scholarly journals In Between Presence and Absence: Ambiguous Encounters of the State in Unconventional Gas Developments in Queensland, Australia

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-203
Author(s):  
Martin Espig
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Unconventional Gas ◽  
Presence And Absence

Presence and absence of προαίρεσις in Christ and saints according to Maximus the Confessor and parallels in Neoplatonism

2018 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Grigory Benevich
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
Natural Will ◽  
Maximus The Confessor

Abstract The article shows that prior to the debate with the Monothelites, Maximus the Confessor followed the Christian tradition going back to Gregory of Nyssa in recognizing the presence of προαίρεσις in Christ and the saints. Later during the debate, Maximus declined to apply προαίρεσις to Christ and started to speak about the deactivation of προαίρεσις in the saints in the state of deification. Maximus was the first Orthodox author who distinguished deliberate choice (προαίρεσις) and natural will (θέλημα), and defended the presence of natural will in Christ according to His humanity. At the same time, the opposition of desire (βούλησις) and deliberate choice (προαίρεσις) can be found in some Neoplatonists, such as Iamblichus, Proclus, and Philoponus. Iamblichus and Proclus rejected the presence of προαίρεσις in the gods and god-like humans, admitting only the presence of βούλησις - the desire for the Good. Thus, the evolution of the doctrine of Maximus the Confessor, regarding the application of προαίρε- σις to Christ and the saints, finds a parallel doctrine (and even possibly a source) in Neoplatonism.

WattIs Not a Well-Wrought Pot

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Byron ◽  
Chris Ackerley
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White Whale ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
Textual Material ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Composition History

Beckett's 1953 novel Watt is justifiably known as the ‘white whale’ of Beckett Studies. Its wartime composition history in conditions of compound displacement, from the first tentative notes in 1941 to the first attempts at publication in 1945, traces out a process of manuscript revision, recirculation, fragmentation and recombination: a process in which art and life echoed each other's estrangements. The complicated journey into print bore its own pitfalls, where textual error combined with evidence of partial narrative excisions, serial non sequiturs, and a post-narrative midden of fragments both insinuated within and separated from the story of Watt and his master. This essay engages in a close examination of a selected range of variant types between published editions and between published text and manuscript (and partial typescript). There is no golden key, but a pattern emerges whereby an ambivalent alternation between presence and absence of textual material indicates the novel and its documents to be a kind of work-genesis. Watt's perplexing struggle with knowing and being reflects and informs the state of the novel's constituent materials. His tussle with the faculties of perception, as well as the improbable utterance of his strange quest, enjoins the reader to rethink the narrative and textual categories upon which a hermeneutics might be assayed. The material conditions of the novel's composition, transmission and post-publication career are well known. But the signal correspondence between the text's material vicissitudes, its thematic burden, and its hermeneutic challenges are positively striking. They imply a textual assemblage demanding a most supple editorial technique: the presence and absence, the ones and zeros structuring the digital scholarly edition.

scholarly journals Whither the State?

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-150
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tapscott
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
The State ◽  
Floating Population ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
The Relationship

The chapter studies the complex relationship between state and society, drawing on scholars including Timothy Mitchell and Joel Migdal who see the distinction between state and society as produced through practice. It looks at how Uganda’s ruling regime manipulates the relationship between state presence and absence, such that citizens are sometimes categorized as outside the state, sometimes as agents of the state, and—most often—placed in a liminal space where their standing vis-à-vis the state is ambiguous. The chapter examines Uganda’s flagship community policing programme, Crime Preventers, described as a ‘floating population’ that works as the regime’s ‘eyes and ears’ across the country. By mobilizing crime preventers, the regime fostered the possibility of state presence while keeping crime preventers themselves in a liminal space from which they could make few claims on state authorities.

Effect of Meiofauna on Incorporation of Aged Eelgrass, Zostera marina, Detritus by the Polychaete Nephthys incisa

1977 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Tenore ◽  
John H. Tietjen ◽  
John J. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Zostera Marina ◽  
Oxidation Rate ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
The State ◽  
Incorporation Rate ◽  
Mineralization Rate ◽  
Carbon 14 ◽  
Oxidation Rates ◽  
Presence And Absence

The mineralization rate of detritus derived from carbon-14 labeled eelgrass, Zostera marina, was measured in the presence and absence of the polychaete Nephthys incisa and a mixed meiobenthic community dominated by nematodes. Oxidation rates (milligrams dry weight of eelgrass detritus per day) of fresh and 2 mo-old detritus were similar (ca. 20). However, the oxidation rate of 5 mo-old detritus was around 45 with only microbenthos and Nephthys, but 84 when both Nephthys and meiobenthos were present. The net incorporation rates (micrograms dry weight of detritus per milligram dry weight of worm per day) of labeled material by Nephthys cultured without meiobenthos for fresh, 2-, and 5-mo-old detritus was 0.08, 0.26, and 3.30, respectively. For Nephthys cultured with meiobenthos, the net incorporation rates of fresh and 2-mo-old detritus (0.07 and 0.19) were similar to those listed above with Nephthys but with 5-mo-old detritus was 7.2.The results illustrate the importance of the state of decomposition of detritus and the activity of meiobenthos on the availability of eelgrass detritus to Nephthys incisa. Key words: detritus, Zostera marina, Nephthys incisa, meiofauna–meiobenthos, net incorporation rate, oxidation rate, decomposition

Practical Picture Processing

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 338-339
Author(s):  
T. A. Welton
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Damage ◽  
Coherence Length ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Coherent Radiation ◽  
The State ◽  
Energy Spread ◽  
Electron Micrograph ◽  
Picture Processing ◽  
Molecular Skeleton

Various authors have emphasized the spatial information resident in an electron micrograph taken with adequately coherent radiation. In view of the completion of at least one such instrument, this opportunity is taken to summarize the state of the art of processing such micrographs. We use the usual symbols for the aberration coefficients, and supplement these with £ and 6 for the transverse coherence length and the fractional energy spread respectively. He also assume a weak, biologically interesting sample, with principal interest lying in the molecular skeleton remaining after obvious hydrogen loss and other radiation damage has occurred.

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