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Universal Basic Income from the ‘Buen Vivir’ Decolonial Perspective
Full text linkThis article interrogates the relationship between Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a policy tool and Buen Vivir as a conceptual framework, interpreting their significance within the domains of sustainable development and socio-environmental justice. Through a critical examination of conventional development paradigms from a decolonial perspective, we identify a substantial lacuna in the extant literature: the imperative to incorporate epistemologies from the Global South into social policy formulation. Employing non-systematic literature review methodologies, we reflect on how Buen Vivir principles might inform UBI implementations. Our reflections emphasise the necessity of reconceptualising social policies through a lens that not only critiques prevailing economic structures but also valorises and recuperates indigenous and local knowledge systems. Our central objective is to propose the notion of decolonizing Universal Basic Income (UBI), understood as the process of reimagining UBI through Southern epistemologies that challenge Eurocentric assumptions about well-being, development, and human-nature relationships. In doing so, it aims to contribute to scholarship on social and environmental development within the context of post-development thought
Searching for the Politics of the Impossible: Georges Bataille and the Gesture of Literature
Full text linkIn this paper we will focus on the project of the politics of the impossible, announced by Georges Bataille in one of his letters. This project presupposes a politics that is, in a productive sense, the conversion of violence into institutions. Turning to experience, Bataille characterizes politics as the domain of a project that leads to its completion. At its end, however, he does not find a synthesis of subject and object, but rather a negation of the project as such. Instead of absolute knowledge, non-knowledge. The project of knowledge is inseparably linked to a sovereign experience, which, however, stands beyond its limits. But this experience keeps returning, and its ignorance by politics ultimately leads to wars, fascism and other forms of catastrophic violence. The politics of the impossible attempts to be a response to this sovereign experience. We will try to show that Bataille saw a certain solution in the gesture of literature. This gesture appears to be crucial to the politics of the impossible. We will therefore try to show what this gesture consists in and what consequences it has for politics
An Argument Against Transcendence
Full text linkThis essay takes up a proposition undergirding much of the Black studies as well as contemporary efforts at unifying theory and practice. Amiri Baraka would call for a turn away from fantastic deferrals of freedom to be had in the beyond during the same time that Stuart Hall would call for a formalization of the mechanisms instituting relations of subordination and dominance from within. I argue that in considering theory and practice as a unified procedure, we circumvent the failings of searching for solutions transcendent to a world that we compose and recompose from within
Human Rights Critique and Political Agency in the Global South through the Perspectives of Alain Badiou
Full text linkThis article critically engages with the philosophical perspectives of Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, contrasting their affirmative approaches to political agency with the criticisms of human rights offered by Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben. The analysis highlights the limitations of traditional human rights frameworks, especially in addressing complex issues such as migration and displacement. Badiou\u27s ontology, centered on the concept of Event and the \u27nomadic proletariat,\u27 provides a compelling framework for understanding migrant struggles, particularly in Brazil, where historical patterns of migration and labor exploitation have shaped the sociopolitical landscape. Similarly, Rancière\u27s theory of dissensus emphasizes the need for political subjectivation to break with the status quo and include marginalized populations. In contrast, Arendt and Agamben critique the intrinsic flaws in human rights discourse, arguing that it reinforces the domination of the nation-state and contributes to the exclusion and exploitation of those considered outsiders. The article concludes that neither existing human rights frameworks nor the critiques offered by Arendt, Agamben, or Derrida\u27s concept of hospitality are sufficient to address the needs of displaced populations. Instead, it advocates for Badiou\u27s and Rancière\u27s disruptive, event-oriented approaches, calling for a radical rethinking of political agency and human rights to meet the global challenges of the 21st century
Life and Ontology: Physis, Naturalism, Phenomenology
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Re-Enacting Natural Histories: Heidegger and Collingwood on the Historicity of Living Nature - TOM GREAVES Dilthey and Carnap: Empiricism, Life-Philosophy, and Overcoming Metaphysics - ERIC S. NELSON
Merleau-Ponty\u27s Ontology of Life - JAMES DIFRISCO
The Trembling of the Concept: The Material Genesis of Living Being in Hegel\u27s Realphilosophie - JOSEPH CAREW
The Knowledge of Life in Canguilhem\u27s Critical Naturalism - JONATHAN SHOL
Nietzsche\u27s Non-Reductive Naturalism: Evolution, Teleology, and Value - DAVID STOREY lmagism: Bataille and Prehistoric Life - A Review of Georges Bataille\u27s The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture - DAVID VAN DUS
A Machine Learning Approach to Augment Security in NFC-Based Access Control Systems
No full textNear-field communication (NFC) is widely used in access control systems such as payment processing and regulating access to facilities. Due to its decentralised nature, NFC is constrained by resource limitations, making it vulnerable to exploits such as key cloning. This study investigated the effectiveness of machine-learning algorithms in visually distinguishing cards as an added security measure against unauthorised cloned cards.
The methodology includes collecting datasets, building classification models (CNN, KNN and SVM), performance evaluations and integration of the best-performing model into an NFC prototype, Clone Guard. Performance evaluations included accuracy, precision, F1-score and recall metrics. We found that CNN was the best-performing model, with a prediction accuracy of 96 per cent.
