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K. C. F. Krause: The Combinatorian as Logician
Authors: Meixner Uwe
Published: July 2022

In a time which it is not amiss to term “the Dark Ages of logic”, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause stayed not only true to logic but actually did something for its advancement. Besides making systematic use of Venn-diagrams long before Venn, Krause — once more taking his inspiration from Leibniz — propounded what appears to be the first completely symbolic systematic representation of logical forms, strongly suggestive of the powerful symbolic languages that have become the mainstay of logic since the beginning of the 20th century. However, Krause’s limits in logic are also clearly visible: Krause’s method in logic is, in the main, not axiomatic; it is combinatorial (in other words, it consists in systematically producing finite lists of logical laws, following some organizational principle). More importantly, Krause remained entirely within the confines of traditional syllogistics (his flirt with “quantification of the predicate” notwithstanding), neglecting propositional logic and, of course, first-order relational terms.
Review of: Julian Perlmutter, "Sacred Music, Religious Desire and Knowledge of God: The Music of Human Longing"
Authors: Cockayne Joshua
Published: July 2022

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Tres proyectos editoriales clave en la conformación del canon literario latinoamericano
Authors: Sancholuz Carolina
Published: July 2022

El presente dosier “Colecciones americanistas: libros que diseñaron un canon”, organizado por José Luis de Diego, se propone abordar objetos de estudio particulares y centrales a la hora de pensar en las posibilidades concretas de conformación de un canon de la literatura latinoamericana. Se trata de tres notables colecciones, la Biblioteca Americana del Fondo de Cultura Económica (México), la Biblioteca Ayacucho (Venezuela) y la colección Archivos (Francia), estudiadas desde múltiples aristas por Valeria Añón, Fabio Espósito y José Luis de Diego respectivamente. Una serie de interrogantes atraviesan los trabajos aquí reunidos, preguntas que funcionan como hilos conductores que interrelacionan los análisis concretos de cada caso: ¿cómo intervienen los proyectos editoriales de bibliotecas y colecciones en la instauración de un canon literario en general y particularmente latinoamericano? ¿Qué condiciones materiales y contextuales habilitan la aparición en el campo literario de determinadas colecciones? ¿Qué diferencias se pueden establecer entre conceptos como colección y biblioteca? ¿Cómo pensar la literatura latinoamericana desde los estudios de la edición y la historia del libro? ¿Qué rol ocupan los directores de colecciones en la conformación del catálogo editorial? ¿Qué pactos de lectura vinculan los proyectos editoriales de colecciones y bibliotecas con los lectores y lectoras?
La Biblioteca Americana: entre México y Buenos Aires, un proyecto de religación continental
Authors: Añón Valeria
Published: July 2022

La Biblioteca Americana, proyectada por Pedro Henríquez Ureña un año antes de su muerte, a instancias de un pedido de Daniel Cosío Villegas, director de FCE México por entonces, constituye un hito fundamental en la edición en el continente y en la discusión de un canon. En este trabajo proponemos un recorrido por el plan original, un análisis del catálogo efectivamente publicado desde 1947 y en las décadas siguientes, y una reflexión acerca de la articulación entre políticas editoriales, intervenciones culturales y conformación de lectorados.
Nora Domínguez, El revés del rostro. Figuras de la exterioridad en la cultura argentina. Rosario, Beatriz Viterbo, 2021, SQG, 256 páginas
Authors: Kratje Julia
Published: July 2022

Nora Domínguez, El revés del rostro. Figuras de la exterioridad en la cultura argentina. Rosario, Beatriz Viterbo, 2021, SQG, 256 páginas
Autonomía y crítica en la educación musical actual: de las representaciones institucionales a la práctica especíﬁca
Authors: Alvarez Natalia , Aranguren Santiago
Published: July 2022

El presente artículo parte del reporte de la experiencia pedagógica de los autores en torno a lo que ha permitido visibilizar la modalidad virtual de clases de educación musical debido al ASPO (aislamiento social preventivo y obligatorio) decretado a raíz de la pandemia por COVID-19 durante el ciclo lectivo 2020. A través del relato de la experiencia pedagógica de quienes escriben se observa el abordaje de contenidos comúnmente relegados o no trabajados de manera focal, hecho que se vincula con la posibilidad de desempeñarse con un mayor grado de autonomía respecto de los objetivos de las materias consideradas troncales y de los requerimientos institucionales, principalmente, la participación en los actos escolares. Para ello se revisan críticamente algunas de las representaciones que operan sobre los hábitos escolares y a partir de las cuales se establecen acuerdos tácitos que condicionan las prácticas áulicas. Finalmente, se pone en valor la singularidad de la experiencia estética (sensible, simbólica y compleja) que ofrece la música en el contexto escolar.
Experiencia de Musicoterapia Comunitaria en Mujeres con un Embarazo en Conﬂicto en Tiempos de Covid
Authors: Salgado Vasco Andres Felipe , Rodríguez Barreto Ana María
Published: July 2022

