scholarly journals Illiberalism and the democratic paradox: The infernal dialectic of neoliberal emancipation

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102110270
Author(s):  
Erik Swyngedouw
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Autocratic Politics ◽  
The One ◽  
Governance Arrangements

The main trust of this article unfolds around the impasse of democratic politics today, marked by the fading belief in the presumably superior architecture of liberal democratic institutions to nurture emancipation on the one hand, and the seemingly inexorable rise of a variety of populist political movements on the other. The first part of the article focuses on the lure of autocratic populism. The second part considers how transforming neoliberal governance arrangements pioneered post-truth autocratic politics/policies in articulation with the imposition of market rule and, in doing so, cleared the way for contemporary illiberal populisms. The third part considers the institutional configuration through which the democratic has been fundamentally transformed over the past few decades in the direction of a post-democratic constellation. The article concludes by arguing for the need to re-script emancipation as a process of political subjectivation unfolding trough a political act.

Al-Rasm al-ʿUthmānī: Towards Correct Pronunciation and the Preclusion of Ambiguity

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-171
Author(s):  
Nāṣir Al-Dīn Abū Khaḍīr
Keyword(s):  
Specific Pattern ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Ages ◽  
Correct Pronunciation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind

The ʿUthmānic way of writing (al-rasm al-ʿUthmānī) is a science that specialises in the writing of Qur'anic words in accordance with a specific ‘pattern’. It follows the writing style of the Companions at the time of the third caliph, ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān, and was attributed to ʿUthmān on the basis that he was the one who ordered the collection and copying of the Qur'an into the actual muṣḥaf. This article aims to expound on the two fundamental functions of al-rasm al-ʿUthmānī: that of paying regard to the ‘correct’ pronunciation of the words in the muṣḥaf, and the pursuit of the preclusion of ambiguity which may arise in the mind of the reader and his auditor. There is a further practical aim for this study: to show the connection between modern orthography and the ʿUthmānic rasm in order that we, nowadays, are thereby able to overcome the problems faced by calligraphers and writers of the past in their different ages and cultures.

“A composItIon wrItten wIthout creatIve lImItatIons” – Wanda Landowska and concerto for harpsichord and five instruments by ManueL de Falla (1923)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 67-107
Author(s):  
Ines R. Artola
Keyword(s):  
Strict Sense ◽  
Sonata Form ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
20Th Century Music ◽  
The Third ◽  
Word Analysis ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

The aim of the present article is the analysis of Concerto for harpsichord and five instruments by Manuel de Falla – a piece which was dedicated by the composer to Wanda Landowska, an outstanding Polish harpsichord player. The piece was meant to commemorate the friendship these two artists shared as well as their collaboration. Written in the period of 1923-1926, the Concerto was the first composition in the history of 20th century music where harpsichord was the soloist instrument. The first element of the article is the context in which the piece was written. We shall look into the musical influences that shaped its form. On the one hand, it was the music of the past: from Cancionero Felipe Pedrell through mainly Bach’s polyphony to works by Scarlatti which preceded the Classicism (this influence is particularly noticeable in the third movement of the Concerto). On the other hand, it was music from the time of de Falla: first of all – Neo-Classicism and works by Stravinsky. The author refers to historical sources – critics’ reviews, testimonies of de Falla’s contemporaries and, obviously, his own remarks as to the interpretation of the piece. Next, Inés R. Artola analyses the score in the strict sense of the word “analysis”. In this part of the article, she quotes specific fragments of the composition, which reflect both traditional musical means (counterpoint, canon, Scarlatti-style sonata form, influence of old popular music) and the avant-garde ones (polytonality, orchestration, elements of neo-classical harmony).

scholarly journals SMOS Third Mission Reprocessing after 10 Years in Orbit

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Oliva ◽  
Manuel Martín-Neira ◽  
Ignasi Corbella ◽  
Josep Closa ◽  
Albert Zurita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Reconstruction ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
End To End ◽  
The One

After more than 10 years in orbit, the SMOS team has started a new reprocessing campaign for the SMOS measurements, which includes the changes in calibration and image reconstruction that have been made to the Level 1 Operational Processor (L1OP) during the past few years. The current L1 processor, version v620, was used for the second mission reprocessing in 2014. The new version, v724, is the one run in the third mission reprocessing and will become the new operational processor. The present paper explains the major changes applied and analyses the quality of the data with different metrics. The results have been obtained with numerous individual tests that have confirmed the benefits of the evolutions and an end-to-end processing campaign involving three years of data used to assess the improvements of the SMOS measurements quantitatively.

scholarly journals Space of Experience, Horizon of Expectation. Spatiotemporal Metaphors, Philosophical Anthropology, and the Flesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Roger W. H. Savage
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Reciprocal Relation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

Paul Ricœur’s recourse to the metahistorical categories, space of experience and horizon of expectation, invites an inquiry into geography’s role as the guarantor of history. The ontology of the flesh provides the first indication of how one’s body is implicated in the sense of one’s place in the world. In turn, narrative inscriptions of events on the landscape transform the physical topography of a place into an array of sites where memories of ancestral wisdom and historical traumas endure. By anchoring historians’ representations of the past in the places and locales in which events took place, geography constructs a third space analogous to the third time of history. The aporias engendered by the phenomenology of time, however, have no equivalent in the phenomenology of space. The dissymmetry between the dialectic that informs the discourse of space and the one that informs the discourse of time thus keeps in place the  reciprocal relation between geography and historiography.

scholarly journals An insider’s view of Alzheimer: cinematic portrayals of the struggle for personhood

