'A small space of chaos’ : Elizabeth Grosz’s chaos, territory, art : Deleuze and the framing of the earth

Review of Elizabeth Grosz’s Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth

World peace for video art

A single channel video projection with image, text and sound components. It was projected so as entirely fill a 3 x 3.5 wall in a 6 x 3.5 metre gallery space. The work deals with the role of humour and the fictocritical in exploring the relationship between politics and art.

Great expectations : a project by Boxcopy for Federation Square, Next Wave Festival 2008

Part of the Next Wave MEMBRANE Project, Great Expectations draws attention to the parallels between our expectations of art and new technology to make the world a better place. The theme of the 2008 Next Wave Festival, ‘Closer Together’, refers to the way society is ― for the better or for the worse ― becoming increasingly connected by media and communication technologies. Sceptical of the acclaimed social achievements of new technologies, Boxcopy: Contemporary Art Space, a Brisbane-based artist-run initiative, explores the futility of human activities, including art production and consumption, with a collection of works created by young and emerging Brisbane artists. Works for this project include: Early machines such as the Commodore 64 were tape-based, and hence had their games distributed on ordinary cassettes (2009) by Tim Kerr & Extra Features (2008) by Tim Woodward; Spine (2008), Joseph Briekers; Whiteout (2008), Channon Goodwin; Explosive Revelations (2008), Daniel McKewen.

A Submission to the Inquiry into the Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Bill 2008 (Cth)

A right of resale, or droit de suite (a right to follow), is a legislative instrument under intellectual property law, which enables artists to receive a percentage of the sale price whenever artistic works are resold. A French legal scholar, Albert Vaunois, first articulated the need for a 'droit de suite' in connection with fine art back in 1893. The French Government introduced a scheme to protect the right of resale in 1920, after controversy over artists living in poverty, while public auction houses were profiting from the resale of their artistic creations. In the United States, there has been less support for a right of resale amongst legislatures. After lobbying from artists such as the king of pop art, Robert Rauschenberg, the state of California passed the Resale Royalties Act in 1977. At a Federal level, the United States Congress has shown some reluctance in providing national recognition for a right of resale in the United States. A number of other European countries have established a right of resale. In 2001, the European Council adopted the Artists' Resale directive and recognised that the 'artist's resale right forms an integral part of copyright and is an essential prerogative for authors.' In 2006, the United Kingdom promulgated regulations, giving effect to a right of resale in that jurisdiction. However, a number of Latin American and African countries have established a right of resale. The New Zealand Parliament has debated a bill on a right of resale.

Abductive translation studies : The art of marshalling signs

This dissertation contributes to the fields of theoretical translation studies, semiotic translation theory, and the semiotics of translation. The aim of this work is to explore the alternative and potential which the semiotic approaches to translation entail from the viewpoint of contemporary translation studies. The overall objective is thus to show that a general semiotic translation theory, and in particular, a Peircean translation theory, are possible and indispensable. Furthermore, this study contributes to the semiotranslational approach and to its theory-building by developing the concept of abductive translation (studies). The specific theoretical frame of reference adopted in this study is provided by the semiotranslation introduced by Dinda L. Gorlée. This approach is primarily based on the semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839 1914), and aims at a fusion of semiotics and translation studies. A more general framework is provided by the threefold background and material: the published and unpublished writings of Peirce, Peirce scholarship and Peircean-semiotic publications, as well as the translation-theoretical literature. Part One of this study concentrates on the justification, existence, and nature of the semiotic approaches to translation. This part provides a historical survey, a status report, and a discussion of this area of research, by employing the findings in a boundary-clearing that is multilayered both conceptually and terminologically. Part Two deals with Peircean semiotranslation. Here Gorlée s semiotranslational research is examined by focusing on the starting points, features, and development of semiotranslation. Attention is also paid to the state-of-the-art of semiotranslation theory and to the possibilities for future elaborations. Part Three focuses on the semiotranslational claim that translation is an abductive activity. The concept of abductive translation is based on abduction, one of Peirce s three modes of reasoning; at the same time Firstness, the category of abduction, becomes foregrounded. So abductive translation as a form of possibilistic translation receives here an extensive theoretical discussion by citing examples in which abduction manifests itself as (scientific) reasoning and as everyday contemplation. During this treatise, translation is first equated with sign action, then with interpretation and finally with reasoning. All these approaches appear to embody different facets of the same phenomenon Peirce s ubiquitous semiosis, and they all suggest that translation is inherently an intersemiotic activity in which a sign is inferred from another sign. Translation is therefore semiosis, semiosis is translation and interpretation, interpretation is reasoning, and so on ad infinitum all being manifestations of the art of marshalling signs. The three parts of this study are linked by the overall goal of abductive translation studies: investigation into abductive translation develops the theory of semiotranslation, and this enrichment of semiotranslation in turn constructs a semiotic paradigm within translation studies.

