Toward an Understanding of Borderland Processes

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Interaction ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Regional Comparison ◽  
Academic Fields ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Common ◽  
Frontier Studies ◽  
Boundary Dynamics ◽  
The Continuum

Although the study of frontiers is of fundamental importance to a variety of academic fields and subdisciplines, few researchers have proposed terminology, models or conceptual frameworks that allow a cross-disciplinary supra-regional comparison of frontier dynamics. In this paper I take three steps toward rectifying this situation. First, I propose a simplified lexicon that is widely applicable across disciplinary, temporal and regional divides. This lexicon is meant to be a starting point in defining boundary situations. Second, lay out a model, called the “continuum of boundary dynamics.” This model is meant to aid researchers in characterizing various types of boundary situations. And third, propose a model, called the “borderland matrix” with which to visualize the dynamic interaction between different categories of boundaries. This model is meant to aid researchers in isolating processes that occur in borderlands. It is my position that only through systematic comparisons of boundary situations at various times and locations can we hope to understand the processes that take place in borderlands. By defining and characterizing boundary situations and then isolating the processes taking place there, I believe that we will come much closer to understanding the common and unique themes that make frontier studies a central interregional and interdisciplinary subject of study.

The Common as Body Without Organs

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 46-63
Author(s):  
Vidar Thorsteinsson
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Social Factory ◽  
The Common

The paper explores the relation of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's work to that of Deleuze and Guattari. The main focus is on Hardt and Negri's concept of ‘the common’ as developed in their most recent book Commonwealth. It is argued that the common can complement what Nicholas Thoburn terms the ‘minor’ characteristics of Deleuze's political thinking while also surpassing certain limitations posed by Hardt and Negri's own previous emphasis on ‘autonomy-in-production’. With reference to Marx's notion of real subsumption and early workerism's social-factory thesis, the discussion circles around showing how a distinction between capital and the common can provide a basis for what Alberto Toscano calls ‘antagonistic separation’ from capital in a more effective way than can the classical capital–labour distinction. To this end, it is demonstrated how the common might benefit from being understood in light of Deleuze and Guattari's conceptual apparatus, with reference primarily to the ‘body without organs’ of Anti-Oedipus. It is argued that the common as body without organs, now understood as constituting its own ‘social production’ separate from the BwO of capital, can provide a new basis for antagonistic separation from capital. Of fundamental importance is how the common potentially invents a novel regime of qualitative valorisation, distinct from capital's limitation to quantity and scarcity.

The Still Life of Objects – Heidegger, Schapiro, and Derrida reconsidered

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-102
Author(s):  
KErstin Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Still Life ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Concrete Material ◽  
Vincent Van Gogh ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
The Common ◽  
Critical Intervention ◽  
The Given

Kerstin Thomas revaluates the famous dispute between Martin Heidegger, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida, concerning a painting of shoes by Vincent Van Gogh. The starting point for this dispute was the description and analysis of things and artworks developed in his essay, “The Origin of the Work of Art”. In discussing Heidegger’s account, the art historian Meyer Schapiro’s main point of critique concerned Heidegger’s claim that the artwork reveals the truth of equipment in depicting shoes of a peasant woman and thereby showing her world. Schapiro sees a striking paradox in Heidegger’s claim for truth, based on a specific object in a specific artwork while at the same time following a rather metaphysical idea of the artwork. Kerstin Thomas proposes an interpretation, which exceeds the common confrontation of philosophy versus art history by focussing on the respective notion of facticity at stake in the theoretical accounts of both thinkers. Schapiro accuses Heidegger of a lack of concreteness, which he sees as the basis for every truth claim on objects. Thomas understands Schapiro’s objections as motivated by this demand for a facticity, which not only includes the work of art, but also investigator in his concrete historical perspective. Truth claims under such conditions of facticity are always relative to historical knowledge, and open to critical intervention and therefore necessarily contingent. Following Thomas, Schapiro’s critique shows that despite his intention of giving the work of art back its autonomy, Heidegger could be accused of achieving quite the opposite: through the abstraction of the concrete, the factual, and the given to the type, he actually sets the self and the realm of knowledge of the creator as absolute and not the object of his knowledge. Instead, she argues for a revaluation of Schapiro’s position with recognition of the arbitrariness of the artwork, by introducing the notion of factuality as formulated by Quentin Meillassoux. Understood as exchange between artist and object in its concrete material quality as well as with the beholder, the truth of painting could only be shown as radically contingent. Thomas argues that the critical intervention of Derrida who discusses both positions anew is exactly motivated by a recognition of the contingent character of object, artwork and interpretation. His deconstructive analysis can be understood as recognition of the dynamic character of things and hence this could be shown with Meillassoux to be exactly its character of facticity – or factuality.

