‘I AM’: Indigenous consciousness for authenticity and leadership

Leadership ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 174271502199959
Author(s):  
Chellie Spiller
Keyword(s):  
True Self ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future

This article encourages a move away from the excessively inward gaze of ‘to thine own self be true’ and explores ‘I AM’ consciousness as a starting point. An I AM approach encourages a move from the measurable self to the immeasurable expansiveness and mystery of our own becoming. It is to step beyond the lines drawn around the ‘true self’ or the lines that others would have us draw. I AM consciousness reflects an ancient Indigenous thread that echoes through millennia and reminds humans that we are a movement through time, and each person is a present link to the past and the future, woven into a fabric of belonging.

Slampt, the ‘fans’ and ephemerality: Punk, subject and object

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pete Dale
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Music Scenes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Subject And Object

Slampt Underground Organisation was conceived in 1992 by Rachel Holborow and Pete Dale, issuing music, fanzines and ephemera from then until 2000. Perceived as a record label, Slampt sold tens of thousands of units and seems to have had a significant impact on particular individuals who might or might not be best described as ‘fans’. This article uses the author’s archives and reflections to collate detail, much of it not publically available before, about a label/distributor/organization, which has already been a point of interest to several researchers and journalists but which is nonetheless unknown to most, even in punk-related music scenes, in the present century. The author, as one half of Slampt’s de facto leading partnership, reveals that this status as a largely forgotten arm of 1990s UK punk is not entirely accidental: Dale and Holborow actively believed in ephemerality as an ideal, particularly in punk. Using this case as a starting point, the article asks whether punk really ought to be as fixated on documenting its past, finding its place in museums/galleries and gaining recognition in rock history. Is punk about collectible objects, about a particular mode of subjectivity or, perhaps, about a phenomenological combination of the two? The irony of the author writing the article at this time is acknowledged: Slampt is being written back in to punk history, even if only in the margins, through the act of publishing this piece. Nonetheless, the article is based around the assumption that the present and the future will always be more important than the past.

scholarly journals The Future of ASTIN

1982 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Bühlmann
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mortality Table ◽  
Intelligent Approach ◽  
Statistical Results

My assistants at ETH have a wall calendar—not with the usual pictures of Swiss mountains, hills and lakes, but with “quotations for intelligent people”. Recently, the quotation for the week read as follows: “Even the future is no longer what it used to be in the past”.Observe that also in this supposedly intelligent approach it seems impossible to speak about the future without referring to the past. I shall not deviate from this rule. Of course, my task is greatly simplified by the fact that Paul Johansen has just entertained you in a charming way about the past 25 years of ASTIN and the earlier endeavors leading to the foundation of ASTIN.In the year 1693, Edmond Halley constructed the first mortality table based on mortality data from Breslau which he had obtained through the intervention of Leibniz. This can be regarded as the starting point of actuarial science. In my opinion it can however not be considered as the starting point of the actuarial profession. Why? Yes, Halley's table was used for some eighty years because subsequent information coincided with his estimate of mortality. Yes, De Moivre, in his classic textbook of 1725, performed ingenious calculations of annuities, based on the same table. Yes, Süssmilch published the first basic and substantial work of demography in 1741 but—here comes the big but—no government (and nobody else sold annuity insurance at that time) made use of the available scientific method to calculate annuities. Perhaps the first statistical results to be taken seriously were the Northampton tables of 1780, devised by Richard Price. Incidentally, this date coincides reasonably well with the first valuation by William Morgan in 1786. Hence, I think that either of these dates may be taken, at the earliest, as the start of the actuarial profession, a profession being by definition a dedicated group of people accepted by society for the performance of a particular skill. Let me make my point explicit: We have historical evidence of the existence of actuarial science about 90 years prior to the emergence of the actuarial profession.

