donc encadrées réglementairement. Ces organes ne s’intéressent aux dangers internationaux qu’avec des expéditions militaires de la colonisation, mais deviennent actifs après la Première Guerre mondiale. Encadrées par le secret, d’abord professionnel puis légal après 1939, leurs pratiques relèvent des dimensions stratégique, politique, médiatique, et couvrent, depuis 1958 et surtout depuis 2009 et le changement de paradigme sécuritaire, d’autres domaines que les relations internationales et les questions de défense.
Le Parlement de Westminster et les interventions militaires britanniques (2011-2015)
Authors: Harrois Thibaud , Harrois Thibaud
Published: January 2023

Cet article étudie les raisons qui ont conduit le Premier ministre britannique à confier au Parlement la décision d’autoriser les interventions militaires. Le précédent établi par le vote de mars 2003 autorisant l’intervention en Irak fut confirmé par le vote de mars 2011 concernant les frappes contre le régime libyen de Kadhafi, tandis que la Chambre des Communes s’opposait à une intervention contre Bachar el-Assad en 2013, mais approuvait des frappes contre l’État islamique en 2014 et 2015. L’émergence d’une « prérogative parlementaire » est étudiée afin de montrer les limites du « modèle de Westminster » qui prévaut dans les études sur la politique étrangère et de défense et la nécessité de prendre en compte les négociations avec le Parlement dans l’élaboration de cette politique.
Parlement et diplomatie au Japon : initiative et contrôle de l’action gouvernementale
Authors: Delamotte Guibourg , Delamotte Guibourg
Published: January 2023

Les parlementaires japonais peuvent influer sur la politique étrangère au stade de l’initiative comme de son contrôle. La Diète dispose d’administrations autonomes qui leur permettent de s’informer. Au stade de l’initiative, la majorité est plus en mesure, par le biais de la structure partisane, d’influencer le gouvernement que la Diète dans son ensemble. Les parlementaires peuvent toutefois avoir une activité diplomatique qui peut contredire ou compléter l’action gouvernementale. À cet égard, il est délicat d’établir les contours et la nature autonome ou non de cette activité. La Diète accorde en outre l’autorisation au gouvernement de négocier des traités. Au stade du contrôle, la Diète, plus que la structure partisane, intervient au moyen de divers instruments juridiques qui ne sont pas propres au domaine de la politique étrangère. Le contrôle parlementaire est fort en particulier en matière de déploiement des forces d’autodéfense (armées) à l’étranger. L’article examine les différents cadres juridiques existants et les prérogatives de la Diète dans chacun d’entre eux.
Changer les bâtiments pour changer l’enseignement. Le projet de l’université Toulouse Le Mirail dans les années 1960
Authors: Collet Pauline
Published: January 2023

Au début des années 1960, les architectes Georges Candilis, Shadrach Woods et Alexis Josic sont choisis pour dessiner le quartier du Mirail, destiné à accueillir plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’habitants au cœur d’une ville nouvelle appelée à devenir le nouveau centre de Toulouse. Concernant les universités, ces dernières traversent une période de crise, avec une forte hausse du nombre d’étudiants et des locaux insuffisants partout en France. À Toulouse, les étudiants en droit et en lettres se partagent les bâtiments du centre-ville (actuelle rue Lautmann) mais les tensions liées à Mai 1968 et la hausse du nombre d’étudiants rendent la situation de plus en plus compliquée. La décision est prise dès 1965 de déménager la faculté des lettres et sciences humaines au Mirail. Ce projet d’université va se construire en lien avec celui du quartier. Les architectes vont laisser s’exprimer leur vision de l’université à travers les choix de construction. C’est ce projet que cet article se propose d’étudier.
Form as a Driver for Regeneration: A Methodological Approach to Rethinking School Building Infrastructure in Italy
Authors: Barioglio Caterina , Campobenedetto Daniele , Murru Lorenzo , Quaglio Caterina
Published: January 2023

