bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Susceptibility to mis- and disinformation and the effectiveness of fact-checkers: Can misinformation be effectively combated?
Authors: Hameleers Michael
Published: December 2019

The online dissemination of mis- and disinformation may pose vexing problems on democracy. The factual basis of (political) information may be challenged by opposed partisans or issue publics, and misinformation may impact decision-making as confirmation biases may outweigh accuracy motivations. In this setting, fact-checkers that refute the false claims of misinformation may be regarded as an important tool to combat misinformation. Yet, the effectiveness of corrective information may be contingent upon partisan lenses, or the framing used in misinformation. In this study, the effectiveness of fact-checkers that refute different forms of misinformation on the polarizing issue of crime rates related to anti-immigration framing was assessed in the US and Netherlands. The main findings indicate that exposure to fact-checkers can correct misperceptions on immigration, and lowers the credibility of misinformation. Fact-checkers are more effective in the Netherlands than the US. These findings have important ramifications for understanding citizens’ susceptibility to (partisan) misinformation and rebuttals.
Editorial to Volume 35(1)
Authors: Terblanche SE
Published: December 2019

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New goodness-of-fit test for exponentiality based on a conditional moment characterisation
Authors: Smuts M , Allison JS , Santana L
Published: December 2019

The exponential distribution plays a key role in the practical application of reliability theory, survival analysis, engineering and queuing theory. These applications often rely on the underlying assumption that the observed data originate from an exponential distribution. In this paper, two new tests for exponentiality are proposed, which are based on a conditional second moment characterisation. The proposed tests are compared to various established tests for exponentiality by means of a simulation study where it is found that the new tests perform favourably relative to the existing tests. The tests are also applied to real-world data sets with independent and identically distributed data as well as to simulated data from a Cox proportional hazards model, to determine whether the residuals obtained from the fitted model follow a standard exponential distribution.
Editorial to Volume 35(2)
Authors: Terblanche SE
Published: December 2019

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Cantonese-style barbecue meat food safety in Vancouver Coastal Health
Authors: Jorgensen Virginia , Ritson Mark , Tam Gary
Published: December 2019

Cantonese-style barbecue meat is a popular food sold by retail food establishments in the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) region. It involves considerable preparation and food handling. A suspected foodborne illness associated with consumption of Cantonese-style barbecue meat was investigated by VCH in 2010. A clinical specimen submitted by the complainant and food samples from the implicated food establishment tested positive for Staphylococcus aureus and its toxin. The food samples also contained other pathogenic bacteria. Repeated food sampling at this establishment showed similar findings and resulted in a Closure Order. To determine if these concerning microbiological results were isolated or were more widespread among Cantonese-style barbecue meat establishments, a study involving surveys, food sampling, educational workshops, and evaluation was conducted at 68 facilities within VCH. This case study provided valuable data that were not previously available about Cantonese-style BBQ meat products and their preparation and handling. Our detailed review of BBQ meat processes and the laboratory results confirmed that these are high-risk foods, and incorrect handling and sanitation practices can present a health risk to consumers. Knowledge retention and improvement in food handling practices by operators were not observed when evaluated 6 months after participating in educational workshops held at their facilities.
Discursos de pais de crianças surdas: Educação Infantil e a presença da Libras
Authors: Conceição Bianca Salles , Martins Vanessa Regina de Oliveira
Published: December 2019

Este artigo tem como objetivo apresentar um recorte de uma pesquisa de mestrado realizada no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Especial da Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). A pesquisa problematizou as escolhas linguísticas nas instruções escolares, com foco na Educação Infantil, feitas por pais e responsáveis de crianças surdas, matriculadas nesta etapa educacional. O intuito da pesquisa foi de ressaltar, a partir do discurso de pais e responsáveis quais tipos de instrução escolar estavam sendo disponibilizados para essas crianças, e se a Língua Brasileira de Sinais – Libras, estava sendo utilizada no processo de aprendizagem ou não. A pesquisa refere-se a um estudo de caso com abordagem qualitativa descritiva. Utilizou-se, como instrumento de coleta de dados, entrevistas semiestruturadas. Participaram da entrevista quatro mães e um pai de filhos surdos, inseridos em escolas com propostas bilíngues, em três municípios do interior do estado de São Paulo. As análises foram realizadas com base nas filosofias da diferença, especificamente nos estudos de Michel Foucault.  Pode-se observar a entrada da Língua de Sinais no seio familiar e social, assim como sua importância para o desenvolvimento das crianças. O discurso dos responsáveis, a partir de um viés clínico, ainda é presente, mas tomando por base a preocupação com barreiras sociais que levam os familiares a procurar soluções médicas. Portanto, pode-se afirmar que, apesar do discurso da surdez como deficiência ainda ser presente, na fala dos pais, a Língua de Sinais tem ganhado visibilidade social e é de conhecimento das famílias.
Gender role conflict model of pastors’ husbands at batak karo protestant church
Authors: Brahmana Karina Meriem Beru , Suryanto Suryanto , Suyanto Bagong
Published: December 2019

