cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Distributed Evidence: Mapping Named Erractics
Creators: name: Hutton, Jane
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: This project maps a series of boulders that were plucked, transported, and deposited by the toe-line of the retreating Late-Wisconsin and pre-Wisconsin ice sheets in North America and subsequently  named,  relocated,  modified,  and  celebrated  by  people.  They  are  the  glacially  distributed  sites  of  council  meetings,  picnics,  political  movements,  and  territorial  markers.    They are inscribed with discrepant personal, regional, and national narratives and at the same time they declare their foreign origin through their conspicuous mineral composition and form. In  the  mid-19th  century  such  boulders  served  as  critical  evidence  for  piecing  together  a  theory  of  glaciation,  and  consequently  an  idea  of  geologic  time  and  the  location  of  humans  within  it.  While  their  scientific  importance  waned  in  the  20th  century,  outside  and  along-side  geology  they  are  critical  objects  for  reflections  on  time  and  space  of  various  scales  and  consequences. They refer simultaneously to different moments in time: their geogenic forma-tion,  their  glacial  deposition,  and  specific  events  in  cultural  history,  as  they  are  sometimes  literally  carved  with  a  date.  They  are  heavy,  insistent  markers  in  space,  yet  they  indicate  a  remote origin—and therefore the journey between two sites—and they continue to be moved or changed by ensuing human forces. The naming, photographing, and feting of the boulders collated and mapped here signal their role as persistent devices for locating deep time within the present and grappling with the continuum of geological and human action.
What Does the 250th Anniversary of the Independence Mean to a 'Browner' America?
Creators: name: Yang, Mimi
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: Frederick Douglass’ 1852 address “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” poignantly called attention to the Black people who were still unfree slaves when the Republic joyfully celebrated freedom and independence on its 76th anniversary. Echoing Douglass, this paper searches for the meaning of the 250th anniversary in a deeply fractured and divided America by focusing on the historical and current ‘color scheme.’ An in-depth examination of America’s history and cultural history, represented by the paradigms White, Black, Brown, Yellow, and Browner opens space for analysis and arguments on the formation of national character, the cultivation of cultural identity, and the definition of Americanism. This essay tackles the core of Whiteness in relation to Blackness (African Americans), Brownness (Native Americans), and Yellowness (Chinese/Asian Americans) to unpack a heated and culturally charged topic of race relations and capture the significance of the ‘Browner’ in ‘Browner America’ in anticipation of the 250th anniversary.
description: On_Culture, No 15 (2023): Present Futures
Being With(in) the Geolithic: Internet as Shamanic Tool
Creators: name: Easton, Anthony
name: McRae, Racheal E.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: As the medium shaping much of our current world view and mapping our interior geography, the landscape of the internet also frames our contemporary sensings of the geologic. But between the thinking and the experiencing of internet time and geologic/deep time, a fissure opens up. How do we reconcile the co-existence, both corporeal and intellectual, of two distinctly different conceptions of time and permanence: one a web-space where the longevity of a place or object is dependent upon its continuous viewership and refresh-rate, and the other a slowly shifting behemoth we physically travel across? How might an embodied knowing, a deep-knowing of deep-time, locate itself within the speed-driven space of the internet?
A Parametric Framework for the Comparison of Methods of Very Robust Regression
Creators: name: Riani, Marco
name: Atkinson, Anthony C.
name: Perrotta, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There are several methods for obtaining very robust estimates of regression parameters that asymptotically resist 50% of outliers in the data. Differences in the behaviour of these algorithms depend on the distance between the regression data and the outliers. We introduce a parameter $λ$ that defines a parametric path in the space of models and enables us to study, in a systematic way, the properties of estimators as the groups of data move from being far apart to close together. We examine, as a function of $λ$, the variance and squared bias of five estimators and we also consider their power when used in the detection of outliers. This systematic approach provides tools for gaining knowledge and better understanding of the properties of robust estimators.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-STS437 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
HISTORY, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF TEA INDUSTRY IN INDIA
Creators: name: D, Nitesh S
name: Sowmya C
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Tea
Indian Tea Industry

description: The tea industry in India has an ever-changing consumer taste perception and a major challenge for breeders when it comes to plant material that will satisfies a cross-section of consumers with different taste perceptions. The effects of global climate change have increased the likelihood of biotic and abiotic stress, so planting material needs to fight stress, therefore the dynamics of breeding stress-tolerant planting material need to be increased. Due to the increase in input costs, low input response plant materials will be a demand for the tea industry in India
Space-Time Vertigo
Creators: name: Milligan, Brett
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: In  1897  the  United  States  Geological  Survey  (USGS)  began  the  task  of  surveying  the  entire  nation.  From  1897  to  1992  the  survey  produced  over  55,000  7.5-minute  topography  maps,  creating the only uniform map covering the entire extent of the lower continental 48 states in detail.1 These surveys became the definitive source for remote sensing2 the country’s lands and what was being inscribed upon them. In contrast to its strictly ‘geologic’ surveys, inventories of subsurface mineral deposits, USGS topographic maps gave equal consideration to surficial landscape features (landforms, rivers, and streams) as well as our cultural alteration of those forms and surfaces. Because the topographic surveys mapped the cultural terrain, they needed to be periodically updated to include how our use of the landscape was changing it.Figure  1  shows  two  USGS  topographic  maps  depicting  the  same  location  and  extent  of  Basin and Range territory in southwestern New Mexico. The first was surveyed around 1915 and  the  second  around  1992.  In  the  interval  between  them,  the  survey’s  conventions  for  drawing the landscape remained largely the same. Differences in style are subtle in compari-son to the massive physical changes in the terrain they depict. What in 1915 was a landscape of undulating hills, underground mine shafts and the sprawling town of Tyrone has vanished within  the  manufactured  geography  of  an  open-pit  copper  mine.  In  the  process,  over  seven  contiguous miles of the former Continental Divide was displaced from its former location.
