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Dionysius the Areopagite’s Divinizing Hierarchy
Authors: Purpura Ashley M.
Published: May 2018

This chapter explores the theological development of the term “hierarchy” by Dionysius the Areopagite. For Dionysius the concept of hierarchy predominantly functions as a theological signifier for the communication of divinity among humanity. He describes ecclesiastical hierarchy in terms of maintaining a divinely given order through which divine power flows from superiors down to subordinates. Through discussion of hierarchy in liturgical and practical contexts, Dionysius functionally determines authentic hierarchy and describes it in primarily active and dynamic terms. This suggests a paradoxical tension in which the successful function of the hierarchy is dependent upon each person fulfilling his or her specific hierarchic rank in a way that is divinely reflective, but even when an individual does not function appropriately in or abuses their rank the hierarchy as a whole is still regarded as divinely communicative. Dionysius resolves this paradox by negating the validity of the authority of any person who does not communicate divine power, regardless of clerical rank.
Reflecting on Approaches to Jesus in the Qur’ān from the Perspective of Comparative Theology
Authors: Stosch Klaus von
Published: May 2018

Klaus von Stosch urges us to do comparative theology in a way that is oriented to problems, rather than proceeding just by case studies. The extended example he introduces, though interesting as exemplifying a certain kind of comparative work, is primarily aimed at making a constructive contribution to Christian Christology with the help of the Qur’an, by working through one of the fundamental problems in Muslim-Christian understanding: the meaning of Christ. Von Stosch aims to take the Islamic appreciation of Jesus of Nazareth as seriously as possible, to face the problems arising as directly as possible, and, in the end, to ask whether or not that Islamic appreciation can be integrated into Christian theology without abandoning Christian claims of truth. For this purpose, von Stosch seeks to clear the historical ground so as to better understand influences and differences pertinent to Islam in its earliest eras, and then to do theology constructively with the specifics of the original and contemporary situations in mind.
Rhetorics of Theological One-Upsmanship in Christianity and Buddhism
Authors: Nicholson Hugh
Published: May 2018

Hugh Nicholson explores some perhaps unexpected parallels in the work of doctrine-making in two texts representative of the early Christian Arian controversy and of the Buddhist Personalist controversy. He elucidates common underlying motivational and rhetorical structures of two materially dissimilar religious concepts, namely, the Christian doctrine of the Son’s consubstantiality with the Father, and the Buddhist doctrine of no-self. In doing so, he foregrounds what might be called the “objective,” as opposed to the confessional, dimension of comparative theology. He argues that Athanasius and Vasubandhu shared similar motivations, despite the obvious dissimilarity of the doctrines of consubstantiality and no-self. In doing so, he dispels the notion that comparative work must be arbitrary—a vexing impression that has contributed to its marginalization in both Christian theology and the study of religion writ large. Comparative theology evades the charge of arbitrariness, argues Nicholson, by avoiding two pitfalls of the “old” comparativism: minimalizing religious differences and failing to attend to concrete religious expressions.
Using Comparative Insights in Developing Kalām
Authors: Tatari Muna
Published: May 2018

Muna Tatari presents her personal and autobiographical encounter with comparative theology. We learn that at the beginning of her work in comparative theology, she came to realize that not only did she need to learn much about Christian theology, its doctrines and methods; she had too a quantitative and a qualitative lack of knowledge of her own Muslim religious tradition. Tatari elaborates two theological categories, justice and mercy, in order to demonstrate how comparative insights are fruitful in developing kalām as the way of study and reflection that illuminates these categories. To elucidate her method, Tatari discusses five major insights arising in her dissertation that were inspired by comparative theology; she shows how she used tools and insights from Christian theology and late-modern philosophy to reconstruct Islamic thought on a specific topic.
Living Interreligiously
Authors: Michael Barnes S. J.
Published: May 2018

Michael Barnes, S.J., proposes fruitful parallels between comparative theology and pastoral theology. Both can provide reflection on the inner or contemplative dialogue provoked by the myriad relationships that make up the Church’s “outer life”—relationships with the poor, the marginalized, the disadvantaged, the unbeliever—and that remain essential even alongside efforts to build relationships with those who profess different religious faiths. As Barnes sees it, contextual pastoral responsibility and interfaith engagement are practices of faith characteristic of a Church called to engage in serious witness to and learning from the people among whom we actually dwell. This vital contextualization broadens the context for the work of “reading” in comparative theology: in today’s pluralist world, “living interreligiously” demands attention not just to the traces of divine wisdom revealed in ancient texts, but also to places and monuments, ancient artifacts and contemporary cultural icons that shape and deepen faith within a community, while also instigating conversation and debate beyond familiar boundaries.
Smart’s Professors: Birdsong and Rhetorical Agency in Jubilate Agno
Authors: Easton Fraser
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines the significance of birds in Christopher Smart’s long religious poem, Jubilate Agno. Situating the many references to birds within the overall plan and layout of the poem’s complex pairing of “For” and “Let” verses, the chapter shows how Smart endows his birds with rhetorical agency. Examining the range of para-linguistic functions attributed to birdsong, the chapter links their effects to contemporary debates about elocutionary performance, notably in the work of Thomas Sheridan. Although Smart’s example of the “Mocking-bird” suggests the poem as a whole might be orchestrating a general mocking bird technology of imitation, the chapter argues that the poem demonstrates a different kind of technology, a technology of elocution, or rhetorical performance. The rhetorical agency of birds links this emphasis on elocution to the voice of all creatures.
Of Mimicry, Birds, and Words: The Technology of Starling Song in European, American, and Indonesian Poetry
Authors: GoGwilt Christopher
Published: May 2018

