scholarly journals Futures literacy in the loop

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Erik KARLSEN
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Control ◽  
Causal Structure ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Future ◽  
Functional Explanations ◽  
Images Of The Future

AbstractThis article proposes a functional historicist explanation to explicate the core ideas and underlying logic embedded in the futures literacy concept.Futures literacy assumes a capacity to reflect on the past, sense and make sense of the present and use this reflective body of knowledge when anticipating the future.Arguably, futures literacy must be learned, sustained, and regained; it requires a continuous, anticipative, and recursive loop. Recursivity, where an effect in an initial period acts as a cause in the next period, retroacts between the future and present, regaining anticipation. Anticipation has causal effects in the way it structures our images of the future and the avenue we follow when striving to achieve this image. Such a causal structure implies both feedforward and feedback control and is contained in the logic of functional explanations used in sociology.

Adaptations of Time Travel Narratives in Japanese Multimedia: Nurturing Eudaimonia across Time and Space

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Ae Lee
Keyword(s):  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
The Future ◽  
Live Action

To displace a character in time is to depict a character who becomes acutely conscious of his or her status as other, as she or he strives to comprehend and interact with a culture whose mentality is both familiar and different in obvious and subtle ways. Two main types of time travel pose a philosophical distinction between visiting the past with knowledge of the future and trying to inhabit the future with past cultural knowledge, but in either case the unpredictable impact a time traveller may have on another society is always a prominent theme. At the core of Japanese time travel narratives is a contrast between self-interested and eudaimonic life styles as these are reflected by the time traveller's activities. Eudaimonia is a ‘flourishing life’, a life focused on what is valuable for human beings and the grounding of that value in altruistic concern for others. In a study of multimodal narratives belonging to two sets – adaptations of Tsutsui Yasutaka's young adult novella The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Yamazaki Mari's manga series Thermae Romae – this article examines how time travel narratives in anime and live action film affirm that eudaimonic living is always a core value to be nurtured.

The Nature of Degrowth: Theorising the Core of Nature for the Degrowth Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasi Heikkurinen
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Radical Reduction ◽  
Nature Experience ◽  
Matter Energy

This article investigates human–nature relations in the light of the recent call for degrowth, a radical reduction of matter–energy throughput in over-producing and over-consuming cultures. It outlines a culturally sensitive response to a (conceived) paradox where humans embedded in nature experience alienation and estrangement from it. The article finds that if nature has a core, then the experienced distance makes sense. To describe the core of nature, three temporal lenses are employed: the core of nature as ‘the past’, ‘the future’, and ‘the present’. It is proposed that while the degrowth movement should be inclusive of temporal perspectives, the lens of the present should be emphasised to balance out the prevailing romanticism and futurism in the theory and practice of degrowth.

scholarly journals Probabilistic and dynamic colloid equations

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Boris A. Markov ◽  
◽  
Yury I. Sukharev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dipole Moments ◽  
Magnetic Moments ◽  
Charged Particles ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Magic Numbers ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Partial Randomness ◽  
Small Clusters

We obtained two equations that characterize the structure of the colloid: the equation of the Schrodinger type that specifies the redistribution of heat and potential energy in the colloid and material equation – the diffusion equation with the operator of Liesegang associated directly with a substance that allows you to find the discontinuities of the structures caused by the vibrations of electrically charged particles. This procedure based on the assumption of the instability of the colloidal state, caused by the movement of charged particles. The reality is not collected in parts from the particles of matter in the course of evolution from the past to the future, and is all at once from the past to the future for a given pattern, that is, for specific PATTERNS, as defined by quantum theory. Without going deep into the theory of Kulakov, we will accept its fundamental provisions as a certain given. The forms of this structural data were obtained experimentally and mathematically confirmed. Let there be a certain angle of the skeleton, where due to the unevenness and partial randomness of the structure of the core grids forms "defects" – that is, electrical or magnetic moments of a particular order. Then small mobile clusters are attracted to it by electrostatic or electromagnetic forces, which are then adsorbed and somehow arranged on the "defects" in accordance with their dipole moments. This circumstance can be determined by "magic numbers", that is, as the number of clusters "stuck" to the defect of the core structure, with the formation of chemical bonds in the future. We can assume that the spanning structure of Coxeter can form small clusters form regular polyhedrons, and may occur or other structure having more complicated form.

