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Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze
Authors: Glowczewski Barbara
Published: May 2020

‘Radical alterity is not about exotism and exclusion but about imagination of how to weave different worlds in respect of their singularities always in becoming, how to recreate outsideness in our minds.’ This is what Barbara Glowczewski calls ‘indigenising anthropology’ in this collection of essays that chart her intellectual trajectory as an anthropologist involved since 1979 with Warlpiri people from central Australia and other Indigenous people in the Kimberley and on Palm Island. The book shows how the many ways in which Aboriginal men and women actualise virtualities of their Dreaming totemic space-time into collective networks of ritualised places resonate with some of Deleuze’s and Guattari’s concepts and also with reticular digital memories. It is a tribute to Indigenous cosmovisions and art, as well as the creative affirmation of collective movements in Oceania, in Brazil and France, who struggle to defend existential territories that could restore a multiplicity of commons to heal the earth from past colonisation and present destruction. Glowczewski draws on 40 years of shared experiences with Indigenous peoples, her own conversations with Guattari, her participation in decolonial ecological debates and engagement for an ‘earth in common’ (https://encommun.eco/), to deliver an innovative agenda for radical anthropology which offers new avenues for research on environmental and social justice based on the value of difference and creative resistance.
Guattari and Anthropology: Existential Territories among Indigenous Australians
Authors: Glowczewski Barbara
Published: May 2020

Glowczewski emphasises here her debt with regard to Guattari’s thinking by tracking some steps in the exchanges that they had over the years about her continuous fieldwork with Warlpiri people in Central Australia. She also comments anthropological debates that took place around the notion of rhizome, the notion of ‘society against the state’ popularised by Pierre Clastres and Indigenous understanding of ‘copyleft’. ‘In the early 1980s, the decade Guattari called Les Années d’Hiver (The Winter Years), when he was testing the concepts, graphs and machines of his Schizoanalytical cartographies, in his seminar, it was sometimes difficult to understand what was happening in his intellectual garage, full of spare parts and oil. But a very tangible flux regularly emerged, like an illumination that sketched out a route, onto which everyone would graft certain of their own questions, a flux of collective desire. It was a passionate subjectivation, shared with Guattari through a multitude of singularities: a vocalisation of ideas, as Deleuze put it.’ First published in 2011.
Forbidding and Enjoying: Warlpiri Taboos
Authors: Glowczewski Barbara
Published: May 2020

This chapter systematically analyses Warlpiri taboos showing how they can all be dispatched into four contexts (socialisation rituals, totemic relationships, mother-in-law/son-in-law relation, death) and four domains (space, language, sexuality and goods, especially food). Each combination of a context and a domain virtualises forms of obligations and ritual transgressions, which connect all taboos in a hypercubic way (see chapter 6). In that underlying entanglement of prohibitions and transgressions, any structural dualism seems to be conjured. Taboos become a way to create human and non human heterogeneous temporality, both as a vertical transmission – in the succession of generations re-enacted through socialisation and mourning rituals – and as a horizontal differentiation perpetually redefining these modalities of alliance and of ritual interdependance between the totemic groups. Everybody has an interest in reproducing a balance that respects the Law and pressing others to do the same, as well as giving what he/she has so that others will reciprocate. Such a social pressure partly explains the refusal to accumulate and the systematic circulation of all possessions, cars, clothes, etc., although it does not prevent conflicts. In fact, a certain dissensus is valued. First published in French in 1991.
Cosmocolours: A Filmed Performance of Incorporation and a Conversation with the Preta Velha Vó Cirina
Authors: Glowczewski Barbara
Published: May 2020

Glowczewski comments here on an experimental process of anthropological restitution. She designed the performance Cosmocouleurs for the exhibition The Beast and Adversity (Geneva, 2015) to invite the audience to share a feeling of cinema-transe. She asked Clarissa Alcantara – a Brazilian performance artist, philosopher and also squizoanalytical therapist trained in Deleuze and Guattari studies- to dance while she followed her projecting Umbanda rituals that she filmed in 2013 and 2015 (in Florianopolis, Brazil. Images made during a session of Exu where the participants dance in a state of incorporation by Orixás and other entities were moving on the dancer who in the process experimented another form of incorporation. The second part of the text is a transcription of a conversation between the anthropologist and the spirit Vó Cirina (Grandma Cirina), an old Black woman (Preta Velha) incorporated in Abílio Noé da Silveira, the babalorixá of the Tenda Espírita Vó Cirina in Florianópolis (Brazil), who accepted the process of the Geneva performance. First published in 2017.
Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World
Authors: Szuba Monika
Published: May 2020

