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La Chinoise and Aesthetic Dissensuality
Get PDFJean Luc-Godard and Jacques Ranciere are two of the most important intellectuals of their time— the first is a filmmaker whose films are considered to be some of the best French Cinema has produced, the latter is a philosopher whose works continue to immensely influence the intellectual current of the world. While it can be said that their lives did not intersect, their respective oeuvres are not totally different from each other, in fact, Ranciere in his works on Cinema has continuously referenced the films of Godard in explaining his theoretical concepts, and Godard for his part, although he never mentioned any awareness of it, seemingly molds his aesthetics after Ranciere’s views on art. Keeping this in mind, this paper will endeavor to present a concrete link between the works of these two sui-generis thinkers; in particular, the researcher will attempt to read one of Godard’s most little known films, La Chinoise, using one of Ranciere’s most famous theoretical concepts: dissensus. Dissensus is the necessary break/gap in the sensible order and could be seen in works of art. Hence, dissensus is primarily a concept that operates in the aesthetic order, a tick of the aesthetic regime—the researcher wishes to uncover the dissensuality/ies in Godard’s La Chinoise
A Web-Based Water Quality Prediction And Decision Support System for the Early Developmental Stage of Holuthuria scabra (Jaeger, 1833) Utilizing Bayesian Networks
Get PDFHoluthuria scabra is a high valued marine species in the Philippines. During its early developmental stage, the larvae depends on the water quality of the larval tank in order to survive. But as the quality of the larvae tank changes unpredictably, only 2% of the larvae survived into a juvenile. This research aims to develop a decision support system (DSS) using Bayesian Networks, which predicts the water quality of the larval tank during the early developmental stage of H. scabra and provides suggestion on the amount of water to be added to the larval tanks to maintain an optimum water quality. Using Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) to compute the forecast accuracy (FA), results show 84.37%, 88.44% and 88.44% accuracy in forecasting the salinity level, dissolved oxygen level and temperature, respectively and an overall FA of 87.08%. The FA in predicting the salinity level is significantly lower than the FA in predicting the dissolved oxygen level and temperature due to lack of variation on the training data. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) show that there is no significant difference (∝0.05<0.2576) between the advice of the DSS and human experts in the amount of water needed to be added to the larval tank
Out of the Streets: Aided Self-Help Housing and Poverty Alleviation through the Townhomes Project of Taguig City
Get PDFPoverty is a pervasive problem confronting the developing world. it is sosystemic that many types of government interventions have failed in addressing the phenomenon. Measuring poverty does not pertain to pure economics alone but rather it incorporates other dimensions of human reality as part and parcel of this debilitating human condition. it has restricted the potentialities of many individuals to pursue their ends and aspirations. The exponential growth of contemporary cities generates greater costs for people. Poor families from the rural areas migrate and often look for better opportunities in metropolitan areas where most of the resources are available. in the Philippines, most rural dwellers are heavily concentrated in Metro Manila. To lessen this, the government has provided the “Balik Probinsya” or Back to the Province Program, to lessen the overcrowding in cities. The research employed both the qualitative and quantitative method using the descriptive type of research. Using both methods provided the robustness and reliability of the data gathered. The research was intended to find out if a correlation exists between the participation of beneficiaries of the selected community and their self-rated poverty alleviation.
Entrepreneurial Community Extension Capabilities of the College of Business
Get PDFThis study reviewed the capabilities of the College of Business-PUP topromote or hasten entrepreneurial development through technology transfer to the local communities (barangay) that they adopted as part of its community extension program. The researcher used the descriptive research design, with two sets of survey questionnaires: one to get the profile of the 17 faculty members who handle entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial-related subjects in the College of Business (CB) of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), and the other to determine the perception of 24 barangay participants on the effectiveness/relevancy of community extension projects of the College. Percentages, arithmetic mean and standard deviation (for measure of dispersion) were computed to describe the data, particularly those that were related to the profile of respondent faculty members. Chi-square analysis with the use of contingency table was employed for hypotheses that involved measure of associations, like the entrepreneurial traits of the faculty members and their profile variables. Correlation coefficient was computed, and inputs were tested for 5% level of significance. Tests for significance of data relating to the community extension project were conducted using two-sample t-test and ANOvA.
