Google Glass as a technique of self and the revitalisation of the monad

As the boundaries between public and private, human and technology, digital and social, mediated and natural, online and offline become increasingly blurred in modern techno-social hybrid societies, sociology as a discipline needs to adapt and adopt new ways of accounting for these digital cultures. In this paper I use the social networking site Pinterest to demonstrate how people today are shaped by, and in turn shape, the digital tools they are assembled with. Digital sociology is emerging as a sociological subdiscipline that engages with the convergence of the digital and the social. However, there seems to be a focus on developing new methods for studying digital social life, yet a neglect of concrete explorations of its culture. I argue for the need for critical socio-cultural ‘thick description’ to account for the interrelations between humans and technologies in modern digitally mediated cultures.

Untitled (Abstraction of Labour Time/ External Recurrence/Monad)

Commissioned print. Artist of the Month Club: February, 2010. January Curator: Mark Beasley. Invisible Exports Gallery, New York. Archival Inkjet Print on metallic silver polyester, 841 x 643mm. Edition of 50 + 10ap. Subsequently exhibited in the following exhibition: 'A Unicorn Basking in the Light of Three Glowing Suns' The Devos Art Museum School of Art & Design at Northern Michigan University October 8 – November 14, 2010 Curated by Anthony Elms and Philip von Zweck

Untitled (Abstraction of labour time eternal recurrence monad)

An AHRC funded project titled: Picturing ideas? Visualising and Synthesising Ideas as art (2009-10). Outputs including: 4 exhibitions; 4 publications; 3 papers; 2 largescale backlit digital prints; 1 commissioned print. (See Additional Information) ----ABSTRACT: Utilising the virtuality of digital imagery this practice-led project explored the possibility of the cross-articulation between text and image and the bridging or synthesising potential of the visual affect of ideas. A series of digital images were produced 'picturing' or 'visualising' philosophical ideas derived from the writings of the philosopher Giles Deleuze, as remodellings of pre-existing philosophical ideas; developed through dialogues and consultation with specialists in the fields from which the ideas were drawn (philosophy, psychology, film) as well as artists and theorists concerned with ideas of 'mental imagery' and visualisation. Final images were produced as a synthesis (or combination) of these visualisations and presented in the format of large scale, backlit digital prints at a series of prestigious international exhibitions (see details above). Evaluation took the form of a four page illustrated text in Frieze magazine (August 2009) and three papers delivered at University of Ulster, Goldsmiths College of Art and Loughborough University. The project also included the publication of a catalogue essay (EAST 09) and an illustrated poem (in the Dark Monarch publication). A print version of the image was commissioned by Invisible Exports Gallery, New York and subsequently exhibited in The Devos Art Museum, School of Art & Design at Northern Michigan University and in a publication edited by Cedar Lewisohn for Tate Publishing. The project was funded by an AHRC practice-led grant (17K) and Arts Council of England award (1.5K). The outputs, including high profile, publicly accessible exhibitions, prestigious publications and conference papers ensured the dissemination of the research to a wide range of audiences, including scholars/researchers across the arts and humanities engaged in practice-based and interdisciplinary theoretical work (in particular in the fields of contemporary art and art theory and those working on the integration of art and theory/philosophy/psychology) but also the wider audience for contemporary art.

Monad.

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On Extension of Functors onto the Kleisli Category of the Inclusion Hyperspace Monad

It is proved that there exists no extension of any non-trivial weakly normal functor of finite degree onto the Kleisli category of the inclusion hyperspace monad.

The monadic environment : evoking emotion and memory in participatory performance

This practice-led research project examined the audience experience of immersive environments in participatory performance. Drawing upon the work of artist Ilya Kabakov, Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space (1964) and Leibniz's theory of the monad, the study investigated how an immersive space can be constructed to evoke emotion and memory recall in participants. The research consisted of two cycles of creative experimentation resulting in the presentation of a final piece entitled Dulcet. The research contributes new terminology to the discourse surrounding the participant experience in immersive environments, specifically space-as-memory, the role of ambiguity in spatial design and the construct of the monadic environment.

Optimal control analysis of the dynamic growth behavior of microorganisms

Understanding the growth behavior of microorganisms using modeling and optimization techniques is an active area of research in the fields of biochemical engineering and systems biology. In this paper, we propose a general modeling framework, based on Monad model, to model the growth of microorganisms. Utilizing the general framework, we formulate an optimal control problem with the objective of maximizing a long-term cellular goal and solve it analytically under various constraints for the growth of microorganisms in a two substrate batch environment. We investigate the relation between long term and short term cellular goals and show that the objective of maximizing cellular concentration at a fixed final time is equivalent to maximization of instantaneous growth rate. We then establish the mathematical connection between the generalized framework and optimal and cybernetic modeling frameworks and derive generalized governing dynamic equations for optimal and cybernetic models. We finally illustrate the influence of various constraints in the cybernetic modeling framework on the optimal growth behavior of microorganisms by solving several dynamic optimization problems using genetic algorithms. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Inc.