The Art of Sympathy : Forms of Moral and Emotional Persuasion in Fiction

"The Art of Sympathy: Forms of Moral and Emotional Persuasion" in Fiction is an interdisciplinary study that looks closely at the ways that stories evoke sympathy, and the significance of this emotion for the development of moral attitudes and awareness. By linking readers' emotional responses to fiction with the potential impact of such responses on "the moral imagination," the study builds on empirical research conducted by literary scholars and psychologists into the emotional effects of reading fiction, as well as social psychological research into the connections between empathy/sympathy and moral development. I first investigate the dynamics of readers beliefs regarding characters in fictional narratives, and the nature of the emotions that they may experience as a result of those beliefs. The analysis demonstrates that there are important similarities between real emotions and emotions generated by fiction. Recognizing these similarities, I claim, can help us to conceptualize the nature of sympathetic responses to fictional characters. Building on these assertions, I then draw on research from social psychology and philosophy to develop a comprehensive definition of sympathy and to clarify the ways in which sympathy operates, both in people s daily lives and in readers sympathetic responses to fictional characters. Having established this definition and delineated its practical implications, I then examine how particular stories, through a variety of narrative techniques, persuade readers to feel sympathy for characters who are unsympathetic in certain ways. In order to verify my claims about the impact of these stories on readers emotions, I also review the results of tests that I conducted with nearly 200 adolescent readers. Through these tests, which were constructed and scored according to methods prevalent in social psychological research, it was determined that a majority of readers felt sympathy for the protagonists in two of the stories included in the study. These results were combined with data from an additional test, a standard measure of empathy and sympathy in the field of social psychology. The cross-tabulation of these results suggests that there was not a strong connection between readers responses and their general tendencies to feel sympathy for others. This finding would appear to support my hypotheses regarding the sympathetic persuasiveness of the stories in question. In light of these results, finally, I consider the potential contribution that fiction can make to adolescent emotional and moral development and the implications of that potential for future language arts curricula in the schools. In particular, I suggest the pedagogical importance of providing adolescents with opportunities to engage with the lives of fictional characters, and especially to experience feelings of sympathy for individuals towards whom they ordinarily might feel aversion.

Bernard Bernstein Archive, 1941-2008 (bulk bulk 1960-1984).

Bernard Bernstein collection documents professional activities of Bernard Bernstein, a jeweler, metal smith, writer, and teacher. The collection includes artifacts, correspondence, documents, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, other visual materials, and sketches.The larger part of the collection includes materials dealing with the artistic side of Bernard Bernstein. These materials are found throughout the collection and consist of artifacts produced during his schooling at City College (Series I: Artifacts), various jewelry designs produced by Bernard Bernstein for commercial use (Series III: Designs), certificates and awards (Series V: General), and materials pertaining to a number of shows and exhibits that Bernard Bernstein was a part of (Series IV: Exhibitions and Art Catalogues).Other materials include documents pertaining to Bernard Bernstein education, professional carrier as a teacher ( Series II: City College of the City University of New York, Series V: General), and his articles in professional journals (Series VI: Printed Materials).In some cases materials are accompanied by Bernard Bernstein’s notes explaining the significance and provenance of the documents.

Every face on Vanity Fair’s Hollywood covers 1995-2008

‘Every face on Vanity Fair’s Hollywood covers 1995-2008’ renders an ethnographic-like study of Hollywood celebrity as a cinematic experience. Viewers are presented with constantly mutating portraits that violently twist and shear into other faces, while an immersive soundscape echoes the turbulent painterly surface. Through technical processes of scaling, looping and image morphing; the work explores a positive affectual response to the seductive power of celebrity imagery. Conceptually, given Vanity Fair magazine’s prestigious stature, the work also performs an ethnographic-mapping of the popularity of Hollywood stars over time, while at the same time creating in-between, ‘mutant’ versions of their visages. The installation explores the potential for fan-based responses to pop culture to lead to artworks that enable a more critical response to the subjective and intersubjective dynamics of celebrity portraiture. Questions are raised about how these cultural forms impact pop culture fans, and their role in the mapping of culture and social experience.

