“WE LEARNED VIOLENCE FROM YOU”: DISCURSIVE PACIFICATION AND FRAMING CONTESTS DURING THE MINNEAPOLIS UPRISING

Following the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis became the epicenter of the largest movement in US history. Local Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, dubbed the Minneapolis Uprising, were met by the largest civil police deployment in state history. In the week following George Floyd’s murder, state and local officials convened ten press conferences totaling over 400 minutes of discourse. We use these press conferences, in conjunction with an ethnography of protests, to analyze how state officials counterframed Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd. Building on critical race theory, we consider how the state maneuvered to pacify Black Lives Matter protesters and maintain racial oppression and repression. Minneapolis state officials constructed their counterframe through the (re)ordering of disorder, boundary activation, co-optation, and erasure.

Enhancing the diagnostic performance of Condition Based Maintenance through the fusion of sensor with maintenance data

Although Maintenance data is crucial for authoritative reporting reasons and is generally used to optimizemaintenance planning in terms of budget, scheduling and logistics, the potentials of the implicit given informationfor Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) frameworks are not yet completely leveraged. Traditional PHMframeworks typically rely only on sensor data to derive a system’s health status, while maintenance, repair andoverhaul (MRO) data is not investigated. However, maintenance data contains valuable information on which partof a system is checked, serviced or replaced. At the same time, maintenance data is necessary for the labelling ofsensor data, the differentiation of multiple failure modes and includes the expert knowledge of the worker. Theoverall goal of the presented work is enable a model update through the integration of this information into atraditional (sensor-based) PHM/condition monitoring framework.In this context, the underlying data bases and structures will be analyzed and a generalized methodology isproposed to include maintenance data directly into the forward-modelling phase of a PHM/condition monitoringframework. The main goal is not only to use the labels derived from maintenance data for evaluation purposes(which is a common practice in PHM research), but to use this data to build a memory of the maintenance andhealth state history and thereby enhance the diagnostic capabilities of the framework. Methods from the field ofProbabilistic Programming and Bayesian Statistics seem promising and are implemented in order to incorporatefor uncertainties and to enable a confidence level for the diagnosis. The proposed concept is developed, tested andassessed in a simulation environment, allowing to investigate the influence of data confidence and label uncertaintyon the results. Furthermore, this allows to derive specific requirements for the input data and hence for the dataacquisition in the real world. The proposed concept is described in a generic way to be applicable on differentengineering domains (e.g. wind turbine or production machinery industry), but it will be tested and evaluated on areal world aviation use case. This concluding use case is defined in the context of the project INDI at TU Darmstadt(Intelligent Data Utilization in Maintenance) in cooperation with the project partner Lufthansa Technik AG.

Two Suns? The Algorithmic State: History and Theory

What follows is a history of cultural blindness. We might need to consider our historiography, the culture we find in the past, if you like, and the need to now reconstitute and re-frame that sense of history making the development of robotics and machine learning more central. Over in a usually forgotten corner there is a history of machines that may throw light on where we find ourselves today and in this section there is a consideration of that history, a story about robotics and theorists in this area unheard and unseen in many respects.

Scientific and technical discoveries of the 1920s and Ukrainian emigrationin in the Interwar Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1939)

This article informs about the impact of scientific and technological progress of the 1920s on everyday life of the Ukrainian emigration center in the interwar period of Czechoslovakia in 1918-1939. First of all, it is referred to technological novelties of the period in 1921-1929: cinematography, television, automobile manufacturing, fashion, medical industry, telegraph, and bank and post transfers. The proposed topic has not been submitted to the scientific audience yet, as far as the life of the Ukrainian emigration in the interwar of Czechoslovak Republic was considered mainly in the context of political and sociocultural work both emigrants themselves and the latest Ukrainian, Czech and Slovak historians. It is focused on two pointsin the proposed scientific intelligence: consideration of the everyday life of anti-Bolshevist emigration and of the lives of Ukrainian immigrants in Czechoslovakia which were arbitrarily distributed for four periods: 1918-1921, 1921-1925, 1925-1933, 1933-1939, all of which had its own specific features. Consideration of the Ukrainian everyday emigration life in the years 1921–1929 in the interwar of Czechoslovakia carried out with the help ofrecollection, memoirs, postal correspondence (letters) and archival documentation. Therefore, it implies the usage of general methods of the scientific research: analysis, analogy, historical and logical methods. The emigrational routine is a farsighted direction of the historical research, because it is the history of the small vivid worlds, peculiar alternative to the researches which are focused on global political and social processes and events.Everyday life is not minted in special decrees or laws;it is notrecorded in programs and speeches, as far as political and state history, and it is not honed by the financial gains in the economy, and by the cultural monuments, though it always exists like air, it goes unnoticed as time.

F.M. Dostoevsky on Vsechelovecheskoe and Vsechelovek: Origin and Reception

The article is devoted to the origins and reception of the concepts of the vsechelovecheskoe and vsechlovek in the work of the late F. Dostoevsky. N. Danilevsky’s book “Russia and Europe” attracted attention of the writer, because it contained ideas in tune with his own thoughts about the special role of Russia, destinated to unite the Slavs. However, the program of Dostoevsky was significantly different from the conception of Danilevsky: the scientist radically separated religion and politics, while for Dostoevsky religion was called to sanctify politics and point out the ideal of the development of the Russian state, history and humanity; Danilevsky considered the struggle of Russia and Europe inevitable, and the writer believed in the possibility of building of new relations with the Western Europe countries on the Christian fraternal principles. Moreover, Dostoevsky accepted the distinction between universal and vsechelovecheskoe, introduced by the author of “Russia and Europe”. The ideas of vsechelovecheskoe evolved not without the influence of the young philosopher V.S. Solovyov. The historiosophical views of Dostoevsky, concedered by his contemporaries to be overly naive and devoid of robust realism, were adopted by Silver Age thinkers and Eurasians. Using the category of vsechelovecheskoe V.F. Ern and V.I. Ivanov comprehended contemporary historical events, revolutions and wars. The Eurasians, who at first came closer to Danilevsky’s concept with its isolated cultural-historical types, subsequently came to a religious understanding of history in the spirit of A.S. Khomyakov, V.S. Soloviev, F.M. Dostoevsky and others.