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“MAS, AFINAL, O QUE É LIBERDADE?”: O ESPETÁCULO LIBERDADE LIBERDADE (1965) E A RESISTÊNCIA CULTURAL AO REGIME MILITAR
Authors: Rosell Mariana Rodrigues
Published: May 2018

O presente artigo é resultado de pesquisa de Iniciação Científica realizada pela autora com financiamento CNPq entre 2011 e 2012. Trabalhamos a partir da tese de que a resistência civil ao regime militar brasileiro se deu em várias frentes e de diversas formas. Assim, baseamo-nos na hipótese de que há elementos na peça Liberdade Liberdade que permitem pensá-la na chave do frentismo cultural, forma pela qual o Partido Comunista optou na resistência ao regime militar. Identificamos alguns pontos na construção do texto e no conjunto da encenação que colaboram para pensar Liberdade Liberdade como uma precursora da resistência cultural aliancista empreendida pelo PCB e por parte da ala liberal.
LE GOFF, Jaques. A bolsa e a vida: a usura na Idade Média. 3 ed. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 2004.
Authors: Pires Kassia Amariz , Costa Natália De Medeiros
Published: May 2018

Resenha de LE GOFF, Jaques. A bolsa e a vida: a usura na Idade Média. 3 ed. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 2004.
LITERATURA E SOCIABILIDADE NA CURITIBA DE DALTON TREVISAN
Authors: Braga Gabriel Elysio Maia
Published: May 2018

Resultados da pesquisa coletiva desenvolvida em 2012 e apresentados nos eventos 21° EVINCI (outubro/2013) e I Jornada Paranaense PIBID e PET de História (outubro-novembro/2013).
TRAJETÓRIA DE PESQUISA SOBRE A POSSE DE ARMAS NA PROVÍNCIA DO PARANÁ (1850 – 1930) A PARTIR DO ACERVO DO MUSEU PARANAENSE
Authors: Bastos Felipe Barradas Correia Castro , Braga Gabriel Elysio Maia
Published: May 2018

Nota de pesquisa sobre a Comissão de Armaria do Museu Paranaense em parceria com os alunos bolsistas do PET História UFPR.
TEMÍSTOCLES: APOGEU E OSTRACISMO. AS DUAS FACES DA MESMA MOEDA
Authors: Cardoso Filipe Paiva
Published: May 2018

O ostracismo de Temístocles, um dos responsáveis pelo crescimento da democracia ateniense, ocorreu num período crítico para a Grécia, acabada de sair das guerras Medo-Persas e em pleno conflito entre defensores de sistemas oligárquicos e democráticos. A tese neste artigo é a de que a expulsão do estadista visou abrir caminho para o aristocrata Címon tomar o poder em Atenas, tal e qual como ocorreu com o próprio Temístocles, cuja ascensão ao poder foi facilitada pelos ostracismos da década de 480 a.C. “Quem vive pela espada, morre pela espada.” Neste ostracismo em muito ajudou a intervenção de Esparta, já que Temístocles sempre teve como prioridade impedir os Lacedemónios de ter uma posição dominante sobre toda a Grécia. Tal posição acabou por incendiar os espartanos, que viam em Címon um aliado, levando-os a lançar uma campanha de descrédito contra o estadista que veio ajudar a convencer os atenienses a expulsá-lo.
A SÉ DE LISBOA NA FUNDAÇÃO DO REINO PORTUGUÊS
Authors: Funke Willian
Published: May 2018

O texto que segue está integrado ao conjunto de resultados do primeiro momento da pesquisa sobre a Sé de Lisboa. O objetivo inicial era compreender qual a posição, o lugar, da Catedral no contexto de expansão portuguesa sobre territórios islâmicos na Península Ibérica e consolidação de Portugal enquanto unidade política autônoma. Este objetivo desdobrava-se em compreender os usos da Sé e as relações que se estabeleciam a partir dela, sejam da própria Sé com outras institui- ções ou de Portugal como um todo com outros organismos. Além destes, era importante também a análise da Sé enquanto construção, em seus aspectos materiais. No presente artigo apresento alguns pressupostos da pesquisa, faço uma breve descrição da Sé – incluindo-a no contexto de sua construção – e, por fim, exponho as relações lidas a partir da Catedral de Lisboa, encerrando o texto com conclusões que servem de indicativos para a sequência dos trabalhos.
PRESO PELA RATOEIRA: SOBRE A SEDUÇÃO NOS ENTREMEZES PORTUGUESES DO SÉCULO XVIII
Authors: Braga Gabriel Elysio Maia
Published: May 2018

O presente artigo pretende analisar as representações de sedução amorosa nos Entremezes lusitanos do século XVIII. Entremezes são pequenas peças de teatro as quais eram apresentadas, em Portugal e na Espanha, em intervalos de óperas ou de uma peça mais longa, tratando de temas cotidianos, satirizando-os muitas vezes. Procura-se aqui, averiguar as relações amorosas devido às mudanças na concepção de casamento na modernidade, que segundo o historiador Alan Macfarlane (1990), começava a passar de algo arranjado pelos pais, para a escolha dos noivos, daí a importância de uma etapa que precedia o casamento, a conquista do ser amado. Esta pressupunha um processo de sedução.  Tomando como referência a discussão do filósofo francês Jean Baudrillard (1990) sobre o assunto pretendemos analisar os diferentes modos de galanteio representados nas peças.
The Raw and the Cooked in the Old/New World, or Talk to the Animals
Authors: Geller Jay
Published: May 2018

