bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Orchestrating innovation networks: the switching roles of orchestrators along startups’ lifecycle
Authors: Stahl Moritz , Zarco-Jasso Hugo , Miralles Francesc
Published: November 2024

Innovation networks enable innovating actors to access complementary assets beyond their corporate boundaries. Subsequently, the orchestration of such networks has attracted increasing attention. Network orchestration is a dynamic activity where orchestrator roles change along the innovation trajectory. However, research on network orchestration falls short of capturing the dynamic aspects of orchestration. Moreover, gaps in the literature limit our understanding of the dynamic nature of orchestration roles and the way these roles change over time. By drawing on network orchestration theory and the Resource Based View, this study introduces a capability-dependant framework to explain how the network orchestrator roles can adapt to the evolving situational circumstances of the startup's lifecycle. Our analysis is based on a longitudinal empirical investigation of nine technological startups and their dyadic (one-to-one) relationship to an innovation intermediary as a network orchestrator in southwest Germany. Our findings reveal that orchestrators play different roles simultaneously in response to changing environments and varying startup requirements. We further identify factors associated with orchestrator role changes based on the dyadic relationship as an additional criterion for characterizing dynamic orchestrator roles. Overall, this work aims to contribute to the literature on network orchestration by moving debates about orchestration roles beyond a static setting, thus offering a dynamic and more accurate picture of evolving orchestration roles and underlying mechanisms.
"First, I got myself born": A Contemporary Take on Dickensian Motherhood in Demon Copperhead (2022)
Authors: Brigida Marcela Santos
Published: November 2024

abstract: From Oliver Twist (1837) to David Copperfield (1850), Charles Dickens's novels explored the loss of the mother as the inauguration of a state of precariousness that both triggers and hinders protagonists' Bildung . This fundamental rupture with motherhood as both an embodied state and a symbolic personification of the sanctity of the domestic sphere triggers plots of individual development with far-ranging social implications. By expanding the focus on an individual protagonist's misfortunes to afflictions faced by entire socio-economic categories, wider social critique in the Dickensian novel often relies on the sympathy engendered by the displacement of its vulnerable children. This article explores how Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead (2022), a contemporary novel that revisits the plot of Dickens's David Copperfield in a modern setting, repurposes the social critique of its informing text while producing a politically charged novel in its engagement with problematic constructions of motherhood.
High-sensitivity ocean temperature sensor using a reflective optical microfiber coupler and machine learning methods
Authors: Xu Yan , Chen Yuren , Cui Chenghao , Lv Wenhao , Liu Xiaojuan
Published: November 2024

This paper proposes a novel seawater temperature sensor, to the best of our knowledge, that utilizes an optical microfiber coupler combined with a reflective silver mirror (OMCM). The sensor’s sensitivity and durability are enhanced by encapsulating it in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Additionally, a specially designed metal casing prevents the OMCM from responding to pressure, thus avoiding the challenge of multi-parameter demodulation and increasing its adaptability to harsh environments. The paper analyzes the advantages of the new sensor structure and evaluates its performance in terms of temperature sensitivity and compressive strength through experiments. Finally, the paper employs machine learning demodulation methods. Compared with traditional demodulation methods, the particle swarm optimization support vector regression (PSO-SVR) algorithm demonstrates a substantial reduction in the demodulation error. Specifically, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) relative to the full scale drops from 2.16% to 0.157%. This paper provides an effective solution for high-precision monitoring of the ocean environmental temperature.
Short-range azimuth measurement method based on a single-pulse laser beam expanding mechanism
Authors: Gan Lin , Zhang He
Published: November 2024

Aimed at addressing the problem of azimuth measurement of a short-range target with a
pulsed laser, a new, to our knowledge, azimuth measurement method
based on a single-pulse laser beam expanding mechanism is proposed
based on the research of the pulse laser dynamic/static azimuth
detection method. The echo power equation of single-pulse laser beam
expanding short-range detection is derived theoretically. Combined
with the spatial geometric distribution of the optical path and the
normalized sum-difference angle measurement algorithm of the
four-quadrant detector, a single-pulse laser short-range azimuth angle
calculation model is established. Monte Carlo theoretical simulation
and laboratory static measurement experiments are carried out. The
influence mechanism of laser emission power, beam expanding reflection
cone angle, and target projection size on the probability distribution
of azimuth measurement is studied. The results show that with the
increase of transmission power and target projection size, the
half-width of azimuth measurement distribution decreases, the peak
value increases, and the detection accuracy improves. With the
increase of the cone angle of the reflected light, the half-width of
the azimuth measurement distribution increases, the peak value
decreases, and the detection accuracy decreases. As the spot is far
away from the coordinate center, it will lead to an increase in the
half-width of the azimuth measurement probability distribution, a
decrease in the peak value, and a decrease in the detection
accuracy.
Subjective and objective effects of anxiety and fatigue on social function in patients with enterostomy and their family caregivers
Authors: Fan Ying , Song Meixuan , Xu Shicong , Tan Yuyue , Li Xianrong
Published: November 2024

Background

Many patients with enterostomy and their family caregivers experience severe anxiety and fatigue, which affects their participation in normal social activities and family life, resulting in impaired social function. The purpose of this study was to understand the status of social function of patients with enterostomy and their family caregivers;at the same time to analyze the subjective and objective effects of anxiety and fatigue on their social functions.

