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Propuesta para una nueva interpretación de los patios de Córdoba (España): paisaje interior, emoción y memoria
Authors: Colmenarejo Fernández Rosa
Published: September 2018

La inclusión de la “Fiesta de los Patios de Córdoba” en laLista Representativa del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial dela UNESCO en 2012, ha supuesto el reconocimiento de losvalores que ésta aporta tanto a la convivencia y la solidaridadhumanas, como al patrimonio natural y cultural de la ciudad.Este artículo incluye una completa revisión bibliográficasobre el estado de la cuestión, y propone nuevas categoríastipológicas que pretenden contribuir a una actualizaciónde su valoración patrimonial mediante una geografía de lasemociones basada en el paseo, el reconocimiento, la identidady la memoria de sus habitantes, que vendría a incorporarsea las clasificaciones actuales basadas en la arquitectura de loconstruido.
Dinâmicas, transições identitárias e desenvolvimento profissional de enfermeiros na mercantilização da saúde
Authors: Fernandes Rita , Araújo Beatriz , Pereira Fátima
Published: September 2018

Objetivo: conocer las identidades profesionales de enfermeros portugueses y los sentidos de las transiciones en curso, para proporcionar el apoyo necesario a los desafíos de identidad profesional. Materiales y método: investigación de enfoque mixto realizada entre 2016 y 2017. Se utilizó el Inventario de Identidad Psicosocial de Zavalloni y Louis-Guérin como herramienta de recolección de datos, junto a una muestra de 102 enfermeros, de los cuales 19 fueron entrevistados posteriormente. Se analizaron datos que correspondían a los posibles selves, a la identificación del núcleo central, a los elementos periféricos de identidad profesional y las condiciones profesionales. Resultados: se verificó la existencia de un grupo dominante de enfermeros en una dualidad de identidad entre el enfoque en los cuidados y la autonomía profesional y el enfoque en las exigencias institucionales, con temor a la externalización del cuidado. Se identificó otro grupo profesional, más relacionado con el cuidado, que no presenta evidencias de institucionalización, sino que persigue un mayor desarrollo de las relaciones humanas y del conocimiento científico. Conclusiones: las posibles transiciones de identidad reconocidas pueden ocurrir según refuerzos y reconocimientos ofrecidos, que correspondan a factores de mercado y consecuente despersonalización del cuidado, o con la conquista de la autonomía y el rescate del cuidado, basado en la cientificidad profesional.
Use of a User-Friendly Tablet Application to Communicate with Pediatric Patients on Mechanical Ventilators
Authors: Tantacharoenrat Chanita , Prasopkittikun Tassanee , Rungamornrat Somsiri , Limprayoon Kawewan
Published: September 2018

Objetivos: examinar cómo el uso de una aplicación para tableta como ayuda en la comunicación con pacientes pediátricos con respirador artificial afecta el nivel de satisfacción con la comunicación por parte del personal de enfermería y en las díadas cuidador–paciente. Materiales y método: se utilizó el diseño pretest-postest de un solo grupo para analizar el nivel de satisfacción del personal de enfermería con la comunicación y se utilizó un diseño de grupo de control pretest-postest no equivalente para los cuidadores. La muestra estaba conformada por 44 miembros del personal de enfermería y 18 díadas de cuidadores y pacientes pediátricos con ventilación de dos hospitales en Tailandia. Se utilizó una prueba de T pareada para comparar al personal de enfermería, la prueba U de Mann-Whitney para comparar los cuidadores y una estadística descriptiva para describir la satisfacción de los niños. Resultados: el personal de enfermería se sintió más satisfecho con la comunicación al usar la aplicación de la tableta que los métodos de comunicación regulares (t = -9,13, df = 43, p < ,001). Los cuidadores que usaron la aplicación para tableta también reportaron una mayor satisfacción con la comunicación respecto a aquellos que usaron los métodos de comunicación regulares (U = -3,41, p < ,001). Casi el 90 % de los pacientes pediátricos reportaron sentirse completamente satisfechos con el uso de la aplicación. Conclusiones: la aplicación para tableta diseñada para facilitar la comunicación con pacientes pediátricos con respirador artificial mejoró los niveles de satisfacción con la comunicación y debe promoverse como uno de los dispositivos de comunicación de asistencia para uso amplio.
Modelo conceptual del manejo del síntoma: evaluación y crítica
Authors: Bernal Cárdenas Carlos Yecid , Céspedes-Cuevas Viviana Marycel , Sanhueza-Alvarado Olivia Inés
Published: September 2018

