bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Avaliação da sensibilidade de Daphnia magna Straus, 1820 (Cladócera, Crustácea) ao dicromato de potássio
Authors: Alves Ana Claudia B. , Silvano Jacira
Published: January 2024

As análises ecotoxicológicas determinam os efeitos deletérios causados a um organismo por um agente tóxico. O microcrustáceo Daphnia magna é um dos organismos mais usados em bioensaios de toxicidade. Para garantir a confiabilidade dos resultados é necessário avaliar a sensibilidade das dáfnias que pode ser influenciada pelas condições de cultivo em laboratório. O dicromato de potássio, 10 mg/L, foi utilizado como substância referência para obter a faixa de sensibilidade. O presente trabalho avalia os testes de sensibilidade realizados de março de 2004 a março de 2005 no Laboratório de Ecotoxicologia do Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais e Tecnológicas, IPAT, da Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, UNESC, segundo a norma ABNT NBR 12713. Os indivíduos entre 2 e 24 horas de idade foram testados em soluções com diferentes concentrações. O valor médio da CE50 de 1,28 mg/L está dentro da faixa limite para dicromato de potássio conforme a norma ISO 6341. De acordo com as comparações feitas entre os dados do presente estudo com os valores estabelecidos pela norma ISO e com os relatados por outros autores, pode-se inferir que as dáfnias, cultivadas no Laboratório de Ecotoxicologia do IPAT, estão aptas a serem utilizadas em testes de toxicidade.
Compostos fenólicos em alimentos – Uma breve revisão
Authors: Angelo Priscila Milene , Jorge Neuza
Published: January 2024

Os compostos fenólicos são estruturas químicas que apresentam hidroxilas e anéis aromáticos, nas formas simples ou de polímeros, que os confere o poder antioxidante. Esses compostos podem ser naturais ou sintéticos. Quando presentes em vegetais podem estar em formas livres ou complexadas a açúcares e proteínas. Dentre eles, destacam-se os flavonóides, os ácidos fenólicos, os taninos e os tocoferóis como os antioxidantes fenólicos mais comuns de fonte natural. Considerando-se a importância dos compostos fenólicos, o presente trabalho apresenta uma revisão sobre os fenólicos mais comuns em plantas e as principais metodologias usadas em análises de alimentos, na identificação e quantificação desses compostos. Há ainda a necessidade de estabelecer uma investigação sistemática para preparação de amostra e na determinação de fenólicos em alimentos, uma vez que as metodologias correntemente utilizadas para a análise de fenólicos não são totalmente padronizadas, tampouco divulgadas por órgãos oficiais.
Formação de óxidos de colesterol e alteração dos ácidos graxos em produtos cárneos
Authors: Baggio Sueli Regina , Bragagnolo Neura
Published: January 2024

O processamento dos produtos cárneos pode ocasionar a oxidação do colesterol levando à formação de óxidos de colesterol, os quais estão associados ao surgimento de placas ateroscleróticas e a vários efeitos biológicos indesejáveis. Esta revisão integra dados sobre a presença de óxidos de colesterol, bem como os teores de colesterol, lipídios totais e ácidos graxos em produtos cárneos processados. O efeito do cozimento e do tempo de estocagem dos produtos cárneos na formação de óxidos de colesterol e alteração dos ácidos graxos também são abordados.
Otimização e avaliação do ensaio de imunofluorescência indireta para pesquisa de anticorpos anti-herpesvírus humano 8 (HHV-8) usando sangue colhido em papel de filtro
Authors: Silva Joyce Matie Kinoshita , Magri Mariana Cavalheiro , Jacob Fabrício , Santos-Fortuna Elizabeth de los , Caterino-de-Araújo Adele
Published: January 2024

O presente trabalho objetivou a otimização e a avaliação da coleta de sangue em papel de filtro para ser usada em levantamentos soroepidemiológicos de infecção por herpesvírus humano 8 (HHV-8). Foram utilizados os ensaios de imunofluorescência indireta (IFI) LANA e Lítico para a pesquisa de anticorpos anti-HHV-8 em amostras de sangue colhidas em membrana Schleicher Schuell de 28 pacientes com sarcoma de Kaposi (SK)/AIDS e 10 indivíduos sadios sem SK, dos quais os soros haviam sido anteriormente usados na padronização destas técnicas. Lâminas contendo células da linhagem BCBL-1 estimuladas ou não com éster de forbol, eluatos de sangue e conjugado anti-imunoglobulina humana marcado com fluoresceína foram empregados nas reações sorológicas e, as reações e os critérios de positividade seguiram os previamente estabelecidos na Seção de Imunologia do Instituto Adolfo Lutz. Foi detectada fluorescência verde-amarelada na maioria das células nas diluições 1:50 e 1:100. Isto dificultou a leitura da IFI-Lítico, principalmente em diluições baixas, mas não interferiu na IFI-LANA cujo padrão pontilhado no núcleo coexistiu com a fluorescência de membrana. À medida que se seguiram as diluições, houve desaparecimento da inespecificidade e a leitura prosseguiu normalmente. Houve concordância de resultados positivos e negativos, com diferenças mínimas nos títulos de anticorpos. Os resultados obtidos viabilizam a coleta de sangue em papel para estudos epidemiológicos de infecção por HHV-8.
Avaliação do perfil bacteriológico de salsichas tipo “hot dog” comercializadas em embalagens a vácuo e a granel em supermercados dos municípios Rio de Janeiro e Niterói, RJ/Brasil
Authors: Martins Lucimar Lima , Santos Iacir Francisco dos , Franco Robson Maia , Oliveira Luiz Antônio Trindade de , Bezz Juliana
Published: January 2024