Methods

The self-made general information questionnaire, WHO Social Disability rating Scale, Miao Yu’s Multidimensional Fatigue Scale-20 and Zung et al. ’s Self-rating Anxiety Scale were used to investigate the general situation, social function, fatigue and anxiety of enterostomy patients and their family caregivers who came to the hospital for treatment from March 28, 2023 to November 30, 2023. SPSS27.0 was used to complete the statistical analysis of the data, and AMOS26.0 was used to establish the structural equation model to complete the subject and object effect analysis.

Results

A total of 260 pairs of enterostomy patients and their family caregivers were included in this study. The social function scores of enterostomy patients and their family caregivers were (8.80±3.44) and (6.44±3.60). The anxiety scores were (37.81±7.60) and (34.73±7.50). The fatigue scores were (63.35±12.80) and (51.21±12.38).The results of the subject-object effect analysis reported the subject effect: the anxiety of patients with enterostomy had a significant positive impact on the degree of social dysfunction (β = 0.154, P = 0.015); The fatigue of patients with enterostomy had a significant positive effect on the degree of social dysfunction (β = 0.132, P = 0.034). The anxiety of family caregivers had a significant positive effect on the degree of social dysfunction (β = 0.161, P = 0.023). The fatigue of family caregivers had a significant positive effect on the degree of social dysfunction (β = 0.201, P = 0.005). In terms of object effects: only the fatigue of family caregivers had a significant positive impact on the degree of social dysfunction of enterostomy patients (β = 0.224, P < 0.001), and other ways had no object effects.

Conclusion

Patients with enterostomy and their family caregivers have serious social function defects. Clinical medical staff should take care of them as a whole in order to better return to family and society after surgery.
ONDL: An optimized Neutrosophic Deep Learning model for classifying waste for sustainability
Authors: Khalifa Nour Eldeen Mahmoud , Hamed N. Taha Mohamed , M. Khalil Heba , Malik Mazhar Hussain
Published: November 2024

Sustainability has become a key factor on our planet. If this concept is applied correctly, our planet will be greener and more eco-friendly. Nowadays, waste classification and management practices have become more evident than ever. It plays a crucial role in the sustainability ecosystem. Computer algorithms and deep learning can help in this sustainability challenge. In this paper, An Optimized Neutrosophic Deep Learning (ONDL) model was proposed to classify waste objects. Two datasets were tested in this research {Dataset for Waste Management 1 (DSWM1), and Dataset for Waste Management 2 (DSWM2)}. DSWM1 consists of two classes (Organic or Recycled) objects. The DSWM2 consists of three classes (Organic, Recycled, or Non-Recyclable) objects. Both datasets exist publicly on the internet. The ONDL model architecture is constructed based on Alexnet as a Deep Transfer Learning (DTL) model and the conversion of images to True (T) neutrosophic domain and Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) for the image features selection. The selection process of the building components of the ONDL model is comprehensive as different DTL models (Alexnet, Googlenet, and Resnet18) are tested, and three neutrosophic domains (T, I, and F) domain are included. The ONDL model proved its efficiency against all the tested models, moreover, it achieves competitive results with related works in terms of testing accuracy and performance metrics. In DSWM1, the ONDL model achieved 0.9189, 0.9177, 0.9176, and 0.9177 in Testing Accuracy (TA), Precision (P), Recall (R), and F1 score. In DSWM2, it achieved 0.8532, 0.7728, 0.7944, and 0.7835 in TA, P, R, and F1 Score consequently.
Após a ocupação, a razia
Authors: Brito Ricardo Braga
Published: November 2024

Este artigo analisa a dinâmica de conflito e controle estabelecida entre o Instituto Brasileiro de Reforma Agrária (Ibra) e a população camponesa das regiões alvo do Projeto Integrado de Colonização (PIC) Papucaia, no município de Cachoeiras de Macacu/RJ, nos primeiros anos da ditadura empresarial-militar. Com base na análise interpretativa de jornais, documentos e entrevistas, reconstituiu-se a implantação do PIC, entendendo os mecanismos estatais associados à política de colonização e as relações entre os agentes dessa política e os camponeses.
Vigilantism and criminal governance
Authors: Vazquez Valencia Luis Daniel
Published: November 2024

What do vigilantism and criminal governance have in common and different? Both build a political-social order at the local level with sanctions against breaking that order, establish a repertoire of lethal and non-lethal violence as part of those sanctions, sometimes build legitimacy, and develop within the framework of a low level of Rule of law. Between vigilantism and criminal governance there is an air of family, but the claims of justice that frame vigilantism make them like distant relatives.
Vigilar y cuidar
Authors: Dikenstein Violeta , Luneke Alejandra
Published: November 2024

