scholarly journals Sublime, Race, Racialization: Formalisation, Necessity, Contingency

2017 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Jovita Pristovšek
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Figure Of Speech ◽  
Social Landscapes

If we speak about the sublimity of financial markets nowadays, this is mostly because we can already gaze into the contemporary version of ruins of (ambiguous) crises of capitalism and crisis politics, that left behind themselves desolated (social) landscapes, in which the absence of the human and of labor (read: gazing into the posthuman and at the emancipation within nonhuman terrain) once again testifies to a kind of sublimity. And from the historical point of view the revitalization of the discourse of (Cassius Longinus) sublime is situated precisely into a genealogy of treatises drawing the border between human and nonhuman, between society and nature. Thus, the sublime could only rise over not (yet) cultivated nature (while sovereignty could only rise over the cultivated one). Following from Longinus' most efficient sublime effect, when it functions as a hidden figure of speech, my field of interest will be predominantly a genealogy of race within the regime of aesthetics, from Edmund Burke's and Immanuel Kant's conceptualizations of aesthetics of the sublime, up until recent debates within contemporary aesthetics about subject-less experience and experience-less subject. This genealogy will serve as a display of procedure by which and since then the content (unrepresentable, race, terror) could be represented only in a certain way (as necessity), which led to a kind of asceticism (i.e. to formalism and immaterial), even more, to a return to objectnessless, which once again testifies to an encounter with the figure of silence, and with contingency. Article received: June 5, 2017; Article accepted: June 16, 2017; Published online: October 15, 2017; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Pristovšek, Jovita. "Sublime, Race, Racialization: Formalization, Necessity, Contingency." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 14 (2017): 45-56. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i14.202

scholarly journals Trans-Disciplinary Pedagogy for Science and Journalism Majors Linking Water Resource Information to Communities

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee John Florea ◽  
Adam J Kuban
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Stem Majors ◽  
Resource Information ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Project Deliverables

Water Quality Indiana is a learning platform that leverages collaborations, community partnerships, and active mentorship of transdisciplinary student cohorts. Since 2013, this platform has engaged teams of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and communication and media students to investigate water quality in east central Indiana (since expanded to other domestic and international locations) in an experiential problem-based learning environment. For community partners, Water Quality Indiana provides scientific data, analysis, and multimedia deliverables about water quality, and it has a successful record of finding solutions to real-world problems. From the point of view of faculty, project deliverables enhance several aspects of a faculty portfolio. For student participants, the goal is to increase metacognition, civic engagement, and confidence in processes associated with STEM and media studies, and, therefore, the transdisciplinary skills required in an increasingly competitive workforce. Assessing learning artifacts (e.g., assignment, quizzes, or other evaluative metrics) reveals a cognitive dissonance between metacognition and accuracy in declarative knowledge related to topics in water quality—student scores did not increase in posttest data despite an increased confidence in selected answers. In contrast, pretest and posttest results, synthesis reports, and focus group data suggest that confidence in procedural knowledge in both water quality and media production significantly increased by the end of the course. Students cited time constraints imposed by academic calendars and project deadlines as a limitation of the learning environment. Course data reveal differences based on academic background and gender: 1) media studies majors became more confident in their multimedia skills, while STEM majors became less confident; 2) note-taking style and detail is more organized and meticulous for female and STEM students compared to male and media studies counterparts.

The Philosophical Enquiry, theories of the sublime and the sister arts tradition

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélène Ibata
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Verbal Representation ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Sister Arts ◽  
Isolated Point

This first chapter emphasises what Burke’s Enquiry owes to the existing discourse on the sublime (to Longinus and Addison in particular), in order to highlight its innovations, more specifically its aesthetically stimulating irrationalism and sensualism. It then focuses on Burke’s unique distinction between visual and verbal representation, his rejection of their common mimetic basis, and his argument that only the non-mimetic, suggestive medium of the verbal arts, language, may impart the sublime. At a time when parallels between the arts prevailed, this was an isolated point of view, which introduced a new paragone situation, and a challenge to visual artists. The end of the chapter examines a number of competing theories of the sublime that were compatible with painting, which makes it possible to enhance the specificity of the Enquiry and the paradox of its appeal to visual artists.