This research aims to propose a gender role conflict model of GBKP (Protestant Batak Karo Church, Indonesia) pastors’ husbands with masculine ideology, marital adjustment, and self-esteem as mediators, using SEM-PLS (Structural Equation Model-Partial Least Squares). In order to measure gender-role conflict, the four-point gender-role conflict scale developed was used. The Male Role Norms Scale (MRNS) was used to measure masculine ideology, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) was used to measure marital adjustment and The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) was used to measure self-esteem. The subjects of this research were 79 pastors’ husbands at Batak Karo Protestant Church. From the five proposed hypotheses, two were accepted and three were rejected. The two accepted hypotheses were the effect of masculine ideology towards gender-role conflict and the effect of marital adjustment towards gender-role conflict. Meanwhile, the hypotheses of the effects of both masculine ideology and marital adjustment towards self-esteem, as well as the effect of self-esteem towards gender-role conflict were rejected.
Extending the theory of resilience and relational load into polyamorous relationships
Authors: Rubinsky Valerie
Published: December 2019

This article, framed through the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) investigated the effects of relational maintenance behaviors in polyamorous relationships. Specifically, it hypothesized that repeated use of prosocial maintenance behaviors would demonstrate relational investment and act as moderators for the effect of identity gaps, or feelings of discrepancy between aspects of one’s identity, on relational satisfaction and resilience. With a few exceptions, findings largely support the predictions of TRRL. Social networks, advice, positivity, openness, and shared tasks moderate the effects of personal-enacted identity gaps on relational satisfaction. Advice, social networks, and openness moderate the effects of personal-relational identity gaps on resilience. Allowing control, destructive conflict, and jealousy induction moderate the effects of personal-enacted identity gaps on relational satisfaction. Only spying of the negative maintenance behaviors moderates the effects of personal-relational identity gaps on relational satisfaction. For the most part, as predicted, positive relational maintenance behaviors appear to weaken, and antisocial maintenance behaviors strengthen, the negative association between identity gaps and relational satisfaction and resilience. Implications and limitations are discussed.
Is the long-term association between symbolic numerical magnitude processing and arithmetic bi-directional?
Authors: Vanbinst Kiran , Ghesquière Pol , De Smedt Bert
Published: December 2019

By analyzing longitudinal data from the start to the end of primary education, we aimed to investigate whether symbolic numerical magnitude processing at the start of primary education predicted arithmetic at the end, and whether arithmetic at the start of primary education predicted later symbolic numerical magnitude processing skills at the end. In the first grade (start) and sixth grade (end) of primary education, the same group of children’s symbolic numerical magnitude processing skills and arithmetic competence were assessed. We were particularly interested in exploring the direction of the association between symbolic numerical magnitude processing and arithmetic and observed that this association was bi-directional across primary education. Symbolic numerical magnitude processing skills in first grade predicted arithmetic in sixth grade; but also the reversed direction turned out significant: Early arithmetic predicted later symbolic numerical magnitude processing skills. Both directions remained significant after controlling for motor speed and nonverbal reasoning. Critically, when controlling for auto-regressive effects of prior abilities, the symbolic comparison-arithmetic association was no longer significant, the reversed direction became marginally significant. This suggests that children’s arithmetic development across primary education to some extent strengthens their ability to process the numerical meaning of Arabic digits.
Neighborhood and community factors related to youth conduct disorder among adolescents
Authors: Yockey R. Andrew , King Keith A. , Vidourek Rebecca A.
Published: December 2019

Aim

An estimated 3% to 5% of youth are annually diagnosed with conduct disorder (CD), making it a pressing mental health concern. While many studies have focused on the behavioral aspects of conduct disorder, environmental and neighborhood factors have yet to be explored. The present study examined specific neighborhood and community characteristics associated with youth conduct disorder.

Method

A secondary analysis of the United States’ 2011-2012 National Survey of Children’s Health was conducted. Participants included a total of 34,601 adolescents aged 12-17 (52.3% were male and 47.7% were female).

Results

Results from the final multivariate logistic regression model revealed that neighborhoods without parks or playgrounds, libraries or bookmobiles, litter or garbage on the sidewalks, vandalism, not being on to count on others in neighborhoods, and perceived child safety were all significant risk factors for youth conduct disorder.

Conclusion

Implications of these findings and future strategies for preventing conduct disorder are discussed.
Tras la comunidad. De la Gemeinschaft sociológica a la “comunidad ideal de comunicación” en la ética de Apel
Authors: Bonete Perales Enrique
Published: December 2019

Se pretende mostrar la coincidencia entre el papel que desempeña la idealizada Gemeinschaft en algunos sociólogos clásicos (como instancia crítica de los males de las sociedades modernas) con la función teórica del a priori de la “comunidad ideal de comunicación” en la ética de Apel (en tanto que principio regulativo de los reales procesos dialógicos). Se compara la futurible “comunidad ideal” con la pasada “vida comunitaria” de los consensos morales. Hoy nos encontramos después de la sociológica Gemeinschaft (primer sentido de la preposición “tras”) pero hemos de caminar hacia la comunidad ideal de comunicación (segundo sentido de “tras”).

ABSTRACT: The present contribution aims to illustrate the close relation between the role played by the idealized Gemeinschaft in some classical sociologists (as a critical element of modern societies’ ills) and the theoretical function of the “ideal communication community” as an a priori in Apel’s ethics (as a regulative principle of actual dialogic processes). With that aim, I will compare the possible future “ideal community” to the past “community life” of moral consensus. Now we live after the sociological Gemeinschaft (first sense of the preposition “after”) but we must go after the ideal communication community (second sense of “after”).
A Technological and Typological Analysis of Lithic Material from Skovmosen I, Denmark
Authors: Eggers-Kaas Thomas , Pedersen Jesper Borre , Hoggard Christian Steven , Sauer Florian , Hilgart Jan , Riede Felix
Published: December 2019

