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The Ruins Of Solitude: Maternity At The Limits Of Academic Discourse
No full textWhat happens when love unravels one’s knowledge structures? In The Ruins of Solitude, after the birth of a child, Bragg embraces the event of love and examines the resulting disintegration of her supposed authorial subjectivity. Against the pressure to produce and organize knowledge—the pressure of writing a dissertation, for example—Bragg contemplates the poetic modes of thinking and ethics that emerge from her experience of reading continental philosophy while caring for her infant child. Dwelling on what she would have once excluded from her intellectual work—her maternity, the mole on her chest, her palm against another body, her exhaustion at the work of deconstruction—Bragg details a shift in her orientation and method that leads to creative theoretical thought, allowing her to illuminate and interrogate what she names “solitude,” a condition of academic discourse that limits our critical-liberatory projects of transformation. Ultimately, The Ruins of Solitude lets go of authority and mastery, and engages in a poetic and fractured writing style that lets in the relationality of thought. Bragg offers a philosophy of bodies beyond solitude and an intimacy of love and writing that fractures solitude, bringing forward the possibility of selfhood and authorship uncontained by the isolationist, tangible time of the present. Bragg’s book also unravels familiar narratives of childcare, considering the parallels between poststructuralist theory and the embodied materiality of relation
Bifurcation And Multiplicity Results For Elliptic Problems With Subcritical Nonlinearity On The Boundary
No full textWe consider an elliptic problem with nonlinear boundary condition involving nonlinearity with superlinear and subcritical growth at infinity and a bifurcation parameter as a factor. We use re-scaling method, degree theory and continuation theorem to prove that there exists a connected branch of positive solutions bifurcating from infinity when the parameter goes to zero. Moreover, if the nonlinearity satisfies additional conditions near zero, we establish a global bifurcation result, and discuss the number of positive solution(s) with respect to the parameter using bifurcation theory and degree theory
Swastikas at Swat and Student Holocaust Memorial Culture
Get PDFA series of antisemitic incidents on the campus of Swarthmore College in 2016 invoked a larger memory culture of the Holocaust for Jewish students. This phenomenon was not an aberration, but rather the product of a well-documented effort by Jewish organizations to create a Holocaust memorial culture that would leave a lasting impact on those who experienced it, especially students. By researching the larger picture of how Holocaust Memory culture was created, and using that and Maurice Halbwachs\u27s “lieu de mémoire\u27\u27 method of historiography as frameworks, we gain insight into how some Jewish students’ perceptions of antisemitism in 2016 were shaped by Holocaust memory culture
With Liberty and Justice For All? The U.S. Internment of Japanese Peruvians During World War II
Get PDFAfter the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States committed to a policy of interning more than 120,000 Japanese Americans. While Japanese American detention remains the most researched instance of wartime internment, the U.S. incarceration of Japanese Peruvians merits equal attention. The political forces behind Japanese Peruvian internment transcended the more common explanations that haunt so much of literature today. Racism and hysteria played their respective roles in this history of wartime internment, but as the war progressed, other reasons for Japanese internment emerged. On January 4, 1942, the Japanese began interning American civilians in the Philippines. Days later, the U.S. State Department decided to hold Japanese Peruvians hostage for the purpose of aiding American repatriation. America used hostage-taking as a political instrument of war, facilitating the return of more than 3,000 American citizens. Such retaliation, however, came at the human cost of interning more than 1,000 Japanese Peruvians without charge in places like Crystal City, Texas
Dynamical Architectures Of S-Type Transiting Planets In Binaries. I. Target Selection Using Hipparcos And Gaia Proper Motion Anomalies
Get PDFThe effect of stellar multiplicity on planetary architecture and orbital dynamics provides an important context for exoplanet demographics. We present a volume-limited catalog of up to 300 pc of 66 stars hosting planets and planet candidates from Kepler, K2, and TESS with significant Hipparcos-Gaia proper motion anomalies, which indicates the presence of companions. We assess the reliability of each transiting planet candidate using ground-based follow-up observations, and find that the TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) with significant proper anomalies show nearly four times more false positives due to eclipsing binaries compared to TOIs with marginal proper anomalies. In addition, we find tentative evidence that orbital periods of planets orbiting TOIs with significant proper anomalies are shorter than those orbiting TOIs without significant proper anomalies, consistent with the scenario that stellar companions can truncate planet-forming disks. Furthermore, TOIs with significant proper anomalies exhibit lower Gaia differential velocities in comparison to field stars with significant proper anomalies, suggesting that planets are more likely to form in binary systems with low-mass substellar companions or stellar companions at wider separation. Finally, we characterize the three-dimensional architecture of LTT 1445 ABC using radial velocities, absolute astrometry from Gaia and Hipparcos, and relative astrometry from imaging. Our analysis reveals that LTT 1445 is a nearly flat system, with a mutual inclination of ∼2fdg88 between the orbit of BC around A and that of C around B. This coplanarity may explain why multiple planets around LTT 1445 A survive in the dynamically hostile environments of this system
Bridging Bayesian, Frequentist And Fiducial Inferences Using Confidence Distributions
No full textBayesian, frequentist, and fiducial (BFF) inferences are much more congruous than have been perceived historically in the scientific community (e.g., Reid and Cox (2015); Kass (2011); Efron (1998)). Most practitioners are probably more familiar with the two dominant statistical inferential paradigms, Bayesian inference and frequentist inference. The third, lesser known fiducial inference paradigm was pioneered by R.A. Fisher in an attempt to define an inversion procedure for inference as an alternative to Bayes’ theorem. Although each paradigm has its own strengths and limitations subject to their different philosophical underpinnings, this chapter intends to bridge these different inferential methodologies by calling upon confidence distribution theory and Monte-Carlo simulation procedures, thereby increasing the range of possible techniques available to both statistical theorists and practitioners across all fields
d/Deaf Identity Construction in Mainstream and Deaf Schools: A Narrative Analysis
No full textCentering the narratives of four d/Deaf staff members at an anonymous deaf school, this project analyzes how educational experiences in mainstream versus deaf schools impact the development of d/Deaf identities. First, traditional narrative analysis frameworks are placed in conversation with Disability Studies and Deaf Studies to uplift the legitimacy of American Sign Language (ASL) narratives. Then, four d/Deaf narratives are introduced and analyzed, highlighting the diversity of d/Deaf experiences and emphasizing the importance of deaf schools and spaces for identity development in deaf children. I relate these findings to educational and linguistic scholarship, and consider implications for deaf education
How Histories And Pedagogies Intertwine: An Educator’s Purpose
No full textIn this autoethnographic description of her training and teaching philosophy, Chandra Moss-Thorne offers connections between dance history and pedagogy. Explicitly, the article traces Moss-Thorne\u27s experiences as a ballet student and how her instructors inform her own teaching, thereby offering paths and ideas to teachers and students about how to approach ballet classes in ways that foster intelligence, creativity, and collaboration. Implicitly, this research challenges approaches to dance education that focus on teachers’ priorities without accounting for either their own histories or students’ perspectives and feedback. Moss-Thorne\u27s teaching is distinguished by her awareness, and her acknowledgement of students as human beings with differing needs and expectations
A New Definition Of Vortex Formation Length
No full textWe introduce a new definition of vortex formation length for uniform steady flow past a circular cylinder using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) of the pressure field. Previous definitions each identify a single characteristic length for a given value of Reynolds number. We use the leading modes of the pressure POD to define upper and lower bounds on the vortex formation length. Identifying a range for the vortex formation length is consistent with the hysteresis observed in the critical spacing of two tandem cylinders