This chapter explores a technology of starling song in comparative linguistic and global cultural perspective by focusing on three references to starlings in poetry—from Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin; from the poetry of Jorie Graham (and by extension Wallace Stevens); and from Putu Oka Sukanta’s The Song of the Starling. Each example allows for a probing of three hypotheses: 1) that starling song is a technology that repeatedly crosses over species; 2) that starling song tracks its trans-species effects across a gobal history of language; and 3) that this global history (of species and language) emerges in para-linguistic effects, in between the sensory, linguistic, and ecological systems of birds and humans.
The Economic God
Authors: Heron Nicholas
Published: May 2018

This chapter anchors the book by examining Giorgio Agamben’s recent contribution to the study of political theology, which serves as its point of departure. In particular, it seeks to situate his recuperation of what he calls “economic theology” in relation to both its ancient and modern intellectual-historical contexts. In the first place, it locates in the context of the late Hellenistic debates concerning the nature of the gods. Against the Epicureans, on the one hand, who maintained that the gods are improvident and hence inactive, and the Stoics, on the other, who argued instead that they are provident and thus active, the Trinitarian oikonomia, in Agamben’s formulation, entails a god who is at once improvident and provident, at once inactive and active. It is this simultaneously inactive and active god—encompassing a father who reigns but does not govern and a son who governs but does not reign—which, in the second place, will be employed in order to intervene anew in the debate between Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson regarding the possibility of a Christian political theology.
Remoção de íons Cu2+, Mn2+ e Zn2+ em solução aquosa utilizando lodo biológico de reatores anaeróbios de alta taxa
Authors: Mendonça Marilia Assunção , De Oliveira Roberto Alves , Duda Rose Maria , Fujita Allynson Takehiro , Millan Rodrigo Ney
Published: May 2018

Este estudo investigou a viabilidade de usar lodo anaeróbio in natura e seco para remoção de metais (Cu2+, Mn2+ e Zn2+) a partir de soluções aquosas usando operação em coluna de leito fixo. Foram utilizadas baixas concentrações de Cu2+, Mn2+ e Zn2+ (0,01 a 5,00 mg L-1), tendo em vista que para a ocorrência de bioacumulação quando se utiliza micro-organismos ativos devem ser mantidas condições não tóxicas para os mesmos. Os lodos utilizados foram coletados de reatores anaeróbios horizontal (RAH) e de fluxo ascendente com manta de lodo (UASB) utilizados no tratamento de águas residuárias de suinocultura. A temperatura foi controlada a 20 °C em todos os ensaios. Foram avaliadas vazões de 5, 10 e 15 mL min-1, valores de pH 4 e 6 e concentrações de 0,01, 0,5 e 1,0 mg L-1 de Cu2+ e Mn2+,  e  de 0,05; 2,5 e 5,0 mg L-1 de Zn2+. O pH ótimo para a remoção de Mn2+ e Zn2+ foi 4 e para o Cu2+ não foi verificada diferença. A maior eficiência foi encontrada quando utilizou-se os menores valores de concentração e fluxo para todos os três biossorventes avaliados. Portanto, os resultados poderão ser aplicados para o pós-tratamento de efluentes com concentrações remanescentes desses metais, que necessitem de polimento para a disposição final, atendendo aos limites legais de qualidade de água do corpo receptor. Os resultados demonstraram a eficiência dos biossorventes (lodos anaeróbios) para a remoção de Cu2+, Zn2+ e Mn2+ em solução aquosa. A reutilização do lodo em ciclos de adsorção-dessorção foi possível com a utilização da solução regenerante de CaCl2.
Tephrosia Vogelii oil use in biodiesel production and its conservation with Syzygium jambolanum DC (jambul) extract
Authors: Santos Alexandre Coccia , Borsato Dionisio , Galão Olivio Fernandes
Published: May 2018

Tephrosia (Tephrosia Vogelii) é uma leguminosa que tem cerca de 8% de óleo e rotenoides, que tem sido estudado por vários autores. Este óleo foi extraído das sementes e utilizado para transesterificação formando, glicerina e biodiesel como principais produtos, que são uma mistura de ésteres alquílicos de cadeia linear. Na transesterificação, foi utilizado um excesso de álcool em proporções molares de 6: 1 para o metanol e de 9: 1 a 12: 1 para o etanol e subsequente remoção da glicerina. O jamelão (Syzygium jambolanum), é um fruto da família myrtaceae, amplamente utilizado como ornamental e  seus frutos são comestíveis, eles  foram empregados na forma de extrato como antioxidante. O biodiesel obtido foi submetido ao teste Rancimat, método padrão aprovado pela norma europeia EN 14214 e pela norma brasileira RANP 07/08, com o objetivo de analisar a estabilidade oxidativa do biodiesel, onde o valor mínimo permitido de indução é de 6 horas. A composição de ácidos graxos foi feita por cromatografia gasosa, gentilmente efetuada  pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM). O extrato de jamelão mostrou atividade antioxidante por eliminação de radicais livres do DPPH e o valor de 44,15%, em relação ao Trolox. A concentração fenólicos totais em soluções diluídas até dez vezes, foi de 4,45 mg ml-1. O teste Rancimat mostrou um período de indução de 3,59 horas sem a presença de antioxidante, indicando que a presença desse antioxidante era necessária. Quando o teste de Rancimat foi realizado na presença de  extrato de jamelão, observou-se um tempo de indução de 8,2 horas, sugerindo a eficiência do antioxidante aplicado e mostrando grande similaridade com os valores obtidos de um biodiesel sintetizado a partir de óleo de soja. Biodiesel de óleo de soja sem hidroxitolueno butilado (BHT) mostrou um tempo de indução de 4,2 horas, enquanto que na presença de extrato de jamelão o tempo de indução obtido foi de 7,1 horas. Novas alternativas ao óleo de soja para a produção de biodiesel são cada vez mais exigidas, e o óleo de sementes de Tephrosia (Tephrosia vogelii) pode ser usado para este fim. O antioxidante provou ser de grande viabilidade e aplicabilidade para conservação, e não requer grandes quantidades para obter um resultado satisfatório e consistente conforme requerido pela legislação, uma vez que sua obtenção é derivada de fontes naturais.
Carregamentos dinâmicos induzidos pelos movimentos de pedestres em estruturas
Authors: Segundinho Pedro Gutemberg de Alcântara , Dias Antonio Alves , Carreira Marcelo Rodrigo
Published: May 2018