Grounding the Open Future

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-20
Author(s):  
Patrick Todd
Keyword(s):  
Open Future ◽  
General Thesis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Open Future ◽  
Patrick Todd

In this chapter, Patrick Todd considers how presentists can argue that the future is open, holding fixed that they maintain that the past is not. He argues that any such presentist argument is doomed to failure, if it proceeds by appeal to a general thesis about truth (such as that “truth supervenes on being”). Thus, he contends, presentist open futurists should not argue for the open future from an intuition about truth in general, but from an intuition about the future in particular. The result, however, is that presentist open futurists cannot make their case by appeal to anything like a metaphysically neutral starting point. Nevertheless, due to certain asymmetries between facts about the past and facts about the future, a presentist open future view remains substantially theoretically motivated.

APPLICATION OF NARRATIVES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSULTATION OF RESCUERS – JFO PARTICIPANTS HAVING PROBLEMS WITH TIME PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
N. Afanasieva
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Time Orientation ◽  
Psychological Counselling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Joint Forces ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Autobiographical Narrative

The article determined the ways to use narratives in psychological counselling of rescuers – Joint Forces Operation (JFO) participants for optimization of their time perspective. Psychological counselling is considered as a special type of a narrative, which have the following characteristic elements related to its deployment – a starting point, localization, beginning, development of actions, culmination, a solution and a code. This structure of narrative deployment is directly related to a time-perspective structure, since its reflects the chronology of events. Rescuers participated in the JFO have a negative attitude towards the past, which is associated with the experience of really unpleasant events and injuries, so pleasant impressions are shadowed and most of the memories are reconstructed into negative ones. Rescuers’ attitude to life is associated with pursuance of joy, excite, enjoy at the present, risk taking without worries about possible consequences of such behaviour. The future life in general is less important than the present and the past. In order to optimize the time orientation of rescuers – JFO participants, we suggest using the elements of their autobiographical narratives during psychological counselling. The autobiographical narrative of each person is a unique combination of memories, awareness of event meanings, feelings and mythology, which all together build an individual life story. An individual history includes all events occurred with a person in the past. An autobiographical narrative includes a selection of events in the context of three time intervals – the past, the present and the future. Psychological counselling for rescuers – JFO participants is aimed at time orientation balancing, which is needed for an individual’s effective life. A balanced time orientation is the most psychologically and physically healthy for a person and is optimal for his/her life in society. Positive changes in the time perspective are one of the indicators of traumatic symptom reduction.

scholarly journals Social policy, cold climates and economic recessions

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Economic Recessions ◽  
The Future

The aim of this article is to consider what could happen to social policy expenditure and parameters in a worst case scenario, if the financial crisis spills over into the goods and services sector. Academics are very good at making ex post analyses of why certain events occurred, and extrapolating  from this past experience to predict the future, but the future will be different. The starting point will not be the same –people have learnt from the past and have different reactions, the context will vary, and the political players and ideology will have changed. The policy adviser has to be forward thinking, anticipating events. It is in this context that this article is written.

Reflecting on the future of QDA Software: Chances and Challenges for Humanities, Social Sciences and beyond

KWALON ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Alphabetical Order ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis Software ◽  
Science Information

Changes in computer science, information gathering, and the possibilities of the internet continue to vastly influence the way social sciences and humanities are dealing with data collection and analysis. The next KWALON Conference on Qualitative Data Analysis Software aims to organize the reflection on the implications of the recent innovations and trends. Developers and users of software have been invited to reflect on the developments of the past years, and to take them as a starting point for a discussion of the requirements for the future versions of QDA tools. We aim for a fruitful debate between developers and users. Apart from practitioners, trainers, and other end users, participants will include representatives from (in alphabetical order): ATLAS.ti, Cassandre, Dedoose, Feldpartitur, F4 analyse, MAXQDA, NVivo, DiscoverText, QDA Miner and Quirkos.

scholarly journals The Aporetics of Temporality and the Poetics of the Will

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-27
Author(s):  
Roger W. H. Savage
Keyword(s):  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Future ◽  
Intended Object ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Way