Contemporary Scottish Writers and the Natural World examines the work of four Scottish poets – John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth White – in the light of philosophical considerations of the subject’s relation to the natural world and environmental thought. Drawing in particular on the phenomenological work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty on embodiment and Martin Heidegger on dwelling, the study explores the organic intimate interrelation between the self and the world, including human and non-human relations. The poets’ work is discussed in the context of the main premises of the phenomenological tradition that address the self’s relation with the world, focusing in particular on the sense of place, the vegetal and animal worlds, and foregrounding the dialogue between poetics, the subject and the landscape. The study considers a chiasmic human-non-human animal intertwining as particularly important in the poetry because of its lived experience of the world. Proposing a theoretically-informed discussion, which includes various modes of ecocritical apprehension, it analyses the subject’s perception of intimacy with the materiality of the natural world and the role of language in the registration of perceptual experience as explored in contemporary Scottish poetry.
Hume and the Legacy of Academic Scepticism
Authors: Fosl Peter S.
Published: May 2020

Chapter Two of Hume’s Scepticism charts the development of Academic scepticism from Cicero and Augustine, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and into early modernity. The exposition is organized around sceptical ideas that anticipated or may have influenced David Hume, who describes himself an ‘academical’ sceptic. The chapter also sets out Cicero’s influence upon Hume, scepticism at the college in La Flèche where Hume wrote much of A Treatise of Human Nature, and Hume’s self-conception of Academic scepticism. Accounts of sceptical ideas in Marin Mersenne, Simon Foucher, John Locke, Pierre-Daniel Huet, and Pierre Bayle set the stage for Hume’s own Academicism. The chapter closes with a five-point General Framework defining Academic Scepticism.
Hume and Ancient Pyrrhonian Scepticism
Authors: Fosl Peter S.
Published: May 2020

Chapter Three charts the development of ancient Pyrrhonism, from its origins with Pyrrho of Elis through Timon of Phlius and Aenesidemus, concluding with the chronicling work of Sextus Empiricus. The chapter unpacks the conceptual apparatus of Pyrrhonism in some detail, including: scepticism as practice (agogê), its Fourfold way of observing appearances (phainomena), its observance (teresis) of the pre-theoretical understandings (prolepsis) of common life (ho bios ho koinos), its argumentative modes (tropoi, both Aenesidemus’ ten and Agrippa’s five tropes), its suspension of judgment (epochê), its practice of balancing oppositions (isosthenia), its non-assertive silence (aphasia) about what is hidden (ta adêla), its critiques of causality, its Apelletic method, its critical and inquiring openness (zetesis), its quasi-goal of tranquillity (ataraxia), and its anti-Platonic ideas about recollection. The chapter closes with a seven-point General Framework defining Pyrrhonian Scepticism.
Hume and the Legacy of Pyrrhonian Scepticism
Authors: Fosl Peter S.
Published: May 2020

The last chapter of Part One’s historical quartet traces the development of Pyrrhonism across medieval, Renaissance, and early modern philosophy. Extending the work of Charles B. Schmitt, Richard H. Popkin, Luciano Floridi, et al., the chapter assesses the sceptical thought of Montaigne and devotes subsequent sections to the Pyrrhonian dimensions of work by François de La Mothe le Vayer, Pierre Gassendi, Pierre Bayle, and Pierre-Daniel Huet. Because Hume is typically understood to be anti-Pyrrhonian, Chapter Four develops a three-plank justification for attributing deeply Pyrrhonian dimensions to his work. Plank one is bibliographic and argues that Hume enjoyed access to Pyrrhonian texts and likely used them. Plank two argues for a hermeneutic of suspicion when reading Hume, largely grounded in the hostility he and others faced on account of their supposed scepticism. Plank three is conceptual and argues that Hume’s work exhibits philosophical qualities remarkably similar to those of historical Pyrrhonism. Synthesizing the results of Part One of Hume’s Scepticism, Chapter Four closes with a twelve-point General Framework defining scepticism generally.
Pathê: Hume’s Non-Dogmatic Philosophy
Authors: Fosl Peter S.
Published: May 2020

Chapter Eight returns to the topics with which Chapter One ended, and it completes Part Two’s reading of Hume through the Pyrrhonian Fourfold. The chapter examines Hume’s so-called Title Principle and argues that Hume is a doxastic sceptic and that his sceptical theory of belief is very much like that of the non-epistemic, non-realist Academic scepticism articulated by Clitomachus of Carthage as he reinterpreted Carneades. The chapter argues furthermore that Hume’s theory of probability is pointedly non-epistemic and non-metaphysical. Comparing Hume’s non-dogmatic probabilism to Locke’s Metrodorian realism, Chapter Eight examines Hume’s so-called gentlemanly scepticism, as well as his understanding of scientific standardsand the non-dogmatic quality of common life.
Introduction
Authors: Hirschler Konrad
Published: May 2020

This is the story of a man and his books in late medieval Damascus. The story will take us up the slopes of Mount Qāsyūn, to the west of the walls of the Old City, and into the home of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī (d. 909/1503)....
Binding Matters – From Stand‑alone Booklet to Monumental Composit Manuscript
Authors: Hirschler Konrad
Published: May 2020