During road construction work, material attributed to the Final Palaeolithic was discovered at Skovmosen I, near Kongens Lyngby on Zealand, eastern Denmark. Although it is regularly mentioned in reviews of the southern Scandinavian Final Palaeolithic, the Skovmosen I assemblage has hitherto remained poorly described. We here review the site’s discovery history and its context. Aided by a three-dimensional digital recording protocol, this article details the assemblage composition and its technology. The assemblage is comprised of tanged points, scrapers and burins, alongside blades and cores as primary reduction products. Although evidently disturbed by the road construction that led to the site’s discovery, the material likely reflects the remains of a small Final Palaeolithic locale, where diverse activities were carried out.
Towards a Logic of Encounter
Authors: Bleuler Marcel
Published: December 2019

SINCE THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY, THERE HAS BEEN A GROWING NUMBER OF ALLIANCES BETWEEN SOCIAL ART AND SO-CALLED INTERNATIONAL ‘DEVELOPMENT’ COOPERATION AND NGO WORK. SCHOLARS MOSTLY DISCUSS SUCH ALLIANCES FROM A PERSPECTIVE THAT EXPECTS ART PROJECTS TO RESULT IN CONCLUSIVE EFFECTS. THIS PAPER ARGUES THAT SUCH AN EFFECT-ORIENTED PERSPECTIVE IS BASED ON A REDUCTIVE NOTION OF ART AND THAT IT FAILS TO NOTICE THE SELF-CRITICAL PRINCIPLES THAT SOCIAL ART CONTRIBUTES TO THE FIELD OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION. BASED ON A DETAILED DISCUSSION OF THE CONTINUING PROJECT OFF/LINE: WHAT CAN ART DO IN ZEMO NIKOZI? (SINCE 2016), WHICH INVITES ARTISTS TO WORK IN THE FRAMING OF A LONG-TERM ENGAGEMENT FOR CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN THE SHIDA KARTLI REGION OF GEORGIA, THIS PAPER PRESENTS CONCRETE PROCESSES OF SOCIAL ART AND DIFFERENTIATES THEM ACCORDING TO HOW THEY RELATE TO THE IMPLEMENTATION CONTEXT. ON THIS BASIS, THE PAPER CONCEPTUALIZES SOCIAL ART PRACTICES AS PROCESS-ORIENTED SPACES OF ENCOUNTER, AND DRAWS CONCLUSIONS ON A DISCURSIVE LOGIC THAT COMPLEMENTS THE EFFECT-ORIENTED DISCOURSE.
Between ‘Freedom as Autonomy’ and ‘Freedom as Potentiality’
Authors: Holm Ditte Vilstrup
Published: December 2019

CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL POLICY PROMOTES THE VALUE OF PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES, INCLUDING PARTICIPATORY ART. HOWEVER, THIS EMPHASIS RENDERS CULTURAL POLICY SUBJECT TO THE ART COMMUNITY’S WIDESPREAD AND GENERALIZED SUSPICION THAT GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES INSTRUMENTALIZE ARTISTIC PRACTICES TO SERVE PURPOSES OTHER THAN THOSE PURSUED BY ARTISTS THEMSELVES. THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARTICIPATORY ART, PARTICIPATORY CULTURE AND CULTURAL POLICY, FOCUSING IN PARTICULAR ON NOTIONS OF ARTISTIC AUTONOMY. SPECIFICALLY, THE ARTICLE USES ORGANIZATION THEORY’S DISCUSSION OF FREEDOM IN WORK TO FRAME ART THEORY’S SUSTAINED, ALBEIT DIFFERENTLY CONCEPTUALIZED, PREOCCUPATION WITH NOTIONS OF ARTISTIC AUTONOMY IN RESPECT TO THE BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATION OF LIFE IN MODERNITY. EMPIRICALLY, THE ARTICLE ANALYSES AN INSPIRATIONAL CATALOGUE THAT PROMOTES THE USE OF PARTICIPATORY ART AND CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT IN PUBLIC ART PROJECTS AS A WAY OF CHALLENGING THE ART COMMUNITY’S GENERALIZED SUSPICION, WHILE ALSO SUGGESTING THAT DANISH ARTS POLICY IS RENEGOTIATING THE ROLE OF ART IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF CONTEMPORARY OPPORTUNITIES FOR SEIZING ARTISTIC FREEDOM. CONTEMPORARY PARTICIPATORY CULTURE, IT IS ARGUED, CONDITIONS AS WELL AS PROMOTES ARTISTIC PRACTICE, THUS GENERATING NEW ARTISTIC POSSIBILITIES, ALTHOUGH ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT ARTISTS ENGAGE IN COLLABORATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING THOSE AFFECTING CULTURAL POLICY.
Hazard Adams's "Insiders and Outsiders"
Authors: Adams Hazard , Behler Ernst , Birus Hendrik , Derrida Jacques , Iser Wolfgang , Krieger Murray , Miller Hillis , Pfeiffer Ludwig , Readings Bill , Wang Ching-hsien , Yu Pauline
Published: December 2019

This roundtable discussion of "Insiders and Outsiders", Hazard Adams's contribution to the first International Conference for Humanistic Discourses, was held in April, 1994. The papers of this first meeting of the ICHD have been published in volume 4 of Surfaces (1994).
Politiques de l’autorité. Le pouvoir de celui qui « n’est rien »
Authors: Joos Jean-Ernest
Published: December 2019