Os engenheiros civis há algum tempo estão cientes dos problemas causados pelas vibrações excessivas provocadas pelo fenômeno da ressonância nas passarelas. As fontes causadoras desse fenômeno são várias e tem origens diferentes como, por exemplo, pedestres praticando alguns modos de caminhada, aglomerações excepcionais de pedestres, ventos fortes, chuva, etc. O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma revisão bibliográfica que possibilite o entendimento dos tipos de carregamentos dinâmicos que são introduzidos nas estruturas devido aos movimentos de pedestres. O estudo foi desenvolvido a partir da análise teórica de diversos autores a respeito do movimento de pedestres em estruturas. As várias propostas de modelagem permitem utilizar até cinco harmônicos da ação dos pedestres ou apenas aquele que considera o maior efeito de ressonância. Constatou-se que as modelagens propostas se diferenciam, principalmente, pelo número de harmônicos considerados durante a ação dos pedestres.
Inovação nas indústrias do setor moveleiro em Tubarão, sul catarinense
Authors: Junges Ivone , Wernke Rodney , Westphal Jurandir
Published: May 2018

Inovação é um processo contínuo, adequado às tendências, intensidade e tipologia, dependendo do setor de atuação, competências e cultura empresarial, especialmente empresas de pequeno porte, foco deste estudo, cujo objetivo é analisar o nível de modernidade e inovação nos processos produção e gestão das indústrias do setor moveleiro sob medida de Tubarão. A pesquisa é um estudo quali quantitativo, realizado em 21 empresas de um total de 120 empresas do segmento de móveis sob medida, entre formais e informais, na região de Tubarão, Santa Catarina, no ano de 2012. A análise dos dados considerou os depoimentos dos entrevistados, documentos das empresas, descrição das rotinas e fluxos de trabalho nos diferentes subsistemas organizacionais (funções). Os dados identificaram empresas despreparadas, tradicionalistas em termos de gestão, valores na cultura que não geram gestão moderna. Nos depoimentos evidenciou-se que o receio perpetua na cultura das empresas, impedindo a expansão mercadológica. A cultura como barreira à inovação, seguida da dificuldade de mão de obra especializada. O setor é um dos alicerces do crescimento da região e segue tendências nacionais, com ênfase para a inovação incremental e design, forte crescimento e concorrência acirrada.
Formação e desenvolvimento do triângulo mineiro: aspectos econômicos, educacionais e tecnológicos
Authors: Silva Luana Naves Ferreira , Santos Marina Beatriz Siqueira
Published: May 2018

O objetivo do trabalho é analisar a formação e o desenvolvimento do Triângulo Mineiro em relação aos seus aspectos econômicos, educacionais e tecnológicos. Realizou-se, primeiramente, um levantamento sobre a formação econômica do Triângulo Mineiro. Em seguida, foi feito um panorama econômico atual da região, destacando duas cidades, Uberlândia e Uberaba. Por fim, dedicou-se ao estudo do desenvolvimento recente, da educação e da Ciência e Tecnologia. Os dados mostram que ocorreram significativas mudanças, sobretudo em relação à melhora do IDH. Diante disso, destaca-se a importância do debate sobre o desenvolvimento, com criação e planejamento de políticas que essencialmente possuam tal direcionamento.
From Self-Reliance to Self-Actualization in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Thoreau’s Walden
Authors: Hamendi Nadia
Published: May 2018

This study aims at tracing how the concept of self –reliance as found in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Thoreau’s Walden offer two different paths to achieving self-actualization. It shows that though both believed man starts his journey to self-actualization from the point of self- reliance, Crusoe methodically followed Maslow’s five stages of human needs, while Thoreau steps from stage one to stage five directly for he believed that only by depending on nature for one’s basic needs can he then develop his higher potentialities. Thus, while for Defoe self-reliance was a means, for Thoreau it was an end in itself.
Reviewer acknowledgements for International Journal of Marketing Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2
Authors: Sun Alyssa
Published: May 2018

Reviewer acknowledgements for International Journal of Marketing Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2018.
Poesía en la escuela: los maestros, sus lecturas y sus creencias
Authors: Lamas Florencia
Published: May 2018

El artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio de caso en el que se exploraron las creencias de dos docentes en torno a la poesía y su didáctica en el segundo ciclo de la educación primaria. A partir de datos recogidos a través de relatos de vida y entrevistas, se analizó el perfil lector, el contenido de las creencias y los factores que inciden en su conformación. Los resultados evidencian que el impacto de las trayectorias de formación en los diferentes niveles es mayor que el del perfil lector del género.
An interview with Dr. Suresh Canagarajah on academic mobility, language and literacy
Authors: Hossain Rumana
Published: May 2018

The author interviewed Dr. Suresh Canagarajah of Pennsylvania State University on academic mobility, language and literacy, in June 2017.
Projeto Ser Criança: Avaliação e Resultados
Authors: Rocha Junior Valter Moreira , Giroletti Domingos Antônio , Lima Reginaldo De Jesus Carvalho
Published: May 2018

Este artigo tem como objetivo avaliar o Projeto Ser Criança “Educação pelo Brinquedo”, analisando os resultados por ele produzidos na formação social de crianças e adolescentes dele participantes. O Projeto tem sido implementado por uma organização do Terceiro Setor nas cidades de Curvelo e Araçuaí, em Minas Gerais. . Este artigo fundamenta-se em pesquisa descritiva que envolveu a análise de dados quantitativos e qualitativos advindos de fontes bibliográficas, documentais e entrevistas. Adotou-se o método de avaliação ex-post com foco nos impactos e resultados gerados pelo projeto com base em Albuquerque (2006). Foram utilizados os escores dos exames dos alunos de escolas públicas de ensino fundamental, realizados pelo Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (IDEB), e dados obtidos nos relatórios técnicos elaborados pelos coordenadores e em 25 entrevistas que envolveram educadores, alunos, pais e egressos. Pelos resultados da pesquisa pode-se concluir que os alunos das escolas parceiras do Projeto apresentaram melhor desempenho escolar em comparação com aqueles obtidos pelos estudantes de outras escolas. A pesquisa revelou que o Projeto contribuiu na formação de crianças e jovens por meio de ações educativas inovadoras e de uma metodologia inclusiva.
Coprodução em Serviços Intensivos em Conhecimento: Uma Análise de Projetos em uma Consultoria Empresarial
Authors: Da Silva Luísa Cavalcante de Azevedo , Farias Josivania Silva
Published: May 2018

O estudo teve como objetivo verificar a relação entre cliente e empresa no processo de coprodução de serviços intensivos em conhecimento (KIBS), a partir da ótica do provedor do serviço, envolvendo a análise de projetos de uma consultoria empresarial. Utilizou-se a abordagem qualitativa, a partir do estudo de caso de uma consultoria empresarial, com a análise de três projetos executados pela empresa, por meio de entrevistas com roteiro semiestruturado. Também se utilizou de pesquisa documental com documentos disponibilizados pela empresa. A Análise de Conteúdo foi utilizada na análise das evidências empíricas. Concluiu-se que a participação do cliente é essencial para a entrega do serviço por meio da interação entre cliente e provedor ao longo do projeto de consultoria. Verificaram-se as seguintes responsabilidades dos clientes: resolução compartilhada de problemas, dedicação pessoal, abertura à comunicação, advocacia e tolerância. O nível de participação do cliente foi considerado elevado pelo provedor do serviço. As estratégias de gerenciamento da participação do cliente utilizadas pela consultoria foram relativas a treinamento, educação e socialização, gerenciamento de problemas, seletividade de clientes e ações preventivas. Este estudo amplia conhecimentos sobre a dinâmica do setor de serviços, especificamente, sobre a relação de coprodução entre empresas provedoras de serviços intensivos em conhecimento e seus clientes.
Pesquisa em Sistemas de Informação no Brasil: 27 Anos sob uma Ótica Internacional
Authors: Freitas Henrique Mello Rodrigues , Marcolin Carla Bonato , Becker João Luiz , Martens Cristina Dai Prá
Published: May 2018

Compreendendo que conhecer o passado é importante para planejar o futuro, neste artigo buscamos resgatar a história de sistemas de informação no Brasil, tendo como marco inicial o ano de 1988, quando a área de administração da informação (ADI) surge pela primeira vez de forma independente em um dos principais congressos de administração do Brasil, o EnANPAD. Como marco final, o ano de 2014, que representa a comemoração dos 20 anos da AMCIS (Americas Conference on Information System), evento que é referência na área de ADI, e que incitou um chamado para um olhar sobre a história de ADI através da área Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of AMCIS: Examining IS History. Para analisar estes 27 anos brasileiros frente à comunidade internacional, foram classificados 1.335 artigos de ADI publicados nos eventos da ANPAD nas áreas da AMCIS, trazendo um olhar longitudinal ao período. Como resultados, identificou-se que a área de Gestão de Projetos apresenta a maior tendência de crescimento. Ainda, apresenta-se um panorama de evolução e estado atual das pesquisas em SI no Brasil, bem como principais autores, instituições e temáticas trabalhadas ao longo do tempo.
Life Cycle Canvas (LCC): Um Modelo Visual para a Gestão do Ciclo de Vida do Projeto
Authors: Medeiros Bruno Campelo , Araújo Vilma Felix da Silva , Oliveira Mylena Karlla de Almeida e Silva
Published: May 2018