This chapter takes the approach of material philology to analyse manuscripts as objects with a social history. It shows how Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī transformed small booklets into massive composite manuscripts. Each of these new objects was in itself a monument to a past world of scholarship. Their creator prominently wrote himself into his new creations; in particular by using a very distinct set of manuscript notes.
The Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī fihrist: Title Identification
Authors: Hirschler Konrad
Published: May 2020

Chapter 5 provides an annotated translation of each entry in the catalogue identifying the titles. Each translated entry provides brief information on the author (who is sometimes named in the catalogue), the modern edition (if existing), the book’s thematic field as well as further information that is occasionally provided (e.g. number of quires and name of copyist).
Criminal Collaborators: Deacon Brodie and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Authors: Murfin Audrey
Published: May 2020

This chapter discusses Deacon Brodie (1880), one of three plays collaboratively composed with his friend W.E. Henley, along with Stevenson’s short story “The Body Snatcher” and his essay “A Chapter on Dreams.” Deacon Brodie is an early treatment of the themes more famously developed in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Thus, Jekyll and Hyde, which owes its origins to the literal dual authorship, becomes a reflection on the fragmentation of the single author, as well as a reflection on the collaborative space of the theater.
Counterpoint: Fanny’s and Louis’s Pacific Diaries
Authors: Murfin Audrey
Published: May 2020

This chapter the progression of several textual fragments describing Pacific islands that the Stevensons visited on the ship the Janet Nichol, from their first draft as holograph manuscript fragments, to their inclusion in Fanny Stevenson’s published diary The Cruise of the Janet Nicoll [sic], and sometimes their inclusion in Louis’s published nonfiction in In the South Seas as well as fiction such as The Beach of Falesá. Much of this material, which was originally written by Louis but later claimed by Fanny, concerns one topic--that of the sexual exploitation of young Pacific Island girls by white traders. The shared nature of the family’s diaries allowed Louis to hide in his wife’s diary material on a topic that was evidently of great interest to him, but that would have negatively affected this very famous author’s reputation as a family-friendly author.
Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt
Authors: Colburn Henry
Published: May 2020

This book is the first study of the material culture of Egypt during the period of Achaemenid Persian rule (ca. 526-404 B.C., also known as the ‘27th Dynasty’). Previous studies have characterised this period either as ephemeral and weak or oppressive and harsh. These characterisations, however, are based on the perceived lack of evidence for this period, filtered through ancient and modern preconceptions about the Persians. This book challenges these views in two ways: first, by assembling and analyzing the archaeological remains from this period, including temples, tombs, irrigation works, statues, stelae, sealings, drinking vessels and coins; and second, by using that material to study both the nature of Achaemenid rule, and how the people living in Egypt experienced that rule. The archaeological perspective permits the study of people from all walks of life, not just the elites who could afford to commission statues and; rather, by looking at the decisions made about material culture by a wide range of people in Egypt, it is possible to understand both how the Persians integrated Egypt into their empire, and how various individuals understood their roles in society during the course of this integration. It is thus a study of both imperialism and identity.
Introduction
Authors: Holtschneider Hannah
Published: May 2020

The introduction places the book in the context of migration research, including that of the expanding field of transnationalism research. Britain, as a desired or accidental destination of Jewish migrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, then takes centre stage for an investigation of the religious history of British Jews. The focus is sharpened again with the introduction of Scotland as a specific British context of migration and the locus of the case study in chapters 1, 3 and 4, with chapter 2 providing the wider national context of the discussion about Jewish leadership and authority. The contribution this book seeks to make is the exploration of international trends and themes in Jewish migration and migration research in a specific, local context. The aim is to observe local consequences of wider – national and international – issues of Jewish migration at the time.
Portrait and Ideology
Authors: Holtschneider Hannah
Published: May 2020

This chapter introduces Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and maps his migration from the Lithuanian part of the Russian Empire to East Prussia, Berlin and then Britain, arriving in Edinburgh in early 1919. His educational, linguistic and cultural voyage across Europe presents the context in which to analyse his religious ideology and outlook on life in a secular society. Daiches presented both an opportunity and a challenge for the Chief Rabbis under whose authority he served in various congregations across the United Kingdom. Daiches possessed the learning of an Eastern European rabbi and the eloquence of an English clergyman, and used these advantages at once to forge a bridge between residents and immigrants and to challenge the hegemony of the Chief Rabbi which he saw as ineffective outwith London’s United Synagogue. Thus, Daiches emerges as a case study that illustrates well the key issues in the debates about the bundling of religious authority in the Chief Rabbi and his court, the frustrations of immigrant rabbis whose religious training far surpassed that of the English Jewish ministers who excelled in preaching, and knowledge of civil law, but were embarrassed by their lack of halakhic competence.
Feeling Pictures
Authors: Cooper Sarah
Published: May 2020

