Trunk Calls in Antiquity

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-301
Author(s):  
Shibani Bose
Keyword(s):  
Time And Space ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Destructive Potential

Scattered across the texts of early India are glimpses embodying diverse facets of human interactions with elephants. Chapter 5, thus, carves out a narrative of the fortunes of the animal within religious and secular traditions separated in time and space. The animal is known for the dexterity of its trunk as well as the phenomenon of musth. Also interspersed are images of the pachyderm in its benevolent as well as malevolent forms. Its might and grandeur is recognized, and so is its destructive potential, suggesting that the elephant is perhaps the best exemplar of a relationship fraught with harmony as well as discord.

scholarly journals Producing Value Out of the Invaluable: A Critical/Cultural Perspective on the Live Streaming Industry in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 805-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Zou
Keyword(s):  
Live Streaming ◽  
Affective Engagement ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Informational Capitalism ◽  
Value Production

This paper extends the critique of informational capitalism to increasingly commercialised cyberspace in China by examining the case of live streaming. Informed by Marxist and neo-Marxist theories, I set out to investigate how live streaming ushers in flexible paid labour online, and how informational capitalism cashes in on users’ affective engagement, locking them into a constant process of value production. Diving into the structure and affordances of live streaming platforms as well as users’ practices, I argue that live streaming in China manifests an emerging trend of capitalist enclosure in cyberspace, which has dire implications for people’s subjectivities and interactions. Three major implications are discussed, namely the reconfiguration of time and space for the production of value; the instrumentalisation of affects, bodies and human interactions; and the erosion of users’ freedom and individuality.

Some Considerations in Planning for and Managing Community Recovery Following Disaster

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Kerry Gartland
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Black Death ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Community Recovery ◽  
Physical Effects ◽  
Social Units ◽  
Chemical Explosion ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Destructive Potential

Understanding of what constitutes a disaster has altered over time in accordance with changing notions of cause and effects. The “Black Death” which swept Europe was then regarded as inevitable, with some religious groups descibing it as “An Act of God”. Perception of disaster has moved from an emphasis on the physical effects of an event, such as cyclone, fire or chemical explosion, to a perception that the extent of deleterious effects is predominately a social issue.“Sociologically, a disaster is an event, located in time and space, that produces conditions whereby the continuity of the structure and processes of social units becomes problematic. Disaster agents may differ as to their cause, frequency, controllability, speed and onset, length of forewarning, duration, scope of impact and destructive potential” (Dynes, 1975).

Thomas Schelling, Robert Aumann and Interactive Decision Theory (2005 Nobel Prize in Economics)

2006 ◽  
pp. 4-21
Author(s):  
A. Belyanin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Rational Behavior ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
The Game Theory ◽  
Applied Industrial Organization ◽  
Nobel Prize Laureates ◽  
Thomas Schelling ◽  
Human Rationality

The paper describes the contributions of T. Schelling and R. J. Aumann, the Nobel Prize laureates of 2005 in economics, to modern economics and social sciences. Their key contributions were in the field of the game theory - a major tool to study human interactions and rational behavior in a wide variety of contexts, from applied industrial organization to labor economics, public policy, international relations and political science. Works by Aumann and Schelling were pathbreaking in this respect, and have paved the way to many modern developments that enhance our understanding of human rationality.

Economy as an Organism

2011 ◽  
pp. 140-151
Author(s):  
A. Golubev
Keyword(s):  
Time And Space

Practicability of viewing economy not as a mechanism but as an organism is grounded. The concept of "genetic economics" that is considered in time and space is defined. The orders of economic constancy are recommended. "Genetic economics" axiomatic statements are formularized.

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