Counting Bitcoin

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Finn
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
First Century ◽  
Value System ◽  
Page Rank ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Value Model ◽  
Fundamental Shift

This chapter uses the growing dominance of algorithmic high frequency trading in finance to frame a reading of Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies. By defining the unit of exchange through computational cycles, Bitcoin fundamentally shifts the faith-based community of currency from a materialist to an algorithmic value system. Algorithmic arbitrage is forcing similar transitions in the attribution of value and meaning in many spaces of cultural exchange, from Facebook and Google’s Page Rank algorithm to journalism. The fundamental shift from valuing the cultural object itself to valuing the networks of relations that the object establishes or supports leads to new practices and aesthetics of production, where form and genre give way to memes and nebulous collaborative works. Using Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology as an example of this new value model, the chapter considers the consequences of programmable value for the notion of a public sphere in the twenty-first century, an era when arbitrage trumps content.

THE DEVELOPMENT DESIGN MODEL IN THE COMPETITIVENESS OF INTELLIGENT BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-280
Author(s):  
Christian Stipanović ◽  
Suzana Bareša
Keyword(s):  
High Growth ◽  
First Century ◽  
Design Model ◽  
Employee Empowerment ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Value System ◽  
Business Organisation ◽  
System A ◽  
New Development ◽  
New Generation

Croatian hotel and tourism companies are failing to keep abreast of modern tourism trends in the globalised marketplace of the twenty-first century. The imperative is to innovate the development design model based on a new value system. A precondition to success is transforming sluggish, inert companies that live according to the mindset of the past century into high-growth intelligent organisations capable of actively creating the future.The intelligent business organisation, founded on a new generation of managers, employee empowerment, software solutions and expert systems, needs to manage data and information to generate new development trends. The aim is to valorise intellectual capital and information in making innovations and creating new solutions in order to be able to stand up to rivals and more fully meet the needs of clients.

scholarly journals Media policy in the 21st century: from national interest to cultural stewardship

Matrizes ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Michael Curtin
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Media Policy ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
Media Institutions ◽  
Fundamental Shift

This essay provides a framework for understanding the twenty-first century dynamics of the global media economy. It has four central objectives: (1) explain the fundamental shift in media regulation engendered by neo-liberal globalization; (2) describe the operations of transnational commercial media enterprises and show how their practices and protocols have affected media institutions at the local, national, and regional levels; (3) identify issues that have risen to the forefront of media policy deliberations with respect to cultural expression and creative labor; and (4) elaborate an alternative policy perspective based on the principle of stewardship.

The Dilemma of Representation Through Facades

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Duygu Koca
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Value System ◽  
Exterior Surface ◽  
Visual Appeal ◽  
Architectural Element ◽  
Visual Pleasure ◽  
Technology And Communication

The exterior surface of a building -façade- as a communicative ground reflects the burdened meaning of its structure. Besides communicative capacity of façade, its independency, individuality and image dominancy can define exterior surface as an autonomous architectural element in terms of both physical and moral freedom. However, in the twenty-first century, this autonomy has undermined by globalization, technology and communication tools which are among the rapidly increasing activities of the century. Location of architecture in economic transactions and financial market has caused a loss in its internal dynamics and value system. The endeavor of providing the visual appeal only through the façade formation has caused the transformation in the dependency of exterior surface being devoid of content and context. The surfaces have been treated as changeable and renewable advertisement grounds concentrating on the visual appeal of the product, whether the aim is marketing, advertising or commercializing. Thus, the link between architecture and social structures has weakened through the commodification of the end product. In this framework, aim of this paper is (a) to make the description of façade, (b) to define the autonomy of façade through its physical and moral independency by examining cases and (c) to put forward a logical argument on the aspects which make façade an element pursuing only the visual pleasure by oversimplifying its significance in the generation of architectural idea.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-234
Author(s):  
Gregorio Bettiza
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Faith Based

The conclusion has two main objectives. The first is to show how the International Religious Freedom, Faith-Based Foreign Aid, Muslim and Islamic Interventions, and Religious Engagement regimes form a broader American foreign policy regime complex on religion. The second objective is to reflect on the book’s wider implications for the study of religion in international relations and highlight areas for further research. This includes assessing the strength of the book’s theoretical framework in light of ongoing developments under the Trump administration; understanding better the changes occurring to the religious traditions and actors that America draws from and intervenes in around the world; investigating further how the American experience with the operationalization of religion in foreign policy relates and compares to similar policy changes taking place elsewhere; and reflecting more broadly on the implications for international order of the growing systematic attempt by the United States to manage and mobilize religion in twenty-first-century world politics.

Apostolic Evangelism in the Postcolony

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-167
Author(s):  
Amos Yong
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
First Century ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Many

What does evangelism, the proclamation of the Christian gospel, look or sound like in a postcolonial era, a time in which there is a reluctance to assert a metanarrative that marginalizes the many voices of the pluralistic public sphere? Surprisingly, perhaps like how it may have originally gone forth in the first century via the apostolic followers of Jesus the Messiah. This essay suggests a re-reading of Luke-Acts, via what might be called a Pentecostal hermeneutic, one informed by foregrounding the Day of Pentecost narrative of the Spirit poured out on all flesh, in order to sketch an apostolic theology of evangelistic praxis for the contemporary post-colony. 一个后殖民的时代，是不愿对在多元的公共领域排斥多种声音的元叙事作出什么断言的。在这样的时代，宣教或者基督教福音的宣讲会是怎样的呢？令人惊讶的是，它可能就像早期透过弥赛亚耶稣的使徒追随者所传讲的那样。本文建议重读路加福音和使徒行传，或称为五旬宗式的阐释学，就是以圣灵浇灌所有凡有血气的五旬节的事件为前提，勾画出一个当代后殖民的宣教实践的使徒神学。 ¿Cómo se ve o cómo suena el evangelismo y la proclamación del evangelio cristiano en una época postcolonial; una época en el que hay renuencia a afirmar una metanarrativa que marginaliza las muchas voces de una esfera pública pluralista? Quizás sea sorprendente analizar cómo pudo haberse originado en el primer siglo con los seguidores apostólicos de Jesús el Mesías. Este ensayo sugiere una relectura de Lucas y de Hechos de los apóstoles, utilizando lo que se podría llamar una hermenéutica pentecostal que pone en primer plano la narrativa del Espíritu derramado sobre toda carne en el Día de Pentecostés para esbozar una teología apostólica de la praxis evangelística para la época actual post-colonial. This article is in English.

