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This paper explores the ways in which financial speculation and disruption have become common traits defining our artistic and political imagination. In this discussion a variety of notions emerge ... philosophy, literature, politics, the arts and the sciences. As varied as the usages of the term may be, the current emergence of speculation in these different fields stems from the world of finance capital
history of philosophy by thinkers like Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. ... conceived by Bourriaud it is a distant echo of the Ancient Greek philosophy of origin (ἀρχή). To be original means “being at the origin” (Bourriaud 2006, 13). Just like Greek philosophers, we sometimes think
realism in the philosophy of science, as a result of the growing presence of unobservable objects in scientific research, challenging the empirical foundations of the natural sciences established at the ... itself, independently from the way it presents itself to sensibility, is returning to the centre of debates in contemporary philosophy, as part of a new realist turn. The project questions art’s relation
In this review, voltage-gated proton channels are considered from a mainly teleological perspective. Why do proton channels exist? What good are they? Why did they go to such lengths to develop several unique hallmark properties such as extreme selectivity and ΔpH-dependent gating? Why is their current so minuscule? How do they manage to be so selective? What is the basis for our...
future, and as such it’s always a kind of political gesture’. Brian Massumi (2018: 25) regards this gesture as a means of reclaiming value from its reduction to the economic logic of the market, in order ... materials as central to the realisation and experience of an artwork. Andrea recently coauthored the book Practising with Deleuze: design, dance, art, writing, philosophy, is the art editor at the Deleuze and
teacher, I have been developing a constellation of ideas which both speak about (as an observer) and ‘speak nearby’ (as a participant) the imbrication of art with political and economic forces in the ... negativity in the ostensibly open-ended and disinterested activity of speculative thought, which is considered integral to the conceptual praxis of art and philosophy alike in the Western tradition before
programmers to employ robustness philosophy using the scenario planning potentials and fuzzy inference system at the decision-making stage of the general process of strategy formulation. The process helps the ... scenario planning and fuzzy inference system in order to make it possible for the programmers to use stability philosophy in the decisionmaking phase of the general process of strategy formulation. In fact
born and raised in GDR I wanted to investigate the effects of the political turnaround in my home country more profoundly. I have therefore chosen the time frame from 1986 to 2016 and 21 specific events ... Biography Kai Ziegner (born 1975 in Plauen, East Germany) has studied German philology, journalism and political sciences in Leipzig, photography in Berlin and fine arts in Zurich. He holds a Master ‘s
decision making problems. This method is based on the philosophy of both scoring and comprising methods and relies on the loss for not choosing the ideal best alternative. Different loss functions such as ... 1982) are also employed for solving the MADM problems. In the present work, a simple method for MADM problems has been introduced based on loss functions. This method uses the philosophy of both scoring
conceived as a large film production, divided into five films under the direction of different makers. The themes of the five films are strongly interconnected: political oppression (Ola Hassanain), mass ... exhibition at De Appel in 2012 of young curators who wanted to work with students. For that work, called Symphorophilia, he had invited three scientists, a philosopher, a geographer and political economist
flourish anew. In its interaction with human existence, art – just like philosophy – is the utmost ontological purveyor of verticality. Therefore, it is up to art to critically map and investigate the ... : A memoir of a Legal Person. This memoir gives a voice to the legal, psychological and metaphysical fictions swarming around the margin of selfishness and increasingly dictating the political and
usual areas of industry and commerce such as public health and political polling. With the new procedures, both sample size and sample error can be reduced. What is unclear in traditional acceptance ... intend to expand this research into the areas of public health and political polling. Public health has seen extensive applications of traditional acceptance sampling in lot quality assurance sampling
envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied for determining the efficiency of each treatment. Although the important issue for implementation of DEA is its philosophy, which is maximization of outputs versus ... mentioned literature of the studies which have used DEA for the determination of the optimum treatment, only the response variables have been focused on, while the main philosophy of DEA is maximization of
actions being directed not so much by political struggle as by an ungoverned, species-specific hive intelligence guided by a short-term pursuit of interests. This, on the one hand, exalts humankind to being ... Todd, the purportedly neutral geological markers constituted in Anthropocene narratives – coal, plastic, plutonium, uranium or cement – are in fact wounds left in the earth by political actions. They
center of the mythological machine a secret room: the one you find in dreams, that is with high probability empty.” — The Two Bodies Whenever we think in political power, we are immediately seduced to ... it be that the images of the social subconscious incarnate the core of ideological battles? Can we visualize the essence of these social and political struggles? How to map this political psyche
’ (1993), defining the political qualities of performance as ‘un-static’ (1993: 165), ‘non-reproductive’ (1993: 148) and ‘non-metaphorical’ (1993: 152). It furthermore carries a ghostly echo of John L ... dimensions involved, geographical dimensions and dimensions of time. We are broadening the artistic situation to social and political contexts. -You can talk about the performance in relation to ‘The
the practice of an indirect aesthetic such as Harman’s might avoid the hollow gestures and traps of ‘naïve realism’ of the sort mentioned at the outset. The aim, then, is not to refute philosophy; more ... either term considered apart from the other” (Meillassoux, p. 5). 6In Philosophy, Naïve Realism is the belief that reality is directly accessible to us. But as Shaviro points out, Speculative Realism
of Africa as a “‘land of children.’” His lectures on the philosophy of history relied ever more on “Europe’s conventional scholarly wisdom on African society.” He accustomed himself to the echo chamber ... . § Even as Enlightenment philosophy ignored the reality of colonial slavery, notions of liberty and personhood entangled with property and bondage. “Slaves were defined as property,” in David Brion Davis’s
optimum use of available resources. In those cases, implementation of lean philosophy can assist in eliminating wastes by avoiding non-value-added activities and the successful implementation of lean ... consider lean philosophy so that the optimised ED solution can ensure the maximised utilisation of all the available resources. It is noteworthy to mention that every ED is different in terms of the target
fabricated or manipulated, but also of minor importance. The purpose of political power and its networks seems to have become to create a untruthful view of the world, without the necessity to convince elites ... or voters, but rather to blur judgments, fortify prejudices, and provoke emotions. The news sources manipulated by political powers also create a confusing world of information where deceptions, false