This chapter engages another instrumentalization of Kafka’s animal figures for contemporary cultural-political ends, Jens Hanssen’s scavenged-together anti-Zionist reading of “Jackals and Arabs.” Against Hanssen’s article, it reads Kafka’s “animal story” and Hanssen’s own sources as well as draws upon genre analysis. It complicates the frequent (including Hanssen’s) identification of the story’s jackals with the Jews by, for example, their apparent shared emphasis on eating habits. Among the means employed are an examination of Robertson Smith’s classic account of a Saracen Arab sacrifice and consumption of a camel repeated in Freud’s Totem and Taboo and an analysis of Kafka’s “Investigations of a Dog” that also reveals refractions of Kafka’s critique of Brod’s The Jewesses. The chapter further problematizes Kafka’s alleged identification of dogs and Jews (that a Max Brod mistranscription had exacerbated) by contextualizing Kafka’s most quoted canine invocation, Josef K’s dying “Like a dog!” in The Trial. The chapter finally argues for the anti-allegorical force and function of Kafka’s allegedly “Jewish jackals.”
Constituent Power
Authors: Kalyvas Andreas
Published: May 2018

This chapter seeks to recover an alternative theory of sovereignty as constituent power that significantly departs from the canonical paradigm of command in order to investigate its democratic implications. The first section traces the beginnings of the concept, from the etymological meanings of the Latin verb “to constitute” to its initial medieval articulation that was set against the regal model. The second and third sections revisit formative episodes in the conceptual history of constituent power and consider its diverse but overlapping theoretical and political trajectories as they coalesced around the political ideas of disobedience, resistance, and revolution. The final section attempts to reconstruct the discursive rules and immanent principles that organize the intelligibility of the concept over time and consider the challenges they pose to inherited (mis)understandings of democracy.
Identity
Authors: Bilgrami Akeel
Published: May 2018

This chapter argues that the initial step toward imposing some theoretical order on the notoriously haphazard concept of identity in politics is to distinguish at the outset between its subjective and objective aspects. When a person is said to have a certain identity owing to some characteristic she has, and with which she identifies, then we are thinking of subjective identity. If a person is said to have a certain identity owing to some characteristic she has, but with which she does not necessarily identify, then we are speaking of her objective identity. The chapter distinguishes fundamentally between the subjective and objective aspects of the concept. To a considerable extent, which of these two aspects we emphasize in our study of the concept will be a matter of theoretical decision that depends on nonarbitrary philosophical considerations having to do with themes at some distance from identity, such as autonomy and moral reasons but also questions of politics and social oppression.
Constituent power forges the distinction between democracy and sovereignty
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: May 2018

This thesis shows that the dialectic of constituent and constituted power only ever leads to forms of sovereignty. Every negation of constituted power only ever leads to the re-emergence of sovereignty—or, what I call “the ruse of sovereignty.” Instead, it is more constructive to note the contrast between democracy and sovereignty implicit in a particular understanding of constituent power.
Democratic judgment shows the imbrication of the ontological, the political, and the ethical
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: May 2018

Thesis 6 describes democracy not simply as a regime of power, but as a kind of being and acting in the world whereby ontological, political, and ethical consideration are intermeshed.
Stings of Visibility
Authors: Bachner Andrea
Published: May 2018

This chapter shifts its focus to the ways in which media studies uses inscription by probing the imaginary at work in theoretical and artistic conceptualizations of visual media, especially photography. By tracing the vicissitudes of Peirce’s concept of indexicality in theories of visuality, it discusses how descriptions of the photographic act as a process of impression mediated by light have turned into metaphors of reception in which the luminous imprint of the photograph is “translated” into a violent contact with she who looks at a photograph. As this chapter investigates the various ways in which reflections on photography and poststructuralist theories of the image flatten and “translate” the material traces that produce the visual object in order to focus on its impact—figurative stings of visibility that point from the image to a viewer—it offers two literary and artistic counterpoints, two examples of the interaction of photography and text in the context of Chilean post-dictatorship art and literature, Diamela Eltit’s Lumpérica and Guadalupe Santa Cruz’s Quebrada.
The Futures Outside: Apocalyptic Epilogue Unveiled as Africana Queer Prologue
Authors: Thomas Eric A.
Published: May 2018

