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Advanced design and characterization methodologies for memory-aware CMOS power-amplifier implementation
Authors: Schleyer Martin , Maurath Dominic , Klar Heinrich , Gerfers Friedel
Published: September 2017

Abstract. This paper reports on an effective root-cause analysis method of memory effects in power amplifiers, as well as introduces compensation techniques on a circuit design level. Despite conventional memory-effect approaches, the discussed method uses a two-tone scan over a wide operation and modulation range. This enables an in-depth study of physical causes and helps to implement compensation techniques at design stage. On the one hand, this circuit investigation is optimized using an automated SystemC model parametrized with real device and measurement values. Hence, computation time is widely reduced which shortens design cycles. On the other hand, the implementation of the derived circuit compensation means will reduce the complexity of digital pre-distortion due to a reduced memory-effect induced AM/AM and AM/PM hysteresis. The approach is demonstrated on a 65 nm CMOS power amplifier with an OIP1 of 27 dBm and a PAE of over 30 % using WCDMA and LTE signals. In fact, mismatch could be reduced by more than 8 %.
Electrostatic sensor modeling for torque measurements
Authors: Mika Michał , Dannert Mirjam , Mett Felix , Weber Harry , Mathis Wolfgang , Nackenhorst Udo
Published: September 2017

Abstract. Torque load measurements play an important part in various engineering applications, as for automotive industry, in which the drive torque of a motor has to be determined. A widely used measuring method are strain gauges. A thin flexible foil, which supports a metallic pattern, is glued to the surface of the object the torque is being applied to. In case of a deformation due to the torque load, the change in the electrical resistance is measured. With the combination of constitutive equations the applied torque load is determined by the change of electrical resistance. The creep of the glue and the foil material, together with the temperature and humidity dependence, may become an obstacle for some applications Kapralov and Fesenko (1984). Thus, there have been optical and magnetical, as well as capacitive sensors introduced). This paper discusses the general idea behind an electrostatic capacitive sensor based on a simple draft of an exemplary measurement setup. For better understanding an own electrostatical, geometrical and mechanical model of this setup has been developed.
Improved representation of groundwater at a regional scale – coupling of mesocale Hydrologic Model (mHM) with OpeneGeoSys (OGS)
Authors: Jing Miao , Heße Falk , Wang Wenqing , Fischer Thomas , Walther Marc , Zink Matthias , Zech Alraune , Kumar Rohini , Samaniego Luis , Kolditz Olaf , Attinger Sabine
Published: September 2017

Abstract. Most of the current large scale hydrological models do not contain a physically-based groundwater flow component. The main difficulties in large-scale groundwater modeling include the efficient representation of unsaturated zone flow, the characterization of dynamic groundwater-surface water interaction and the numerical stability while preserving complex physical processes and high resolution. To address these problems, we propose a highly-scalable coupled hydrologic and groundwater model (mHM#OGS) based on the integration of two open-source modeling codes: the mesoscale hydrologic Model (mHM) and the finite element simulator OpenGeoSys (OGS). mHM#OGS is coupled using a boundary condition-based coupling scheme that dynamically links the surface and subsurface parts. Nested time stepping allows smaller time steps for typically faster surface runoff routing in mHM and larger time steps for slower subsurface flow in OGS. mHM#OGS features the coupling interface which can transfer the groundwater recharge and river baseflow rate between mHM and OpenGeoSys. Verification of the coupled model was conducted using the time-series of observed streamflow and groundwater levels. Moreover, we force the transient model using groundwater recharge in two scenarios: (1) spatially variable recharge based on the mHM simulations, and (2) spatially homogeneous groundwater recharge. The modeling result in first scenario has a slightly higher correlation with groundwater head time-series, which further validates the plausibility of spatial groundwater recharge distribution calculated by mHM in the mesocale. The statistical analysis of model predictions shows a promising prediction ability of the model. The offline coupling method implemented here can reproduce reasonable groundwater head time series while keep a desired level of detail in the subsurface model structure with little surplus in computational cost. Our exemplary calculations show that the coupled model mHM#OGS can be a valuable tool to assess the effects of variability in land surface heterogeneity, meteorological, topographical forces and geological zonation on the groundwater flow dynamics.
Correction to: Adebiyi, Sulaimon Olanrewaju, Oyatoye, Emmanuel Olateju, Amole, Bilqis Bolanle “Improved Customer Churn and Retention Decision Management Using Operations Research Approach” Emering Markets Journal 6 (2): 12-21. 10.5195/emaj.2016.101
Authors: Editors Emerging Markets Journal
Published: September 2017