Italian school infrastructure is a multi-layered and diversified spatial asset which requires systemic rethinking in order to respond to evolving educational, energy and health needs. This has become evident not only as a consequence of the Covid-19 emergency, but also due to demographic and educational changes that have taken place over the years. The objective of the present work is to outline a methodological approach aimed at promoting agency within local communities and defining regeneration priorities and strategies through the co-construction of shared spatial knowledge. In a context in which tools and funds for a substantial renovation of the Italian public infrastructure are and will be available, the article explores the theoretical framework that enabled the implementation of a specific design tool — a web application — as a replicable operative model for school regeneration and describes how its prototype was built. More precisely, the web app is aimed at supporting and empowering the actors entrusted with governing the transformation of schools by identifying spatial resources and potentials. To this end, typological classification based on the current spatial characteristics of the buildings is assumed as a way to highlight the transformation potential of schools and to outline intervention priorities at a regional level. Drawing on the concept of spatial agency, the physical space of schools is therefore conceived as a shared documentary basis for the development of multi-scalar governance systems.
Pierre et carrières dans la Saintonge antique : identification, usages et diffusion
Authors: Gaillard Jacques , Conforto Egle
Published: January 2023

Dans la cité des Santons, dès la conquête romaine, des constructions ont été édifiées sur un bassin sédimentaire offrant aux bâtisseurs un éventail de pierres calcaires de qualité. Une recherche élargie à l’ensemble du territoire a consisté à faire le lien entre extraction et mise en œuvre dans le bâti. Pour ce faire, les roches des principales carrières ont été identifiées chimiquement sous la forme de référentiels auxquels les blocs d’architecture mis au jour par les fouilles ont pu être comparés afin d’en connaître la provenance. La microscopie électronique à balayage (MEB) équipée d’un analyseur EDS (energy dispersive spectroscopy) pour l’analyse chimique multi-élémentaire des grains piégés par la sédimentation marine est l’outil principal de cette identification qui permet d’appréhender les circuits de distribution de la pierre. Le présent article fait le point de quinze années de recherche et d’analyses.
Reconfigurable Low-Profile Antenna-Based Metamaterial for On/Off Body Communications
Authors: Berhab Souad , Annou Abderrahim , Chebbara Fouad
Published: January 2023

This chapter proposes a novel method to reduce the specific absorption rate (SAR) of a compact CPW antenna. A combination of three efficient techniques is employed to develop a dual-band bowtie metamaterial antenna with safer SARs. Following this approach, the authors have designed a low-profile antenna with a footprint of only 0.074λ02 and low backward radiation. The simulated results confirm the antenna's suitability for wireless body area network devices operating in the Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) at 5.33 GHz and 18.17 GHz frequency bands for military radar applications. The authors have developed two oppositely faced B-shaped resonators to form the bowtie-shaped DNG unit cell. A compact size and dual-band operation were attained by loading the bowtie-shaped into the CPW antenna. The antenna's conception used the available package CST software, printed on Rogers RT5880, and the CPW-fed monopole mechanism for the excitation.
Design of Efficient VLSI Architecture and Implementation of Power-Optimized Turbo Decoder for LTE Networks
Authors: K. N. Manjunatha , N. Raghu , B. Kiran
Published: January 2023

This chapter is about model, design, and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementation to optimize turbo decoder using standard cell library of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS). Various constraints like channel noise, number of iterations, and frame length performance are analyzed and estimated through reference models. Register transfer language (RTL) model for encoder and decoder is developed, simulated, and synthesized by hardware description language (HDL). The ASIC implementation with various performance parameters like power and speed are considered to evaluate the proposed algorithm on decoder blocks. In the proposed low power turbo decoder, novel techniques like clock gating and adaptable iteration methods are used. This work proved the energy efficiency through elimination of unwanted iteration and early stopping mechanism. The results of the chapter are compared with other competent researches, and it shows that power dissipation is reduced by 34% with adaptable data rates for LTE standard wireless applications.
Geographical Preconditions of the International Controversies Around the Turów Mine
Authors: Boháč Artur , Łaźniewska Ewa , Kurowska-Pysz Joanna
Published: January 2023

The chapter examines the physical-geographical and human-geographical characteristics of the Czech-Polish-German Three-border region, particularly the Turoszów Spur in Poland and its surroundings behind the borders. These characteristics differ within the region and influence socioeconomic settings and cross-border flows. Resulting asymmetries became more visible in connection with the controversies around the Turów Mine located in the Turoszów Spur. The arguments took place mainly between the Czech Republic and Poland. However, Germany cannot be overlooked due to its importance in the region. Countries neighboring the mine are not satisfied with its long-term effects on their border areas, and their attitudes were shared by the EU. The analysis is interdisciplinary and mainly grounded in geography, specifically neo-environmental determinism, and border studies, predominantly examining the effects of market forces and cross-border flows. The text aims to illustrate the significance of geographical factors in the small region without extreme geographical barriers or differences.
Analyzing the Spatial Configuration of Agriculture
Authors: Arias-Gomez Helmuth Yesid , Cely Juan Pablo
Published: January 2023