This essay examines the epilogue of Revelation (22:8-21) as an intervention for new imaginations of, and actions toward, a new heaven and new earth that can be realized in the present. It names the ways that Revelation (indeed, the Bible) is used to make outsiders of queer people. More importantly it suggests that the author/narrator John is not the only one who can be filled with the spirit on the Lord(e)’s day with something to say to those “with ears to hear.” The particular “queer time and place” of this investigation occurs at the intersection of queers of color critique, theories of queer temporality, and Sankofa—the Akan concept that we take what is beneficial from the past in order to work toward a more pleasurable future. Composite sketches of the lives of queer folks in the African Diaspora are gathered to create a “deep archive” (following Judith Halberstam) from which Muñoz’s call for new visions of a utopian “then and there” can be articulated in resistance to their apocalyptic “here and now.” Consequently, a re-vision of the death-dealing epilogue can become a life-restoring prologue toward the enactment of Africana queer utopian futures outside of apocalyptic Christo-heteronormativity.
“Our Book of Revelation … Prescribes Our Fate and Releases Us from It”: Scriptural Disorientations in Cherríe Moraga’s The Last Generation
Authors: Hidalgo Jacqueline M.
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines the appearance of Mesoamerican and biblical codices in Cherríe Moraga’s The Last Generation (1994). In Moraga’s conclusion to The Last Generation, “Codex Xerí,” the Book of Revelation appears alongside many glyphs of Chicanx revelation, be they written on barrio walls or present in bodies gathering together. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s work on orientations, disorientations, and homing devices as a conversation partner for Moraga’s prose and poetry, this chapter argues that scriptures serve as homing devices while they simultaneously function as disorientation devices, where scriptural disorientations can offer both tragic and transformative potentialities, especially for queer Chicanx subjects. Scriptures, and the revelatory power attributed to them, both bind and displace queer Chicanxs even while they can be usable in disorientations that open up other worlds of being.
Response: Queer Enfleshment
Authors: Rubenstein Mary-Jane
Published: May 2018

This brief response catches glimpses within Karmen MacKendrick’s work, glimpses of what one might call a queer-incarnational apophasis. In her attention to mourning, melancholia, and haunting, MacKendrick attunes us to the queer temporality of a past that never quite was, for the sake of a future that might be genuinely new: such would be the structure of “the possible.” Reading MacKendrick through Laurel Schneider and José Muñoz, this essay attends to flashes of enfleshment—of livability and even justice—in the midst of an unbearable present. Here incarnation becomes promiscuous, ordinary, and spatio-temporally queer: not-quite, but not-quite-not; almost and all over the place.
Exergues
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

Dichtung und Wahrheit: Whence does this come to us? What is the origin of this phrase that is not a sentence and makes no sense?

It does not come to us from the too-famous titles of the great Counselor Aulique’s Memoirs. He himself had already borrowed it: from an ...
Dem Sprung hatt ich Leib und Leben zu danken
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

To the leap I owe my life, the leap out of my mother, the leap

out of myself.

How would I be here without that leap beyond?

How would I have gotten out if not for that leap,

that force, haste, thrust?

How, since there is no passage,...
Introduction
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

Malcolm X introduced a distinction between the black masses, “field Negros,” and black religious elites, “house Negros.” This essay argues that black secularists occupy the role once filled by black religious elites. Drawing together the insights of secularism’s critics and the best insights of black theologians, this essay suggests that new energy could be infused into black theology if black secularism is directly addressed and criticized. It outlines the new task of black theology: to unapologetically embrace blackness and religion.
Baldwin
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

The black American writer James Baldwin famously broke with his youthful formation as a preacher, transferring his creative energies from the pulpit to the pen. The chapter argues that Baldwin’s literary endeavors can be read as black theological reflection—not in the sense that they employ theological images and tropes but in the deeper sense that they engage with theological ideas. Specifically, the chapter argues that Baldwin puts forward a black negative theology: He argues that black theology goes wrong when it tries to make positive claims about God, it goes right when it reflects on God’s continuing influence despite our inability to name God accurately. In other words, Baldwin presents a way of doing black theology in a context of secularism, where religion is managed or excluded. The chapter further argues, however, that Baldwin himself falls prey to the dangers of secularism when he prescribes love to solve the theological problem he diagnoses without sufficient attention to judgment.
Mbembe
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

The Cameroon-born political theorist Achille Mbembe has produced a body of work that deeply engages with Christianity: the role of Christianity in postcolonial and particularly African contexts, the role of Christianity in securing Europe’s self-image, and the role of Christian ideas in providing a framework for postcolonial resistance. In Mbembe’s most recent work, he has turned his critical apparatus from postcolonial contexts to blackness more generally, engaging with questions of race and religion across Africa and the diaspora. This chapter argues that Mbembe’s work offers promising resources for black theology, but it also has crippling limitations because of underlying secularist assumptions. Mbembe helpfully diagnoses postcolonial and black contexts as suffering from what is effectively theological heresy: a distorted relationship with ultimate authority brought about by colonialism and racialization. While Mbembe’s diagnosis deeply engages with theology, his prescription is secularist, embracing plurality that black experience is said to model. The chapter juxtaposes Mbembe’s reflections on colonial and racializing heresy with theologian John Milbank’s reflections on secularist heresy to explore the limitations and possibilities of each.
The Revelation of Race: On Steve Biko
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

