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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 authors look at Digital Storytelling (DS) as a specifically feminist epistemology within qualitative social research methods, which is a process allowing research partici cally...
Abstract: In this article, we look at Digital Storytelling (DS) as a specifically feminist epistemology within qualitative social research methods. Digital Storytelling is a process allowing research partici...
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...We are situating digital storytelling in an intellectual tradition that starts with Hannah Arendt (2013[1958]) and includes Cavarero (2000) and other feminist scholars who have focussed on the centrality of narration as a political practice....
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...We are situating DS in an intellectual tradition that starts with Hannah Arendt (2013 (1958)) and includes Cavarero (2000) and other feminist scholars who have focused on the centrality of narration as a political practice....
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...Cavarero draws on Hannah Arendt when delineating the idea of a subject as situated at the intersection between the discursive and the material: the subject is an “embodied existent” made of flesh and blood, whose material existence is revealed through the narrating words of her personal biography (Kottman, 2000)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a reworking of Henri Lefebvre's notion of rhythm in terms of the algorithmic qualities of contemporary cities, and propose a conceptualisation that combines views of classic social and urban thinkers with more recent, particularly nonrepresentational, theorisation.
Abstract: This article proceeds from the observation that, in 21st century cities, algorithmic technologies engage people as bodily beings in the production of space in ways that warrant theoretical discussion on urban infrastructure and infrastructural power. While human corporeality is an increasingly prominent issue in critical (media) infrastructure studies, my argument in the article is that the structural role of corporeality in the pervasively computed urban context remains undertheorised. A key starting point demanding reconsideration concerns the ontological separation of human embodiment from the materiality of infrastructure. To overcome this separation, I direct attention to urbanites’ mediated bodily habits and routines, stressing their importance in infrastructural constitution. The power-infused interrelational dynamic that these routines enact is addressed in the article by developing a conceptualisation that combines views of classic social and urban thinkers with more recent, particularly nonrepresentational, theorisation. As a methodological bridge towards empirically investigating how mediated bodily routines ‘infrastructure’, I propose a reworking of Henri Lefebvre’s notion of rhythm in terms of the algorithmic qualities of contemporary cities.
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...Our speedy intellect, and the solutionist and blissfully unthoughtful use of our brainpower (see Arendt, 1958), have propelled us to where we are today, but what we should have done much earlier and definitely need to do now is to deliberately slow down and mobilise, both as individuals and…...
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TL;DR: This article present a critique of existing approaches to the distinctive harm of genocide and offer an alternative approach, drawing on Hannah Arendt's unique conception of genocide, to suggest an "existential" account of the harm of the genocide.
Abstract: In this article, I present a critique of existing approaches to the distinctive harm of genocide and offer an alternative approach. I draw on Hannah Arendt’s unique conception of genocide, to suggest an ‘existential’ account of the harm of genocide. For Arendt, the distinctive loss in genocide was not a moral loss, strictly speaking, but rather an existential loss to humanity. By destroying a nation in whole or in part, genocide robs us of a variety of possible ways of experiencing and understanding the world. This approach, I argue, is original and valuable, and merits further consideration by anyone who is interested in the problem of genocide.
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TL;DR: This paper explored the dearth of public sphere activities by looking at the municipality's formal by-laws and their application in the park, the punitive manner in which “informal” rules were enforced within the park and the perception that Johannesburgers and City Parks had of the space and its users.
Abstract: The link between public sphere and public space has long been established within the literature. Using three aspects of public sphere — plurality, public space and deliberate talk — I argue that the management choices that the City of Johannesburg made in Joubert Park led to a lack of public spheres developing inside the park. I explore this dearth of public sphere activities by looking at the municipality’s formal by-laws and their application in the park, the punitive manner in which “informal” rules were enforced within the park and the perception that Johannesburgers and City Parks had of the space and its users. The findings indicate that the City of Johannesburg chose to manage the park in a manner that enhanced its goal of becoming an African World Class City at the cost of strengthening democracy within the park.
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...Like Habermas and Arendt (1958), this literature also recognises the importance of public space that is available relatively freely for public sphere activities....
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...In this literature, a number of authors have emphasised that the public sphere or realm (Habermas [1962] 2008; Arendt 1958) is dependent on public spaces where people can congregate to freely deliberate on the authority of the state....
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...Similar to Habermas, Arendt (1958), Kohn (2008) and Sennett (1977) wrote on the public sphere or its alternate formulations such as public realm and publicness....
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...A variety of public spaces has been described for this function: the Greek agora (Arendt 1958), coffee shops and literary book clubs (Habermas [1962] 2008), the Internet and news media (Dean 2003), labour union clubs (Kohn 2003) and public parks and streets (Staeheli 2010; Parkinson 2012)....
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TL;DR: The initial design and implementation of a Learning Management System targeting to support Vocational Lyceum students with their laboratory courses and the Artificial Intelligent (A.I.) embedded capabilities which target the learner's personalized experience and support are presented.
Abstract: In this paper, we present the initial design and implementation of a Learning Management System (L.M.S.) targeting to support Vocational Lyceum students with their laboratory courses. We address the support of laboratory courses for vocational High School students by proposing an approach through the use of this L.M.S. that is appropriately designed and organized. We describe the needs that are covered on the specific knowledge field, the system capabilities and the planned extensions. We provide a detailed description of the user roles supported, the design and implementation phases of the system as well as the technologies leveraged. A case study on the use of the L.M.S. is also presented. We also present the Artificial Intelligent (A.I.) embedded capabilities which target the learner's personalized experience and support.
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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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