Jewish Rhetorics and the Contemplation of a Diminished Future

transversal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Boyarin ◽  
Martin Land
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Battlestar Galactica ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Do So

AbstractRecent work by scholars such as Sylvie-Anne Goldberg and Elisheva Carlebach has paid close attention to the forms of temporality in traditional Jewish cultures, and classic twentieth-century studies debated the origin and character of various forms of Jewish Messianism as well as the genre of Jewish apocalypse. This essay considers the possible relevance of Jewish rhetorics of temporality to the most likely current scenario of the human future: a deterioration of both numbers and quality of life, with no inevitable extinction or redemption to be envisioned as a narrative end-point. The recent television series “Battlestar Galactica” is closely examined, both for its specifically Jewish tropes and more generally as a narrative modeling of a regressive sequence without inevitable resolution. Most broadly, this meditation in the form of a dialogue challenges scholars to address their analyses to the current situation of the species, and to do so in a way that does not rely on antiquated ideologies of progress and enlightenment.

Features of Ensuring Economic and Food Security in the Context of Globalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
S.U. Nuraliev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Food Security ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
State Control ◽  
Food Trade ◽  
Economic Goods

The article discusses issues of ensuring economic and food security of the country in terms of globalization, the peculiarities of state control and regulation of the economy and efficiency of the economic resources of society for the production of economic goods to meet public needs, increasing the level of income and quality of life of the population. The article focuses on assessing the current situation and analyzing foreign experience, studying the main issues of organizing commodity movement, solving problems of wholesale food trade, and improving the mechanism of state support in this area to realize Russia’s competitive advantages and opportunities in the domestic and international markets.

Materials Science and Engineering Education

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 18-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Abbaschian
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Intraocular Lenses ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Do So

Materials science and engineering (MSE), as a field as well as a discipline, has expanded greatly in recent years and will continue to do so, most likely at an even faster pace. It is now well-accepted that materials are crucial to the national defense, to the quality of life, and to the economic security and competitiveness of the nation. Mankind has recognized the importance of manmade materials to the quality of life for many centuries. In many cases, the security and defense of tribes and nations have substantially depended on the availability of materials. It is not surprising that historical periods have been named after materials—the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. The major requirements from materials in those days were their properties and performance. Today, in this age of advanced materials, the importance of materials to defense and quality of life has not changed. However, the critical role of materials has taken an additional dimension: it has become essential to enhancing industrial competitiveness.The knowledge base within MSE has also expanded vastly throughout these years and continues to do so at an increasing rate. We are constantly gaining a deeper understanding of the fundamental nature of materials, developing new ways to produce and shape them for applications extending from automobiles to supersonic airplanes, optoelectronic devices to supercomputers, hip implants to intraocular lenses, or from household appliances to gigantic structures. We are also learning that, in many of these applications, we need to depend on the combinations or composites of different classes of materials (metals, ceramic, polymers, and electronic materials) to enhance their properties.

Labour, charity and voluntary action

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Deakin ◽  
Justin Davis Smith
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Voluntary Action ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Life Issues

This chapter overturns the simplistic characterisation of the twentieth-century Labour party as antagonistic to voluntarism. As it sets out, while opposition to voluntarism has indeed been a theme throughout Labour's history, particularly on the hard left, the notion of a broad and consistent antagonism is largely a myth, based upon a confusion of charity and philanthropy with other forms of co-operation, mutual aid and active citizenship. Instead, what Attlee called ‘the associative instinct’ has been an overlooked, but nevertheless important, constant in Labour's social thought, from Attlee's experiences as a young man at Toynbee Hall, through the promotion of active and local democracy in the 1940s and the revisionist turn away from macro-economics, and towards quality-of-life issues in the 1950s and 1960s, to the ‘rainbow coalition’ partnerships between local Labour administrations and voluntary groups in the 1980s.

Working Almost as Slaves?

2018 ◽  
pp. 74-94
Author(s):  
Oscar de la Torre
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Brazil Nut ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The People ◽  
Loss Of Autonomy ◽  
Number Of Individuals

In the collective memories of the Lower Amazon maroons, the decades after emancipation are remembered as a period when “the people were oppressed” by Brazil nut merchants, who “enslaved” the blacks of the region. However, a number of individuals also relate memories of merchants who “helped the people,” who “gave goods for the saint patron’s parties,” and who acted, in the words of a Trombetas River maroon descendant, as “fathers of the people.” To reconcile these perspectives I argue in this chapter that these conflicting stories reflect two spheres in the relationships between black peasants and Brazil nut merchants. While the first one was characterized by domination, a few individuals successfully accommodated to, and even collaborated with, the newly arrived commercial houses. In both spheres, Afro-descendant forest specialists and explorers were fundamental to the merchants’ penetration into a world where the mocambeiros had hitherto ruled. In the end, the loss of autonomy and quality of life in the 1910s and 1920s shaped the maroon descendants’ social memory for the rest of the twentieth century, filling it with narratives of poverty, dispossession, and the speech figure of the “new slavery.”

scholarly journals Geoffrey: An Automated Schedule System on a Social Robot for the Intellectually Challenged

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmanuel Cruz ◽  
Félix Escalona ◽  
Zuria Bauer ◽  
Miguel Cazorla ◽  
José García-Rodríguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Robot ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Schedule System ◽  
Accelerated Growth ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Elder People ◽  
Do So

The accelerated growth of the percentage of elder people and persons with brain injury-related conditions and who are intellectually challenged are some of the main concerns of the developed countries. These persons often require special cares and even almost permanent overseers that help them to carry out diary tasks. With this issue in mind, we propose an automated schedule system which is deployed on a social robot. The robot keeps track of the tasks that the patient has to fulfill in a diary basis. When a task is triggered, the robot guides the patient through its completion. The system is also able to detect if the steps are being properly carried out or not, issuing alerts in that case. To do so, an ensemble of deep learning techniques is used. The schedule is customizable by the carers and authorized relatives. Our system could enhance the quality of life of the patients and improve their self-autonomy. The experimentation, which was supervised by the ADACEA foundation, validates the achievement of these goals.