This chapter opens with an example from Marguerite Duras’s film The Atlantic Man (1981), in order to introduce some of the ways in which the felt experience of image-making spoken about in relation to dual vision and mental pictures in the first chapter can be further fleshed out. It is the substantiality of the vivid mental image that is explored in this chapter, which furthers what it means to imagine in images while watching film. Duras’s work is a point of reference throughout the book but serves here to lead into discussion of perception and imagination as theorised by twentieth-century phenomenologists. The felt experience of image-making begins to take shape in palpable form, and the relationship between perception and imagination that informs subsequent chapters is articulated first of all through a dialogue with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work in particular, and then with that of other philosophers and film theorists.
Volumising
Authors: Cooper Sarah
Published: May 2020

Layering is operative as part of the processes of mental image formation discussed in this chapter too, but rather than drawing upon the relationship with the onscreen images, now there is nothing to see but blankness. When any trace of visual or representational images is removed entirely from the screen, it is the richness of the soundscape or voice-over that pervades, as the blank screen becomes the sole visual accompaniment for the formation of mental images and the configuration of mental space. This chapter introduces the relation between sound volume and spatial volume that underpins its argument by first considering an example from film curator Matt Hulse’s ‘Audible Picture Show’ (2003 onwards). It then attends to two blank screen films from different ends of the twentieth century, Walter Ruttmann’s Weekend (1930) and Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993). The chapter tests the mimetic account of mental image formation in the absence of the perceived images that served as the support of the imagined images of the previous chapter. It explores how mental space is configured and changed in Weekend, and how a poetic approach to verbal expression in Blue adds figurative imagery to the mimetic account of mental picturing.
Discussions: Affect, Sociopolitics and the Ensemble Narrative
Authors: Moss-Wellington Wyatt
Published: May 2020

The second chapter of Part III moves to theorise some of the concerns raised in suburban ensemble cinema, looking at their class and spatial politics, use of sentimentality alongside oft-cruel humour, and their responses to concomitant developments in American politics across the 2000s.
Parenthood: A Humanistic Close Reading
Authors: Moss-Wellington Wyatt
Published: May 2020

Part IV looks at a film text often described as “humanistic” using the analytical methods established throughout the book. This chapter describes how Parenthood’s particular domestic realism offered a precursor to later suburban ensemble pictures, before breaking down the politics, ethics and psychology of the film. The latter half of the chapter goes into more detail on the narrative’s modelling of familial psychology, but also the way the film form itself represents many of its key concerns: Parenthood’s structure provokes the very confounding emotional causality across extended networks that the film speaks to.
Introduction: Complementary Cousins
Authors: Maddison Isobel
Published: May 2020

‘I would like to write one story really good enough to offer you one day’; ‘please let all the pride be mine that you are my cousin.’1

Katherine Mansfield to Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922

Elizabeth von Arnim is probably best remembered as the author of ...
‘Not a Feminist, but …’: Elizabeth von Arnim and Female Resistance
Authors: Hennegan Alison
Published: May 2020

This essay explores von Arnim’s systematic representation of the ways in which her female characters encounter, come to understand, and often seek to challenge patterns of male control and suppression of girls and women. Focussing chiefly on Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther (1907), The Pastor’s Wife (1914), Expiation (1929) and Father (1931), the essay addresses male silencing of women, emotional manipulation, and various forms of sexual intimidation and violence (including marital rape), and analyses the growth of self-knowledge and resistance in von Arnim’s female protagonists. Although von Arnim’s characters show little, if any, awareness of the feminist debates and arguments swirling around them in the world beyond the narrow confines of their own lives, many of them eventually come to voice, and act upon, the emerging demands of the contemporary women’s movement. They may not be feminists, but. …
Beatrice Hastings in Paris
Authors: Mourant Chris
Published: May 2020

This article examines the life and work of the elusive modernist writer Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield’s sometime friend, mentor and rival. Frequently, Hastings has been misrepresented or marginalised in accounts of the period. When we turn to the writings she produced when in Paris from 1914, however, Hastings emerges as a central, noteworthy figure in the avant-garde art scene during and immediately after the ‘crisis’ years of the First World War. This article considers the autobiographical ‘Impressions of Paris’ that Hastings published from 1914 in the British periodical The New Age, the surrealist novella that she recited in 1916 at a literary and musical matinee organised by Guillaume Apollinaire, and the hospital diary composed in 1920 in which she recounts details of her turbulent love affair with Amedeo Modigliani.
Introduction: Making Meaning and Doing Justice with Early Modern Texts
Authors: Hyman Wendy Beth , Eklund Hillary
Published: May 2020

[Poetry’s end is] well-doing and not … well-knowing only.1

Formal innovation (of the sort that matters in literature) is a testing of the operations of meaning, and is therefore a kind of ethical experimentation. To respond to the demand of the literary work as the demand of the other is to attend to it as a unique event whose happening is a call, a challenge, an obligation: understand how little you understand me, translate my un-translatability, learn me by heart and thus learn the otherness that inhabits the heart....
African-American Shakespeares: Loving Blackness as Political Resistance
Authors: Demeter Jason M.
Published: May 2020

