Quarantime

Global lockdowns have resulted in a challenge to our carefully constructed notions of time, the work week and time-space compression. For the past few months, we have been living in ‘Quarantime’. Quarantime moves differently than our daily lived temporalities of routine and order, and forces us to question the intimate relationship that we may have with how we structure our daily lives around a clock and timesheet. This article questions the challenges and opportunities inherent within the disruption of routine intimacies enacted through Quarantime, drawing on case studies of clock time and the work week, and through examining Quarantime’s unique relationship to time-space compression. It will suggest that Quarantime opens up a space for us to question intimate attachments to enforced routine and wide institutionalised concepts of clock time.

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On the relationship between research parasites and fairness in machine learning: challenges and opportunities

GigaScience ◽

10.1093/gigascience/giab086 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (12) ◽

Author(s):

Nicolás Nieto ◽

Agostina Larrazabal ◽

Victoria Peterson ◽

Diego H Milone ◽

Enzo Ferrante

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Data Model ◽

Learning Systems ◽

Training Data ◽

Model Construction ◽

Daily Lives ◽

The Past ◽

Learning Challenges ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

The Relationship

Abstract Machine learning systems influence our daily lives in many different ways. Hence, it is crucial to ensure that the decisions and recommendations made by these systems are fair, equitable, and free of unintended biases. Over the past few years, the field of fairness in machine learning has grown rapidly, investigating how, when, and why these models capture, and even potentiate, biases that are deeply rooted not only in the training data but also in our society. In this Commentary, we discuss challenges and opportunities for rigorous posterior analyses of publicly available data to build fair and equitable machine learning systems, focusing on the importance of training data, model construction, and diversity in the team of developers. The thoughts presented here have grown out of the work we did, which resulted in our winning the annual Research Parasite Award that GigaSciencesponsors.

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Metaphors of women as leaders

Human Resource Management International Digest ◽

10.1108/hrmid-03-2017-0045 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 11-12

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Reading Time ◽

Single Point ◽

Leadership Roles ◽

Content Type ◽

The Past ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Pertinent Information ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Women have made great advances in leadership roles over the past decade; however, there are still many challenges to be faced and overcome before there is equality with men. The labyrinth metaphor is a useful one, as it represents the challenges and opportunities women may face along their career path, not just at a single point. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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Between the commodity and the gift: the Coastal GasLink pipeline and the contested temporalities of Canadian and Witsuwit'en law

Journal of Human Rights and the Environment ◽

10.4337/jhre.2020.03.06 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 122-145

Author(s):

Tyler McCreary ◽

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Capitalist Society ◽

Gift Giving ◽

The Past ◽

Time Space ◽

The Gift ◽

Space Compression ◽

Time Extension ◽

The Relationship ◽

New Infrastructure

This article examines the conflicting subjectivities and space-times of Indigenous and colonial law that underpin the recent shutdown of the Canadian economy as people barricaded railways and ports in solidarity with the Witsuwit'en hereditary chiefs’ blockade against the Coastal GasLink pipeline across their territory. The article argues that this conflict between Canadian and Witsuwit'en law reflects fundamental tensions between their respective foundations in relations of the commodity and the gift. Within settler capitalist society, the value of a commodity is constructed relationally through a political economy of exchange that aims to speed transactions to maximize profits. With an ongoing drive for time-space compression, there is continual pressure in settler capitalism to develop new infrastructure that can speed the circulation of commodities. In Witsuwit'en society, the gift presents a contrasting logic of place-time extension. Rather than focusing on closing transactions to increase profits, gift giving stretches reciprocal obligations into the past and future. Contrasting these distinct conceptions of the relationship between value and time, the article argues that the Witsuwit'en struggle with Coastal GasLink should be understood as conflict between colonial temporal enclosures and a radical promise to open futures different to those engendered by the colonial present.

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Theoretical Perspectives

Precarious Times ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501735103.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 23-69

Author(s):

Anne Fuchs

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Sequential Order ◽

Ongoing Debate ◽

The Past ◽

Digital Era ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

Time Space ◽

Network Time ◽

Space Compression ◽

Key Terms

This chapter analyzes the key terms in the debate on time. Many contributors to the debate on time in the digital era have diagnosed a paradigm shift toward a timeless present that has swallowed up the past. Indeed, network society displaces the sequential order of lived experience by way of a “real virtuality” that immerses people into a world of instantaneity. The chapter then engages with the temporal anxiety that people can no longer narrate history and their own lives as coherent stories. The ongoing debate on time and temporality revolves around a range of interconnected diagnostic tropes that aim to illuminate a fundamental recalibration of the conditions of temporality in the network era: acceleration, resonance, atomization, immediacy, the extended present, time–space compression, network time, and precarious times.