La gestación comúnmente es asociada a la realziación de lo que signiﬁca ser mujer, sin embargo, algunas mujeres durante este proceso se ven enfrentadas a situaciones poco favorables que impiden o diﬁcultan su posibilidad de asumirla, haciendo que esta sea conﬂictiva y, en algunos casos, optando por la adopción como la mejor alternativa. La Casa de la Madre y el Niño es una fundación que desde 1942 brinda acompañamiento integral y, a través de la adopción, ha posibilitado que muchos niños tengan una familia que les permita ver la vida de una manera diferente a través del lenguaje del amor. El relato de esta experiencia enmarcada en este contexto describe un proceso de musicoterapia comunitaria realizado dentro de la práctica del Laboratorio II de la Maestría en musicoterapia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. El proceso se desarrolló desde las cuatro experiencias principales de la musicoterapia (Improvisación, composición, re-creativas y receptivas) y para el seguimiento se usaron herramientas propias de la investigación cualitativa (en este escrito se incluyen fundamentos teóricos y prácticos). La observación del proceso permitió evidenciar que mediante las sesiones se estableció una estructura grupal (ritual), se incentivaron las relaciones directas y no diferenciadas (communitas), se facilitó el agenciamiento, la expresión emocional y el musicar.
The genus Bryomima Staudinger, 1900, with the description of four new taxa from Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
Authors: Gyulai Péter
Published: July 2022

Description of two new species and two new subspecies of Bryomima Staudinger, 1900, with 24 colour illustrations and 15 genitalia figures.
New records on the Balkan Coleophoridae with description of Coleophora colinplanti Baldizzone & Richter, sp. nov. (Lepidoptera, Coleophoridae)
Authors: Baldizzone Giorgio , Richter Ignác
Published: July 2022

The paper deals with new records on the geographical distribution of 34 Coleophoridae in the Balkan area. Moreover, is described Coleophora colinplanti Baldizzone & Richter, sp. n., from North Macedonia, belonging to the group of Coleophora kahaourella Toll, 1957
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Self-Perception of Physical Attractiveness Among Secondary School Adolescents
Authors: Kolawole Kikelomo Adebanke , Togonu-Bickersteth Funmi
Published: July 2022

This study investigated body characteristics and gender differences that contribute to self-perception of physical attractiveness among adolescents. Quantitative data were collected with a questionnaire administered to 430 adolescents aged 15 to 17 years selected through a multistage sampling technique from secondary schools in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The questionnaire included the Physical Attractiveness Rating Scale (PARS) and the Physical Attribute Questionnaire (PAQ). Independent sample t-test, and Multiple Regression Analyses were used for analyses. Statistical significance was set at p < .05. The mean overall attractiveness rating on the PARS was 1.66 (SD = 0.11), with ears and face rated as the most attractive body parts. The mean attractiveness score on the PAQ was 19.34 (SD = 3.47). Male and female participants differed with self-perception of physical attractiveness on the PARS [t (428) = 3.13 p = .003]; females perceived some body characteristics, namely mouth (t = 3.52; p < .05), teeth (t = 3.04; p < .05), nose (t = 2.40; p < .05), face (t = 1.98; p < .05), hair texture (t = 2.41; p < .05), hips (t = 3.85; p < .05) and thighs (t = 2.47; p < .05) as more attractive than males. Participants’ evaluation of individual body characteristics predicted self-perception of physical attractiveness (F = 2.85, p < .05, R2 = 0.16 and Adjusted R2 = 0.10). Study concluded that evaluation of individual body characteristics influenced self-perceived physical attractiveness. Gender influenced the perception of some specific body characteristics and overall physical attractiveness among studied adolescents.
Occurrence and Antibiotic Resistance Profiles of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (Mrsa) in Layer Chickens in Kebbi, Nigeria
Authors: Gaddafi M. S. , Yakubu Y. , Bello M. B. , Bitrus A. A. , Musawa A. I. , Garba B. , Lawal H. , Aliyu M. A. , Barka S. A. , Emeka A. J.
Published: July 2022

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat, and antimicrobial use in animal production for growth enhancement or prophylaxis contributes to the development of AMR. A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in poultry and farm attendants in Kebbi, North-Western Nigeria. A total of 207 cloacal and nasal swabs were randomly collected from four farms comprising 50 samples from each poultry farm and only 7 samples from farm attendants. The samples were analysed using routine bacteriological culture and identification techniques. Presumptive MRSA isolates were confirmed by PCR assay and AMR profiles of the isolates were evaluated using the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method. Of the 207 samples examined, 37.5 % (75/200) of layer birds tested positive for MRSA and 71.4 % (5/7) of farm attendants were MRSA positive. All the isolates were susceptible to vancomycin, with an AMR index ˃ 0.3. The findings of this study indicated colonization of layer chickens and humans by multidrug resistant MRSA, thus highlighting the potential role of poultry sources of transmission of multidrug-resistant MRSA strains to humans and vice versa.
Contents of Selected Elements in the Blood Serum of Broiler Chickens After Supplementation of Humic Substances
Authors: Skalická M. , Naď P. , Bujňák L. , Marcin A.
Published: July 2022