The perception of emotion from body movement in point-light displays of interpersonal dialogue

We examined whether it is possible to identify the emotional content of behaviour from point-light displays where pairs of actors are engaged in interpersonal communication. These actors displayed a series of emotions, which included sadness, anger, joy, disgust, fear, and romantic love. In experiment 1, subjects viewed brief clips of these point-light displays presented the right way up and upside down. In experiment 2, the importance of the interaction between the two figures in the recognition of emotion was examined. Subjects were shown upright versions of (i) the original pairs (dyads), (ii) a single actor (monad), and (iii) a dyad comprising a single actor and his/her mirror image (reflected dyad). In each experiment, the subjects rated the emotional content of the displays by moving a slider along a horizontal scale. All of the emotions received a rating for every clip. In experiment 1, when the displays were upright, the correct emotions were identified in each case except disgust; but, when the displays were inverted, performance was significantly diminished for some ernotions. In experiment 2, the recognition of love and joy was impaired by the absence of the acting partner, and the recognition of sadness, joy, and fear was impaired in the non-veridical (mirror image) displays. These findings both support and extend previous research by showing that biological motion is sufficient for the perception of emotion, although inversion affects performance. Moreover, emotion perception from biological motion can be affected by the veridical or non-veridical social context within the displays.

Evidence of pseudomonad pollen formation in Hypolytrum (Mapanioideae, Cyperaceae)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A geração da vida em Leibniz

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Desenvolvimento da antera e do grão de pólen em espécies de Mapania Aubl. (Mapanioideae, Cyperaceae)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Similitudes y limitaciones a las similitudes entre Leibnitz y la teoría económica neoclásica

Se mostrará en este artículo qué similitudes podrían encontrarse entre la teoría económica neoclásica y las concepciones metafísicas de Leibniz y qué limitaciones tiene la pretensión de vincular a Leibniz con la teoría económica neoclásica de modo tal que se intente fundamentar dicha teoría en la ontología de Leibniz. Se analizarán conceptos tales como “mundo posible", “mónada", “Dios", “armonía preestablecida" y “mal", que serán contrastados con algunos conceptos de la teoría económica neoclásica: “individuo (o agente económico) maximizador de la utilidad", “equilibrio" y “escasez".

Relaciones y pluralismo

En la segunda mitad de este trabajo presentamos un "Breve discurso acerca del Pluralismo." Su propósito consiste en resaltar las categorías de relación y multiplicidad frente a los conceptos opuestos de término y unidad. Dicho énfasis sencillamente reconoce algo que ha venido sucediendo en diversas disciplinas durante algún tiempo, un intento que hoy es especialmente urgente, dado que hay muchos desarrollos notables en las ciencias que no podemos comprender adecuadamente -o incluso aceptar- sin efectuar cambios en nuestras categorías básicas. La primera mitad proporciona un marco apropiado. Se examina la intersubjetividad, mostrando de qué forma Edmund Husserl lucha entre dos enfoques en conflicto: la realidad de las relaciones humanas y la posición estrictamente subjetiva. Citamos unos pocos fragmentos de sus borradores póstumos para dejar que el ilustre autor hable por sí mismo y para mostrar lo inciertas que eran sus ideas sobre el tema. Husserl emplea en repetidas ocasiones el término "mónada". Unas pocas citas de la Monadología de Leibniz explicarán la razón de ello.

Relaciones y pluralismo

En la segunda mitad de este trabajo presentamos un "Breve discurso acerca del Pluralismo." Su propósito consiste en resaltar las categorías de relación y multiplicidad frente a los conceptos opuestos de término y unidad. Dicho énfasis sencillamente reconoce algo que ha venido sucediendo en diversas disciplinas durante algún tiempo, un intento que hoy es especialmente urgente, dado que hay muchos desarrollos notables en las ciencias que no podemos comprender adecuadamente -o incluso aceptar- sin efectuar cambios en nuestras categorías básicas. La primera mitad proporciona un marco apropiado. Se examina la intersubjetividad, mostrando de qué forma Edmund Husserl lucha entre dos enfoques en conflicto: la realidad de las relaciones humanas y la posición estrictamente subjetiva. Citamos unos pocos fragmentos de sus borradores póstumos para dejar que el ilustre autor hable por sí mismo y para mostrar lo inciertas que eran sus ideas sobre el tema. Husserl emplea en repetidas ocasiones el término "mónada". Unas pocas citas de la Monadología de Leibniz explicarán la razón de ello.

Relaciones y pluralismo

En la segunda mitad de este trabajo presentamos un "Breve discurso acerca del Pluralismo." Su propósito consiste en resaltar las categorías de relación y multiplicidad frente a los conceptos opuestos de término y unidad. Dicho énfasis sencillamente reconoce algo que ha venido sucediendo en diversas disciplinas durante algún tiempo, un intento que hoy es especialmente urgente, dado que hay muchos desarrollos notables en las ciencias que no podemos comprender adecuadamente -o incluso aceptar- sin efectuar cambios en nuestras categorías básicas. La primera mitad proporciona un marco apropiado. Se examina la intersubjetividad, mostrando de qué forma Edmund Husserl lucha entre dos enfoques en conflicto: la realidad de las relaciones humanas y la posición estrictamente subjetiva. Citamos unos pocos fragmentos de sus borradores póstumos para dejar que el ilustre autor hable por sí mismo y para mostrar lo inciertas que eran sus ideas sobre el tema. Husserl emplea en repetidas ocasiones el término "mónada". Unas pocas citas de la Monadología de Leibniz explicarán la razón de ello.