Who Wouldn’t Want to Be a Person?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caleb Smith
Keyword(s):  
Law And Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Future ◽  
Over Time

In an influential 2005 article, Julie Stone Peters analyzed the state of law and literature scholarship and offered her prognosis for the future of an “interdisciplinary illusion.” This chapter reviews trends in law and literature scholarship of the decade that followed. It observes the prominence of historical approaches that treat law and literature not as universals but as contingent fields and institutions whose relations change over time. It goes on to show how historicism has re-evaluated the key concept of personhood, seeking forms of agency and belonging that do not conform to liberal ideals of individual autonomy or contractual consent. A “postcritical” turn in interpretive scholarship and a rising interest in mixed, compromised forms of selfhood are considered in relation to the precarious conditions of legal and literary studies within the contemporary university.

The Historyless Heathen and the Stagnating Pagan: History as Non-Native Category?

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Gin Lum
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThis article asks whether and how J. Z. Smith's contention that religion is a “non-native category” might be applied to the discipline of history. It looks at how nineteenth-century Americans constructed their own understandings of “proper history”—authenticatable, didactic, and progressive—against the supposed historylessness of “heathen” Hawaiians and stagnation of “pagan” Chinese. “True” history, for these nineteenth-century historians, changed in the past and pointed to change in the future. The article asks historians to think about how they might be replicating some of the same assumptions about forward-moving history by focusing on change over time as a core component of historical narration. It urges historians to instead also incorporate the native historical imaginations of our subjects into our own methods, paying attention to when those imaginations are cyclical and reiterative as well as directional, and letting our subjects' assumptions about time and history, often shaped by religious perspectives, orient our own decisions about how to structure the stories we tell.

scholarly journals EAR BIOMETRICS: ONE MORE STEP TOWARDS SOCIAL DISTANCING

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mansi Talreja ◽  
Bhavika Motiramani ◽  
Muskan Asrani ◽  
Ashish Sukhani ◽  
Manas Mangaonkar
Keyword(s):  
Change Over Time ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Ear Biometrics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Secure Environment ◽  
Over Time

Biometrics deals with identification of individuals based on their characteristics. In traditional systems people use to remember passwords, PIN's, tokens for identification. But in recent years biometrics have gained a lot of popularity due to advancement in technology and the secure environment. Variety of biometrics have been developed in recent years such as fingerprint, iris, retinal. Ears are considered as the future of biometrics due to its properties of Universality, which means that every person should have it. Uniqueness, which indicates that no two persons should behave the same characteristic. Permanence, which means that this characteristic does not change over time. Collectability, which indicates that the characteristic can be measured quantitatively. Ears are comparatively large in size and hence are more visible and also their shape does not change radically over a period of time and so are their images easy to be captured.

At the Limits of the Concept

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 410-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayden White
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Over Time

It is often forgotten that the humanities—which are made up of history, philosophy, literary studies, philology, rhetoric, art history, musicology, and linguistics—are characterized not so much by their objects of study, which can change over time, as by their focus on reading, the reading of verbal texts, primarily, but also reading in the sense of decoding and recoding images, sounds, and movements. The disciplines that compose the humanities teach different kinds of reading practices. The products of these disciplines for the most part belong to the class of prose and poetic discourses. This is why they may often look similar or even the same, especially when they are cast in the same mode: narrative, argumentative, descriptive, or expressive as the case may be.

scholarly journals The Past, Present and Future of Nordic Courts

2021 ◽  
pp. 291-308
Author(s):  
Anna Nylund
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
The State ◽  
Legal Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Future ◽  
Resolution Processes ◽  
Over Time

AbstractBased on the insights from the previous chapters in this volume, this concluding chapter discusses key traits of Nordic courts: colloquial legal language, generalist judges, ‘unrefined’ and fragmentary laws, high trust in the state and judges, and corporatism. The development of these traits over time is explored as well as the emergence of new traits that could be labelled ‘Nordic’. It also discusses how two current trends—Europeanisation and privatisation of dispute resolution processes—influence Nordic courts. The question whether a unified Nordic procedural culture still exists is raised. Finally, the future of Nordic courts is discussed.

scholarly journals STUDY OF TIMBER MARKET OF MALAYSIA AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY AND EMPLOYMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1109-1116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Krishnan Umachandran ◽  
Barbara Sawicka
Keyword(s):  
Forest Resources ◽  
The State ◽  
Market Change ◽  
Management Change ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Supply ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
Timber Market ◽  
Over Time

This article presents the state of the global wood markets, which shows the evolution of forest resources and margins on the timber market over time. The underlying case has been discussed and discussed. Alternative scenarios are presented that allow one to consider some important questions about the behavior of the wood market and the future supply of industrial wood. (1) What happens along the northern and tropical margin? (2) What is the role of wood plantations? and (3) How should management change in the Malaysian market change? The baseline situation suggests that both prices and crop communities are growing in 150 years, with the largest harvest coming from existing and emerging plantations. Future harvest returns will result mainly from intensified management, through additional plantation and higher levels of management in selected forests rather than higher yields in inaccessible forests. Prices and harvest are most sensitive to alternative needs (paper, firewood) and scenarios for creating new plantations and less vulnerable to the costs of access to remote forests.

