Automating Labour and the Spatial Politics of Data Centre Technologies

Data politics traffics through data centres. A primary function of data centres over the next decades will consist of supporting the transition to automated economies with the integration of artificial intelligence,machine learningand robotics into processes of capital valorisation and accumulation. Stemming from a project that investigates data centres in Asia, this contribution positions the age of automation in terms of the spatial politics of data infrastructures. Singapore is renowned as a growth centre for data storage facilities in Asia. Yet the policy literature on smart nations lacks narratives that address the political and social problem of job loss precipitated by automated futures. Because data centres are themselves automated environments and provide infrastructure that enables automation in workplaces spread across geographical scales, they offer a strategic object for research on the varied implications of automation for labour. The extent to which data centres make worlds and reconfigure regions bears upon conceptualisations of sovereign power harnessed to the state. This contribution maintains that an emergent sovereign form registers in the operational logic of computational machines special to data centres.

CONCEPTUAL BASIS FOR PROVIDING THE STATE DEFENSE CAPABILITY

The article reveals the essence of defense capability, defines the measures to ensure the defense capability of the state and the levels of defense capability. It is noted that railway transport as a strategic object of the state’s defense is related to the critical infrastructure of Ukraine.

Methodology of developing strategy concept for providing geriatric services in industrial system

Basis of the growth of Russian economy is the development of industrial sector. This sector of economy should have a strategy at different levels as national, regional and corporate. Article discusses the corporate level of development. The strategy is based on global trends of promoting social justice, human rights and considers of increasing the proportion of elder. The article proposes the creation of geriatric centers at industrial enterprises, which will reduce the economic burden on the state, develop a socially-oriented economy, improve the quality of life, also enhance the social attractiveness of enterprises. Geriatric center provides its own functioning due to the phased payments of employees under the condition of continuous work experience, also expects partial subsidizing of the state. The article provides an example of writing basic elements of strategy of the provision geriatric services by industrial enterprises. The concept of the strategy was developed according to the methodology of Doctor of Economics, Professor, Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Worker of Higher School of the Russian Federation, Laureate of the M.V. Lomonosov Prize for scientific works of the I degree V.L. Kvint. Based on the OTSW analysis, article describes the possibilities and threats of the external environment of the strategic object, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of its internal side. The mission and vision were identified, as well as priority development directions. The goals and objectives of the strategy concept of geriatric centers at industrial enterprises were formed.

"THE SYNTHESIS OF WAR AND THEATRE": SOCIO-HUMANITARIAN DISCOURSE ON THE ESSENCE OF TERRORISM

The article reveals the heuristic potential of social and humanitarian knowledge in understanding the complex nature of terrorism. The given research optics allows to expand traditional frameworks of considering terrorism as a phenomenon caused by political, ideological and economic factors; to reveal and substantiate deep cultural and mental reasons of the given phenomenon; make sense of terrorism as a destructive form of cultural identity. The cultural and historical origins of modern terrorism, which is closely connected with radical Islam, are analyzed in the civilizational system of coordinates “West–East”. The system of argumentation is based on scientific concepts and current artistic practices that interpret the causes of inter-civilizational tension resulting in international terrorism. The change of the status of the artist in the “epoch of terrorism” is analyzed; the theme of theatricalization and aestheticization of terrorist actions and the role of media in these processes are problematized. As a newest trend, which has not received any serious theoretical reflection, the text considers the phenomenon conditionally designated as “sublimation of terrorist activity into a symbolic sphere”, which is manifested in the destruction of monuments of world cultural heritage, in the orientation to culture as a new strategic object of terrorist attacks, on the one hand, and the use of cultural resources for self-presentation and promotion of their ideology by terrorist organizations, on the other