University affiliations for first author (Adebiyi, Sulaimon Olanrewaju) and third author (Amole, Bilqis Bolanle) were changed. The numbering for Literature Review section was changed from 1 to 2. Accordingly, numbering of all future (next) sections was adjusted. Corrections to figures and tables were made. Table 2.1 is now numbered 1, Figure 2.1 is numbered Figure 1, Figure 1 is numbered Figure 2, Table 4.1 is numbered Table 2, Figure 4.1 is numbered Figure 3, Table 4.2 is numbered Table 3 and Figure 4.2 is numbered Figure 4. A duplicated reference to Adeleke, A and Aminu S.A. (2012) on page 19 was removed. The original article can be found via the DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/emaj.2016.101
Education, Ideology and Social Effigies: Exploring Facets from the English Course Books of the Greek State Primary Education
Authors: Fotopoulos Nikos , Karra Vicky , Zagkos Christos
Published: September 2017

Textbooks are important in many ways as they influence a student or a learner inside and outside school. Since students spend quite some time on textbooks especially in the Greek society, they are regarded more important and influential than friends, teachers, school and classroom activities, games, media and society. What needs to be considered before starting the analysis is the fact that ideology plays a significant role through the process of shaping collective representations. Additionally, it is a way of referring to a world-view of a particular culture due to their drastic impact to social consciousness. It is important to mention here that the term ‘culture’ is used in a broad sense to denote customs, attitudes and perceptions accepted and formed by people of a society, ideas and beliefs. The present article is a critical discourse analysis of ideological contents related to culture in Greek English language books of the Greek primary state education. It critically examines the following books: English 5th Grade and English 6th Grade which are taught in all primary state schools in Greece. The analysis aims at finding out the cultural ideologies which are embedded in the aforementioned textbooks. Fairclough’s analytical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (henceforth CDA) will be partly implemented in order to explore cultural themes related to social events. Related often to CDA, the term ideology does not have an exact meaning or definition since it is looked at differently in several contexts, thus making its perspectives a bit elusive. However, trying to have at least a bit of understanding of it, the objectives of this discourse analysis of the Greek textbooks are: a) to see how far they pose an impact on the learners’ worldviews, b) to examine the relationship between dominant ideology, national identity and textbook content, c) to interpret their role through the educational apparatuses & d) to be aware concerning issues such as leisure time, social and cultural effigies.
The 1880s: Molding Manly Men and Disappearing Women
Authors: Shattuck Debra A.
Published: September 2017

During the 1880s the narrative of female players became distorted as professional players and boosters like John Montgomery Ward and Sporting Life editor, Francis C. Richter, sought to discredit and “disappear” them. Baseball’s popularity was reflected in myriad cultural forms (books, poems, games, songs, etc.) and many believed that the sport was protecting American “civilization” from fracturing as waves of new immigrants poured into the country. Newspapers joked about inept female players while illustrations and baseball cards sexualized them or lampooned their physical appearance. Nonetheless, girls and women kept playing on amateur/professional and scholastic/collegiate teams. Unscrupulous male entrepreneurs like Sylvester F. Wilson harmed the reputation of female professional players by fielding incompetent teams.
Emotions, Morals, Practices
Authors: Boddice Rob
Published: September 2017

Sets the framework of the book within contemporary theories of the history of emotions and the history of morality, making a case for the use of ‘moral economy’ as an analytical category that connects theories of the biological evolution of civilized emotions to scientific practices of those theories. The Darwinian explanation of sympathy thus becomes a scientific practice of sympathy, both defining the self and the meaning of scientific moral action, and a raft of public policies and research agendas.
Hiatus and Search for a New Style
Authors: Smith Jad
Published: September 2017

During the 1960s, Bester drifted away from SF for a second time and largely gave up fiction writing to work as an editor at Holiday magazine. When he returned to the field in the early 1970s, he found his reputation at an all-time high, in part because writers associated with the New Wave—Michael Moorcock, Samuel R. Delany, and Harlan Ellison, among them—had praised his work. This chapter looks at the ups and downs of Bester’s late career, giving particular attention to “The Four Hour Fugue,” Golem100, and the story collections The Light Fantastic and Star Light, Star Bright. It also discusses renewed interest in Bester’s fiction during the 1980s and his influence on cyberpunk.
The Age of Noise in Britain
Authors: Mansell James G.
Published: September 2017

Early twentieth-century Britons thought that they were living in the “age of noise,” sensing the historical changes going on around them as a series of disturbing shifts in the sonic atmosphere. From motorcar engines and wireless loudspeakers to the terrifying interruptions of mechanized warfare, the feeling of living in topsy-turvy times arrived via the ear. Yet historians have not listened to the sounds of early twentieth-century Britain nor unravelled what it meant to live in an “age of noise”. This book turns a critical ear to the “ways of hearing” operating in Britain between 1914 and 1945 and argues that attempts to shape encounters with everyday sound were expressive of hopes and fears for modernity. Competing expert groups – doctors, psychologists, planners, mystics, even – thought differently about how best to attune the individual hearing self to the sounding social body in modernity. Examining noise abatement campaigns, scientific as well as enchanted interventions in the everyday sonic environment, and attempts to manage the auditory culture of total war, the book offers the first auditory history of modern Britain.
The Ecosystems of Localism
Authors: Ali Christopher
Published: September 2017