The study revealed that the College of Business has the legal mandate and adequate policy support to provide entrepreneurial development-related program (formal education) and embark on community extension programs/projects (nonformal education); and there is an existing institutional structures responsible for the development, implementation and coordination of education program and community extension program. The study also showed that the present program offerings are employee culture-oriented rather than self-employed culture oriented, and have a strong foundation on business core courses (subjects), but are wanting in entrepreneurial core courses such as start-up courses; courses that would provide students a broad-based understanding of the private sector particularly MSMes; courses and instructional methods that would allow active involvement (practical exposure) in new and emerging ventures; action-based instructional materials; and courses that develop well-defined entrepreneurial traits, skills, and competencies that must be acquired by students upon graduation.
Results of the study showed the profile of typical faculty in the College of Business: a female, 48 years old, married, master’s degree holder, with 17 years of work experience in the academe and with less than three years of involvement in community extension projects. This highlights the increasing and dominant role of women, both experienced and educationally prepared, in academic institutions. The study revealed that the business academics sector is aging and many are about to retire. The study also found that the respondent faculty members, in general, perceived themselves to have all the entrepreneurial traits although in varying degree of possession, moderate to high, and those with work experience outside the academe have a higher level of educational attainment than those without experience outside the academe.
This study showed that the entrepreneurial thrust, duration of the program, logistics, venue and relevance of subject matter were positively perceived to be effective and relevant to respondent participants’ entrepreneurial development. Moreover, respondent participants perceive the resource person/s in the extension projects to be credible, capable of establishing rapport with participants and using effective methodologies
D(I)aspora: Discourse, Multimodality, and the Speaking of Migrant Subjects in New Media
Get PDFThe paper has two main aims: first, I emphasize the need for a multimodal lens in discourse analysis; second, I present a critique of the discursive construction of migrant identity on Internet-based new media platforms that are produced by state institutions (i.e. official websites) and created by individual migrants on their own personal social media profiles. Using a multimodal framework that accounts for not only words but the various semiotic resources available to participants in online media content production, I focus my analysis on two sets of cases of official texts from Philippine and New Zealand government migration websites and three sample cases of social media content by Auckland-based Filipino migrants in New Zealand. In both the official and individual texts, there is an apparent idealization and romanticization of migrant life in New Zealand depicted mainly through the hegemonic images of “home”, “family”, and “childhood” that act as nodal points in setting up discursive boundaries. Although it may seem that individual agency is not realized in the purported democratized avenues of expression of the Internet, Iargue that migrant self-presentation online or offline is contingent on the very complexity and contradictions ofmigrant daily life as configured by both the home and host nations
Is the ASEAN Ready for Economic Integration? The Evidence from Panel Data Regressions
Get PDFComplementary to the commitment of building the ASeAN economicCommunity (AeC) is the necessity to assess productivity and economic growth across the region. The prior experience of similar economic communities posit the importance of a strong production base in order to achieve a unified growth trend. in recent years, the general growth behavior of several ASeAN member states, taken individually, have been optimistic. in this paper, the paradigm for evaluating readiness towards economic integration used a Cobb-Douglas production function to identify key factors that may affect the sustainability of integration. The results of the panel data regression analysis reveal that both labor and capital are significant contributing factors to economic growth, taken individually among countries and collectively as a region. The evidence further indicates that the region is not yet ready for economic integration and that country-specific characteristics are apparent. This implies that in order to achieve a sustainable economic integration that benefits all ASEAN member states, further assessment and unification of economic policies within and among nations has to be made, especially those relating to the development of home-grown technologies and the establishment of a truly strong market and production base
The Theory and Praxis of Workers Cooperatives as Models of the Social Economy and Paradigm for Capital Innovation
Get PDFAnchored on presenting the theory and praxis of workers cooperatives as models of the social economy, the researchers believe that cooperative enterprises, the most humanist type of organization to thrive in the last two centuries, were able to change poor people’s and marginalized worker’s lives by providing employment opportunities, thus uplifting their socioeconomic condition. The hypothesis is that a firm competing within the mainstream, local, and/or global markets can survive not only because of the profit orientation of the business enterprise but more due to its social characteristics and value for the member worker-owner of the cooperative firm, which is contrary to the dominant business model exposed by Friedman, whose major concern is the profit bottom line. It is also asserted that the organizational coherence and adherence to the universally accepted cooperative principles are some of the reasons why these cooperative business organizations exist