As enfermidades transmitidas por alimentos (ETA) são mundialmente conhecidas como um dos principais problemas de saúde coletiva. Em função dos embutidos cárneos terem se destacado como de grande consumo pela população, foi avaliado o perfil bacteriológico de salsichas tipo “hot dog”, adquiridas em diferentes supermercados dos municípios de Rio de Janeiro e Niterói, RJ. As amostras foram submetidas às seguintes análises bacteriológicas: enumeração de coliformes a 35°C e termotolerantes; contagem de Staphylococcus coagulase positiva; contagem de Clostridium spp. sulfito redutores a 46°C e isolamento e identificação de Salmonella spp. As metodologias utilizadas foram as convencionais com modificações pertinentes. Comparando-se os resultados obtidos com a legislação em vigor, 33% das amostras foram consideradas impróprias ao consumo, em vista do isolamento de todos os microrganismos pesquisados. De acordo com os resultados observados, pode-se concluir que as amostras de salsichas tipo “hot dog” avaliadas representam potencial risco a saúde pública.
Avaliação do teor alcoólico e componentes secundários de cachaças
Authors: Caruso Miriam Solange Fernandes , Nagato Letícia Araújo Farah , Alaburda Janete
Published: January 2024

A cachaça e a aguardente de cana são produtos alcoólicos oriundos da destilação do caldo de cana fermentado. A aguardente de cana deve apresentar teor alcoólico de 38,0 a 54,0 % (em volume, a 20°C) e a cachaça, de 38,0 a 48,0%. Foram analisadas 60 amostras de cachaça comercializadas na cidade de São Paulo, com o intuito de averiguar a conformidade quanto à graduação alcoólica e componentes secundários (acetaldeído, acetato de etila e álcoois superiores) em comparação aos parâmetros estabelecidos pela legislação do Ministério da Agricultura. O teor alcoólico nas amostras analisadas variou de 34,7% a 46,9%, e em 10 amostras (17,0%) a graduação alcoólica foi inferior a 38,0%. As concentrações de acetaldeído oscilaram na faixa de valor não quantificado (< 5) a 120 mg/100 mL de álcool anidro (AA); 31 amostras (52,0%) apresentaram valores acima do limite máximo estabelecido de 30 mg/100 mL AA. As concentrações de acetato de etila de todas as amostras estavam em conformidade com a legislação (máximo de 200 mg/100mL AA). Em relação aos álcoois superiores, sete amostras (12,0%) apresentaram teores superiores ao limite máximo previsto (360 mg/100 mL AA). Das 60 amostras, 70,0% estavam em desacordo com as especificações em pelo menos um dos parâmetros avaliados, sugerindo-se que há necessidade de introduzir melhorias no processo produtivo e no estabelecimento de estratégias para realizar maior controle analítico do produto final.
Composição química de farinhas pré-cozidas por extrusão elaboradas com arroz e café torrado
Authors: Silva Reginaldo Ferreira da , Ascheri José Luis Ramirez , Pereira Rosemary Gualberto Fonseca Alvarenga
Published: January 2024

O Brasil é considerado o maior produtor de café do mundo. Entretanto, o maior volume de exportação desse produto é feito na forma de grãos verde (commodity), que proporciona a oportunidade aos países importadores de industrializar e comercializar o café na forma de outros produtos manufaturados de alto valor agregado. Este trabalho teve por objetivo relatar o estudo realizado sobre procedimento alternativo para a diversificação e agregação de valor ao produto café no Brasil. Por meio da extrusão termoplástica de mistura de farinha de arroz e pó de café em diferentes concentrações percentuais (15 e 20%) obteve-se a farinha pré-cozida. Nas misturas contendo 15 e 20% de pó de café, os teores de proteínas, carboidratos, fibra alimentar e valor calórico foram maiores do que da farinha de arroz pura. Foi observado um aumento de concentração da maioria dos aminoácidos contidos na mistura pré-cozida, o que pode contribuir no aumento dos teores de aminoácidos totais. Apesar do ligeiro incremento nos teores de lisina nas farinhas pré-cozidas, quando estes foram comparados com a proteína de referência citada pela FAO/WHO, os valores encontrados eram ainda limitantes para suprir as necessidades diárias requeridas pelas crianças nas idades de 2 a 5 anos e de 10 a 12 anos. Na farinha pré-cozida a treonina apresentou valor limitante apenas para crianças de 2 a 5 anos de idade.
Rezension von: Riedel, Frieder, Cornelius Breuninger
Authors: Trefz Bernhard , Riedel Frieder
Published: January 2024