This chapter analyzes attempts in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom to evaluate their respective local media ecosystems. It begins by defining ecosystem and discusses the importance of ecosystem thinking when considering local news and local media within a specific geographic community. The case studies here include the FCC’s Information Needs of Communities report from 2010 (the “Waldman Report”), Ofcom’s Local and Regional Media report from 2009, and Canada’s Our Cultural Sovereignty Report (the “Lincoln Report”) from 2003. The chapter both laments the lack of attention given these reports, and argues for the importance of thinking holistically about local media especially when it comes to encouraging local news.
Conclusion The Right to be Local?
Authors: Ali Christopher
Published: September 2017

The concluding chapter is written more as an essay than as a conclusion. While it offers some synthesis of earlier chapters, it also posses a thought experiment for the reader, asking: “do we have that right to be local?” Combining conversations on communication rights and the right to communicate with those spurred by Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey on the right to the city, this chapter reflects on the issues that lay ahead for media localism, focusing specifically on municipal broadband and digital infrastructures. The right to be local brings communication rights and the right to the city together by allowing us to consider the roles of both information and infrastructure and of physical places and social relationships.
“Never Checked—Always Victorious”
Authors: Stanley Matthew E.
Published: September 2017

Chapter Six explores the zenith of the Loyal West, which was perpetuated by Union veterans’ groups and adopted by both major parties. Believing they had fought and won a war not of their making, dreading the perceived loss of racial and regional power, and both celebrating and fearing the liberal capitalism and expansion of federal authority they had helped commence, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois veterans drew on western tropes to construct the Loyal West. Even though a “Two Americas” concept challenged the Loyal West and grew within a national war narrative, veterans of western armies remained adamant that the restoration of the Union was their primary war aim and defined themselves against both former Confederates and their Yankee counterparts.
Childhood in a Troubled Land, 1896–1914
Authors: Cherny Robert W.
Published: September 2017

Arnautoff was born near Mariupol, in what is now eastern Ukraine, then part of the Russian empire. Arnautoff’s family background, childhood and youth, and education are set against a background of social unrest in the Russian empire and the Russo-Japanese War. His father was an Orthodox priest and his mother was related to prominent Russian architects and artists of English descent. Attracted to art, he received special tutoring and planned to attend art school after graduating from the local gymnasium.
Making Sense of Lynching in Medieval Nepal
Authors: Raj Yogesh
Published: September 2017

Focusing on medieval Nepal, in this chapter Yogesh Raj argues that existing sociohistorical accounts of lynching and other extreme forms of collective cruelty are inadequate for developing “a credible historical account” due to what he considers their “narratological bias.” Raj asserts that the problematic nature of the Event Catalogues, the main methodological innovation in these accounts composed by scholars of European rioting and American lynching, “call for a radically different approach to historiography.” Using Newari medieval records of lynching, Raj argues for “employing analogy, and not argumentation, to develop a deeper historical understanding of lynching in Nepal and across societies.”
Understanding Anti-Americanism in Central Asia
Authors: Schatz Edward
Published: September 2017

This essay examines post-Soviet Central Asia and suggests that it is an example that belies typical depictions of the Muslim world. It shows that anti-Americanism is not inherent to the region, to the people that inhabit it, or to the belief systems they claim. It also argues that Central Asians are not simply reacting to U.S. policies. The reality of emergent (and still fairly limited) anti-Americanism is more complex and hinges on the particular meanings that Central Asians in the 1990s came to ascribe to the United States as a symbol. More than a focus on U.S. policies or a focus on the properties of a faith system, a focus on the United States as an ambiguous and changeable symbol provides analytic leverage as we seek to understand anti-Americanism in Central Asia.
Motores de Sangre
Authors: Chang Jason Oliver
Published: September 2017

This chapter recovers the history of recruited Chinese laborers, known as motores de sangre, for use in national colonization. Records from cientificos, or technocratic officials, of the Porfirian regime show how racialized notions of Chinese migrants as disposable workers informed Mexican modernization programs. The chapter traces agents of industrialization and how they appropriated streams of contracted Asian coolie laborers, to advance railroads and plantations. The highest concentrations of Chinese people in Mexico occurred in the states of Sonora and Yucatán. Chinese workers were primarily used in contentious territory with rebellious indigenous populations. The chapter turns to the development of treaty relations with China and national debates about Chinese immigration. These debates demonstrate how racial discourses of Indians and Chinese were linked. The more that Indians were seen as obstacles of modernization, the greater the reliance upon the Chinese; and when Indians were seen as agents of modernization, the more the Chinese were despised. Finally, a close look at the near complete reliance upon Chinese in national colonization of Baja California
“Who is Going to Run the Schools?” Teacher Strikes and the Urban Crises of 1972–73
Authors: Shelton Jon
Published: September 2017

