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Pengujian putusan kode etik penyelenggara pemilu dalam ranah Hukum Administrasi Negara
Authors: Damanik Agussyah Ramadani
Published: January 2025

The Elections is carried out based on the standard provisions of the Law and the Code of Ethics for the Implementation of Elections. According to the Indonesian electoral Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning Elections, the elements of the Election Organizer consist of the General Election Commission, the Election Supervisory Body and the Election Organizer Honorary Council which are a unified function of organizing elections. The role of the Election Organizer is highly demanded for its ability to implement the regulations of the election stages by heeding the Election Organizer Code of. The integrity and quality of the election are determined by the compliance of the election organizers in fulfilling the principles and ethics of election organizers as the basic formula for the formulation of the Election Organizer Code of Ethics, so that the enforcement of the Election Organizer Code of Ethics (rule of ethics) is a necessity in our democratic system. DKPP is authorized by law to carry out the function of maintaining the integrity, independence and credibility of the Election Organizer. DKPP can impose ethical sanctions on election organizers from warning sanctions to permanent dismissal of election organizers with the power of its decision instrument which was originally final and binding (Article 458 paragraph 3 of the Election Law). The provision of final and binding nature has been tested in the Constitutional Court in PUU case No. 32/PUU-XIX/2021 jo. No. 31/PUU-XI/2013, and then authorized the State Administrative Court to be able to test DKPP decisions. Thus, corrections to DKPP's ethical decisions can already be tested through the means of enforcing state administrative law (administrative law) with PTUN (beschikking) which is expanded so that it requires adjustments to the norms of the State Administrative Court Procedure Law.
Characteristics Neutrosophic Ideals For Neutrosophic Rings: On Review
Authors:   Department of Mathematics; Faculty of Education and Sciences; Saba Region University; Yemen, Shawqi Shawqi ,   Faculty of Education, Humanities and Applied Sciences (Khawlan), Yemen; and Department of Foundations of Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Sana'a University. Box:13509, Sana'a, Yemen, Al-Odhari Adel Al
Published: January 2025

The main objective of this paper is to present a review study with more information on the neutrosophic Ideal, Principle Ideal, Prim Ideal, Pseudo Neutrosophic Ideal, Quotient ring, and Pseudo Quotient ring. Neutrosophic ring theory is a branch of neutrosophic Algebra which introduced by Florentin Smarandache in 2006.
Beyond Despair
Authors: Dumas Héléne , Lombard Louisa
Published: January 2025

In the archives of the main institution in charge of the history and memory of the genocide in Rwanda, several bundles of fragile little school notebooks contained, in the silence of accumulated dust, the stories of around a hundred surviving children. Written in 2006 at the initiative of a Rwandan survivors’ association, as a testimonial and psychological catharsis, these accounts by children who have since become young men and women tell the story of their experience of the genocide, of “life before” and “life after”, in three often subverted chronological sequences. Their words, the cruel realism of the scenes described, and the power of the emotions expressed provide the historian with an unparalleled insight into the subjectivities of the survivors, and enable us to take on board the murderous discourse and gestures of those who eradicated their world of childhood forever. This book attempts to write the history of the genocide against the Tutsi from a child’s perspective. Far from abstract postulates on the “unspeakable,” this book offers a reflection on the conditions that make audible the terrible accounts of such an experience of dereliction in the twilight of our tragic twentieth century.
Introduction
Authors: Dumas Hélène
Published: January 2025

If our world remained blind and deaf in the spring of 1994, is it still possible, thirty years later, to pay attention to the words of the survivors and to elevate them to the dignity of precious material for the writing of a narrative freed from the shackles of racialized exoticism and fully integrated into our history? The children’s testimonies allow us to see the genocide against the Tutsi from the world of childhood, paving the way for the elaboration of a history through childhood and not through the eyes of adults on children. These sources also sketch the contours of an adult world powerless to protect and transformed into a mortal threat.
Childhoods at War
Authors: Dumas Hélène
Published: January 2025

The outbreak of war in October 1990 between the RPF and government forces ushered in a new era of escalating violence against Tutsi families. The assimilation of the Tutsi civilian population with RPF fighters led to widespread suspicion. Children saw their fathers and uncles imprisoned as supposed accomplices of the RPF. Others experienced mass massacres in the northwest or in Bugesera.
“Their God Is Dead”
Authors: Dumas Hélène
Published: January 2025

Catholic churches were first and foremost places of refuge and assembly for the hunted Tutsi, before they were transformed into death traps. These churches were the second most important place of massacre during the genocide. The children recount in detail the conditions in which they survived, and then the attacks on their places of worship. Witnesses to the religious scruples expressed by the killers and looters, they also question the place of their own faith at the heart of a world where “their God is dead.”
Rescues
Authors: Dumas Hélène
Published: January 2025