En las últimas décadas, bajo el enfoque de Coproducción de la seguridad, las comunidades han sido llamadas a participar en la prevención del delito en los territorios. En América Latina, los gobiernos han implementado diversas estrategias pero aún son escasos los estudios comparativos que analizan las prácticas comunitarias en distintos vecindarios. En este trabajo abordamos la experiencia chilena (Santiago) y argentina (Buenos Aires) utilizando información de carácter cualitativo y etnográfico.
Da ética neoliberal à comunidade incorporada da diferença
Authors: Franco Castorina
Published: November 2024

Em sua obra mais recente, Corpos em aliança e a Política das ruas, a filósofa Judith Butler questiona a ética neoliberal que fundamenta as sociedades e os Estados contemporâneos, contrapondo-a a uma ética em que a liberdade se articula com a igualdade. Neste artigo, propomos reconstruir a reflexão de Butler sobre a liberdade, comparando-a com as obras essenciais que embasaram o pensamento neoliberal. Isso permitirá ver a diferença entre uma noção de liberdade individual própria do neoliberalismo e aquela proposta por Butler.
Império e imperialismo na teoria política contemporânea
Authors: Dos Santos de Borba Pedro , Figueredo Benzaquen Guilherme
Published: November 2024

O artigo examina os conceitos de imperialismo e império conforme desenvolvidos por David Harvey e Partha Chatterjee. Harvey buscou atualizar o legado da economia política marxista sobre o imperialismo mediante as noções de “acumulação por despossessão” e “ajuste espaço-temporal”. Para Chatterjee, o império responde por uma forma política histórica, que governa com base na gestão da diferença colonial. A questão central é se existe um terreno em comum entre a “acumulação por despossessão” e a “diferença colonial” que permita reconciliar a sociologia dos impérios no bojo de uma teoria crítica antieurocêntrica.
Uma experiência metodológica para revelar o indizível
Authors: Bandini Claudirene
Published: November 2024

Sob a orientação criativa de Professora Maria Moraes, durante o Doutorado em Sociologia, conheci a metodologia da História Oral. Com os objetivos de revelar o indizível e compreender os silêncios do mundo cultural de origem, desenvolvemos a Oficina de Fuxico, que se configurou eficaz para compreensão da (des)identificação cultural e a negação do passado anterior à conversão religiosa.
Trabalho rural
Authors: Martins Rodrigo Constante
Published: November 2024

O objetivo deste artigo é abordar a obra da socióloga Maria Aparecida de Moraes Silva com base na temática do trabalho temporário na agricultura. Para tanto, discute como os estudos empíricos empreendidos pela autora foram decisivos para a construção de uma abordagem concreta sobre o trabalho rural no contexto da agricultura paulista. O texto aborda ainda como a temporalidade do trabalho, mobilizada por diferentes estudos sobre capitalismo no campo, foi retrabalhada por Silva mediante situações empíricas que forneceram ricos elementos para a construção de um olhar multidimensional sobre o fenômeno.
Lições de uma mestra da Sociologia
Authors: Vercoza Lúcio Vasconcellos de
Published: November 2024

Neste texto, escrito em forma de depoimento narrativo e analítico, o autor busca destacar aspectos marcantes da vida e da obra da socióloga Maria Aparecida de Moraes Silva. Para alcançar tal intento, inspira-se na carpintaria do texto Lições do Vale: narrativa de uma pesquisadora, escrito pela socióloga. A estrutura do artigo está dividida em seções que sublinham ensinamentos da autora – considerada uma das grandes mestras da Sociologia brasileira.
Benthamís Project of Applied Ethics, c. 1780: Part I, A Penal Code
Authors: Sverdlik Steven
Published: November 2024

Benthamís An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (IPML) was originally intended to introduce a utilitarian penal code. Such a code would apply the principle of utility to the task of designing a system of criminal law. Part I, Section I of this two-part paper gives an overview of IPML, in which the basic moral assumptions of utilitarianism are presented, and the central concept of mischief is emphasised. The principle of utility favors making into criminal offences actions that are mischievous and profitable to punish. Section II discusses Chapter XVI of IPML. This chapter is a taxonomy of possible offences and the penal code would explain which acts in the taxonomy are mischievous and profitable to punish. This chapter also suggests how Bentham was beginning to see the need for other utilitarian legal codes. Section III discusses Benthamís concept of a ëcatechism of reasonsí to be included in the code, which would explain to the citizenry why each action in the code is mischievous. Section IV discusses two important sets of manuscripts that illustrate the reasoning that was to accompany the code. The first briefly treats the offence of cruelty to animals and expands on the thinking in the famous footnote to Chapter XVII that argues that non-human animals can be treated wrongly, while the second examines the remarkable treatment of ëpaederastyí, that is, consensual sex between adult males. IPML does not mention paederasty, although several passages are relevant to it. These passages suggest that paederasty is not mischievous. The manuscripts expand on these suggestions, and explicitly argue that paederasty ought not to be an offence. Several new issues are discussed, such as the effect of paederasty on population size. In the subsequent Part II of this paper, Benthamís treatment of punishment in IPML, The Rationale of Punishment, and the penal code will be discussed.
Social pedagogy in the United States: eleven dimensions
Authors: Shure Jennifer
Published: November 2024