Ce texte se propose de mettre en évidence une conception de l’autorité qui traverse la modernité et la postmodernité, celle d’une autorité qui se légitime par son invisibilité. Le concept d’autorité désigne ici, non seulement le droit de parole, mais aussi le lieu où l’institution prend corps. Il s’agit donc d’analyser les conséquences politiques de cette forme d’incorporation institutionnelle qui a été aussi celle de l’université, notamment dans la constitution de la figure du « maître » et des frontières disciplinaires. Il me semble clair en effet que c’est cette forme d’autorité qui est remise en question par l’introduction des politiques du corps (Gays, Lesbiennes, Queer, Afro-américaines...) dans cette configuration institutionnelle fondée sur le pouvoir de l’invisibilité.
Sifflements dans l’obscurité. L’événementialité de Bill Readings
Authors: Villeneuve Johanne
Published: December 2019

Partant du travail de Bill Readings et de sa critique de l’université, cet article s’interroge sur la possibilité pour les intellectuels actuels d’être mobiles et ludiques dans la circulation des savoirs. Dans un premier temps, la critique et les solutions stratégiques offertes par Bill Readings rendent nécessaires un retour à la théorie de l’événement (Lyotard, Veyne, Koselleck, etc.); dans un deuxième temps, elles nous forcent a nous demander si, malgré le principe de « jeu » dont elles se réclament, ces stratégies échappent totalement a l’idéologie, le jeu pouvant aussi contenir la possibilité de sa propre tyrannie.
In Memoriam, Fast Forward
Authors: Redfield Marc
Published: December 2019

This essay, a memorial tribute to Bill Readings, examines ways in which Readings' work refracts and reflects upon speed-a speed "prior" to reflection, representation, or measure. Readings' theorization of postmodern temporality is shown to be inseparable from his analysis and critique of late capitalism and the university.
Dette, institution et histoire
Authors: Méchoulan Éric
Published: December 2019

Empruntant (sans les rendre immédiatement) quelques chemins de traverse (par exemple ce que c’est qu’une institution et ce qu’on lui doit dans des types de sociétés différents, comment fonctionne le discours historiographique et ce qu’il engage dans le rapport au passé et au présent, à l’altérité et aux morts), cette réflexion met en scène certains scénarios de la médiation et certains affolements face à l’immédiateté.
Squattage et terrains vagues
Authors: Lessard Marie
Published: December 2019

La lecture des textes de Marguerite Duras, Kathy Acker et Irmtraud Morgner suggère la possibilité de penser le rapport entre pratiques d’écriture et autobiographie en termes de « pratiques de squattage ». Je veux expliciter ici ce qui m’apparait constituer l’intérêt d’un tel modèle lorsque l’on cherche à comprendre le rapport liant certaines pratiques d’écriture contemporaines à la tradition littéraire en général, ainsi que les modalités possibles d’une articulation politique entre pratiques culturelles et tradition, plus spécifiquement entre pratiques féministes et tradition.
Bill Readings and the supplement
Authors: Skordili Beatrice
Published: December 2019

"Bill Readings and the supplement" is an attempt to trace the various connections of Bill Readings' work on Milton with his ethics of reading and writing, his pedagogical stance in class and relationship to his students, and finally his relationship to the name. The paper imagines setting up the rudiments of a symptomatic grapho-biography that juxtaposes itself to psychoanalytic readings-with their attendant implications of mastery.
INTRODUCTION. GONZO SCHOLARSHIP: POLICING ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
Authors: Shoaf R. A.
Published: December 2019

Introductory remarks at the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) panel at the MLA in Toronto (1993) whose proceedings are published by Surfaces as Vol. IV 102, 103, 104, etc.. The participants assess the impact of electronic publishing on the scholarly world.
TRAGIC LOSS OR GOOD RIDDANCE? THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF TRADITIONAL SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
Authors: Odlyzko Andrew M.
Published: December 2019

Refering particuliarly to mathematics and the natural sciences, the author argues that the potential of electronic technology renders traditional publishing superfluous.
LES MURMURES DE LA MACHINE : LIRE À TRAVERS LE BRUIT DE FOND DE DON DELILLO
Authors: Gervais Bertrand
Published: December 2019

Pour expliquer la convergence de la théorie et de la pratique qui caractérise la réception critique du roman White Noise de Don DeLillo, l’auteur fait appel à la notion de communauté interprétative de Stanley Fish. Il examine ensuite certains des dispositifs par lequel le roman s’inscrit, en toute nécessité, dans le courant esthétique postmoderne.
La réalité du menacé dans la fiction de la menace
Authors: Villeneuve Joanne
Published: December 2019

À partir de la méditation benjamienne sur les effets de la première guerre
mondiale sur l’art de conter, l’auteure développe l’idée d’une rupture épistémique
concernant la figuration de l’ennemi et le rapport au lieu. Prenant la mesure de
cette rupture dans le contexte de la guerre froide, elle s’attarde sur la fiction de
Philip K. Dick et sur les constructions paranoïdes de la menace.
EVERYDAY LANGUAGE, LITERARY LANGUAGE, AND THE PROBLEM OF TRANSLATION
Authors: Krieger Murray
Published: December 2019

Any understanding of cultures and languages is caught up in the dynamics of translation. This essay outlines the issues of translation in a cross-cultural context and focuses on the relationship between the literary and other modes of discourse as exemplary for understanding issues of cultural translation. In describing the dissolution of the literary into general textuality, it gives a historical overview of the relationship between literary and other discourses from classical to New-Critical and Russian Formalist theories, down to today.
THE ARCHEOLOGY OF 'HUMANISM'
Authors: Birus Hendrik
Published: December 2019