Frieder Riedel: Kriegstagebuch von Cornelius Breuninger 1914 bis 1918. Leinfelden-Echterdingen: Numea-Verlag 2014. 288 S., zahlr. Abb.
Educación multimodal en El Salvador: pasado, presente y futuro de los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje
Authors: Montoya Martínez José Ernesto
Published: January 2024

Frente a los desafíos educativos generados por la pandemia de COVID-19 en Centroamérica y específicamente en El Salvador, los gobiernos de la región implementaron acciones de emergencia para lograr la continuidad educativa en un entorno remoto. Este contexto aceleró los procesos de digitalización, adopción de novedosas e innovadoras estrategias educativas y planteó la ruta crítica de un nuevo modelo pedagógico. En este marco surgen las nociones de multimodalidad, educación híbrida y aprendizaje combinado. Este proceso ha estado lleno de retos, pero la experiencia salvadoreña demuestra cómo la capacidad de adaptación en tiempos de incertidumbre es clave para la reconversión y mejora de la educación.
La Red de Docentes Investigadores de El salvador: un espacio de reflexión del hecho educativo
Authors: González Minero Luis Eduardo , Aragón Aguilar Tatiana Karina , Cardoza Hernández Wilfredo Ernesto , Calderón Martínez Juan Carlos , Flores Montalvo María Julia , Avelar de Jiménez Maira Cristina
Published: January 2024

La Red de Docentes Investigadores de El Salvador es un proyecto para propiciar la reflexión sobre la práctica docente y su transformación para la mejora en los aprendizajes de los estudiantes. Este espacio se está convirtiendo en una comunidad de práctica para el desarrollo profesional de los y las formadores/as del sistema educativo nacional que posibilita un acercamiento al hecho educativo de la mano de los/as protagonistas: los/as docentes investigadores/as. Esta sistematización, elaborada a partir de múltiples técnicas, busca visibilizar los esfuerzos hechos desde la Gerencia de Investigación y Seguimiento a la Formación Docente para contar con un magisterio que investiga en las aulas del sistema educativo público.
Repensar la educación en un contexto de pandemia: las respuestas educativas de los países del SICA, sus experiencias, reflexiones y desafíos
Authors: Núñez Raquel , Rodríguez Carlos , Avelar Alemán Selvin , Retamales Matías , Kasman Romina
Published: January 2024

En 2022, en el contexto del fin de la emergencia sanitaria de la COVID-19 y la reapertura física de los centros educativos, se hizo evidente la necesidad de analizar los impactos negativos, las oportunidades y, sobre todo, las experiencias surgidas a la luz de la implementación de políticas y programas educativos puestos en marcha para proteger y promover el derecho a la educación
“Punto de inflexión: Crisis climática y ecológica” de Pamela Poo
Authors: Fernández San Miguel Sofía Constanza
Published: January 2024

Reseña de "Punto de inflexión: Crisis climática y ecológica” de Pamela Poo
Dynamics of morbidity and discharge rates for mental disorders and possible prospects for organizing measures of medical and psychological rehabilitation among servicemen on combat duty in the air and missile defense forces
Authors:   Federal State Institution ", Zhovnerchuk Inna Yu. ,   Main Center for Military Medical Expertise",   of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Moscow Russia, Zhovnerchuk Evgeny V. ,   Branch of the Military Medical Academy named after C.M. Kirov Moscow Russia, Schegolev Ilya V. ,   Branch of the Military Medical Academy named after C.M. Kirov Moscow Russia, Zhitenev Aleksey M. ,   Of the Military unit 44444 Moscow region Russia
Published: January 2024

The article presents an analysis of the peculiarities of the mental state of servicemen who are on duty in special facilities of air and missile defense troops and the factors that negatively affect the mental health of this contingent. The article analyzes the dynamics of morbidity and discharge rate of servicemen for mental disorders and describes the prospects for improving medical and psychological rehabilitation measures.
Application of biochips and superparamagnetic particles in immunoassays
Authors:   Research Institute of BMSTU Moscow Russia, Bagrov Valeriy V. , Dikov Aleksandr V. ,   BMSTU Moscow Russia, Kondratiev Andrey V. ,   Research Institute of BMSTU Moscow Russia, Krylov Vladimir I. ,   Research Institute of BMSTU Moscow Russia, Shavykin Andrey E. ,   «Оniko-М» Ltd. Moscow Russia
Published: January 2024

The article reviews the issues of creating automated hardware for immunological analyses using modern innovative technologies that provide a significant reduction of time to obtain the results of tests, while reducing the cost and increasing the informativeness. The mechanism of achieving target indicators by using a combination of biochip technologies and superparamagnetic particles is disclosed. It is highlighted that the engineering solutions incorporated in the creation of new unique laboratory equipment are the basis for further successful advancement of developments related to the adaptation of the technological process and the creation of medical and technical regulations.
The impact of the translation of cultural books by the JoseonYasogyoseohoi(The Christian Literature Society of Korea) on travel literature in the 1920s
Authors:   Institute of Future Society and Christianity, Eum Yeong-cheol , Kim Kyeng-nam
Published: January 2024