This chapter chronicles a wave of contentious teacher strikes in 1972-73 and shows that teacher unions’ collective bargaining efforts clashed with the limited budgets of many of the nation’s largest cities. This conflict led many residents of these metropolitan areas to argue that teachers were guilty of both facilitating fiscal crisis and setting poor examples for the young people they taught since dire conditions led many teachers to believe that striking was necessary even though they broke the law in the process. The chapter documents a strike that shut down Philadelphia for three months in 1972-73; turns to Chicago and St. Louis, where teachers were on strike simultaneously; and concludes by examining the lengthy teacher strike in Detroit in the fall of 1973.
The Pittsburgh Teacher Strike of 1975–76 and the Crisis of the Labor-Liberal Coalition
Authors: Shelton Jon
Published: September 2017

This chapter documents the nation’s longest and most contentious teacher strike in the immediate wake of the New York City fiscal crisis of 1975, after which New York and many other cities were forced on the path of municipal austerity. In December, 1975 the Pittsburgh school board worried about the high cost of teacher salary increases, even though the city was in a very strong financial position. The Pittsburgh teacher union went on strike and the local court issued an injunction. In the Steel City, a contentious public discussion erupted over the teachers’ illegal strike and the connection between teacher salaries and taxes. Indeed, a robust version of taxpayer resistance to teachers had emerged by the end of the strike.
From Cool Phenomena to Hot Problems
Authors: Bendix Regina F. , Bizer Kilian , Noyes Dorothy
Published: September 2017

The research topic shapes the interdisciplinary process. Both institutional and societal incentives favor the funding of research on "hot" problems over more stable, ongoing phenomena. All social research addresses social life and language in motion, but problem-based research also mobilizes an array of stakeholders, often coming together around a slogan-concept (such as cultural property) that proposes a solution for an intractable, complex situation. "Mode 2" knowledge networks around hot problems bring an unusual degree of scrutiny to academic work, while heightening the differential stances of researchers and their disciplines, turning the project itself into a hot zone. A remedy lies in setting the team to examine the common sense of the problem and its slogans as a starting point for more focused research.
Repurposing Telecoms for Capital
Authors: Hong Yu
Published: September 2017

Chapter 2 historicizes telecom development between 1978 and 2005 and explores how the purpose of telecom development—to serve the export-processing regime and to become an accumulation platform in itself—has strengthened social inequalities, including in telecommunications. This chapter first examines telecommunications’ radical reorganization intended to support the coastal export-processing regime at the beginning of the market reform. Then, it examines the local mechanism of rural telephone development in the late 1980s and 1990s. Lastly, it examines the corporate reforms that began in the late 1990s and continued into the twenty-first century, exploring how market forces, new technology, and the state’s attempts at harnessing market forces for social purposes have jointly made telecom networks a platform for corporate accumulation—and genesis of the networked economy.
Building Network Nation
Authors: Hong Yu
Published: September 2017

This chapter recaps the profound changes in the political economy of communications as a frontier of economic restructuring and synthesizes different yet interrelated processes and outcomes of forging the digital economy across communications. In light of the central position assigned to communications in the scheme of economic restructuring, this chapter also pursues the following question: How much advantage would China likely gain from this newly discovered developmental focus? It explores likely global implications in ICT manufacturing, media and entertainment, and internet governance.
Conclusion
Authors: Hong Yu
Published: September 2017

The book closes by critically conceptualizing the Chinese state as a “developmental” state in the global system of digital capitalism. The conclusion also summarizes the centrality of communications in China’s opening-up and in its market reforms, explains the limited effect of China further embracing communications in correcting unbalanced economic dynamics, and assesses what may be learned from China’s successes and mistakes.
Man Management
Authors: Oates Thomas P.
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines how commercial entertainments relating to the NFL advance a vision of idealized citizenship in the twenty-first century U.S. which is budget-conscious and market-oriented. The chapter extends the concerns with productivity, which were developed in the previous two chapters, focusing this interest on the construction of a financialized citizen, who is analytical and concerned with organizational strategies. Through football-related entertainments, these idealized figures are imagined as valorized men. The chapter focuses on promotions for the popular digital entertainments of fantasy football and the video game series Madden NFL. Both games position NFL fans to act as effective managers of teams and players. In doing so, they impart more generally applicable lessons about fiscal management and social relations in the late capitalist period, while offering forms of masculine validation for those who succeed.
Endless Growth: Neoliberalism and Global Media’s Promethean Logic
Authors: Murphy Patrick D.
Published: September 2017