This chapter focuses on the dramatic change affected by the South African anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko. The apartheid regime had used racial labeling to divide Indian, African, and mixed communities, preventing them from seeing their shared interests. Rather than reading Biko as a secular militant in the black power tradition, this chapter argues that Biko is best understood as rejecting a pragmatic, secularist understanding of politics. Through a seemingly simple practice of re-labeling, grouping all non-whites under the label black, Biko was able to transform not only political language but also political practice and ultimately political possibilities. This transformation is best understood in theological terms, as revelation that solicits fidelity; understood thusly, whiteness is identified with heresy. The chapter concludes by comparing Biko’s work of revelation with the reactionary, secularist racial labeling in the United States context, where words are tied increasingly tightly to worldly referents (“Negro” to “black” to “African American”).
Two Sides of the Same Coin? Form, Matter, and Secrecy in Derrida, de Man, and Borges
Authors: Dove Patrick
Published: May 2018

Chapter 5 challenges the automatic association between deconstruction and the work of Derrida by turning to the critical legacy of Paul de Man in Latin American literary studies. Dove evaluates Roberto Bolaño’s posthumous opus magnum through competing theoretical accounts of allegory taken from Paul de Man and Fredric Jameson. Bolaño’s novel both alludes to a Jamesonian notion of “national allegory” and performs its exhaustion in the time of neoliberal-administered globalization. In that light, Dove asks what the accounts of allegory found in de Man might still have to say to us today: Can de Man’s account of allegory as narrative postulation or performance of a radical anteriority help to understand how Bolaño’s novel shapes an idea of time that serves as an alternative to modern conceptualizations of historical time?
Infrapolitical Derrida: The Ontic Determination of Politics beyond Empiricism
Authors: Moreiras Alberto
Published: May 2018

Revisiting the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas through Derrida’s essay “Violence and Metaphysics,” Moreiras identifies a strain of Derridean thought that subverts the logic of heliopolitics, or a politics of light, that stands at the center of Derrida’s critique of Levinas’s treatment of the Platonic sun. Such a shadow politics, marrano politics, or infrapolitics “would be the region of theoretical practice that solicits the constitutive opacity of the ethicopolitical relation—hence admits, for every practical decision, of no preceding political or ethical light to mark the path.”
Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects
Authors: Lin Lana
Published: May 2018

Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects examines the vulnerabilities of the human body, in particular how cancer disrupts feelings of bodily integrity and agency. Employing psychoanalytic and literary analysis of atypical autopathographies, the book tracks three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary and queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Freud’s sixteen-year ordeal with a prosthetic jaw, the result of oral cancer, demonstrates the powers and failures of prosthetic objects in warding off physical and psychic fragmentation. Lorde’s life writing reveals how the loss of a breast to cancer is experienced as yet another attack directed toward her racially and sexually vilified body. Sedgwick’s memoir and breast cancer advice column negotiate her morbidity and mortality by disseminating a public discourse of love and pedagogy. Freud’s Jaw suggests that violences stemming from social, cultural, and biological environments condition the burden of surviving in proximity to one’s mortality. Drawing on psychoanalyst Melanie Klein’s concept of “reparation,” wherein constructive forces are harnessed to repair damage to internal psychic objects, Freud’s Jaw proposes that the prospect of imminent destruction paradoxically incites creativity. The afflicted are obliged to devise means to reinstate, at least temporarily, their destabilized physical and psychic unity through creative reparative projects such as love or writing. The book concludes with an analysis of reparative efforts at the rival Freud Museums. The disassembled Freudian archive, like the subjectivities-in-dissolution upon which the book focuses, shows how the labor of integration is tethered to persistent discontinuities.
The Sea of International Politics
Authors: Slaughter Joseph R. , Bystrom Kerry
Published: May 2018

Responding to the way the Southern parts of the Atlantic have historically been obscured in conceptions of the Atlantic world and through the critical oceanic studies concepts of fluidity, solvency, and drift, this chapter serves as a critical introduction to the South Atlantic. Beginning with a rereading of the Atlantic Charter, it poses the South Atlantic both as a material geographic region (something along the lines of a South Atlantic Rim) and as a set of largely unfulfilled visions—including those of anti-imperial solidarity and resistance generated through imaginative and political engagement from different parts of the Global South with the Atlantic world. It also reflects on the conditions under which something called the “Global South Atlantic” could come into being and the modes of historical, cultural, and literary comparison by which a multilingual and multinational region might be grasped.
The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic
Authors: Alencastro Luiz Felipe de
Published: May 2018

Scholarly studies of the colonization of the Americas—especially of Latin America—have tended to minimize the role played by Africans and the African slave trade, treating the history of conquest and colonialism as a story of inevitable European domination of the hemisphere. However, from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century, colonialism in the Americas depended upon the exportation of slaves from Africa, a massive undertaking that was supported not only by Iberian Royal families but also by convoluted ideological and theological justifications elaborated by legal and religious scholars. During this period, Portugal dominated the slave trade, raiding its colonies in Southern Africa to supply its plantations (many run by Jesuits) in South America. In this sense, the story of the South Atlantic is a story of encounters and exchanges between Africa and the Americas.
Beyond the Color Curtain
Authors: Mahler Anne Garland
Published: May 2018