This study was conducted to determine the concentrations of mineral substances, such as: calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn); in the blood serum of broiler chicks after supplementation of humic substances. Group 1 (G1) was supplemented with 0.7 % Humac Natur Mycosorb (HNMy); G2 with

0.7 % Humac Natur Monogastric (HNM); G3 with 0.3 % HNMy; and the control group (GC) received a basal diet without any supplements. In the G2 group, the serum Ca level increased slightly compared to the other experimental groups. A statistically significant decrease (P < 0.001) in the blood serum of Mg was detected in the broilers from group G2 (0.60 mmol.l−1) and G1 (P < 0.05; 0.68 mmol.l−1) in comparison to the GC. The Zn in the blood serum of broilers from group G2 (22.05 µmol.l−1) was significantly increased (P < 0.05) in broilers from group G2 in comparison to the control group (19.47 µmol.l−1) and G1 group (19.61 µmol.l−1). The serum Cu (12.72 µmol.l−1) was significantly increased (P < 0.001) in broilers from group G2 in comparison to the GC (10.28 µmol.l−1). In the group G1 there was a significant decrease (P < 0.05) in the level of the Cu in the blood serum (8.69 µmol.l−1) in comparison to the serum Cu in broilers from groups G3 (10.45 µmol.l−1) and G2 (12.72 µmol.l−1). The addition of Humac Natur Mycosorb (0.3 % and 0.7 %) in the feed caused a strong correlation in the blood serum between the Ca and Mg (r = 0.7494; r = 0.7648). The addition of 0.3 % Humac Natur Mycosorb in the feed caused a high negative correlation (r = –0.7078) in the blood serum between the Mg and Zn.
What is Reasonable? The Operation of ‘Reasonable Accommodation’ and ‘Disability’ Provisions Under The Employment Equality Acts 1998–2015
Authors: McGrath Donie , O’Sullivan Michelle
Published: July 2022

Anti-discrimination legislation is a key policy measure used to improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities. Law though is not necessarily value-free and can be underpinned by various discourses notably the medical and social model of disability. This article examines the process and outcomes of legal complaints taken by employees against employers relating to reasonable accommodation provisions of the Employment Equality Acts 1998–2015. We find that legal claims can involve a medicalised inquiry process while a more social model is evident regarding accommodations provisions. Accommodations sought by employees overwhelming related to a modification of their role rather than the physical environment. The success rates for employee claimants in legal cases is relatively low but case law has developed the procedural obligations of employers in dealing with disability issues. The findings are based on an analysis of adjudicated decisions under the legislation and the views of expert practitioners.
Asymptotic expectation of protected node profile in random digital search trees
Authors: Javanian M. , Nabiyyi R. Imany , Toofanpour J. , Vahidi-Asl M. Q.
Published: July 2022

Protected nodes are neither leaves nor parents of any leaves in a rooted tree. We study here protected node profile, namely, the number of protected nodes with the same distance from the root in digital search trees, some fundamental data structures to store 0 - 1 strings. When each string is a sequence of independent and identically distributed Bernoulli(p) random variables with 0 < p < (

p
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1
2

p \ne {1 \over 2}

), Drmota and Szpankowski (2011) investigated the expectation of internal profile by the analytic methods. Here, we generalize the main parts of their approach in order to obtain the asymptotic expectations of protected node profile and non-protected node profile in digital search trees.
Seed Germination of Raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) Depending on the Age of Seeds and Hybridization Partners
Authors: Masny Agnieszka , Kubik Jolanta , Żurawicz Edward
Published: July 2022

Research was carried out on the germination of seeds obtained from crossings between the cultivars of red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) ‘Sokolica’, ‘Willamette’, ‘Veten’, ‘Canby’ and ‘Glen Ample’ depending on the age of the seeds. The crossings were performed in the winter–spring of 2015–2018 in a heated greenhouse. The obtained seeds were stored dry in paper bags at a temperature of 4–5 °C. In January 2019, seeds were scarified and then cold stratified for 50 days and seeded in pots in a greenhouse. The seedling emergence was assessed 60 days after sowing. The seeds produced in 2015 had the lowest germination percentage (14% on average for all combinations of crosses), while the seeds produced in 2018 had a germination rate of 44.9%. Significant differences were also observed in the emergence of seedlings from different combinations. On average, the fewest seedlings were obtained from the combination ‘Glen Ample’ × ‘Willamette’ and the most from ‘Sokolica’ × ‘Willamette’.
Cyril and Theodoret on the Temptation of Christ: An Imaginary Dialogue Between Alexandrian and Antiochene Christological Positions
Authors: Kupán István Pásztori
Published: July 2022