Can a Shakespeare course effectively historicize and challenge Shakespeare’s deployment in U.S. educational contexts “as an instrument of white racial consolidation and non-white marginalization”? Demeter offers a concise summary of Shakespeare’s positioning as the pinnacle of “universal” white, Western cultural values before detailing a course that combines Richard III, Henry IV Part I, and Othello with responses to Shakespeare’s works by black artists such as James Baldwin, August Wilson, Toni Morrison, and Djanet Sears. Though he hoped that placing African-American literature and Shakespeare “on equal footing” would provoke critical interrogations of Shakespeare’s privileged place in the literary canon, Demeter finds Shakespeare’s whiteness and universality difficult myths to dismantle, and offers his ambivalent experience as a way to frame key questions about the relation between Shakespeare pedagogy and social justice.
Sexual Violence, Trigger Warnings, and the Early Modern Classroom
Authors: Mendoza Kirsten N.
Published: May 2020

The subject of trigger warnings is both controversial and misunderstood, yet when deployed correctly a trigger warning can augment rather than shut down discussion. Kirsten Mendoza describes a strategy for cultivating an atmosphere of trust in her classroom while holding space for productive contention and discomfort. Taking seriously depictions of early modern violence as well as their connection to students’ lived experiences, this chapter provides strategies for using affective responses to support aesthetic and intellectual analysis.
Teaching Serial with Shakespeare: Using Rhetoric to Resist
Authors: Holmes Rachel E.
Published: May 2020

This chapter brings the wildly popular 2014 podcast Serial into conversation with Shakespearean tragedy (Romeo and Juliet; Othello) and problem comedy (Measure for Measure) through the unexpected lens of Aristotelian rhetoric. By first introducing the conventions of the classical persuasive arts, Holmes enables students to analyze the legal and interpretive crises that plague Renaissance literature and contemporary court cases alike. This combination empowers students to question the construction of cultural and legal narratives when truth itself seems precarious.
Adjunct Pleasure: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Writing on the Walls
Authors: Harrison Matthew
Published: May 2020

In this chapter, Matthew Harrison explores how the radical contingencies of Elizabethan sonnets and academic employment can mutually inform pedagogical practice. Tracing links between contingent labor in higher education and early modern poets’ “phenomenology of contingency,” the chapter considers what happens when the metrics of selfhood and social perception produce competing notions of individual “value.” Harrison diagnoses how readily structural shortcomings are masked by fictions of personal exceptionalism or failure, and it proposes several practical strategies that invite students to “replace postures designed for obedience with active and bodily engagement with each other’s ideas.”
Stanley Cavell and the Magic of Hollywood Films
Authors: Shaw Daniel
Published: May 2020

Stanley Cavell’s writings on film as a visual medium, and as making myths that address our scepticism about the values that allow us to see everyday life worth living, are emerging as highly influential in the burgeoning area of aesthetics that deals with the philosophy of film. The intent of this book is to trace the philosophical roots of his world view, summarize his general approach to the filmic medium, explain his genre theories, and offer original readings of types of film which are different from the comedies and melodramas that he spoke of most extensively. Throughout, I will be addressing his answer to the question “What do the Movies do best?”: of all the arts, the filmic medium is best at persuading its viewers to believe in the values it embodies.
The book champions Cavell’s approach to philosophizing about film, as the most healthy and fruitful paradigm for discussing film in a philosophical context.
Cavell and Wittgenstein on Skepticism: Redeeming the Law
Authors: Shaw Dan
Published: May 2020

A discussion of the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein on Cavell is followed by an attempt to expand the latter’s account of the Hollywood response to skepticism to other film genres. In particular, this chapter examines what I call the redemptive lawyer drama, where a barrister at the end of his rope saves himself by winning an honourable legal case in a David vs. Goliath situation. The examples here are Paul Newman in The Verdict, and Billy Bob Thornton in the Amazon Prime miniseries Goliath.
Heidegger, Cavell, and Woody Allen: Another Woman
Authors: Shaw Dan
Published: May 2020

Martin Heidegger is another German philosopher to whom Cavell makes frequent reference. His central themes of authenticity and resoluteness, and of the importance of avoiding the conformity and superficiality of the idle talk of the they-self, find perfect expression in Woody Allen’s Another Woman. The protagonist here is a Heidegger scholar facing a midlife crisis brought on by her unwillingness to face who she is, and who she really cares about. Her ability to work through it reassures us that authenticity is indeed possible, and fits Cavell’s template for the melodrama of the unknown woman like a glove. It depicts a healthy image of womanhood and should be recognized for doing so, given the rarity of such depictions.
Cavell’s Notion of Acknowledgment and Boys Don’t Cry
Authors: Shaw Dan
Published: May 2020

The book concludes with my analysis of the impact and importance of Cavell’s approach to the philosophy of film. A discussion of scholars working regularly within Cavell’s conceptual framework (like Philip Schmerheim, Josef Früchtl, Robert Sinnerbrink, Daniele Rugo, Richard Rushton, and Catherine Wheatley) will be followed by my reading of Boys Don’t Cry as the perfect example of Cavell’s concept of acknowledgement, and with an impassioned plea to attend to Cavell at a time in history when his most profound insights and affirmations desperately need to be heard.
Aristotle
Authors: Del Lucchese Filippo
Published: May 2020