This chapter maps how the Promethean discourse has “gone global” by tracing changes in structural networks, policy and relationships of capital in commercial media that favored its reemergence. Argued is that the neoliberal reforms initiated in the late 1970s and continued into the new millennium reshaped media systems around the world, producing the perfect conditions for the Promethean discourse to regain its hegemonic status. In bringing these various transformative forces, agendas and regional adjustments into focus, the chapter illuminates how this reshaping of media systems around the globe began to create the circumstances for citizens to self identify as media audience members and consumers, and by extension, tacit agents of Promethean ontology and its market oriented vision of environmental stewardship.
Act Versus Idol
Authors: Panaccio Claude
Published: September 2017

It is only toward the mid-thirteenth century that mental discourse began to be the object of explicit and precise philosophical controversies. Thomas Aquinas played a crucial role in this by progressively developing an original way of harmonizing Augustine’s idea of mental word with Aristotle’s theory of abstraction. Aquinas’s main innovation was to distinguish between the ‘intelligible species’ stocked in the mind as a result of the abstraction process and the concept or mental word produced by the mind when it is actively thinking about something. This doctrine soon became controversial as it was thought by many to introduce a superfluous and harmful veil of purely ideal objects between the mind and the external things. The Thomistic synthesis is explained in this chapter as well as the philosophical criticisms it was subjected to in the late thirteenth century.
Futilitarianism: An Introduction
Authors: McEleney Corey
Published: September 2017

The introduction begins by addressing how current debates about the value of literary studies and the humanities often return to the English Renaissance. It then lays out the argument of the book, outlining the study’s archive, its organization, its methodologies, its contributions to literary studies, and its style.
Art for Nothing’s Sake
Authors: McEleney Corey
Published: September 2017

Chapter Three initiates a two-chapter sequence on the most hotly contested literary genre in early modern England: romance. It offers close readings of two Elizabethan texts frequently cited for their condemnations of romance: Roger Ascham’s The Scholemaster and Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller. Critics generally take these texts at face value, citing them as unequivocal Protestant diatribes against the pleasures of romance and arguing that Ascham and Nashe project such pleasures onto the dangers of traveling abroad to Italy. The chapter draws on Paul de Man’s theory of irony in order to think about the disjunction between the texts’ didactic statements, on the one hand, and the mode in which those statements are delivered, or undelivered, on the other. In opposition to conventional readings that recuperate such disjunctions, the chapter analyzes how the rhetorical motions and narrative structures of these texts fail to line up with Ascham’s and Nashe’s more explicit condemnations of romance. Specifically, it show how the texts’ errancy and play, in the forms of digression, alliteration, and narrative interruptions, undercut their pedagogical intentions. Rather than simply celebrating such play, however, the chapter points to its high costs for both writers.
Beyond Sublimation
Authors: McEleney Corey
Published: September 2017

The final chapter begins by reconsidering the grand ends that Milton sets for his poetry: to “justify the ways of God to men.” Criticism has routinely portrayed a Milton who, because of his sublime intentions, must either reform or reject the disreputable pleasures and instabilities of the humanist and romance traditions that he inherits from writers like Sidney and Spenser. The chapter argue that with this increase in the grandeur of Milton’s poetic aspirations comes an increase in the risk of falling and thus failing. This risk of error and vanity, the chapter demonstrates, accounts for many of the structural instabilities, textual cruxes, and unresolved questions in Milton’s corpus, questions that it explores by attending to the forms and figures of un-sublimity, waste, and heterogeneity in his epic masterpiece Paradise Lost. Drawing on philosophers and theorists such as Hegel, Bataille, Lacan, Derrida, de Man, and Edelman, the chapter counters a tradition of scholarship that strives to resolve dialectically the ever-present friction between Milton’s poetry and his intentions. Against these sublimating tendencies and gestures in Milton scholarship, the chapter attempts to bring out the persistent, unsublatable negativity that pervades Paradise Lost.
Satanic Ethos
Authors: Anderson Judith H.
Published: September 2017

This chapter on Paradise Lost is a diptych. The first of its panels shows the origin of evil, hence sin, in Satan’s envy when the Son is exalted, an envy that underlies Satan’s self-authoring pride. This panel focuses on negation and death. The second panel, which examines God’s terms of exaltation, focuses on questions of individuality, allness, and pride, each of which has a more positive potential. Both panels grow out of two crucial speeches in Book V. In the first speech treated, Raphael recounts Satan’s response to the Son’s exaltation; in the second, the proclamation of Sonship itself, God reveals its ultimate purpose. This chapter also engages a circularity that exists in the poem and the intellectual culture of which it was and remains a dynamic part. Satan’s ethos is central to this circularity.
Pornography as Realism, Realism as Aesthetic Modernity
Authors: Tran Ben
Published: September 2017