Social pedagogy can be understood conceptually as an interdisciplinary approach that considers the underlying social contexts in learning and development. Despite social pedagogy’s global traction, it remains relatively unknown in the United States. This article highlights the potential for social pedagogy to develop uniquely in North America, emphasising the importance of equipping students with both academic content and social awareness. The article examines existing literature through a pragmatic lens, bridging US educational practices that are not categorically termed social pedagogy with international social pedagogy research. It provides an overview of social pedagogy, focusing on how its critical branch promotes democracy through active participation. The article also explores the foundations of the US education system in progressive education. Jane Addams’s writing and works lay the footing for this understanding, particularly in how social pedagogy plays a role in supporting the educational and social needs of the immigrant population. Eleven dimensions of social pedagogy within the US education system are identified. These dimensions include critical reflection, student empowerment, cross-generational opportunities, cooperative learning, integrated schools and classes, generative themes, healthy relationships, dialogue, a student-centred focus, problem-posing and the exploration of cultural narratives. Further research is needed to advance the understanding and application of social pedagogy in the United States, particularly for immigrant students.
Urinary arsenic species and birth outcomes in Tacna, Peru, 2019: a prospective cohort study
Authors: Fano-Sizgorich Diego , Gribble Matthew O. , Vásquez-Velásquez Cinthya , Ramírez-Atencio Claudio , Aguilar Julio , Wickliffe Jeffrey K. , Lichtveld Maureen Y. , Barr Dana B. , Gonzales Gustavo F.
Published: November 2024

Arsenic exposure during pregnancy might affect foetal development. Arsenic metabolism may modulate the potential damage to the fetus. Tacna has the highest arsenic exposure levels in Peru. However, this region also has the highest birth weight in Peru. It is not known if arsenic exposure is affecting maternal–perinatal health in Tacna. This study aimed to evaluate the association between urinary arsenic metabolism and birth outcomes, specifically birth weight and gestational age at birth in Tacna, Peru. A prospective cohort study was conducted, involving 158 pregnant women in Tacna, Peru, during January–November 2019. Participants were enrolled in their second trimester and followed-up until birth. Urine samples were collected in the second and third trimesters. Urine samples were analysed for total arsenic concentration and its species. Generalised estimating equations analysis was used to evaluate the association of interest. Inter-differences in arsenic toxicokinetics, calculated with principal component analysis was included as an interaction term. Analysis was stratified by pregnancy trimester. The median total urinary arsenic concentration was 33.34 μg/L. Inorganic arsenic and dimethylarsinic acid were higher in the second trimester. Dimethylarsinic acid was the predominant component (84.78% of total urinary arsenic). No significant association was found between urinary arsenic exposure and birth weight or gestational age at birth. The association was not affected by arsenic metabolism. Stratified analyses by pregnancy trimester also showed no significant associations. Urinary arsenic was not associated with birth weight, and this null relationship remained unaffected by arsenic toxicokinetic differences reflected in urine.
Analisa Kerentanan Website Terhadap Serangan Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Metode Penetration Testing
Authors: Ade Gustiyonoo  , Irawadi Alwi Erick , Mubarak Abdullah Syahrul
Published: November 2024

Serangan cross-site scripting (XSS) merupakan salah satu jenis serangan web yang berbahaya. Serangan ini dapat digunakan untuk mencuri data pengguna, melakukan phising, atau menjalankan skrip berbahaya di browser pengguna. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: Menganalisis dan mengidentifikasi kerentanan XSS pada situs website dengan menggunakan metode Penetration Testing serta memberikan rekomendasi kepada pihak PT. Tricon Metalindo Perkasa dari hasil pentest yang telah dilakukan. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode penetrasi testing dengan menggunakan tools OWASP Zap dan Hackbar. Hasil penelitian menemukan alert dianataranya Vulnerable JS Library, X-Frame-Options Header Not Set, Absence Of Anti-CSRF Tokens, Cross-Domain JavaScript Source File Inclusion, Incomplete or No Cache-Control and Pragma HTTP Header Set dan X-Content-Type-Options-Header Missing dengan Risk tingkat menengah (medium) sebanyak 2 temuan, tingkat rendah (low) sebanyak 4 dan condifence tingkat menengah (medium) sebanyak 6 dan menunjukkan bahwa terdapat kerentanan XSS pada website PT. Tricon Metalindo Perkaasa, kerentanan tersebut berupa Reflected XSS yang terletak pada kolom input pencarian dengan tingkat risk medium, kerentanan ini dapat di exsploitation oleh penyerang untuk menampilkan pop-up, melakukan phising, atau mencuri data pengguna.
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Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks are a malicious form of web attacks. These attacks can be used to steal user data, perform phishing, or run malicious scripts in the user's browser. This study aims to: Analyze and identify XSS vulnerability on websites using Penetration Testing method and provide recommendations to PT. Tricon Metalindo Mighty from the results of the pentest that has been carried out. The method used is penetration testing using OWASP Zap and Hackbar tools. The research findings revealed several alerts, including Vulnerable JS Library, X-Frame-Options Header Not Set, Absence of Anti-CSRF Tokens, Cross-Domain JavaScript Source File Inclusion, Incomplete or No Cache-Control and Pragma HTTP Header Set, and Missing X-Content-Type-Options-Header. There were 2 findings categorized as medium risk, 4 findings as low risk, and 6 findings with medium confidence level. These findings indicate the presence of XSS vulnerabilities on the PT. Tricon Metalindo Perkasa website, specifically in the form of reflected XSS located in the search input column with a medium-risk level. This vulnerability can be exploited by attackers to display pop-ups, carry out phishing attempts, or steal user data.
Keywords: cross-site scripting (XSS), reflected XSS, OWASP Zap, Penetration
Remembering, Visiting and Placing the Dead: Law, Authority and Genocide in Srebrenica
Authors: Simic O.
Published: November 2024

