Critical Space Infrastructures

Author(s):  
Alexandru Georgescu ◽  
Adrian V. Gheorghe ◽  
Marius-Ioan Piso ◽  
Polinpapilinho F. Katina
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2020 ◽  
pp. 009059172098295
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Barringer

The Apology is often read as showing a conflict between democracy and philosophy. I argue here that Socrates’s defense critically engages deeply political Athenian conventions of death, showing a mutual entanglement between Socratic philosophy and democratic practice. I suggest that Socrates’s aporetic insistence within the Apology that we “do not know if death is a good or a bad thing” structures a critical space of inquiry that I term “mortal ignorance;” a space from which Socrates reapproaches settled questions of death’s appropriate place in political life, ultimately prompting a partial transformation of Athenian democracy. I argue here that Socratic mortal ignorance supports a self-reflective politics of death, one which produces many potential responses and accepts the impossibility of closing off death’s meaning in any final sense—an aporia suitable for the unending, precarious work of democratic politics.


Politics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véronique Pin-Fat

This paper argues that the later Wittgenstein's notion of the autonomy of grammar opens up critical space for thinking about world politics The claim that philosophy should be a ‘grammatical investigation’ involves considering how particular pictures, as representations of reality, hold us captive. Although the ‘deep disquietudes’ that are expressed in world politics may have similarities with the depth of a grammatical joke, I will look at a few reasons why we aren't laughing.


Author(s):  
Pete Bennett ◽  
Julian McDougall

This volume re-imagines the study of English and media in a way that decentralises the text (e.g. romantic poetry or film noir) or media formats/platforms (e.g. broadcast media/new media). Instead, the authors work across boundaries in meaningful thematic contexts that reflect the ways in which people engage with reading, watching, making, and listening in their textual lives. In so doing, the volume recasts both subjects as combined in a more reflexive, critical space for the study of our everyday social and cultural interactions. Across the chapters, the authors present applicable learning and teaching strategies that weave together art works, films, social practices, creativity, 'viral' media, theater, TV, social media, videogames, and literature. The culmination of this range of strategies is a reclaimed 'blue skies' approach to progressive textual education, free from constraining shackles of outdated ideas about textual categories and value that have hitherto alienated generations of students and both English and media from themselves.


Extrapolation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-268
Author(s):  
María Ferrández-Sanmiguel

This article reads Pat Cadigan’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Synners (1991) from the perspectives of trauma studies and posthumanism to analyze the representation of the cyborged (post)human in cyberspace. My main focus is Cadigan’s depiction of a posttraumatic world whose living conditions invite escape, and how this depiction emphasizes the fact that escape through technological transcendence is not an option, and neither is the rejection of technology altogether. Despite this bleak scenario, the novel leaves some room for optimism in the figuration of a posthuman form of resilience, inspiring reflection about future forms of engagement with technology. As this article attempts to prove, Synners uses the tropes of the cyborg and cyberspace to explore the implications of subjectivity and embodiment within technoscience. In so doing, the novel opens a critical space for interrogation of the relationship between trauma, the posthuman body, and digital technology.


Author(s):  
Alexandru Georgescu ◽  
Adrian V. Gheorghe ◽  
Marius-Ioan Piso ◽  
Polinpapilinho F. Katina

PAMM ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Wah Chan ◽  
David Seelbinder ◽  
Stephan Theil ◽  
Matthias Knauer ◽  
Christof Büskens

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyungjin Huh

We study the initial value problem of some nonlinear Dirac equations which areLmℝcritical. Corresponding to the structure of nonlinear terms, global strong solutions can be obtained in different Lebesgue spaces by using solution representation formula. The uniqueness of weak solutions is proved for the solutionU∈L∞0,T; Ym+2ℝ.


Author(s):  
Zoë Bennett ◽  
Elaine Graham ◽  
Stephen Pattison ◽  
Heather Walton
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