bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Sistemas de veridicção e a previsibilidade de desdobramentos políticos em momentos de crise: leituras a partir de uma cena de tristes trópicos
Authors: de Oliveira Renato Albuquerque
Published: September 2020

Neste artigo tenta-se trabalhar uma questão político-veridictória contida em Tristes trópicos, de Lévi-Strauss. A ideia é pensar em como uma cena de crise contida no livro nos permite refletir sobre o político entre os Nambiquara – um povo ameríndio – e como essa reflexão pode ser um estímulo a pensar o político em outras sociedades, como
a brasileira como um todo, especialmente a respeito de questões sobre a veridicção. O
desenvolvimento aqui realizado tomará por base reflexões vindas da antropologia política de Pierre Clastres, além de ser construído levando em conta as propostas da semiótica
estruturalista, especialmente como formuladas por Algirdas Julien Greimas e Claude
Zilberberg. Assim, espera-se realizar uma tentativa de contribuição para a compreensão
de sistemas político-veridictórios por meio de uma aproximação da semiótica como
leitura para os objetos analisáveis pelas ciências humanas
Towards a planetary semiotics
Authors: Brandt Per Aage
Published: September 2020

There exists a universal ecology-based stratification of levels of activity and meaning-making in human societies, a stratifying architecture that determines existing levels of social experience, types of sign functions and semantic functions in language, and finally the mental principles of human subjectivity. The planetary ecology of civilization is therefore constitutive of human semiotics. The following is a short outline of a theory of meaning based on these observations.
“Ridículo político”: análise de uma mutação estético-política
Authors: Tiburi Marcia
Published: September 2020

O termo Ridículo Político designa uma mutação na cultura política em grande escala. A hipótese desse artigo é de que essa mutação se estabelece em um patamar estético fundamental à política. O trágico como fundamento do político foi substituído pelo cômico. Outra hipótese a ser analisada é que a passagem ao fascismo na atualidade tem ocorrido por meio do uso metodológico da ridiculosidade política transformada em capital sobretudo em processos eleitorais marcados pelo populismo. O artigo se propõe, portanto, a introduzir o conceito de ridículo por meio de uma análise do risível como forma psicopolítica de controle e de catarse sociais.
PENINGKATAN PEMAHAMAN NATURE OF SCIENCE (NOS) SISWA MELALUI MODEL PEMBELAJARAN INKUIRI TERBIMBING DITINJAU DARI TINGKAT EFIKASI DIRI
Authors: Lestari Hana
Published: September 2020

ABSTRACT

This study aims to (1) know comprehensively the increase in understanding of Nature of Science (NoS) groups of students who obtain guided inquiry learning models and groups of students who receive conventional learning, (2) analyze the criteria for increasing students' NoS understanding among students with self-efficacy levels. high and low. This research is a quasi-experimental study with a 2x2 factorial design. The data analysis technique used was two-way ANOVA with a significance level of 5%. The results showed that the average increase in NOS understanding of students who were given a guided inquiry learning model of 72.6 performed better with the informed category (already knowing and understanding aspects in NOS) while students who received conventional learning were 49.67 included in the category. naïve category (not knowing and understanding aspects in NOS); (2) There is a significant difference in the improvement of students' understanding of NOS between students who get learning with guided inquiry learning models and conventional learning; (3) There is a significant difference in increasing understanding of NOS between students with high self-efficacy tendencies with low self-efficacy, and students with high self-efficacy tendencies are much better at understanding NOS than low self-efficacy; (4) There is an interaction effect between the learning model and the level of self-efficacy together on increasing students' NOS understanding; (5) There is a difference in the improvement of students' understanding of NOS in students who have a tendency towards high self-efficacy who obtain guided inquiry learning models and students who receive conventional learning (6) There are differences in the improvement of students' understanding of NOS in students who have low self-efficacy tendencies who receive guided inquiry learning models and students who receive conventional learning.

Keyword:  Guided Inquiry, Self efficacy, Understanding NOS
Density, abundance and group size of river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis and Sotalia fluviatilis) in Central Amazonia, Brazil
Authors: PAVANATO H.J. , Salazar C.Gomez , Lima D. , Paschoalini M. , Ristau N. , Marmontel M.
Published: September 2020

Given the difficulties and costs often associated with surveying cetaceans, enlisting members of the public to collect data offers a promisingalternative approach. Comparison of cetacean ‘participatory science’ (also known as ‘citizen science’) data with data collected during traditionalscientific studies helps reveal the strengths and weaknesses of a participatory science approach. With a large number of vessel operators on thewater throughout the year, including dolphin-oriented tour boats, the Hawaiian Islands offer an ideal study site to employ such a dual-methodcomparison. The study aimed to enhance understanding of nearshore dolphin distributions relative to bathymetry. Operators of tour and fishingvessels within the shallow Maui Nui basin of the Hawaiian Islands were recruited to report delphinid sightings. Researchers conducted standarddolphin surveys within the same region. The participatory science approach was successful in generating a large sample size of sightings from fivedifferent species. Findings here demonstrate the potential value of participatory science and of using a multimethod approach to infer odontocetedistribution trends relative to bathymetry in areas where both methods are feasible. Important refinements for future projects are highlighted.
Maneuvers of Multi Perspective Media Retrieval
Authors: Hemavathy J. , Jothi E. Arul , Nishalini R. , Oviya M.
Published: September 2020