This chapter argues that Aristotle’s enquiry on the nature and meaning of monstrosity is rooted in his positive attitude toward the knowledge of lower nature, which enjoy the same status of the science of higher beings. Heavens and earth are thus connected through the divine principle that is active throughout the whole nature. Gods thus become author of, but also responsible for, what happens in nature, and Aristotle’s argument provides the ground for every future theodicy. Monstrosity plays a major role in this philosophical approach. Aristotle develops the opposition between the normal and the abnormal development, through the concept of accidental necessity, namely the necessity that is at stake in natural processes that not always happen in the same way. Monsters are of pivotal importance in this ontological picture, because of their paradoxical ambiguity. On the one hand, they are the sign and symptom or a resistant nature, which opposes itself to Aristotle’s major ontological invention, namely the form and the final cause. On the other hand, without this hyatus between formal perfection and actual reality, nature would not exist in the way we experience it: there would be no diversity, no better and worse, no normal and monstrous. Monstrosity is necessary for Aristotle to explain nature and its ontological structure based on the substitition of dynamic forms and ends to both the static ideas of Plato and the exclusively material reality of atomists.
Middle and Neoplatonism
Authors: Del Lucchese Filippo
Published: May 2020

This is the longest chapter of the book, because of the number, nature, and importance of the philosophers that take the side of Plato and develop his teleological idealism in different directions. It also includes several early Christian thinkers – Augustin among them – whose philosophical background and inspiration are largely Platonic. For reasons of consistency, this chapter explores this complex and long-lived philosophical movement through the same categories that have been used in previous chapters, namely the conflict between immanence and transcendence, the questions of nature’s hierarchies, teleology and providence, as well as the origin of evil. However, new elements are introduced because of the puculiar reworking of these ideas within the new and original monotheism of the Judeo-Christian early tradition, as well as their importance for the later medieval and early modern philosophy.
Artmaking in the Age of Global Capitalism
Authors: Bryant Jan
Published: May 2020

What strategies are visual artists and filmmakers using to criticise the social and economic conditions shaping our particular historical moment? This question is answered by considering the methods and political implications of artists or filmmakers working in a contemporary western art context today. Leading into extended analyses of works by Frances Barrett, Claire Denis, Angela Brennan, and Alex Monteith, the book considers two forces that have informed contemporary artmaking: the economic conditions that began changing social realities from the 1970s forward; and the current tendency of the political aesthetic to move away from direct political content or didacticism to a concern for the sensate effects of materials. This is framed by Jacques Rancière’s ‘distribution of the sensible’ and Walter Benjamin’s historical materialism. As historical ground for understanding the contemporary condition, Artmaking in the Age of Global Economics pays particular attention to the divisions that opened up between progressive writers, theorists and artists in the late 20th century. Suggesting an alternative approach to understanding art’s historical antecedents, it avoids received art-historical narratives or canonical figures, refuting both the autonomy of art as well as the separation of artist from the work they produce. It locates, instead, contemporary art in a worldly context of responsibility that opens up to an ethics of practice. [211]
Benjamin’s Challenge for the Twenty-first Century
Authors: Bryant Jan
Published: May 2020

The 19th Biennale of Sydney, discussed in the last chapter, is a case study that reveals the way contemporary western governments are increasingly closing down public criticism. The tendency is to raise opaque screens over controversial actions, and to use financial retaliation as a method for keeping artists’ protests inside exhibiting contexts. This chapter looks at political theorists who write about the re-emergence of forms of authoritarianism, beginning with Nicos Poulantzas who argued as early as 1970 that a new form of fascism was materialising, and Michel Foucault’s warning that we each need to check our own fascist tendencies, no matter how private or small the context. More recent comments by Judith Butler and Madeline Albright insist on the danger of this burgeoning trend and the urgent need to fight it. Through the writings of Ronald F. Inglehart and Pippa Norris, this chapter also describes right populism as a prominent feature of western democracies, and the way concerns from climate change to human rights divide today along ideological, partisan lines. [170]
Conclusion
Authors: Bryant Jan
Published: May 2020

A small selection of works was presented in Part III as examples to show how artists are operating in the contested spaces of the political aesthetic today. Consistent with the historical materialist intentions of the book, there was no presumption that this small group of works stood in for universal claims about contemporary practices. Embedded in each of the selected artists’ works is a renewed concern for the way a manipulation of materials and their effect on the senses is connected to a wider politics. In Ranciére’s terms, the representation of a political subject belies the very eidos of the political aesthetic. However, ‘representation’ is a problem in another way. The rejection of work that represents the other comes from an ethical demand to consider the impact art has on the world, how it might contribute positively to a community’s well-being. The artworks and films featured here were developed for this particular historical moment, and despite their differing ways they share a common theme: the critical revaluation of forms of power – particularly those emanating from patriarchal structures or judgements – through material methods of making. [184]
Elizabeth Bowen: Surrealist
Authors: Walsh Keri
Published: May 2020