From the tiniest gesture of help to the rescue, sometimes collective, organized over the entire duration of the genocide, the spectrum of acts of kindness is particularly wide. Here is a lengthy account of a little girl protected by a woman who took on the role of “mother” to protect her from the threat. From Rwanda to the Congo, this story of rescue is told through the voice of a little girl.
Innocence and Guilt: Memorializing a Gender Tragedy in Nineteenth-Century Santiago de Chile
Authors: Montealegre Pía
Published: January 2025

The chapter reviews the process of memorialization of one of the largest gender tragedies that occurred in Santiago de Chile: the fire of the Church of the Company of Jesus on December 8, 1863, in which more than 2,000 women died. Two commemorative monuments represent opposing views on feminine piety and its forms, thus accounting for the process of gender construction and its traces in the city.
George Eliot at Nuneaton and Trans Monumentality
Authors: Su Amanda
Published: January 2025

This article draws on Grace Lavery’s argument that British novelist George Eliot inhabited a transgender identity as a point of departure. It argues that an anti–Black Lives Matter protest at the George Eliot statue in summer 2020 provides a way to examine the growing affiliations between gender critical and far-right groups, and the ways in which these affinities play out in contemporary memorial culture. A close reading of the protest at the Eliot statue in Nuneaton, a former British mining town, exposes the long-term economic disenfranchisement of a substantial working class and provides a perspective on ongoing struggles over memorials that does not elide the issue of class in its consideration of race or gender. The final section of this article explores the tensions between a politics of representation and a politics of redistribution in the contemporary landscape of memorialization, as situated within the struggle to erect statues to women and transgender people.
Monument to the Empress Maria-Theresia, Vienna, Austria
Authors: Widrich Mechtild
Published: January 2025

A discussion of a monument to empress Maria Theresia (1717–1780), erected in 1888 and its implications for the representation of gender, empire, and nation.
Firearms, Flowers, and Barricades: Women’s Reinscriptions in the Mexican Landscape of Monuments
Authors: Gutiérrez-Monroy Tania
Published: January 2025

This chapter traces women’s presence in the Mexican landscape of monuments from postrevolutionary to present times, considering the transformation of the narratives originally inscribed in these monuments into spatial dialogues. The first section of the essay analyzes the memorials built to honor the working-class women who participated in the Mexican Revolution. It examines the symbolic relationship between the figure of the revolutionary woman, war, and urban geographies, observing an everyday that remains unacknowledged in the original design of these monuments. The second section of the text explores more recent forms of engagement with these memorials by feminist collectives (rewriting the surfaces), as well as subversive forms of commemoration emerging throughout the country (counter-monuments). This essay argues that both of these challenging practices transform urban and memorial geographies as they open up a space of visibility for an everyday that calls for historical recognition and contemporary political action. By unearthing the everyday in its history and politics as the very tissue of past and present Mexico, these new forms of commemoration and projection lay the groundwork for social justice paths.
Memorial to the South Carolina Women of the Confederacy (Frederick Wellington Ruckstuhl, 1909–1912), Columbia, South Carolina
Authors: Upton Dell
Published: January 2025

The dedication to Confederate women in Jefferson Davis’s The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) provoked a movement to erect monuments to “The Women of the Sixties.” South Carolina’s monument, by the renowned sculptor Frederick W. Ruckstuhl, relied on allusions to popular conceptions of the Roman triumph to signal women’s role. The result was an ambiguous conflation of traditional images of masculinity and femininity and defeat and victory that set his work off from the more conventional iconography of other Confederate women’s memorials.
The Argentine Marianne
Authors: Martínez Nespral Fernando Luis
Published: January 2025

The “Argentine Marianne” took form in multiple pictorial and sculptural representations of independence from Spain (1810–1816) and remained consolidated as an allegory of the nation until the first decades of the twentieth century. The Plaza de Mayo serves as a case study to examine how the idea of an Argentine Marianne occupied and still occupies a prominent role in a central public space that constitutes the foundational nucleus of Buenos Aires. In 1811, to celebrate the first anniversary of the revolution, even though, paradoxically independence had not been officially declared yet, the ruling Junta grande (Big Junta) decided to build a so-called pyramid, or rather obelisk based on its shape, on Plaza de Mayo.
Mutuality for a New Era
Authors: Kasten Carey , Moore Brenna
Published: January 2025

Our fourth and final chapter discusses LSA’s shift to a mostly lay secular staff, examining how the agency developed the vision and practice of mutuality in a new context with a changing landscape of funding and fewer religious sisters involved. This chapter prioritizes voices of key staff members at the organization who developed and ran the PCD program during the period in which our interviewees were clients and includes archival documents from LSA that demonstrate the implementation of mutuality on the ground. By exploring archival video footage, retreat material, and interviews with key former staff members, we see the development of the embodied articulation of “mutuality” as a relational practice in East Harlem.
On Sister Susanne’s Passing and the Shadow Side
Authors: Kasten Carey , Moore Brenna
Published: January 2025