This essay plots the historical course of the concept of "humanism" as it developed in the Western tradition. Combining analysis with concrete historical research, it compares and contrasts the concept's meanings, discussing the term in modernity and in the Renaissance, down to its early appearances in Cicero's texts. In addition to citing relevant secondary literature, it refers to texts by Heidegger, Marx, Hegel, and Erasmus, among others.
On Translatability
Authors: Iser Wolfgang
Published: December 2019

This essay addresses the question of translatability as a key concept for understanding encounters between cultures and interactions within cultures. In this view, translatability implies translation of otherness without subsuming it under preconceived notions. In conclusion, this essay proposes a cybernetic model of cultural understanding based on recursive looping.
On sex and Discipline
Authors: Wiegman Robyn
Published: December 2019

This essay examines the current debate between proponents of "queer theory" and "gay and lesbian studies" in order to understand the way each sets forth a political agenda for disciplinary and institutional social change. The author surmises that the utopian hope invested in each critical perspective evinces an affinity that is often overlooked in the way the debate is presented. Further, she argues that neither queer theory nor gay and lesbian studies currently pays adequate attention to the "local" politics of the institution, and she raises the possibility of a political horizon for institutional change which we might call "queering the academy."
Introduction to and Discussion Summary of Wang Hui's Humanism as the Theme of Chinese Modernity
Authors: Hillis Miller J.
Published: December 2019

In the context of the Second International Conference on Humanistic Discourse, this text introduces Wang Hui's "Humanism as the Theme of Chinese Modernity" and reports on the central concerns that emerged in its discussion. It also includes the transcription of Wang Hui's preliminary remarks to the session.
Humanism as the Theme of Chinese Modernity
Authors: Hui Wang , Peng Edward
Published: December 2019

By examining humanist and Enlightenment discourse in reference to China and to the West, this essay reopens the question of how modern Chinese intellectuals assimilated Western ideas and applied them in their own social practice. It indicates the historical conceptions that underlie Western humanism and traces the evolution of Chinese humanist discourses in terms of their media of dissemination, their impact on the organization of knowledge, and their relationship to Marxist concepts of the mode of production.
Disorientations: Chinese Literature in the American University
Authors: Yu Pauline
Published: December 2019

This paper examines the various scholarly and institutional mediations by which Chinese literature has been studied in the West, starting with the governing assumptions of nineteenth-century European philology and moving to the defense-strategical motivations behind the development of area studies programs after World War II, to the burgeoning of East-West comparative literature, and finally to the often concealed, but usually overtly universalizing presumptions of contemporary Western theory. While I do not wish to argue for a parochial cultural essentialism or exceptionalism that would insulate Chinese literary traditions from the analytical tools of Western academic practice, I do feel that concepts with claims to be "global" have not really been seriously tested by works embedded in very different histories and contexts, and questions about the function and nature of humanistic discourse have been assumed to be transportable rather than subject to confrontation and transformation from those works. Finally, I point out how the asymmetry in this relationship between Western theory and other traditions has been institutionalized in the typical departmental structure of the American university, a situation that is only now being subject to challenge.
Introduction to and Discussion Summary of William Tay's Colonialism, Cold War Era, and Marginal Space: The existential Conditions of Four Decades of Hong Kong Literature
Authors: Birus Hendrik
Published: December 2019

In the context of the Second International Conference on Humanistic Discourse, this text introduces William Tay's "Colonialism, the Cold War Era, and Marginal Space: The Existential Conditions of Four Decades of Hong Kong Literature" and reports on the central concerns that emerged in its discussion.
Introduction to and Discussion Summary of Chiyuki Kumakura's "History and Narrative in Japanese"
Authors: Pfeiffer K.  Ludwig
Published: December 2019

In the context of the Second International Conference on Humanistic Discourse, this text introduces Chiyuki Kumakura's "History and Narrative in Japanese" and reports on the central concerns that emerged in its discussion.
Some Notes on "culture", "Humanism", and the "Humanities" in Modern Chinese Cultural Discourses
Authors: Lee Leo Ou-fan
Published: December 2019

This paper is written in response to the set of questions first raised by Professor Murray Krieger in the planning memo (October 1992) for the First International Conference For Humanistic Discourses [Surfaces IV. 301-311 (1994)]. The first part of this paper attempts to give a broad survey of issues related to humanism and the humanities in 20th-century China. In recontextualizing some of the key terms in Chinese and their cultural translations, the paper also seeks to lay the comparative ground for locating the institutional structures and spaces for cultural criticism in contemporary Chinese culture and society. I believe that only by locating such crucial differences in cultural practice can a meaningful comparative theory be constructed.
THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE AND BOXING HELENA: DESIRE AND THE DISMEMBERMENT OF THE FEMALE BODY
Authors: Hardin Michel
Published: December 2019

The author compares The Brain That Wouldn't Die, a 1960 B-movie with Jennifer Chambers Lynch's Boxing Helena (1993) in order to show how spectators not only take on the sadistic position which has long been thought to be the one position informing Hollywood cinema but tend to shift between different positions, including masochistic positions. Both movies relate the fetish fantasies of a doctor: in both narratives, the protagonists artificially maintain alive dismembered female bodies. In neither movie is the desire that produces these fetish fantasies clearly critiqued. To some extent, the Oedipal conflict might explain the sexual neuroses of the protagonists. However, both movies have the spectator shift the identification process from one character to the other. In Boxing Helena, such shifts in spectator identification are mirrored on the screen, creating a critique of film, film theory, and voyeurism.
DECONSTRUCTION AND THE DEATHS OF PHILOSOPHY: OF METAPHYSICS AND MOURNING FOR THE ARCHIVE
Authors: Trifonas Peter
Published: December 2019