Objetivos: evaluar, analizar y criticar el modelo conceptual del manejo del síntoma a partir de los pasos planteados por Fawcett en 2013, y mostrar la relevancia que tiene este ejercicio académico en el área investigativa, tanto a nivel académico como asistencial en enfermería. Materiales y métodos: se realizó una búsqueda sistemática de piezas de investigación, las cuales fueron sometidas a un proceso de lectura crítica por medio de la aplicación de las siguientes herramientas: Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CAPS) para las piezas de investigación cualitativas, MacMaster University para la piezas de investigación de tipo cuantitativo, el rigor metodológico y la estructura conceptual teórico-empírica planteada por Fawcett en 2013, con lo cual se garantizó la calidad de las piezas de investigación seleccionadas. Resultados: se logró identificar los planteamientos del Modelo conceptual del manejo del síntoma y de investigaciones donde se utilizó este modelo como marco teórico para realizar una evaluación y crítica de este, en la que se tuvieron en cuenta: sus orígenes, el enfoque único del modelo, su congruencia lógica, la generación de teoría, su credibilidad y las contribuciones para la disciplina de enfermería, que corresponden a los pasos recomendados por Fawcett para la evaluación crítica de modelos conceptuales. Conclusión: a pesar de ser un modelo conceptual nuevo cuenta con fuertes bases teóricas y filosóficas que permiten su aplicación a cualquier fenómeno referente a la experiencia de los síntomas; sin embargo, se debe realizar más investigación donde se haga uso de las dimensiones de “los componentes de estrategias de manejo de los síntomas” y “resultados”, ya que un amplio volumen de investigación realizada hasta el momento ha hecho uso de la dimensión “la experiencia de los síntomas”.
The Poet, the Painter, and the Bishop's Wife: Chaucer on the Prairie
Authors: Cherewatuk Karen , Koepke Carson
Published: September 2018

In painting the library portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer currently owned by St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota), the nineteenth-century Boston artist Thomas Truman Spear worked from engravings based on the Harleian Hoccleve portrait published in mid- to late-nineteenth-century editions of Chaucer's works. Spear's portrait likely traveled to the Midwest in the possession of Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple, a wealthy Boston widow and then second wife of the historically important Episcopal Bishop Henry Whipple of Minnesota. By including the Chaucer portrait in the interior design of their home, Evangeline Whipple emphasized cultural ties between the fledgling Anglican Church on the frontier and the Mother Church in Canterbury. This case study in American medievalism reveals the story of a female patron of the arts, her quest to bring Chaucer's Anglicizing influence to the Midwest, and her savvy use of the poet's reputation to promote her and her husband's religious projects.
O Zé Povinho nas trincheiras: epopeia e anedota no memorialismo da Grande Guerra
Authors: Cardoso Pereira Paulo Alexandre
Published: September 2018

No presente artigo, partindo de uma leitura panorâmica dos textos de alguns memorialistas portugueses da Grande Guerra (Jaime Cortesão, Augusto Casimiro, Pina de Morais, Albino Forjaz de Sampaio e André Brun, entre outros), são examinadas algumas estratégias de reencenação narrativa da memória pós-traumática, com destaque para o efeito de dissonância estilística que neles de deteta entre um registo épico-celebratório e uma miniloquência de tom elegíaco ou burlesco. Essa oscilação retórica é, em seguida, relacionada com uma essencial mutação da política e da poética da memória que nestes textos se torna inteligível e em função da qual o lugar do herói épico do passado parece ter sido ocupado pela figura anónima do Soldado Desconhecido.
Os Tambores Silenciosos: a tríplice mimese, a relação autor/texto/leitor, ficção e a realidade no jogo da intriga literária
Authors: Dos Santos Eliane Davila , Saraiva Juracy Ignez Assmann , De Freitas Ernani Cesar
Published: September 2018

Desde o tempo de Aristóteles, o homem procura a compreensão dos textos e das obras de arte. Nesse âmbito, observa-se que a temática literária tem gerado interesse de filósofos que se dedicam a desvendar o propósito da literatura no mundo. A partir desse contexto e com o objetivo de demonstrar como a representação mimética, por meio de sua narrativa, promove a convergência da mimese I, da mimese II e da mimese III, analisa-se a obra Os Tambores Silenciosos1. Como marco teórico, procura-se apoio na perspectiva da tríplice mimese de Paul Ricœur (1994) e nos postulados de Wolfgang Iser (2007) que conduzem ao entendimento do texto como um jogo entre o autor e o leitor. O corpus de pesquisa corresponde ao já citado romance Os Tambores Silenciosos, de Josué Guimarães. A análise direciona à percepção da mimese como uma representação da história, ao estabelecer, no jogo da encenação textual literária, “a intriga”2 dentro de uma linha temporal em que se integram a relação autor/texto/leitor, ficção e realidade.
Bakhtin e/com Pêcheux? Pressupostos de trabalho em Linguística Aplicada
Authors: Furlanetto Maria Marta
Published: September 2018

Este trabalho trata de categorias aparentemente contraditórias, visualizadas em perspectivas teóricas diferentes – a de Bakhtin e seu grupo (teoria dialógica) e a Análise de Discurso, de filiação francesa –, mas que merecem estudo paralelo considerando seu encontro histórico na Europa, pela migração de um texto do pesquisador russo. Dada, de um lado, a afirmação de impossibilidade de conciliar as duas teorias, e, de outro, os estudos que refletem sobre as razões de as duas serem usadas para o estudo de determinados temas e campos realizando aproximações, a memória dos (des)encontros pode explicar afinidades e diferenças, e mostrar que ressonâncias teóricas podem instalar-se nesses campos de estudo. O trabalho objetiva formular argumentos e fornecer razões práticas para o uso de certas categorias, contemporaneamente, em áreas de prática de linguagem, tal como a Linguística Aplicada. Assim, noções como discurso, sujeito, ideologia, memória, interdiscurso, heterogeneidade e gênero são consideradas nesta reflexão.