We close the book with a reflection on Sister Susanne Lachapelle’s recent and sudden passing, and on her and Sister Margaret’s unpublished writings on illness, death, and tragedy, the darker, or shadow sides of life. These are the aspects of life that are resistant to programs and empowerment, that are inevitable. But in low-income neighborhoods like East Harlem, the shadow sides of life are intensified, baked into the many structures of our country that perpetuate inequality. Exploring the fragility of LSA and its challenges as it faces the post-pandemic future will be of interest to the countless community organizations and agencies around the world in similar circumstances. Taken together, our multi-perspectival volume is unique in prioritizing multiple voices from Spanish and English as it tells the as-yet untold story of a singular organization and the community it serves.
Creeps of the Apocalypse: Climate, Capital, Democracy
Authors: Keller Catherine
Published: January 2025

Climate change’s temporality accelerates in an eerie mix of the eonically closing window and the daily creep of material evidence. Simultaneously, democratic time lurches spasmodically toward the electoral deadline, casting shadows of fascism. Apocalypse edges the most sober fears. Capitalism, driving both threats, remains unthreatened; a counter-temporality—creeping from a determinist past through a continuous present reproduced endlessly, residually commodifiable. Capitalism occludes the threat and hope that apokalypsis names: the unveiling of planetary destruction, human and nonhuman, alongside the unstable coupling of imperial politics/global economics (John’s Beast/Whore). Against the calculating End Times of the religiopolitical right, apocalypse encodes the disclosure of radical discontinuity of time where an alternative, collective life opens into possibility. For Kathryn Tanner, such transformative interruption defines Christian salvation against the continuum of capital. Yet, its indeterminacy characterizes “salvage communism,” according to China Mieville’s revolutionary collective. In our last chance Kairos, can the transdisciplinarity of theology strengthen the opening of wider solidarities? We imagine fresh democratic ecologies of lament, labor, and love in resistance to marketable modules of faith and knowledge. Yet ecclesial support for such theological practices, along with liberal education, is undergoing its creeping demise. Are academic efforts doomed to reflexive curation of the apocalypse?
The Problematic of Action Within a Single, Unified Being
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: January 2025

The chapter argues that there is an alternative way to approach Heidegger’s work that has never been pursued before, namely, by viewing Heidegger as a monist who is thereby forced to respond to the traditional problematic in monism about whether action can account for difference within a single, unified being. The chapter explains the historical background to this tradition and provides reasons why it is both important and fruitful to understand Heidegger as a monist. Finally, the chapter presents the first detailed critique of Heidegger’s conflation of causality and instrumentality as a way of attempting to respond to the problematic of action in monism.
The Concealment of Instrumentality
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: January 2025

This chapter analyzes the first way in which the ruse of techne is conceived by Heidegger. The main point of reference is Being and Time. The chapter demonstrates that the instrumental ends of action are completely concealed behind the final ends of action. Through an original reading of some of the most famous passages of Being and Time (such as the use of tools in Division 1), the chapter demonstrates that the conflation of causality and instrumentality leads Heidegger to a position that is constrained to make any substantive statements about ethics and politics. In other words, the conception of action in Being and Time appears to be vacuous.
Coda
Authors: Weed Elizabeth
Published: January 2025

Excerpts from the readings of four academic critics, which show how powerful the impossible can be when engaging with sexual violence, black studies, trans studies, and animals.
Unknowing
Authors: Pattison George
Published: January 2025

The Western Christian tradition has acknowledged a dimension of “unknowing” as central to the Christian God-relationship, such that the desire of love has greater import than the desire for knowledge. A classic exposition of this view is the medieval tract The Cloud of Unknowing, which also questions the idea of a direct “experience” of God. In the modern period this is shown to be present in Kierkegaard’s upbuilding discourses, which also introduce the theme of temporality in a way that further qualifies claims of direct “experience”. An extreme version of the claim that the self is “decreated” in the God-relationship is found in Simone Weil, who, nevertheless, also insists on the freedom of the self in this relationship. At the same time, Weil makes a place for the pursuit of knowledge that is lacking in The Cloud and neutralized in Kierkegaard. Dostoevsky’s analysis of Prince Myshkin’s epileptic visions is used to further qualify the notion of “experience”.
Mystery
Authors: Pattison George
Published: January 2025

Following Dom Cuthbert Butler, Christian spirituality is seen to be a way of “recollection,” paradigmatically expounded in Augustine’s Confessions, leading to the recognition of the ultimate mystery not only of God but of the self, an apophatics of the self. This is exemplified in three modern “existential” thinkers: Nikolai Berdyaev, Gabriel Marcel, and Paul Tillich. Berdyaev opposes ontology and insists on the primacy of freedom and the non-objectifiable nature of the God-relationship. Marcel and Tillich, however, give a positive place to the category of “being.” Marcel finds the way to God present in our self-experience as worldly beings, existing under the exigency of love and hope. Although Tillich valued a systematic approach to theological knowledge, he too acknowledged the ultimate mystery revealed at the core of human selfhood. Both Tillich and Berdyaev show a strong eschatological orientation, seeing human beings as summoned toward an unknowable but hopeful future, ultimate novelty.
Promise
Authors: Pattison George
Published: January 2025

