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The Human Condition.

29 Jun 2017-Academic Psychiatry (Springer International Publishing)-Vol. 41, Iss: 6, pp 771-771
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 article, the authors examine whether the exchange of arguments within a debate may connect critical pedagogy to the teachings of classical rhetorical paideia, which begins with the sophistic movement.
Abstract: In the movie Dead Poets Society, the on-screen teacher, John Keating, was using unconventional teaching methods, in order to exhort his students to think about themselves, the world and their position in it under a new perspective. Gaining a new perspective under which students will shape their individual way of thinking and will become critical and active citizens consists of a diachronic and essential goal of various pedagogical approaches. Within the context of the current research, our interest will be focused on two, distant in time pedagogical approaches, which emphatically underline the need as well as the possibility of students’ empowerment both as individuals and citizens: a) rhetorical paideia and b) critical pedagogy. In particular, we intend to examine whether the exchange of arguments within a debate may connect critical pedagogy to the teachings of classical rhetorical paideia, which begins with the sophistic movement (Egglezou, 2017). We firmly believe that such an attempt could contribute to the pedagogical empowerment of students as critical thinkers and active citizens within the modern educational system. Before the examination of the hypotheses which lead us to the writing of the current paper, it is important to describe the axes on which debate rotates. Debating consists of a formal dialogic process of exchanging arguments – according to certain rules – between two groups of participants. The controversy is referred to a carefully and intentionally chosen wedge issue of contemporary life, which is inextricably related to the historic, political and social context in which it arises (Erickson et al., 2003). During the debate each group of participants struggles to support Debate at the Edge of Critical Pedagogy and Rhetorical Paideia. Cultivating Active Citizens.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the notion that to document or inscribe our lives not only leaves a trace of our creaturely presence, but may also become a form of juris-writing, a writing that concerns and aims at justice.
Abstract: This article considers the notion that to document or inscribe our lives not only leaves a trace of our creaturely presence, but may also become a form of juris-writing, a writing that concerns and aims at Justice. Employing an expanded notion of Justice that takes it beyond the institutions of law, therefore, it asks about forms of documentality (Ferraris) that put us ‘before memory’ in Derrida’s sense. How is it possible to think curation in relation to a violent past in such a way that neither attempts to deny the lacunae nor surrenders in the face of the difficulties of such attempts? How should we consider the relation between the delimited encounter with an ‘invitation to imagine’ (Didi-Huberman) and processes of institutionalisation that build a society? What about those things that it is not possible to show, including relations of power, that arise analytically? Reflecting on current memory spaces, especially within ex-clandestine centres for detention, torture and extermination (ex-ccdtyes) in Argentina, the article offers five theses in order to consider what is at stake in the encounters staged at these sites.

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Cites background from "The Human Condition."

  • ...As Arendt (1958) might have argued, he offers them reification as visual documentation, and thence the possibility of remembrance....

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  • ...It is an inscription that in its refusal to allow the process of ruination – the tendency of the world, as Arendt would have it – to win out, holds onto something for a (democratic, non-violent) future-to-come. And it does so here, of course, because this is the site of numerous acts of State violence. The activities at ESMA contribute to the campaign to preserve this site, to reclaim it as a space that proclaims the importance of remembrance, to preserve it as a space where people will give time to the past as a safe-guard for the future. Furthermore, it is of course significant what Barrio is drawing. His ‘Gliptodonte’ stands as a warning about the human process of historiography, since, as Barrio explains on his blog, the excavation of fossils of these prehistoric creatures has also been the site of errors. In the nineteenth century, a new species of gliptodonte – the ‘Glyptodon clavipes’ – was recorded, discovered by a palaeontologist named Richard Owen, only later to be proven to be a mistake, an error arising from the misreading of fossils from two different creatures as if they were one. The artwork stands as a warning, therefore, about the provisional nature of scientific truth. That something is recorded does not of course mean that it is True. Wherever there is conflict about the events and meaning of the past, there is a need to heed such a warning. At ESMA, this has of course been the battle, and the opening of the criminal trials notwithstanding, remains the concern. To confer value on something, to remark upon it, is to aid the possibility of its enduring through time; endurance is not a quality of a thing, but is an achievement (remembering the arguments of Whitehead, 1925 [1948])....