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INSTANT COMMUNICATION: A BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION

New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation ◽

10.24308/iass-2014-037 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Liliane Pellegrini ◽

Keyword(s):

Time Space ◽

Space Compression ◽

Instant Communication

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Trail-Blazer Dependency – A Roadmap for the Sustainability Revolution

Global Environment ◽

10.3197/ge.2020.130204 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 317-337

Author(s):

Jan Kunnas

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Environmental Problems ◽

Pulp And Paper ◽

Historical Research ◽

The Past ◽

Success Stories ◽

Electric Car ◽

Major Benefit ◽

Quality Movement

While geologists are still considering whether the Anthropocene should be accepted as a formal geological epoch, it is up to us humanists to search for ways making this human era a good one. In this article, I will examine how we can use historical research to provide such tracks based on past regularities or similarities. Positive success stories from the past can at least provide faith that we can do something about our current environmental problems. This investigation is based on two case studies: the Tesla Model S electric car, and the Swedish pulp and paper industry's transition to chlorine-free bleaching. It argues that the sustainability revolution doesn't just share similarities with the quality movement of the 1970s and 1980s, but is essentially a continuation of it. In concordance with previous megatrends, the major benefit of the sustainability revolution will be reaped by countries and companies running ahead of the curve. A new term, 'trail-blazer dependency' is introduced; by setting an example, the first-movers are opening a trail for late-comers to follow.

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Brain-eating Amoebae Infection: Challenges and Opportunities in Chemotherapy

Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry ◽

10.2174/1389557519666190313161854 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (12) ◽

pp. 980-987 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Mohammad Ridwane Mungroo ◽

Ayaz Anwar ◽

Naveed Ahmed Khan ◽

Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui

Keyword(s):

Mortality Rate ◽

Free Living ◽

Outdoor Activities ◽

The Past ◽

Free Living Amoeba ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Life Threatening ◽

The Central Nervous System ◽

Living Nature ◽

Treatment And Diagnosis

Pathogenic free-living amoeba are known to cause a devastating infection of the central nervous system and are often referred to as “brain-eating amoebae”. The mortality rate of more than 90% and free-living nature of these amoebae is a cause for concern. It is distressing that the mortality rate has remained the same over the past few decades, highlighting the lack of interest by the pharmaceutical industry. With the threat of global warming and increased outdoor activities of public, there is a need for renewed interest in identifying potential anti-amoebic compounds for successful prognosis. Here, we discuss the available chemotherapeutic options and opportunities for potential strategies in the treatment and diagnosis of these life-threatening infections.

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The first 10 years of the international coordination network for standards in systems and synthetic biology (COMBINE)

Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics ◽

10.1515/jib-2020-0005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (2-3) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dagmar Waltemath ◽

Martin Golebiewski ◽

Michael L Blinov ◽

Padraig Gleeson ◽

Henning Hermjakob ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Synthetic Biology ◽

Data Model ◽

Computational Models ◽

Life Sciences ◽

The Past ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Stakeholder Workshop ◽

Software Engineers ◽

Future Work ◽

Modeling In Biology

AbstractThis paper presents a report on outcomes of the 10th Computational Modeling in Biology Network (COMBINE) meeting that was held in Heidelberg, Germany, in July of 2019. The annual event brings together researchers, biocurators and software engineers to present recent results and discuss future work in the area of standards for systems and synthetic biology. The COMBINE initiative coordinates the development of various community standards and formats for computational models in the life sciences. Over the past 10 years, COMBINE has brought together standard communities that have further developed and harmonized their standards for better interoperability of models and data. COMBINE 2019 was co-located with a stakeholder workshop of the European EU-STANDS4PM initiative that aims at harmonized data and model standardization for in silico models in the field of personalized medicine, as well as with the FAIRDOM PALs meeting to discuss findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data sharing. This report briefly describes the work discussed in invited and contributed talks as well as during breakout sessions. It also highlights recent advancements in data, model, and annotation standardization efforts. Finally, this report concludes with some challenges and opportunities that this community will face during the next 10 years.

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Feeling Film: Time, Space, and the Third Image

Journal of Humanistic Psychology ◽

10.1177/00221678211018025 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002216782110180

Author(s):

Luke Hockley

Keyword(s):

Present Moment ◽

Ontological Status ◽

The Third ◽

The Past ◽

Time Space ◽

The World

This article explores what it means to feel film. It does so through an exploration of the interconnections between Bergson, Deleuze, and Jung. Central to the argument is the ontological status of the image in these different philosophical and psychological traditions. In particular, image is seen as an encapsulation of coming into being, or what Bergson terms durée. To feel film is to engage with its therapeutic capacity to bring us into being. In the consulting room and in the cinema, this process is embodied and in some way created either between client and therapist or viewer and screen. The elusive present moment is the site at which the past permeates the present, creating as it does feeling toned entry into the process of becoming. Jung thought of this as central to individuation and Bergson as central to being. Feeling film from this perspective becomes a way of finding ourselves in both the world of the film and in our individual psyche.

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