The Problem of Time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Callender
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Problem Of Time ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Core Features

In early childhood we come to model the world as having a special present that carves the world up into a past, present, and future. We regard the past as fixed and the future open, and we feel that this structure updates itself, or flows. The core features of this conception of time—manifest time—appear to be virtually universal, and they pervade our language, thought, and behavior. Yet manifest time seems to conflict with time as understood by physics. This conflict worried Albert Einstein, but the philosopher Rudolph Carnap pointed toward a way forward.

The lingering core of legal scholarship

Legal Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Bartie
Keyword(s):  
Past Century ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this paper is to consider how leading scholars are interpreting the role and status of the core tenets of legal scholarship in England and Australia – the tenets that have provided an element of unity in legal scholarship over the past century or so. Instead of focusing on the way that scholarship has diversified and expanded, the paper considers whether elements of the prior orthodoxy have remained: do the tenets persist, what status are they afforded and what impact will their presence have on the future identity of the discipline and its conception of law? The paper captures insights into the way that scholars – as opposed to administrators or managers – are interpreting changes in the discipline. It is based on the premise that scholarly attitudes can shape the discipline and that therefore such attitudes are worthy of study.

Systematic analysis of PPP research in construction journals: from 2009 to 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 3309-3339
Author(s):  
Yan-Chun Zhang ◽  
Wu-Zan Luo ◽  
Ming Shan ◽  
Dong-Wen Pan ◽  
Wen-Jie Mu
Keyword(s):  
Development Trend ◽  
Research Trend ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Research Directions

PurposeThe aims of this study are to conduct a systematic review of public–private partnership (PPP) studies published from 2009 to 2019, to compare the results with Ke et al. (2009) who reviewed the PPP literature published from 1998 to 2008, and to trace the evolution of the PPP knowledge in the past two decades. This study also presents the possible directions that the PPP research may go towards in the future, arguably.Design/methodology/approachThis study carried out a top journal-based search to identify the quality PPP articles published from 2009 to 2019. A total of 12 top-tier construction journals were systematically searched in the database of web of science (WOS), from which 279 PPP articles were identified for review.FindingsThe number of the identified articles, the titles of the journals, institutions, the most cited papers, and prevalent research methods were analyzed and compared. The existing PPP studies in construction journals were classified into seven streams. Through analysis of the PPP research status and gaps, five future research directions were revealed.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the current body of knowledge by revealing the research trend of PPP from 2009 to 2019. It presents the change of PPP development trend in the past decade through comparison with Ke et al. (2009). It also reveals the major research streams and points out the directions that the PPP research may go towards in the future. Moreover, this study is helpful to the practice as well. It can enhance the practitioners' understanding of the PPP development in the past decade. In addition, it identified the research institutions contributing the most in the area of PPP, which may serve as valuable reference for practitioners to locate the best institutions for consultancy or collaboration.

The future of evolutionary economics: can we break out of the beachhead?

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIDNEY G. WINTER
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Business Behavior ◽  
Evolutionary Role ◽  
Paradigm Conflict

AbstractThis essay contemplates the possible futures of evolutionary economics in terms of two contrasting images. In the first, the primary research emphasis of the future will continue to be on the topics that have interested evolutionary economists in the past, such as technological change, business behavior, and the role of institutions. Research contributions in these focal areas and in some related areas are briefly characterized. In the second image, there is a breakout from this ‘beachhead’ and a broader conflict with the reigning paradigm, neoclassical economics. Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions provides a framework and stimulus for thinking about the latter case, and the 20th century paradigm conflict in physics provides a baseline for thinking about it. The core strengths of evolutionary economics in the paradigm conflict are noted, and the evolutionary role of intentionality is examined No definitive prediction about the future is offered.

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