In this paper some parallelisms and differences are presented between two ancient theological traditions concerning their model of Christ by comparing two representative figures of both schools, namely Theodoret of Cyrus and Cyril of Alexandria. Since the Christology of the two authors could not be compared in detail within such a paper, the investigation resumes itself to the mode how they interpret the Lord’s Temptation by the devil in the wilderness. The works involved in the analysis include Theodoret’s treatise On the incarnation written in 431 before the Council of Ephesus, the fragments of Cyril’s Commentary on Matthew as well as his Commentary on Luke. The doctrinal conclusion of this comparison is that the two traditions represented by these illustrious theologians—despite their conspicuous and undeniable differences— signify rather complementary than flatly opposing views and that the two ancient traditions have found their revival even in the sixteenth century, and continue to influence the theologians of our time. This is why the author considers Chalcedon as being a corridor (in which both traditions can walk side by side whilst respecting the limits set by ‘the columns’, i.e. the four famous expressions) rather than a narrow path or a tightrope-walking, where only one is able to go through.
Von der Weltliteratur zum nationalen Erbe? Der Fall der Comtesse de Ségur
Authors: Ettrich Jenny
Published: July 2022

Seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts sind die Werke der Comtesse de Ségur fester Bestandteil der französischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur sowie des kulturellen und kollektiven Gedächtnisses Frankreichs geworden. Unbekannt war bislang, dass Ségurs Werke relativ schnell und lange auch außerhalb Frankreichs übersetzt wurden. Erste Ergebnisse einer Kulturtransferuntersuchung nach Russland lassen nun Zweifel an den bislang verbreiteten Übersetzungsmotivationen und -mechanismen aufkommen und werfen die Frage auf, ob die Comtesse de Ségur nicht zuerst zur Weltliteratur gehörte, bevor sie zum patrimoine wurde?
Sustainable Development Goals in International Law and Protection of Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Authors: Pchelintseva V. V. , Ivanov D. V.
Published: July 2022

Introduction. International acts on sustainable development and human rights protection and promotion reveal interconnection between sustainability of development and protection of indigenous peoples’ rights. As the two concepts, that of sustainable development and that of indigenous peoples’ rights, are reflected in international law acts, their study in terms of international law science is necessary. The study is aimed to define theoretical bases and timely issues of international law coverage of sustainable development of indigenous peoples..

Materials and Methods. The study covers universal and regional (these of Arctic and America) international acts concerning sustainable development and protection of human rights. Works of specialists in international law and other humanitarian sciences dedicated to protection of indigenous peoples’ rights and sustainable development serve as its theoretical basis. The authors stick to system approach in their analysis of the concepts studied in terms of international legal science. Alongside with common scientific methods, they apply special methodology of legal science.

Results. Application of historical and comparative legal methods to the international acts on sustainable development and protection of human rights allowed the authors to reveal three major trends. The fi is recognition of indigenous peoples’ right to development and enjoyment of the virtues of sustainable development by the international community. The second one is the direct connection between protection of indigenous peoples’ rights and sustainable development. The third trend consists in recognition of the contribution of indigenous peoples to sustainable development by the international community. Using complex and system methods in studying those tendencies revealed the timely theoretical issues of maintaining sustainable development of indigenous peoples.

Discussion and Conclusions. Ensuring sustainable development of indigenous peoples is impossible without a review of the philosophical framework of the concept of sustainable development taking into account visions of those peoples. Protection of indigenous peoples’ rights directly influences their ability to enjoy virtues and contribute to sustainable development. Ignorance towards indigenous peoples’ rights and legal interests results in prejudice to those peoples caused by activities aimed to achieve the sustainable development goals. Modern sustainable development agenda doesn’t take into account a number of possible spheres of cooperation between indigenous peoples, civil community and state in the field of sustainable development.
УЯЗВИМЫЕ ВИДЫ ПОЗВОНОЧНЫХ ЖИВОТНЫХ НИЖНЕ-CВИРСКОГО ЗАПОВЕДНИКА
Authors: Попов И.Ю. , Стариков Д.А.
Published: July 2022

Establishment of protected areas is one of the most effective measures for the environment protection. The reserves, i.e. the areas where any human activity is not allowed, are especially effective. It is expected that they would become shelters for the threatened species. One of such areas is Nizhne-Svirsky Reserve at the eastern shore of Lake Ladoga. It was established in 1980, and since then no intervention in natural processes has been taking place there. Thirty-five threatened species of vertebrate animals have been registered in the reserve: 33 species of birds and two species of mammals. These species are either listed in the Red Book of Russia, or are considered as threatened or near-threatened in the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). At the water borders of the reserve, salmon and whitefish migrate, their local populations being rated as protected in Russia. Most of registered threatened animals stay in the reserve for shorts periods during migrations or visit it occasionally. Only 8–10 species live in it relatively constantly. The small number of vulnerable species under protected conditions indicates that the creation of reserves may not be sufficient to solve the problem of their conservation. Generalization of data related to threatened animals of the Nizhne-Svirsky Reserve reveals significant contradictions between the Red Book of Russia and the IUCN Red List: some species are considered threatened in Russia but not in the IUCN Red List, although a significant part of their range is located in Russia; or vice versa: some species in Russia are considered common or even game species, whereas according to the IUCN Red List, they raise concern. In the present case, the first option often relates to raptors, whereas the second one to waders and ducks.
PENERAPAN METODE EOQ SEBAGAI PENGENDALIAN PERSEDIAAN BAHAN BAKU UKM SERENDIPITY SNACK
Authors: Suryani Veronica Novi , Daniati Ria Restu , Kustiningsih Nanik
Published: July 2022