This paper examines the trends and meanings of translation and publication of cultural books by the JoseonYasogyoseohoi(The Christian Literature Society of Korea) during the Japanese colonial period, and Ann Judson Sajeok(Ann Judson), Yurakhwangdogi(The Swiss Family Robinson) and GeurusoPhyorugi(Robinson Crusoe), which are adventure stories for missionary purposes. The goal is to identify the internal structure of and its influence on the development of travel literature.
As a personal biography of a great man, Ann Judson and the drift novels Yurakhwangdogi and GeurusoPhyorugi, although their genres are different, have something in common in terms of travel experience, drifting, and cross-cultural contact. This means that these works contributed greatly to the development of Korean travel literature, but there are certain differences in the internal structure of the works depending on the differences in genre. Due to the nature of biographies of great people, Ann Judson has a relatively simple narrative structure in which the flow of time and movement through space are relatively simple. In comparison, other two drifted novels are works that appropriately embody the motif of ‘travel → drifting → settlement → return’, and are works that appropriately reproduce the chronotope as a space-time complex at the level of travel literature. In particular, the illustrations used in Geuruso are pictures that specifically express the time and space signified within the text, and become noteworthy elements in relation to the restructuring of space and time in travel literature. In this way, adventure stories for missionary purposes can be said to be important works in terms of the development of travel literature, even if Bible translations remain or cultural prejudices based on civilizational discourse are inherent.
ДЕЯКІ АСПЕКТИ РОЗРОБКИ ВЕБ-ОРІЄНТОВАНОЇ СИСТЕМИ COFFEE++
Authors: ТКАЧЕНКО Ольга Іванівна , ТИШУРА Олексій Михайлович
Published: January 2024

В наш час веб-орієнтовані системи використовуються в багатьох сферах економіки, освіти, в нашому повсякденному житті. Особливе місце займають веб-орієнтовані системи закладів громадського харчування (ресторанного бізнесу), серед задач яких, зокрема, є задачі, пов’язані з обробкою замовлень клієнтів та оптимізації бізнес-процесів цих закладів. Сучасна e-commerce перетворилася на повноцінний самостійний бізнес, який пропонує багато можливостей для різних категорій користувачів (покупців, клієнтів), відрізняючись асортиментом товарів, функціональністю, дизайном відповідних вебсайтів. Веб-орієнтовані системи стають необхідним компонентом сучасних закладів громадського харчування. Підприємства, які впроваджують інноваційні технології, мають значні перевагу на ринку. Тому актуальність розробки веб-орієнтованої системи COFFEE++ не викликає сумнівів.Метою роботи є аналіз та дослідження проблем щодо розробки програмного забезпечення відповідної веб-орієнтованої системи та її використання для оптимізації бізнес-процесів закладу громадського харчування (кав’ярні) та підвищення рівня задоволенності клієнтів, які роблять online-замовлення страв і напоїв, які пропонує заклад, та отримують доставку цих замовлень. Мета і завдання статті спрямовані на просування інноваційних підходів та технологій, які можуть підтримати стійкий розвиток закладу громадського харчування (кав’ярні), забезпечити високий рівень обслуговування клієнтів та отримання максимального прибутку.Веб-орієнтована система COFFEE++ є інструментом для кав'ярень, які прагнуть оптимізувати роботу, підвищити рівень задоволеності клієнтів і збільшити рентабельність. Впроваджуючи цю систему, кав'ярні можуть випереджати конкурентів, адаптуватися до споживчих уподобань, надавати своїм клієнтам високий рівень обслуговування. Здатність системи генерувати звіти та аналітику дає можливість менеджерам кав’ярні приймати рішення на основі різноманітних даних (щодо клієнтів, замовлень, ситуації на ринку, тощо), визначати сфери вдосконалення та оптимізувати загальну ефективність бізнесу в закладі.
Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons
Authors: Sutton Sharon Egretta
Published: January 2024

Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons seeks to reinvigorate American democracy’s stalled trajectory toward its founding creed to embrace all, and not just some. It offers an antidote to a neoliberal education system that has not only veered away from its public mandate to advance democratic citizenship but that has also contributed to an insidious concentration of wealth, rendering illusive the idea that rich and poor can work together toward a common good. It calls for an approach to cultivating citizens who have the critical skills to challenge injustice, the courage to hold the rich and powerful accountable, and the empathy to advance, not just their own self-interest, but the health and well-being of their communities and the planet. It proposes that such citizens develop by exercising collective agency in “the commons,” a political and psychic space whose values are mapped out in physical space. It argues that the three-dimensional concreteness of the nation’s disinvested neighborhoods provides a literal stage where low-income youth of color can experiment with collective life, become more discerning about the forces that have shaped their communities, and practice working toward just and inclusive futures. Merging Paolo Freire’s seminal theory of critical pedagogy with Grace Lee Boggs’s belief that hands-on, place-based activism can disrupt the evermore destructive forces of neoliberal capitalism, it illustrates a pathway forward through three community-based youth organizations that engage youth in critical placemaking to address inequities in the commons of their disinvested neighborhoods that threaten democracy’s founding principles.
Introduction
Authors: Sutton Sharon Egretta
Published: January 2024

