The Human Condition.
TL;DR: In some religious traditions, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness.
Abstract: Human beings are described by many spiritual traditions as ‘blind’ or ‘asleep’ or ‘in a dream.’ These terms refers to the limited attenuated state of consciousness of most human beings caught up in patterns of conditioned thought, feeling and perception, which prevent the development of our latent, higher spiritual possibilities. In the words of Idries Shah: “Man, like a sleepwalker who suddenly ‘comes to’ on some lonely road has in general no correct idea as to his origins or his destiny.” In some religious traditions, such as Christianity and Islam, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness. Other traditions use similar metaphors to describe the spiritual condition of humanity:
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TL;DR: In this paper, the reciprocal relation between the concepts of political power and political rights produces what here is called "the political consciousness" and the concept of political consciousness is introduced as an "essentially integrated concept".
Abstract: It has been assumed that ‘Power’, following Gallie’s analysis, is an essentially contested concept. However, in this paper, it is argued that the modern concept of power is beyond this primitive definition. In order to understand the concept of political power, one must consider the notions of ‘rights’ and ‘power’. Hence, the first aim of the paper is to introduce power as an ‘essentially integrated concepts’. Furthermore, the reciprocal relation between the concepts of political power and political rights produces what here is called ‘the political consciousness’. Commemorating the complex but reciprocal relationship between power and right not only invites us to have a new perspective on the concepts of power but also helps us to understand the theory of political consciousness. After categorizing the concepts of power, the final part of the paper defines sovereignty (Herrschaft), power (Macht) and legitimate power.
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...“While Strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse” [49]....
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...“Power”, for her, “is always, as we would say, a power potential and not an unchangeable, measurable and reliable entity like force or strength” [49]....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a permanent public agenda that defends the right of families to decide their destination in cases of need for resettlement, which is humanized, with consent and with a social work prior to the change, and which are transferred to a nearby locality.
Abstract: Given the inability of the private sector to build social housing with quality and urban insertion that does not burden both the state and future residents, we propose the creation of a permanent public agenda that defends the right of families to decide their destination. In cases of need for resettlement, which is humanized, with consent and with a social work prior to the change, and which are transferred to a nearby locality. We also urge that this agenda be established, especially with regard to interventions to improve precarious settlements with all urban infrastructure, adequate housing and a truly dignified life.
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TL;DR: The authors examines the existential grounds and experiential limits of an embodied and intersubjective being in the world, in walking dialogue with the remembrances of Afro-Swedish subjects.
Abstract: This article examines the existential grounds and experiential limits of an embodied and intersubjective being-in-the-world, in walking dialogue with the remembrances of Afro-Swedish subjects. To w...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that there is a resonance between Hans Morgenthau's conception of politics and the political and the ones implicit in analyses of urbanization processes and outputs.
Abstract: In this article I argue that there is a startling resonance between Hans Morgenthau’s conception of politics and the political and the ones implicit in analyses of urbanization processes and outputs. The advantage of making this connection clear is that it helps scholars of International Relations and urbanization to see the political and different carvings more clearly. This helps depart from a mechanistic understanding of politics that informs conventional International Relations views and some of the claims of urban studies about global cities displacing states as international actors. Turning to the conception of the political has wider implications for International Relations studies of urbanization: It helps to gain a more profound understanding of de-politization tendencies caused by the process of urbanization and its research. The emphasis on the political serves as a bridge between International Relations and urbanization studies and how both relate to one another. An urbanizing international does not only produce de-politicization and conflict. It also creates the conditions for the re-politicization of urban space. After illustrating the conflictual existential manifestation of the political, the remainder of the paper turns to its relational manifestation that points out the shortcomings of existential readings of the political in contexts of urbanization.
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...One person alone can never be political, let alone, as Morgenthau stresses, that humans are not only “political” beings but consist of a composite nature including biological, ethical, religious, and other traits.(44) Power, on the other side, is ultimately driven by the psychogenic and intersubjective human trait to prove oneself, an essential characteristic of the political....
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TL;DR: The authors reconstructs Karl Marx's notion of commodity fetishism as a phenomenological concept, with the aid of Hannah Arendt's distinction between authentic and inauthentic semblances.