Critical Traces of the Future in Exhibition Projects About Migration
Creators: name: Asche, Farina
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: Using parts of the praxeographic and network-based approach of a knowledge regime analysis, this article looks at future-making practices in exhibition projects about migration in Germany. Using the example of the outreach project Meinwanderungsland (my immigration country) (2018–2020) and its critical practice of imagination and anticipation, the article argues that future-making practices in exhibition projects transform the knowledge production of migration. The article not only examines the project’s critical practice, it also looks at the after-effects of critique within the exhibitionary complex of migration. Critique is not understood here as a total withdrawal from museum spaces and institutions, but as an intervention. It can be shown that Meinwanderungsland used para-institutional practices, narratives, and networks for a different musealization of migration.
description: On_Culture, No 15 (2023): Present Futures
Arts, Letters & Numbers: Situating Engagement with Material and Experiential Geographies
Creators: name: Gersten, David
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The ubiquitous observation of our time is transformation: cultural, technological, social, po-litical, economical, and geological. We are in the midst of unprecedented re-alignments and re-articulations of every aspect of our lives. There are people and institutions across all disciplines and across the globe that are increasingly confronted by the need for new models of asking the extraordinarily complex questions of our time. The challenges, possibilities of our moment are extraordinary; they call for creative urgency, considered stewardship, and new spaces bringing together diverse voices. Arts  Letters  &  Numbers,  a  workshop  conducted  in  summer  2012,  involving  30  participants  from  12  countries,  is  just  such  a  space.  It  offered  a  new  approach  to  constructing  alternative  pathways of interaction among a wide range of individuals, disciplines and geographies.
Handling Algebraic Effects
Creators: name: Plotkin, Gordon D
name: Pretnar, Matija
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Algebraic effects are computational effects that can be represented by an equational theory whose operations produce the effects at hand. The free model of this theory induces the expected computational monad for the corresponding effect. Algebraic effects include exceptions, state, nondeterminism, interactive input/output, and time, and their combinations. Exception handling, however, has so far received no algebraic treatment. We present such a treatment, in which each handler yields a model of the theory for exceptions, and each handling construct yields the homomorphism induced by the universal property of the free model. We further generalise exception handlers to arbitrary algebraic effects. The resulting programming construct includes many previously unrelated examples from both theory and practice, including relabelling and restriction in Milner's CCS, timeout, rollback, and stream redirection.
description: 36 pages
A Review of Little Rock’s River Market Public and Farmers Market Operations
Creators: name: Rock, The City Of Little
name: , Wholesale
name: Rock, The City Of Little
name: , Wholesale
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the Executive Summary: The River Market in Little Rock, AR, is a downtown Public and Farmers Market operation on the Arkansas River that opened in 1996. City officials approached the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to review the market’s operations with the objective of getting the market off to a strong start. A former public market manager was hired to conduct a management audit/operational analysis of the market, and his observations form the basis of this report. The key recommendation is to place more emphasis on farmers, farm products, groceries, and fresh food, targeting particular consumer groups as well as instituting management policies to wean vendors off subsidized services. River Market management needs to clarify, emphasize, communicate, and implement its goals, ideals, and objectives. It should emphasize the sale of fresh, high-quality food sold for use at home. Fast food and ready-to-eat sales, although opportunistic, historically have relegated public markets to limited lunchtime, weekday use. This limits opportunities for greater access to locally grown products to be consumed at home. Real growth and, ultimately, the success of the market are contingent upon the successful sale of fresh food, locally produced farm items, and other fresh specialty products. More emphasis should be placed on farmers, farm products, and small processors as market occupants. On the demand (consumer) side, the River Market also needs to target consumers who will support these goals. Efforts need to include consumers from various socioeconomic backgrounds.
description: This research was conducted under a reimbursable cooperative agreement with the City of Little Rock and administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Programs, Wholesale and Alternative Markets (W&AM), Arthur F. Burns, Program Manager. Errol Bragg, agricultural marketing specialist, W&AM, was the USDA project leader. Gerald Berney, agricultural engineer, W&AM; Nichole R. Holley, agricultural marketing specialist, W&AM; and Jennifer-Claire V. Klotz, economist, W&AM, performed further research and prepared the final report.
