New Concepts of Democracy in Southern Asia

W artykule stawiamy tezę, że romantyczne ujęcie dziecka jest bliższe nowym koncepcjom demokracji i podmiotowości (Negri, Baridotti, Lewis) niż ujęcie dziecka w dyskursie obywatelskim. Wskazujemy, że dziecko romantyczne stanowi podmiot monstrualny, usytuowany pomiędzy światami. Dziecko jako monstrum, homo sacer (Agamben), stanowi specyficzny splot władzy i opozycji wobec niej. Jest uprzywilejowanym miejscem, w którym możliwe jest konstruowanie zewnętrza, exodus, będący praktyką exopedagogiczną (Lewis, Kahn). In this article we argue that the romantic notion of a child is closer to the new concepts of democracy and subjectivity (Negri, Baridotti, Lewis) than a child included in the discourse of citizenship. We show that a child is a romantic monstrous entity, situated between the worlds. The child as a monster, homo sacer (Agamben), it is a specific entanglement of the power and the opposition to it. The monster is the privileged place in which it is possible to construct the exterior – exodus – which is the practice of exopedagogy (Lewis, Kahn).

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“Yes, we camp!”: Democracy in the Age Occupy

Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government ◽

10.4335/13.3.537-557(2015) ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 537-557 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ziga Vodovnik ◽

Andrej Grubacic

Keyword(s):

Local Communities ◽

State Regulation ◽

Occupy Movement ◽

New Concepts ◽

Mass Assembly ◽

Concepts Of Democracy ◽

Scholarly Attention ◽

Political Membership

This article explores the global mass assembly movement, focusing on its redefinitions of democracy and political membership, where one of the most interesting and promising aspects is reaffirmation of spatiality. In a way, the so-called Occupy Movement imagined new concepts of democracy and political membership worked out on a more manageable scale, that is to say, within local communities. We build on the recent scholarly attention given to the notion of nonstate spaces, which we chose to call exilic spaces because they are populated by communities that voluntarily or involuntarily attempt escape from both state regulation and capitalist accumulation.

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Novel Approaches to Low-Voltage Scanning Electron Microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100180586 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 366-367

Author(s):

Arthur V. Jones

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Low Voltage ◽

Electron Optics ◽

Current Interest ◽

New Concepts ◽

Opportune Time ◽

Novel Approaches ◽

Voltage Scanning ◽

Scanning Electron

In comparison with the developers of other forms of instrumentation, scanning electron microscope manufacturers are among the most conservative of people. New concepts usually must wait many years before being exploited commercially. The field emission gun, developed by Albert Crewe and his coworkers in 1968 is only now becoming widely available in commercial instruments, while the innovative lens designs of Mulvey are still waiting to be commercially exploited. The associated electronics is still in general based on operating procedures which have changed little since the original microscopes of Oatley and his co-workers.The current interest in low-voltage scanning electron microscopy will, if sub-nanometer resolution is to be obtained in a useable instrument, lead to fundamental changes in the design of the electron optics. Perhaps this is an opportune time to consider other fundamental changes in scanning electron microscopy instrumentation.

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