Prediction of the Indian summer monsoon rainfall using a state-of-the-art coupled ocean-atmosphere model

A state-of-the-art model of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system, the climate forecast system (CFS), from the National Centres for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), USA, has been ported onto the PARAM Padma parallel computing system at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Bangalore and retrospective predictions for the summer monsoon (June-September) season of 2009 have been generated, using five initial conditions for the atmosphere and one initial condition for the ocean for May 2009. Whereas a large deficit in the Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR; June-September) was experienced over the Indian region (with the all-India rainfall deficit by 22% of the average), the ensemble average prediction was for above-average rainfall during the summer monsoon. The retrospective predictions of ISMR with CFS from NCEP for 1981-2008 have been analysed. The retrospective predictions from NCEP for the summer monsoon of 1994 and that from CDAC for 2009 have been compared with the simulations for each of the seasons with the stand-alone atmospheric component of the model, the global forecast system (GFS), and observations. It has been shown that the simulation with GFS for 2009 showed deficit rainfall as observed. The large error in the prediction for the monsoon of 2009 can be attributed to a positive Indian Ocean Dipole event seen in the prediction from July onwards, which was not present in the observations. This suggests that the error could be reduced with improvement of the ocean model over the equatorial Indian Ocean.

Prudentia Iuris, 2008, n° 64-65 (número completo)

Presentación -- Parte I -- Breve relato sobre el Anticristo / Vladimir Soloiev -- Las enseñanzas de la iconografía / Marisa Mosto -- ¿Cómo se hace un ícono? / María Bargalló -- Michel Villey: Destructor de ídolos, creador de íconos / Carlos Raúl Sanz -- La racionalidad al rescate de la Naturaleza y la Ley Natural / María Celestina Donadío Maggi de Gandolfi -- Part II -- El cuadragésimo aniversario de la reforma del Código Civil (ley 17.711) /Carlos Raúl Sanz -- Parte III -- Segundo Encuentro Interuniversitario de Derecho de Familia. Controversias Jurídicas Actuales. Facultad de Derecho de la Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Buenos Aires, 4 de junio de 2008 -- Los principios ético-jurídicos del vínculo paterno-filial y familiar por adopción / Catalina Elsa Arias de Ronchietto -- Democratización de la familia y su incidencia en los vínculos jurídico-familiares / Ursula C. Basset -- El derecho del niño a la familia / Julio César Capparelli -- La filiación y sus controversias jurídicas modernas. Un asunto inquietante / Ursula C. Basset -- Impugnación de la paternidad matrimonial. La exclusión de la madre y del pretenso padre biológico / Jorge Oscar Perrino -- Parte IV -- Derecho y retórica. Una aproximación desde la academia estadounidense / Valentín Thury Cornejo -- Notas sobre la asistencia social / José Benjamín Gomez Paz -- La Justicia y el derecho en el pensamiento del Santo Tomás de Aquino y Hans Kelsen / Alberto Silvio Pestalardo -- San Agustín, Dante y la Globalización. Una invitación a la reflexión sobre la globalización y la laicidad / Carlos A. Gabriel Maino -- La esclavitud en la doctrina Aristotélica-Tomista / Sebastián Pierpaulli -- Hegel y la evangelización de la cultura / María Fernanda Balmaseda Cinquina -- Parte V -- Comentarios Bibliográficos -- Parte VI -- Las Enseñanzas del Papa S.S. Benedicto XVI -- Parte VII -- Documentos

El estatuto del ser humano en estado embrionario en el proyecto del Código Civil

Resumen: El artículo aborda el tema del estatus jurídico del ser humano en estado embrionario en el proyecto de nuevo Código Civil y Comercial presentado en 2012. Se parte de la cuestión de que el orden jurídico no crea la personalidad, sino que la reconoce en el ser humano por el solo hecho de serlo y se analiza el Código Civil de Vélez Sársfield en sus diversas interpretaciones. Se concluye que a la luz de la Constitución Nacional y el resto del derecho positivo vigente el ser humano en estado embrionario o fetal, desde el momento mismo de su concepción, goza de todos los derechos reconocidos y garantizados por el orden jurídico. En ese marco, se analiza el Artículo 19 del proyecto y se observa que realiza una arbitraria e injusta discriminación al establecer dos momentos para el comienzo de la existencia de la persona. Además, la redacción deja en una indefinición jurídica al ser humano fecundado y concebido extrauterinamente antes de su implantación. También se analiza el tema en relación con la propuesta de articulado referido al cuerpo humano (Art. 17). Se considera el peligro de cosificación y atentado contra la dignidad humana que encierra la propuesta.