The authors deploy a descriptive approach for recognizing recent trends in the Colombian agricultural output. They combine the production analysis and the spatial perspective, streamlining the data and the spatial positioning. Using the agricultural Census 2014, they identified the territorial trends in flourishing commodities pushed by forceful changes in the international demand, and by the pressing tightening in the international food markets. In contrast, the Colombian competing imported products were demoted by the foreign imported production. The Colombian agriculture has been influenced by subsequent frameworks of economic policy, spanning from the protectionist stage through the liberalization era, until the current predominance of bilateral trade agreements. The spatial analysis bears out a random distribution of agricultural output across the territory, demonstrating the diversity of production and a scattered spatial pattern. In spite of the disparate production diversity, the agricultural export supply shows scarce diversification.
Economic Deglobalization, Regionalism, and Localism Processes Driven by Populism and Nationalism
Authors: Vargas-Hernandez José G. , Vargas-González Omar C.
Published: January 2023

The aim of this chapter is to analyze the nationalism and populism as the driving forces of economic deglobalization processes and regionalism. The analysis departs from the assumption that the economic deglobalization processes responds to more complex dynamic forces created by the economic, financial, and the most recent health crisis that blocks the continuity of the economic globalization. Moreover, at the center of the analysis is the conceptualization that both globalization and deglobalization are two faces of the same coin, but with opposite driving forces. Nationalism and populism are the driving forces of deglobalization leading to find regional and more local solutions to economic growth and social and environmental problems.
Blinded Randomized Controlled Study to Evaluate the Influence of Positive Verbal Suggestions on the Perception of Pain During the use of Myofascial Trigger Point Dry Needling Technique
Authors: Nakandala P. , Nanayakkara S. , Nanayakkara I.
Published: January 2023

Background: Positive verbal suggestion is identified as a therapeutic element that is used to influence outcomes by triggering placebo effects. Dry needling (DN) is a mildly invasive technique used to treat pains associated with Myofascial trigger points (MTrPs). Even though previous studies have evaluated the influence of verbal suggestions on the outcomes of DN over upper trapezius, this kind of study is not available in Sri Lanka.
Objectives: This study evaluated the influence of positive verbal suggestions on the pain perception during the MTrP-DN technique and also the influence of age and gender on the differences in pain perception.
Methods: Sixty patients with non-specific neck pain were randomly assigned to either control or interventional groups. For the control group, only DN was performed. For the intervention group, positive verbal suggestion; “You will be given an effective treatment to relieve your pain in the neck. This treatment is soothing and relaxing. You will feel no pain during the intervention” was introduced three times prior to the DN. The level of pain perception was evaluated immediately after the treatment by using numeric rating scale (NRS).
Results: A significant improvement in mean values of NRS pain scores (p<0 0.05) was obtained with positive verbal suggestions regardless of gender and age category.
Conclusion: Positive verbal suggestion appears to be effective in improving pain perception during MTrP-DN in patients with non-specific neck pain.
Psychological Morbidity in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Children and Adolescents in Sri Lanka: A Case Series
Authors: De Silva Rajaratne P. K. D. H. J. L. , Dahanayake D. M. A.
Published: January 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most serious public health crisis of recent times. It relentlessly progressed with no signs of easing. Many suffered due to economic losses, anxieties about contracting the illness, uncertainty of outcomes, social isolation, helplessness, loneliness, loss of loved ones and livelihoods. Children and adolescents are considered as one of the most vulnerable groups to suffer from the consequences of the pandemic. The elaboration and study of the direct and indirect effects of this catastrophe on mental health is an urgent need.
Although there has been renewed interest on the sub-acute and chronic neuropsychiatric sequelae of the infection, studies on psychiatric morbidity among COVID-19 survivors in the pediatric population are scarce. The effects on children and adolescents warrants special study as the impact on the still developing brain may be devastating.
We describe seven cases of new onset psychiatric illness, occurring both in the immediate aftermath of COVID-19 infection in the child/adolescent or in their loved ones, as well as in the context of the psychosocial difficulties faced by them due to the pandemic. These highlight the different mental health presentations among children and adolescents experiencing the effects of the pandemic on their lives. The changes in the social milieu due to the pandemic has added to the pre-existing issues such as poverty and social injustice, delivering a dual-blow on already disadvantaged sections in low and lower-middle income countries such as Sri Lanka.