This essay argues that tricontinentalism—the ideology disseminated through the expansive cultural production of the Cold War alliance of liberation movements from Africa, Asia, and Latin America called the Tricontinental—revised a black Atlantic resistant subjectivity into a global vision of subaltern resistance that is resurfacing in contemporary horizontalist concepts, like the Global South. Tricontinentalism responded to a political formulation of blackness from the négritude/negrismo/New Negro movements of the 1920s–40s and to the transformation of this category in Richard Wright’s use of the “color curtain” to describe the 1955 Afro-Asian Bandung Conference. As Bandung solidarity moved into the Americas to become the Tricontinental, tricontinentalism would attempt to push beyond the color curtain, transforming this category of color into a non-essentialist, political signifier that refers to a global and broadly inclusive resistant subjectivity that is inherent to contemporary concepts like the Global South.
Orientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic
Authors: Civantos Christina E.
Published: May 2018

This essay analyzes how Gabriel García Márquez’s 1981 novella Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold), which narrates a small town honor-killing involving a Levantine Arab immigrant, resonated with the prominent Lebanese author Elias Khoury (Ilyas Khuri). Khoury’s 1994 novel Majmaʿ al-Asrar (The Collection of Secrets) is at once an homage to García Márquez’s narrative techniques and a corrective commentary on the forms of Orientalism, or discursive violence, that linger in Crónica. In Majma’ al-Asrar, Khoury, while commenting on these Orientalist tensions, also looks beyond them to use Crónica to attempt to understand violence and the narrative act in South Atlantic contexts. This textual encounter demonstrates that contact across the South Atlantic-Southern Mediterranean corridor must attend to the vestiges of imperialist and neo-colonial dynamics in order to avoid the reproduction of various forms of violence.
Adrift Between Neoliberalism and the Revolution
Authors: Madureira Luís
Published: May 2018

This explores how the fraught and troubled historical links between sexuality and politics through a reading of Cape Verdean novelist Germano Almeida’s Eva. The paradox between the unrepeatable instance and its incessant “iterability” underpins the novel’s representation of two metaphorically linked domains of experience: politics and sexuality. I suggest that this repetitive or compulsive performativity relates directly to a sustained interrogation of the contradictory and often precarious dialogic entanglements that inform the constitution (or “performances”) of Cape Verdean (national, racial, gender) identity within a broad South Atlantic cultural and geopolitical space that encompasses not only Portugal (as the former colonial power), but also Brazil and continental Africa. Thus, the novel consistently refuses (sometimes in problematic ways) to fix identity in unequivocal terms and muddles the corporeal signs of absolute alterity that we routinely imagine to be located in the bodies of “others.”
The Spectacle of Care: From Figure to Form
Authors: Rosenfeld Colleen Ruth
Published: May 2018

The introduction provides a concise account of the widespread popularity of figures of speech in early modern literature as well as the humanist schoolrooms in which both writers and readers were trained to recognize and wield these instruments of ornamentation. It suggests that the relative neglect of figures of speech within histories of style as well as Renaissance studies more broadly speaks to literary studies’ quiet internalization of the very aesthetic principle against which poets like Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Mary Wroth worked: that good art pretends to be made up of something other than artifice. It argues that a poetic theory that takes seriously experiments with artifice at its most conspicuous challenges us to revise our accounts of literary world-making. Rather than understanding conspicuous artifice as a violation of decorum and verisimilitude, it shows how the indecorous thinking of figures of speech established the parameters of possibility for poetry’s privileged domain of “what may be.” Finally, it argues for a revaluation of the concept of form in literary studies from the perspective of figures of speech.
Introduction: Why Be Interested in Google?
Authors: Cassin Barbara
Published: May 2018

Why am I interested in Google, and why is anyone interested in Google? For me, it all started with two anecdotes.

“Hello, I know who you are. I Googled you.” This is how one Internet-savvy stranger greeted me in his car one day as he was about to drive me to see friends we had in common. There are three “Barbara Cassins” I know of to date, including a lieutenant commander who is a spokesperson for the New Zealand navy and an American ophthalmologist. As Lacan explains in one of his major interventions from the early 1970s, “a language, among others, is nothing more than the integral of equivocations its history leaves in it.”...
On Cultural Democracy
Authors: Cassin Barbara
Published: May 2018

The focus of this final chapter is to explore the far-reaching effects of Google on our books and our languages. It looks at the different resistances to Google’s domination from publishers and national libraries, including the attempts to set up competing European digital libraries and search engines. It also looks at the fraught question of copyright and fair use and the limits of Google Translate in a genuinely multilingual approach to culture.
Worlds and Situations
Authors: Zigon Jarrett
Published: May 2018