Impacto económico de la Roya (Hemileia vastatrix) del Café (Coffea arábica) en Nicaragua en los ciclos comprendidos entre el (2008/2009 – 2012/2013)

En Nicaragua, la caficultura ha sido durante años el principal rubro de agro exportación, su importancia radica no solo en la generación de divisas, sino también en la capacidad de generación de empleos permanentes y temporales. La investigación se desarrolló en el periodo 2008 al 2013 y analiza el impacto de la roya en la economía Nicaragüense, con el objetivo de identificar las áreas cultivadas de café principalmente afectadas por la roya, calcular las pérdidas que se ocasionaron al producto interno bruto total del país, el saldo de la balanza comercial del café y el indicador de balanza comercial relativa que determina su competitividad, ya que es uno de los principales motores que dinamiza la economía nacional. La metodología utilizada consistió en retomar información secundaria de bases de datos de las organizaciones relacionadas a la temática tales como: BCN, CEPAL, SIECA y CAFENICA. La investigación desarrollada es cuantitativa, no experimental de tipo descriptivo, permite analizar la información encontrada en las bases de datos. Los principales hallazgos encontrados durante el estudio evidencia que las áreas destinadas a la cosecha de café no han permanecido constantes y que durante los ciclos 2011/2012 y 2012/2013 la roya afectó el 32% del total de las plantaciones de café, reduciendo de forma drástica la producción, afectando las exportaciones dejando de percibir U$ 114.6 millones de dólares en el 2011/2012 y U$ 68.9 millones de dólares en el 2012/2013, lo que llevo a la reducción de ingresos de las familias productoras y afectación de la economía del país. El impacto macroeconómico de la caída de las exportaciones ha disminuido el producto interno bruto total de Nicaragua en 0.04 y 0.03% para el 2012 y 2013 respectivamente, ésta crisis se ve reflejada en términos de desempleo rural para productores y miles de obreros agrícolas, ya que el café es una de sus principales fuentes de ingresos.

Competitividad Comercial del Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) en el Mercado Centroamericano,2008-2013

El cultivo del cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) en Centroamérica se concentra en pequeños y medianos productores que buscan acceder a nichos de mercados de cacao fino, por el cual adquieren mejores precios. El presente trabajo es una investigación no experimental de tipo descriptiva, el cual tiene por objetivo el análisis de la competitividad comercial del cacao, en el periodo 2008-2013 en el mercado centroamericano, destacándose la participación de Nicaragua en la producción de este rubro, comparando la participación de cada país en el comercio centroamericano de cacao, mediante el cálculo de indicadores de competitividad (Balanza comercial relativa y Especialización internacional) en este mercado. La metodología empleada para la realización del estudio fue la recolección de datos estadísticos relacionados a las áreas agrícolas, rendimientos, áreas cosechadas, producción y comercio de cacao en granos extraídos de las bases de datos de CEPAL, FAO, CETREX y SIECA, las que se utilizaron como insumo para elaborar bases de datos que fueron analizadas e interpretadas. Los resultados del estudio indican que Nicaragua posee la mayor área agrícola y obtiene la mayor cantidad de áreas cosechadas de cacao (6124.80 ha) mientras que Guatemala presenta los más altos rendimientos (2,655.87 kg/ha) y la mayor producción (10,808.73 t) de cacao en la región al ser favorecida por sus condiciones medioambientales. Nicaragua es el país más competitivo en el comercio centroamericano de cacao en grano al presentar los más altos indicadores de Balanza comercial relativa (1) y especialización internacional (0.85). Se concluye que Nicaragua aun cuando es superada en volumen de producción por Guatemala, tiene la capacidad de cubrir su demanda interna y exportar un alto excedente de su producción promedio (53%), de las cuales el (38%) están dirigidas al mercado centroamericano, esto demuestra que el país tiene alto grado de competitividad y vocación exportadora.