Känslans platser. Topikerna för pathos i Aristoteles Retoriken

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (78) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Janne Lindqvist
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Common ◽  
Almost All

Our understanding of Aristotle’s Rhetoric is still incomplete and distorted. This is especially true concerning his analysis of the specific topics of pathos that make up a significant part of the second book of the text. Even though this part of the text is almost twice as long as the analysis of the common topics, the discussion has attracted surprisingly small scholarly interest, at least as viewed as an example of a list of topics, as the researchers that have aspired to an understanding of “the topics” as such have almost all ignored this part of the text. The purpose of this essay is to lay out the grounds for such a study. The result of the essay is firstly a distinction between two kinds of specific topics, here somewhat ponderously labeled schematic and concrete specific topics. With these as a starting point it is possible to make a further distinction between three general specific topics here named subject, stimulus and agent. These three schematic topics could, it is finally suggested, be as useful in the 21:st century as they were in an Athens of the 4th century BCE

Is there a Duty to Prevent Harm in Tort? A Common Law Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-145
Author(s):  
Paula Giliker
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Statutory Duty ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Legal Position ◽  
The Common

Abstract In this paper, I will examine the extent to which the common law of tort in England and Wales imposes a duty to prevent harm on public authorities and private individuals. As will be seen, the starting point for the common law is that such liability should, in both cases, be regarded as exceptional. This must, however, be weighed against duties to prevent harm that arise under the torts of negligence and breach of statutory duty. Public authorities may also face claims that their failure to prevent harm is in breach of ECHR arts 2 or 3. While the law is complex, this paper identifies three key arguments that explain the current legal position at common law, namely that: (i) tort law should treat private and public parties alike: (ii) human rights claims should be treated as distinct from private law claims and (iii) libertarian concerns signify that a duty to prevent harm should be exceptional and needs to be justified. While these arguments provide both an explanation of and a justification for the current law, this article questions to what extent the treatment of public authority liability may be regarded as unduly harsh on vulnerable claimants.

Utilitarian Strategies in Bentham and John Stuart Mill

Utilitas ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Careful Scrutiny ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
The Common ◽  
Utilitarian Theory

The argument of this paper is part of a general defence of the claim that Bentham's moral theory embodies a utilitarian theory of distributive justice, which is developed in his Civil Law writings. Whereas it is a commonplace of recent revisionist scholarship to argue that J. S. Mill had a developed utilitarian theory of justice, few scholars regard Bentham as having a theory of justice, let alone one that rivals in sophistication that of Mill. Indeed, Gerald J. Postema in his bookBentham and the Common Law Tradition, argues that Bentham had no substantial concern with the concept of justice, and that what analysis of the concept there is in Bentham's thought is unlike the utilitarian theory of justice to be found in chapter five of J. S. Mill'sUtilitarianismAlthough Postema's interpretation is not the only one that will be addressed in this paper, it serves as an important starting point for any rival interpretation of Bentham's ethical theory for two reasons. Firstly, it is the most comprehensive and most penetrating discussion of Bentham's utilitarian theory, drawing as it does on a wide variety of published and unpublished materials written throughout Bentham's career. Secondly, it is interesting in this particular context because the contrast that Postema draws between Bentham's and Mill's theories of justice depends upon a particular reading of Mill's theory of justice and utility which is derived from recent scholarship and which is by no means uncontroversial. As part of the defence of the claim that Bentham had a sophisticated theory of distributive justice, it will be argued in this paper that the contrast drawn between Bentham and Mill does not stand up to careful scrutiny, for insofar as Mill's theory of justice can be consistently defended it is not significantly different from the utilitarian strategy that Bentham employed for incorporating considerations of distributive justice within his theory. This is not to claim that there are not significant differences between the theories of justice of Bentham and J. S. Mill, but it is to claim that whatever technical differences exist between their theories, both writers saw the need to incorporate the concept of justice within utilitarianism. Therefore, rather than showing that Mill is an interesting thinker to the extent that he abandons his early Benthamism, by demonstrating how close Mill's theory of utility and justice is to that of Bentham, it will be possible to argue that Bentham employed a sophisticated and subtle utilitarian theory that was responsive to the sort of problems which occupied Mill a generation later.