The aporias of time that Paul Ricœur identifies in the conclusion to his three-volume Time and Narrative offer a fecund starting-point from which to consider how the poetics of narrativity figures in a philosophy of the will. By setting the poetics of narrativity against the aporetics of temporality, Ricoeur highlights the narrative art’s operative power in drawing together incidents and events in answer to time’s dispersion across the present, the past, and the future. In turn, the confession of the limits of narrative opens the way to a broader consideration of the idea of the unity of history in the absence of a meta-historical plot. This idea calls for a reflection on the ethical and political imperative of making freedom a reality for all. By taking the theory of freedom’s actualization as a touchstone, I argue that the vision of a reconciled humanity that for Ricœur is the intended object of the poetics of the will acquires the force of a directive idea. The capacity to refashion the real from within thus proves to be decisive for drawing out the connection between the aporetics of temporality, the poetics of narrativity, and Ricœur’s philosophical anthropology.

scholarly journals Grave Reminders: Grief and Vulnerability in the Anthropocene

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa H. Sideris
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
The Past ◽  
Environmental Practice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Death And Loss ◽  
Vital Resource

This essay builds upon recent work in the environmental humanities, and that of various writers and journalists, on the emerging topic of environmental grief and mourning. I consider a spectrum of responses to Anthropocene-era crises like climate change and extinction, with particular emphasis on how we are oriented toward the past and the future. These perspectives range from positions that explicitly reject grief and vulnerability, to voices urging us to embrace grief as part of an essential moral and spiritual environmental practice. At one end of the spectrum, we find articulations of what I call climate humanism, a style of response focused on defending and perpetuating human civilization in the midst of environmental crisis, but with little or no explicit concern for the broader web of living and dying beings. For climate humanists, to grieve for the past and its mistakes is to halt progressive, optimistic movement into the future. At the other end of the spectrum, we find scholars and writers who take profound grief, and sustained reflection on death and loss, as the starting point for genuine, transformative change and the possibility of hope. Drawing on this range of responses to environmental threats and losses, I endorse narratives that ground themselves in the past, in all its surprises and mistakes, as a vital resource and repository for moving hopefully and purposefully into the future. Moral, religious, and religious-like dimensions of environmental grief (or its denial) are recurring themes throughout, and many crucial insights are found in scholarship outside of religious studies.

scholarly journals Future history is an entry point for achieving the goals of the Africa Agenda 2063

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
فايزة أحمد الحسيني مجاهد
Keyword(s):  
Projection Methods ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Great Ability ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future

The current paper reviews what history is and how it relates to the Temporal dimension of the present, the past, and the future, where the past is observed, and its effects are retrieved to study the present, and take that starting point to study the future by tracking the course of the phenomenon in the present, The possibility of dating the future for certain issues if the historian has sufficient knowledge of their sources, and the historian has a visionary and great ability to understand, analyses, interpret, criticize and consciously understand the relationships that bind different phenomena The paper deals with the starting points on which to look ahead and there is no future inevitability, but there are different images and forms of the future, each future study should put some controls, humans can make the future because it is based on the idea of the will capable of change and achievement, the future, the future It's not imposed on communities, With the clarification of the methods used in future studies such as scenario method, brainstorming, Delphi method, projection methods, the current paper also reviews the development agenda of the strategic vision of the African continent 2063 and the role of the methods of history in achieving its goals, and a set of Recommendations include: Empowering young people to form a future and conscious leadership of the African continent, the need to pay attention to the qualitative development of the history curriculum in order to develop awareness of contemporary issues and resigned problems.

The museum and temporalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 0961463X2096264
Author(s):  
François Hartog
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Challenging Situation

More than any other institution, the museum is preoccupied with time, perpetually creating, contesting, and regaining it. From the collections of ancient art amassed in mid-14th-century Italy to the contemporary galleries without their own collections, the museum has always been a leading force in shaping Western civilization’s perceptions of time. After a survey of the history of Europe’s museums, the article traces the configurations of temporality that have arisen in different periods. Beginning in the 15th century, museums exhibited recent art alongside classical masterpieces, highlighting the cleavage between new and old. Three and a half centuries later, however, the art of the present was proclaimed a contemporary of the art of the past and the future, a notion upheld in spite of the outpourings of revolutionary pathos. It was in the second half of the 20th century that this synchronizing tendency yielded to the domination of the one and only present, which remains in force today. This new and challenging situation could be a starting point for the reassessment of contemporary museums’ role in influencing and realizing social temporality.

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