Security beyond resilience

This review article reads across David Chandler’s Resilience, Brad Evans and Julian Reid’s Resilient Life and Elizabeth Povinelli’s Economies of Abandonment to explore the possibilities for critical thought on security beyond resilience. Read together, these works suggest that resilience approaches offer a topological form of security that interiorizes the outside’s de-territorializing potential – a movement that might be countered by a radical atmospherics of security that enables socio-ecological difference to persist as difference. At stake is the relation between critique and potentiality: while topological security turns critique into a stabilizing force, atmospheric security refuses the demands for socio-ecological difference to make itself legible as either proper adaptation or improper maladaptation. An atmospherics of security orients politics and ethics around both the durative and anticipatory temporal registers of potentiality.

Intertextuality and Constructive Non-identity: In Memoriam to Identity

In Memoriam To Identity is apprehended in chapter four as an experiment with the récit form. Acker’s compositional practice in In Memoriam to Identity is distinguished from that at work in Don Quixote through the topological form of the text, which folds in intersecting narratives and creates a fluid textual space, rather than a space characterised by disjunction. These topological revolutions have a counterpart in the radical politics of the text. Returning to Denise Riley’s work, I argue that through intertextuality, In Memoriam To Identity offers a site for that which Riley understands as constructive non-identity. The political and social negation of the voices of the narratives is positioned in contrast to the fictional site that offers the voices of the text a site of existence. The text points to the tensions surrounding the avant-garde idea of the sublation of art and life. In its inclusive and reintegrative form, the experimental text is apprehended as a site for community, solidarity, and intimacy.

A Modified Volumetric Penalization Method for Gray Elements Suppression

The volumetric penalization approach is an important method for gray elements suppression in topology optimization. With the volumetric penalization approach, the topology optimization problem is consistent and regularized, and topology description is unambiguous. Considering the fact that an unreasonable topological form of structure is sometimes resulted with the traditional volumetric penalization function, a modified function is proposed. By utilizing the modified function, the gray elements are compelled to be 0 or 1, and the efficiency of optimization solving is also improved. To verify the validity of the modified method, it is compared with the famous volumetric penalization method, SINH method, through a typical example. Simultaneously, its numerical instabilities are also analyzed.

A Topological Form Study on Passive Design for Energy — Saving Space of Green Cave Dwellings

This study solved the problems of cave dwelling physical environment on the Loess Plateau, such as poor ventilation, insufficient lighting, and moisture. Based on the principle that improved its microclimate by passive form design and the method of topological form transformation, the study adopted corresponding energy-saving measures to the control of the outdoor factors that could influence the indoor physical environment, such as solar radiation, air temperature, air flow and humidity. The result provides passive design system and form design strategies to improve cave dwelling thermal environment, light environment, acoustic environment from the aspects of shape, orientation, space layout, indoor partitions.

Derived Categories and the Analytic Approach to General Reciprocity Laws—Part II

Building on the topological foundations constructed in Part I, we now go on to address the homological algebra preparatory to the projected final arithmetical phase of our attack on the analytic proof of general reciprocity for a number field. In the present work, we develop two algebraic frameworks corresponding to two interpretations of Kubota'sn-Hilbert reciprocity formalism, presented in a quasi-dualized topological form in Part I, delineating two sheaf-theoretic routes toward resolving the aforementioned (open) problem. The first approach centers on factoring sheaf morphisms eventually to yield a splitting homomorphism for Kubota'sn-fold cover of the adelized special linear group over the base field. The second approach employs linked exact triples of derived sheaf categories and the yoga of gluingt-structures to evolve a means of establishing the vacuity of certain vertices in diagrams of underlying topological spaces from Part I. Upon assigning properly designedt-structures to three of seven specially chosen derived categories, the collapse just mentioned is enough to yieldn-Hilbert reciprocity.