Adopting Eliade’s taxonomy of religions of space and religions of time suggests that Christianity (like Judaism) is a religion of time. Although the Christian covenant may seem to prioritize its founding moment in the life and death of Jesus Christ, the words accompanying its inauguration imply an essential future orientation, as in the prayer “Your Kingdom come.” This eschatological character is not a possible subject for knowledge, but a requirement for just action. Following Kierkegaard, the future is present as the demand of human possibilities of action. Such an existential understanding of the future has been concealed in the histories of philosophy and theology but is required to do justice to the claim of the neighbor and the other, further explored through Levinas and Dostoevsky.
Irish Americans and the Union War
Authors: Delahanty Ian
Published: January 2025

This chapter examines how Irish-American Unionism increasingly butted heads with the Irish-American critique of antislavery during the first year of the Civil War. Across the loyal states, Irish Americans rallied around the Union war effort in 1861. As they did, many explained their support for the Union war effort with reference to the tenets of Irish-American Unionism that took shape over the previous decade, especially as events on both sides of the Atlantic lent credence to their belief that Irish people had a particular stake in the welfare of the American Union. Yet however enthusiastic Irish Americans were about restoring the Union, the antebellum Irish-American critique of antislavery rendered them skeptical of the Republican president and the Republican-majority Congress that directed the Union war effort. That skepticism was amplified by claims that Irish soldiers were mistreated by native-born commanders and by a series of antislavery measures enacted during the war’s first year. Even some Irish Americans expressed misgivings over the Union war effort grew by 1862, Irish-American soldiers’ encounters with free and enslaved African Americans convinced many of them that emancipation could aid their efforts to subdue the Confederate rebellion.
Introduction: The Tour Begins
Authors: Laborde Katheryn Krotzer
Published: January 2025

This chapter sets up the book as a sort of tour of Manhattan as it mattered to Flannery O’Connor, using addresses found in O’Connor’s personal address books to do so. For ease of identification, she describes the “five little books” as the brown, the black Elite, the red, the small black, and the white. She explains how she used details from the life stories of Robert and Sally Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, and especially Caroline Gordon to help date the address books: brown,1945(?)–1950; black Elite, about 1950–1962; and red, 1962—1964. Both the small black and the white contain less information, and therefore it seems likely that they were used while traveling or when in the hospital.
The Education of Mary Flannery O’Connor
Authors: Laborde Katheryn Krotzer
Published: January 2025

In 1943, Flannery O’Connor travelled to Massachusetts to spend time with her aunt, Agnes Florencourt, and her cousins. Family friend Lydia A. Bancroft, on her way up north herself, offered to not only accompany the eighteen-year-old O’Connor on the trip, but to have her stay a while (in the New Jersey home of her sister Grace Stone) and show her New York City. This chapter describes O’Connor’s time in New York as experienced with Bancroft, Bancroft’s niece Helen Stone, and artist Margaret Sutton, all of whom see to it that O’Connor gets to not only experience New York but, more importantly, witness first-hand how other Americans (that is, non-Southerners) view race and live life sans Segregation.
The Racial Limits of Liberalism
Authors: Zuckerwise Lena
Published: January 2025

This chapter offers a brief account of liberalism before arguing that “liberal myopia” is largely responsible for the absence of Black captive resistance from the canons of contemporary and historical political theory. Though it follows that liberal thinkers would see political life through liberal lenses, less intuitive is the liberal chokehold over the political thought of those ostensibly critical of it. The discussion here unpacks this strange theoretical phenomenon. In addition, it attends to the liberal commitments of three Afro-modern abolitionist authors, Ottobah Cugoano, Frederick Douglass, and Olaudah Equiano.
The Concept of World
Authors: Zuckerwise Lena
Published: January 2025

The social/political distinction in Arendt’s work is largely responsible for some of her most racially ignorant writings. This chapter argues that “world” is untethered to the conceptual pressures of the social/political, as well as other constructs in her work, including action and freedom. For this reason, world can be mobilized for analysis of Black captive resistance. The discussion includes a thorough account of the development of the concept of world and its constituent dimensions, namely durability, commonality, and plurality. The connection between world and common sense, authority, and judgment are also explored here.
The Genres of Democracy Romance, Sentiment, and the Slave Narrative
Authors: Scully Matthew
Published: January 2025

Chapter 1, “The Genres of Democracy: Romance, Sentiment, and the Slave Narrative,” addresses a series of nineteenth-century attempts to represent and imagine democracy that ask whether any genre might be capable of figuring an emancipatory democratic aesthetic. A rereading of the final section of part I of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (1835) demonstrates that Tocqueville employs allegorical structures when he tries to represent democratic equality without its anarchic remainder. The chapter then turns to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s critical prefaces that invent and theorize the “romance” (1850–1860), which figures democracy’s anarchic supplement while also, impossibly, attempting to master it. Rather than invent a genre, Harriet Jacobs joins two established genres, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) to criticize the ostensibly democratic address to readers demanded by both. In this critique, Jacobs offers a profoundly disruptive gesture of anarchic equality that troubles the consensus fantasies sustaining inequality. In other words, Jacobs develops an emancipatory genre by foregrounding the very failures of genre.
Against Representation, or Utopia After All
Authors: Scully Matthew
Published: January 2025