Recently, Learning Machines have achieved a measure of success in the representation of multiple views. Since the effectiveness of data mining methods is highly dependent on the ability to produce data representation, learning multi-visual representation has become a very promising topic with widespread use. It is an emerging data mining guide that looks at multidisciplinary learning to improve overall performance. Multi-view reading is also known as data integration or data integration from multiple feature sets. In general, learning the representation of multiple views is able to learn the informative and cohesive representation that leads to the improvement in the performance of predictors. Therefore, learning multi-view representation has been widely used in many real-world applications including media retrieval, native language processing, video analysis, and a recommendation program. We propose two main stages of learning multidisciplinary representation: (i) alignment of multidisciplinary representation, which aims to capture relationships between different perspectives on content alignment; (ii) a combination of different visual representations, which seeks to combine different aspects learned from many different perspectives into a single integrated representation. Both of these strategies seek to use the relevant information contained in most views to represent the data as a whole. In this project we use the concept of canonical integration analysis to get more details. Encouraged by the success of in-depth reading, in-depth reading representation of multiple theories has attracted a lot of attention in media access due to its ability to read explicit visual representation.
The Crystalline Basement in the Argentinian North-Patagonian Andes: geochronology and tectonic interpretation.
Authors: Varela Ricardo , Basei Miguel A.S. , Cingolani Carlos A. , Siga Jr. Oswaldo , Passarelli Claudia R.
Published: September 2020

Isotopic data are presented for rocks of the Andean crystalline basement at 40°S, in Neuquén and Río Negro provinces. The methods used were U-Pb in zircon (crystallization ages of plutonic rocks), K-Ar in micas and U-Pb in titanite (metamorphism and cooling ages) and Sm-Nd in whole rock (crustal evolution). No Proterozoic ages were obtained as suggested by previous Rb-Sr and K-Ar data, and two different igneous-metamorphic events were identified. The older one is Devonian and exposed in San Martín de los Andes region, according to 420-380 Ma zircon ages and 375-310 Ma ages in micas of deformed tonalitic and granitic rocks. The younger one, in rocks cropping out to the south of Limay River region, is revealed by Early Permian zircon ages (about 280 Ma) and Late Permian cooling ages (260-250 Ma) of metaigneous rocks. The rocks of both sets were assigned to a magmatic arc environment and correlated respectively with the Chanic orogeny (Devonian; Upper Famatinian Cycle) and Gondwanic Cycle (Upper Paleozoic-Triassic). The Sm-Nd TDM model ages, ca.1907-1165 Ma, eNd for the crystallization age of the rocks ca. -3,0 and -8,4 and eNd(0) ca. -6,9-11,9 suggest reworking of continental proterozoic crust with minor addition of juvenile magmas from the mantle during the Paleozoic.
Rebel Richmond
Authors: Ash Stephen V.
Published: September 2020

In the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. A remarkable drama unfolded in the months that followed. The city's population exploded, its economy was deranged, and its government and citizenry clashed desperately over resources to meet daily needs while a mighty enemy army laid siege. Journalists, officials, and everyday residents recorded these events in great detail, and the Confederacy's foes and friends watched closely from across the continent and around the world.
In Rebel Richmond, Stephen V. Ash vividly evokes life in Richmond as war consumed the Confederate capital. He guides readers from the city's alleys, homes, and shops to its churches, factories, and halls of power, uncovering the intimate daily drama of a city transformed and ultimately destroyed by war. Drawing on the stories and experiences of civilians and soldiers, slaves and masters, refugees and prisoners, merchants and laborers, preachers and prostitutes, the sick and the wounded, Ash delivers a captivating new narrative of the Civil War's impact on a city and its people.
Starstruck in the Promised Land
Authors: Goldman Shalom
Published: September 2020

From the days of steamship travel to Palestine to today's evangelical Christian tours of Jesus’s birthplace, the relationship between the United States and the Holy Land has become one of the world’s most consequential international alliances. While the political side of U.S.-Israeli relations has long played out on the world stage, the relationship, as Shalom Goldman shows in this illuminating cultural history, has also played out on actual stages. Telling the stories of the American superstars of pop and high culture who journeyed to Israel to perform, lecture, and rivet fans, Goldman chronicles how the creative class has both expressed and influenced the American relationship with Israel.
The galaxy of stars who have made headlines for their trips includes Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Leonard Bernstein, James Baldwin, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Madonna, and Scarlett Johansson. While diverse socially and politically, they all served as prisms for the evolution of U.S.-Israeli relations, as Israel, the darling of the political and cultural Left in the 1950s and early 1960s, turned into the darling of the political Right from the late 1970s. Today, as relations between the two nations have only intensified, stars must consider highly fraught issues, such as cultural boycotts, in planning their itineraries.
Opening the Gates to Asia
Authors: Hong Jane H.
Published: September 2020

Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. In this first comprehensive history of Asian exclusion repeal, Jane H. Hong unearths the transpacific movement that successfully ended restrictions on Asian immigration.
The mid-twentieth century repeal of Asian exclusion, Hong shows, was part of the price of America’s postwar empire in Asia. The demands of U.S. empire-building during an era of decolonization created new opportunities for advocates from both the U.S. and Asia to lobby U.S. Congress for repeal. Drawing from sources in the United States, India, and the Philippines, Opening the Gates to Asia charts a movement more than twenty years in the making. Positioning repeal at the intersection of U.S. civil rights struggles and Asian decolonization, Hong raises thorny questions about the meanings of nation, independence, and citizenship on the global stage.
Investigation Into Open-Ended Fitness Landscape Through Evolutionary Logical Circuits
Authors: Suyama Masaki , Sato Kosuke
Published: September 2020

Cumulative cultural evolution is what made humanity to thrive in various ecological and demographic environments. Solutions to the tasks that humans needed to solve could be mapped onto a task space which could take the form of either closed or open-ended fitness landscape, with the former being modeled more extensively than the latter in studies of cultural evolution. In this article, we modified a simulation by Arthur and Polak (2006) that modeled open-ended fitness landscape by using a computer simulation that builds logical circuits with circuits that were built in earlier trials. We used this simulation to clarify the nature of open-ended fitness landscape and to investigate whether the speed of accumulation of culture is increased by an increase in group size. The results indicated that group size increased the speed of accumulation but is limited than expected. Also, when two types of accumulation, invention and improvement, were distinguished the nature of the two differed. In improvement, the trajectory followed aconvex function with productivity of one agent decreasing as group size increased. In invention, the trajectory showed a continuous pattern of rapid increase followed by a plateau.
A dynamical and thermodynamic mechanism to explain heavy snowfalls in current and future climate over Italy during cold spells
Authors: D'Errico Miriam , Yiou Pascal , Nardini Cesare , Lunkeit Frank , Faranda Davide
Published: September 2020

Abstract. Cold and snowy spells are compound extreme events that have many societal impacts. Insight on their dynamics in climate change scenarios could help adaptation. We focus on winter cold and snowy spells over Italy, reconstructing 32 major events in the past 60 years from documentary sources. We show that despite warmer winter temperatures, some recent cold spells show abundant, sometimes exceptional snowfall amounts. In order to explain these compound phenomena, we perform ensembles of climate simulations in fixed emission scenarios changing boundary conditions (such sea–surface temperature, SST) and detect analogs of observed events. Our results show that the response of extreme cold weather events to climate change is not purely thermodynamic nor linked to the global average temperature increase, but crucially depends on the interactions of the atmospheric circulation at mid-latitudes with the thermodynamic feedback from warmer Mediterranean temperatures. This suggests how Mediterranean countries like Italy could observe large snowfall amounts even in warmer climates.
Novel Keeling-plot-based methods to estimate the isotopic composition of ambient water vapor
Authors: Yuan Yusen , Du Taisheng , Wang Honglang , Wang Lixin
Published: September 2020

Abstract. The Keeling plot approach, a general method to identify the isotopic composition of source atmospheric CO2 and water vapor (i.e.,
evapotranspiration), has been widely used in terrestrial ecosystems. The isotopic composition of ambient water vapor (δa), an
important source of atmospheric water vapor, is not able to be estimated to date using the Keeling plot approach. Here we proposed two new methods
to estimate δa using the Keeling plots: one using an intersection point method and another relying on the intermediate value theorem. As the actual δa value was difficult to measure directly, we used two indirect approaches to validate our new
methods. First, we performed external vapor tracking using the Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model to facilitate
explaining the variations of δa. The trajectory vapor origin results were consistent with the expectations of the
δa values estimated by these two methods. Second, regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between
δa values estimated from these two independent methods, and they are in strong agreement. This study provides an analytical
framework to estimate δa using existing facilities and provides important insights into the traditional Keeling plot approach by
showing (a) a possibility to calculate the proportion of evapotranspiration fluxes to total atmospheric vapor using the same instrumental setup for
the traditional Keeling plot investigations and (b) perspectives on the estimation of isotope composition of ambient CO2
(δa13C).
Influence of Pt paste and the firing temperature of screen-printed electrodes on the NO detection by pulsed polarization
Authors: Donker Nils , Ruchets Anastasiya , Schönauer-Kamin Daniela , Zosel Jens , Guth Ulrich , Moos Ralf
Published: September 2020