The Leslie Street Spit
Creators: name: Hirmer, Lisa
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The Leslie Street Spit is a long finger of artificial land stretching into Lake Ontario from To-ronto’s shore. It was originally conceived in the 1950s as a breakwater for the city’s northern harbor, but with changes in shipping methods quickly became obsolete in its original purpose. It remained, however, such a convenient place to discard of what is cleverly called “clean fill”—referring mostly to broken up pieces of demolished urban buildings—that it continues as an active dumping site today, expanding ever further into the lake. Owing  to  its  open  land  and  remote  location,  the  spit  was  rapidly  colonized  by  vegetation  and wildlife, including several endangered species. Though this was never part of official plans, the spit became a hybrid-urban wilderness where, amidst the rubble of brick and bent rebar, nature thrived.These photographs document one of the oldest sections of the spit where the dumped rub-ble has settled and compacted into a soil like state. On the surface, where vegetation abounds, the ground reads as natural, not much different from any other conservation area. But, along the shoreline where the water pulls at the edge of the spit, the contents of the ground become visible—a rust colored metallic band, speckled with shards of glass, plastic and other debris. Essentially  made  from  old  iterations  of  the  city,  disposed  of  to  make  way  for  the  new,  this  band offers an early glimpse of the urban world made geologic
The Return of Benjamin's Storyteller: Ronald Reagan as the Incorruptible Saint of Political Media
Creators: name: Groves, Staley A.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: St. Reagan and the Return of the StorytellerThe 2004 Republican National Convention was a significant event concern-ing  language  and  aesthetics  in  contemporary  politics.  The  Reagan  myth  appeared  as  a  stellar  aura  of  sentimentality  that  churned  a  cultic  swoon.  Among  the  polity  this  spectacular  mystery  passed  a  glow  upon  the  shoul-ders of gleeful followers. Engulfing George W. Bush’s body, the Reagan aura of the protector, the prophet, the historian, and narrator of American destiny oft portrayed as a humble man who simply transmits “content” bequeathed upon the sitting president his missionary staff to guard that “shining city on a hill.” This proverbial key to New Jerusalem follows Reagan’s own mythical thinking about the sacred role of the United States. After all the organism-city  was  under  attack  by  “terrorism.”  The  “real  America”  had  to  be  pre-served from suitcase nukes and radical Islam, what was needed, in fact, was the  wise  counsel  of  Reagan-Bush  to  survive  not  only  as  a  nation,  but  as  a  world.
Misunderstanding Familiar Objects in an Imagined Future
Creators: name: Thamm, Kiersten
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: The location and presentation of an object establish layered narratives about the object, which habit and familiarity protect. This shield obscures an object’s effects on people and places that originate in that object’s materials and manufacturing. Recontextualizing objects and investigating their physical forms within novel frameworks can counteract these narratives. This project replaces an object’s expected context with an imagined future full of confusion and curiosity. Through a photo essay and a fictitious research journal, it describes a likely environmental scenario in 2200 and imagines a researcher discovering a bag of objects in the wilderness. The bag includes an artificial plant, a toilet brush, a bottle opener, a clothespin, a clothes hanger, and a stuffed animal. But the researcher is only familiar with two of these objects, and so tries to deduce the function of the remaining objects via their materials and by consulting oral histories from their era of origin. Through naïve misunderstanding, the researcher reveals often overlooked cultural norms and histories of extraction, manufacturing, and use. The whimsy of this method is intentional; the researcher offers readers the shared experiences of feeling overwhelmed and making mistakes while creating an approachable entrance to thinking more critically about the world humans are currently building.
