The Limits of Totalitarianism: God, State and Society in the GDR

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 25-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Fulbrook
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Exact Science ◽  
Atoms And Molecules ◽  
Political World ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Way

History is not an exact science. In describing and seeking to resurrect—or at least reconstruct—past societies, historians make use of concepts which bear a double freight of meaning. Unlike the elements, atoms and molecules of natural science, which—however much they are artefacts of the inquiring scientist's mind rather than natural ‘givens’ of the outside world—cannot answer back, the terms which historians use to describe the human world are themselves not only part of the way in which that past world was lived and experienced by the historical actors, but are also part of the way in which historians see, experience and act in their own social and political world. Historical concepts at any level of abstraction beyond the most basic and immediate empirical reference are also part of broader contemporary debates.

Signs and sentiment in British wildlife art

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Welstead
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Close Observation ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Visual Clues ◽  
The Way

Wildlife art does not receive the critical attention that it deserves. In this chapter, William Welstead considers how the images made after close observation in the field incorporate the signs and visual clues that enable us to identify the species, have some idea of what the individuals are doing and how they relate to the wider environment. These are all important factors in building an informed view of the non-human world and establishing how we feel about it. Wildlife artists tread a difficult path between serving science and catering for the affective response of viewers and between the representational and the abstract in depicting their subject matter. Welstead suggests that the way we recognise wildlife by its overall look or ‘jizz’ means that drawings and paintings can capture in a few lines and shapes the essence of the creature. This economical application of lines and colour therefore allows for at least some level of abstraction. The subject would merit further attention from ecocritics.

Wild Mull

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Littlewood ◽  
Martin Jones
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Diverse Species ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Way

High above the mountaintops on the Isle of Mull, a huge bird is soaring. Its all-encompassing gaze records people in its Hebridean territory far below, but they are of no interest. The eagle is about its business: concentrating on the deer and fidgety hares out grazing in the morning sun, the urgent push of thermals beneath its wings, a threatening weather front way out at sea, and the restless chick back in its eyrie. This is Mull in its glory. This is what the excited, watching people have travelled so far to witness. They train their binoculars and admire, perhaps envy, the eagle with its vast freedom, knowing that such a self-willed being is part of another world – almost. This book guides the reader through that world. With superb illustrations and illuminating text, we are led to the wild side of Mull. Every facet of the island’s natural history is considered, its diverse species and many stories – past, present and future. Along the way we are reminded that wildness is not somehow separate from the human world but influenced, and shared, by nature and people together. Here is the tale of a precious and unique place, a seaborne landscape that displays an uncommon biodiversity and rare wildlife experiences, although today it also faces its greatest challenges. Most of all, this book is testimony to the power of wild places and the duty we have to learn from and protect them.

The Politics of Worldlessness

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-127
Author(s):  
Roland Végső
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Simple Fact ◽  
Political World ◽  
Life Of The Mind ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Human Condition

The chapter examines Hannah Arendt’s critique of martin Heidegger and concentrates on the way Arendt tries to subvert the Heideggerian paradigm of worldlessness. While for Heidegger, the ontological paradigm of worldlessness was the lifeless stone, in Arendt’s book biological life itself emerges as the worldless condition of the political world of publicity. The theoretical challenge bequeathed to us by Arendt is to draw the consequences of the simple fact that life is worldless. The worldlessness of life, therefore, becomes a genuine condition of impossibility for politics: it makes politics possible, but at the same time it threatens the very existence of politics. The chapter traces the development of this argument in three of Arendt’s major works: The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, and The Life of the Mind.

The Contribution of MDA in Software-Defined Network

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-134
Author(s):  
Adra Hammoud ◽  
Mohamed Lahmer ◽  
Samir Mbarki ◽  
Fatima Sifou
Keyword(s):  
Software Defined Networking ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
Software Defined Network ◽  
Model Driven Engineering ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Control And Management ◽  
The Way

Software-defined networking is changing the way we design and manage networks. This prominent paradigm based on the separation of control and management plane is highly heterogeneous with different devices from various technologies and leads to an incredible growing of materials. As SDN expands in size of devices and complexity, it faces greater administrative and management challenges. The paradigm of MDA was introduced using NETCONF/YANG as a way to model in order to deal with these management challenges and soften the development of SDN applications. The researchers joined the MDA and its related concepts as model-driven engineering to SDN to implement a platform called model-driven networking increasing the level of abstraction on development. This chapter presents a comprehensive survey of the research relating to MDN paradigm. It starts by introducing the basic concepts of SDN. Next, it presents the concepts related to MDA, and the YANG which is a modeling language. Last, it highlights the studies introducing the MDN paradigm and its benefits in SDN applications.