This introduction to Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons lays out the inequities that marginalized youth of color experience, especially race-based economic inequality, environmental injustice, and intolerance within a neoliberal education system. It acknowledges the historic and contemporary achievements of youth activism but says that today’s inequities call for a new, more engaged approach to developing democratic citizenship. It merges Paolo Freire’s notion of critical pedagogy with Grace Lee Boggs’s belief that hands-on, place-based activism can provide a counterforce to neoliberal capitalism to support the book’s central premise, namely that youth of color can develop collective agency by engaging in critical placemaking in “the commons” of their neighborhoods. It introduces three community-based youth organizations that were part of a 2004–2005 Ford Foundation–funded study and its 2020–2021 follow-up, and that each illustrate a district realm of place-based activism, emotional, physical, and intellectual. It ends by promising a conclusion about the kind of youth organizations that can advance place-based activism, the commons they can help reimagine, and the pedagogy that can evoke the full potential of youth of color.
Forgotten Casualties
Authors: Hall Kevin T.
Published: January 2024

Forgotten Casualties examines Axis violence inflicted on downed Allied airmen during World War II. Throughout the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the remote jungles of Southeast Asia, and Nazi-occupied Europe, thousands of flyers were mistreated and executed during the duration of the global conflict. The perpetrators were not solely fanatical soldiers or Nazi zealots, but also included “ordinary” civilians. A combination of stimuli influenced and triggered the active involvement of the embattled populace, e.g., the death and devastation inflicted by the war, the lack of security and despair caused by aerial attacks, the longing for retribution, extreme nationalism, as well as propaganda that approved of lynch justice and encouraged citizens to take matters into their own hands. Whether spontaneous or premeditated, the mistreatment inflicted upon downed flyers represented an increasing response to the intense and devastating aerial attacks. As the Axis home front no longer afforded civilians safety from the effects of war, the encounters with downed airmen provided Axis citizens, with an unprecedented opportunity for personal retribution that simultaneously relieved the Axis regimes’ inability to deter the air war and combat Allied flyers. As the war dragged on, the militarization of civilians, and especially Axis citizens’ increased willingness to mistreat captured flyers, became an additional byproduct of this total war. Drawing heavily on airmen’s personal accounts and testimonies (of both witnesses and perpetrators) from the postwar crimes trials, Forgotten Casualties offers a new narrative of this largely overlooked aspect of Axis violence.
Senghorian Négritude and Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
Authors: Niang Aliou Cissé
Published: January 2024

This chapter presents Léopold Sédar Senghor as an intellectual who embodies the Baobab Tree metaphor. He is the architect of proto-postcolonial theory and forerunner to that of Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Homi Bhabha. I argue that Negritude, as articulated by Senghor, is a poetic biblical hermeneutics with which he destabilizes and subverts French colonial epistemology. More importantly, Senghor’s proto-postcolonial theory engages the entirety of African culture and its vital life force to liberate and rehabilitate the oppressed. The chapter illustrates the liberating conscientization that emerges with his proto-postcolonial work with Africana activism. This activism is political and religious as it arises from a deep reflection on sacred texts that seek to create meaningful movement and symbiotic humanistic progress and then reexamines that movement and its underside, for the purposes of more fully embodying worldviews of creative and productive lives.
God Killed! God Interrupted, Long Live the People!: Political Theory in Religious Act
Authors: Wariboko Nimi
Published: January 2024

This chapter uses the Ozidi saga (deicide) of the Kalabari people of Nigeria as a diagnostic of the political situation on the continent of Africa under neo-liberal capitalism. The Ozidi saga is also presented as offering political and spiritual strategies of emancipatory politics of interruption. This possibility can only be realized when citizens of a nation become an awakened collective and affirm to themselves that political power always requires the consent of the people. That same power is always subject to endless interruptions, interrogations, and alterations. Power is always a void to be occupied by people who act together, and this collective action is the essence of freedom.
“Doing the Will of God” as Loving God Whose Way Is Peace
Authors: Niang Aliou Cissé
Published: January 2024

This chapter is an interreligious epistemology for Christians that challenges them to embrace the healthy values practiced by Muslims and African traditionists. The chapter argues that when Christians embrace healthy Muslim and African traditional values of hospitality it will greatly enhances their appreciation of and living out the core mandate to love God and neighbor. This universal ethic of love grows out of the author’s experience of an interreligious childhood in Senegal, the poetry and philosophy of Leopold Senghor, and his examination of the Synoptic Gospels and Qur’an, all imaginatively integrated to provide a path that can assist in overcoming religious conflicts. A central argument of this chapter, similar to that of the analyst Hans Kohut, is that joy, peace, and freedom are only experienced through radical ethical other-oriented action.
Deification in Evagrius Ponticus and the Transmission of the Kephalaia Gnostika in Syriac and Arabic
Authors: Davis Stephen J.
Published: January 2024