Palavras-chave: Dialogismo. Análise de Discurso. Linguística Aplicada.
Extracción de conocimiento a partir de textos obtenidos de Twitter
Authors: Cortez Reyes Ronny Adalberto
Published: September 2018

El trabajo “Extracción de conocimiento a partir de textos obtenidos de Twitter” tiene como objetivo aplicar técnicas de data mining para, a partir de un conjunto de tuits, extraer información que permita conocer acerca de lo que se está hablando y así generar conceptos o ideas por medio del uso de diferentes tipos de representaciones gráficas.Para el análisis se ha utilizado un conjunto de tuits, transmitidos del 1 de enero al 21 de febrero de 2018, relacionados con el tema de la inteligencia artificial. El proceso se dividió en tres fases principales, que incluyen: recolección de tuits, procesamiento de texto y visualización de resultados.Utilizando diferentes tipos de gráficos, fue posible extraer información comprensible para los lectores, permitiendo tener una idea de los conceptos que se expresan en los textos y seleccionar las ideas principalesEntorno, june 2018, issue 65: 30-41
El principio de culpabilidad como garantía para los empleados públicos en los procesos disciplinarios
Authors: Euseda Aguilar Ronald A.
Published: September 2018

El régimen disciplinario de los empleados públicos no cuenta con un ordenamiento común que regule las garantías constitucionales, especialmente el principio de culpabilidad. Ante la dispersión de normas jurídicas y la no regulación de principios constitucionales, se vuelve necesario exponer cómo es que este principio, a pesar de ese panorama oscuro, logra brillar para proteger a los empleados públicos ante los procesos disciplinarios a los que se enfrentan.El propósito de la presente investigación teórica es presentar la construcción teórico-abstracta de las garantías que implica el principio de culpabilidad, y su aplicación en los regímenes disciplinarios; para ello, hemos revisado la doctrina que se ha generado en torno a este, así mismo, la jurisprudencia constitucional y su adaptación a nuestro sistema jurídico.Entorno, junio 2018, número 65: 95-103
Pueblos indígenas y la violencia social post-acuerdos de paz en El Salvador
Authors: Osegueda Carlos Felipe , Hernández Miguel Ángel , Beltrán Hernández Julissa Beatriz , López Morales Mariela Abigail , Parada Mónico Wendy Marisol , Ponce Juárez Katherine Yaneth , Rodríguez Machado Manuel Alexander , Rosales Hernández Raquel Aracely , Vásquez Alvarado Vanessa Carolina
Published: September 2018

La población indígena en El Salvador ha experimentado diferentes formas de violencia, discriminación, sometimiento e imposición desde la Colonia como sistema económico adverso a sus cosmovisiones. Dicho escenario ha generado consecuencias adversas en la tenencia de tierra, exclusión y marginación social hacia el indígena, lo cual ha permeado en el imaginario colectivo de las nuevas generaciones, negación que se refleja en su vestimenta y habla. En ese sentido, la finalidad del presente artículo es estudiar el fenómeno de la violencia social hacia los pueblos indígenas posterior a los Acuerdos de Paz, enfocando el accionar de las instituciones de Estado y no gubernamentales en la reivindicación de los derechos humanos de dicha población.Entorno, junio 2018, número 65: 15-24
Atopias
Authors: Neyrat Frédéric
Published: September 2018

Atopias argues for a transcendence that is a relation between thought and the world, rather than an object or a substance that escapes the world. In doing so, Atopies intervenes within the fields of object-oriented ontology and speculative realism, as well as classical philosophy, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, ecology, and global studies. The book posits that existence must be thought prior to being. Neyrat’s radical existentialism becomes the basis for a new theory of being, understood as the self-differentiation of the existent. Such self-differentiation, or spacing, is fundamentally different than the “Grand Divides” that postructuralist theories have critiqued. The first part of the book develops a critique of saturated immanence, or a world that attempts to immunize itself by rejecting forms of transcendence. From here the book turns to an internal divergence at the heart of philosophy, offering a new reading of Socrates. The second part of the book is a theory of the “trans-ject,” or an existing living being that is formed from the outside. The third section of the book examines the creation of metaphysical propositions through the transgression of the law of the excluded middle. Elaborating a politics of existence, Atopias calls us to defend the eccentricity of the living against that which prevents the living from existing.
L’Estoire d’Eracles in Outremer
Authors: Handyside Philip
Published: September 2018

William of Tyre’s Latin history of the first crusade, the Historia rebus in partibus transmarinis gestarum, was first written in the late twelfth century and then swiftly translated into Old French within a generation of the author’s death. The French-language translation, called L'Estoire d'Eracles, was copied and recopied multiple times in both the West and in the Levant over the course of the next hundred years. Several of the changes introduced by the translator for his western audience also changed the narrative’s perspective, serving as a powerful example of how French-language texts bridged the distance between communities located in the Levant and those in the Christian West.
The Tasks of the Translators: Relics and Communications between Constantinople and Northern France in the Aftermath of 1204
Authors: Lester Anne E.
Published: September 2018

