WACing Off: Gossip, Sex, Race, and Politics in the World of FBI Special Case Agent William A. Cohendet

2020 ◽  
pp. 158-180
Keyword(s):  
Race And Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Case

scholarly journals Financeirização e novos espaços de acumulação: um estudo das transformações da Hering após 1960

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Follmann Jurgenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Case

RESUMO: Este artigo discute as transformações da empresa Hering, desde sua origem até a primeira década dos anos 2000. Dentro deste período, ressalta-se o pós-1960, quando a crise no capitalismo mundial se evidencia, embora suas repercussões no Brasil sejam sentidas mais tardiamente, nos anos 1980, com grande impacto no setor têxtil nacional especialmente nos anos 1990. É neste período que há a abertura econômica, em meio a uma política econômica neoliberal. A partir de um estudo de caso, este artigo, discutirá, portanto, importantes mudanças do capitalismo mundial em anos mais recentes, no que diz respeito à financeirização e a busca de novos espaços de acumulação por uma grande corporação como a Hering. ABSTRACT: This article discusses the transformations of Hering, since its origins until the first decade of 2000’s. During this period, it’s very important to analyze the post-1960, when a world crisis breaks out, even though its effects in Brazil only had occurred during the 1980’s, with enormous impact in the textile industry in the 1990’s. During this decade, there was the opening of the Brazilian economy, conducted by a neoliberal agenda. Studying a special case, this article debates the most important changes in the world capitalism in recent years particularly related to financialization and the searching of new spaces for accumulation by a great corporation like Hering.

scholarly journals Trends in the evolution of ecology: “Spain is different”

Web Ecology ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cordero Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Ecology ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Temporal Development ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
The World ◽  
University Department ◽  
Evolutionary Concepts ◽  
Special Case

Abstract. During the last fifty years ecology has matured as a scientific discipline. In this paper I analyse the temporal development of the paradigm based on physical systems (the ecosystem paradigm), and the evolutionary ecology paradigm. I first analyse the contents of 61 textbooks to calculate the relative importance of ecosystem and evolutionary ecology in the training of new generations of ecologists. Results indicate that the evolutionary approach is becoming more important since 1980, and now most textbooks dedicate 10–20% of their pages to evolutionary concepts. In a second analysis I searched the names of ecology departments in universities around the world, and found out conspicuous differences between USA, where 43% of addresses associate ecology and evolution or behaviour on the same department, and Europe, where only 10% of ecology departments also include a reference to evolution or behaviour in their name. In both analyses Spain seems to follow only the ecosystem paradigm, because Spanish textbooks dedicate almost no pages to evolutionary concepts, and there is not a single university department that includes ecology and evolution. A further bibliometric study confirmed that Spanish ecologists prefer to publish their research in general ecology journals, and are under-represented in evolutionary ecology journals. I discuss the importance of historical factors on the development of paradigms of ecology, and the special case of Spain, likely due to the influence of pioneers working in oceanography, limnology and geography.

scholarly journals Synodality, Discernment, Catholic Movements

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 115-141
Author(s):  
Przemysław Sawa
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Church In The World ◽  
The Church ◽  
Special Case

One of the basic categories used to describe the nature of the Church is communion with its spiritual, structural, and legal dimensions. On the basis of their  aptism, all the faithful should undertake common responsibility and real care for the life and particular areas of the Church. This also includes discernment within the Church. Synods and synodality are a special case which expresses the communal character of the Church. However, synodality and communal discernment cannot be understood similarl to a parliament where the majority decides. It is about recognising contemporary needs and searching for the place of the Church in the world while preserving the Revelation. In recognising the ways for the Church, her movements are important as they form Catholics who increasingly identify with the mission of the baptised. Deepening their meaning and determining the degree of their influence on discernment in the Church, both universal and local, remains a challenge.

Cartography and Autobiography

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-288
Author(s):  
Alison Laywine
Keyword(s):  
Special Problem ◽  
Pure Reason ◽  
Critique Of Pure Reason ◽  
Transcendental Deduction ◽  
Inner Sense ◽  
Empirical World ◽  
The World ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Special Case

This chapter completes the examination, started in Chapter Four, of the second half of the Transcendental Deduction, as found in the second edition of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. The focus of this chapter is §24 and §25. The special problem of these sections is empirical self-knowledge. The author argues that Kant treats self-knowledge as a special case of the cosmology of experience: the problem is how I situate myself in the empirical world. The solution to the problem is to build up in thought an understanding of the world by legislating universal laws to nature by means of the categories and to map my geographical and historical place in the world by means of the cartographic resources available to the productive imagination. The chapter has two parts. The first part is devoted to a paradox Kant claims to be associated with self-affection. It tries to understand his claim as a reflection on his own views in the mid-1770s about self-apprehension by inner sense and apperception. The second part of the chapter is devoted to the specialized cartography Kant takes to be involved in empirical self-knowledge and considers how Kant distinguishes between biography and autobiography.

