Effects of acupuncture and moxibustion on headache and the present status quo

Abstract In this article, I perceive digital space as a space structured by different and, at the same time, related modes of exchange. Drawing on Karatani Kōjin’s model of ‘exchange’, I scrutinize capitalist exchange in digital space, data-based control on platforms, and the conditions of community in a filtered digital reality. The analysis indicates a shift in the structure of exchange in digital space. In Karatani’s analysis, capital, nation, and state form a strong alliance that maintains the present status quo. Although this holds true for digital space, the emphasis is much more on corporate and thus capitalist actors, which, in some cases, replace the state and interfere with the emergence of imagined communities. By relating the various actors and dimensions, I provide a heuristic model for the structure of digital space.

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The Status Quo of Korean Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Zen Nihon Shinkyu Gakkai zasshi (Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion) ◽

10.3777/jjsam.52.601 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 52 (5) ◽

pp. 601-609 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ki-ho CHO ◽

Jung-chul SEO ◽

Won-chul LEE ◽

Gap-sung KIM

Keyword(s):

Status Quo ◽

Acupuncture And Moxibustion ◽

The Status

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Turkish Cypriot identity after 1974: Turkish Cypriots, Turks of Cyprus or Cypriots?

Synthesis an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies ◽

10.12681/syn.16247 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 116

Author(s):

Ioannis Moutsis

Keyword(s):

Present Status ◽

Status Quo ◽

Political Order ◽

Parliamentary Elections ◽

Turkish Cypriot ◽

Greek Cypriots

The hopes created by the unexpected triumph of Mustafa Akıncı in the Turkish Cypriot parliamentary elections in 2015 opened once again the debate about Turkish Cypriot identity. Despite the various works on the issue since the opening of the borders in 2003, the issue of identity in the Turkish Cypriot community still remains under-researched. The hope of the Turkish Cypriots for reunification and an end to political isolation was replaced by skepticism after the rejection of the 2004 Annan Plan by the Greek Cypriots in a national referendum. Nevertheless the election of Mustafa Akιncı with an overwhelming sixty percent proves that the Turkish Cypriots should not be considered as loyal to the AKP-controlled Turkish political order as perhaps they were once thought to be. This article will attempt to examine the various aspects of Turkish Cypriot identity, as this has been formed by the Cyprus issue, their fifty-year-long isolation and the hope for an end of the present status quo that will open a window to the outside world forty-one years after the 1974 war and eleven years after the Annan Plan referenda.

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A WINDOW INTO PAPUA’S PAST: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL STATUS QUO IN THE STAR MOUNTAINS [Melihat Masa Lalu Papua : Penelitian Arkeologi dan Antropologi di Pegunungan Bintang]

Jurnal Penelitian Arkeologi Papua dan Papua Barat ◽

10.24832/papua.v9i2.211 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 119-160

Author(s):

Wulf Schiefenhovel ◽

Marian Vanhaeren

Keyword(s):

Present Status ◽

New Guinea ◽

Status Quo ◽

Special Focus ◽

Literature Research ◽

Prehistoric Migration ◽

Anthropological Fieldwork

In this paper, which is based on anthropological fieldwork in the Province of Papua, and literature research in archaeology and anthropology, we attempt to give an overview over the present status of research in Tanah Papua, with special focus on the prehistory and anthropology of groups in the interior, especially on the little known “Ok-Mek Minisphere” as well as on the potential routes of prehistoric migration to New Guinea and into the Star Mountains. ABSTRAKTulisan didasarkan pada penelitian lapangan antropologi di Papua, dan penelitian kepustakaan arkeologi dan antropologi. Dalam penelitian ini mencoba untuk memberikan gambaran mengenai perkembangan penelitian saat ini di Papua, dengan fokus pada prasejarah dan antropologi di pedalaman, terutama di wilayah “Ok- Mek” yang sangat potensial sebagai jalur migrasi prasejarah ke New Guinea dan masuk ke Pegunungan Bintang.

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The Double-occupation of Palestine

Human Geography ◽

10.1177/194277861100400107 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 100-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sandy Marshall

Keyword(s):

Present Status ◽

West Bank ◽

Status Quo ◽

Palestinian Authority ◽

The West ◽

Disciplinary Power ◽

The Us ◽

The Creation ◽

New Generation ◽

Spatial Formations

This article argues that the recent calm the West Bank is currently experiencing results from the US-Israeli strategy of outsourcing the disciplinary power of the occupation to the Palestinian Authority (PA). It discusses recent security commitments that the US has made to the PA, and popular Palestinian perception of PA police and soldiers. In addition, the article considers how the US/Israel/PA governing strategy manifests itself in new spatial formations in the West Bank, from new roads and shopping festivals, to new prisons and Palestinian-maintained checkpoints. Finally considered is whether a new resistant politics can possibly emerge from the present status quo, whether yet another generation of Palestinians can be expected to struggle and sacrifice, or whether the post-political malaise currently pervasive in Palestine (and elsewhere) will be perpetuated with the creation of a new generation of apolitical young consumers in the West Bank?

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Silence as Elective Mutism in Minor Cinema

Film-Philosophy ◽

10.3366/film.2021.0165 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 130-150

Author(s):

Tanya Shilina-Conte

Keyword(s):

Present Status ◽

Clinical Presentation ◽

Clinical History ◽

Selective Mutism ◽

Status Quo ◽

Film Analysis ◽

Conceptual Tool ◽

Elective Mutism ◽

Negative Mode ◽

History Of

This article advances mutism as a creative mode and conceptual tool to treat silence in cinema. Whereas mutism can be a productive concept for the study of auditory and visual absence in a broader theoretical framework, my focus here is on the silence of film characters. Drawing on correspondences between the critical and the clinical in Gilles Deleuze’s writing, I argue that adopting mutism as a tool of film-philosophy permits us to supersede traditional film analysis and examine silence not as an interpretive condition at the level of the plot but as a critical-clinical mode of experimentation related to the symptomatology of life. After presenting a brief clinical history of “elective” and “selective” mutism, I then draw on the suppressed understanding of “elective mutism”. I demonstrate that “elective mutism”, which might appear to be a negative and powerless disorder in its clinical presentation, transforms itself into an affirmative and empowering (dis)order that inspires creative experimentation in cinema. In postwar films with mute protagonists, such as Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1960), “elective mutism” engenders a negative mode of existence in its symptomatology, which can be analysed according to the tenets of Theodor W. Adorno’s philosophy of negativity. By contrast, Deleuze’s philosophy of affirmativity and the concept of minor cinema allow for a renewed positive examination of “elective mutism” in more recent films with silent characters, such as Elia Suleiman’s Palestinian quartet (1996; 2002; 2009; 2019). Approaching minor cinema as both a cinema of experimentation and minoritarian cinema, I contend that in films made by minorities mutism becomes more pronouncedly “elective” in an affirmative sense. As a mode of protest and resistance, “elective mutism” is not only a rejection of the present status quo but also an expression of futurity. Finally, I maintain that the concept of “elective mutism” can relate to and stimulate the discussion of many contemporary sociopolitical phenomena.

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