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On Ceplair’s The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later
No full textThe Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later. By Larry Ceplair. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2022. 246 pps., ISBN 978-0813195889 (hc) $27.95
The Antifascist Politics of Absolutely Inoperative Gestures: From Adorno to Agamben to the Marx Brothers
No full textThis essay turns to Giorgio Agamben and Theodor Adorno to understand the antifascist politics of gestural loss. Adorno offers a historical materialist framework for grounding this loss in the rise and fall of the bourgeoisie while Agamben offers a political response to this crisis of the gesture. This essay focuses on one gesture in particular—tact— in order to illustrate a series of dialectical turns that lead from tactful tact to tactless tact to tactful tactlessness. While these versions all lead to dead ends—culminating in either the reification of the culture industry or the domination of the fascist agitator—Agamben offers a paradoxical alternative: tactless tactlessness as the absolute inoperativity of tact. This final gesture is exemplified in visual comedy and in particular the Marx Brothers’ work, which demonstrates its potentially antifascist possibilities
Virtual Test Beds for Image-Based Control Simulations using Blender
Get PDFProcess systems engineering research often utilizes virtual testbeds consisting of physics- based process models. As machine learning and image processing become more relevant sensing frameworks for control, it becomes important to address how process systems engineers can research the development of control and analysis frameworks that utilize images of physical processes. One method for achieving this is to develop experimental systems; another is to use software that integrates the visualization of systems, as well as modeling of the physics, such as three-dimensional graphics software. The prior work in our group analyzed image-based control for the small-scale example of level in a tank and hinted at some of its potential extensions, using Blender as the graphics software and programming the physics of the tank level via the Python programming interface. The present work focuses on exploring more practical applications of image-based control. Specifically, in this work, we first utilize Blender to demonstrate how a process like zinc flotation, where images of the froth can play a key role in assessing the quality of the process, can be modeled in graphics software through the integration of visualization and programming of the process physics. Then, we demonstrate the use of Blender for testing image-based controllers applied to two other processes: (1) control of the stochastic motion of a nanorod as a precursor simulation toward image-based control of colloidal self-assembly using a virtual testbed; and (2) controller updates based on environment recognition to modify the controller behavior in the presence of different levels of sunlight to reduce the impacts of environmental disturbances on the controller performance. Throughout, we discuss both the setup used in Blender for these systems, as well as some of the features when utilizing Blender for such simulations, including highlighting cases where non-physical parameters of the graphics software would need to be assumed or tuned to the needs of a given process for the testbed simulation. These studies highlight benefits and limitations of this framework as a testbed for image-based controllers and discuss how it can be used to derive insights on image-based control functionality without the development of an experimental testbed
Counseling Self-Efficacy And Trainee Development In The Age Of Covid-19: A Quantitative Investigation
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic brought about considerable change with impacts to medical and mental health care as well as training and education within these fields. This cross-sectional research study utilized an online survey to examine trainee developmental impacts in a sample of N=70 mental health graduate trainees since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The following variables were examined: counseling self-efficacy (CSE), percentage of virtual clinical work completed, percentage of virtual coursework completed, self-compassion, perceived stress, COVID-related impacts and stress, telehealth attitudes, future telehealth preferences, perceptions of program support and telehealth preparedness, and trainee-specific variables (e.g., age, gender, years of mental health experience). Results of this study showed that trainees overalled reported more confidence counseling in-person compared to virtual formats. Percentage of virtual clinical work completed was significantly related to counseling self-efficacy (CSE) whereas percentage of virtual coursework completed did not relate to CSE. Trainees with an increased preference for future virtual clinical work tended to be older, have more positive attitudes regarding telehealth, and showed higher levels of counseling self-efficacy specifically for working in virtual counseling modalities. Self-compassion emerged as a potential protective variable associated with trainee development
Double Consciousness, Mirrors, and the Children Within Them: A Conceptual Reading of W. E. B. Du Bois\u27s As the Crow Flies
Get PDFThis research essay argues that W. E. B. Du Bois’s Crow from his magazine column “As the Crow Flies” is a figurative device for double consciousness and examines how aspects of double consciousness are present in the frequent motifs of dialectic doubleness in the column. Drawing from scholar Rudine Sims Bishop, this essay explores how the Crow functions as a mirror that children can use to realize their own double consciousness and thus see themselves. This insight into Du Bois’s news column provides a further understanding of the significance of accessible, multicultural children’s literature