Chapter 2 focuses on Vũ Trọng Phụng’s fictional and nonfictional prose, examining how and why he merged reportage writing with the realist novel. Socialist critics considered Phụng’s writings to be pornographic, going so far as to ban it from the 1950s to the 1980s. Their orthodox criteria for realism failed to understand how Phụng’s so-called pornographic content represented Vietnam’s crucial turn toward the prosaic. This chapter reads his reportage as a genre entwined with novelistic realism, arguing for the ascent of prosaic representation as the predominant mode that post-mandarin intellectuals employed to address the modernization of colonial Vietnam. Prosaic representation derived political significance from its democratic aesthetization of all things and subjects. The cultural and political significance of prose needs further elaboration precisely because it is one of the crucial, yet unexplained presuppositions behind the role of the newspaper and the realist novel in Benedict Anderson’s theory of nationalism.
The Sociological Novel and Anticolonialism
Authors: Tran Ben
Published: September 2017

Chapter 3 reevaluates Nhất Linh’s novelistic works, which have been characterized as politically feckless “romanticism.” I show how Nhất Linh observes romantic relationships in his novels through a sociological lens to critique the gender relations inherent in the Confucian social order. Nhất Linh’s Đoạn Tuyệt [Breaking Away] reveals the social norms, institutions, and rituals that continued to determine women’s social roles during the 1930s. The novel attempts to expose the social facts—what the texts calls “invisible strings” [những dây vô hình]—that imposed restrictive and subordinate gender roles. My reading recasts this “romanticist” novel as a sociological analysis of gendered roles and expectations that gave the illusion of being natural and self-evident but were in fact reproduced by the collusion between Confucian patriarchy and French colonialism.
Du Bellay’s Cendre and the Formless Signifier
Authors: Hui Andrew
Published: September 2017

La poudreuse cendre, “the dusty ashes,” is the lexical guide to this chapter. Signifying a persistent, formless materiality, this formulation is repeated like a mantra throughout Les Antiquitez. Cendre and poudre play an operative role in Du Bellay’s poetics, for the two words are used to describe the matter of literary tradition itself and to rethink the nature of poetic representation. We will first give a mini-history of the cendre topos in the literary and biblical tradition, which will help us think about the nature of signs and their signified vis-à-vis Rome. Then we will look at how Du Bellay uses repetition in order to evoke the innumerable permutations of Rome. And finally with architecture we go back to the exegi monumentum topos as it is played out in the afterlife of Du Bellay’s sonnets. Under the long shadow of a ruinous antiquity, Du Bellay crafts his monuments as fluid, mutable things.
Spenser’s Moniment and the Allegory of Ruins
Authors: Hui Andrew
Published: September 2017

This chapter argues that Spenser’s career, punctuated in an analogous way by the word moniment, not only measures the distance his writings have traversed, but also maps a larger itinerary of his poetic project which engages in a fundamental rethinking of the activities of monument-making and its dialectical other, ruination. In the English poet, monuments and ruins function as allegorical signifiers that shape both the content and the form of his work. The destruction of Roman temples in A Theatre for Voluptuous Worldings (1569) or The Ruines of Rome (1591) is a sort of righteous disenchantment. In the attempt to turn a ruin back to a monument, idolatry threatens to re-emerge, as in The Ruines of Time (1591). Monuments in The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596) are supposed to instruct; yet more often than not, they are on the verge of catastrophe. For Spenser, true, lasting monuments are those that spur the mind to action.
Epilogue
Authors: Hui Andrew
Published: September 2017

The Epilogue departs from the Renaissance and returns to my Japanese friend’s perplexing question: why ruins after all? As it turns out, though there might not be physical ruins in East Asia, there is a long tradition of poems about ruins. When viewing the site of a fallen samurai castle in which only the tall summer grass remains, Bashō, in his fifteenth-century Journey to the Narrow North, re-writes an eighth-century Chinese poem by Du Fu. The poetics of ruins, East and West, is finally a poetics of mutability—not so much a mode of survival that depends on a work’s imperishability but rather an artistic process of continuous transmission, translation, and transformation.
Coming
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc , Van Reeth Adèle
Published: September 2017

Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation, from consumption to consummation? The philosophers Adèle van Reeth and Jean-Luc Nancy engage in a lively dialogue touching on authors as varied as Spinoza, Hegel, Saint Augustine, the Marquis de Sade, Marguerite Duras, and Henry Miller, and on subjects ranging from consumerism to video games to mysticism.
Body of Pleasure
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc , Van Reeth Adèle
Published: September 2017

“The Body of Pleasure” is an investigation into what exactly “pleasure” means, and how precisely the body experiences it. How one loses one’s sense of self through touch, and through the other.
Introduction: Enter the Sexagon
Authors: Mack Mehammed Amadeus
Published: September 2017