Survey of Trading Systems for Individual Investors

2011 ◽  
pp. 157-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kersch ◽  
G. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Individual Investor ◽  
Trading System ◽  
Trading Systems ◽  
Trading Decisions ◽  
The Individual

Trading decisions in financial markets can be supported by the use of trading algorithms. To evaluate trading algorithms and to generate orders to be executed on the stock exchange trading systems are used. In this chapter, we define the individual investors’ requirements on a trading system, and analyze 17 trading systems from an individual investor’s point of view. The results of our study point out that the best alternative for an individual investor is not one single trading system, but a combination of two different classes of trading systems.

Die Stabilität von Finanzmärkten:Wie kann die Wirtschaftspolitik Vertrauen schaffen?

2006 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresia Theurl ◽  
Jan Pieter Krahnen ◽  
Thomas P. Gehrig
Keyword(s):  
Credit Risk ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Credit Derivatives ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Regulatory Oversight ◽  
The Creation

AbstractFrom Theresia Theurl’s point of view financial markets exhibit certain features that turn them inherently unstable. Therefore, economic policy measures were necessary and advisable, but they should not take the shape of isolated and selected interventions. Rather, these measures of financial market supervision and regulation had to be integrated into a comprehensive concept of micro- and macroeconomic policy in order to allow the creation of stabilizing trust.In his contribution, Jan Pieter Krahnen maintains, that the systemic risk of banks and financial institutions has changed and risen in recent years. According to his view, this is due to a more widespread use of credit derivatives. Although they may cause a more efficient distribution of credit risk in the banking sector, at the same time they could mean a higher vulnerability of the banking sector to system-wide contagion effects of credit risk. As such, financial market supervision as well as the Basel II rules on Capital Standards should take into account not only the credit risk exposure of individual financial institutions, but also correlation measures of their share prices.For Thomas Gehrig, empirical anomalies demonstrate the relevance of awareness and trust in financial markets. This note would argue in favor of social policies that enhance public awareness in financial markets as a basis for trust. And so naturally, these policies need to be complemented by a strong financial order that aims at minimizing behavioral risks. He says, trust requires a regulatory framework that reduces manipulation by private as well as public interests. A competitive order complemented by strong regulatory oversight may go a long way towards generating liquid financial markets and the creation of trust. Trust by individuals, however, would be most strongly encouraged when individuals are entrusted in managing their own financial market activities including their own pension arrangements.

scholarly journals A Neowicksellian in a New Classical World: The Methodology of Michael Woodford's Interest and Prices

2006 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin D. Hoover
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Monetary Aggregates ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Interest Rate Rule

Michael Woodford's Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy (2003) is an important book. Woodford's title is, of course, a conscious revival of Wicksell's own famous work and it points to an effort to recast the analysis of monetary policy as centered on interest rates. I believe that Woodford's theoretical orientation is essentially correct. In repairing to Wicksell, he places the monetary aggregates into a more reasonable perspective, correcting the distortions of the monetarist and Keynesian diversions with respect to money. My money is, so to speak, where my mouth is: My own textbook-in-progress is also based around an IS/interest-rate rule/AS model, in which financial markets cleared by price rather than the LM curve are emphasized. Such an approach, as Woodford notes, has become standard in central banks, but has not yet captured either core undergraduate or graduate textbooks and instruction. My task here, however, was not to praise Woodford's economics nor to trace or evaluate its Wicksellian routes, but to consider Interest and Prices from a methodological point of view.

Determining the Dynamic Efficiency of Cleanroom Wipers for Removal of Liquids and Particles from Surfaces

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Oathout
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Phase ◽  
Absorption Efficiency ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Dynamic Efficiency ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
New Procedures ◽  
Number Of Particles

Three factors are important for removing a liquid from a surface using a wiper, whether that liquid is added to the surface for cleaning or whether it is present as a spill. First is the dynamic absorption efficiency; second is the number of particles present in the spill (or on the surface being wiped) and the extent of removal of particles during the wiping process: and third is the concern regarding particles and fibers which the wiper may leave behind on the surface being wiped. This paper describes new procedures for investigating these factors. Data are presented which demonstrate that cleanroom wipers made from fabrics that "wipe the surface dry" leave the wiped surface cleaner than those which do not because residual contamination from a spill remains in the liquid phase left behind on the surface. The conclusion from these data is that wipe-dry is not only desirable from a housekeeping point of view, but critical for wiping up spills and removing particles from surfaces. The inherent cleanliness of wipers is less important in selecting wiping materials than the ability of the materials to wipe surfaces dry.

