Can the Subaltern Speak?

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Behnaz Farahi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Domestic Abuse ◽  
Interactive Design ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Sexual Predator ◽  
American Soldier ◽  
Rapid Succession ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Morse Code ◽  
Patriarchal System

This paper presents AI-controlled robotic masks intended to empower women and allow them to communicate with one another. These are inspired by the historical masks worn by the Bandari women from southern Iran. Legend has it that these masks were developed during Portuguese colonial rule as a way of protecting the wearer from the gaze of slave masters looking for attractive women. In this project two robotic masks seemingly begin to develop their own language to communicate with each other, blinking their eyelashes in rapid succession using AI-generated Morse code. This project draws upon a Facebook experiment where two AI bots apparently began to develop their own language. It also draws upon an incident when an American soldier used his eyes to blink and spell out the word "TORTURE" using Morse code during his captivity in Vietnam, as well as stories of women using code to report domestic abuse during the COVID-19 lockdown. The aim is to sow anxiety within the patriarchal system where the "wink" of the sexual predator is subverted into a language to protect women from the advances of a predator. The project bridges AI, interactive design, and critical thinking (Figure 1).

scholarly journals Moopa or barren: A rereading of the 1840 English–Setswana gospel of Luke 1:36–38 from a Setswana traditional practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Itumeleng D. Mothoagae
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Luke ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Patriarchal System

The 1840 gospel of Luke as translated by Moffat presents us with the cultural and imperial surveillance performed by a patriarchal system through the institutionalisation of motherhood and womanhood (bosadi). Motherhood or womanhood (bosadi) as a patriarchal institution has been a space in which patriarchal discursive practices have been realised through an act of politicising motherhood or womanhood. At the centre of this act of politicisation of motherhood or womanhood (bosadi) is the ability to carry and bear children (pelegi). The institution of motherhood or womanhood has facilitated a binary between motherhood (bosadi) and bareness (moopa). The womb/popelo as a symbol of fertility becomes the space of mothering women, of labelling, categorising and naming women that the system locates as moopa or barren. The article seeks to reread the narrative on childbearing in the 1840 gospel of Luke from a decolonial framework. I will argue that childbearing, as a patriarchal institution, has been a space in which the gaze of patriarchy has been produced to subjugate women through cultural and imperial masculinist gaze. I will also argue that there is a need to decolonise and liberate such a space (womb) as not a determinant of motherhood.

Critical Thinking: Evolution of a Freshman Graphics Course

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilia A. Sanchez ◽  
Timothy K. Hight ◽  
Joanne Gainen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Interactive Design ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Engineering Graphics ◽  
Graphic Communication ◽  
Design Experience

Abstract We have redefined the goals of the Freshman course in Engineering Graphics at Santa Clara University to emphasize graphic communication skills as a vehicle to introduce the design process and a design experience. Integration of the critical thinking component into the course has led to our own iterative, interactive design process of a more effective teaching methodology.

Cultivating critical thinking in the clinical learning environment

2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 610-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
LS Behar-Horenstein ◽  
TA Dolan ◽  
FJ Courts ◽  
GS Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Clinical Learning ◽  
Clinical Learning Environment

Gifts From the Web: Critical Thinking

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-6
Author(s):  
Barbara Shadden
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
The Web

The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Moatti ◽  
Janet Lloyd ◽  
Malcolm Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Republican Rome

Employees’ Critical Thinking, Leaders’ Inspirational Motivation, and Voice Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Jiang ◽  
Ang Gao ◽  
Baiyin Yang
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Voice Behavior ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Inspirational Motivation ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract. This study uses implicit voice theory to examine the influence of employees’ critical thinking and leaders’ inspirational motivation on employees’ voice behavior via voice efficacy. The results of a pretest of 302 employees using critical thinking questionnaires and a field study of 273 dyads of supervisors and their subordinates revealed that both employees’ critical thinking and leaders’ inspirational motivation had a positive effect on employees’ voice and that voice efficacy mediates the relationships among employees’ critical thinking, leaders’ inspirational motivation, and employees’ voice. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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