Among the sensitive questions involving Muslims living in the West, and in Europe most singularly, there is the position of Islam on homosexuality. In certain contexts, this question would be the sole and unique key to the possible “integration” of Muslims in Western culture. As if European cultures and values could be reduced to the acceptance or rejection of homosexuality....
Schooling Bilinguals In and Against Multiculturalism
Authors: Lim Jeehyun
Published: September 2017

Chapter three examines multicultural literary models of growing up in two languages through Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. By reading Paredes’s novel side-by-side Kingston’s widely discussed text, the chapter suggests that a syncretic bilingual personhood in which various anxieties of language’s value as property are worked out in relation to an ethnic subject’s formation is a key element of literary multiculturalism. The much-discussed controversy around The Woman Warrior recapitulates in the real world the fictional controversy over Guálinto’s betrayal of his Mexican heritage in George Washington Gómez as Asian American cultural nationalists accused Kingston of misrepresenting Chinese American experiences. In light of the conditions of bilingualism’s valorization and stigmatization in Paredes’s novel, the chapter revisits this controversy as ultimately symptomatic of the competing visions of bilingualism as cultural and human capital in multiculturalism.
Dormant Bilingualism in Neoliberal America
Authors: Lim Jeehyun
Published: September 2017

Chapter four examines the relationship between language and race in neoliberal America through the writings of Richard Rodriguez and Chang-rae Lee and the legal briefs contesting English-only policies. As literary accounts of post-civil rights assimilation, Richard Rodriguez’s memoirs and Chang-rae Lee’s novel, Native Speaker, reflect the social concerns on civic disunity that provoked English-only policies and induced a social climate of language covering. This chapter shows the rhetorical figure of analogy in both the legal briefs contesting English-only rules, where bilingual plaintiffs claim an analogy between language and race to seek legal protection, and in Rodriguez’s and Lee’s representations of dormant bilingualism. While the analogy between language and race mostly fails in the courtrooms, it is a productive rhetorical move for Rodriguez and Lee as they show that language is prone to be influenced by the same capitalist logic that commodifies race.
Epilogue
Authors: Lim Jeehyun
Published: September 2017

The epilogue reflects on the future of bilingual brokering in the twenty-first century through David Henry Hwang’s bilingual play, Chinglish. While Chinglish seemingly overturns the social construction of bilingual personhood along the terms of possessive individualism by championing interlingual lapses, irregularities, and mistakes, this attempt to free the linguistic subject from the constraints of language as capital is delivered through a careful rendition of English-Mandarin bilingualism, enabled through such institutional actors’ interest in the play as the Chinese state. These conditions of possibility for Hwang’s bilingual play serve as a reminder that while bilingual personhood may recede from cultural significance as a site of examining the relationship between racial subjectivity and capital, bilingualism in cultural politics is still enmeshed in the flows of capital.
The Phenomenality of the Sacrament
Authors: Marion Jean-Luc
Published: September 2017

Marion argues that the sacrament as an issue of revelation has a particular phenomenality. He examines three main theological models for the sacrament and argues that in all three the phenomenality of the sacrament turns out to be one of self-givenness in utter abundance and abandonment. The phenomenon of the sacrament gives itself as pure gift and can hence serve also as the ultimate paradigm for the phenomenality of all phenomena.
Transcendence par Excellence
Authors: Marion Jean-Luc
Published: September 2017

This chapter argues that while God is defined in manifold ways, only love is an appropriate name for the divine because it alone does not reduce God’s transcendence. God transcends us as best lover. God loves to the point of death, even those who do not return such love. God loves without measure. The highest summons of transcendence is to love unconditionally. We are called to love as God loves.
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Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc , Fort Jeff
Published: September 2017

For Heidegger in the Black Notebooks, the West is bringing itself to an end, in oblivion, decline, and devastation. This end is understood ontologically also as the possibility of a beginning, an end that “comes about” both from within and from without. This thinking of a coming devastation of the world has an anti-Semitic motif inscribed within it, insofar as the Jewish people are the driving force of decline and groundlessness. For the end/beginning to come about, the Jewish people must suppress itself, must exclude itself. One finds a similar argument already in Kant, who speaks of the “euthanasia of Judaism.”
Principium and Initium
Authors: Esposito Roberto
Published: September 2017

This chapter argues that Homer's originarity—the fact that he precedes even the beginnings of historiography—is what attracts the attention of both Arendt and Weil in relation to the event that he translates into verse. The event narrated in the Iliad is understood by both Arendt and Weil as what “comes before.” It is this inaugural character that obliges that they both address its phenomenology, meaning, and effect. This inaugural character is not only at the origin; it is the origin of our story. It is the origin of our story at least to the extent that it has assumed a truly political dimension. The event, in other words, opens up the time of politics and inevitably predetermines it. It is this bond between origin and politics—the political destiny of the origin but also the constitutive originarity of politics—that captures the attention of both thinkers, who had already made the polis the primary concern of their reflection.
Polemos/Polis
Authors: Esposito Roberto
Published: September 2017