Chapter three shows how the anti-drug war movement’s conception of the drug war offers a new way of conceiving the focus of political activity. In contrast to the individualized and bounded issues and identities that much politics of the a priori focuses upon, a politics of worldbuilding begins with situations in worlds. Using the drug war as an example of a situation, this chapter delineates the characteristics of a situation and argues that worlds are nothing other than an assemblage of multiple situations and the existents that are intertwined with them. It is argued that this focus on situations allows politics to remain open-ended rather than closed and short sighted; demands strategies, tactics, and aims that emerge from a situation rather than an a priori conception of humanity; and as a result, is enacted as a politics of becoming rather than being. The chapter ends by showing how this notion of politics can also be used to address other political demands of our time, for example, the Anthropocene.
Thearchical Power in Theory and Practice
Authors: Purpura Ashley M.
Published: May 2018

This chapter offers a cumulative reflective analysis of power as indicated by the Byzantines to identify authentic power with divinity, describe this divine power as paradoxical in nature, and construct hierarchy as the appropriate means of mediating and participating in true power. The four authors suggest that giving priority to divinely originated (thearchical) power—rather than providing an additional over-idealized framework of ecclesiastical administration—provides a foundation for rereading the power dynamics of Orthodox Christianity. The synthesis offered in this chapter suggests that the hierarchical discontinuities between ideology and practice are paradoxically complicated and ameliorated when hierarchy is constructed as the only means of mediating divine power. The Byzantine theologians suggest that authentic hierarchy mediates, produces, and ascribes power to its participants in a way that is believed to be uniquely communicative of, and conducive to, divine similitude. This conception of hierarchy, power, and authority poses challenges for contemporary power theorists and historians as well as theologians.
Conclusion
Authors: Purpura Ashley M.
Published: May 2018

The conclusion to this book summarizes how the Byzantine tradition develops hierarchy as the signifier for the communication of divinity among humanity and the only source of authentic power. This final chapter points to theological continuities with this way of conceiving hierarchy before Dionysius and after the Byzantine empire. These parallels, along with those present in other liturgical genres (such as hagiography), suggest it represents a broader theological tradition. The main points from the preceding chapters are recapitulated as influencing the way issues of inclusion, exclusion, and power in historical and contemporary Orthodox contexts may be interpreted. Issues of gender, inter-Orthodox relations, clericalism, and the naming of tradition are addressed among others. Overall, the theological insights discussed in this book are presented as being reflective of a relevant tradition that endures by identifying ecclesiastical hierarchy with divine reflectivity, its ability to communicate divinity, its divinizing activity, and the christological witness of its members.
On Some Suspicions Regarding Comparative Theology
Authors: Willis Glenn R.
Published: May 2018

Glenn R. Willis suggests that comparative theologians, in order to be theologians at the service of communities wider than the small circle of comparative theology itself, need to consider two points insufficiently discussed in comparative theological conversations thus far. First, according to Willis, comparative theologians must show that comparative work does more than favor similarities, lest the discipline be linked too closely with the hopeful but too often naïve search for an underlying common ground. Second, Willis adds, systematic clarity will not be the sole sufficient way to sustain a vital comparative theology. Shortfalls in theological clarity and system may turn out also to be excellent teaching tools. Indeed, comparativists who honestly face a problem, imperfection, or confusion within their own tradition may travel to the other tradition with a sense of acute vulnerability born from need rather than overflowing confidence.
Crisis, Conundrum, and Critique
Authors: Schlund-Vials Cathy J.
Published: May 2018

The introduction provides a historical context for the project (which spans mid-century student activist movements and more recent debates involving Asian American activism and racial formation). The introduction also provides overviews for each of the three sections and the chapters contained therein.
Outsourcing, Terror, and Transnational South Asia
Authors: Nadkarni Asha
Published: May 2018

In dialogue with the previous chapter, Nadkarni examines the ways in which South Asian subjectivity and racial formation lay bare the polemics of contemporary economic discourse (specifically with regard to outsourcing), present-day War on Terror racializations, and postcolonial/neo-colonial registers.
Asian American Studies and Palestine: The Accidental and Reluctant Pioneer
Authors: Srikanth Rajini
Published: May 2018

The AAAS was the first academic association to declare its support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement protesting the wide-ranging violation of Palestinian rights by the Israeli government. While the association was in many ways a “pioneer,” it has struggled to articulate this position in the years following the historic action. Srikanth critically considers the history and aftermath of the AAAS boycott.
The Practice of Hierarchy
Authors: Heron Nicholas
Published: May 2018

By disclosing the liturgical principle that articulates it, the third chapter advances a novel interpretation of what is arguably Christianity’s most important contribution to the theorisation of power. As the angelological tradition from Pseudo-Dionysius through to St. Thomas Aquinas clearly demonstrates, hierarchy is neither simply the expression of ordered relations of natural superiority, nor merely a form of objective social organisation, but a practice: a practice, moreover, that serves a distinctly soteriological function and whose elaboration thus constitutes a chapter of critical importance in the larger genealogy of governmentality. But because hierarchy is not only the practice of (internal) order, but also its (external) manifestation, its concept confirms the intimate yet unexpected link between government and glory which Agamben has sought to highlight.
Instrumental Cause
Authors: Heron Nicholas
Published: May 2018