description: On_Culture, No 15 (2023): Present Futures
Anders Brevik: On Copying the Obscure
Creators: name: W.J. Van Gerven Oei, Vincent
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: In the aftermath of the lethal shooting of politically organizing left-wing stu-dents and the bombing of Oslo’s political center by the Norwegian Anders Breivik, there has been much discussion about the rationale behind his ac-tions in a general sense, and, more specifically, the implications and explica-tions  of  right-wing,  nationalist,  racist  language  which  is  considerably  com-mon  in  several  European  nations.  In  many  forum  threads  and  blog  posts,  analyses are given of Breivik’s actions in relation to the current political cli-mate in these environs, which, truth be told, is of an extremely poisonous na-ture. Ample reflection is given on the 1500+ page manifesto distributed by Breivik, entitled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence; De Laude Novae Militiae Pauperes Commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici, which appears to have been finished the day before he committed his crimes. This essay aims not so much for a clarification of the content of this manifesto, but attempts to provide a cartography of its rhetorical procedures, hoping to  deconstruct  some  of  the  discourse  that  Breivik  has  managed  to  create  around himself, both before and after his act. It first of all is an attempt to read  Breivik  as  copycat,  borrowing  left  and  right,  against  unstable  credit  limits and with uncertain debt ceilings, assembling his ideological trust fund from sources as divergent as the Columbine Massacre, American conserva-tive politics, eugenics, post-Luddite ideology, and freemasonry.
Dustism
Creators: name: Andrasek, Alisa
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: In  order  to  resonate  complexity,  Biothing  needed  to open a mutable ground that can absorb and synthesize various agencies acting within complexity of transient ecologies.  Its  evolution  was  paralleled  with  de‐evolution  of  its  building  blocks.  In  order to increase the  resolution  of  the  fabric  of  architecture,  its  resili-ence and ability to migrate through multiple fabrics of matter,  modes of construction and organizational pat-terns,  it  was  necessary  to  descend  to  finer  grains  of generative building blocks, where the design search is performed  within  constellations  of  billions  of  parti-cles.  Data architecture. Voxelized storm encapsulating N dimensions. Dustism.
POLITICAL POWER IN DETERMINING THE TARGET GROUP OF PUBLIC POLICY (CASE STUDY ON DISTRIBUTIVE POLICY IN MAROS REGENCY, SOUTH SULAWESI)
Creators: name: Muhammad Rusdi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Distributive Policy, ADD, PKH.

description: Abstract

Distributive public policies always raise problems, especially when determining the scope, type, and number of target groups that must be intervened. Public policy is permanently colored by political and economic processes, where actors exert influence on one another to gain support to achieve the targets of public policy formulation. The context of distributive policies through social assistance programs in the form of the Village Fund Allocation Program and the Family Hope Program (PKH) has resulted in various distribution and target-group determination problems. Potential errors that occur almost every time are assumed to be caused by political factors and policy pressure at the Maros Regency government level. The focus of this research analysis is the argument on applying the principle of precision and accuracy in the distribution of benefit values by determining target groups in situations where the perspective of political elites dominates the public policy process. The research strategy used is through a qualitative-argumentative approach to analyze political constraints in determining appropriate and feasible target groups, especially in the case of Village Fund Allocation (ADD) and Family Hope Program (PKH) policies in Maros Regency, South Sulawesi Province, since 2019-2023. Meanwhile, the research subjects were determined purposively by 2 parties, namely the Social Assistance policy forum and a number of beneficiaries or target groups and NGOs, which were analyzed on a case basis for each type of social assistance. The research results show that distributive policies through the ADD and PKH programs reap high-intensity conflict when determining the number and area of target-group coverage areas. ADD has problems with inaccurate distribution, so the benefits for the target group are not fully appropriate to the field context. Meanwhile, during the implementation of the Family Hope Program, there were errors in data collection and inaccuracies in handling and distribution to the target group. In general, these two forms of distributive policy result in conflicts of interest, where cumulatively, political factors still dominate in the distribution of benefit values rather than the strength of predetermined target groups. The solidarity of target groups can be formed and generated to balance the political forces of policy toward efforts to benefit the interests of social assistance recipients based on justice and recipient eligibility.
title: Open Access-Strategie der Universität Potsdam
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 025 Bibliothekarische Tätigkeiten

description: Diese Strategie wurde am 16.12.2015 vom Senat der Universität Potsdam zustimmend zur Kenntnis genommen.
Post-Debt
Creators: name: James, Mark S.
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: The email came five days before my 54th birthday. It informed me that my student loan debt had been forgiven. With that, I lost the last tie to the social identity that I valued most: my identity as a student. By the time the debt was forgiven, it was almost $265k. I hadn’t imagined a future without it. This is an autotheoretical exploration of what it meant to me to take on student loan debt in my quest to become a student/intellectual and emancipate myself from the limitations of my background. When I borrowed to excess, I renounced any vision of a future beyond the prolonged present of that identity as a student. However, rather than experience landing a tenure-track job or even tenure itself as a continuation of my identity as a student, I have instead struggled to foster the conditions that make such a quest possible for students who have come after me. Loan forgiveness means that my identity as a student is at a definite end, so now I participate in the reproduction of the exploitative mythologies of higher education by choice. At a time when academic journals report that faculty members, particularly faculty of color, are choosing to leave institutions of higher education, I am unexpectedly free to examine my relationship to this profession and reconsider my future in it.
description: On_Culture, No 15 (2023): Present Futures
title: Are Working Hours Complements in Production?