Abstract. Symmetrical Pt|YSZ|Pt sensors were
produced by screen printing with frit-containing and fritless Pt pastes and
fired at 950, 1100, and 1300 ∘C. Subsequently, the sensors were
operated by pulsed polarization, and the NO sensitivity was investigated. The
sensitivity of the sensors with fritless pastes was found to be
significantly higher. The influence of the firing temperature was low in
contrast to the influence of the paste. The low NO sensitivity of the
frit-containing electrodes was attributed to a blocking effect that probably
occurs at the triple-phase boundaries. Therefore, the oxygen transport
through the sensor is inhibited, which, however, seems to be necessary for
the sensor effect.
Review article: Hilbert problems for the climate sciences in the 21st century – 20 years later
Authors: Ghil Michael
Published: September 2020

Abstract. The scientific problems posed by the Earth's atmosphere, oceans,
cryosphere – along with the land surface and biota that interact with
them – are central to major socioeconomic and political concerns in
the 21st century. It is natural, therefore, that a certain impatience
should prevail in attempting to solve these problems. The point of a
review paper published in this journal in 2001 was that one should
proceed with all diligence but not excessive haste, namely “festina
lente”, i.e., “to hurry in a measured way”. The earlier paper traced
the necessary progress through the solutions of 10 problems, starting
with “What can we predict beyond 1 week, for how long, and by what
methods?” and ending with “Can we achieve enlightened climate
control of our planet by the end of the century?” A unified framework was proposed to deal with these problems in
succession, from the shortest to the longest timescale, i.e., from
weeks to centuries and millennia. The framework is that of dynamical
systems theory, with an emphasis on successive bifurcations and the
ergodic theory of nonlinear systems, on the one hand, and on pursuing
this approach across a hierarchy of climate models, from the simplest,
highly idealized ones to the most detailed ones. Here, we revisit
some of these problems, 20 years later,1 and extend the framework to coupled climate–economy modeling.
Extreme flow variability analysis at the Bianouan hydrometric station on the Bia River watershed in Côte d'Ivoire
Authors: Kouassi Kan Martin , Yao Koffi Blaise , Kouassi Kouakou Lazare , Biemi Jean , Soro Nagnin
Published: September 2020

Abstract. Extreme hydrological phenomena recurrence in West Africa in recent
decades is a problem in the anthropized watershed management. Link analysis
between extreme hydrological phenomena and climate variability is necessary
to guard against their consequences. However, qualitative data accessing
difficulties and explanatory variable definition of extremes hydrological
phenomena limit extreme flows rate studies. This study proposes the analysis
the variability of the floods and the low flows at the Bianouan hydrometric
station. Thus, five (5) floods characteristics variables (QCX5, QXJA, F90p,
F95p and F99p) and three (3) for, the low flows (VCN10, QJNA and F10p) were
extracted daily flows from the Bianouan hydrometric station from 1 January 1962 to 31 December 2005. The variability of these extremes has been
studied by the trend analysis (linear regression) and of the stationarity
(Pettitt and Hubert tests). The results show that for flood variables the
negative trend is very significant and ruptures are observed in 1980. For
low flow variables the negative trend is significant and the ruptures are
observed in 1981. From this study, we can deduce that the ruptures observed
in the rains and flows average in the end 1960s and early 1970s have
affected later the extreme flows around the 1980s.
Optimization of water quality evaluation method in Three Gorges Reservoir area under different hydrological conditions
Authors: Yuan Jing , Wang Jin-cheng , Qian Bao
Published: September 2020

Abstract. In order to solve the problem of lack of unified evaluation criteria for water quality evaluation in the Three Gorges Reservoir under different hydrologic condition, hydraulic retention time and flow rate were calculated wih the hydrological data of 6 intact hydrological years after the 175 m impoundment in the Three Gorges Reservoir using the concept of segment capacity. Results indicate that the hydrological conditions of the Three Gorges Reservoir have obvious spatial and temporal differences. The whole river should be evaluated according to the river standard during the wet season. In the dry season, the upstream of Wanxian should be evaluated according to the river standards and the downstream of Wanxian should be evaluated according to lake standard. The tributary bay should be evaluated according to the lake standard. The conclusion obtained by this evaluation method is consistent with actual situation of the reservoir, providing a theoretical basis and technical support for the targeted protection of water environment in river-type reservoirs.
Changing climate and implications for water use in the Hetao Basin, Yellow River, China
Authors: White Ian , Xu Tingbao , Zeng Jicai , Yu Jian , Ma Xin , Yang Jinzhong , Huo Zailin , Chen Hang
Published: September 2020