Pelaksanaan studi ini bertujuan mengetahui apakah penerapan pengendalian pengendalian dengan menggunakan Economic Order Quantity dapat menimbulkan biaya persediaan. Dalam studi ini menggunakan jenis peneltian kualitatif deskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data yang dipergunakan oleh peneliti yakni kajian literatur dan observasi lapangan. Sementara dalam pengelolaan data dalam studi ini ialah data utama dan juga sekunder. Hasil dari studi ini menyatakan bawasanya penggunaan metode Economic Order Quantity menunjukan nilai yang lebih efisien dibandingkan dengan metode lainnya. Jika menggunakan metode Economic Order Quantity dapat menghemat biaya persediaan, sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa model Economic Order Quantity ialah metode pengendalian persediaan yang paling ekonomis.
Morphological features, ontogenetic changes and stratigraphic range of conodonts Siphonodella belkai Dzik (Tournaisian, Mississippian)
Authors: Zhuravlev A. A.
Published: July 2022

Research subject. Multidisciplinary characteristics of the Siphonodella belkai Dzik conodonts, which an index species in the Tournaisian (Mississippian) conodont zonation. Materials and methods. Data on conodonts collected from the North Cis-Urals and Subpolar Urals sections was used. In total, 89 specimens of Siphonodella belkai were found in the Kozhim Eiver basin sections (Subpolar Urals) and the Vangyr River section (Tchernyshev Uplift). The histology, morphology and ontogeny of platform elements of this species were studied using SEM, optic microscope and X-ray micro-CT. In total, 45 complete specimens were biometrically studied. Results. Siphonodella belkai can be reliably distinguished by having a smooth lens-like platform and bearing developed rostral ridges. The paralamellar tissue occurs in the platform and rostral ridges; distribution of the albid tissue is restricted by carina denticles in the cusp neighborhood. Sinistral and dextral P1 elements of the species compose asymmetric pairs and differ by the position and number of rostral ridges (Class III of symmetry). The element outline remains constant in ontogeny. Rostral ridges appear at early ontogeny stages, when an element is of 0.4-0.5 mm in length, thus allowing reliable taxonomic diagnostics. Conclusions. Siphonodella belkai is known from the moderately deep-water deposits of the Central and Eastern Europe and South China. The base of the S. belkai zone, marked by the first appearance of the eponimic taxon, coincides with the base of the Upper duplicata zone. Distinguishing the S. belkai zone as a standard zone seems unreasonable due to the rarity, restricted area and specific ecology of S. belkai. This zone is of low correlation potential.
Status of Covid- 19 Vaccines Innovation and Availability in India
Authors:   Central University Of Gujarat, Sinha Kunal
Published: July 2022

accine R&D is a process of testing ideas and products. It is developed through a series of experiments designed to answer scientific questions and evaluate possible vaccine concepts
Representing Suffering: Testimony at Rwanda's Gacaca Courts
Authors: Eramian Laura
Published: July 2022

In this paper, I examine dominant understandings of subjects of suffering, the witness, and testimony in Rwanda‘s local level courts for genocide crimes, called gacaca. I begin from the observation that, in the Western legal and ontological traditions, the primary subject of both testimony and suffering is presumed to be the bounded, autonomous, possessive individual. I suggest that this understanding of the subject of testimony overlooks a central attribute of state-sponsored political violence, namely, that it is targeted at groups rather than individuals. The paper concludes with a number of questions and cautions about what it might mean to understand the collective, rather than the individual, as the primary subject of suffering and testimony.
Private View
Authors: A2
Published: July 2022

Private View, an installation performance by A2 Company / London, was performed in 2004 by 17 people, (including a 90yr old woman & 3yr old child) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

The installation-performance attempted to explore cause and effect: how the least insignificant action can have an effect on the human body’s sensory system and in our lives, & how the consequences of our actions are rarely considered.

Staged in inter-joining gallery rooms, Private View created a space of enactment, of memory, of witnessing, of interconnectedness for performer & audience alike.

In one room under the title you’ve cheated again, in front of a microphone, a man on a chair randomly ‘pops’ bubble wrap in his hands. The audio is amplified resulting in the sound of gunfire. His actions are filmed. People lie on the floor & jolt impulsively to the ‘popping’ sound. Audience members are encouraged to lie down & follow.

Under the title when I die I would like to take the telephone with me just in case there is one more thing I would like to say, a woman lies under a mound of earth with only one arm revealed holding a mobile phone, which rings intermittently.

In another room under the title and I remember that I hadn’t stopped moving on, I had actually been moving non-stop and quite fast, without really paying attention to the fact that soon I was going to be very old, an old lady sits in an armchair, her look fixed on a television screen, broadcasting bubble wrap ‘popped’ between finger & thumb. Desensitized through repeated exposure she falls asleep. A bowl of nuts sit untouched by her side.