Introduction: A New Way to Read Nature

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
J. Arvid Ågren
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Natural Laws ◽  
The World ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Special Case ◽  
The Way

There really is something special about biology. The French biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod described its position among the sciences as simultaneously marginal and central (Monod 1970, p. xi). It is marginal, because its object of study—living organisms—are but a special case of chemistry and physics, contributing to only a minuscule part of the universe. Biology will never be the source of natural laws in the way physics is. At the same time, if, as Monod believed, the whole point of science is to understand humanity’s place in the world, then biology is the most central of them all. No other field of study deals so directly with the question of who we are and how we got here in the first place....

Control power as a special case of protean power: thoughts on Peter Katzenstein and Lucia Seybert's Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Adler
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Common Humanity ◽  
Control Power ◽  
Perfect Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Unstable Case ◽  
Radical Uncertainty ◽  
Acting In Concert ◽  
Special Case

AbstractHuman experience of control is an illusion; all forms of power are a special, transient, and unstable case of protean power. Taking risks is governed by critical uncertainty less because of our lack of perfect knowledge than because the world is physically and socially indeterminate. Power, thus, lies not only in agents' potential to dominate each other, but also in acting in concert to turn propensities into reality. Radical uncertainty is, therefore, not necessarily bad news. Whether protean power endangers or protects humanity depends less on calculating risks than on agents practicing common humanity values. I revise Katzenstein's and Seybert's concepts accordingly and illustrate by discussing Artificial Intelligence's challenges to humanity.

Posthuman Scale

CounterText ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Physical Scale ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Olaf Stapledon

Visions of the posthuman are almost inevitably tied up with questions of scale. The size of Frankenstein's creation sets him apart from humanity, the longevity of Virginia Woolf's Orlando makes her / him uncannily posthuman, and the travels of Gulliver constantly confront the protagonist with the issue of physical scale. This article investigates different dimensions of posthuman scale with examples from fiction, film, and transhumanist writings. From the sizes of bodies and the length of lives to the more complex matters of the scale of consciousness and the magnitude of social connections, what happens when an element of human existence is changed and becomes either very large or very small is a recurrent and important question. Such changes have consequences for ethical dispositions towards the lives of others, for the aesthetic appreciation or dislike of new beings, and for the ability to envision completely new ways of connecting to the world and others, for example through a cloud of shared thoughts, as Olaf Stapledon imagined. One special case of posthuman scale is the replication of the individual and the number of possible lives an individual can live without losing individuality, a question that is also pivotal for the idea of the human as a simulation that has been proposed by writers, filmmakers, and futurists alike.

Marcel Proust and Transcendent Encounter

1979 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 907-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Marcel Proust ◽  
True Self ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Special Case

Proust's moment bienheureux is a special case of transcendent being-in-the-world. The permanent essence of things supplies the transcendent properties. In the moment bienheureux time retains its place and person and world do not merge. Awareness is presentic, like movement in the prototypical transcendent act, the dance. Through the medium of the true self the personality returns to wholeness. Music furnishes the closest equivalent to the suggestions of personal truth that in the moment bienheureux betoken the possibility of living authentically.

The social-pragmatic theory of word learning

Pragmatics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tomasello
Keyword(s):  
Word Learning ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
New Words ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Case

Some researchers have tried to explain early word learning via garden-variety learning processes and others by invoking linguistically specific “constraints” that help children to narrow down the referential possibilities. The social-pragmatic approach to word learning argues that children do not need specifically linguistic constraints to learn words, but rather what they need are flexible and powerful social-cognitive skills that allow them to understand the communicative intentions of others in a wide variety of interactive situations. A series of seven word learning studies demonstrate something of the range of communicative situations in which children can learn new words. These situations include many non-ostensive contexts in which no one is intentionally teaching the child a new word and the intended referent is not perceptually present at the time of the new word’s introduction. Language acquisition in general, and word learning in particular, is best seen as a special case of cultural learning in which children attempt to discern adults’ intentions toward their intentions toward things in the world.

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