Abstract. Balancing water allocations in river basins between upstream irrigated agriculture and downstream cities, industry and environments is a global challenge. The effects of changing allocations are exemplified in the arid Hetao Irrigation District on the Yellow River, one of China's three largest irrigation districts. Amongst the many challenges there, the impact of changing climate on future irrigation water demand is an underlying concern. In this paper we analyse trends in local climate data from the late 1950s and consider the implications for irrigation in the Basin. Since 1958, daily minimum temperatures, Tmin in the Basin have increased at three times the rate of daily maximum temperatures, Tmax. Despite this, there has been no significant increases in annual precipitation, P or pan evaporation, Epan. The difference between the increasing trends in Tmax and Tmin means that the average annual diurnal temperature range, DTR, has decreased very significantly, part of a global phenomenon. Hargreaves empirical approach is used to estimate changes in both incoming solar radiation, Rs, and potential evaporation, ET0. Changes in estimated ET0 correlated well with changes in measured pan evaporation, Epan. Paradoxically, the estimated decreasing trend in Rs does not correspond to a significant decreasing trend in Epan. Implications of changing climate on water use and soil salinity in the Basin are discussed.
Publicar en el ecosistema de la ciencia abierta
Authors: Antunes Maria da Luz , Sanches Tatiana , Lopes Carlos , Alonso-Arévalo Julio
Published: September 2020

La difusión del conocimiento científico se materializa en su escritura, publicación y circulación. La Ciencia Abierta es, por su la naturaleza, una plataforma para el diálogo, fomentando más intercambios y estimulando a los investigadores adaptar sus prácticas de publicación y difusión, lo que les permitirá reducir los costes, la mejora de los contenidos académicos, así como el fomento de una mayor circulación y generación del conocimiento. El objetivo es la realización de propuestas sobre las acciones que los investigadores deben llevar a cabo en el ámbito de la investigación como conversación, es decir, la integración de la escritura académica en la Ciencia Abierta y el intercambio de datos y resultados de la investigación. Finalmente se reflexiona sobre los actuales retos de la Ciencia Abierta para los investigadores y el mundo académico
Invención, palimpsestos y recursividad enunciativa en el 'Lazarillo Z.' Lo monstruoso como mecanismo de recodificación
Authors: Calzón José Antonio
Published: September 2020

Este artículo analiza el Lazarillo Z teniendo en cuenta su valor en cuanto reescritura del clásico renacentista desde el prisma del monstruo. En primer lugar, se estudian los distintos niveles enunciativos que se superponen en el relato, para a continuación analizar la intertextualidad en la obra, desde el doble punto de vista de la fidelidad al original —en cuanto a la repetición de temas, ideas, personajes o episodios— y de la adición de rasgos nuevos, entre los que destaca la incorporación de la figura del monstruo y su identificación con las características del pícaro en cuanto arquetipo.
En los márgenes de la ficción: funciones de las notas a pie de página en los relatos de Borges
Authors: Ariza Trinidad Eva
Published: September 2020

Uno de los rasgos más notables de la narrativa de Jorge Luis Borges es el peculiar uso que hace de la paratextualidad, concretamente, de las notas a pie de página. Estas suelen relacionarse con el proceso de ficcionalización de Borges (intercalando referentes culturales reales y ficticios) o con aquellos que afianzan la verosimilitud de las formas textuales ensayísticas que el autor representa en sus relatos. El análisis de estas y otras funciones apenas estudiadas en la teoría y crítica literarias (conformar isotopías sintácticas, semánticas, indicios, etc.) evidencia la habilidad narrativa de Jorge Luis Borges, que aprovecha el carácter orillado de estos paratextos y desarrolla en ellos recursos que participan necesariamente de la configuración de los relatos.
Elasticidade-preço da demanda: uma análise do consumo da alface no município de Maceió no período de 2008 a 2013
Authors: Neto Arcenor Gomes , Lages André Maia Gomes , De França Santos Jonathan
Published: September 2020

Este trabalho tem como objetivo identificar as preferencias do consumidor de Maceió, tendo como ponte de partida a análise da elasticidade-preço da demanda de alface no município no período de 2008 a 2013. Entender esse comportamento é de suma importância para a implementação de políticas que incentivem a produção de alface, pois grande parte da produção está em poder de pequenos agricultores, bem como a importância do seu consumo para a rotina de uma alimentação saudável. A partir de dados disponibilizados pela IDERAL – CEASA foi possível realizar estimativas econométricas a fim de observar como os consumidores se comportam quando o preço da alface sofre um aumento, o que pode ser investigado a partir do conceito de elasticidade-preço da demanda.
Resisting Allegory
Authors: Berger Harry
Published: September 2020

Resisting Allegory gathers essays from the final two decades of Harry Berger, Jr.’s lifelong engagement with Spenser’s great poem The Faerie Queene, making clear the scope and coherence of the critical vision elaborated in a series of seminal and still-challenging critical arguments. Spenser’s great poem provides the occasion for a searching and comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of reading practices—those the author advocates as well as those he adapts or criticizes in entertaining a wide range of critical arguments with his celebrated combination of intellectual generosity and rigorous questioning. No one writes the way Berger does; no one can combine theoretical scope with close reading the way he can. His distinctive voice, style, and attention to method offer a model to students and younger scholars and should command attention in courses on the method and theory of criticism.
The “Unspeakable Teachings” of The Secret Gospel of Mark: Feelings and Fantasies in the Making of Christian Histories
Authors: Waller Alexis G.
Published: September 2020