Chapter 4, “Against Representation, or, Utopia, After All,” challenges the foundational representational logics to which democracy appeals, specifically in the context of electoral politics and nationalist fantasies. Beginning with examples of electoral politics in the U.S. during and after the 2016 presidential election before turning to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee (1982), this chapter develops a notion of aestheticide, which refers to the possibility that an aesthetic figuration of that which cannot be rendered intelligible or sensible—the anaesthetic—risks dissolving the order of the aesthetic itself. Against the policing refractions of electoral politics—exemplified in the exhaustive and exhausting categories of voter demographics—Cha’s figure of refractio, of fracture and diffusion, proposes a negative utopian force to antagonize the fantasmatic utopian promises of the police order. Cha’s genre-defying work therefore offers an exemplary case of a democratic aesthetic in literature by persistently disfiguring the coherence of its own aesthetic ideologies.
Introduction
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2025

The preface begins by putting the question of hospitality into the context of the recent COVID pandemic and the ways in which the pandemic changed, sometimes just in the short term and sometime more permanently, our practices of hospitality in both our homes and our nation-states. It then explains the focus of the book, Jacques Derrida’s two-year seminar on hospitality (1995–1997) and the significance of this seminar for Derrida’s work. It is argued that this seminar on hospitality is exemplary for the way it approaches the topic of hospitality through a great variety of sources, at once philosophical (ancient and modern), literary, Biblical, and so on. Finally, the preface gives a chapter-by-chapter summary of the themes treated in the work.
Xenos and Xenia (Homeric Hospitality 2)
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2025

This chapter returns to the theme of hospitality in Homer, a figure who is, again, not mentioned by Derrida in his two-year seminar on hospitality but whose poems illustrate in a particularly poignant way the themes Derrida is trying to develop. The chapter looks in some detail at a scene from the Iliad that is often cited as the locus classicus of Greek relations of xenia, that is, of guest-friendship: the exchange of armor—and of lineages—that takes place on the battlefield between the Greek Diomedes and the Trojan ally Glaucus. This scene emphasizes at once the notion of reciprocity in hospitality (the exchange of armor) and the madness of a completely irreciprocal exchange (a mad exchange of gold armor for bronze). It is also a scene, as is pointed out at the end of the chapter, that is transformed in a particularly powerful way to serve the ends of philosophy in Plato’s Symposium.
Unconditional and Conditional Hospitality
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2025

This chapter continues the investigation begun in the previous chapter into the relationship in Derrida between conditional and unconditional hospitality. This chapter looks at resources for this relationship in texts other than the hospitality seminar, in order to argue that this negotiation between two contradictory or antinomic imperatives is characteristic of Derrida’s thinking of responsibility during this period. The chapter goes on to examine the many different ways in which Derrida tries to characterize this relationship (e.g., as an aporia, as an antinomy, as a relationship between law and what is beyond law, or else a relationship between a singular law of hospitality and plural laws of hospitality, or, indeed, between civil disobedience and nation-state law). The chapter concludes by returning to the necessity of constantly renegotiating and rethinking this relationship, that is, the need to return perpetually to the “threshold” in both theory and practice.
Xenos Paradox: Hospitality and Autoimmunity
Authors: Naas Michael
Published: January 2025

This chapter tries to pull together the various threads of the preceding analyses in order to ask about the relationship between hospitality and deconstruction, that is, about hospitality as a special theme for deconstruction and deconstruction as a kind of hospitality. It thus brings together many of the terms commonly associated with deconstruction—aporia, antinomy, undecidability, double bind, pervertibility and perfectibility, historicity, event, messianicity without messianism, democracy to come, desire, justice, immunity and autoimmunity—and tries to reframe them within the context of hospitality. One very telling sign of, for example, the ineradicable pervertibility or autoimmunity or auto-deconstructibility in the very concept of hospitality, one indication of the essential relation between hospitality and its contrary, can be seen in Derrida’s initial inclination to give as a general title to his seminar not the everyday name “hospitality” but the neologism “hostipitality.”
Introduction
Authors: Hudson Renee
Published: January 2025

The introduction examines recent calls for the cancellation of latinidad and argues that latinidad cannot be cancelled because it is not here yet. Building on the work of José Esteban Muñoz, Hudson argues that latinidad is a revolutionary horizon that Latinxs should work toward. Rather than viewing Latinx as solely a category of identification, Hudson argues for an expansive, historicized sense of the term that illuminates its political potential. She historicizes latinidad and expands on the work of previous scholars who have similarly examined latinidad as a construct. Taking a hemispheric approach, Hudson examines a range of revolutions to examine the horizons of latinidad. Ultimately, she argues that examining genre puts contemporary Latinx texts in conversation with nineteenth century ones and illuminates the former futures of Latinx revolutionary thought.
Conclusion: Indexing the War In-Between
Authors: Kozol Wendy
Published: January 2025