Through a reading of Derrida, the author addresses questions concerning the "right" of philosophy's birth and death, and the ethics of its body of teaching. Taking into account Derrida's destruction of logocentrism, if any reaffirmation of "philosophy" as the interpretational moment of a disciplinary line of inquiry is to occur, it can only be through a responsible questioning of what is said and left unsaid in the Western tradition of metaphysics. How can deconstruction help us to untangle, demystify, transgress the limits and limitations of the aporia of the death of philosophy and resolve the question of its question, and of its right, its institution, as well as who has the right and responsibility to respond to it?
INTRODUCTION TO ALEXANDER GAVRILOV’S "HUMANISM AS ANTI-IDEOLOGY"
Authors: Adams Hazard
Published: December 2019

In the context of the Third International Conference on Humanistic Discourse, this text summarizes the introduction to Alexander Gavrilov’s "Humanism as Anti-Ideology" that Hazard Adams delivered and reports on the central concerns that emerged in its discussion.
IMAGES OF LEGAL HUMANISM
Authors: Osler Douglas J.
Published: December 2019

Legal humanism is an expression generally used to refer to the study of Roman law by 16th Century philologists. Coming a century an a half after what is generally taken to be the birth of humanism, it is generally understood to be part of humanism mostly in its interest for the historical interpretation of Latin texts rather than for participating in the value orientation of humanism. Strangely enough, legal history has taken the philological work of legal humanism for granted not seeing that legal humanism was itself inscribed in history. First, we should note that when it was being developed in the 16th Century, this philological work in Roman law was marginal if one compares publications in that field to publications of medieval Italian jurisprudence. Secondly, legal history has tended to diminish the presence of interpretation in the work of legal humanists who probably more than is generally acknowledged adapted to their times the Latin texts inventing values which have nothing to do with the Roman sources. Legal humanism has never been used to mean the legal aspects of humanitarianism and probably needn’t to be. If the work of interpretation of Roman law has opened some windows into humanistic values, Roman law itself was the codification of an unjust power structure.
LEGITIMIZING ELECTRONIC SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: A DISCURSIVE PROPOSAL
Authors: Heimpel Rod
Published: December 2019

An electronic publication of scholarly work is not merely a paper publication in disguise. Legitimizing electronic scholarly publications calls for a new understanding of institutional underpinnings of the scholar’s world. Despite the fact that webpages are merely copies requested manually, by clicking on a mouse, they are conceived in spatial terms. Community is a logical metaphor for this space. Insistance on the idea of specialized virtual communities involves questions for the whole of the university institution.
SHAKESPEREAN APPARATUS: EXPLICIT TEXTUAL STRUCTURES AND THE IMPLICIT NAVIGATION OF ACCUMULATED KNOWLEDGE
Authors: Siemens Raymond G.
Published: December 2019

In its exploration of the potential for hypertextual navigation offered by the new humanistic understanding of text, the article analyzes a traditional humanistic activity — that of annotating a scholarly edition (in this case, one of Shakespeare’s sonnets). It asserts that the interaction allowed by advanced textual analysis software are transferable to all the material that can be linked to the text. Moreover, semantic patterns, especially those identified with machine facilitation, operate in ways akin to hypertextual links.
PRACTICES FOR A MACHINE CULTURE: A CASE STUDY OF INTEGRATING CULTURAL THEORY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Authors: Sengers Phoebe
Published: December 2019

In taking into account the contemporary development of technology, the author defends an integration of cultural theory and artificial intelligence research into what she calls cultural informatics. The author reviews the history of artificial intelligence from classical to what is now called alternative artificial intelligence research. A small but active community of researchers focusing on critical technical practices has developed in artificial intelligence research; among other items, they have questioned the traditional understanding of an agent as involved in purely logical and formal relations in order to take into account the embodiment of the agent.
ABANDONED TO DIFFERENCE: IDENTITY, OPPOSITION AND TRINH T. MINH-HA'S REASSEMBLAGE
Authors: Hill Michael
Published: December 2019

This essay is about the realization of power's proximity, and about how, once taken seriously, power forces us (1) to disband the outmoded notion of representing a generalized Other, and (2) abandon the Other's co-ordinate, subjective political agency. A tentative premise describes how the proximity of power — its stickiness — forces us to seek more politically informed notions about otherness and identity than could previously be thought. Upon that basis, an argument is built on behalf of a politics that attempts to exceed subjective agency by abandoning identity to politics, rather than abandoning politics to identity. Althusser, Foucault, West, Mudimbe, and Trin Minh-ha are brought into the discussion.
FÉMINISME ET WOMEN'S STUDIES. VIEILLES HISTOIRES
Authors: Bowlby Rachel
Published: December 2019

L’auteure tente une reconstruction de l’histoire des women’s studies et de la dynamique qui les relie au féminisme. Évoquant les diverses polarités qui ont structuré les conditions de leur interaction, elle décrit l’évolution du féminisme anglo-américain, du féminisme français et du French feminism en faisant intervenir les notions de marginalité et d’institutionnalisation, les théories de Kristeva, de Cixous et d’Irigaray, la déconstruction et l’« essentialism » et, dans une visée plus polémique, la « domestication ». Pour illustrer la thèse que les enjeux du débat entourant le rôle des women’s studies au sein du féminisme n’ont pas changé, Bowlby offre une critique déconstructrice du récent livre de Judith Butler, Gender Trouble.
L'OBLITÉRATION DU NOM. CONSIDÉRATIONS SUR LE ROMANESQUE AQUINIEN ET SUR LE SUJET-NATION QUÉBÉCOIS
Authors: Cardinal Jacques
Published: December 2019