Creators: name: Shao, Lin
name: Sohail, Faisal
name: Yurdagul, Emircan
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2022

description: This paper uses Canadian matched employer-employee data to show that working hours are gross complements in production rather than perfect substitutes, as is typically assumed. We exploit within-establishment and individual-level variation in hours and wages to document novel evidence consistent with complementarities in hours worked. Next, we estimate an elasticity of substitution in working hours of 0.69 in the aggregate and between 0.52 and 1.04 at the industry level. We validate our estimates by showing that industries with higher elasticities exhibit greater flexibility in hours. Our findings have important implications for research on labor supply and the efficacy of policies that aim to influence it.
description: Dans cette étude, nous utilisons des données canadiennes appariées entre employeurs et employés qui permettent de montrer que les heures de travail sont des compléments bruts dans la production plutôt que de parfaits substituts, comme ce qui est souvent postulé. Nous étudions les variations du nombre d’heures travaillées et des salaires au sein des entreprises et d’un travailleur à l’autre et obtenons des résultats inédits qui mettent en évidence la complémentarité des heures de travail. Ensuite, nous estimons une élasticité de substitution du nombre d’heures travaillées que nous chiffrons à 0,69 au niveau agrégé et entre 0,52 et 1,04 au niveau sectoriel. Nous corroborons nos estimations en montrant que les secteurs où l’élasticité est plus élevée font preuve d’une plus grande flexibilité quant aux heures de travail. Nos résultats ont des conséquences importantes pour les recherches sur l’offre de travail et l’efficacité des politiques qui visent à influencer cette offre.
Lombard Independent-Mindedness in the Face of Uncertainty
Creators: name: Peters, Bart
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: Ninth- and tenth-century Southern Italy was a crossroads where the Franks, the Byzantines, the Roman Popes, and the emirs of Sicily sought to increase their influence. The rivaling Lombard princes in Benevento, Capua, and Salerno had to cope with each other and these external pressures. That combination created unease and tension for the immediate future of the present of the ninth-century Lombard monk Erchempert and the chronicle of Salerno’s anonymous tenth-century author. Although a century apart, they lived through a very uncertain present. Islamic raiders destroyed Erchempert’s abbey of Montecassino in 883, and the Salernitan text abruptly ended amidst a revolt against the reigning prince Gisulf I in the 970s. The chaotic nature of their present influenced both authors’ attempts to instruct future readers through a narrative focusing on the exemplary military conduct of specific Lombard princes. This contribution will consist of close readings of such martial scenes featuring exemplary Lombard princes from both texts. It will be argued that the Lombard lords in these scenes served as idealized examples evoking a strong sense of Lombard independent-mindedness in the face of an unpredictable present. While their strong sense of independence has been noted in previous scholarship, comparing its manifestation in the two narrative texts has yet to receive a dedicated study. The article will reveal and compare how these texts, in an uncertain present, clung to an exemplary past, attempting to steer their unpredictable present’s future.
description: On_Culture, No 15 (2023): Present Futures
Archivo, nación, clase y lengua
Creators: name: Link, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Archive, nation, language, latin american literature

description: The paper analyzes the national images that the archives supported and promoted, sometimes in complicity and sometimes in competition with the canons.
 In the Novomundan republics, the processes of canonization were consubstantial with the formation of nations, those imagined communities that had to endow themselves, somewhat hastily, with their own traditions. As Silviano Santiago has pointed out with regard to Brazil (but the same can be said of any Latin American republic):
 "In the history of Brazilian literature, the traces left on contemporaries by the recourse to a single historiographical canon are visible and precise. Its dominance, overt or covert, goes beyond treatises and textbooks and is also felt in reviews, essays, master's and doctoral theses that analyze and interpret national literary works, whether or not they are the responsibility of a specialist".
 Fortunately, the archival ratio also contains the necessary materials for the dismantling of these prescriptive manias and for the construction of those historiographic fictions in motion that we want to claim as our own today.
Introduction to Research Data Management
Creators: name: Steves, Vicky
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: research data management
rdm

description: A class session focusing on basic topics in research data management.