Abstract: With the aid of Hannah Arendt’s distinction between authentic and inauthentic semblances, this article reconstructs Karl Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism as a phenomenological concept. It revea...
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...Arendt (1958) inverted Heidegger’s focus on mortality to explore the worldly conditions of natality—the possibility of initiating something new....
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TL;DR: In this article, a series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human are presented, with a focus on the life of lines.
Abstract: To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human.
In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven from knots, and not built from blocks as commonly thought. He shows how the principle of knotting underwrites both the way things join with one another, in walls, buildings and bodies, and the composition of the ground and the knowledge we find there.
In the second part, Ingold argues that to study living lines, we must also study the weather. To complement a linealogy that asks what is common to walking, weaving, observing, singing, storytelling and writing, he develops a meteorology that seeks the common denominator of breath, time, mood, sound, memory, colour and the sky. This denominator is the atmosphere.
In the third part, Ingold carries the line into the domain of human life. He shows that for life to continue, the things we do must be framed within the lives we undergo. In continually answering to one another, these lives enact a principle of correspondence that is fundamentally social.
This compelling volume brings our thinking about the material world refreshingly back to life. While anchored in anthropology, the book ranges widely over an interdisciplinary terrain that includes philosophy, geography, sociology, art and architecture.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the fact that gender equality and women empowerment have been eviscerated of conceptual and political bite compromises their use as the primary frame through which to demand rights and justice.
Abstract: The language of ‘gender equality’ and ‘women’s empowerment’ was mobilised by feminists in the 1980s and 1990s as a way of getting women’s rights onto the international development agenda. Their efforts can be declared a resounding success. The international development industry has fully embraced these terms. From international NGOs to donor governments to multilateral agencies the language of gender equality and women’s empowerment is a pervasive presence and takes pride of place among their major development priorities. And yet, this article argues, the fact that these terms have been eviscerated of conceptual and political bite compromises their use as the primary frame through which to demand rights and justice. Critically examining the trajectories of these terms in development, the article suggests that if the promise of the post-2015 agenda is to deliver on gender justice, new frames are needed, which can connect with and contribute to a broader movement for global justice.
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TL;DR: A network simulation model used to study a possible relationship between echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation finds an “echo chamber effect”: the presence of an opinion and network polarized cluster of nodes in a network contributes to the diffusion of complex contagions.
Abstract: The viral spread of digital misinformation has become so severe that the World Economic Forum considers it among the main threats to human society This spread have been suggested to be related to the similarly problematized phenomenon of “echo chambers”, but the causal nature of this relationship has proven difficult to disentangle due to the connected nature of social media, whose causality is characterized by complexity, non-linearity and emergence This paper uses a network simulation model to study a possible relationship between echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation It finds an “echo chamber effect”: the presence of an opinion and network polarized cluster of nodes in a network contributes to the diffusion of complex contagions, and there is a synergetic effect between opinion and network polarization on the virality of misinformation The echo chambers effect likely comes from that they form the initial bandwagon for diffusion These findings have implication for the study of the media logic of new social media
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a mediation model to explain the relationship between CEO humility and firm performance and found that when a more humble CEO leads a firm, its top management team is more likely to collaborate, share information, jointly make decisions, and possess a shared vision.
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TL;DR: The turn to the study of antibiotic resistance in microbiology and medicine is examined, focusing on the realization that individual therapies targeted at single pathogens in individual bodies are environmental events affecting bacterial evolution far beyond bodies.
Abstract: Beginning in the 1940s, mass production of antibiotics involved the industrialscale growth of microorganisms to harvest their metabolic products. Unfortunately, the use of antibiotics selects for resistance at answering scale. The turn to the study of antibiotic resistance in microbiology and medicine is examined, focusing on the realization that individual therapies targeted at single pathogens in individual bodies are environmental events affecting bacterial evolution far beyond bodies. In turning to biological manifestations of antibiotic use, sciences fathom material outcomes of their own previous concepts. Archival work with stored soil and clinical samples produces a record described here as ‘the biology of history’: the physical registration of human history in bacterial life. This account thus foregrounds the importance of understanding both the materiality of history and the historicity of matter in theories and concepts of life today.
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