Against the Construction of Animal Ethical Standing

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-212
Author(s):  
Jon Garthoff
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Tyler Burge ◽  
The World

This chapter argues against ‘standing egalitarianism’, the idea that there is a unique locus of ethical standing or status, and urges also that we should resist the idea that all entities who have ethical standing have it equally. It does so by engaging with Korsgaard’s recent work on animals and challenging its distinctive grounds for resisting standing egalitarianism. Drawing on the work of Tyler Burge, it argues for a different theory of the origin of value: values that matter came into the world with the first conscious beings; reasons were first possessed by the first judging beings; and moral obligations were first possessed by the first critically rational beings.

Networks of Photos, Landmarks, and People

Leonardo ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Crandall ◽  
Noah Snavely
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Photo Sharing ◽  
The World ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Combining Information

Social photo-sharing sites like Flickr contain vast amounts of latent information about the world and human behavior. The authors describe their recent work in building automatic algorithms that analyze large collections of imagery in order to extract some of this information. At a global scale, geo-tagged photographs can be used to identify the most photographed places on Earth, as well as to infer the names and visual representations of these places. At a local scale, the authors build detailed 3D models of a scene by combining information from thousands of 2D photographs taken by different people and from different vantage points.

scholarly journals "A survey on the most important internet of things technologies "

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Gesoon j.k Al-Abass ◽  
Huda R. ALkifaey
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Long Term Evolution ◽  
Network Layers ◽  
Term Evolution ◽  
Domain Importance ◽  
The World

"Internet of things (IoT) domain targets human with smart resolutions through the connection of “M2M” in all over the world, effectively. It was difficult to ignore domain importance field of IoT with the new deployment of applications such as smartphone in recent days. The most important layer in architecture of IoT is network layer, because of various systems (perform of cloud computing, switching, hub, gateway, so on), different technologies of connection (Long-Term Evolution (LTE), WIFI, Bluetooth, etc.) gathered in layer. Network layers should transfer the information from or to various applications/objects, via gateways/interfaces between networks that are heterogeneous, therefore utilizing different connection technologies, protocols. Recent work highlighted IoT technologies state-of-the-art utilized in architectures of IoT, some variations among them in addition to the applications of them in life."

scholarly journals Links between environment, diet, and the hunter-gatherer microbiome

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela K. Fragiadakis ◽  
Samuel A. Smits ◽  
Erica D. Sonnenburg ◽  
William Van Treuren ◽  
Gregor Reid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Microbiota Composition ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Carbohydrate Utilization ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Seasonal Shifts

AbstractThe study of traditional populations provides a view of human-associated microbes unperturbed by industrialization, as well as a window into the microbiota that co-evolved with humans. Here we discuss our recent work characterizing the microbiota from the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. We found seasonal shifts in bacterial taxa, diversity, and carbohydrate utilization by the microbiota. When compared to the microbiota composition from other populations around the world, the Hadza microbiota shares bacterial families with other traditional societies that are rare or absent from microbiotas of industrialized nations. We present additional observations from the Hadza microbiota and their lifestyle and environment, including microbes detected on hands, water, and animal sources, how the microbiota varies with sex and age, and the shortterm effects of introducing agricultural products into the diet. In the context of our previously published findings and of these additional observations, we discuss a path forward for future work.

scholarly journals Les grèves de médecins en République Démocratique du Congo : quels repères éthiques généralisables?

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Laurent Jean-Claude Ravez ◽  
Stuart Rennie ◽  
Robert Yemesi ◽  
Jean-Lambert Chalachala ◽  
Darius Makindu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Almost Everywhere ◽  
Vulnerable Patients ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
Minimum Quality

For several years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been the scene of strikes by the country’s doctors. The strikers’ demands are essentially financial and statutory and are intended to put pressure on the government. In this country, as is the case almost everywhere in the world, medical strikes are allowed. Every worker has the right to denounce by strike working conditions that are considered unacceptable. But are doctors just like any other workers? Do they not have particular moral obligations linked to the specificities of their profession? To shed light on these questions, the authors of this article propose three essential moral benchmarks that can be generalized to medical strike situations elsewhere in the world. The first concerns the recognition of the right to strike for doctors, including for strictly financial reasons. Health professionals cannot be asked to work in inhuman working conditions or without a salary to support their families. The second benchmark argues that it is unacceptable for this right to strike to be exercised if it sacrifices the most vulnerable patients and thus denies the very essence of the medical profession. A third benchmark complicates the reflection by reminding us that the extreme dilapidation of the Congolese health system makes it impossible to organise a minimum quality service in the event of a strike. To overcome these difficulties, we propose a national therapeutic alliance between doctors and citizens to put patients back at the centre of the health system’s concerns.