This chapter approaches the emerging notion of Irish surrealism in a seemingly unlikely corner: Bowen’s fiction. Seldom considered in the context of a modernist avant-garde, Bowen's work has been read within the history of the novel of manners, and as a chronicler of Anglo-Irish anxiety and ambivalence. Underrepresented until recently, however, are the specifically modernist commitments of her art. Bowen's career-long attention to the effects of new technologies on consciousness; her willingness to revise older forms of fiction and to experiment with techniques influenced by painting, cinema, and radio; as well as her depictions of women struggling to resist inherited Victorian roles and fulfil their desires for autonomy, education, travel, and love align her with a modernist tradition. Yet rather than classifying her with such innovators, even those critics attending to her modernist style and technique figure such experiments as idiosyncrasies. Where her prose subverts expectations of realist fiction, Bowen is more often described as an eccentric writer than one participating in modernism. Uncovering Bowen's dialogue with surrealism allows us to see her ‘strangeness’ in a new light, as part of her intermodernist (drawing on Kristin Bluemel’s term) engagement with avant-garde, continental discourses.
Elizabeth Bowen on the Telephone
Authors: Bennett Andrew
Published: May 2020

This chapter proposes that telephones are critical in the plotting of most of Bowen’s novels, as well as in some of her stories. Bowen’s plots are often organized around the telephone and around telephone calls in a way that would have been inconceivable at the start of the twentieth century. Making a telephone call in Bowen can be seen as an ideal version of speech and even as an ideal model for literature itself, precisely because the telephone generates a sense of immediacy and unmediated presence while at the same time marking absence. At the same time simple object and eerily human, the uncanny telephone in Bowen suggests that communication is what her writing, and what literature more generally offers while at the same time contesting, displacing, and resisting it. Bowen’s work thereby challenges our very understanding of how literature as a form of communication between author and reader can be said to work.
Hearing Procedure III – The Rules of Evidence
Authors: Auchie Derek P. , Carmichael Ailsa
Published: May 2020

Evidence is the name given to any material that may be made available to the tribunal and from which it may draw conclusions as to matters of fact. There are two main types of evidence: documentary and oral. It should be noted that legal submissions or arguments (including any preliminary points) are not evidence. Evidence will feature in the vast majority of tribunal hearings, the main exceptions being those hearings that do not really begin since the hearing requires to be adjourned for a particular reason. The importance of identifying material that is evidence is twofold. First, there are certain legal rules that apply to the permissibility (admissibility), presentation and assessment of evidence. Many of these rules have been developed in the context of hearings in the public courts. Most apply to criminal proceedings in those courts, but there are some rules of civil evidence. The questions, then, are: which rules apply to tribunal hearings, and how do they apply?
Appeals from Tribunal Decisions
Authors: Auchie Derek P. , Carmichael Ailsa
Published: May 2020

Sections 320 and 322 of the 2003 Act make provision respectively for appeal to the sheriff principal and the Court of Session from decisions of the tribunal. Almost all of the decisions which can be appealed under s 320 are decisions on the merits of the application or other matter before the tribunal relating to the status of the patient in the sense of his liability to detention, or the conditions of his detention.
Examples include a refusal to revoke an STDC,1 a decision to make or refuse to make a CTO,2 and a decision to revoke a compulsion order under s 193(3) and (4) of the 2003 Act.3 Appeals may also be made against decisions of the tribunal about the appointment of named persons.4
There is no provision for an immediate appeal against procedural decisions such as those to adjourn, or to make directions as to the way in which a future hearing is to proceed. The legislature must be taken to have intended that cases should proceed to a conclusion on the merits without interruption caused by appeals on procedural matters. It is, however, noteworthy that s 324(2)(b) makes it a ground of appeal against the ultimate decision in the proceedings that there has been a procedural impropriety in the conduct of any hearing by the tribunal on the application.
Have the Reports of TQM’s Death Been Greatly Exaggerated? A Re-Examination of the Concept’s Historical Popularity Trajectory
Authors: Madsen Dag Øivind
Published: May 2020

There is a vast literature on Total Quality Management (TQM), one of the most influential management concepts introduced during the twentieth century. In the TQM literature, there are multiple conflicting views on TQM’s historical popularity trajectory. In the past, commentators have debated whether TQM represents a lasting trend, or instead should be considered a more short-lived management fad or fashion. Since the 1990s, skeptics have speculated about the imminent fall, death, and burial of TQM, and even delivered eulogies. However, others claim that the level of interest has picked back up and that TQM is alive and well. Therefore, this paper attempts to synthesize and reconcile these differing views on the long-term trajectory of TQM and provide an updated picture and status report, taking into account the latest findings and developments in research and practice. The evidence reviewed in this paper suggests that, even though TQM has become much less noticeable in public management discourse compared to the heydays of the 1980s and 1990s, the concept has persisted and even to this day remains widely used by organizations worldwide.
Recovery of 15N Labeled Nitrogen Fertilizer by Fertigated and Drip Irrigated Greenhouse Vegetable Crops
Authors: Martínez-Gaitán Carolina , Granados María Rosa , Fernández María Dolores , Gallardo Marisa , Thompson Rodney B.
Published: May 2020