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Envisioning Vengeance
Creators: name: Fleites Lear, Marena
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: This essay analyzes the 2019 Guatemalan film La Llorona, directed by Jayro Bustamante, in order to question the representational and affective function of monstrosity in genre cinema, asking, in particular, how it recruits Indigenous epistemology to reorient bodies away from colonial logic. As opposed to classic north American horror films, which often link non-Western spiritual practices to the unleashing of evil forces, La Llorona revises the genre by locating that evil in the character representing the genocidal authoritarian state, the vanquishing of which requires the use of an Indigenous spiritual practice that involves bodily possession. I argue that the film shifts the objectifying gaze from the Indigenous as Other to the white patriarchal state as the true source of monstrosity. In this way, the film stages a cathartic reckoning with a historical trauma as it also interpellates a white and Indigenous female coalition. In addition, by utilizing classic horror genre techniques and rewriting them for a local context, the film encourages an embodied response in the viewer that engages with the uncanny resonances of a national trauma.
description: On_Culture, No 5 (2018): Indigeneities
Presences We Live By
Creators: name: Gwozdz, Patricia
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: This paper sketches a tour de force of philosophical as well as poetic concepts of time from G. Vico (ricorsi), F. Nietzsche (Wiederkunft), V. Woolf (Orlando), W. Benjamin (Ur/Sprung), E. Auerbach (figura) and Hannah Arendt (“in-between”). It maps the returns and lapses of time from cycles to spirals, theoretical models, and visualizations which are brought forth to solve the problem of how not to fall back into earlier already overcome stages of development, and to realize the network of strings between now and then in order to make a difference in the future. I will underline the statement that we have no access to the archives of history as long as we are not traveling back to the future. For history is not enclosed in the past, it is reassembled by future tasks: from Vico’s chronological monsters as illegitimate descendants to Zarathustra’s pregnancies as preparation for the return of the unbearable, from the queer feeling of time vibrations in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Benjamin’s jumping sessions from origin to origin, from Auerbach’s vertical lift to Arendt’s “in-between.”
description: On_Culture, No 15 (2023): Present Futures
"This Notebook, Your Letter"
Creators: name: Franzetti, Sindija
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: This article proposes epistolarity as a productive critical framework for exploring the concept of ‘present futures.’ The analysis focuses on Louise Erdrich’s novel Future Home of the Living God with the aim to demonstrate how letter writing can help us conceptualize the complex interrelations between the present moment and the future. Cedar, the Ojibwe narrator, writes a letter to her unborn child during unprecedented evolutionary and climate crises. The present moment is fraught with uncertainty, and the future is difficult to imagine. Through her epistolary efforts, Cedar writes against apocalyptic future narratives. Her letter creates a space for present and future encounters between the writer and her addressee even if the world as we know it has ceased to exist. In the novel, I argue, key elements of epistolarity such as the central role of the reader, the significance of the present moment of writing, and temporal polyvalence disrupt the conventional notion of time as a linear progression. Whereas linear time moves from past to present to future, the act of letter writing in Erdrich’s novel directs our attention to the future as a vital and vivid presence in the present moment. In the novel, the ‘you’ being addressed is also already a part of ‘me,’ the narrator. This epistolary bond between a mother and her unborn child in the novel extends the biological connection between them into the realms of culture and history.
description: On_Culture, No 15 (2023): Present Futures
Thomas the Baboon and Utopia
Creators: name: Bekhta, Natalya
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: This article reissues a call for the recuperation of a particular, non-substantive, approach to the category of Utopia in the current cultural debates about the future. I examine the usefulness of Utopia as a future-making category via a discussion of how Utopian desire manifests itself in the narrative structure of the literary text and what kind of formal and political consequences this manifestation implies. My case study, a prominent example of Ukrainian post-2014 fiction, Ivan Semesiuk’s satire Farshrutka (2016) presents a critical-satirical Utopian reaction to the realities and futural repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, formalized in a literary form.
description: On_Culture, No 15 (2023): Present Futures
“There is no Alternative!”
Creators: name: Eich, Sandro
Publisher: name: On_Culture
Year: 2023

description: The future is the only form of temporal experience which requires us to use our speculative and imaginative capacities. However, due to the concurrent global challenges of the twenty-first century (COVID-19, populism and nationalism, climate crisis), imagining viable future scenarios for the human has become increasingly difficult. As a result, our Enlightenment conception of temporality as linear has become futile and requires an alternative approach. This article explores how two examples of contemporary English fiction, Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein, experiment with temporally marked forms to construct narratives in which the separation into past, present, and future becomes indistinguishable. The technological imagination of these narratives, in the shape of accelerated scientific progress in artificial intelligence and transcendent consciousness, produces alternative histories in the hopes of modeling a new sense of futurity. In doing so, McEwan’s and Winterson’s novels assimilate binaries such as antiquitas and modernitas, human and post-human, and ultimately past, present, and future to showcase the productive potential of speculative formalism (Eyers). I argue that such a modeling of ‘co-temporality’ (Ruffel) places the contemporary novel’s capacity for cultural inquiry on the same epistemological level as that for scientific inquiry, enabling a conception of futurity detached from temporal linearity and the logic of progress.