Enforcing the Canon Law:Normative Pluralism and Clerical Abuse in the Catholic Church
Get PDFThis article investigates why clerical abuse of Catholic priests persists in the Church using the sociological andnormative pluralist perspectives. It analyzes how the various informal normative standards of the Church—doctrinal, ethical, or biblical—affect the enforcement of Canon Law on clerical abuse by bishops, particularly onhow they decide on specific cases on the diocesan level. It also investigates how the cultural values and normsinfluence the bishop’s decision whether to sanction erring priests or not or to prosecute abuse cases in civilcourts. Unlike the state, the Church has no professional judicial system with a set of legal codes, a hierarchy of ecclesial judges and prosecutors, as well as a comprehensive penal law to assess cases of clerical abuseobjectively following the principle of “rule of law.” Thus, the informal norms of mercy and compassion, eternalcharacter of the priesthood, camaraderie in the ministry among priests, and other cultural values and norms in thelocal culture, tend to dominate over the strict penal provisions of the Canon Law against clerical abuse in the bishops’ investigation and decision. Faced with multiple normative criteria in judging abuse cases and given thewide ecclesial powers given to them by the Church, local bishops then acquire more discretionary powers to keepinvestigations of clerical abuse internally in the spirit of evangelical mercy and compassion in order to preserveChurch’s unity and fellowship of the clergy. This strategy, however, slows down the filing of clerical abuses cases in civil courts and faces the risk of being seen by victims and Church members as a cover-up and grave injustice
Rethinking Marx: Demystifying the Nomos of Filipino Consumerism as Conditioned by Capitalism
Get PDFThis paper is an attempt to expose the underlying forces which shaped Filipino consumerism at present. It becomes evident that the postmodern world has engendered strong support to the development of the forces of production. It even creates a crucial turning point in the manner the members of society change their priorities of consumption from necessity to luxury. The 21st century has pushed our society towards the creation of the consumerist environment. After the frantic circulation of capital which eventually landed in concentration on the hands of the few Filipino economic elites, our society’s drive for consumption was set in motion. In essence, this is a genuine reflection of Marx’s belief on the manner the productive forces manipulate the desires and interests of their subjects- the consumers. The ideas of Karl Marx have never been more relevant than they are today. Looking at the present state of Filipino consumerism, it is the exact scenario prophesized by Marx in his writings regarding capitalism and its preservation of the economic order. The plight of consumerism is dictated by the power of the capitalist which in effect, controls different modes of exchange in our society. As such, it is a crisis which creates a thirst for a Marxist theory in our attempt to analyze the problem from its very core. The dominating power of the capitalist becomes more visible in its capacity to manipulate the mentality and desires of the members of the consumerist society. It creates an infatuating technique which engenders “false needs” among consumers. This manipulation torments the very rationality of man. The dangerous spell it creates on the rationality lies in the manner commodity is taken as seemingly possessing a magical power navigating all possible desires created by man in his interest for consumption. In effect, the society enters a mystical state as consumption is controlled by the capitalist system. This mystification of consumerism is subtle yet a potent technique used by the capitalist to exploit the consuming minds of the public. Thus, the real challenge faced by the Filipinos today is to move awayfrom the manipulative power of the ruling economic elites and break the spell by forming a demystified state in one’s consciousness
Struggle and Survive: Difficulties Encountered by Students Undertaking Research
Get PDFThis study aimed to find out the perception of the respondents on the importance of undertaking research, and the difficulties encountered by undergraduate students in doing research in terms of the following stages: (i) preparing the proposal, (ii) conducting the research, and (iii) writing the research paper, and to determine the measures undertaken to pursue research despite the difficulties encountered in the aforementioned stages. The researchers utilized the descriptive method with a self-constructed questionnaire as the main data gathering instrument. The respondents were 103 College of Arts and Sciences fourth year students who have already taken Research 101 and 102, and are done with their final thesis defense. Data gathered were tabulated and analyzed using relative frequency and weighted mean. Based on the data gathered, the composite mean of 4.41 revealed that undergraduate students perceived research to be a vital component of their academic endeavor during college. They agreed that they encountered difficulties in writing the proposal, conducting the research, and writing the research paper. This was shown with composite means of 4.09, 3.89, and 4.01, respectively. Respondents likewise agreed that measures were taken to pursue writing the proposal, conducting the research, and writing the research paper, with weighted means of 4.29, 4.12, and 4.19, respectively. These findings led the researchers to conclude that research is perceived to be an important undertaking in an undergraduate student’s stay in college.