The stable isotope 15N was used to assess the recovery of mineral N fertilizer applied to fertigated and drip-irrigated spring muskmelon and autumn-winter sweet pepper crops grown in greenhouse soil plots. They received 92–96% of mineral N fertilizer as NO3−. 15N-labeled Ca (NO3)2 fertilizer was applied to crops during vegetative growth and fruit production phases. Crops were grown with either conventional management or combined improved N and irrigation management. Improved management for both irrigation and N was based on the combined use of models, to estimate crop requirements, and of monitoring of soil parameters. In sweet pepper, from conventional management, 15N recoveries from the 15N applications made during vegetative growth and fruit production were 66% and 58%, respectively. With improved management in sweet pepper, the corresponding 15N recoveries were 82% and 77%. In muskmelon, 15N recoveries from conventional management from the 15N applications made during vegetative growth and fruit production were 71% and 42%, respectively. With improved management, the corresponding 15N recoveries were 68% and 44%, respectively. The results demonstrated that combined drip irrigation and fertigation systems with frequent irrigation and N fertilizer application can have very high recovery of applied N fertilizer, of 77–82%.
Evaluation of Extrusion Temperatures, Pelleting Parameters, and Vitamin Forms on Vitamin Stability in Feed
Authors: Yang Pan , Wang Huakai , Zhu Min , Ma Yongxi
Published: May 2020

Two experiments were conducted to determine the stability of microencapsulated and non-microencapsulated forms of vitamins in diets during extrusion and pelleting. We investigated the recovery of vitamins in swine diets after extrusion at 100 °C, 140 °C, or 180 °C. Next, two diets were conditioned at 65 °C (low temperature; LT) or 85 °C (high temperature; HT), and pellets were formed using a 2.5 × 15.0 mm (low length-to-diameter ratio; LR) or 2.5 × 20.0 mm (high length-to-diameter ratio; HR) die. The extrusion temperature had a significant effect on the recovery of vitamins E, B1, B2, B3, and B5 in the diets. The diet extruded at 100 °C had higher B1, B2, B3, and B5 vitamin recoveries than diets extruded at 140 °C and 180 °C. Microencapsulated vitamins A and K3 had greater stability than non-microencapsulated vitamins A and K3 at 100 °C and 140 °C extrusion. In the diet extruded at 180 °C, microencapsulated vitamins A, D3, and K3 had higher recoveries than non-microencapsulated vitamins A, D3, and K3. The recovery of vitamin K3 in diets after LTLR (low temperature + low length-to-diameter ratio) or HTLR (high temperature + low length-to-diameter ratio) pelleting was greater (p < 0.05) than after LTHR (low temperature + high length-to-diameter ratio) and HTHR (high temperature + high length-to-diameter ratio) pelleting. Our results clearly show that low extrusion temperature and low pellet temperature, and a low length-to-diameter ratio (L:D ratio) for pellet mill die are recommended for pig feed. Moreover, microencapsulated vitamins had greater stability compared to non-microencapsulated vitamins.
Investigation of the Impacts of Antibiotic Exposure on the Diversity of the Gut Microbiota in Chicks
Authors: Elokil Abdelmotaleb A. , Abouelezz Khaled F.M. , Ahmad Hafiz I. , Pan Yuanhu , Li Shijun
Published: May 2020

The dynamic microbiota in chickens can be affected by exposure to antibiotics, which may alter the composition and substrate availability of functional pathways. Here, 120 Jing Hong chicks at 30 days of age were randomly divided into four treatments totaling seven experimental groups: control chicks not exposed to antibiotics; and chicks exposed to enrofloxacin, diclazuril, and their mixture at 1:1 for 14 days and then not exposed for a withdrawal period of 15 days. Fecal samples were collected from the 7 groups at 8 time-points (exposure to 4 antibiotics and 4 withdrawal periods) to perform in-depth 16S rRNA sequencing of the gut microbiota. Taxon-independent analysis showed that the groups had significantly distinct microbial compositions (p < 0.01). Based on the microbial composition, as compared with the control group, the abundances of the phyla Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Thermi, and Verrucomicrobia, as well as the families Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, S24-7, and Corynebacterium, were decreased in the antibiotic-exposed chicks (p < 0.01). Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States (PICRUSt) analyses revealed significant differences in microbiota metabolite pathways due to the genera of the antibiotic-responsive microbes (p < 0.01), especially the pathways relating to cell growth and death, immune system diseases, carbohydrate metabolism, and nucleotide metabolism. Oral treatment with enrofloxacin, diclazuril, and their mixture modified the gut microbiota composition and the microbial metabolic profiles in chickens, with persistent effects (during the withdrawal period) that prevented the return to the original community and led to the formation of a new community.