Theosis is an oft neglected aspect of Evagrius Ponticus’s thought. This essay seeks to provide much needed further analysis of theosis in the Evagrian corpus by employing a broad survey of the concept of “Holy Unity” and by a more focused analysis of Kephalaia Gnostika in its Syrian and Arabic transmissions. Particular attention is given to the “unexpurgated” texts that avoided an anti-Origenist editing and as a result preserve a more robust notion of theosis. Though Evagrius does not use the word theosis or any equivalent in the translation of his works, there is a well-developed concept of union with the divine that emphasizes the role grace mediated through the Eucharist and ascetical practices.
Dancing Immanence: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming
Authors: LaMothe Kimerer L.
Published: January 2024

This chapter frames dance as critical category for illuminating the constitutive role played by rhythmic bodily movement in generating and maintaining religious worldviews—especially those characterized by divine immanence. Humans throughout time have relied on practices of dancing to obtain knowledge not only of what human, nature, and divine are in relation to one another, but of how to act amidst these relationships in mutually life-enabling ways. With help from a philosophy of bodily becoming, this chapter provides a phenomenological account of how dancing educates people’s senses to the ever-present reality of their own movement-making—their kinetic creativity. A quick survey of three representative cases suggests that, in these contexts, the action of dancing not only offers people an opportunity to experience their kinetic creativity as participating in the ongoing life of the natural world; the dancing also cultivates in them a capacity to sense and respond to the natural world as worthy of utmost care and attention—as divine. These phenomenological and historical touch points together suggest that ideas of divine immanence alone will not change behavior unless coupled with practices of bodily movement that educate our senses to the movements of the nature in us and around us.
Solidarity with Nonhumans: Being Ecological with Object-Oriented Ontology
Authors: Mickey Sam
Published: January 2024

The ecocritical philosopher Timothy Morton draws on object-oriented ontology (OOO) in writings on ecological thought and the profound uncertainty and interconnectivity that characterize the Anthropocene. This chapter presents theoretical and practical principles of OOO, 1) contrasting OOO with new materialisms and other related philosophical movements, 2) specifying practical implications for an ethics of aesthetic attunement (“ecognosis”) and a politics of ecological solidarity, and 3) outlining the place of religion therein, as indicated by Morton’s writing on Buddhism, magic, esotericism, and the agricultural logistics at work in Axial Age religions and in the spirituality of consumerism. Although OOO contrasts with new materialism in significant ways, it nonetheless provides conceptual and spiritual support for shared ethical and political commitments to planetary thinking and ecological flourishing.
Matter Values: Ethics and Politics for a Planet in Crisis
Authors: Clayton Philip
Published: January 2024

This closing chapter locates new materialism (NM) with the broader discussions of science and religion. Given the devastating crisis that humanity now faces, planetary thinking now becomes the prime criterion for “science and …” discussions—whether of religion, value, ethics, or politics. NM, as the exploration of living matter, recognizes intention and value all the way “down” to unicellular organisms, and all the way “up” to the planet as a whole—Gaia as a single interconnected system of living, valuing matter. Thus “matter values” in both senses: living things are material agents acting in webs of value, and the resulting material systems matter for the fate of the planet. Emergent NM gives rise to a planetary ethic, and that ethic in turn gives rise to a politics for a planet in crisis.
Gramsci’s Grave
Authors: McGlazer Ramsey
Published: January 2024

In Brazil, Antonio Gramsci’s detractors on the political right still see him as an undead red menace. This chapter seeks to account for the persistence of this image and asks how and why right-wing discourses in Brazil privilege Gramsci’s views on the school in particular. Whereas in Gramsci’s educational theory, the school is figured as a democratic training camp, in the discourse of the Brazilian far right it becomes a veritable battlefield. At stake in this ongoing culture war, centered in schools, is not only the defeat of “Cultural Marxism,” but also the suppression of an “ideology of gender” said to have infiltrated Brazilian public education. It is counter-intuitive to make Gramsci represent this latter “ideology,” given that questions of gender and sexuality are not central to his work. And yet that is what the influential movement Programa Escola Sem Partido has done as it has gathered support first for its own legislative agendas and then for the administration of Jair Bolsonaro. Reading the movement’s engagements with Gramsci symptomatically, I consider this effort’s implications for the left in and beyond Brazil. I argue that they remind us that the scene of teaching remains one to which we should return.
J.D.
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

Playfully and with great affection, Nancy riffs on the name and the initials of his friend, Jacques Derrida. J.D. is a DJ spinning discs, a Star Wars jedi, a philosophical brand, an I there—je da—between French and German, and a deconstructive Don Juan in Spanish. In the end, J.D. is a figure performing his own roguish derridance.
The Independence of Algeria and the Independence of Derrida
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

1962 was the year of Algerian independence and the year Derrida published The Origin of Geometry. It was also a time when the national and international political identities of post-war Europe were shifting as part of a general rupture of origins and their guarantees. Derrida did not respond by “getting into politics” but he nonetheless practiced a politics of philosophy.
Eloquent Stripes
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

Derrida did not share Nancy’s interest in sense, at one point telling Nancy that it was a crude word. Rather, Derrida favored dissemination, the scattering of sense, and this essay pursues the thought that art has always preceded pure sense. The eloquent stripes of the title are the scratches of a pen, stripes of color and rays of light that we encounter in the several forms of art. This essay resonates with Nancy’s The Ground of the Image and “Why Are There Several Arts and Not Just One?”
A Differant Orientation
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