Dentro de um contexto organizacional atual de incertezas, dinamismo e mudanças constantes, alguns estudos têm apresentado críticas às práticas tradicionais de gerenciamento de projetos. Em paralelo, observa-se o surgimento de modelos visuais como alternativos à gestão tradicional. Dentre esses modelos, têm-se o Life Cycle Canvas (LCC), que sugere a gestão do ciclo de vida de um projeto, sem desconsiderar as recomendações propostas pelas práticas já reconhecidas neste ramo de atuação. O objetivo deste estudo é de verificar a eficácia e as implicações do modelo LCC para a gestão do ciclo de vida de um projeto. A pesquisa se torna importante, no sentido de explorar um modelo ainda não investigado, quando se trata da aplicação da gestão do ciclo de vida do projeto. Para isto, foi utilizado como enfoque de análise a abordagem qualitativa, por meio do método de pesquisa-ação relacionado à construção de um projeto real em uma empresa pública. Os resultados obtidos demostraram a aderência do modelo LCC, considerando a sua proposta de promover a gestão em todas suas etapas de gerenciamento, com destaque para a gestão da mudança, pelo qual foram utilizadas as ferramentas de apoio que previam ajustes e ações de correção durante a sua execução. O estudo também gerou implicações gerenciais, como a viabilidade de aplicação e geração do produto final do projeto, bem como viabilidade de aplicação do modelo LCC em outros projetos com simplicidade semelhante de escopo, abrindo espaço para pesquisas futuras de aplicação do modelo.
Being Well
Authors: Parikh Crystal
Published: May 2018

Considering the family romance and family saga as adapted in narrative fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri and Ana Castillo, in tandem with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Chapter Five argues for a conception of the right to health that recognizes embodied vulnerability as the core feature of human being.
Lively Subjects, Bodies Politic
Authors: Fishel Stefanie R.
Published: May 2018

This chapter demonstrates that the relationship between humans and their commensal bacteria can help International Relations acknowledge and respect multiple perspectives and actors as vital to both politics and to our survival; being human may be less about our individuality and uniqueness than it is about our inter- and intra-dependence on multiple species.
Watching an “Audience of Voyeurs”
Authors: Gorfinkel Elena
Published: May 2018

Traces the reception of sexploitation film in the latter half of the 1960s, as pornography and obscenity begin to resonate publicly as national problems. It analyzes varied responses of audiences, critics, countercultural observers and researchers to the sexploitation film in the latter part of the decade, as the “adult film viewer” becomes an object of concern and anxiety, derision and curiosity.
Conclusion
Authors: Gorfinkel Elena
Published: May 2018

There is no better place to end than in the desires for the future of the past, of sexploitation cinema’s febrile imaginary, materialized by a sex film and reflexively about the sex film as a waning form. In the year 2427, a futuristic culture lives on in what remains of Los Angeles, which was ravaged by an earthquake in 1969. The society is ruled by “Master Computer” and a secret group of cult film viewers gathers each week to view cherished “underground” films from the film historical past, “decadent films which have been outlawed in these enlightened times.” These covert rebels, led by Liana and Jorel, screen sex films from 1969; they espouse the beauty and allure of an extinct film culture that appears to be the “last hope for our civilization.” Our fearless cinephile, Liana, acts as the master of ceremonies, informing her polyamourous congregants—who lie about a mod white set in gold and silver metallic garments—that before censorship was outlawed by Master Computer, such “highly moral films” still existed and circulated freely, artifacts of a culture invested in love and romance....
Introduction
Authors: Chess Shira
Published: May 2018

The Introduction, “Contextualizing Player Two,” looks at the background and history of our current situation—how it is that games came to be designed and marketed for women audiences, and some of the larger implications of the book.
Playing with Emotions
Authors: Chess Shira
Published: May 2018

Chapter Three, “Playing with Emotions,” discusses how emotional and affective labor are structured into several different kinds of games intended for Player Two, including Time Management Games, Hidden Object Games, caregiving games, puzzle games, and social networking games.
Toward Omega
Authors: Pilsch Andrew
Published: May 2018

Chapter 3 considers suffering as a problem in transhumanism by juxtaposing the hedonistic abolitionism advocated by Oxford philosopher David Pearce to the Christian mystical transhumanism of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this juxtaposition, the evolutionary vanguard is established as crucial for evolutionary futurist utopian thought.
Conclusion
Authors: Pilsch Andrew
Published: May 2018

The conclusion considers two recently emergent radical political ideas, accelerationism and xenofeminism, as evolutionary futurist practices of Utopia.
“No Danger No Delay”: Wole Soyinka and the Perils of Driving
Authors: Green-Simms Lindsey B.
Published: May 2018

Chapter 2 focuses on the tragedy of motorcar accidents through a close reading of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka’s 1965 post-independence play The Road about Nigerian lorry drivers living on the urban periphery. This chapter reads the road as a Bakhtinian chronotope – a space-time matrix – that includes various lived times of postcoloniality.
The Return of the Mercedes: Upward Mobility, the Good Life, and Nigerian Video Film
Authors: Green-Simms Lindsey B.
Published: May 2018

Chapter 4 examines the popular and low-budget Nollywood video films where the private luxury car is both a highly coveted object, typically seen driving down paved roads in posh neighborhoods, and a sign of wealth that is often acquired through criminality, witchcraft, magic, or fraud.
Cultural Studies and Quantification
Authors: Dixon-Román Ezekiel J.
Published: May 2018

Chapter two then discusses how the belief in the methods of quantification has not been widely shared in cultural studies. This chapter builds on the previous chapter’s new materialist deconstruction in order to rethink and reconsider the possibilities of quantification via a new focus for what Barad (2007) refers to as a diffractive methodology. It is via a diffractive methodology that the possibilities of quantification are enabled for cultural studies and critical social inquiry.
Evacuation
Authors: Banham Tony
Published: May 2018