Sur la base d’une théorie de la nomination et de la signature comme ressorts symboliques de l’inscription du sujet dans l’histoire, l’auteur analyse le statut parfois ambigu du sujet québécois et montre comment ce celui-ci est représenté dans les oeuvres de l’écrivain Hubert Aquin.
THE AFFECT IN THE WORK OF JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD
Authors: Katwan Ron
Published: December 2019

An interpretation of the philosophical motivations that drive Jean-François Lyotard's appropriation of Freud's metapsychological concept of the affect, which, in the author's view, serves two purposes: it reinterprets first the concept of the unconscious, and second the idea of the victim.
LOST IN SPACE. QUELQUES CONCEPTS CLÉS DE LA THÉORIE QUEER
Authors: Dupont Eric
Published: December 2019

Compte-rendu thématique de Queer Sites : Bodies at Work, Bodies at play, colloque d’études culturelles lesbiennes et gaies tenu à Toronto en mai 1993. L’auteur discute les diverses notions d’espace et de positionnement discursif véhiculées ou thématisées lors de la rencontre. Il désigne ensuite la littérature comme lieu d’élaboration possible d’un espace véritablement queer.
The Intellectual as a Contemporary Phenomenon
Authors: Bové Paul A.
Published: December 2019

A reading of Spinoza and Negri in order to rethink the terms of intellectual contemporaneity in liberatory rather than merely historical terms.
"POST-POSTSTRUCTURALIST" OR PRELAPSARIAN? CULTURAL STUDIES AND THE NEW HISTORICISM
Authors: Brantlinger Patrick
Published: December 2019

A comparison of New Historicism and Cultural Studies as contemporary theoretical approaches to the problem of cultural analysis.
THE INSTITUTIONS OF CULTURAL STUDIES
Authors: Schleifer Ronald
Published: December 2019

An account of the disciplinary problematic of cultureal studies. How does a theoretical and analytic enterprise take on an institutional form? Special reference to the establishment of a program in cultural studies at the University of Oklahoma.
SCIENCES : QUI EST L’AUTEUR ?
Authors: Stengers Isabelle
Published: December 2019

Une étude de l’aspect « littéraire » de la légitimation scientifique portant plus précisément sur les problèmes de l’invention, de la découverte et l’auteur comme modes de discours.
LE CONTRÔLE DE L’IMAGINAIRE ET LA LITTÉRATURE COMPARÉE
Authors: Costa-Lima Luiz
Published: December 2019

Le rôle de l’État-nation dans le processus de légitimation des études littéraires, comme mode de contrôle de l’imagination. Le prestige accordé à l’art dans le mouvement esthétique du 19e siècle, comme étant lui-même une fonction de ce contrôle, puisqu’il est basé sur la neutralisation antérieure de la force critique de l’art. La littérature comparée, l’État-nation, et l’état de la théorie. Le discours esthétique comme une tentative de contrôler la force critique de la fiction.
KANT AND THE NEGRO
Authors: Judy Ronald
Published: December 2019

Kant's account of judgement in the Critique of Pure Reason and its relation to his concept of "the Negro".
La minorisation linguistique, entre discrimination et domination symbolique. Différences et enjeux de deux lectures des inégalités
Authors: Hambye Philippe
Published: December 2019

Lorsque l’on évoque des situations de minorisation linguistique, il est courant de les associer à des processus de domination ou de discrimination, à tel point que ces termes peuvent sembler indissociables, voire quasiment synonymes. Cette contribution propose cependant de mettre en évidence ce qui sépare une approche des faits de minorisation inscrite dans une réflexion critique sur la « domination » d’une lecture de la minorisation comme processus de discrimination. L’analyse tente en particulier de saisir ce que la notion de discrimination véhicule comme conception particulière des problèmes sociaux et ce que sa diffusion actuelle doit à sa proximité avec certains traits de la vision du monde social qui tend à s’imposer aujourd’hui.
Transformation des dynamiques minoritaires, paradigmes sociolinguistiques et émotions
Authors: Bernard Barbeau Geneviève , Moïse Claudine
Published: December 2019

L’étude des minorisations linguistiques traverse la sociolinguistique des contacts de langues. Quel que soit le contexte culturel et social envisagé, la domination linguistique relève de phénomènes d’exclusion, de rejet de l’autre, mais aussi de son propre groupe d’appartenance. Or, il semble que la description et l’analyse de ces différentes réactions face à la domination s’actualisent dans des moments historiques particuliers, socialement et scientifiquement inscrits. Cet article vise à montrer comment la sociolinguistique a décrit ces rapports de domination depuis les années 1970, quelles notions elle a mobilisées en regard des idéologies sociales et scientifiques considérées, telle la diglossie conflictuelle, et comment l’on pourrait appréhender aujourd’hui ces rapports de domination à l’aune de sentiments et processus individuels ou sociaux, telles la honte et l’agentivité, plus en lien avec l’individuation de nos sociétés contemporaines.
La hiérarchisation des accents en français, entre représentations et réalité : étude de perception d’accents natifs et non natifs en Suisse romande
Authors: Didelot Marion
Published: December 2019