The conclusion discusses “From MRE to Michelin,” a video and photographic project by Henry Hargreaves in collaboration with Jimmy Pham and Chuck George. This 2017 project depicts first the contents of military rations (Meals Ready to Eat) and then individual dishes plated as if for presentation at a Michelin-star restaurant. Integrating MREs from militaries across the world, this project displaces focus on the soldiering body by instead turning the camera’s gaze to how they are fed and fueled. The process of transforming MREs into Michelin star-worthy plates indicates a mutable indexicality that foregrounds the instability of seemingly stable binaries in contexts of militarized violence. Ending this book in a space that embraces playful and pleasurable sensations is not a deflection from militarized violence and suffering. Instead, the emotional pushes and pulls of this project illustrate the value of an asymptotic approach to the study of representations that show something of the capacious strategies that soldiers and civilians deploy to survive the war in-between.
Design of an efficient Malware Prediction Model using Auto Encoded & Attention-based Recurrent Graph Relationship Analysis
Authors: T. Dhande Mahesh , Tiwari Sanjaykumar , J. Rathod Nikhil
Published: January 2025

The threat of modern malware in the world of cyber security has grown and how the need for proper detection and analysis techniques has grown with it. All these conventional approaches are insufficient methods if used to detect new or emerging strains of malware. For this need, the present research develops a novel Malware Prediction Model using Auto Encoders and Attention Mechanisms to advance Malware Pattern Analysis. This new approach goes beyond the conventional wisdom because it decodes complex patterns of malware into identifiable Malware Classes utilizing the unique Recurrent Graph Relationship Analysis. Recurrent Networks perform the complex task of Feature Analysis and simultaneously. Classical approaches mainly conceive pattern matching where signatures are taken and used to look in the system hence cannot detect polymorphic or metamorphic types of viruses. Additionally, these systems have high levels of false positives and poor ability to learn from new types of threats. On the other hand, the coupling of Auto Encoders with Attention Mechanisms in the model under consideration allows the model to gain better insights of malware behavior. Such an integration not only improves the identification of multiform patterns but also changes the approach to growing threats more effectively. The use of this model was benchmarked against two databases: The Malware Memory Analysis and The Kharon Malware Database Samples. Strikingly, the proposed model provided 8.3% more precision, 8.5% more accuracy, 5.9% higher recall, 6.5% better AUC, higher specificity by 9.4%, while slight reduction in delay by 2.9% to other methods.
Construction of the digital intelligence-enabled intervention model for learning engagement
Authors: Yin Ting , Weng Lin , Wu Caiying
Published: January 2025

Academic English writing is a crucial component of undergraduate English education. However, undergraduates commonly face challenges such as unclear topic selection, imprecise language expression, and a lack of depth and logical coherence in analysis and argumentation. This study, grounded in AGIL theory (Adaption, Goal Attainment, Integration, Latency Pattern Maintenance), integrates generative artificial intelligence with instant feedback to develop a “Human-Computer Dual-Instructor” model for learning engagement intervention. The model consists of four subsystems: the objective system, the environmental system, the operational system, and the response system for learning engagement intervention. Through an iterative intervention response mechanism, this model is capable of dynamically assessing intervention effects and ensuring the orderly flow of data among the subsystems. Using an academic English writing course as an example, this model is applied to the design of teaching interventions, aiming to enhance students’ learning engagement and academic writing skills.
Direct Reciprocal Interaction Between Platelet Count and HBeAg Status in HBsAg-positive Pregnant Women
Authors: Dung Nguyen , Huong Bui , Tu Ho , Tram Hoang
Published: January 2025

Background: Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global health issue with a significant impact on pregnant women, mainly due to the interplay between liver function and hematological changes. The liver plays a key role in erythropoiesis and systemic hemostasis. In HBeAg-positive pregnant women, platelet dynamics may be uniquely influenced by the interaction of HBV, immune modulation in pregnancy, and liver function. This area remains underexplored. Objective: Our study aimed to analyze the interaction between HbeAg status with others preclinical factors by using the matrix correlation and multidimensional statistics methods. Methods: We used SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) to demonstrate and quantify the direct reciprocal interaction between platelet count and HBeAg status in HBsAg-positive pregnant women. Results: We found the quantity of platelet, with the optimal threshold is 201x10^3cells/ml, directly relates with HBeAg status (R =0.24) and negatively correlates with ratio of AST on ALT (R=-0.139). In case of HbeAg positive, the risk ratio having a high quantity of platelet (>201x103cells/ml) and high AST/ALT ratio (>1.42) is 2.16[1.23,3.80] (p<0.05). SEM model shows that platelet count has a direct impact on HBeAg (p<0.05, Coefficient =0.24) and indirectly through the AST/ALT ratio. This impact is greater than the direct impact from HBeAg on platelet count (p < 0.05, coefficient = 0.23). Conclusion: Research results show a complex relationship between platelet count, AST/ALT ratio and HBeAg in patients with chronic hepatitis B. The direct interaction between platelet count, HBeAg status, and AST/ALT ratio suggests intriguing complex immuno-biochemical responses to chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.
Cardiac Arrest Caused by Amniotic Fluid Embolism: a Report of Two Clinical Cases
Authors: Bui Dung , Bui Duyen , Tran Thuy , Vu Vu , Tran Thang , Huynh Kiet , Nguyen Dinh
Published: January 2025