A lecture delivered at a colloquium on “Derrida’s Orient,” this piece challenges our European ways of talking about east and west and the Eurocentric conviction that the arc of history follows the arc of the sun from east to west, morning to evening. Nancy argues that it is time to turn away from orientation, allowing ourselves to be dis-oriented and to begin again in the spirit of openness, otherness and welcome—a differant orientation.
Jouis anniversaire!
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

The occasion of the tenth anniversary of Derrida’s death sends Nancy to Glas where Derrida, wrangling Genet in one column and Hegel in the other, deals with anniversaries, annuluses and rings, hands and bodies, penises, vaginas, and anuses, culminating in the sticky relation of life and sex.
Homage to Jacques Derrida: An Interview with Laure Adler
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: January 2024

A television interview where Nancy touches on his first encounters with Derrida—the man and his work—the meaning of deconstruction, and the deepest sources of Derrida’s thinking.
Gothic Things
Authors: Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew
Published: January 2024

Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety adopts a new materialist analysis of the Gothic genre, highlighting the ways that the Gothic has been intensely focused on “ominous matter” and “thing-power” since the origins of the genre in the eighteenth century. In chapters attending to gothic bodies, spaces, books, and other objects, Gothic Things argues that the Gothic has always been about what happens when objects assume mysterious animacy or potency and what happens when human beings are reduced to the status of things among other things. It explores how the Gothic insistently decenters the human, revealing human beings to be enmeshed in networks of human and non-human forces mostly outside of our control. Gothic Things thus resituates the Gothic as the uncanny doppelganger of twenty-first-century critical and cultural theory, everywhere lurking beneath the surface (and sometimes explicitly surfacing) as it haunts considerations of how human beings interact with objects and their environment. The Gothic offers the dark reflection of the contemporary “nonhuman turn,” substituting horror for hope. It shows us that we live in scary times, that surrendering power is difficult, and that confronting the unknown is more difficult still.
Introduction
Authors: Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew
Published: January 2024

In this introductory chapter, I argue that the Gothic genre has, since its beginnings, been consistently preoccupied with the nature of matter itself and the relation of the human to the nonhuman, and that this sensibility informing early contributions to the genre continues to structure literary and visual contributions in the present. With this in mind, my purpose is to reorient Gothic studies onto “Gothic materialism”: the centrality of objects within Gothic narrative, the ways that the Gothic calls into question conventional distinctions between animate and inanimate, and how, in place of autonomous human actors, the Gothic redefines human beings as Latourean actants within constantly shifting networks of relationships. In this chapter, I attend to the Gothic tropes and rhetoric present in contemporary Thing Theory, including New Materialism and Object-Oriented Ontology, with attention in particular to the work of Donna Haraway and Jane Bennett.
Building
Authors: Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew
Published: January 2024

This chapter takes as its focus a third form of privileged Gothic object: the building. Haunted houses have received a fair amount of attention in scholarly studies; this chapter, however, focuses not on houses that are haunted by something (a ghost or demon) but rather on houses that themselves do the haunting. The emphasis is on the ways such narratives foreground the “agency of place”—the complicated negotiation in which external characteristics of space mesh with affective orientation and associations to create a sense of place. The Gothic building is always—as Object-Oriented Ontologists assert concerning all objects—bigger on the inside. Gothic narratives of “sinister” and “incoherent” spaces showcase how place is never “just there,” but instead asserts thing-power. This chapter surveys humanistic geography (notably, Yi-Fu Tuan and Robert Tally), psychogeography, architectural theory, and feng shui to consider the agency of place before focusing on The Castle of Otranto, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” The Haunting of Hill House, The Little Stranger, the film Burnt Offerings, and Mark Z. Danielewski’s The House of Leaves to develop the idea of “place-power.”
Disorientation and Reorientation in J. F. Powers’s Fiction
Authors: O'Connell Michael
Published: January 2024

Chapter 2 looks at the work of J. F. Powers, arguing that he, like O’Connor and Percy, employs strategies of disruption to unsettle and upend both readers’ and characters’ expectations, leading to moments where new insight, and grace, are present —though often overlooked. We see this process first in his short story “Prince of Darkness,” in which the powerful closing lines make clear that his work offers both the main character and the reader “not peace but a sword.” In Powers’s work, the “sword” of disappointment helps prune the soul, and the violence and cruelty of the world can lead to contemplation, if not always to clarity. We see this process play out in more detail in Power’s masterpiece, Morte d’Urban, where Fr. Urban Roche, the worldly and successful missionary priest, is brought low by a golf ball to the head.
The Work of Repair
Authors: Cousins Thomas
Published: January 2024

In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, South African timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals to laborers as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But for those laborers, life and sustenance is about much more than calories and machinic bodies. At stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life—physical, relational, cosmological—in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one’s abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one’s body, and to take care of others; it describes the potency of medicines and sexual vitality; and it captures a history of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle for freedom. The ordinary actions coordinated by and directed at amandla do not obscure the wounding effects of plantation labor or the long history of racial oppression, but rather form a basis of what the Algerian artist Kader Attia calls repair. The book examines how amandla, as the primary material of the work of repair, anchors ordinary scenes of living and working in and around the plantations. As a space of exploitation that enables the global paper and packaging industry to extract labor power, the plantation depends on the availability of creative action in ordinary life to capitalize on bodily capacity.
The Plantation and the Making of a Labor Regime
Authors: Cousins Thomas
Published: January 2024