Chapter Two describes the actual evacuation from Hong Kong, starting with an understanding of the methods and rationale of those who managed to avoid or evade the exodus, before focusing on the mechanics of the administration of evacuation and the successful execution of the voyages to the Philippines. Looking at the international context (the Japanese reaction, communication with the American authorities in the Philippines, and the planning of the removal to Australia) it then details the practical aspects of the reception and dispersal of the evacuees in the Philippine Islands while they awaited the next step. Here it exposes the ad hoc nature of the evacuation’s evolution, and the first understanding of the evacuees of the fundamental weaknesses of the plan.
1941: Pre–Pacific War Australia
Authors: Banham Tony
Published: May 2018

Chapter Four observes the evacuees’ environment as they fought to be allowed to return to Hong Kong and made the largely unassisted transition from pre-evacuation Colony to the difficulties (real and perceived) of life in Australia. They now had the social position of refugees. The eighteen months of separation before the Japanese attack meant families were immediately under strain - at the Hong Kong and Australian ends. The pressure on evacuated families was greater than on those not evacuated, added to by the continuing sense of injustice that many of the latter had deliberately evaded evacuation. The Hong Kong evacuees’ experience is contextualised through comparison with American civilians in the Philippines who were not evacuated and would eventually fare far worse. The vain hope for repatriation to Hong Kong delayed acclimatisation to Australia for many – though now more families realised that they could regain control of their destinies, by the evacuees themselves leaving Australia or by husbands who had been left behind leaving Hong Kong. Meanwhile, demonstrations and petitions calling for repatriation of the evacuees to Hong Kong grew to a crescendo.
Conclusion
Authors: Banham Tony
Published: May 2018

So we decided to emigrate to Australia and I suppose we could now be called ‘Dinkum Aussies’ – after 30 years.1

By 1946 Hong Kong’s pre-war colonial society, which had celebrated its hundredth birthday just five years earlier, had gone forever. Hong Kong, to the British people who lived there between the twentieth century’s two great wars, had been perhaps the prime real estate to be had in the empire. Life there was entertaining and cheap, profits were bountiful. But then came the threat of war. Mindful of their own situation in 1939, the British government instructed the Hong Kong government to mandate evacuation of British women and children should the colony be threatened by attack. In mid-1940, as the Battle of Britain stamped an indelible, greasy smoke stain through British skies thousands of miles away, the majority of Hong Kong’s civilians prescriptively escaped the threat of Asian war. Those families split asunder would often—in the context of the more than 200 husbands killed, and the many divorces—never be reunited; the cost of war being measured in permanently broken homes. That evacuation, in stages from Hong Kong to the Philippines, from the Philippines to Australia, and from Australia to the UK, or back to Hong Kong, and—in many cases—back to Australia again, would define many lives. Looking at Australia’s population today, a surprisingly large number can—at least in part—track their heritage back to Hong Kong’s pre-war society: the garrison, the businessmen, earlier evacuees who had washed up in the colony, and local families. From the perspective of Australia’s twenty-first century population, the effects of Hong Kong’s evacuation still reverberate through tens of thousands of its people. Many of the ancestors of those Australians are buried in Hong Kong or—for those who died as prisoners of war—in Japan, or they lie lost and forgotten, skeletons in Hong Kong’s remotest ravines or at the bottom of the South China Sea....
Families, Intellectuals, and Enemies in the “Red Classic” Remake New Tunnel Warfare
Authors: Vanderstaay Lara
Published: May 2018

This chapter investigates how the animated film New Tunnel Warfare (Xin didao zhan, 2009), a remake of the red classic Tunnel Warfare (Didao zhan, 1965), reshapes the socio-political ideologies present in the original film for a twenty-first century child audience.  The chapter particularly focuses, firstly, on how New Tunnel Warfare re-inserts the biological family into Communist discourse, in contrast to the original film where the biological family was less important than the Communist ‘family’ of people unrelated by blood.  Secondly, the chapter analyses the overt representation of violence in New Tunnel Warfare and the responses of its characters to violent acts. Finally, the chapter examines the film’s revival of the intellectual as a positive figure in Communist mythology. The chapter argues that these changes have been made in New Tunnel Warfare to reflect the major socio-political changes in Chinese society between the 1960s and the early twenty-first century
What William F. Buckley Jr. Did Not Understand about James Baldwin
Authors: Buccola Nicholas
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines similar tenets of individualism, history, and myth while adding critical exposition of Baldwin’s views on freedom and liberty. Nicholas Buccola uses dialectic between Baldwin and Buckley in order to trace Baldwin’s views on freedom and the limits of politics, supported by Baldwin’s own essays. Buccola’s analysis of Buckley’s misunderstanding of Baldwin serves in its own way as a mirror in reflecting what can thus be gleaned from Baldwin’s work.
“Where the People Can Sing, the Poet Can Live”
Authors: Schulenberg Ulf
Published: May 2018

This chapter places Baldwin within a larger intellectual tradition of both Western political philosophy and the African American intersections with(in) it. Ulf Schulenberg’s work then narrows its focus to develop and trace Baldwin’s humanism, a humanism that argues for individual responsibility in a democratic society. Schulenberg’s essay challenges public-private dichotomies, drawing off of Baldwin’s collapsing of the interior and exterior lives, and ultimately brings to discussion Baldwin’s view of the potential of democracy should individuals all recognize their collective and individual responsibilities.
James Baldwin on Violence and Disavowal
Authors: Beard Lisa
Published: May 2018

