“not conducive for sobriety”: Sex Addiction and Neoliberal Masculinity in Don Jon and Thanks for Sharing

Thanks for Sharing (2012) and Don Jon (2013), share similarities in their representation of the lives of unmarried men who are all approaching midlife, and who are all struggling to build meaningful, monogamous, long term attachments with women. In Thanks for Sharing, Adam (Mark Ruffalo) is addicted to brief encounters with numerous partners in contexts devoid of emotional intimacy, while a fellow member of his sex addicts support group, Neil (Josh Gad), struggles with a compulsion to touching strangers in public locations. In counterpoint, Don Jon charts the protagonist’s insatiable consumption of online pornography, since Jon believes that the virtual domain provides a far superior sexual experience than anything, he could find in real life encounters with women. This article is concerned with the relationship between sex addiction and masculinity, and how neoliberalism is imbued in the characters’ embodiment of masculinity regardless of their divergent social backgrounds.

The Rights and Obligations of Non-participating Member States

This chapter elucidates the most important value inherent to enhanced cooperation: the value of tolerance. The notion of tolerance is not a one-way street: Member States within enhanced cooperation have to respect fellow Member States outside enhanced cooperation, as well as their wish to pursue the European objectives on a unilateral path. Likewise, Member States outside enhanced cooperation have to respect that some Member States will pursue a legislative act jointly. The chapter clearly shows that the principle of tolerance is different from the principle of sincere cooperation, since the protection of Art 327 of the TFEU demands more than a loyal interaction between Member States. International law and constitutional law provisions on cooperation in federal states provide guidance on how to develop a framework for the principle of tolerance within enhanced cooperation.

Migration In Greece

Greece has been typically a southern European emigration country until the 1970s but shifted rather abruptly to becoming a host country after 1989, developing slowly and reluctantly migration, integration, and asylum policies. This chapter offers an overview of the migration policies and challenges that Greece faces in the twenty-first century and on how these have evolved in the 2000s and 2010s. The chapter starts with a short presentation of the migrant population in Greece, its composition, and its insertion in the labour market so as to give a sense of the socio-economic and demographic importance of immigration in Greek society today. It then looks at the evolution of immigration and asylum policies in relation also to the politics behind such evolutions, notably the positions of the two main parties, New Democracy and PASOK, and more recently SYRIZA, as well as the role of external pressures from fellow member states and EU institutions and the overall role of exogenous factors, such as the dramatic increase of asylum-seeking flows since 2015. The chapter concludes with some critical observations concerning the present and future of immigrants and their descendants in Greek society.

O procesie różnicowania

On the Process of Othering. European Identity in Opposition to Otherness The process of othering is the process of assigning a group or individual the role of the Other and creating one’s own identity in opposition to it. It deprives Others of the characteristics of “the same”: reason, dignity, love, pride, heroism, nobility, and ultimately human rights, regardless of whether the Other is a racial or religious group, a sexual minority or a nation. The process of othering can take a form of exploitation, oppression and even genocide because, as Richard Rorty put it, everything changes who is a fellow member of our moral community. Stanisław Konopacki describes it in relation to the question of European identity, built in opposition to Otherness. This opposition turns out to be extremely inspiring for an analysis of contemporary crises in the European Union. The paper presents a theoretical analysis of the process itself, its anthropological sources, and its consequences for the Habermas project of the contemporary European public sphere.

Makna Dan Motif Solidaritas Mercedes-Benz Club Bandung

During the research, the context of understanding as well as in point of focus in the minutely is the way society Mercedes-Benz Club Bandung represent a meaning and motives inside a attachment is a the community (automotive) and being affected as well as based on communication through symbols which is in shape and agreed on the interaction and daily life of the Mercedes-Benz Club Bandung community. In the discussion of the survey, researchers used with the approach phenomenology with contructivism paradigm, this context about a thing done by scientist is as the purpose of conducting by with analysis and withdrawal of meaning and chemical analysis with motives of symbolic communication to do something abaout community Mercedes-Benz Club Bandung in implying a meaning of “solidarity”. The process has been held by research by following a groove activities, daily activity, as well as any assembly or with schedule made by community. Research conducted by researchers by means of do something like making observation, interview at the field with several informants, and in-depth interview and pick up some field evidence through the actual shot and take a picture from field during the process activity by community. In this part from genereal community to Mercedes-Benz Club Bandung is an organization that have rules and regulation like another community in Indonesia. An explanation on this community specially to Mercedes-Benz Club Bandung formed by the same hobby, like have another people like in to automotive the basis and passion for love at automotive. Of the thing that the problem occurs meanings in this community the the problem occurs meanings arising from each of community member in the Mercedes-Benz Club Membership. In this parts about trough a process of solidarity in the form of motive and communication a solid passing symbols and in the midst of same perception with the union of the meaning of solidarity from activities of, interaction to a fellow member of a as well as the communities hit by effect of arising done by the community. Tag Line as well as community with vision and mission to Mercedes-Benz Club Bandung that is, “Proud-Loyalty-Fraternity” is one most of concrete manifestation and symbol with good attitude and interaction from in the community to internal from external community knew of the existence of that happened at community, one in which are a very positive and plain terms about the impact of to the people who can describe and evaluate the results of the thought which thinking from another people is in community from the surrounding to the Mercedes-Benz Club Bandung.

Life’s Transitions to the Black Panther Party

Pete O’Neal describes his failed first marriage and his inability to adapt to a standard working-class life style. Once free from marriage he achieves his 12th Street ideal by becoming a pimp, only to experience a mental and spiritual breakdown. He commits himself to working for the black community and forms the Black Vigilantes to protect blacks from police abuse. He travels to the Black Panther Party headquarters in Oakland, California, to train and then get permission to form a branch of the Party in Kansas City. He describes the Party’s personnel, structure, and workings in Kansas. Pete marries fellow member Charlotte Hill, and years later both recollect their first meeting and how the Party saved their lives.

More Than the Border? Looking at Brexit through Irish Eyes

During the first phase of the Brexit negotiations the question of Northern Ireland’s border with the Irish Republic emerged from decades of political obscurity to become one of the major themes of the controversy surrounding Britain’s future relationship with the European Union. Existing freedoms to act have been called into question not only by Brexit, but also by the Irish government’s determined positioning alongside its fellow member states of the EU around the negotiating table. The chapter looks at three aspects of Anglo-Irish relations. Initially it considers the development and current state of these relationships during the opening phases of the Brexit negotiations. The chapter continues by assessing the debate about Brexit amongst Irish policy-makers and commentators and how this has subsequently fed into political and cultural debates in Britain as well. It concludes by looking at how these assessments by Irish politicians and cultural commentators go beyond the immediate issues of the future of Anglo-Irish relations and pose existential questions about the nature of contemporary Britain.