A2, Anton Mirto & Alit Kreiz, create experimental performance projects exploring new personal, social & emotional language forms. A defining feature of their practice is to represent & engage people from different ages, cultures & backgrounds. Future show: the future of death at WUK in Vienna- April 08 For further information or to contact the company visit www.A2company.org
Heroine
Authors: Finley Erin
Published: July 2022

Heroine is a series of images relating a dark love story. It is a rock opera in 2-D, featuring New York City anti-heroes Lou Reed and Nadia Nefariously. The introductory image is a trinity of punk children, soothsayers in a Greek-theatre-style chorus cautioning the lovers of what is to come.
The tale’s protagonists both belong to the 1970s underground punk scene, that gladiatorial arena in which affliction and volatility reign. This is translated through the artworks, with Reed portrayed as a dark knight, black subway sludge dripping from his tarnished armour. Nadia Nefariously, best known for her glamorous strip-show performances, is “white light, white heat,” a platinum-haired goddess in rhinestone boots. In a torrent of creative synergy and romantic bliss, the two fuel each other’s most haunting works, Reed’s ambivalent “Heroin” and Nefariously’s “Cinderacula.”
Though this “star-cross’d” pair are deeply in love, there is always turbulence and violence between them. The affair becomes a sadomasochistic one, inciting moments of sublime eroticism and ebbs of self-destruction. Ultimately, upon the death-knell entrance of Andy Warhol, Reed and Nefariously are forever separated, their “legendary hearts” demised by a magic realist sea storm.
In creating these works I imbue them with the pains of romantic passion-jealousy, fear, sadness-made manifest: mark-making here is raw and explosive, scarring the satin canvas. Reaching heights of 10 and 11 feet, these pieces convey an epic tale through epic proportions. Collage elements and written scraps give the images further dimension and texture. Rendered with various media, from oil paint to Sharpie pen, these images communicate the monstrous and sensual quality of this story in a way that is kinetic and careful, violent and tender. The sheen of the various fabrics suggests trash-glamour and celebrity skin.
Contact: erin.finley@sheridaninstitute.ca
The Ecology of Practice: Spatial Tactics, the Present City and the Ideology of Sustainability
Authors: Ortega Daniel
Published: July 2022

This paper will explore the link between industrial capitalism and its crafting of a contemporary ideology of sustainability as a hegemonic power structure. In doing so, I will draw upon a discursive body of criticism aimed at revealing the hegemony of sustainability (Kipfer; Spehr). I will also use the observations of a group of faculty members and design students from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the California Polytechnic University at Pomona to illustrate an existing cultural infrastructure whose ecology of practice can be used to inform an opposition to the quixotic ideal of sustainability and embrace a more well rounded ‘everyday’ practice of sustainability.
Everyday Landscapes and Urban DIYism in Sanzihou, Taipei
Authors: Hou Jeffrey
Published: July 2022

Sanzihou is the site of a former American military housing compound in Taipei. As a peri-urban neighborhood mixed with an iconic Cold War landscape developed during the Korean War, Sanzihou is a contested site at multiple levels. On one hand, preservationists and developers have battled over plans to redevelop or preserve the area. On the other hand, residents and students engage in a different kind of contestation as they battle over the lack of adequate housing and other public amenities. In 2007, an advocacy organization in Taipei put together a design charrette to envision the future of the area with a focus on reconciling preservation and the everyday life of the local residents. This article examines how the outcomes of the charrette overcome the limitation of the discourses of preservation and development by improvising and uncovering the possibilities of the everyday. The focus on the everyday, the article argues, provides an alternative spatial discourse and practice that addresses the needs and assets of the community and unleashes the social and spatial possibilities in the landscapes of the contemporary city.
Creative Dissonance: Performance of Ethnicity in Banal Spaces
Authors: Sen Arijit
Published: July 2022

This article analyzes material culture and spatial behavior of storeowners and customers in two South Asian grocery stores in Berkeley, CA in order to argue that the social construction of ethnicity is often inflected by the social and spatial circumstances of individuals and groups who interact inside these places. Order and clutter within these stores are put forth as embodied forms of spatial knowledge that influence the way individuals experience and reproduce peoplehood. Certain communicative and representational ways-of-being in this world—like theatrical performances—frame such experiences. The knowledge of South Asian-ness produced as a result of operating within the immigrant cultural landscape can be varied. In order to decipher such spatial orders, this article draws on data from participant observation and interviews with storeowners and customers, as well as spatial and material culture analyses of the two South Asian grocery stores.
Sketches of Urbanness
Authors: Corrente Michael
Published: July 2022