The Nature of Op Art: Bridget Riley and the Art of Nonrepresentation

10.1068/d54j ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Rycroft
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Representational Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Representational Practice ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Critical Writings

The monochrome paintings of the British Op artist Bridget Riley produced between 1960 and 1965, in common with a number of experimental arts and media practices of the 1960s, were characterised by a drift away from traditional representational techniques towards what are now described as nonrepresentational practices. The dynamics of the Op Art aesthetic and the critical writings that surround it bear striking similarities to much recent work on nonrepresentational thought. Based upon an engagement with Riley's early work, and specifically with the perception and understanding of nature it engendered, an argument can be made that suggests that, despite claims to the contrary, Riley was engaged in a form of representational practice that rendered a new and fashionable understanding of cosmic nature. The multidimensional nature evoked in her aesthetic was designed to be experienced by the viewer in a precognitive, embodied fashion. In this there are strong echoes with the call made by nonrepresentational theorists who operationalise the same kind of cosmology to develop an evocative, creative account of the world. Both Op Art and nonrepresentational thought seem to build upon a shift in the representational register that occurred during the immediate postwar period, one which prompted representational practices which attempted to subjectify rather than objectify, to evoke instability and multidimensionality, and to exercise not only visual, oral, and cognitive ways of knowing, but also the precognitive and the haptic. The complex corelations between representation and nonrepresentation are apparent here, suggesting that it is problematic to emphasise one side of the duality over the other.

The hidden paintings of Angkor Wat

Antiquity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (340) ◽  
pp. 549-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Hidalgo Tan ◽  
Im Sokrithy ◽  
Heng Than ◽  
Khieu Chan
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Digital Photography ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Naked Eye ◽  
The World ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Specific Phase

The temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia is one of the most famous monuments in the world and is noted for its spectacular bas-relief friezes depicting ceremonial and religious scenes. Recent work reported here has identified an entirely new series of images consisting of paintings of boats, animals, deities and buildings. Difficult to see with the naked eye, these can be enhanced by digital photography and decorrelation stretch analysis, a technique recently used with great success in rock art studies. The paintings found at Angkor Wat seem to belong to a specific phase of the temple's history in the sixteenth century AD when it was converted from a Vishnavaite Hindu use to Theravada Buddhist.

Recent Work on the Phacopidae

1927 ◽  
Vol 64 (7) ◽  
pp. 308-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Cowper Reed
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Present Author ◽  
New Genera ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Made In

Since the publication of the paper by the present author in 1905 on the Classification of the Phacopidae, a considerable advance has been made in our knowledge of this family as a result of further and better material being obtained, and of new discoveries in different parts of the world. Many new genera and subgenera have been instituted, and modifications or limitations of some of the old terms have been introduced by various authors. The work of Wedekind, Clarke, Rud. and E. Richter, and Kozlowski has specially dealt with questions of classification, but there is still a considerable amount of diversity in the usage and application of the generic and subgeneric names.

A Critique of ‘Literary Worlds’ in World Literature Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-372
Author(s):  
Ryan Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Literary Systems ◽  
Literature Theory ◽  
East West

Abstract Recently, critics of world literature such as Alexander Beecroft, Eric Hayot, and Haun Saussy have argued that a multitude of possible literary worlds make up the world of world literature. Literary worlds theory provides a richer and more relativistic account of how literary production and analysis work than do similar models such as Franco Moretti’s and Pascale Casanova’s world literary systems. However, the theory runs into two difficulties: it downplays the socio-historical situation of the critic and the text; and it has difficulty accounting for the cross-world identity of characters and how logically inconsistent worlds access one another. To refine the theory, I modify G.E.R. Lloyd’s concept of the “multidimensionality” of reality and literature. Strengthening Lloyd’s concept through reference to recent work in comparative East-West philosophy, I contend that the addition of Lloyd’s theory resolves the problems presented above while still allowing for a relativistic critical approach to world literature.

scholarly journals The Outsider's Gaze: Reflections on recent non-Byzantinist Readings of Byzantine History and on their Implications for our Field

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Dimitris KRALLIS
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Byzantine History

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font size="3">The present essay </font></span>reviews recent work on Byzantium, its politics, religion, and culture published outside the world of Byzantine Studies and discusses the significance of such readings for the evolving relationship of our field with audiences both lay and academic.

scholarly journals Precarity North and South: A Southern Critique of Guy Standing

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Scully
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Global South ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global North ◽  
North And South

<p>Guy Standing is among the most provocative and influential analysts of the rise of precarious work around the world. His writing is part of a wave of global labour studies that has documented the spread of precarious work throughout the Global North and South. However, this article argues that by treating precarity around the world as a single phenomenon, produced by globalisation, the work of Standing and others obscures the different and much longer history of precarious work in the Global South. This article shows how many of the features that Standing associates with the contemporary “precariat” have long been widespread among Southern workers. This longer history of precarity has important implications for contemporary debates about a new politics of labour, which is a central focus of Standing’s recent work.</p>

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