Background: Amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare and catastrophic obstetric complication that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, and disseminated intravascular coagulation. Recognizing and managing this condition promptly is crucial for improving maternal and neonatal outcomes. Objective: This report includes two case studies describing the timely detection, prompt delivery of medical treatment, and the interdisciplinary approach essential for achieving better outcomes for mothers and children confronting with this catastrophic condition. .Case presentation:: Case 1: A 39-year-old pregnant woman at 36 weeks and 5 days of gestation with central placenta previa was admitted due to antepartum hemorrhage. She developed convulsions and cardiac arrest during a cesarean section, requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Laboratory tests revealed severe anemia, thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy, severe acidosis, and myocardial injury. Bedside echocardiography and CT scan identified high-risk pulmonary embolisms. Intensive care included VA-ECMO, CRRT, transcatheter arterial embolization, and mechanical thrombectomy. Histopathology confirmed amniotic fluid components making up the emboli. Case 2: A 31-year-old female was transferred following a cesarean section for central placenta previa complicated by severe hemorrhage, cardiac arrest, and pulmonary embolism. Laboratory results showed severe anemia, thrombocytopenia, significant coagulopathy, myocardial injury, and hepatic injury. Histopathology confirmed amniotic components in the embolism. Management involved extensive blood transfusions, and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. She was discharged in improved condition. Conclusion: Early diagnosis and prompt intervention are crucial to optimizing outcomes for patients with amniotic fluid embolism, utilizing a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach.
Left Portal Hypertension and Hypersplenism in a Child With Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia: A Rare Case Report
Authors: Tri Tran , Thuan Luu , Kiet Phan , Huy Au , Vi Trinh
Published: January 2025

Background: T Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (Bochdalek hernia), which occurs in 1/2,200 live births, is typically diagnosed in the prenatal or immediate postnatal period. Diaphragmatic hernia is rare in older children and adults and can be presented with acute respiratory failure, incarcerated hernia, acute pancreatitis, or rare conditions such as left portal hypertension and hypersplenism. Objective: The aim of this case report was to present 15-year-old male with vomiting and mild upper abdominal pain who had mild epigastric tenderness with no guard and an IV grade splenomegaly caused by Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. Case presentation: We report a case of left portal hypertension and hypersplenism in an adolescent with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Typical clinical presentations include abdominal pain, respiratory symptoms, or intestinal obstruction in incarcerated diaphragmatic hernia. Additionally, some uncommon symptoms reported in literature include gastrointestinal bleeding as a result of portal hypertension, thrombocytopenia due to hypersplenism, and acute pancreatitis. Conclusion: The treatment has released the obstruction in the splenic vein and reduce returned collateral gastric blood flow. Splenectomy should be considered based on many factors, such as anatomic anomalies or the degree of hypersplenism and portal hypertension. This is a rare clinical entity with only a few cases that have been reported in the literature.
Blood Product Stewardship in an Academic Emergency Department: A Study on Rational Utilization
Authors: Ashayeri Neda , Dezfooli Seyedamir , Rezai Mahdi , Esfehani Kourosh , Mosaddegh Reza , Jahangiri Arman , Javan Alireza
Published: January 2025

Abstract
Background: Global blood shortages necessitate judicious blood product utilization. This study assesses blood product use in an academic emergency department (ED) to identify areas for improvement in resource stewardship.
Methods: This observational study reviewed ED records of patients receiving blood products during the first six months of 2022. Data analysis used SPSS 22, employing chi-square tests for qualitative variable relationships and t-tests/one-way ANOVA for comparing quantitative variable means across qualitative groups. Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05.
Results: Of 157 records reviewed, 55 patients (35%) received blood transfusions. Appropriate Packed Red Blood Cell (PRBC) reservation and transfusion rates were 74% and 91.1%, respectively. 43 units of PRBC (42.2%, 95% CI 32.4-52.9%) and 12 units of Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) (23.5%, 95% CI 13.7-35.3%) were used; reserved platelets were unused. Analysis revealed significantly higher PRBC consumption than expected (p = 0.025, Chi-square). While the average age of transfused patients (59.14, 95% CI 53.14-64.4) was higher than those not transfused (55.7, 95% CI 51.53-59.4), this difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.316).
Conclusion: This study highlights the need for more cautious blood product reservation, even within an academic ED setting, to optimize resource allocation and reduce waste.
Un philosophe du monde ? Retraite et philosophie facile chez Hume
Authors: Haffas Salim
Published: January 2025