This article addresses the recent development of ‘dark tourism’ in Srebrenica and the blurring between voyeurism and educational enlightenment that such tourism provokes. The article examines the legal and ethical disputes surrounding the authority over the dead who rest in the Srebrenica Cemetery complex. It concludes that while ‘dark tourism’ and the recent law enacted over the complex were intended to secure a reconciliation and respectful remembrance of the dead, they both, to various degrees, have raised serious ethical and legal concerns.
Forensics and Poetics: A Context for 'Accident Music'
Authors: Gibson R.
Published: November 2024

‘Accident Music’ is an evocative response to the NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive which is housed at the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney. The author has been working with this collection for almost fifteen years, sensing evermore strongly that its meanings and emotions are endless even though they are also structured by many factors: the spatial and temporal patterns of Sydney; the rigors of Police procedures; the aesthetics of black & white photography; the affordances of narrative; the power of dread, desire and memory pulsing within each investigator. ‘Accident Music’ tries to activate all these factors in order to explicate them a little, to bring them into the forensic light of critical reflection.
Disclosure : sexual predation in a brave new post - p/c world
Authors: Moylan-Brouff G.
Published: November 2024

Barry Levinson's recent film, Disclosure, examines the impact of anti-discrimination legislation on white middle class America by foregrounding two contentious issues informing the politics of the workplace. Namely, the use and abuse of sexual harassment laws to regulate behaviour between genders, and the implementation of affirmative action protocols to redress gendered inequities in employment practices. However, this project, which underpins both the film and the book from which it is derived, is contaminated from the outset, by a dubious strategy of role reversal, which constitutes the film's departure point for its interrogation of the value of these laws and directives. Thus Michael Douglas's character, Thomas Sanders, becomes the victim of a harassment campaign waged by his unscrupulous and sexually predatory boss - Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore). His quest for justice in relation to charges of sexual harassment brought by Johnson forms the main plot sequence of the film. What this approach conveniently elides, however, is the overwhelming evidence that women constitute a majority of those subjected to sexual harassment in the workplace. In addition, their access to power in this context continues to be circumscribed by dominant patriarchal practices and attitudes towards women.
The confession as a 'practice of freedom' : feminism, Foucault and 'elsewhere' truths
Authors: Mills R.
Published: November 2024

When a man comes before his judges with nothing but his crimes, when he has nothing to say but "this is what I have done," when he has nothing to say about himself, when he does not do the tribunal the favor of confiding to them something like the secret of his own being, then the judicial machine ceases to function (Foucault, 1978:18).
This paper places Foucault's discussion of the confession as an uncovering of the truth of the self alongside his ideas of an aesthetics of existence in what might be considered a 'limit' case: a case in which a woman, along with three other women, is accused of killing a man previously unknown to her. The intention here is to read two separate confessions as discourses of both subjection and subjectivity; of pathology and ethics; as uncovering the truth, and as reinventing the truth. My first reading considers the confession in its most ancient form: the coupling of confession and torture; the 'dark twins of history' (Foucault, 1976:59). I will consider the repositioning of this coupling of confession and torture as forensic practice in the geographical and historical present. My second reading concerns the confession as a reinvention of truth and self. Following a brief discussion of Foucauldian notions of resistance and ethics and their relevance for feminism, I would like to consider the potential for reading these confessions as a 'practice of freedom' in and through the reinvention of the ethical self (Foucault, 1991:3-20). I am not looking for the Truth of these confessions. Rather, I am interested in their truth effects; their potential for creating various trtlths.
How say you? An exhibition under false pretences
Authors: Murray K.D.
Published: November 2024

Ansorge managed to arouse the enthusiasm of the counsel for each side, and thus came the trial that a major contemporary jurisprudent described as 'the four-leaf clover on the meadow of litigation'. In those days, people still used lovely images, usually plucking them from nature. From 'The two souls' by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
The exhibition 'How Say You' is an experiment with the creative space provided by the institution of the court in contemporary society. To this end, a number of artists are invited to produce works whose authorship is under dispute. The law plays a critical role in granting these works seriousness. Outside the court, such acts constitute a postmodem parlour game, embodying the 'lightness of being' which follows the demise of the artist as hero. Inside the court, these invented artists provide exercise for the aura that surrounds the operations of the law in which legal fonnality outweighs subjective experience. It touches the silence demanded of courtroom visitors, or what Slavoj Zizek describes as: 'the shadowy double that always accompanies the public Law.' (Zizek 1994: 194)
The semiotics of the title : a comparative and historical analysis of drug legislation
Authors: Manderson D.
Published: November 2024