ANALISIS WACANA RETORIKA DAKWAH K.H. MUHAMMAD ARIFIN ILHAM DAN K.H. YUSUF MANSUR

Da’wah has become a very strategic object. Thus, the involvement of mass media playsimportant role in the activities, both printed and electronic. There are many well-knownDa’i in Indonesia that have strong influence to the communities such as K.H. Muhammad Arifin Ilham (MAI). The study aims to demonstrate the grammatical structure and lexical cohesion of MAI’s da’wah rhetoric. The data analysis consists of: (1) sorting the data based on the problem; (2) formulating the data units into each sequence in accordance with the possibility of their features; (3) interpreting the data values based on the problem; (4)evaluating the level of visibility and completeness of the data that linked to the range of problems. The structure of the grammatical ohesion of MAI’s rhetoric includes reference, substitution, ellipsis and conjunction. The manifestation of MAI’s lexical cohesion rhetoric comprises of repetition, synonym, antonym, hyponym, collocation, and equivalence. AbstrakDakwah merupakan hal yang sangat strategis. Oleh karena itu, aktivitas tersebut tidak luput dari liputan media massa, baik cetak maupun eletronik. Di antara da’i Indonesia yang sangat dikenal oleh masyarakat luas adalah K.H. Muhammad Arifin Ilham (MAI) dan K.H. Yusuf Mansur (YM). Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mendeskripsikan wujud kohesi gramatikal dan leksikal retorika dakwah MAI dan YM. Adapun langkah analisis datanya sebagai berikut: (1) pengurutan data sesuai dengan masalahnya; (2) pembentukan satuan-satuan data dalam setiap urutannya sesuai dengan kemungkinan hubungan ciri kategorinya; (3) interpretasi nilai data sesuai dengan masalahnya; (4) evaluasi tingkat kelayaan dan kelengkapan data dikaitkan dengan rentang masalahnya. Wujud kohesi gramatikal retorika dakwah MAI dan YM mencakup referensi, substitusi, elipsis, dan konjungsi. Wujud kohesi leksikal retorika dakwah MAI dan YM mencakup repetisi, sinonimi, antonimi, hiponimi, kolokasi, dan ekuivalensi.

Roman Catholic periodicals in the national media space of Ukraine

The Second Vatican Council became a prerequisite for the functioning of the mass media of the Roman Catholic Church, defining mass media as a strategic object for spreading the ideas of the Church, Christian upbringing. Due to the actualization of religious freedom with the independence of Ukraine, national confessional media (including the Roman Catholic) received an impetus for the deployment of active activities, as well as the chance for an impartial scientific analysis. Today, Ukrainian Roman Catholic media are a significant component of the system of national religious editions, which, in turn, is one of the media segments of the state. Therefore, studying in the context of the mass media of Ukraine periodicals of the Roman Catholic Church is necessary to create a holistic image of the national information space. This is due to the relevance of the topic.

Convergence, Creative Industries and Civil Society: Towards a New Agenda for Cultural Policy and Cultural Studies

In this article I start with a personal experience “cameo” from 1996 in Australia and extrapolate from that some issues that remain relevant in the sometimes troubled relationship between cultural studies and cultural policy. These are encapsulated in the three “cs” of convergence, creative industries and civil society which provide a new context for both new research and new policy settings. The argument is developed and situated in historical terms by examining the “cultural technologies”, especially the newspaper, and subsequently print media in the 19th century, electronic media in the 20th century and digital media in the 21st century which provide the content, the technologies and the rituals for “imagining” our sense of place and belonging. This is then linked to ways of understanding culture and cultural technologies in the context of governmentality and the emergence of culture as a strategic object of policy with the aim of citizen- and population formation and management. This argument is then linked to four contemporary “testbeds” – cultural mapping and planning, cultural statistics and indicators, cultural citizenship and identity, and research of and for cultural policy – and priorities for cultural policy where cultural studies work has been extremely enabling and productive. The article concludes with an argument, derived from the early 20th century work of Patrick Geddes of the necessity of linking, researching, understanding and operationalising the three key elements and disciplines of Folk (anthropology), Work (economics), and Place (geography) in order to properly situate cultural policy, mapping and planning and their relationship to cultural studies and other disciplines.