La prosopopée de la Nature à la fin de la première section de l’Enquête sur l’entendement humain arbore sans ambiguïté le rejet de la figure du savant isolé, mélancolique, plongé dans l’incertitude et rejeté par ses pairs. Cependant, Hume lui-même associe l’exigence de la pensée précise à une nécessaire retraite qu’il dû pratiquer pour composer certaines de ses œuvres maîtresses. L’équilibre qu’il prône entre une sociabilité qu’il comprend univoquement comme mondanité et une activité savante exigeante trouve son mode d’exposition privilégiée dans la figure intermédiaire d’une philosophie à la fois facile à comprendre et abstruse dans la qualité de ses raisonnements et dans son objet. Par là, il entend participer au progrès du savoir et à l’instruction de ses semblables, en alliant manière plaisante et matière profonde. La forme de l’essai, qui domine sa production après 1740, est ainsi l’expression, plutôt que d’une stratégie de diffusion de ses écrits, d’un véritable remaniement du projet philosophique humien, qui quitte la pure retraite et la pure spéculation pour exploiter les virtualités pratiques de la pensée sceptique en entrant dans la bonne société.
Medea material by Mapa Teatro: reconfiguring Heiner Müller’s rewriting of the Medea myth
Authors: Flores Mendeville Martina
Published: January 2025

The performance Medea material by Mapa Teatro (1991) stages Heiner Müller’s re-writing of the Medea myth, Despoiled Shore Medeamaterial Landscape With Argonauts. I analyse Mapa Teatro’s new montage of Müller’s text while also focusing on the aesthetics of this hybrid musical-theatrical performance, which challenge the (Western) theatrical reference. Using a decolonial perspective, I discuss how text and performance relate to colonial tensions and resonate with decolonial epistemologies.
L’immagine (non più) mancante?
Authors: Dottorini Daniele
Published: January 2025

The essay develops a double reflection on forms of representation: on the one hand, on the use of images by the Black Panthers Party; and, on the other, on the impact that the BPP has had in the contemporary visual imagination. The essay analyses forms according to a perspective of an internal gaze and of an external gaze, in which the party emerges as a political novelty to be interpreted. But it is the contemporary scenario that takes up the image of the BPP to be explored as a missing image.
“What’s in a name?” (Re)-Languaging Rosa Parks
Authors: Cambria Mariavita
Published: January 2025

By taking as its starting point Sojouner Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I women” (1851), commonly recognized as the funding anti-slavery female speech, the paper investigates the sedimentation of some linguistic features in Truth speech and in Rosa Parks autobiography. In particular, the looks at the role played by language in the framework of the intersectional approach (Crenshaw, 1989) which is acknowledged for its potential to map hierarchies of power and priviledge.
Lulu fait son cinéma
Authors: Brossat Alain
Published: January 2025

This article focuses on the famous passage of Lucretius' On the Nature of Things where the poet reenacts in a blazing style Thucydides' description of the plague in Athens. The article lays the emphasis on the change of regime of narration of the disaster from the Greek historian to the Roman poet. The author also attempts to read Lucretius' purple passage in the light of the present pandemic – Covid 19.
Lucrezio, Schiller e il sublime
Authors: Miglino Gianluca
Published: January 2025

The essay attempts to investigate the echoes of the form that the sublime takes in Lucretius' poetry in Schiller's aesthetic theory, hypothesising a removed presence of the materialistic tradition in the modern elaboration of the sublime, whose reflections reach as far as Nietzsche.
Défense de la gesticulation
Authors: Hervé Stéphane
Published: January 2025

This article proposes to consider the appearances of Charlot on the circus ring as so many reflexive moments on the powers of gesticulation. Gesticulation is often considered a degraded version of gesture, to which modernity would be condemned. Or, it is a ridiculous version of it that clowns use to mock human pretensions. None of this in The Circus. The gesticulation does not testify to a failure, and moreover the movie is not interested in causes or intentions. It highlights what happens through gesticulation, the defeat of the order of the world, and what it allows: surviving the catastrophe.
Jane Avril e l’automa di Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Authors: Ascari Pierpaolo
Published: January 2025

The essay aims to highlight the representation of Jane Avril developed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the perspective of what could be defined as an aesthetics of hysteria. Of such a representation, consistent with the appearance of the many automatons that are about to invade the artistic scene of the first decades of the twentieth century, Jane Avril would definitely be said to be an accomplice, but in the construction of a character that does not have much to do with her dancing body.
“Das eigentlich Komische ist freilich das Minutiöse”
Authors: Linder Jutta
Published: January 2025

When Kafka, among his annotations for The Castle, inserts the sentence “But the real comic lies in the particular”, he gives us a precious indication about the mechanism of his writing. The extreme attention to narrative detail, which characterizes his style, is also a gimmick for him to give a comic tone to his poetic visions. Paying attention to Kafka’s comic side, this contribution aims to focus an aspect that some of his contemporaries had already highlighted, but that has only recently begun to raise a perceivable interest in the German studies.