The concept of linguistic “translation” helps to understand the process by which the material culture of the Byzantine empire, taken from Byzantine churches and palaces following the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, was interpreted in new environments in the Latin West. This was a process that required input from those invested in shaping the meaning of the relics and the creation of unique works of art in the form of new reliquaries.
The French of Outremer Beyond the Holy Land
Authors: Zinelli Fabio
Published: September 2018

Italy, so often the point of transit between Latin West and Latin East, also played a critical role as cultural mediator. The scripta of Outremer French, in texts written in Italy both before and after 1291, reveals how Italian communities participated in this exchange. More than just a scribal habit or foreign accent, Outremer French instead had clear political connotations for the Italian writers and copyists who invoked it in their texts.
Roles for Women in Colonial Fantasies of Fourteenth-Century France: Pierre Dubois and Philippe de Mézières
Authors: Blumenfeld-Kosinski Renate
Published: September 2018

A forceful statement of intention with regard to the European past and future of the Levant was in preparation in the kingdom of France in the later middle ages. The Norman lawyer Pierre Dubois and the royal advisor and diplomat Philippe de Mézières both wrote treatises, each about a century apart, in which they proposed plans for the reconquest of the Holy Land. Strikingly, both advised that women should play important roles. What these two strategists had to say about the place of women in future crusading conquests suggests that a new terre d’outremer resembled the colonial future much more than it did medieval fantasy or the high medieval past.
Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho
Authors: De Boever Arne
Published: September 2018

Tracing psychosis in American Psycho back to both Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho and the novel Psycho (by Robert Bloch) on which it was based, the chapter shows how these fictions theorize psychosis as a general aspect of the human being’s relation to money. However, money’s psychotic effect also infects Psycho, American Psycho, and the criticism that they have received in the sense that they tend to forget about money as one of the sources of the various psychoses they describe. If Bonfire was already pretty weak on the finance, presenting itself as a big city novel and being received as a novel about race and racism in New York, American Psycho has even less finance in it. Thus, Psycho and American Psycho arguably realize the psychosis that money produces in their very cinematic and literary form. Taking its cue from the Italian literary critic and media scholar Antonio Scurati, the chapter argues that this amounts to a psychotic realism that writes money’s psychotic effect on human beings—something that is particularly important in today’s era of digitized finance.
What We Talk about When We Talk about Latinx Literature
Authors: Rodriguez Ralph E.
Published: September 2018

This chapter considers the rise of Latinx as an umbrella identity term and its attendant impact on organizing literary production. It reviews the criteria that have been used to define Latinx literature and suggests that these criteria have not been terribly illuminating. While Latinx may have great use as a strategically instrumental tool in the struggle for social justice, it proves limiting as rubric for careful cultural and aesthetic analysis. The chapter suggests that a socially and historically attuned neo-formalist approach has much to recommend it as a reading practice, and it proposes that genre may be a more durable taxonomy for evaluating this literature than the racial and ethnic marker Latinx.
From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story
Authors: Rodriguez Ralph E.
Published: September 2018

This chapter analyzes the rare focalization of fiction through the first-person plural (we) and the second person (you). It is particularly interested in the affective textures these narrative perspectives create in terms of intimacy and distance, within the story and between narrator and reader. In carrying out this analysis, it examines Manuel Muñoz’s story “Monkey, Sí,” Patricia Engel’s story “Green”, and Ana Menéndez’s story “Why We Left.” In each of the stories, the narrators navigate traumatic life experiences—rape, eating disorders, and a miscarriage, respectively. The chapter does a close reading of how pronominal use affects the characters’ and readers’ emotional experience of the story before them.
The Watchdog Still Barks
Authors: Knobel Beth
Published: September 2018

This chapter discusses the erosion of the newspaper business and presents arguments as to why the free press is important, even in the Internet age. It also details the research behind this volume, and argues that no other function of a free press is as important as its ability to monitor the work of the government. The presence of a vibrant press to monitor government is not just important on the micro level but is essential to the proper functioning of our democracy. In fact, the work of the news media is valued because it helps empower the “public sphere,” meaning a realm of our social life in which something approaching public opinion can be formed. Here, the public sphere is not just a virtual or imagined place to discuss public affairs, but it is also a mechanism to enable citizens to influence social action.
America’s Most Vulnerable
Authors: Knobel Beth
Published: September 2018

This chapter presents the result of another content analysis, this one of two small local papers: Bradenton (Florida) Herald and the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune. It suggests that although these papers take seriously their responsibility to police the work of government and industry, their size and strength do affect what they are able to achieve. These two newspapers—one small, and one very small—show that local papers are able to produce accountability reporting and even some deeply reported watchdog stories, despite their limited size. But the depth of the paper's resources seems to relate directly to the quantity and quality of their accountability output.
If Not Now, when?
Authors: Knobel Beth
Published: September 2018

This chapter contains conclusions and prescriptions for strengthening watchdog reporting. To that end, this chapter presents ten recommendations resulting from this research. These are directed to newspaper editors, as they are most likely to drive the changes needed to make public service journalism all that it can be. Any news organization implementing these recommendations would be able to produce more accountability reporting and more deep investigative and watchdog reporting than ever before. In addition, this chapter provides one more recommendation—this time directed at the readers: subscribe to the local paper. Even better: subscribe to both a local and a nationally focused newspaper, as spending money to support the work of newspapers is one of the best investments to improve one's quality of life and the quality of our democracy.
On the Nature of Marx's Things
Authors: Lezra Jacques
Published: September 2018