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TL;DR: The distinction between civil association and enterprise association has inspired international society theorists to conceive of international society as not just a "purposive a... as mentioned in this paper, but also as an "enterprise association".
Abstract: Michael Oakeshott’s distinction between ‘civil association’ and ‘enterprise association’ has inspired international society theorists to conceive of international society as not just a ‘purposive a ...

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Cites background from "The Human Condition."

  • ...To conclude, the notion of civil association and the civil condition underline a view of politics as a human activity fostered by deep pluralist values, perhaps best accounted for by Oakeshott’s contemporary Hannah Arendt (1958) as a political rather than a social commitment....

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20 Aug 2019
TL;DR: This article conducted interviews with lawyers in Australian and English NewLaw firms in order to evaluate the pros and cons of NewLaw and found that NewLaw favours senior and experienced lawyers while disproportionately impacting recent graduates.
Abstract: Uber and Airbnb signify new ways of working and doing business by facilitating direct access to providers through new digitalised platforms. The gig economy is also beginning to percolate into legal practice through what is colloquially known as NewLaw. Eschewing plush offices, permanent staff and the rigidity of time billing, NewLaw offers cheaper services to clients in order to compete more effectively with traditional law firms. For individual lawyers, autonomy, flexibility, a balanced life, wellbeing and even happiness are claimed to be the benefits. The downside appears to be that NewLaw favours senior and experienced lawyers while disproportionately impacting on recent graduates. This article draws on interviews with lawyers in Australian and English NewLaw firms in order to evaluate the pros and cons of NewLaw.

11 citations

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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine work practices in the 21st century, looking in particular at how categories such as labor and value are changing in the context of technological shifts and the valorization of entrepreneurial work.
Abstract: OF DISSERTATION THE WORKING LIVES AND SPATIAL PRACTICE OF DIGITAL MEDIA DEVELOPERS IN SAN FRANCISCO In this dissertation I examine work practices in the 21st Century, looking in particular at how categories such as labor and value are changing in the context of technological shifts and the valorization of entrepreneurial work. I take the example of digital media workers in San Francisco to show how work is changing in relation to correlative changes in the capitalist mode of production and the devaluation of labor under neoliberal models of reason. This approach interrogates how attachments toward work are produced and reproduced to ask why work has become such a naturalized and unquestionable category in everyday life. Rather than demanding less or better work, entrepreneurs in San Francisco work more and harder, while providing a romanticized ideal of work for others. I ask if standards of precarious, insecure, flexible, and discriminatory work practices are transmitted beyond the confines of digital media work, and become a normative and hegemonic standard for workers in general. By examining these working practices and ethics of software developers in San Francisco’s digital media sector, I address recent calls in cultural economic and critical human geography to pay closer attention to the micro-spatiality of the workplace (rather than the more typical industryor market-scale focus) and to consider issues of embodiment, emotions, affect, gendered performativity, and the production of sexuality at work. This dissertation attends to topics of inter-disciplinary appeal, including the production of software, precarious labor in a cultural industry, and the role of culture and emotions in the workplace. I view the workplace as a site not just for the production of economic forms of value, but also behaviors and attitudes toward work, working subjectivities, and structures of affect and desire. I take up three main topics: (1) entrepreneurs’ and other workers’ personal attachment to their work, (2) users of social media platforms as unremunerated producers (or ‘prosumers’) of value, and (3) the use of the sharing trope to form a justification for flexible and contract work in the on-demand economy. I draw on eighteen months of fieldwork in San Francisco with workers for digital media firms, presenting data collected through interviews, participant observation, and discourse analysis.

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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: 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.
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