This chapter notes that it is fitting that in national discourse surrounding police killings and related Black Lives Matter protests, so many reporters and activists have turned to James Baldwin to interpret contemporary racial politics and summon people toward political action. Baldwin, so relentless at confronting “white innocence” in his time, offers a vocabulary about violence and disavowal that aligns with and enunciates Black Lives Matter interventions in important ways. That’s because in Baldwin’s account, white violence is not only monstrous but also denied, hidden behind national stories of civic virtue and myths of black criminality. The contemporary moment—from protests in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death to protests in Ferguson and Baltimore—thus demands that we revisit Baldwin’s own way of encountering violence and disavowal in American politics.
Phönix Rising
Authors: Rode Alan K.
Published: May 2018

Kertész’s military service concluded in the summer of 1915, and he returned to making films. He marriedseventeen-year-old IlonkaKovaks, who changed her name to Lucy Doraine.Their daughter, Katalin, who would be known as Kitty, was born on November 25, 1915. Kertész and Doraine were self-absorbed, indifferent parents—the baby was raised by nannies. He reestablished himself by directing films with Kino-Ripert and is quoted about the creative supremacy of the film director. As the war began to sap the Hungarian economy, he was appointed executive producer of Phönix-Film, a newly formed film studio.He became an incredibly prolific filmmaker, producingThe Last Dawn (1917) and scores of other movies. His career paralleled that of his boyhood friend Sandor Kellner, aka Sir Alexander Korda. The personality differences between the two filmmakers prevented any genuine collaboration while preserving their lifelong friendship.
Monumental-Filme
Authors: Rode Alan K.
Published: May 2018

Count Kolowrat was inspired to produce Sodom undGomorrha after viewing D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance.Doraine was cast as the lead, but after a series of arguments, she left Kertész and the picture before production wrapped. The extras numbered 80,000, and huge, ornate sets were built for the most expensive film of the period. Filming went on for two years,as the mammoth temple sets were destroyed and had to be rebuilt.A detailed account of the film’s production is bolstered by the recollections of the actor Walter Slezak, who made his screen debut after being discovered by Kertész in a Viennese café. Although severely cut before general release, the film was profitable and boosted Kertész’s reputation. He endured a messy divorce from Doraine and would sire two more children with two different women. He went on to make The Young Medardus, a Napoleonic love story based on a play by Arthur Schnitzler. It was another acclaimed spectacle, but post–WWI hyperinflation afflicted the Austrian economy, casting doubt on Kertész’s future as a European filmmaker.
Exodus in Red Heels
Authors: Rode Alan K.
Published: May 2018

MathildeFoerster suedKertész for child support. Humiliated by the bad publicity, he held a grudge against Foerster. His latest child—a daughter, Sonja—was born to the actress Teresa DallaBona in 1923. Because of the implosion of the European film industry, Kolowrat and Kertész decided to go all in with another biblical epic, The Moon of Israel (1924), based on H. Rider Haggard’s novel. The film, starring his friend’s wife Maria Corda and featuring a climactic parting of the Red Sea, becameKertész’s outstanding silent epic.It was a hit in Europe, but the mogul Adolph Zukor, head of Famous Players Lasky (Paramount), bought the American rights and refused to exhibit the film because of the potential competition with his studio’s The Ten Commandments (1923). Kertész pivoted to direct a new series of films starring Lili Damita, with whom he had a passionate affair but did not marry. His production of Das Spielzeug von Paris (The Toy of Paris)(1925) coincided with the birth of his second son, Michael, with the actress FranziVondrak. He completed two more films with Damita, Fiaker No. 13 and The Golden Butterfly, and thenHarry Warner offered him a contract to direct in Hollywood.
Pre-Code in Synthetic Flesh
Authors: Rode Alan K.
Published: May 2018

Curtiz’s career is summarized during the pre-Code era of Hollywood films. The evolution of the Production Code from the 1922 appointment of Will Hays as the czar of the MPPDA to the lack of enforcement of the Code is contextually chronicled as a key driver of the nature of Warner Bros. pictures during the early years of the Depression. Zanuck pioneered the “ripped from the headlines” gangster dramas that struck a chord with audiences. After he directed The Mad Genius, with John Barrymore, Curtiz’s pay was cut as Warners lost $8 million in 1931.Following The Woman from Monte Carlo and the visually creative Alias the Doctor, Curtiz was assigned the contemporary Strange Love of Molly Louvain, starring Ann Dvorak.He hit box-office gold with Doctor X (1932), a gruesome pre-Code horror film starring Fay Wray, who recounted Curtiz’s cold, sometimes cruel behavior on the set. Curtiz’s production of The Cabin in the Cotton included his racial faux pas and his alienation of Bette Davis during their first film together.His masterly direction of 20,000 Years in Sing Sing concluded a year of worsening economic conditions for the country.
Regime Change
Authors: Rode Alan K.
Published: May 2018

As the Depression deepened, all the studios laid off workers and closed theaters. The Warners reduced all their employees’ salaries. Zanuck was fed up and quit after a confrontation with Harry Warner. Hal Wallis was appointed head of production. Wallis’s life and deportment are outlined, as is the beginnings of his tumultuous relationship with Curtiz. The Mystery of the Wax Museum was an artistic tour de force, a horror film directed by Curtiz. He explained the camera technique that he used,as his ruthless work ethic alienated Fay Wray and others in the cast. He ceased paying child support toMathildeFoerster for his son Michael, so she traveled to the United States and sued him in court.He finally settled the case just before it went to trial.Excerpts from Michael’s diary underscore the director’s indifference to his namesake son.Curtiz sent for his daughter Kitty. She was a troubled and rebellious, and he proved to be an ineffectual parent. His career continued with The Kennel Murder Case, Female,and Goodbye Again. Curtiz believed that he needed much better material to emerge as a director of consequence.
The Dream Team
Authors: Rode Alan K.
Published: May 2018