The fourth chapter explores Foucault’s passing remark that the problem of the relation between politics and religion in modernity is uniquely concentrated in the ambiguous figure of the “minister.” Its point of departure is Aquinas’s definition of the minister as the “instrumental cause” of sacramental efficacy (the administration of the sacraments being the liturgical operation par excellence). Following a detailed examination of the philosophical history of the instrumental cause, this chapter is able to demonstrate how, far from constituting a mere adaptation of Aristotle’s fourfold aetiology to the ends of Christian theology, the articulation of a notion of instrumental causality is in fact the vehicle through which theology seeks to assert its superiority with respect to philosophy. But to the extent that it defines the figure of the minister, it also in turn supplies the theoretical justification for the vicarious character of all liturgical power.
Arthropod communities within the olive canopy as bioindicators of different management systems
Authors: Vitanović Elda , Ivezić Marija , Kačić Sonja , Katalinić Miro , Durbešić Paula , Igrc Barčić Jasminka
Published: May 2018

Arthropods, within the olive tree canopy, which can act as bioindicators of different management systems (conventional, integrated and organic), were collected in costal Croatia during 2007-2009. The aim of the research was to determine the arthropod orders present in each of the observed olive groves, to identify the number of individuals in each order, and to set potential bioindicators of different management systems. In order to do that, arthropods were collected from the olive canopies at three locations (Supetar, Kaštel Stari and Duilovo). After the samples were sorted according to orders, and determined according to arthropods determination keys. Olive groves were characterised by the same growth conditions and environment, with differences in agricultural management systems. In this investigation, 7882 arthropods were collected, belonging to 17 orders. It was found that Diptera, Heteroptera and other Hemiptera individuals, excluded Cicadidae and Psyllidae family individuals, could be defined as potential bioindicators of olive groves under different management systems. The number of Araneae and Coleoptera individuals significantly differed in all researched olive groves. So, these orders can be considered as bioindicators of different management systems. The knowledge obtained in this research can potentially be exploited in olive production in the future. Obtained results represent an important contribution to the inventory of arthropods in olive canopy. Also, this research significantly improves understanding of both harmful and beneficial entomofauna in olive groves and consequently contributes to better understanding of the total entomofauna in Croatia.
Impact of Regulation Policy on Entrepreneurship Development in Kazakhstan
Authors: Assenova A. , Baizakov S. , Gafyatullina D. , Baizakov N.
Published: May 2018

In the article the authors return to the problem of inflation and measurement of economic growth, now from the position of analysis and evaluation of the effectiveness of economic management. And he finds a new confirmation of his previous approaches in the models of the analysis of economic growth of the expert society of the European Union. An analysis of the EU KLEMS model convinces the authors that models based on a qualitative theory of money provide a reliable basis for forecasting development and making correct management decisions.
Improvements of the working conditions for physicians and patient safety in emergency departments
Authors: Bjurman Christian , Mangafic Samra , Holzmann Martin J.
Published: May 2018

Background: A high staff turn-over and crowding are common problems in emergency departments (EDs). These problems coexist with a gradual decrease in hospital beds per capita. Many emergency physicians report burnout and plan to resign. Therefore, mostly inexperienced physicians, early in their career, are responsible for front-line emergency care.Methods: Literature review and analysis of work environment in EDs. Based on this, structural and individual measures were proposed in order to optimize the work environment for physicians.Results: Working conditions in the ED could be improved through modified back-up, checklists/algorithms, increased number of hospital beds, and optimal use of available beds, and a revision of the current shift organization.Conclusions: We hope that this analysis will prompt a debate that may lead to improvements in work satisfaction, resource utilization and quality of care.
Cavitation Erosion Pits and Craters in Metals
Authors: Bazanini Gil
Published: May 2018

Foram obtidos erosão e “pits” de cavitação utilizando o dispositivo a disco rotativo, onde um disco contendo indutores de cavitação e os corpos de prova giram em uma câmara preenchida com água, visando causar escoamento cavitante. Estes “pits” puderam ser observados com auxílio de um microscópio eletrônico de varredura. Micro-jatos oriundos do colapso da bolha, ou cavidade, geralmente causam danos à superfície sólida próxima . Os danos causados pelo colapso apresentam formato próximo do esférico. Pelo fato de serem causados por micro-jatos, os “pits” e demais danos apresentam formato esférico. Finalmente, foi calculado o “pit counting” que consiste no número de “pits” por unidade de área e de tempo. Observou-se ainda a influência da velocidade de escoamento no “pit counting” : quanto maior a velocidade, maior o valor do “pit counting” calculado.Também foram estudadas as “crateras” resultante do contato da bolha com o corpo de prova, em como a influência de altas temperaturas (3.000 K) no fenômeno, resultando ainda em manchas escuras em volta das crateras.
O desenvolvimento na américa latina: Teorias Cepalinas, Teoria da Dependência e perspectivas atuais
Authors: Pelosi Edna Marta , Santos Luís Miguel Luzio dos
Published: May 2018