Established property lines in an urban context divide spaces for social human interaction. By having minimal property setback requirements for developers to follow, urban planners have initiated an environment where the interface between building façade and building user offers very little in terms of public social opportunities. Building developers tend to push a formula that requires the building envelope to maximize square footage so that the investor(s) can obtain maximum profit. In doing so, opportunities for social exchange are forced to the public right of way such as the sidewalk or street. In the images that I have created, I am looking to examine sketches of Urbanness. My inquiry is similar to Peter Hamilton’s examination of Post World War II French documentary photographers as they searched for a contemporary sense of ‘Frenchness.’ (Hamilton). Drawing on Hamilton’s reading of the works of the French photo-documentarians, ‘Sketches of Urbanness’ begins to explore the “juxtaposition of the archaic and the modern, the human and the inanimate, glancingly encountered each day in the streets of the modern city.” (Hamilton 114) However, I am not proposing that I am “documenting,” as was the objective of the French photographers studied by Hamilton. Instead, I am using my artwork as a ‘sketchbook,’ one where I am attempting to make visible a sense of Urbanness that recasts the possibilities for public social opportunities in spaces developed with private interests foremost in mind, and is the outcome of my embodied engagement with those spaces. I construct this Urbanness by re-producing ‘juxtapositions’ of public space, private-ownership and a visual haptic that assumes the role of the “flaneur... who observes the street by taking part in it.” (Hamilton 110) The works that I have included in this piece are by no means a totalizing gesture. Instead, as subjective sketches based on a particular experience in a particular place and time, these are my attempts to graphically render urban scenarios that reflect the “moments in this stream of daily life...producing ‘poems of the street.’” (MacOrlan, Ronis and MacOrlan in Hamilton 110).

Michael Corrente is a graphic designer working in Las Vegas.
Suspended
Authors: Guevara Alberto , Nouvet Elysée
Published: July 2022

To be suspended is to feel oneself hanging, to be stretched between structured forms and towards the impossible. It is to occupy spaces, times, and/or bodies in between and in transition. It is to materialize the social in its tremulating forms, not knowing exactly what lies beneath one’s feet, where and how, when and if one will touch down. States of suspension involve a reaching or an impulse towards a different social, without knowing what that difference will or will not do: what or who it will upset, connect, confirm. In making the call for this issue, we wanted to gather texts and artworks animated, motivated, electrified by this sense of tenuous balancing, blurring boundaries, uncertainty, and tension.
Disintegrating Involvement in Second Life
Authors: Smith David Harris
Published: July 2022

The following paper is a theoretical perspective on identity and embodiment disintegration in designed virtual sex involvements. The study data, derived from avatar sex participant interviews and virtual world field observations demonstrates the variance of enacted cognitive processes in the progressions of anticipatory desire and realized interactions. It is suggested that we design our selves and our worlds in anticipation of involvements and, reciprocally, in the acts of involving with these designed worlds and selves we, in turn, are progressively defined and modified. To designate worlds of potential involvement is to engage in a relentless struggle with incongruity. The empirical disintegration of self and world is an ongoing fact, emergent with ongoing re-designation and re-integration of self and world. This essay highlights the role of emphatic congruence assessments in the disintegrating involvements of avatar sex and intimacy.
Performance, Revolution, Pedagogy: Theatre and Its Objects
Authors: Bigenho Michelle , Guevara Alberto
Published: July 2022

Augusto Boal, perhaps best known for his Theatre of the Oppressed (1985 [1979]), critiqued Aristotelian aesthetics that left spectators in passive states. He turned to Brechtian proposals that would move spectators to revolutionary action, but also became critical of any straightforward didactic approach to revolutionary theatre. The whole world was indeed a stage and all spectators were also potential actors or “spect-actors.” Boal’s work was shaped by the politics of his time and place: Brazil, Latin America, the Cold War politics of the 20th Century, the experiences of exile during Brazil’s military government, his return from exile, and the economic tyranny of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In memory of Boal’s recent passing (1931-2009), this issue of InTensions features articles that examine theatre and performance as critical social practices and forms of analysis. Leaving to future scholarship the assessment of his life’s work, here we pay homage to Boal with articles and works that take as a starting point Boal’s central life practice: the braiding of performance and politics.
A Silence Full of Things
Authors: Canales Alejandra
Published: July 2022

Political torture continues as a practice used to undermine the “enemy.” As spectators, most people can look away or turn it off. Others live with marked bodies and memories triggered by everyday smells, sights, and sounds.
The central question behind this work was how to make a film about someone’s experience of torture. What kind of strategy and what kind of filmscape could embed the sensorial experience? What are the images and sounds? Furthermore how does one make the boundaries of documentary permeable? To be able to look again and ask new questions.
A Silence Full of Things gave me the possibility to touch on the issue of political torture from a new perspective: the memory of the senses. From there a filmscape was created that proposes new relations between testimony, sensorial memory, image, sound and the sensorial entanglements of the audience.
The film juxtaposes the poetic beauty of intimate imagery with a story about the physical, emotional and psychic wounds of political torture. Miriam narrates and performs her story. It is in this deliberate theatrical performance where shifting relations occur and the story becomes individual and universal at the same time.
A Silence Full of Things is self-conscious about strategy, form, style, and effects. The internal composition of the film is made up of a relationship to close up images in order to arrive at the core of the pain through the beauty of the voice and the images: the fragility and delicacy of the lace, the yellowness of the day of the capture, and Miriam’s look to the audience at the film’s closure. Her face leaves us imagining being hit in the stomach. We cannot escape being affected by her expression.
What, when and how we imagine documentary films to be saying are other matters. A Silence Full of Things leaves a sensorial mark, and it open questions on how we read the gestures, the signs and the words.
The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents
Authors: Wilderson Frank B., III
Published: July 2022