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Cohen-Shalev ◽  
Esther-Lee Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Advanced Stage ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Aspects ◽  
Principal Character ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Meaningful Existence ◽  
The One ◽  
Person With Dementia

This article looks at three recent films in which a person with dementia is the principal character. These films have been chosen according to the following criteria: representing different stages of dementia (early, moderate and advanced); films where the demented is the protagonist; and films challenging the biomedical view of dementia. Two of the characters are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease: the protagonist of Cortex (2008) is at a moderate stage, the one in Pandora’s Box (2008) is diagnosed when already in advanced stage and the third, the protagonist of Old Cats (2010), while not officially diagnosed, is in early onset of dementia. While the number of dementia films has significantly increased during the past decade, only a few access the subjective world and acknowledge the personhood of people with dementia. Made outside the mainstream film industry, making elaborate use of cinematic image and metaphor, these films, each in its own particular cinematic idiom, succeed in conveying the psychological, social and spiritual realities of dementia as they are experienced from within the protagonist’s psyche. While not denying the often bleak and painful aspects of dementia, these recent productions go against the grain, inspiring a complex, richly nuanced picture of dementia that centres around the protagonist’s stubbornly courageous struggle to forge a meaningful existence even in the direst of circumstances. These films, we believe, offer a richer and profound understating of the human aspects embedded in the phenomena of dementia.

scholarly journals The Third Wave of Liberation Theology. From the Catholic Enfant Terrible to Vehicle of Ecumenism, Interreligious and Social Dialog?

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Krauze
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
South American ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Methodological Difficulty ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Radical Shift ◽  
The Church

The past decade has seen a radical shift in the Church's stance toward liberation theology. At the same time, the complexity of its description has greatly increased. The issue has grown beyond South America and intra-ecclesiastical affairs. The multicultural and multireligious nature of liberation theology presents, on the one hand, a methodological difficulty and, on the other hand, an opportunity to look at faith and religion in different cultures and denominations through a new unifying key. According to the author, we are dealing with the “third wave” of liberation theology nowadays. Efforts are needed to utilize it more productive than the better known South American “infant terrible” of the Church.

The Road to Smart Transducer Technology

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Lopez-Reyna ◽  
J. N. Zemel
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Physical Size ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Trend ◽  
The One ◽  
Smart Transducer

The past decade has seen three distinct trends emerge in sensor technologies. The first is biosensing wherein measurements as diverse as detecting aromas in food processing to highly sophisticated detection of DNA and proteins have become staples of contemporary engineering efforts. The second important trend is the continuing decrease in the physical size of sensing elements embodied by the replacement of “micro” by “nano” in fabrication and technology. These two efforts in biosensing and the decreasing size of electronic and sensing components have transformed not only virtually every area of research, development and engineering, they are powerfully influencing many aspects of everyday life. The third trend, and the one that will be examined in this paper, involves efforts to fuse information technology with sensing technologies. The rubric “smart transducer technologies” has been given to these activities to connote this fusion.

scholarly journals Extending the Concept of Ethnocracy: Exploring the Debate in the Baltic Context

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timofey Agarin
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Change ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Considerable Debate ◽  
The Baltic

The advance of liberal understanding of democracy with its interest in and constrained ability to interfere with citizens’ identities made cases of ethnocracy rare over the past decades. Over the past 25 years, Baltic politics and societies have experienced considerable change, however, as I demonstrate, considerable debate persists around the issues central to the argument about ethnocracy in the region. In the context, when discussing the central role played by state institutions in negotiating conflicts between groups over access to scarce resources of the state, it is central to see minorities as being in both the inferior numerical position as well as in symbolically more disadvantageous place: If we see democratic politics for what they are as majoritarian politics, and if we see these as taking place in the context of state institutions designed to uphold the ethnic majority dominance, then any kind of liberal democratic politics would be a good candidate for ethnocracy. 

scholarly journals Polityka Turcji wobec Bałkanów Zachodnich po 2008 roku

Politeja ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (53) ◽  
pp. 127-149
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Kopyś
Keyword(s):  
Regional Level ◽  
The Political ◽  
International Peace ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The One ◽  
Negative Memories

With the disintegration of Yugoslavia, all the balances in the Balkans were altered and the instability that arose from this process reached a level that threatened international peace. The historical ties between the peoples of Turkey and countries of the region have extended until today. There are Turkish minorities and communities as well as kin communities in the Balkan countries on the one hand; whereas there are citizens of Balkan‑origin in Turkey on the other. Turkey aims to initiate a psychological breakthrough in the Balkans to undo the negative memories of the past. At the regional level, Turkey follows three different sets of policies. The first is to develop bilateral relations to the possible highest extent. The second track is the creation of trilateral mechanisms, such as between Turkey, Serbia, and Bosnia; and Turkey, Croatia, and Bosnia‑Herzegovina. The third track aims to achieve region‑wide cooperation efforts and foster economic interdependence to secure the future of the political relations.

Alkohol im Tank – Bio-Kraftstoffe und die Grenzen moderner Mobilität

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (136) ◽  
pp. 455-468
Author(s):  
Hartwig Berger
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The One ◽  
The Third World

The article discusses the future of mobility in the light of energy resources. Fossil fuel will not be available for a long time - not to mention its growing environmental and political conflicts. In analysing the potential of biofuel it is argued that the high demands of modern mobility can hardly be fulfilled in the future. Furthermore, the change into using biofuel will probably lead to increasing conflicts between the fuel market and the food market, as well as to conflicts with regional agricultural networks in the third world. Petrol imperialism might be replaced by bio imperialism. Therefore, mobility on a solar base pursues a double strategy of raising efficiency on the one hand and strongly reducing mobility itself on the other.

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