description: On_Culture, No 15 (2023): Present Futures
Unitary dynamics and finite-time measurements: a case study
Creators: name: Prinz-Zwick, Andreas
name: Ingold, Gert-Ludwig
name: Talkner, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The inhibition of the decay of a quantum system by frequent measurements is known as quantum Zeno effect. Beyond the limit of projective measurements, the interplay between the unitary dynamics of the system and the coupling to a measurement apparatus becomes relevant. We explore this interplay by considering a quantum particle moving on a one-dimensional chain. A local measurement by coupling to an apparatus with a two-dimensional Hilbert space detects the presence of the particle on a specific chain site. The decay of the population is studied analytically for a two-site chain and numerically for a larger system as a function of the measurement time and the time between subsequent measurements. Particular attention is given to the shift of the energy of the measured site due to the coupling to the apparatus. The decay of the initial population can be hindered or accelerated, depending on the chosen system and the coupling parameters.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Whitepaper: Onboarding EOSC hub: best practices and lessons learnt
Creators: name: Sipos, Gergely
name: Sciacca, Eva
name: Bordiu, Cristobal
name: Chondros, Nikos
name: Tsiakaliaris, Christos
name: Papastefanatos, George
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: EOSC
onboarding

description: The NEANIAS EU project develops and integrates services to EOSC in the field of Underwater, Atmospheric and Space research. The objective is to share these thematic services with scientific researchers of EOSC communities on these fields and beyond. The project completed the development and EOSC onboarding of 4 of its thematic services: SPACE-VIS ViaLactea, UW-MAP, ATMO-FLUD and SPACE-ML CAESAR. This white paper reports on the EOSC onboarding experience, i.e., on the registration of these services in the EOSC Portal and summarises the lessons learnt during the process.
Thermodynamics of Lovelock black holes with a nonminimal scalar field
Creators: name: Correa, Francisco
name: Hassaine, Mokhtar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We source the Lovelock gravity theories indexed by an integer k and fixed by requiring a unique anti-de Sitter vacuum with a self-interacting nonminimal scalar field in arbitrary dimension d. For each inequivalent Lovelock gravity theory indexed by the integer k, we establish the existence of a two-parametric self-interacting potential that permits to derive a class of black hole solutions with planar horizon for any arbitrary value of the nonminimal coupling parameter. In the thermodynamical analysis of the solution, we show that, once regularized the Euclidean action, the mass contribution coming form the gravity side exactly cancels, order by order, the one arising from the matter part yielding to a vanishing mass. This result is in accordance with the fact that the entropy of the solution, being proportional to the lapse function evaluated at the horizon, also vanishes. Consequently, the integration constant appearing in the solution is interpreted as a sort of hair which turns out to vanish at high temperature.
description: 11 pages
Reflection From the Strong Gravity Regime in a z=0.658 Gravitationally Lensed-Quasar
Creators: name: Reis, Rubens C.
name: Reynolds, Mark T.
name: Miller, Jon M.
name: Walton, Dominic J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The co-evolution of a supermassive black hole with its host galaxy through cosmic time is encoded in its spin. At $z>2$, supermassive black holes are thought to grow mostly by merger-driven accretion leading to high spin. However, it is unknown whether below $z\sim1$ these black holes continue to grow via coherent accretion or in a chaotic manner, though clear differences are predicted in their spin evolution. An established method to measure the spin of black holes is via the study of relativistic reflection features from the inner accretion disk. Owing to their greater distances, there has hitherto been no significant detection of relativistic reflection features in a moderate-redshift quasar. Here, we use archival data together with a new, deep observation of a gravitationally-lensed quasar at $z=0.658$ to rigorously detect and study reflection in this moderate-redshift quasar. The level of relativistic distortion present in this reflection spectrum enables us to constrain the emission to originate within $\lesssim3$ gravitational radii from the black hole, implying a spin parameter $a=0.87^{+0.08}_{-0.15} $ at the $3σ$ level of confidence and $a>0.66$ at the $5σ$ level. The high spin found here is indicative of growth via coherent accretion for this black hole, and suggests that black hole growth between $0.5\lesssim z \lesssim 1$ occurs principally by coherent rather than chaotic accretion episodes.