This book traces to Karl Marx's earliest writings on the Epicurean tradition, a subterranean, Lucretian practice that this book calls “necrophilological translation.” “Translation” here is extensively used and covers practices that put different natural and national languages into relation, often across periods, but also practices or mechanisms internal to each language. Necrophilological translation has a troubling, definitive influence in Marx's thought and in his wake. It entails a radical revision of what counts as translation, and wholly new ways of imagining what an “object” is; “matter;” “value;” “sovereignty;” “mediation;” and “number.” In this book, a materialism “of the encounter,” as recent criticism in the vein of the late Althusser calls it, encounters Marxological value-form theory; the development of so-called divisible sovereignty in post-Schmittian political philosophy; Meillassoux's critique of correlationism; the resurgence of humanism in object-oriented-ontologies; and philosophies of translation and untranslatability in debt to Quine, Cassin, and Derrida. The book addresses Marx through Lucretius; through Spinoza's marranismo; through his translators. Freud's account of the agency of the unconscious, through Schiller's Don Karlos; Adorno's exilic antihumanism, against Said's cosmopolitan humanism; the absolutization of what is not-one, in Badiou, Meillassoux, and Freud through Donne and Neruda.
Conceptual Experimentation with the Divine
Authors: Dubilet Alex
Published: September 2018

This chapter shifts from Eckhart’s sermons to his Biblical commentaries to show how his theorization of univocity and immanence has a concrete theological and exegetical basis. It argues that for Eckhart, God is not a name for a pious barrier to thought or action, but the site of the most fruitful conceptual experimentation. Through speculative exegesis of key Christian theological topics, Eckhart subverts the theological and cosmological hierarchies in order to make room for a dispossessed, univocal life of radical equality “with God.” By showing how Eckhart employs the divine in order to theoretically articulate absolute immanence, this chapter acts as a provocation to the standard discursive distributions—between philosophy and theology, between medieval and modern, between religious and secular—and the assumptions that underwrite them. It articulates a figure unacceptable to common secularization narratives—a religious figure that prayed to God to be free of God in order to become free of one’s self as a possession, and yet in so doing was not espousing a covertly atheist position, but an exegetically-grounded formulation of life free not only from the regime of disciplinary practices, but also from all transcendent grounding.
Hegel’s Annihilation of Finitude
Authors: Dubilet Alex
Published: September 2018

The fourth chapter returns to Hegel’s 1802 essay Faith and Knowledge in order to argue that for Hegel, as for Eckhart, finitude must never be affirmed as primary, but understood only as an abstraction that breaks apart the impersonal, immanent process that exceeds any given finite appropriation. As a consequence, the chapter suggests interpreting Hegel’s call for the annihilation of finitude, found in numerous guises throughout his writing, as a way to subvert the very correlation between finitude and ineffable transcendence, between the self and the other. Indeed, the annihilation of finitude forms part of a more general conceptual lexicon of operations, including self-emptying, that seek to withdraw the primacy of subjective finitude in thought and life. As such, it suggests that Hegel should be read as offering a proleptic critique of Levinas’s philosophy of alterity and transcendence. At the same time, insofar as Hegel’s speculative perspective is an attempt to present thought and life as infinite and immanent processes, the chapter suggests that we must reinsert Hegel into a genealogy of immanence that would include not only Eckhart, but also figures such as Spinoza and Deleuze.
Scale as a Force of Deconstruction
Authors: Clark Timothy
Published: September 2018

What has recently been proposed as ‘scale critique,’ viz., the elucidation of under-examined assumptions about scale in many areas of intellectual and political life, can be forcefully reconceptualised as a mode of deconstruction. A certain spatial, temporal, or numerical scale, often unacknowledged, is a constitutive feature of all temporalization. A phenomenon or a conception that may appear, variously, as morally or cognitively self-evident at one scale may be uncovered as far less evident, unitary, or resolved at another. The second half of this paper puts a scalar deconstruction into practice by uncovering the very different conceptions of the ‘human nature’ that arise from changing the scale of consideration from that of the individual person, the default assumption in most thinkers, including Derrida, to that of humanity as an entity taken at a far larger, ‘global’ scale, an ‘agent’ without the features usually taken to define the human individual, such as rational self-consciousness. This larger scale, with all its counter-intuitive implications, is becoming an increasingly unavoidable, if discordant element of all thinking in environmental and other politics.
Ecology as Event
Authors: Marder Michael
Published: September 2018

This chapter argues that “ecology” could be read as one of the names for the evental break in the circuits of economic machinery that recover the subject on the way back to itself. That ecology would be perceived as a disruption (or the irruption) of the event is fitting to the epoch of a profound environmental crisis, rooted in the forgetting of what it means to dwell or to abide, to be at home without imposing an ideal mold on it. If this essentially eco-nomic mode of actively organizing a dwelling and being “chez-soi” has now become hegemonic, then the eco-logical ordering by the dwelling assumes the form of an originary trauma, positively instantiated in the gift.
Writing Home: Eco-Choro-Spectrography
Authors: Llewelyn John
Published: September 2018