Curtiz coped with a variety of tribulations with his daughter Kitty, who surfaced in Europe as a cabaret singer. After his daughter rejected her father’s entreaties and attemptedsuicide, Curtiz eventually helped her settle in London—without ever leaving the soundstages of Warner Bros. He directed The Case of the Curious Bride (1935), a Perry Mason mystery that briefly introduced the newcomer Errol Flynn to the screen.As the studio reorganized for greater efficiency and bigger pictures, Wallis tapped Curtiz to helm Captain Blood (1935). Robert Donat was signed to play the title role, but he fell out because of illness. There was nobody for it but Flynn, who made a smashing debut as the swashbuckling doctor-turned-pirate. Curtiz directed him ably, but his autocratic demeanor alienated Flynn, thus setting the stage for a difficult relationship between director and star. Wallis fought Curtiz for control of the production as the director continued to make the movie in hisown style,which was contrary to that of the executive producer.Emotions cooled when the picture became a hit; the profitable relationship of producer, director, and star boded well for the future.
The Swash and the Buckler
Authors: Rode Alan K.
Published: May 2018

Curtiz directed The Sea Hawk, an epic swashbuckler starring Errol Flynn. Shot on the studio’s Stage 21, which could be flooded with water and included two hydraulically operated ship sets, the picture was personally crafted by Curtiz, who shot unauthorized action scenes instead of relying on stock footage that Hal Wallis wanted to use. The picture was a smash, although Flynn had become increasingly upset about his typecasting and working with Curtiz. Also explored is a famous Curtiz anecdote that illustrates the director’s total focus on realism and disregard for the safety of performers. After a whirlwind trip to New York City, Curtiz directed the notoriously inaccurate Santa Fe Trail, with Flynn and de Havilland, and an outstanding version of Jack London’s The Sea Wolf, starring Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield. Curtiz and Flynn had a final falling-out during Dive Bomber, a Technicolor tribute to the aerial navy. Flynn physically attacked the director, and the pair never worked together again.Although bereft of Warner’s top male star, Curtiz would move on to his greatest films as World War II began.
“Those fine patriotic citizens, the Warner Brothers”
Authors: Rode Alan K.
Published: May 2018

During the height of World War II, Curtiz directed Mission to Moscow (1943), the most controversial film of his career. The wartime alliance between the U.S.S.R. and the United States motivated President Roosevelt to personally request the brothers Warner to produce this film. It was based on the best-selling “diary” of a former Soviet ambassador and F.D.R. intimate, Joseph Davies, and the Warners and Curtiz believed that they were supporting the war effort. Davies, however, exercised both script approval and the power of the White House in shaping the film into an absurdly biased tribute to Stalin and the Soviet Union. Although the finished film had minimal influence on public opinion, it fueled the creation of the right-wing Motion Picture Alliance and the postwar HUAC witch hunt.Curtiz pivoted to direct the Irving Berlin musical revue This Is the Army, which became his most financially successful Warner picture; Harry and Jack Warner donated all of the considerable profits to the Army Emergency Relief Fund.He also directed Passage to Marseille, a problem-wracked failure, and Janie, an adolescent drama that was a box-office hit.
Introduction
Authors: Fang Qiang , Li Xiaobing
Published: May 2018

The Introduction begins with a study on the role of the legal system as a knife hilt in the communist China. It then traces the historical root of the role of law as a tool in imperial China during which even enlightened rulers such as Tang Taizong would sometimes violate law because the compliance of law largely depended on rulers’ self legal consciousness and not the enforcement.
Xuzhou
Authors: Fang Qiang , Li Xiaobing
Published: May 2018

Chapter four examines the lawsuit submitted by Wang Peirong, an associate professor at the China Mining University, against the city government of Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. After Wang and thousands of other faculty and staff moved into their new university-built apartments in 1999, they found that the anti-theft doors of their apartments were defective and virtually useless. As a result, many tenants lost personal property to thieves. When infuriated homeowners elected Wang to complain to the local government, local officials simply ignored the complaint.
“How Many Times Can You Come Back?”
Authors: Ellenberger Allan R.
Published: May 2018

Hopkins replaces Jo Van Fleet in the Broadway play, Look Homeward, Angel. Her costar, Andrew Prine, shares his experiences in the play. After it closes, she tours with it for several months. Next, she is signed for the lead in Ma Barker’s Brood, a cheaply made independent film, but her rare unprofessionalism gets her fired. Then, William Wyler hires her for his next film, The Children’s Hour, the original play that was the basis for their 1936 film These Three. Actress Veronica Cartwright, who played Rosalie, shares her remembrances. When Hopkins’s mother dies at age eighty-four, she is overcome by anguish and cannot go to the funeral. Months later, producer Stanley Raiff hires Hopkins for his off-Broadway play Riverside Drive. Raiff describes the turbulent time he has with Hopkins, leading to her firing for not being prepared—or was she? Hopkins portrays a whorehouse madam in Fanny Hill and returns to Los Angeles to play Robert Redford’s mother in The Chase.