The guerilla war that the Black Liberation Army waged against the United States in the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s was part of a multifaceted struggle to redress Black dispossession which has been waged since the first Africans landed in the “New” World.ii But the political trials of BLA soldiers marked an unprecedented moment in the history of that struggle; a moment when it became de rigueur for revolutionaries to refuse the role of defendant and assume (while still in custody and often handcuffed) the role of prosecutor and judge—with the public gallery as jury. This shift comprised an unparalleled inversion of jurisprudential casting in which the court itself (and by extension the U.S. government) became defendants. Assata Shakur recalls how brothers and sisters came to her trial every day to “watch the circus.” Her narrative paints a vibrant picture of an intra-mural conversation between Black folks from all walks of life, for whom the court and the trials functioned much like backwoods churches did during slavery. A courtroom of people who joined the defendants in their refusal to rise when the judge came in; folks giving each other the Black Power salute in full view of the U.S. Marshals; Black Muslim men and women spreading their prayer rugs in the corridors of the court and praying to Allah; Black parents explaining the underlying racism of the American legal system to their children. As the judge entered the courtroom, one such well-educated child looked up and said, “Mommy, is that the fascist pig?” to the laughter and applause of the gallery (Assata 212).
The Bed and Breakfast Notebooks
Authors: Handal Alexandra
Published: July 2022

Alexandra Handal is a London based Palestinian visual artist, filmmaker and essayist. She works at the intersection of different disciplines, breaking the boundaries between them in search of new creative expressions and narrative possibilities to explore the human condition in lingering times of war and other man-made disasters. Through her creative practice she attempts to make palpable what is disappearing or has been destroyed, engaging with modern day ruins from conflict zones to areas of urban decay. Handal uses performance-based strategies to experiment with modes of storytelling that are multilayered and mixed-genre. She combines experience, research and imagination to redress absence - blurring the line between written and oral history, fact and fiction, subjectivity and objectivity, past and present. Handal's work includes an eclectic range of media such as digital storytelling, creative interventions, photography, drawing, experimental texts and films that expand the documentary form and propose a new kind of fiction. Handal holds a PhD (practice/theory) from the University of the Arts London, UK (2011), for which she was the recipient of the UAL Research Studentship Award, UK (2004) and the Chelsea College of Art and Design Graduate Fund (2007 & 2009). Her short film From the Bed & Breakfast Notebooks (2009) was selected for New Contemporaries 2009 - an internationally juried exhibition, which showcases emerging artists in the United Kingdom. Studio International magazine (2009) described her short as a 'quietly powerful political engagement' and she was listed among the 'few names to watch' in the Guardian (2009). Recent exhibitions and festivals include: 'Video Lounge', India Art Summit, New Delhi, India (2011), ‘Future Movements – Jerusalem’, Liverpool Biennial, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK (2010), ‘Whose Map is it?' INIVA, London, UK (2010), 'Documentary Program', Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid (2009 & 2010), 'New Contemporaries 2009' A Foundation, London, UK (2009), and Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (2009) and 'The Other Shadow of the City', Al-Hoash Gallery, East Jerusalem (2009).
Untitled Performance
Authors: Lukin Linklater Tanya
Published: July 2022

In 2009 the artist began researching specific historical events that affected the Alutiiq of Kodiak Island, Alaska. This research has compelled her to build a body of work that investigates specific histories in relation to the present moment.

This untitled performance at Mapping Resistances in 2010, was a response to Wanda Nanibush’s curatorial focus on the 20th anniversary of the Oka resistance. Through the lens of my research into Alutiiq history, I performed a poetic, meditative process of locating, excavating and tracing memory in the body through a series of actions that recall generations of Alutiiq women.
Dule Urwed and Boxing: The Production of Dule Knowledge via Baby San Blas
Authors: Haglund Sue
Published: July 2022

This article is about the production of Dule knowledge and how it is conveyed in Panama’s boxing world. The physical performance of boxing movements creates spaces for Dule presence and serves as a boundary marker for both Panamanian and Dule cultures. I will discuss and examine the participation of my grandfather Dule boxer Ricardo Walker, also known as Baby San Blas, who was successful in his boxing matches and how the conflicting stories of this Indigenous boxer in Panama’s sporting world was, and is, political. The layers of the boxing world exposed via his performance reveals a production of knowledge for participants and their practices while dismantling and reconstructing those spatial practices.
Blurred, Broken, and Bewildered: What Performing with Food does with the Lines Around Performance and Food Studies
Authors: Szanto David
Published: July 2022

Discipline, authority, rigor, expertise. When it comes to food and food scholarship, how do we perform success? Does food present the same requirements for knowledge-making as the other modes of existence that we investigate? Or does it open up a space in which to challenge those requirements, make rifts in the academic fabric, and present tantalizing threads on which to gleefully tug?