This essay marks some of the respects in which the notion of home is unhomely, notwithstanding Novalis’s claim that the philosopher seeks to be at home everywhere. It asks how the object of the condition referred to as homesickness could be something someone would long for, given the dispersion to which it and our words for it are exposed by that process of de-con-struction, the classical paradigm of which goes under the name of “archi-writing,” notwithstanding that it is suspicious of the classic, the paradigm, and the name. The seeds of this suspicion were sown already in the space between Plato’s arguments for properness in the Phaedrus and for impropriety in the Timaeus. The chiasmic geometry of this interstitial unplaced space organizes and disorganizes a manifold of supposed antitheses of which that between exemplar or paradigm and example or instance determines the direction followed by those aforementioned philosophers in their quest to be at home everywhere, hence at home even in exiting across a threshold or beckoning to outsiders (not least the specters of the deceased). The geometry of the Da of everywhere is an alternative and ethical one. So too therefore is that of chôra, oikos, and ecology.
Responsibility and the Non(bio)degradable
Authors: Peterson Michael
Published: September 2018

“Responsibility and the Non(bio)degradable” is an effort to take seriously a claim found in the Human Interference Task Force’s report on the possibility of future generations compromising the isolation of interred nuclear waste materials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The HITF writes: “Future societies with knowledge of the existence and location of the repository, its contents, and risks of interference bear the full responsibility for any of their actions that can reasonably be expected to adversely affect the performance of the repository.” Through a reading of Jacques Derrida’s “Biodegradables: Seven Diary Fragments,” the chapter argues that the notion of “full responsibility” is inadequate to a thinking of responsibilities toward and of future generations. By thinking the endurance of nuclear waste through Derrida’s reading of “(bio)degradability” and “non(bio)degradability”—here thought alongside the well-known Derridean watchword “iterability”—the reader comes to see the necessity of thinking the impossibility of responsibility ever being inherited in its entirety or coming to an end for any generation in particular. As such, a more rigorous development of responsibility is called for, especially when applied to material or environmental problems.
Introduction
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Gentleness is an enigma. Taken up in a double movement of welcoming and giving, it appears on the threshold of passages signed off by birth and death. Because it has its degrees of intensity, because it is a symbolic force, and because it has a transformative ability over things and beings, it is a power.
Animality
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Gentleness is connected to animality via a fundamental and paradoxical wildness. Dufourmantelle theorizes a “gentleness drive.”
Language Sources
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

This chapter traces the history of the concept of gentleness through Ancient Greek and Latin etymology, as well as Ancient Greek and Christian mythology. It emphasizes the etymological and conceptual change in the concept of gentleness away from sensory experience, power, and the body and toward abstraction and weakness.
East
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

In Hebrew scripture gentleness denotes humility and poverty. In Sanskrit “Veda” is a gender neutral word that signifies “gentleness, graciousness, welcoming and kind speech.” Svadhishthana is the name of the second chakra or the sacral chakra. In Sanscrit it signifies “gentleness;” its element is water and its sense, taste. Here gentleness is just as spiritual as it is carnal. These traditions show gentleness without sentimentality.
Feeling and Sensibility
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Our era has chosen to give all authority to our errant thoughts. In a market society, sensibility is undermined; it is of no use to buying and selling if it is not channelled and normalized. Sensibility, the vector of our most contradictory emotions, is an agent of freedom. The mark of gentleness is its possible erasure.
The Symbolic Force of Gentleness
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

The symbolic force of gentleness is a power. Gandhi represents this in his nonviolent warfare and spirituality. Gandhi received ideological inspiration from Tolstoy, Ruskin, and Thoreau. These thinkers opposed the force of arms with the force of spirit. Gandhi risked his life without ever risking the life of his opponent by trusting symbolic force.
Patrolling
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

To attack gentleness is an unnamed crime that our era often commits in the name of its divinities: efficiency, speed, profitability. We try to make it institutionalizable so that it does not disrupt everything. Dufourmantelle discusses “The Grand Inquisitor” in The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. Gentleness appears first as a failure. It breaks all the rules of good social manners.
Sensory Celebration (II)
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Gentleness involves the body; its power distilled by the senses. We cannot possess gentleness. Gentleness has no fixed location in the body. It is erotic in all possible ways. Its power distils itself in the senses. Dufourmantelle discusses caress and Levinas.
Counterfeits
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

The opposite of gentleness is not brutality or violence itself, it is counterfeit gentleness; what perverts it by imitating it. It has become intolerable to “withdraw ourselves” or else this withdrawal must be announced, scheduled, and registered. Gentleness is in this withdrawal. The artificial is not even sad anymore; sorrows, regrets, expectations are erased by the artificial, and it has no constraints.
Exhaustion
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Hoping for gentleness requires strength; occasionally we lose hope. We don’t know what the lack of gentleness causes: perhaps words trampled; bodies mistreated; sad passions; charred emotions. In order to ignore this void we compensate by fabricating satisfactions. Today what we call “depression” is one of the major ways we deny our need for gentleness. The lack of gentleness is endemic.
Penumbra
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