Chick Noir: Surveilling Femininity and the Affects of Loss in Gone Girl

Noir Affect ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 197-221
Author(s):  
Pamela Thoma
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Young Women ◽  
First Century ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Surveillance Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
A Site

This chapter explores a surprising shift that has occurred in postfeminist popular culture and more specifically “chick culture” in the wake of the global economic crisis. Chick noir forms itself in opposition to those two standbys of twenty-first-century U.S culture, chick lit and the chick flick. If these latter genres perform a humorous remodelling of romance as the “happy object” around which young women should orient self-making or self-improvement projects for the promise of a good life and future feelings of happiness, chick noir has emerged across popular culture to chronicle widespread economic hardship and social decline under neoliberalism. Chick noir narratives are driven by negative affect and deal in the dark side of relationships, domesticity, and the public sphere for women. The chapter takes Gone Girl as its focus. This chapter pays particular attention to ways in which both texts shine a light on modern surveillance culture to explore the textual production of empathy and coercion and the ways in which these texts imagine femininity as a site of surveillance. What emerges is a form of noir affect that dramatizes the absolute lack of a stable or noncontradictory space for the contemporary female subject.

From Text to Therapy: Dealing with Anxiety Conceptual Integration Based on Philippians 4:5–9

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 292-307
Author(s):  
Pablo Polischuk ◽  
Hyun Mok S. Kang
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Feedforward Control ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Christian Counseling ◽  
Conceptual Integration ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Coping Process ◽  
Transdiagnostic Model

A heuristic derived from an appeal to Scripture as an epistemological source of data is proposed, from which principles are extracted and interpreted, and integrated with psychological theory and research. It represents an effort to expand the utilization of conceptual integration in the domain of Christian counseling in particular. A key text is drawn from the apostle Paul’s letter to first-century Christians (Philippians 4:5–9) in view of its relevance in treating anxious conditions from a transdiagnostic perspective. The distinction is made between the scriptural use of the construct “anxiety” in the neo-testamentary context and present-day definitions framed in DSM-5 terms. The authors postulate the need to develop a faith-based heart-mindset, entrained and anchored in God—a relational subject and love object—that may provide a believer with intrinsic assurance of God’s peace that “surpasses understanding” and empowers their mindful, metacognitive-executive control system, potentiating an adaptive coping process. This approach draws from CBT, MC, and ACT principles, and resonates with Barlow’s transdiagnostic model in particular. An integrated, emergent dimension is introduced—“perichoretic thirdness”—defined in theological-psychological terms, where reliance on God’s transcending/immanent, coparticipatory presence empowers the metacognitive-executive feedforward control system of a believer in enacting purposive, adaptive responses vs. anxiety.

scholarly journals Blogging as Popular History Making, Blogs as Public History: The Singapore Case Study

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Ho
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public History ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Blogging is a twenty-first century phenomenon that has heralded an age where ordinary people can make their voices heard in the public sphere of the Internet. This article explores blogging as a form of popular history making; the blog as a public history document; and how blogging is transforming the nature of public history and practice of history making in Singapore. An analysis of two Singapore ‘historical’ blogs illustrates how blogging is building a foundation for a more participatory historical society in the island nation. At the same time, the case studies also demonstrate the limitations of blogging and blogs in challenging official versions of history.

Claiming the Right to Educate: Insider/Outsider in Practical and Contextual Theology

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Pears
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
First Century ◽  
Contextual Theology ◽  
Religious Background ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Postgraduate Level ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Educational Perspective ◽  
The Right

AbstractThis article examines some of the issues, challenges and possibilities facing a non-Christian, non-faith based educator teaching Christian practitioners at postgraduate level in practical and contextual theology. From my experience as a person of no religious background, belief or practice, this article will explore and deconstruct the concept of the theologian in an educational perspective; it will scrutinize the place of religious faith in the academic setting as a pre-requisite to engaging in meaningful theological discourse and reflection with the Christian practitioner; and it will contribute towards developing an understanding of the role(s) of the theological educator in applied, and practical and contextual theology in the twenty-first century university.

Science on Trial

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Caudill
Keyword(s):  
Civil Liberties ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Science Standards ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
American Civil Liberties Union ◽  
State Board Of Education

This chapter examines the resurrection of William Jennings Bryan's rhetoric in the twenty-first century, one in Kansas and the other in a small town in Pennsylvania, as creationists continued to appeal to individual rights and democratic principles. One side fumed for science and against theocracy. The other side railed about the assault on religion and bemoaned the abandonment of sacred traditions. In both cases, two worldviews are evidently in conflict. This chapter begins with an overview of the controversy involving the State Board of Education in Kansas, which adopted science standards in 2005 that treated evolution as a flawed theory. It then considers the case in Dover involving the American Civil Liberties Union and how it brought intelligent design to “the center of legislative debates in more than a dozen states.” It shows that the Dover trial was proof that, over the years since Scopes, creationism had moved from a faith-based argument to one that claimed to be empirically grounded and an argument not about religion in schools but about individual rights and fairness.

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