scholarly journals Integrated foucault: Another look at discourse and power

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-544
Author(s):  
Marija Velinov
Keyword(s):  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Common ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Distinct Field ◽  
Three Phases

This paper argues that there is continuity in Foucault?s thought, as opposed to the common division of his work into three phases, each marking a distinct field of research - discourse, power, subject. The idea is that there are no radical turns in his work that justify this division; rather, there is a shift of focus: all crucial concepts are present (more or less [in]explicitly) in all periods of his thought and in all of his undoubtedly differently-toned and oriented works. This is shown through examining the characteristics of archaeology and genealogy, their relation, as well as the relation of discursive practices and strategies of power to knowledge. The retrospective and (re)interpretation intend to shed light on the constant interplay between concepts that demonstrate continuity in Foucault?s thought. The viewpoint, based in the integrity of Foucault?s work, offers a better starting point for understanding certain aspects of his theories.

scholarly journals The Hitchhiker's guide to glycoproteomics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Oliveira ◽  
Morten Thaysen-Andersen ◽  
Nicolle H. Packer ◽  
Daniel Kolarich
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Cell Function ◽  
Prognostic Biomarker ◽  
Protein Glycosylation ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Carrier Proteins ◽  
Post Translational Modifications ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Domains Of Life ◽  
The Common

Protein glycosylation is one of the most common post-translational modifications that are essential for cell function across all domains of life. Changes in glycosylation are considered a hallmark of many diseases, thus making glycoproteins important diagnostic and prognostic biomarker candidates and therapeutic targets. Glycoproteomics, the study of glycans and their carrier proteins in a system-wide context, is becoming a powerful tool in glycobiology that enables the functional analysis of protein glycosylation. This ‘Hitchhiker's guide to glycoproteomics’ is intended as a starting point for anyone who wants to explore the emerging world of glycoproteomics. The review moves from the techniques that have been developed for the characterisation of single glycoproteins to technologies that may be used for a successful complex glycoproteome characterisation. Examples of the variety of approaches, methodologies, and technologies currently used in the field are given. This review introduces the common strategies to capture glycoprotein-specific and system-wide glycoproteome data from tissues, body fluids, or cells, and a perspective on how integration into a multi-omics workflow enables a deep identification and characterisation of glycoproteins — a class of biomolecules essential in regulating cell function.

scholarly journals Proposta curricular no âmbito educacional: relevâncias para construção de aprendizagens na escola / Curriculum proposal in the educational field: relevance for building learning at school

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (58) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Danubia De Jesus Souza ◽  
Pedro Fernando Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
School Context ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Field School ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Educational Field

Resumo: Esse artigo faz uma reflexão da proposta curricular no âmbito educacional, cujo principal objetivo é analisar o documento mediante sua importância para os fazeres no contexto escolar. A análise é feita a partir dos estudos proporcionados pela extensão na Residência Pedagógica-CAPES-FACHUS e desenvolvidos na escola-campo, Doutor Severino Alves de Sá, no município de Salgueiro-PE. Sua fundamentação teve como base a Lei 9.394/96(LDB), A Base Nacional Comum Curricular – BNCC, assim como Veiga 2002 e Castro 2019. A metodologia elencada no desenrolar do conteúdo é decorrente de uma pesquisa bibliográfica de estudo analítico sobre o objeto aqui citado. Os resultados obtidos vêm ao encontro de todo exposto apresentado na fundamentação teórica embasada na LDB e BNCC, assim como nas afirmações dos autores e todo o conteúdo estudado. Vale afirmar que a análise do conteúdo proporcionado pela escola é de bastante relevância na construção da Proposta Curricular disponibilizada é parte integrante de seu PPP, atendendo assim todas as expectativas moduladas no decorrer do estudo. Os dados encontrados dispõem de componentes curriculares associados a conteúdos que sempre estão em pauta na atualidade. Considerando-se, portanto, que a proposta pedagógica curricular é um documento de fundamental importância para os seguimentos de conteúdo escolar em prol da formação integral do aluno, do desenvolvimento intelectual e de sua consciência no mundo do saber e das transformações que por ele se dão. Palavras-Chave: Proposta curricular. Disciplinas. Contexto escolar. Abstract: This article reflects on the curriculum proposal in the educational field, whose main objective is to analyze the document according to its importance for the actions in the school context. The analysis is made from the studies provided by the extension in the Pedagogical Residency-CAPES-FACHUS and developed in the field-school, Doutor Severino Alves de Sá, in the municipality of Salgueiro-PE. Its theoretical foundation was based on Law 9,394/96 (LDB), The Common National Curriculum Base – BNCC, as well as Veiga 2002 and Castro 2019. cited here. The results obtained are in line with all the above presented in the theoretical foundation based on the LDB and BNCC, as well as the authors' statements and all the studied content. It is worth stating that the analysis of the content provided by the school is very relevant in the construction of the Curriculum Proposal made available and is an integral part of the school's PPP, thus meeting all the expectations found in the course of the study. The data found have curricular components associated with contents that are always on the agenda today. Considering, therefore, that the curricular pedagogical proposal is a document of fundamental importance for the segments of school content in favor of the integral formation of the student, intellectual development and their awareness in the world of knowledge and the transformations that take place through it. Keywords: Curriculum proposal. Disciplines. School context. 