Flexible Design of Systems Considering Time-Dependent Reliability

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijitashwa Pandey ◽  
Zissimos P. Mourelatos ◽  
Annette Skowronska
Keyword(s):  
Time Dependent ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Repairable Systems ◽  
Flexible Design ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Hydrokinetic Turbine ◽  
The Future ◽  
Over Time

Many repairable systems degrade with time and are subjected to time-varying loads. Their characteristics may change over time considerably, making the assessment of their performance and hence their design difficult. To address this issue, we introduce in this paper the concept of flexible design of repairable systems under time-dependent reliability considerations. In flexible design, the system can be modified in the future to accommodate uncertain events. As a result, regardless of how uncertainty resolves itself, a modification is available that will keep the system close to optimal provided failure events have been properly characterized. We discuss how flexible design of repairable systems requires a fundamentally new approach and demonstrate its advantages using the design of a hydrokinetic turbine. Our results show that long-term metrics are improved when time-dependent characteristics and flexibility are considered together.

The Politics of Commemoration among Palestinians

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochelle Davis
Keyword(s):  
Collective Actions ◽  
National Discourse ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Over Time

Thinking about events and dates that Palestinians commemorate, one hundred years after the fateful Balfour Declaration of 1917, reveals a political timeline on which the story of contemporary Palestinian history hangs. Commemoration, as an act, tends to lionize certain events and persons, especially when it is officially created or sponsored. Because Palestinians have long been without an official political entity in Palestine that can produce official commemorative actions, Palestinian commemorations reflect both individual and collective actions that develop and change over time. This essay analyzes those actions and the different spaces and actors behind them to explicate the politics of commemoration. It posits that the metanarratives of Palestinian history that have developed give primacy to the powers and forces that undermined Palestinian aspirations and actions. As metanarratives, they create frames for understanding history within a political and national discourse of struggle, dispossession, and suffering. And yet, these metanarratives miss the embodied practices of commemoration that define Palestinian life within this struggle. Detailing Palestinians' commemorations reveals the robust culture that ties commemorations of the past with activism, awareness, and education for the present and the future.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 198-218
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Bickerton ◽  
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Keyword(s):  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Political Logic

This conclusion outlines the most recent incarnations of technopopulism. Since technopopulism is not vested in any particular politician or party but as a political logic operates in a way that shapes the constraints and incentives political actors face, the precise identity of technopopulists and the synthesize they achieve between technocracy and populism will change over time. The conclusion then takes up the question of the whether technopopulism can endure as a political logic. Using the corona virus crisis as its starting point, and based on the normative discussion of technopopulism in chapter five, the conclusion looks at various ways in which we may go beyond technopopulism. We conclude that whereas technopopulism is an unstable political logic, there are good reasons to think that it will endure and continue to shape and structure political attitudes and behaviour well into the future.

scholarly journals Hippocampal-neocortical interactions sharpen over time for predictive actions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas C. Hindy ◽  
Emily W. Avery ◽  
Nicholas B. Turk-Browne
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cortex ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
The State ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Behavioral Paradigm ◽  
Over Time

AbstractWhen an action is familiar, we are able to anticipate how it will change the state of the world. These expectations can result from retrieval of action-outcome associations in the hippocampus and the reinstatement of anticipated outcomes in visual cortex. How does this role for the hippocampus in action-based prediction change over time? We used high-resolution fMRI and a dual-training behavioral paradigm to examine how the hippocampus interacts with visual cortex during predictive and nonpredictive actions learned either three days earlier or immediately before the scan. Just-learned associations led to comparable background connectivity between the hippocampus and V1/V2, regardless of whether actions predicted outcomes. However, three-day-old associations led to stronger background connectivity and greater differentiation between neural patterns for predictive vs. nonpredictive actions. Hippocampal prediction may initially reflect indiscriminate binding of co-occurring of events, with action information pruning weaker associations and leading to more selective and accurate predictions over time.

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