This chapter examines the way in which the “passage through origin” take us back to the complex relations established by Arendt between the origin of Western history as narrated in the Iliad and the very story recounted therein. The most intrinsic point of convergence between them can be found in the double dimension of origin—diachronic and synchronic, epochal and evental. In fact, it is precisely this point that gives reason to Arendt's double, bi-univocal, interpretation of the relation between war and politics. The war of Troy—in its symbolic significance as originary conflict or Ur-teilung dividing the order of things into radical dissimilarity—is both external and internal to the “city” that emerges from it, to the extent that polemos cannot coincide with polis. Rather, the latter can only be born from within the distance that it assumes in respect to the former. And yet, without polemos, politics would not exist.
The Third Origin
Authors: Esposito Roberto
Published: September 2017

This chapter argues that the double operation involving the urbanization of originary conflict and the “heroization” of political action is not yet sufficient to bridge the principle gap between polemos and polis, or between violence and power, at least in reference to the way the Arendt herself radicalizes the opposition. Unless a third point of reference, a third archetype, or a third origin intervenes it is impossible to confer stability and duration upon a politics that is still overly exposed to the wound generated by originary scission. Arendt finds her last pole star—a third point capable of uniting the scene of origin in a perfect triangular form—in Rome. This is the third origin that fuses all the flotsam and jetsam that distances Troy from Athens, thereby consolidating a broader originary figure finally liberated from all residues of violence.
Nothingness
Authors: Esposito Roberto
Published: September 2017

This chapter argues that for Weil, origin does not collapse under the weight of historical catastrophe, but this is not so because history—in particular, modern history—is conceived in more positive terms. On the contrary, we could say that in many ways Weil emphasizes origin's negative characteristics. It is merely that, unlike Arendt, the negative in Weil does not affect origin from the outside principally because it is already embroiled in it. The modern therefore is not ailing because it betrays origin, but precisely because it fulfills it in all its unbearably antinomic features. Weil remains within the semantic frame of creation but submits it to an internal displacement—a true overturning of perspective—that leads to radical consequences.
Democracy’s Necessary Conditions
Authors: Honig Bonnie
Published: September 2017

This chapter discusses the role of public things in democratic theory and in democratic life. It examines the power of public things to stimulate the object relations of democratic collectivity by drawing on the work of D. W. Winnicott, who argues that objects are central to the developing infant's capacity to relate to the world as an external reality. According to Winnicott, the baby needs its transitional object (the blanket, a toy) to supply it with a kind of object-ivity, or realness. The baby learns about the existence of an external world when it destroys/disavows the object and the object survives. This is object permanence. The chapter also considers the views of Wendy Brown, Michael Walzer, and Hannah Arendt in the context of decades of charting the almost always already overness of democracy's (or of politics') necessary conditions.
Learning Difficulties in First and Second Language: Preliminary Results from a Cross-linguistic Skills Transfer
Authors: Andreou Georgia , Segklia Maria
Published: September 2017

Research has repeatedly shown a cross-linguistic skills transfer from the first language (L1) to the second/foreign language (L2) and its impact on L2 learning. In the present article we report preliminary results from a pilot study we conducted in order to examine linguistic skills transfer from L1 (Greek) to L2 (English) among secondary school students with learning difficulties (L.D.). Our results have shown that the difficulties that occur in L1 (decoding reading skills and spelling) also occur in L2. These findings are in line with previous research and enhance further the existence of the link between first and second language learning difficulties.
Impact of Knowledge Sharing on Competitive Priorities: The Moderating Role of Social Media (An Applied Study in Jordanian Telecommunication Companies)
Authors: Al-Shawabkeh Khaled Mahmoud
Published: September 2017

This study aims to identify knowledge sharing and its dimensions (Donating knowledge & Collecting knowledge) and its impact on competitive priorities: (Cost, Flexibility, and Quality) and the role of social media as a moderating variable in Jordanian telecommunication companies. The study population is consisted of (3) Jordanian Telecommunication Companies: (Zain, Orange, and Umniah). The study used equal stratified random sample. To collect the primary data a questionnaire survey was distributed to (134) managers. The questionnaire consisted of (30) items of close ended response type.The study reached set of findings; there is a significant statistical impact of knowledge sharing (donating knowledge & collecting knowledge) on competitive priorities in Jordanian telecommunication companies at level (a£ 0.05(; and there is a significant statistical impact at level (a£ 0.05(of social media on improving the impact of knowledge sharing on competitive priorities in Jordanian telecommunication companies. The study recommended increased knowledge sharing among employees and between departments through encouragement and practicing of knowledge sharing activities among companies' staff. And the need to motivate employees who are use social media for knowledge sharing in a work environment.