scholarly journals Discovery of a spatially and temporally persistent core microbiome of the common bean rhizosphere

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nejc Stopnisek ◽  
Ashley Shade
Keyword(s):  
Common Bean ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Core Microbiome ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Common ◽  
Plant Microbiome

AbstractPlants recruit soil microbes that provide nutrients, promote growth and protect against pathogens1–3. However, the full potential of microbial communities for supporting plant health and agriculture is unrealized4–6, in part because rhizosphere members key for plant health are difficult to prioritize7. Microbes that ubiquitously associate with a plant species across large spatial scales and varied soil conditions provide a practical starting point for discovering beneficial members7. Here, we quantified the structures of bacterial/archaeal and fungal communities in the common bean rhizosphere (Phaseolus vulgaris), and assessed its core membership across space and time. To assess a spatial core, two divergent bean genotypes were grown in field conditions across five major growing regions in the United States, and then also compared to eight genotypes grown in Colombian soil. To assess a temporal core, we conducted a time course of rhizosphere and rhizoplane microbiome members over bean development in the field. Surprisingly, there were 48 persistent bacterial taxa that were detected in all samples, inclusive of U.S. and Colombian-grown beans and over plant development, suggesting cosmopolitan enrichment and time-independence. Neutral models of abundance-occupancy relationships and co-occurrence networks show that many of these core taxa are deterministically selected and likely in intimate relationships with the plant. Many of the core taxa were yet-uncultured and affiliated with Proteobacteria; these taxa are prime targets in support of translational plant-microbiome management. More generally, this work reveals that core members of the plant microbiome can have both broad ranges and temporal persistence with their host, suggesting intimate, albeit possibly opportunistic, interactions.

scholarly journals Discrete-to-continuum modelling of weakly interacting incommensurate two-dimensional lattices

2018 ◽  
Vol 474 (2209) ◽  
pp. 20170612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malena I. Español ◽  
Dmitry Golovaty ◽  
J. Patrick Wilber
Keyword(s):  
Continuum Model ◽  
Domain Walls ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Variational Model ◽  
Dimensional System ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Continuum Modelling ◽  
Three Dimensional System ◽  
The Continuum

In this paper, we derive a continuum variational model for a two-dimensional deformable lattice of atoms interacting with a two-dimensional rigid lattice. The starting point is a discrete atomistic model for the two lattices which are assumed to have slightly different lattice parameters and, possibly, a small relative rotation. This is a prototypical example of a three-dimensional system consisting of a graphene sheet suspended over a substrate. We use a discrete-to-continuum procedure to obtain the continuum model which recovers both qualitatively and quantitatively the behaviour observed in the corresponding discrete model. The continuum model predicts that the deformable lattice develops a network of domain walls characterized by large shearing, stretching and bending deformation that accommodates the misalignment and/or mismatch between the deformable and rigid lattices. Two integer-valued parameters, which can be identified with the components of a Burgers vector, describe the mismatch between the lattices and determine the geometry and the details of the deformation associated with the domain walls.

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