We have never concealed so much, but we do so under the pretence of the constraint of total transparency. Gentleness cannot occur under this rule of exhibitionism. There is a gentleness within trouble, within ambiguity. The lack of gentleness is viral and leads to self-erasure. Gentleness can undo the intimate terror.
In Hell
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Every being is implicated in the devastation that took place in the twentieth century: Nazism, the bomb, genocides, mass deportations. When trauma occurs, it defeats the very possibility of being a subject within it—except in rare exceptions when lucid witnesses can confront it for what it is without being crushed. Something devastating falls upon us. And yet that is when it is most crucial to summon gentleness. W. H. R. Rivers demonstrated this in his regeneration of WW I soldiers.
Listening
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Gentleness participates in a gesture that invites the other. What gives rise to listening is the possibility of an emotion complicit in connecting with what the other is not aware of in himself. The psychoanalyst resists the complaint invading the space and the body of the other. The psychoanalyst hears this lack of gentleness and makes a passage in his listening within which the patient can breach boundaries. The power of listening is a suspended realization that unfolds between the psychoanalyst and the patient.
Trauma and Creation
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Gentleness is what turns traumatic intrusion into creation. In order to approach and heal trauma we need to be able to sew another skin over the burn left by the event. Gentleness is one of the conditions of this reconstruction and can come when traumatic pain ceases.
Beyond the Confines
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

Gentleness can be found in subtle moments. What is touched, or kept, or felt diffuses a quality that is difficult to define in the moment, but that suffuses the real with light. The right distance as invented by gentleness allows everyone to exist within his or her own space; it is the opposite of intrusion.
The Sensory Celebration (IV)
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

We shouldn’t pay too much attention to things, only contemplate them in their essential imbalance from time to time; then, gently, they reveal a secret. Nature holds all things in memory, and yet it is an absolute present, translucent, letting through everything it does not reflect. Gentleness has an astonishing connection to thought. Gentleness is calm. Anxiety comes into the body when gentleness abandons it.
Gentleness of Melancholy
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

In melancholy, isn’t there the attraction of a deadly gentleness? Anxiety pervades space and makes recognition impossible. Anguish is a death threat precisely when we should accept it as part of being mortal. Gentleness sometimes informs the decision to consent to the worst: to mourning, for example.
Dolce Vita
Authors: Dufourmantelle Anne
Published: September 2018

The sensation of being alive calls upon gentleness. In every era, the sweet life was embodied in the lifestyles of certain people or certain communities, but often in secret. When new forms of language, new ways of loving renew our relationship with the world, the sweetness of life becomes this new relationship’s private and secret ferment.
Plato and the Invention of Life
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: September 2018

While the question of life (whether bios or zōē) is not the explicit focus of any Platonic dialogue, it is, this book argues, an absolutely central and structuring question for all of Plato’s thought and, perhaps especially, for his ontology. This is nowhere more evident than in the Statesman, where the central myth of the two ages sketches out not only two epochs of human life and two models of human governance but two very different kinds and valences of life. Plato and the Invention of Life begins by offering a reading of Plato’s Statesman in order to ask about the question of life in Plato’s thought more generally. By characterizing being (whether in the form of the Forms or the immortal soul) in terms of life, Plato in many of his later dialogues, including the Statesman, begins to discover—or, better, to invent—a notion of life itself, that is, a real ortrue life that would be opposed to all merely biological or animal life, a form of life that would be more valuable than everything we call life and every life that can actually be lived. This emphasis on life in the Platonic dialogues will, this work shows, at once illuminate the structural relationship between so many of Plato’s most time-honored distinctions (e.g., being and becoming, soul and body, etc.) and help explain the enormous power and authority that Plato’s thought has exercised, for good or ill, over our entire philosophical and religious tradition.
“Why [the Jews] Have Attracted This Undying Hatred”
Authors: Bernstein Richard J.
Published: September 2018

In a 1934 letter to A. Zweig, Freud spoke of the undying hatred of the Jews and related this to his theses about the creation of the Jews by Moses developed in Moses and Monotheism. I explore what appear to be Freud’s outrageous claims in order to show how his insights can help us to understand recent outbreaks of anti-Semitic incidents. Freud was concerned about ever present danger of the breakout of hatred and the constant need to be vigilant in opposing violence.
Freud, Sellin, and the Murder of Moses
Authors: Assmann Jan
Published: September 2018

In his book Moses and Monotheism, Freud relied much more on Sellin’s Mose und seine Bedeutung für die israelitisch-jüdische Religionsgeschichte than is commonly acknowledged. He took from Sellin not only the theory of Moses’ violent death but also that of an ensuing guilt complex that informed the collective Jewish psyche. Sellin took the murder of Moses to be not only the last instance in the series of rebellions that accompanied the exodus from Egypt but also the first one in a series of violent acts against the prophets that ended in the death of Jesus of Nazareth. This connection, however, between the resistance against Moses and the violent fate of the prophets, which Sellin convincingly establishes, has not been taken up by Freud who did not share Sellin’s Christian presuppositions.
Is Psychic Phylogenesis Only a Phantasy? New Biological Developments in Trauma Inheritance
Authors: Malabou Catherine
Published: September 2018