Behind the variable minutae of offences and penalties controlling the use of illicit drugs (such as the opiates, cocaine, and marijuana) around the world, there is a remarkable sameness of character and ferocity. In the Philippines and Jamaica, in Malaysia and Singapore, and in some of the United States, drug trafficking may be punishable by death. In the several States of Australia, the trafficking of a "commercial quantity" of a drug may typically lead to a penalty of 25 years' imprisonment and in addition a fine of up to $250,000. In some jurisdictions the guilty are liable to $500,000 fines and to life imprisonment. In Canada likewise, and in the United Kingdom, trafficking in a narcotic drug or even possession for that purpose are punishable by life imprisonment. As Robert Solomon and S.J. Usprich have argued in the Canadian context, the Narcotic Control Act (Can.) and its many analogues are extraordinary, not simply due to the severity of particular provisions but because so many exceptional devices are therein harnessed together. Other laws also provide for harsh penalties; for mandatory sentencing; for a reverse onus of proof, requiring defendants to prove their innocence; for expanded police powers of search and seizure: but only in 'drug' laws do all these measures coalesce. The result is that modern drug laws around the world are a collection of extravagances, an expression of fury in legislative form.
Framing the black body
Authors: Butler J.
Published: November 2024

Black Letter Law - the basic principles of law embodied in the statutes and in the court records of a particular jurisdiction.
Black Letter Law - a display of the works of three artists held at the Law School of the University of Sydney from October 22 to November 11, 1997.
Colonising concepts of the good citizen, law's deceptions, and the treaty of Waitangi
Authors: Seuffert Nan
Published: November 2024

The dominant story of the founding of New Zealand is a simple one of cession of sovereignty by the indigenous Maori people to the British in the Treaty of Waitangi 1840. One notable aspect of the dominant legal portrayals of the Treaty signing, and subsequent legal cases, is their repression of the glaring discrepancies between the Maori version of the Treaty, signed by most Maori leaders, and the English versions. Historical arguments suggest that this discrepancy is the result ofdeliberate deceptio.n on the part of British missionaries translating the Treaty into Maori (Walker 1990: 9L Walker 1989: 269, Ross 1972: 20, Ross 1972 NZ]H: 140-141). I argue that this act ofdeception was necessary to the colonisation of New Zealand, and to the formation of New Zealand as a unified nation-state. The deceptive, or 'appropriative' mistranslation (Constable 1996: 634635), of the Treatywas the performance of an ideal of the forwardgazing (white, male) citizen who has successfully shed his history (Davidson 1997: 19, Bernal 1994: 125-127); it served both the individual interests of the citizen/subject translator and the interests of nation-building.
In response to a question...
Authors: Strobbe N.
Published: November 2024

In response to a question concerning the use of the term 'justiceable' in Error of Disclosure what follows, I trust, will go some way towards justifying what might otherwise seem a too radical employment (though of course the radical would mark a turning towards a filiation and a root that is not simply arbitrary; leaving undetermined whether the filiation is originary and unitary, even as a differential gathering for Heidegger, or incommunicable and aporetic, absolutely other).
native rage
Authors: Guerrera Dominic
Published: November 2024

A poem
Contents & Introduction, Law Text Culture, volume 27
Authors: Aston Rhys , Wilson Kristopher , Giannacopoulos Maria
Published: November 2024

This introduction to Law Text Culture Vol 27 is an invitation to acknowledge that the right time to dare to imagine decolonised law has always been now. Today is the time to pursue a law that is disentangled from the killing and domination of colonialism and coloniality. This special issue of Law Text Culture thus gets closer to decolonisation by looking directly (and not just abstractly) at the violence necessary to the processes of colonialism and coloniality by attending to the legal and theoretical, along with the embodied, affective, poetic, sonic and aesthetic dimensions of this relation.
The Medium is the Archive
Authors: Terrone Enrico
Published: November 2024

There has been much discussion about how digital technologies have changed the media. In this paper I will propose a reflection on how digital technologies can also deeply modify our conception of the media. In particular, I will show how digital technologies challenge a number of conceptual distinctions that underlie, almost as dogmas, most current discussions on media. I will analyse and criticise the following dogmatic distinctions: communication / recording; medium / archive; vehicle / store; act / object; content / form.
The punisher and the politics of retributive justice
Authors: Worcester Kent
Published: November 2024

The archetypal character of the retributive antihero – one who makes his own rules and follows his own conscience – is a familiar figure in mass culture, appearing in film, television, video games, and comics. This character represents the frustrations of millions of people who feel powerless and who fantasize about striking back at their enemies, be they real or imagined. This essay looks at one of the most prominent vigilantes in contemporary pop culture, the Punisher, and explores the relationship between Punisher comics, and vigilante entertainment more generally, to time-honored debates over justice, morality, and the law. In this essay I will argue that the Punisher represents an inherently political worldview, one that values emotion over reason and unchecked anger over due process. The character makes the case for the notion that white-hot rage, channeled into the right kind of 330 Worcester self-generated military campaign, has redemptive social value. For the Punisher, anger is not a feral emotion that should be expelled from the political or legal realm. Instead, it is a dissolvent that allows us to apprehend things as they really are.
‘Come a Day there Won’t be Room for Naughty Men Like Us to Slip About at All’: the multi-media outlaws of Serenity and the possibilities of post-literate justice
Authors: Tranter Kieran
Published: November 2024