Coleridge on Science, Philosophy, and Poetry: Their Relation to Religion

1959 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucyle Werkmeister
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Mathematical Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Edmund Burke ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
David Hartley ◽  
The French Revolution

In 1791, when he was eighteen years of age, Coleridge came across Burke's A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Although he was sufficiently interested to read the essay, he was not impressed by it. In fact, if one is to judge his reaction by the jeu d'esprit, “Mathematical Problem,” it was chiefly one of amusement. Although he went on to read Burke's other essays, he was attracted by the character of the author and the style of his writing rather than by his point of view; for, certainly a young man who was an avowed disciple of David Hartley, a champion of the French Revolution, and the originator of Pantisocracy could find little comfort in the works of Edmund Burke. But the zeal for Hartley, the French Revolution, and Pantisocracy was short-lived; and by 1796 Coleridge had turned, a “thought-bewilder'd man,” to a reading of Bishop Berkeley.The influence of Berkeley, especially of the later Platonic Berkeley, began to show in his work almost at once; the influence of Burke continued to lag. Out of his reflections on Berkeley, however, came a new admiration for Burke, particularly for his Philosophical Inquiry; and, from the combined teachings of the two, Coleridge ultimately derived suggestions for a theology broad enough to account for and to give meaning and purpose to all human activities. I should like here to indicate briefly the use he made of these suggestions with respect to science, philosophy, and poetry. I do not mean to imply that there were no other influences at work in the formulation of his views; but I do submit that these two influences are basic and that Coleridge's position can be adequately understood only in terms of them.

Legal Dimensions to Valuing Aesthetics in World Heritage Decisions

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 581-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Legal Requirement ◽  
World Heritage Convention ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Principle Of Legality

This article reveals the ways in which concepts associated with the humanities inform determinations of ‘outstanding universal’ aesthetic value of natural heritage under the World Heritage Convention. Language derived from humanistic ideas of beauty, the sublime and the picturesque, together with a range of images, are used in World Heritage deliberations to describe nature from, in the words of the treaty, ‘an aesthetic point of view’. However, a preference for ‘scientific method’ masks the use of humanistic approaches, impeding the development of critical approaches that could enhance World Heritage determinations. The deliberate use of humanistic methods and images to judge environmental aesthetics would, the article contends, facilitate critical inquiry without falling foul the ‘principle of legality’ – an international legal requirement of international bodies such as the World Heritage Committee to act in accordance with the powers conferred on them by the states parties under a treaty.

scholarly journals A General and Theoretical FX Model for the Multi-Currency Basket: Economic, Financial and Mathematical Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Amine El Bied
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Exchange Rate Regime ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mathematical Approach ◽  
Foreign Currencies ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Ex Nihilo

The multi-currency basket is an exchange rate regime in which the currency is pegged to several foreign currencies. The basket is defined by its composing foreign currencies, and by the weighting of each currency in the basket. The exchange rate in such a regime is pegged to a weighted basket of currencies.We propose to present the benefits and the drawbacks of such an exchange rate regime from a macroeconomic and financial point of view. We also formulate mathematically a general theory of Foreign Exchange in the case of a currency under the regime of a multi-currency basket. The creation ex nihilo of a general model for a multi-currency basket results in equations applicable in all cases. The article covers theoretical and practical aspects of this exchange rate regime, responding to the most concrete issues faced by financial markets’ professionals, and should also interest academics, teachers and students.

scholarly journals Russian Financial Market: Is there Potential for Stimulating Economic Growth?

Vestnik NSUEM ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 86-104
Author(s):  
A. V. Novikov ◽  
I. Ya. Novikova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Gdp Growth ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Instrumental Approaches

Russia has passed the path of forming a market economy, which was accompanied by a multidirectional dynamics of GDP growth rates. The article considers the financial market as a factor of stimulating economic growth. Four stages of development of the market economy of Russia are justified. Starting from 2020, the fifth stage of economic growth based on the development of innovative technologies, digitalization of the economy. The features of these stages are analyzed from the point of view of investment incentives for development. Institutional and instrumental approaches to financial market segmentation are highlighted, and the features of implementing these approaches at each stage of the Russian economy development are considered. The formation of the financial market considered from the standpoint of the analysis of indicators, revealing the state of the financial markets: depth, access, stability and efficiency of the financial market. Measures for the development of the financial market are proposed.

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