Why the block is the block

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. David Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Simulation Theory ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Urban Neighborhood ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Perceptual Simulation ◽  
Diverse Community

This study combines Discourse Dynamics (Cameron, 2007) with Perceptual Simulation Theory (Barsalou, 2007; Gibbs, 2006), to analyze a sample of talk among residents of an urban neighborhood about topics related to community safety and the quality of life in their community. The results demonstrate the role of casual conversation in structuring complex social relationships, and the usefulness of close attention to metaphors, story-telling, and humor. By their use, re-use, and development of metaphors and stories the participants in this conversation express and reinforce the patterns of sociability and mutual watchfulness that contribute to a feeling of safety and comfort in their neighborhood, resolve contradictions inherent in life in a diverse community, and cultivate mutual commitment to maintaining the neighborhood as a pleasant community in which to live and raise children.

scholarly journals Harry Potter and the Stigma of Disability: Squibs as Outsiders to the Magical Universe

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Social Model Of Disability ◽  
Book Series ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Do So

In the young adult book series Harry Potter, there exists a class of citizens known as Squibs. By all accounts they can be considered a disabled group: they have a ‘disease’ (no magical abilities) that detracts from their overall quality of life and prevents them from operating at a normal level within society. This paper will prove that Squibs are restricted within the fictional world by the institutions of school and government. It will do so by studying Argus Filch and Arabella Figg, two of the most visible Squibs in the series. In this case, the social model of disability and Michel Foucault’s theories about government restrictions on disability will support the idea that Filch and Figg could succeed within the Harry Potter universe if the barriers put in place against the disabled Squibs were removed. In addition, the paper expresses the hope that the fans of Harry Potter will be able to rectify the discriminatory mistakes that the author, J.K. Rowling, has created against Squibs.

scholarly journals Corpo, subjetividade e o discurso da saúde: ensaio para profissionais de campo

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Josiane Cristina Bocchi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Health Discourse ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

Resumo As narrativas estéticas estão presentes nas práticas de saúde e são acompanhadas pela ênfase na alimentação saudável e na qualidade de vida. Mas se somos levados a consumir formas de vida saudável, por que tantas pessoas se sentem cada vez mais doentes? Este ensaio discute a produção desse discurso no campo da saúde e os impactos das noções de saúde e de alimentação na subjetividade atual. A saúde torna-se sinônimo de prevenção, longevidade e boa forma. Ela tem sido usada como categoria de normatividade social. Existem relações de poder inerentes a essa concepção de saúde, que geram uma hipocondria na relação entre representações de saúde e de doença. Consequentemente, temos uma medicalização dos corpos e possível reedição de um higienismo, autorizado pelo saber das especialidades médicas. Tudo em nome da boa saúde.Palavras-chave: Saúde. Corpo. Subjetividade. Alimentação Saudável. Body, subjectivity and health discourse: an essay for field professionals Abstract Aesthetic narratives are present in health practices and are accompanied by an emphasis on healthy eating and quality of life. But if we are driven to consume healthy ways of living, why do so many people feel increasingly sick? This essay discusses the production of this discourse in the field of health and the impacts of notions of health and food on current subjectivity. Health becomes synonymous with prevention, longevity and fitness. It has been used as a category of social normativity. There are power relations inherent to this concept of health, which generate hypochondria in the relationship between representations of health and illness. Consequently, we have a medicalization of bodies and a possible reissue of hygienism, authorized by the knowledge of medical specialties. All in the name of good health.Keywords: Health. Body. Subjectivity. Healthy Eating. Cuerpo, subjetividad y el discurso de la salud: ensayos para profesionales de campo  Resumen Las narrativas estéticas están presentes en las prácticas de salud y vienen acompañadas por el énfasis en la alimentación saludable y en la calidad de vida. Pero si somos inducidos a consumir formas de vida saludable, ¿por qué tanta gente se siente cada vez más enferma? Este ensayo discute la producción de ese discurso en el campo de la salud y los impactos de las nociones de salud y de alimentación en la subjetividad actual. La salud se torna sinónimo de prevención, longevidad y buena forma. Esta ha sido usada como categoría de normatividad social. Existen relaciones de poder inherentes a esa concepción de salud, que generan una hipocondría en la relación entre representaciones de salud y de enfermedad. Consecuentemente, tenemos una medicalización de los cuerpos y posible reedición de un higienismo, autorizado por el saber de las especialidades médicas. Todo en nombre de la buena salud.Palabras clave: Salud. Cuerpo. Subjetividad. Alimentación Saludable.

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