Este ensaio teórico tem por objetivo discutir o tema do desenvolvimento na América Latina a partir das teorias cepalinas e da teoria da dependência de Celso Furtado. A partir dessa perspectiva, discutimos as consequências das políticas neoliberais para o processo de desenvolvimento nesses países, ressaltando a ampliação da relação de colonização e dependência da América Latina em relação aos países do centro capitalista. Concluímos trazendo alguns apontamentos sobre perspectivas atuais, as quais apontam para uma mudança na relação Estado-mercado, com ampliação do papel do Estado para vencer as fragilidades históricas desses países subdesenvolvidos e a perspectiva do desenvolvimento regional endógeno.
Competitividade e barreiras comerciais a produção de frango brasileira na perspectiva dos gestores: uma avaliação usando a Matriz de Impactos Cruzados – MIC MAC
Authors: Leite Filho Arceste , Schneider Mirian Beatriz
Published: May 2018

Este trabalho teve por objetivo principal analisar as barreiras tarifárias e não tarifárias sobre o comércio internacional de carne de frango, e seu possível impacto sobre a comercialização mundial. Como objetivos secundários, foram elencados os principais problemas que afetam a capacidade competitiva do setor de frango do Brasil e posteriormente realizada análise das principais barreiras que dificultam o comércio avícola. O levantamento dos objetivos secundários foi realizado por meio de pesquisas bibliográficas nos principais órgãos governamentais e institutos de pesquisa sobre o tema. Para a análise da pesquisa, foi utilizado o Método MICMAC, que partiu de entrevistas realizadas com os gestores das principais indústrias produtoras de carne de frango da região oeste do Paraná. Os resultados obtidos mostraram os pontos frágeis do sistema de exportação brasileira e indicaram onde devem ser tomadas ações, por parte do estado, afim de sanar ou minimizar os efeitos danosos destas barreiras. Neste contexto, o trabalho justificou-se pela importância e relevância que o tema possui, apresentando regulamentações importantes para as exportações brasileiras.
Análise locacional das atividades produtivas na microrregião de Porto Nacional do Estado do Tocantins
Authors: Carvalho Willane Queiroz , Ramos Maicon Santos , Oliveira Nilton Marques , Luz Rodolfo Alves
Published: May 2018

Este artigo analisa a dinâmica do emprego formal nas atividades produtivas na microrregião de Porto Nacional do estado do Tocantins, por meio das medidas de localização nos anos de 2005, 2010 e 2015. O referencial teórico adotado foram as teorias clássicas da localização e teorias do desenvolvimento regional. Para o estudo dos setores econômicos foram utilizadas as seguintes medidas de localização: Quociente de Localização e o Índice de Concentração de Hirschman-Herfindahl (IHH), baseados em dados da Relação Anual de Informações Sociais (RAIS) do Ministério do Trabalho e do Emprego (MTE). Os resultados mostraram que a dinâmica regional das atividades produtivas na microrregião de Porto Nacional se localiza em áreas mais desenvolvidas como na capital e em seu entorno, e demonstram uma concentração e especialização (potencial) maior no setor da administração pública e da agropecuária.
Ciclos políticos econômicos oportunistas ou partidários? uma aproximação empírica para os municípios brasileiros entre 2000 e 2012
Authors: Correia Edson Guilherme , Casonato Lucas
Published: May 2018

Este trabalho investiga se ocorrem Ciclos Políticos Econômicos (CPE) nas eleições municipais brasileiras entre 2000 e 2012, tomando como referência as teorias clássicas dos CPE e suas derivações. Analisa empiricamente a influência dos gastos públicos, nível de renda e região geográfica na reeleição de prefeitos e nas sucessões partidárias, para determinar qual modelo teórico se aplica melhor ao caso das cidades brasileiras, se Oportunista ou Partidário. A estratégia econométrica compreende a aplicação de dois modelos Probit, um painel com efeitos aleatórios e um binário estruturado como painel (pooled). Conclui que há evidências de que ocorrem Ciclos Políticos do tipo Oportunista nos municípios brasileiros durante o período analisado.
Reviewer Acknowledgements for English Language and Literature Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2
Authors: Ding Alice
Published: May 2018

Reviewer Acknowledgements for English Language and Literature Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2018.
Furiously Funny
Authors: Tucker Terrence T.
Published: May 2018

Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock explores the simultaneous expression of militancy and humor in African American literature that came to fruition in the post–World War II moment. This book traces the increasing presence of African American works containing a combustible mix of fury and radicalism, of pathos and pain, of wit and love that fuse to create what I refer to as comic rage. I employ Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to argue that works of comic rage centralize African American experience and tradition in direct challenges to dominant (white) narratives and (black) counter-narratives about race, identity, and nation. Works of comic rage sit at the center of the discourse through humor’s connection to the familiar and the recognizable in mainstream and African America. Comic rage capitalizes on the inability of African Americans to be fully expelled from mainstream American constructions of its identity and culture. Therefore, as with the abject that cannot be expelled, works of comic rage cause the narratives and counter-narratives to collapse and initiate a re-visioning of fundamental, destructive assumptions within white supremacy. Whether those assumptions involve history, literature, or (white) superiority, comic rage aggressively promotes an African American subjectivity that rejects white stereotypes of blackness and African American responses that remain dependent on the power dynamics that reinforce white supremacy (master vs. slave, perpetrator vs. victim).