5. The Significance of Rituals in Parliament

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Crewe ◽  
Paul Evans
Keyword(s):  
House Of Commons ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Political World ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Power Hierarchy ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the significance of rituals in the UK Parliament, focusing on the centrality of rules in such rituals, how parliamentary debates are ritualized, and how ceremonies order relationships between different groups in our political world. It first explains the purpose of parliamentary rituals and how they are regulated, showing that the value attached to the way Parliament ritualizes its interaction is strongly contested between Members of Parliament (MPs) and by outside commentators. In particular, it considers Standing Orders, rules made by either the House of Commons or the House of Lords to set out the way certain aspects of House procedures operate. The chapter also discusses how rituals result in conflict and conciliation and as markers of power, hierarchy, and identity in Parliament.

Hans Morgenthau: Realist and Moralist

Worldview ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
Roger L. Shinn
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Short Sentence ◽  
Political World ◽  
Hans Morgenthau ◽  
The Way

In that short sentence Hans Morgenthau describes one role of the intellectual who relates himself to the political world. It is clear, from the way he states it, that he admires this vocation. It is also clear, from his own career, that he has often exercised that vocation.Morgenthau's eminence is such that he needs no praise from me. As an analyst of international affairs he is a brilliant scholar, a shrewd observer of the actions behind the headlines, a puncturer of pomposities, and an irritant to sluggish minds. These qualities are sufficiently well known that I shall not elaborate them.

John Sayles

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Shumway
Keyword(s):  
Personal Style ◽  
John Sayles ◽  
Popular Films ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Way

John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself, Sayles functions more independently than most directors, and he has used his freedom to write and produce films with a distinctive personal style and often clearly expressed political positions. From The Return of the Secaucus Seven to Sunshine State, his films have consistently expressed progressive political positions on issues including race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability. This book examines the defining characteristic of Sayles' cinema: its realism. Positing the filmmaker as a critical realist, the book explores Sayles' attention to narrative in critically acclaimed and popular films such as Matewan, Eight Men Out, Passion Fish, and Lone Star. The study also details the conditions under which Sayles' films have been produced, distributed, and exhibited, affecting the way in which these films have been understood and appreciated. In the process, the book presents Sayles as a teacher who tells historically accurate stories that invite audiences to consider the human world they all inhabit.

Teaching the Ethics/Technology Interface

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Albert R. Jonsen
Keyword(s):  
Electronic System ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Old World ◽  
New Words ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

The problem that I will discuss in this essay is marvellously illustrated in the title given to me by the editors. The word “interface” is itself part of the jargon of technology, the technospeak needed by those who develop, use, and discuss functions, things, and relationships that had not existed previously in the human world. They must make up new words to describe new realities (and, unfortunately, allow new and ugly words to obscure old ones). An “interface” presumably describes the way in which one electronic system contacts another so that the first energizes the second. In the old world of human experience, an “interface” is impossible. The face of one human being is visible to another; two faces, smiling or frowning at each other, communicate. The mind behind one face can interpret the movements of another. Never does one human face interpenetrate or merge with another.

scholarly journals Unifying mutualism diversity for interpretation and prediction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feilun Wu ◽  
Allison J. Lopatkin ◽  
Daniel A. Needs ◽  
Charlotte T. Lee ◽  
Sayan Mukherjee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Power ◽  
Biological Systems ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Calibration Procedure ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Ecological Interaction ◽  
Level Of Abstraction ◽  
General Rules ◽  
Simple Rules ◽  
The Way

Coarse-grained rules are widely used in chemistry, physics and engineering. In biology, however, such rules are less common and under-appreciated. This gap can be attributed to the difficulty in establishing general rules to encompass the immense diversity and complexity of biological systems. Even when a rule is established, it is often challenging to map it to mechanistic details and to quantify these details. We here address these challenges on a study of mutualism, an essential type of ecological interaction in nature. Using an appropriate level of abstraction, we deduced a general rule that predicts the outcomes of mutualistic systems, including coexistence and productivity. We further developed a standardized calibration procedure to apply the rule to mutualistic systems without the need to fully elucidate or characterize their mechanistic underpinnings. Our approach consistently provides explanatory and predictive power with various simulated and experimental mutualistic systems. Our strategy can pave the way for establishing and implementing other simple rules for biological systems.

scholarly journals Syrian Skirmish: Security Hitch and Complexity in the Middle East

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Nasreen Akhtar ◽  
Manzoor Khan Afridi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
East Region ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Syrian Conflict ◽  
Middle East Region ◽  
Domestic Level ◽  
The Way

The Syrian skirmish, vis-�-vis Middle East region and complexities, has been analysed at three main levels -domestic, regional and extra-regional. The internal vulnerabilities of the Syrian state and society at a domestic level is dominant in paving the way for the origin of the conflict and providing the vacuum to the regional and extra-regional actors to further deteriorate the condition of Syria. The Syrian conflict is the central security issues within the Regional Security Complex of the Middle East. Although extra-regional relations influence regional security, the Syrian conflict poses more security threat to the regional actors. This paper will explain these questions; What role is being played by the extra-regional [global] powers in the Syrian conflict, and how the Syrian crises are increasing challenges to the security of the Middle East region?

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