A fragmentary text exhumed from the archives in 1958—or else fabricated that same year—is the fraught subject of this essay. Secret Mark has been embraced as the earliest surviving version of the Gospel of Mark and denounced as either a second-century forgery or a twentieth-century hoax. The stormy reception history of this controversial text—one that appears to represent a homoerotic encounter between Jesus and an unnamed young man—is an affective history of the first order, as the essay demonstrates. Approaching the scholarly and popular reception of Secret Mark as a queer archive of feelings (a là Ann Cvetkovich), the essay explores the ways in which historiographical protocols—even, or especially, in a discipline as austere and affect-challenged as biblical scholarship—act as both medium and cover for affective investments, and it reflects on how historians might better handle (their feelings about) the early Christian past, or, indeed, any past.
Gender: A Public Feeling?
Authors: Thornton Max
Published: September 2020

This essay reframes and reconceives gender as both a public feeling (in Cvetkovich’s sense of the term) and an affective assemblage. The latter concept, which extends the former, is designed to accommodate the multiplicity of factors, forces, processes, and agencies implicated in gender in general, but in non-normative gender in particular. The essay’s affective assemblage is eclectically composed from Deleuzoguattarian philosophy, pheonomenology, new materialisms, and affect theory, and enacted in the limit case of non-transitioning transgendered people in online communities. Gender as an affective assemblage takes a theological turn in the essay’s concluding section where it counters a territorialized reading of Christ’s body, one which seeks to exclude non-normative genders from the church. Calling for the church’s self-deterritorialization, the essay proposes a corporate body enfleshed by queer affective assemblages that would facilitate gendered exploration and discovery.
The Quʾran as (Inter)text: Embodiment, Praxis, Critique
Authors: El Shakry Hoda
Published: September 2020

The introduction outlines the history of the Maghreb as it pertains to the ideological and methodological biases of Maghrebi Studies, particularly around the bifurcation of Francophone and Arabophone literatures. Arguing for the multilingual accenting of Maghrebi literature both within and across languages, it connects the lack of critical attention to Qurʾanic intertextuality to the privileging of Francophone literatures. The introduction further parses out the ways in which the term secular is often deeply inflected with its own orthodoxies, as well as how the secularization narrative has impacted the study of literary practices and forms—particularly the genre of the novel. It proposes that the classical Arab-Islamic concept of adab provides a valuable corrective, by offering a more expansive model of literature. Bringing in scholarship on the anthropology of Islam, Islamic philosophy, and Qurʾanic studies, the chapter interrogates the ethical, literary, and hermeneutical dimensions of Qurʾanic and Sufi aesthetics. Theorizing the Qurʾan as a literary object, process, and model, introduces ethical ways of approaching questions of writing, reading, and literary hermeneutics. Finally, the introduction explicates the book’s organizational logic of placing canonical Francophone novels into conversation with lesser-known Arabophone ones.
Decadent Orientalisms
Authors: Fieni David
Published: September 2020

This book explores the confluence of decadence and Orientalism since the mid-nineteenth century in French and Arabic writing. It demonstrates how French Orientalism set the terms of modernity for Arab and Muslim thinkers and writers, but also how the latter responded to and transformed these terms. The book argues that Orientalism is doubly decadent: it describes the supposedly inherent degeneration of the Semitic and the “Oriental,” and in so doing Orientalism attempts to contribute to the decay of these societies. Through comparative close readings of French, Francophone, and Arabic texts, the author outlines how notions and representations of decadence and decay during the colonial and postcolonial periods have in fact produced symbolic and social disintegration in parts of the Arab world. Part 1 of the book examines the role of philology, secularism, Islamic reformism, and colonial policy in the configurations of colonial modernity during the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on the Arab East (or Mashreq) and Algeria. Part 2 turns to Maghreb to explore the ways that loss becomes nationalized and gendered in the postcolonial era and how Maghrebi writers engage with the legacy of Orientalist decadence to find ways beyond it. In the context of these questions, it offers analyses of work by a wide range of writers, including Ernest Renan, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Ahmed Faris al-Shidyaq, Farah Antun, Céline, Tahar Wattar, Tahir Djaout, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Yamina Méchakra, Assia Djebar, Hélène Cixous, Abdelwahab Meddeb, and Abdelkebir Khatibi.
Paul as Predecessor to Psychoanalysis
Authors: Løland Ole Jakob
Published: September 2020