If legal theory has only recently become aware of the pain and problems of law’s textual medium what is to be made of a culture where information exchange through reading and writing becomes displaced by the visual and physical acts of icon manipulation? How is justice to be achieved in a coming post-literate age of quasi-hieroglyphics; that is the emerging media of graphic user interfaces on touchscreens? In a ‘software-sorted society’ (Murakami Wood and Graham 2006) can there be something external to the code that can be justice? Further, can this justice be more than just a refugee of earlier legalities, but be a true measure of the emerging techno-totality? Notwithstanding the remaining challenges of poverty, violence, gender and rights bequeathed by the past to contemporary legal thought, it is at this nexus of medium, justice and power being birthed by the leap to digitality that ‘the future’ confronts legal thinking.
Reading the production of suburbia in post-war Australia
Authors: Butler C.
Published: November 2024

Suburbia is one of the dominant descriptive motifs in Australian cultural analysis. The cultural attachments of suburbia have occupied an important place in Australian cultural studies throughout the 20th century and continue to be the subject of enthusiastic parody and reappropriation within popular culture.
Blurred boundaries: a double-voiced dialogue on regulatory regimes and embodied space
Authors: Johnson R.
Published: November 2024

In this paper, I take up de Certeau's invitation to attend to the spatial practices that 'secretly structure the determining conditions of social life' (1984: 97). I do so conscious of Moran's reminder that 'the corporeal is never far away from the spatial themes of law' (2003: 91), and Eisenstein's assertion that to become more specific 'is actually to encompass more of humanity'. (1994: 4). Practices of democracy (and practices of justice) presume and implicate very specific kinds of spaces and bodies. In attempting to re-imagine democracy, Eisenstein suggests that we focus on the body of the pregnant woman, a body that has been the object of extensive analysis and regulation. The shifting and blurred boundary between the woman and the life she carries is the subject of contestation (Fried 1990). The body of the woman is characterised by some as permeable, by others as inviolable. The foetus is sometimes conceptualised as part of the woman's body, at other times as merely enclosed within her body, and the discussion often turns to contests of rights between mother and foetus (Thomson 1986). Always marked by race, class, and ability, the pregnant body is sometimes celebrated, sometimes reviled (Solinger 1992).
Private law, public landscape: troubling the grid
Authors: Johns F. E.
Published: November 2024

Let me tell you a story about the relationship between law and landscape. This story has a protagonist (a lawyer) and a setting (landscape). The lawyer comes to the landscape laden with predispositions, viewpoints, culture. Most importantly, the lawyer stands before the landscape after having made two decisive, albeit difficult decisions. The first decision was to become a lawyer; the second, to orient herself, or to be oriented, before a particular landscape. Would it be a wild, uncultivated scene or an industrial centre? Would it be a slum or an affluent suburb? Would it be a business centre or a rural backwater? These decisions, in combination with the supposedly pre-determined properties of the personal, are understood to set the lawyer upon a particular path.
A house haunted by justice: Eichmann in Jerusalem
Authors: Flessas T.
Published: November 2024

Hannah Arendt's account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann has haunted commentators since it was first published in 1963. The meaning of the trial, as a foundational event for the State of Israel, and the meaning of the trial as a point of visibility for the hundreds of witnesses, is endlessly examined in the literature on Eichmann in Jerusalem. The ghosts of the people lost to the Nazi regime haunt the trial, as do the voices of the witnesses, and the desires and efforts of the prosecutor, the judges, and Eichmann himself. Like all texts, Eichmann in Jerusalem is haunted as a matter of course, is made up of invisible and inaudible participants among the words that can be read and re-read. This essay is a meditation on the hauntings within this text, from within the genre of haunted literature. It reads Eichmann in Jerusalem as, finally, a ghost story.
Critique of Law in a Martial Arts Thriller: the Peril of Emotions, Limits of Rationality, and Pluralistic Laws
Authors: Leung Janny H.C.
Published: November 2024

This paper explores the cinematic treatment of a cluster of themes – law, justice, morality, human emotions and social relationships – in what appears in genre to be a fairly straightforward Chinese martial arts film, Wu Xia (2011). The film is atypical for its genre, however, both in the characters it depicts and in the narrative it constructs. In particular, Wu Xia has only three fight scenes and is heavy with dialogue (both in the broad, conversational sense of spoken dialogue and in the more technical, Bakhtinian sense of dialogism (1992)). In a striking departure from genre conventions, the film develops what amounts to a cinematic commentary on jurisprudential debates about free will, punishment and ways of attributing responsibility and blame for human behaviour (for legal discussion of these issues, see Rawls 1999). Taking Bordwell (1989)’s approach to interpreting filmic meaning as exemplary in its attention simultaneously to conventional form, distinctive rhetorical styles, and historicity, I will offer an analysis of what might be called the ‘cinematic experience of justice’, a reading of Wu Xia that is especially concerned with interconnections between the film’s formal characteristics, its stated and implied meanings, and its likely impact on specific cinema audiences. Focusing on the film’s distribution simultaneously in two different Chinese language versions, one released in Hong Kong and the other throughout mainland China, the analysis compares significant language choices made in the film’s soundtrack and relates them to the respective social, political and historical contexts of film’s distribution in its two different cuts. This paper suggests that Wu Xia is highly distinctive in several ways: in how it depicts the practice of law as being starkly at odds with the emotional experience of being human; in how little faith it expresses in the rule of law; and, perhaps most significantly, in its open ridiculing of a formalistic approach to justice. I will conclude by discussing the significance of these aspects of the film in the political dynamics of China and postcolonial Hong Kong.
Theatres of the Book: Covering, Flaunting, Marketing, Author and Text
Authors: Goodrich Peter
Published: November 2024