La parole accentuée a toujours suscité des réactions plus ou moins vives. La mondialisation actuelle favorise les échanges intergroupes et multiplie les situations de communication exolingue, confrontant les auditeurs à une multitude d’accents, natifs ou non. Dans ce travail, nous présentons une étude de perception de différents accents natifs et non natifs en français menée auprès de trois groupes d’auditeurs francophones natifs qui devaient évaluer la convenance des locuteurs pour trois postes différents sur la base d’une écoute à l’aveugle d’extraits de parole spontanée. Nos résultats montrent une importante hiérarchisation des accents en français, qui n’oppose pas accent natif et accent non natif, mais qui semble indiquer qu’il existe une évaluation des accents en fonction de leur valeur sociale et des représentations auxquelles les auditeurs tendent à les associer.
Influência das alterações hormonais advindas do climatério nos tecidos bucais
Authors: Oliveira Natalia Pereira de , Gomez Nicolás Antonio Douglas
Published: December 2019

Durante o climatério, período em que as gônadas femininas cessam sua função, a deficiência de estrógenos, especialmente do estradiol, provoca alterações importantes na cavidade bucal, interferindo em mecanismos inflamatórios, secreção salivar, metabolismo do colágeno, entre outros. Por meio de uma revisão de literatura, esse estudo teve como objetivo, ver a influência das alterações hormonais advindas do período de climatério nos tecidos bucais, proporcionando ao cirurgião dentista informações em relação às consequências e cuidados relacionados a esta fase da vida da mulher. Nesse período, as mulheres tornam-se mais suscetíveis a alterações tais como: osteopenia e osteoporose dos maxilares, hipossalivação, doenças periodontais, entre outros. O tratamento preventivo por meio de remoção de placa, adequação do meio bucal e orientação antes e durante o climatério são os melhores meios de minimizar os problemas bucais advindos dessa fase da vida da mulher.
Is there an association between the value of forced expiratory volume in the 1st second, the Asthma Control Test and a Control Framework by Global Initiative for asthma in asthmatic children and adolescents treated with inhaled corticosteroids?
Authors: Taglia-Ferre Karla Delevedove , Lisboa Sandra , Salviano Luanda Dias da S. , Costa Ana Carolina Carioca da , Monteiro Shandra Lisboa , Campos Hisbello da Silva , March Maria de Fátima Pombo
Published: December 2019

Objective: Evaluate the presence of association between the classification of the level of asthma control, using the method proposed by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), the Asthma Control Test (ACT)/Childhood-ACT and the forced expiratory volume in the 1st second (FEV1), in asthmatic children and adolescents treated with inhaled corticosteroids, followed up at the National Institute of Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health FernandesFigueira of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (IFF / FIOCRUZ).
Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out with a review of the medical records of all children between 7 and 17 years of age followed up at the Asthma Outpatient Clinic and referred to the Respiratory Insertion Test (PFR) sector between March 2013 and September 2014. In the same day were applied the C-ACT/ACT questionnaires, an asthma control method proposed by the GINA and the FEV1 value in a spirometrictest.
Results: From the total number of records evaluated (72), 16 children were excluded because they did not meet the required criteria for performing spirometry. The sample studied (56 children) was predominantly male (58.9%) and median age was 12 (7-17) years. It was observed an association between FEV1 and GINA values ??(p <0.01).
Conclusion: The results found in this study indicate that FEV1 measurement is a useful component among the instruments for assessing clinical control of asthma by GINA.
The influence of sports practice and its prediction indicators on the performance of aerobic, motor, attention, cognitive flexibility and processing speed
Authors: Mazzoccante Rafaello Pinheiro , Corrêa Hugo de Luca , Queiroz José Luiz de , Sousa Beatriz Raquel Castro de , Sousa Ioranny Raquel Castro de , Santos Marcos Aurélio Barboza , Câmara Matheus Almeida , Ferreira Aparecido Pimentel , Melo Gislane Ferreira de
Published: December 2019

Introduction: Sports initiation is usually started during childhood and adolescence, and the beneficial effects of this practice for physical and motor capacities are already known. Recent research has shown the potential of sports to stimulate and modify cognitive development.
Objective: To verify the relationship of sports practice during childhood on cardiorespiratory, motor, attention, cognitive flexibility and cognitive processing speed.
Methods: 130 students aged 7 to 10 years participated in the study, of which 68 were athletes and 62 non-athletes, divided into sports group and control group. The researchers carried out three visits for the application of the research instruments, which were carried out in a randomized manner within the school premises, divided into three blocks: 1) attention test for cancellation and test of tracks A and B (applied collectively); 2) jumping tests; 3) anamnesis, body composition and the Körperkoordination für Kinder (KTK) test.
Results: Children practicing sports obtained lower values ??in the weight (28 ± 10.08 kg vs 33.9 ± 15.3 kg), waist circumference (57.8 ± 7.7 cm vs 61.7 ± 9.6 cm) and circumference of the hip (69.1 ± 9.5 cm vs 72.8 ± 10.5 cm). In addition, we observed higher values ??in single-hops scores (96.9 ± 17.3 vs 85.6 ± 14.3) and lateral jumps scores (99.1 ± 18.8 vs 91.2 ± 18.0) compared to children who do not play sports. (p < 0.05). The high performance in single-heel jumps, side jumps, motor quotient, B-trails and B-A trails presented as predictors of sports practice (CI > 0.50).
Conclusion: The results indicated a positive relationship between children practicing sports in childhood and interesting benefits in the ability of cognitive flexibility, without expressing differences in motor coordination compared to non-practicing children.