The chapter shows how the work of repair at the heart of making the world, and worlds, around the plantations habitable, is profoundly conditioned by histories of dislocation and extraction. The story of forestry in KwaZulu-Natal and the struggles over territory, labor, and livelihood over the longue durée is told through the lives of the people working the lines of trees: felling, stripping, pitting, planting, driving, managing, and guarding. The chapter provides a history of the plantations through the biographies of four individuals. Central to the argument is the concept of topology and the way in which it frames, and is composed by, the biographies of these four people. “The plantation” forms one topos in which a particular problematic comes into view—namely, how labor, and its availability, maintenance, and reproduction in postapartheid South Africa, is constituted by a history of violent conquest and forced removals, on the one hand, and the deeply entangled everyday relations between employers, contractors, kin, neighbors, lovers, on the other. In other words, structural conditions, given particular historical determinations, are taken up within, made sense of, and mediated by everyday relations.
Repair and the Substance of Others
Authors: Cousins Thomas
Published: January 2024

Set in the context of an intense public fight in South Africa during the 2000s for access to HIV treatment and regulation of quack cures, the chapter traces a set of substances that eludes easy description as either pharmaceutical, traditional medicine, or supplement. It argues that “the gut” is a key site of bodily mediation that situates, enables, and transforms, everyday relations. If the gut transforms that which enters or impinges on it, twisting inside out the tropes of custom, calorie, and kinship as they condition life around the plantations, then the curative substances, and the gut through which they pass, raise a question regarding how the body bears the traces of assaults on its capacity to endure the conditions of plantation labor. By attending to the circulations of substance, and the utterances and gestures that accompany them, the chapter shows that ingestion, absorption, and ejection are crucial gestures that situate persons and working bodies in particular histories of violent displacement and exploitation; and enable a meta-reflexive, embodied effort that constitutes ethico-political, embodied action. What concerns the work of repair is thus an enfleshment of ethical conduct—that is, “ethical substance” conditioned by a necessary and constitutive vulnerability to others.
In the Vicinity of the Social
Authors: Cousins Thomas
Published: January 2024

The chapter is about the timber plantation as a topological space in which several distinct regimes of life, labor, and value intersected and were worked out, and in which specific social projects were enacted and acted upon. The chapter situates the efforts of the people who labored in the plantations within three distinct topological forms in order to consider the nature of “the social” in contemporary South Africa. The first topological form is the cartographic construction of the colonial territory, with its invention of tribes, peripheries, and national borders. The second is the fluid topology of HIV surveillance that combines vicinities, persons, and virus as hotspots or intensities. The third is the work of children in composing their own maps, pointing to the layering and knotting of these events, histories, and vicinities. It is here that the incomplete work of amandla, which is the concern with capacity and the possibility of repair, points as much to reassembling and recirculating as it does to the possibility of the misfiring of meaning and limitation of action. At stake is the capacity to navigate these topologies and the forces they bring to bear on ordinary life.
Our Plays
Authors: Smith Vanessa
Published: January 2024

Engages with the juvenile fiction of the Brontës, whose writing careers originated in perhaps the most famous of Victorian literary toy stories. A gift of twelve toy soldiers prompted the Brontë siblings to commence what they referred to as a series of “plays,” set in the imaginary worlds of Glasstown, Angria, and Gondal, which were eventually transcribed in tiny print into tiny books. Whereas the miniature books have been traditionally interpreted as objects of mourning, this chapter asks that we return to their foundation in games with toy objects and to reconceive the juvenilia as play therapy. It then considers Charlotte Brontë’s eventual repudiation of phantasy writing in favor of the “homely materials” of novelistic realism across a series of valedictory pieces. These texts pre-enact the conflict between Klein and Anna Freud over the relative merits of play versus domesticity and the pedagogic in maturation. Turning briefly to Charlotte’s perplexingly unlikeable first novel The Professor (1857), it offers a reading of the protagonist Crimsworth as sadistic avatar, which seeks to reconcile Kleinian toy-therapy with ideas set out in Anna Freud’s “Beating Fantasies and Daydreams.”
Effective factors in evaluating tourism marketing performance
Authors: Jalaliyoon Neda , Farsijani Hasan , Hamidzadeh Hamidreza
Published: January 2024

Given that the survival of organizations depends on their ability to create value and value is defined by customers. Marketing is a tool to attract customers and it is contributing to the long-term commercial success and therefore, evaluating their performance is a crucial task for management. Due to the fact that there is lack of specific criteria and indicators to evaluate marketing performance, this paper proposes the criteria and related indicators for performance evaluation of tourism marketing by adopting meta-synthesis method and grounded and multi grounded theories. The statistical population included academic and industrial experts were identified from universities and tourism sector activists in Malaysia. This study introduces 11 main criteria and 40 indicators for each aspect in order to evaluate the performance of tourist attraction.