In Moses and Monotheism, Freud raises the issue of a phylogenetic transgenerational trauma inheritance. Biology, he says, is not yet able to prove the existence of such a phenomenon, which would appear as a resurgence of Lamarckism, but shows confidence in the future developments of evolutionary biology. Some recents works in epigenetics are currently bringing a positive answer to Freud’s question. It seems that there exists an epigenetic mode of inheritance of stress, psychic pain, and traumatic experiences.
A oralidade do cordel no ensino de literatura
Authors: Conceição Claudia Zilmar da Silva , Gomes Carlos Magno
Published: September 2018

Este artigo traz uma proposta de prática de leitura do cordel em sala de aula, para articular as especificidades líricas dos textos cordelistas e o ensino de literatura. Metodologicamente, partimos dos conceitos de “leitura subjetiva”, de Anne Rouxel, e de “performance”, de Paul Zumthor para propor uma prática que valorize a recepção crítica e criativa do leitor no processo de leitura dramatizada. Como corpus, utilizamos os textos de Antônio Carlos de Oliveira Barreto, um cordelista baiano que explora reflexões sociais em seus textos. No processo de leitura, vivenciamos o acesso ao jogo estético por meio da experiência com a oralidade e a musicalidade produzida pela leitura compartilhada.
Memórias montadas
Authors: Mucury Julliany Alves , Cyntrão Sylvia Helena
Published: September 2018

A memória é uma montagem, articulada pela edição das lembranças de cada um atreladas ao testemunho de diferentes atores, a partir de diferentes linguagens. Todas essas narrativas juntas não formam um passado inteligível, só a escolha entre o que se deve lembrar e esquecer é que torna viável atar os fios do passado. Neste artigo, a obra de Isabel Allende, Retrato em Sépia, é analisada à luz da teoria de Paul Ricoeur no percurso de resgate da identidade da personagem principal.
Purgatório, de Tomás Eloy Martínez: suspensão do tempo e construção de realidades
Authors: Lemos Anuschka Reichmann , Reichmann Brunilda
Published: September 2018

Este trabalho apresenta uma leitura de realidades construídas pelo narrador e as personagens a partir de cenas suspensas no tempo, no romance Purgatório, de Tomáz Eloy Martínez, levando-nos a diversas dinâmicas entre imagens; a articulações entre o visível, o imaginário e o imaginado; a sobreposição da memória e do cotidiano. A partir dessas experiências, pensamos em diferentes propostas para o existir entre – entre mundos, realidades, países e tempos; vividos pelos personagens entre a Argentina no início da ditadura dos anos 1970 e a Nova Jersey pacata dos anos 2000. De modo contundente, o Purgatório, de Dante, e a cartografia pontuam a ficção de Martínez, apresentado fluxos possíveis para a existência de pessoas perdidas ou desaparecidas. Utilizaremos aportes teóricos da fotografia (Boris Kossoy e Ronaldo Entler, entre outros), para propor um mergulho em possibilidades simbólicas de imagens em narrativas e como um desafio a mais para nossa leitura da literatura enquanto fotografia.
Sob o peso do próprio corpo: a representação da mulher negra nos contos Maria e Rosa Maria Rosa, de Conceição Evaristo
Authors: Batalini Marcela Gizeli , Feldman Alba Krishna Topan
Published: September 2018

Levando-se em conta o pouco espaço concedido ainda à produção de autoria feminina negra no Brasil, bem como a presença limitada de personagens negras, sobretudo como narradoras ou protagonistas, compreende-se a importância dos contos Maria e Rosa Maria Rosa, de Conceição Evaristo, presentes nas antologias Olhos d’água (2014) e Histórias de leves enganos e parecenças (2016), respectivamente. Nosso objetivo é analisar a personagem feminina negra presente nestas produções, atentando-se para o peso do próprio corpo, ou seja, enquanto mulher e negra, em uma sociedade ainda marcada por preconceitos e discriminações nessas esferas. Observamos que a autora, além de trazer para primeiro plano esses sujeitos deixados à margem, ainda problematiza construções e estereótipos que perpassam à história do país, trazendo para a literatura outro olhar, outra perspectiva. As abordagens teóricas que embasam esta pesquisa são os estudos de Chandra Mohanty (2002), Elizabeth Grosz (2000) e Paulo Silva e Fúlvia Rosemberg (2012).
A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Promotional Video of Hangzhou
Authors: Yao Yinyan , Zhuo Yanfen
Published: September 2018

This paper analyzes a promotional video of the Chinese city of Hangzhou from the perspective of multimodal discourse analysis informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics. By drawing on Visual Grammar as well as frameworks of intersemiotic complementarity, the paper examines how various semiotic resources, namely, the visual, audio and verbal, construe meanings and how they work together to create synergy in the video. It is concluded that the deployment of various modes in this dynamic discourse contribute to constructing city images that are glorious in history, unique in culture, picturesque in landscapes, innovative in spirits, vital in city life, and beautiful in people’s hearts. The video also proves to be effective in engaging and aligning the viewers, thus functioning as a vital tool to market the city. It is hoped that this paper will provide a new perspective for semiotic studies of promotional videos in China.