description: 42 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, Nature 507, 207 (13 March 2014)
With the World, or Bound to Face the Sky: the Postures of the Wild-Child of Hesse
Creators: name: Steel, Karl
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The  Chronicle  of  the  Benedictine  monastery  of  Saint Peter  of  Erfurt,  in  Thuringia,  includes  two  records  of boys raised by wolves: 1304 Anno Domini MCCCIIII. Quidam puer in partibus  Hassie  est deprehensus.  Hic,  sicut postea cognitum est, et sicut ipse retulit, cum trium  esset  annorum,  a  lupis  est  captus  et mirabiliter    educatus.    Nam,    quamcumque predam   lupi   pro   cibo   rapuerant,   semper meliorem  partem  sumentes  et  arbori  circum-iacientes     ipsi     ad     vorandum     tribuebant. Tempore    vero    hiemis    et    frigoris    foveam facientes,  folia  arborum  et  alias  herbas  impo-nentes, puerum superponebant, et se circum-ponentes,   sic   eum   a   frigore   defendebant; ipsum   eciam   manibus   et   pedibus   repere cogebant  et  secum  currere  tamdiu,  quod  ex use  eorum  velocitatem  imitabatur  et  saltus maximos   faciebat.   Hic   deprehensus   lignis circumligatis  erectus  ire  ad  humanam  simili-tudinem  cogebatur.  Idem  vero  puer  sepius dicebat  se  multo  carius  cum  lupis,  si  in  se esset,  quam  cum  hominibus  diligere  conver-sari.   Hic   puer   in   curiam   Heinrici   principis Hassie pro spectaculo est allatus.1[A  certain  boy  in  the  region  of  Hesse  was seized.  This  boy,  as  was  known  afterwards, and  just  as  the  boy  told  it  himself,  was  taken by  wolves  when  he  was  three  years old  and raised  up  wondrously.  For,  whatever  prey  the wolves snatched for food, they would take the better part and allot it to him to eat while they lay  around  a  tree.  In  the  time  of  winter  and cold, they made a pit, and they put the leaves of  trees  and  other  plants  in  it,  and  placed them  on  the  boy,  surrounding  him  to  protect him from the cold; they also compelled him to creep on hands and feet and to run with them for   a   long   time,   from   which   practice   he imitated their speed and was able to make the greatest  leaps.  When  he  was  seized,  he  was bound with wood to compel him to go erect in a  human  likeness.  However,  this  boy  often said   that   if   it   were   up   to   him   he   much preferred  to  live  among  wolves  than  among men.  This  boy  was  conveyed  to  the  court  of Henry, Prince of Hesse, for a spectacle.]
Prismatic Words: 'Picture of Passion'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 1, with multiple translations researched by Eugenia Kelbert, Céline Sabiron, Ana Teresa Marques dos Santos, Andrés Claro, Paola Gaudio, Adriana X. Jacobs, Matthew Reynolds, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, and Jernej Habjan. Details of the translations quoted are here. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
You Are Here: A Manifesto
Creators: name: Joy, Eileen A.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Imagine a piece of paper, completely blank, except for a small  black  dot  directly  in  the  center.  And  then  a  small arrow pointing to the dot, and next to that, the phrase is written,  “You  Are  Here.”  Strictly  speaking,  the  dot  is where you are. Paraphrasing Italo Calvino’s short story, “All At One Point,” which describes the time before the universe  expanded,  when  all  of  matter  was  concen-trated in a single point, and everyone and everything, in the  words  of  the  narrator, “was  packed  in  there  like sardines,”2 every  point  of  each  of  us  coincides  with every  point  of  everyone  else  in  a  single  point,  which  is where  we  all  are.  There  is  nowhere  else.  The  idea  of distance,  or  separation,  or  estrangement,  is  a  dream. Which is not to say we should not mind the gaps.
Sheep Tracks: A Multi-Species Impression
Creators: name: Yates, Julian
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: By chance, I wrote these last words on the rim of Vesuvius, right near Pompeii, less that eight years ago. For more than twenty years, each time I’ve returned to Naples, I’ve thought of her. Who better than the Gradiva, I said to myself this time, the Gradiva of Jensen and of Freud, could illustrate this outbidding in the mal d’archive? Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression Here,  in  a  postscript  to Archive  Fever,  Jacques  Derrida tells  an  autobiographical  or  pseudo-autobiographical story  of  how  it  is  that  he  came  to  write  these  words. Covering  his  tracks  as  he  appears  to  uncover  them, back-tracking  over  the  marks  on  paper  that  are  now variously   hosted   in   print   and   electronic   media,   he winks  at  us.  Was  he  there  on  that  rim,  above  that  very volcano?  Did  his own mal’   d’archive  lead  him  to  a supposed origin—an origin that reduces his Neapolitan jaunts  to  a  repetition  compulsion?  As  we  read  them, Derrida’s tracks flicker in and out of being, and by that flickering  they  seem  to  speak  for  themselves,  to  be more   curiously   present,   if   only   to   the   moment   of encounter we name “reading.”