Jacob Taubes is a Jewish rabbi who proclaims to have discerned the fundamentally Jewish aspects of Paul’s thought. In that way Taubes reads against the whole tradition that sees Paul as the first Christian who definitely broke with Judaism. Nonetheless, Taubes deconstructs this Christian image of Paul partly through a comparison of Paul and Sigmund Freud that also relies significantly on earlier Christian layers of this reception of Paul. Moreover, Taubes claims that Paul is a predecessor of Freud, leading Taubes to read Paul as an introspective Jewish apostle, primarily based on Romans. This unique interpretative strategy with regard to Paul is made by the Jewish rabbi within a post-Holocaust world where biblical scholars have attempted to liberate Paul from Protestant readings of him as the introspective figure par excellance. Taubes, however, establishes Paul’s Jewishness by other means and comes close to considering Freudian psychoanalysis as a Pauline science. These idiosyncratic readings of Paul results in an intriguing deconstruction of what is “Jewish” and what is “Christian,” categories that are destabilized by Taubes’s provoking interpretations of Paul.
Radical Botany
Authors: Meeker Natania , Szabari Antónia
Published: September 2020

Radical Botany uncovers a long speculative tradition of plant fiction that conjures up new languages to grasp the life of plants—their vegetality—in all its specificity and vigor. The first part of the book reaches back to seventeenth-century materialisms to show how plants, rather than being systematically excluded from human deliberation, have in fact participated in modernity. The French authors with whom the work begins turn to plants to think through the problems and paradoxes that face all forms of life considered first as matter. Within this framework, plants are ascribed an agency and vitality that might otherwise seem foreign to them, but they are also envisioned as beings that resist incorporation into human contexts and thus have something to teach humans about their limitations and vulnerabilities. Classically, the botanical sciences that develop over the course of the long eighteenth century function as a project for ordering, visualizing, labeling, and classifying life. In Radical Botany, the authors unearth an alternative set of engagements with the plant as a life form—a tradition that conceives of vegetal life as resisting representability even as it participates in the production of new representational modes—including the novel, early cinema, and contemporary virtual reality—and new affects—including queer desires, feminist affinities, and ecological solidarities. The radical botanical works this book explores not only prioritize plants as active participants in “their” world but suggest that the apparent passivity of plants can function as a powerful destabilizing force in its own right.
Critique and Work
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter analyzes the conventional link between critique and work, which is less abrupt than the perspective on critique and life. It discusses critique and work in relation to the levels of its dispersion, its disaggregation, the lack of control of its hyperboles, the loss of its center, and the crisis of its dynamic. The criteria and possibilities according to which critique is exercised would depend upon the frames, categories, and regimes of understanding in which life is heterogeneously pre-comprehended. This chapter describes how these frames, modes of life, or the clashes between them precede critical behavior. A supposed “life in itself” emerges as a referential illusion or centering function in the clash, the tension, comparison, or encounter between regimes of life or work.
Sovereign Critique I
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter discusses the sovereigns who are demanded to eliminate all presupposition as it is exercised in the absolute beginning. It also points out the sovereignty's demand to suspend (epokhé) presupposition, heteronomous regulation. It explains how there is no prince or sovereign beginning-principle if it does not emerge from pure decision, without anterior motivation, force of habit, or histories. The chapter talks about the sanctioned beginning as the product of a principle and a previous habit rather than of pure decision. It analyzes critique as a modern “critical attitude” that was conceived in exemplarily fashion by Cartesian philosophy as hyperbole or the evil genius who decides on the beginning principle without principle or beginning, without condition, on the beginning.
Critique Within the Frame, Critique of the Frame
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter begins by analyzing Aristotle's saying about ascribing to universal education, which underlines an aspect that stands out in the traditional understanding of critique. It mentions that Aristotle's words mainly encourage a critique of the “eaves” of the tympanum that shelter and subordinates itself to the fundamental terms of its polytechnics. Critique will only take place when the limits, the conditions, and the laws of the field are thematized. The chapter also evaluates the transformation of the law from being the “subject” of knowledge-practice into the position of examined object. The performance that interrupts the field's condition initiates the exception with respect to promoted, established, and cultivated knowledges. Not only is critique located in the exception, but it also reveals instituted knowledge as an exception become rule or cannon.
Manet: The Kant of Painting
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter illustrates how Immanuel Kant questioned the condition of possibility not only of this or that knowledge but of the frame of all possible knowledge that is in play in the notion of possibility itself. It talks about critique in painting that would consequentially consist not in painting something that would add painting to the already painted by painting, but rather in interrogating in painting how the painting that is possible is possible. The person who repeated the Kantian critical operation in painting, according to Clement Greenberg, is Édouard Manet. With Manet, the chapter describes the neutral vertical and horizontal spatiality of the canvas that the tradition erased by constructing a fallen pyramid remerges. It also mentions Manet's painting called “Music in the Tuileries” that privileges the strong lines and vertical axes that are represented by some trees.
Thought and Figure
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter provides an insight on image. It explains how a person must modestly recognize that an image constitutes the element of duration and that often it possesses more testimony and thought than the witness who looks at it. An image testifies and thinks before, during, and after the witness. This chapter points out that the thought of an image is the essence of all that is transmissible from its beginning, ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced. It also talks about the totalizing univocity of genus and species, in which, before judgment and argument, thought is the virtuality that is immanent to the terminological figure.
Nihil and Philosophy
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter analyzes the Nietzschean phrase that “God is dead”, which is not primarily related to the end of the Western monotheistic God who for so long a time framed the pain of history. What was liberating was not so much the announcement of the end of the living God, but rather of the decontaining lucidity of there really having never been a God who was never derived from fragmentary, immanent conditions of survival. The chapter further points out that nihilism is not a viewpoint put forward by somebody, nor is it an arbitrary historical given that can be historically documented. It emphasizes that nihilism is an event of long duration in which the truth of being as a whole is essentially transformed and driven toward an end. In the phrase “God is dead,” “God” also means everything that has sought to take his place, such as ideal, consciousness, reason, and certainty of progress.
The Epoch of Nihilism. Nihil as Epoch.
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter focuses on contemporary nihilism as technology that is considered the epoch of the consummation of the nihilism of many epochs. It describes Martin Heidegger's well-known texts about contemporary nihilism that is pathetically exposed to its precursors, trajectory, and limit as the homogenization of multiple tendencies and efforts into the rigid uniformity and identity of an end-time or endzeit. The homogenizing tone of the Heideggerian analysis of nihilism is of a kind of thought that is characterized by calculation, representation, and a planned dominion that organizes, regulates, and subjugates everything. The chapter discusses the question of technology as the essential configuration of what is, which question embraces all aspects of being. It also analyzes the expression “technology,” which has a privileged position of power, implicating the vectors of administration, autonomization, bureaucratization, communication, functionalization, information, and securing and should be understood under the heading of “completed metaphysics.”
The Destruction of Theater
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter discusses how the destruction of the metaphysics of right is at the same time the destruction of the metaphysics of representation. It explains how the destruction of the metaphysics is involved in the destruction of metaphysical theater and Western theater. Strikes and progressive, foundational revolutionary movements have happened and left the marks of both critique and crisis on theater. The chapter analyzes strikes and movements that have nourished the abstract principle of representation and its oppositional dialectic, the topos, dynamic and transferential economy between stage and stalls, state and people. It mentions the Benjaminian pure strike, which is involved in the unworking of theatre, the fetish of revolution, and sovereign strikes whose evangelist version of the extinction of bourgeois theatre has constituted ratification in the negative.
Thought Is Inseparable from a Critique
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter focuses on Gilles Deleuze who wrote that thought and creation are inseparable from a critique. It discusses Deleuze's two ways of criticizing. One way stresses beliefs, knowledges, and determinate principles that may be judged false in counterposition to others that are judged to be true. The other way is the understanding of critique as a negative activity that presupposes an object of critique on which its activity falls, disavowing it upon repositing and structurally affirming it while pretending to overcome it as it moves to another place or topos. The chapter also explains Deleuze's view on thought being inseparable from a critique. A critique is something other than the critique, in the same sense in which a life is different from the life.
Mystical Bodies of Christ: Human, Crucified, and Beloved
Authors: Prevot Andrew
Published: September 2020