Experimental results showed that noisy datasets produced a more robust model than noiseless datasets. Heatmap visualisations indicate that distinct colours and bold text regions contributed significantly to the model’s decision-making. Despite the high accuracy on test data, the prototype performed less accurately when classifying scanned cards.
The study provided a basic evaluation of classification algorithms, concluding that deep learning offered greater suitability. The implications of the prototype extended into the applied research domain, offering a configurable and deployable solution to improve the resilience of NFC-based access systems against unauthorised cloned cards
Ruy Mauro Marini’s thought and neodevelopmentalism in Brazil (2003-2016): Subimperialism, autonomy and renewed dependency
Full text linkMarxist Dependency Theory is currently experiencing a revival as a pivotal framework of analysis for the study of global economy from a peripheral perspective. In particular, Ruy Mauro Marini’s thought still holds a prominent place both in Marxist theory and in Latin American critical social sciences as an irreplaceable tool and method for analysis and agency. As this paper will show, his original and situated approach to the theory of imperialism offers a key grounding to the study of the capitalist State in Brazil in the context of a new stage of South America’s subordinate international insertion into the global economy. Marini’s subimperialism comes in play when assessing the foreign policy of “neodevelopmentalism” (2003-2016) as a “hybrid” international politics between renovated efforts at independence and autonomy and recharged subaltern imperialism. Also, his contributions around the concept of semiperiphery, are paramount to apprehend the progress of processes such as the “mundialization” and the “deconcentrated centralization” of capital and their effect on Brazil’s enhanced dependent international insertion. As such, Marxist Dependency Theory analytical tools, and Marini’s “method” of complementing thorough class analysis with a Political Economy perspective on a country’s mode of insertion in the world market, prove once again to be key to any effort at understanding the contemporary transformation of the centre-periphery nexus worldwide and Brazil’ subordinate role in it
Intentional Re-framing of Self-Care as an Institutional Priority in Postgraduate Teaching
Full text linkThe prioritization of self-care in postgraduate teaching has emerged as a critical yet often overlooked component of both personal and professional success. As the intensifying demands of the role continue to test the boundaries of mental wellness and professional sustainability, the absence of structured, institutionally supported mechanisms for educator well-being has become increasingly apparent. Rather than being embedded in formal support systems, self-care is often treated as an individual responsibility, managed informally or in isolation, leaving educators vulnerable to burnout, emotional exhaustion, and disengagement. This review synthesizes peer- reviewed studies using a critical approach to evaluate institutional practices regarding postgraduate teachers’ well-being. It identifies key gaps in support systems, including the lack of integrated mental health frameworks and limited access to preventive wellness resources. In response, the paper proposes deliberate strategies such as the development and implementation of comprehensive institutional mental health policies and the establishment of ongoing preventive wellness programs tailored to academic staff, emphasizing stress management, resilience, and holistic well-being. These measures reconceptualize educators not merely as knowledge transmitters but as whole individuals navigating complex professional and emotional demands. By positioning mental wellness as an institutional responsibility rather than a personal afterthought, this shift redefines self- care from an isolated coping mechanism into a collective, strategic necessity for achieving sustainable excellence in academia
Journal of PGR Pedagogic Practice: Evolving Experiences in Postgraduate Teaching: Navigating Changing Landscapes, Practices, and Technologies
No full textThis year’s Journal of Postgraduate Pedagogies and Practice (JPPP) Issue 5 editorial team is led by Arpit Jindal (Chemistry/Life Sciences) and mentored by Meifang Zhuo (Applied Linguistics), supported by a dynamic group of Post-Graduate Research Teacher Champions from across the University of Warwick: Areesh Fatmee (Warwick Medical School), Clarissa Muller-Kosmarov (Philosophy), Alisha Rodgers (School of Engineering), Usoro Akpan (Warwick Medical School), and Adila Fazleen Che Manan (Education Studies). Together, the seven-member team brings a rich range of disciplinary expertise, cultural backgrounds, and lived experiences, reflecting the inclusive spirit of both the JPPP and the Warwick Postgraduate Teaching Community (WPTC). United by a commitment to inclusivity, innovation, and the advancement of PGR teaching and2 learning, the team works collaboratively to produce a journal issue that amplifies diverse voices while strengthening the visibility and impact of postgraduate teachers across the university
The ARTS RIGHTS JUSTICE (ARJ) Programme
Full text linkThis article examines the ARTS RIGHTS JUSTICE (ARJ) Programme, developed at the University of Hildesheim in Germany, to address the growing global suppression of artistic freedom and expression. Launched in 2017, the programme includes summer academies that train experts in supporting artists at risk and includes an online library providing resources on artistic freedom. The author contextualises this initiative within UNESCO\u27s 2005 Convention on Cultural Diversity, along with debates over decolonising international cooperation. The programme identifies critical thematic areas requiring attention: censorship mechanisms, advocacy, networking, monitoring, fair collaboration, mobility justice, and hosting at-risk artists. Collaboration emerges as essential for sector-strengthening, exemplified by partnerships with organisations like ICORN and UNESCO. The article emphasises the need for globally distributed, locally-rooted actors, to ensure that universal human rights principles are integrated within diverse cultural narratives, contexts, organisations and institutions