The printing of theatre — theatrum imprimatur, just to flaunt a little — was accompanied by a theatricalisation of print. The new technology of the production of books brought with it not only an exponentially greater quantity, but also an increased visibility, of scholarly works and religious and legal texts particularly. Pamphlets, typescripts, books flooded the markets and were everywhere on view. Early print also had a striking dimension of performance and play. Aviaries of angels and other devotional and instructional figures adorned the religious manuals and modelled the proper persona, the ontic self, that the subject should play. Early law texts had coloured graphics, emblems, ‘devises’, as well as schemata, charts, portraits and mottos. Legal being too had its visible and printed figures, the image of the apposite propositus that accompanied the ceremonies of the norm and their demands for honour and role.
Law, Muteness and the Theatrical
Authors: Leiboff Marett
Published: November 2024

This short composition muses upon the possibilities that the theatrical may offer as jurisprudence or legal theory. Its scope is necessarily abbreviated, modest and confined, intended to inaugurate and not foreclose.
Nursing a grievance
Authors: Blazey-Ayoub P.
Published: November 2024

Nurses, both in Australia and overseas, have long felt they are denied appropriate professional recognition for their role in the operation of the health system in which they work. In her book, Nursing and the Injustices of the Law, Megan-Jane Johnstone argues that nurses are not recognised as an autonomous profession, and at the same time are exploited by patriarchal medical profession whose views are legitimated and reenforced by law. She argues that even with reforms that are said to expand the legal practice of nursing, the autonomous and professional status of the nurse has not improved. She suggests that the medical and legal profession, two male dominated professions, act in a way that maintains the subordinate position of the nurse. To combat this situation, Ms. Johnstone urges that the nursing profession is in need of the development of a nursing jurisprudence whereby nurses can attain legal authority that matches their responsibilities as health care professionals. The book rightly argues that historically the law, in conjunction with the legal profession, has trivialised the role of the nurse, particularly the tendency of judges, lawyers and doctors to disregard the role of the nurse. The book examines feminist jurisprudential research to draw support for the view that the law, in general, is oppressive and inequitable in its treatment of women.
Writing (and) crime tunnel vision : a V.I. Warshawski novel
Authors: Bradshaw L.
Published: November 2024

If fiction has a role to play, not in our fantasies or escapist dreams, not as just addictive trash but as conceptual fodder, then Paretsky has pulled a fast one by creating Warshawski, the kinda hopeless, but astoundingly resourceful Italian American female private detective. A been-around feminist, she does what she can, and the figure of Vic serves as a witty and contemporary vehicle for Paretsky's perspective. This perspective relocates the tunnel vision(s) within the novel to particular characters, and in so doing creates a cleverly disguised commentary on politics and the personal. The great irony of Tunnel Vision is its capacity to lead one through a very precise tunnel, and implicate, not simultaneously, but in conclusion, its conditions of possibility.
Fugitive performances of death and injury
Authors: Scott Bray R.
Published: November 2024

A legal trial, Felman states, ‘is presumed to be a search for truth, but, technically, it is a search for a decision, and thus, in essence, it seeks not simply truth but a finality: a force of resolution’ (1997: 738). The opening quote to my article reflects one scene of an attempt to support such resolution — that is, a search for knowledge of the ‘actual’ force required to injure a body, thereby eliminating or limiting speculation. Associate Professor John Hilton, a forensic pathologist and the former Director of the New South Wales Institute of Forensic Medicine (NSWIFM, also known as ‘the Glebe morgue’), made the remark on the Australian television program Sunday in March 2001, in response to a number of allegations, including that dead bodies in the care of the Institute were subject to ‘unethical’ forensic medical practice, such as ‘stabbing’ experiments, to reproduce or replicate injuries to the deceased. Public outrage followed his comments and, as a result of the allegations raised on Sunday, the then NSW Health Minister launched an independent inquiry into practices at the mortuary and Hilton was removed from his position as Director. The Inquiry report (‘the Walker report’) found that the majority of these experiments, conducted by a number of forensic personnel at the NSWIFM, were unlawful. Bret Walker SC conducted a careful analysis of the scope and meaning of the law that regulates post-mortem and anatomical examinations, including issues of organ and tissue retention and forensic experiments, and found it wanting (Walker 2001: 10).