As one way to contribute to the decolonization of Christian theology, Prevot seeks to reexamine and reformulate the doctrine of the mystical body of Christ. He argues that, in addition to referring to the church and the sacrament of the Eucharist, the idea of a “mystical body of Christ” may be understood in a more decolonially significant way to refer to each human body insofar as it is united with Christ’s humanity and especially to each crucified body, including the bodies of black, indigenous, and female victims of colonial modernity. By virtue of its humanity and its suffering, each of these bodies is a mystical body of Christ. Moreover, Prevot contends that the idea of a spousal union of bodies in freedom and love (the two becoming one flesh), which has similarly been employed to symbolize the church, may also be interpreted in a more decolonially significant way as an indictment of the sexual coercion and objectification endemic to colonial modernity and as an affirmation of the divine loveliness of darkly colored, variously shaped, and otherwise marginalized bodies which this violently colonized world deems ugly or undesirable.
African Humanism: Between the Cosmic and the Terrestrial
Authors: Haynes Patrice
Published: September 2020

This chapter explores the anthropocentrism of African indigenous religions, with a focus on the religious traditions of the Yoruba peoples (south-west Nigeria). In doing so it hopes to disclose an alternative vision of the human to that of what Sylvia Wynter calls “Man,” the figure at the heart of colonial modernity. While the humanistic orientation of African indigenous religion could be understood in a Feuerbachian sense, this chapter argues that such an approach fails to address the Eurocentric assumptions in Feuerbach’s anthropological analysis of religion. Drawing on ritual studies and recent efforts to rehabilitate the idea of “animism,” the chapter goes on to sketch what it calls an “animist humanism.” The aim here is to articulate a religious anthropocentrism that indicates how thinking with African indigenous religions might enable us to think beyond the doctrine of Man.