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Tyers, Theresa L. and Patricia Skinner, eds. Gender and the 'Natural' Environment in the Middle Ages. Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023. 272 pages, £70 for hardback and epub. ISBN 978-1-83772-057-6.
Get PDFCare crisis
No full textCare is increasingly narrativised as being “in crisis,” due to the systematic erosion of care infrastructures and the financialisation of all forms of care (e.g. social care, eldercare, childcare, disability care, healthcare). This chapter argues that “care crisis” is in fact a crisis in and of time. Care is made through practices that do not align with the time of production, progress or growth, but instead involve the uncertain temporalities of sustaining interdependence: waiting, staying, enduring, persisting and repeating. While crisis calls for decision and action, we argue that care requires being prepared to stick with another kind of time. Using the affective quality of “flatness” anatomised in Noreen Masud’s memoir A flat place (2023) and connecting it with the importance of a depressed mood, this chapter develops the notion of “depressing time” to describe the temporal conditions of collective waiting in and for care. This “depressing time” is neither a form of future grief nor melancholia linked to past traumas, but a way to choose to “know” about crisis and violence without moving into the temporality of anti-crisis (Roitman, 2016)
A novel hierarchy-based knowledge discovery framework for elucidating human aging-related phenotypic abnormalities
Get PDFAging is a complex biological process involving multiple genes that are also related to phenotypic abnormalities. However, the micro view of the associations between aging and human phenotypic abnormalities is still under-studied. We propose a novel framework, HFSKDD, that uses a new hierarchical ontology terms selection method, EL-HIP, to discover patterns between Gene Ontology and Human Phenotype Ontology databases. The experimental results confirm that EL-HIP obtained better performance than the state-of-the-art hierarchical ontology terms selection method in predicting human phenotypic abnormality annotations, whilst HFSKDD also successfully highlighted some insightful associations between aging processes and human phenotypic abnormalities
Unseen particles in time: coproducing transcultural memory as a discourse of TV legitimacy within the Sky/HBO Miniseries TV event, Chernobyl (2019)
No full text“Unseen Particles in Time” considers what it is to produce a mediated transcultural memory as historic witness of Chernobyl within the context of a contemporary high-end transnational TV coproduction. This contribution adds to the debate of (trans)national imaginaries facilitated by a cross-border media environment, with a case study of the first collaboration between Sky in association with HBO Miniseries: Chernobyl (2019), a story of a catastrophic national disaster with transnational implications. Drawing on theories of memory and the politics of culture, I seek to explore how a memory of this unparalleled disaster is made in the process of a transnational coproduction 30 years after the fact, an enterprise which legitimatises a specific field of TV cultural production. Questions of time, spatio-temporality and memory as a language of time threads through the thesis, as this chapter explores the production of transcultural memories in televisual aesthetics and textual properties to represent a transnational television legitimacy
Pandemonium and critique
No full textIntroduction to Parallax 30(2), edited by Margarita Palacios and Lasse Thomassen
EasyBC: a cryptography-specific language for security analysis of block ciphers against differential cryptanalysis
Get PDFDifferential cryptanalysis is a powerful algorithmic-level attack, playing a central role in evaluating the security of symmetric cryptographic primitives. In general, the resistance against differential cryptanalysis can be characterized by the maximum expected differential characteristic probability. In this paper, we present generic and extensible approaches based on mixed integer linear programming (MILP) to bound such probability. We design a high-level cryptography-specific language EasyBc tailored for block ciphers and provide various rigorous procedures as differential denotational semantics, to automate the generation of MILP from block ciphers written in EasyBc. We implement an open-sourced tool that provides support for fully automated resistance evaluation of block ciphers against differential cryptanalysis. The tool is extensively evaluated on 23 real-life cryptographic primitives including all the 10 finalists of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process. The experiments confirm the expressivity of EasyBc and show that the tool can effectively prove the resistance against differential cryptanalysis for all block ciphers under consideration. EasyBc makes resistance evaluation against differential cryptanalysis easily accessible to cryptographers
Spinoza and the Poetic Imagination
No full textThe complex role that Spinoza allotts to the imagination is widely appreciated, but where does poetry fit in? How does Spinoza conceive of poetry, and what role does he think it plays in philosophical thinking?
I begin by arguing that Spinoza's analysis of imagination reflects the rhetorical and poetic theories of his age and implies that, insofar as we all imagine, we are all to some extent poets. But do our poetic powers play a role in philosophising? Focusing on the imaginative aids to understanding that Spinoza calls beings of reason, I argue that poems can function as beings of reason and can thus be philosophically empowering
The roles of sensory hyperreactivity and hyporeactivity in understanding infant fearfulness and emerging autistic traits
Get PDFBackground: Existing evidence indicates that atypical sensory reactivity is a core characteristic of autism, and has been linked to both anxiety (and its putative infant precursor of fearfulness) and repetitive behaviours. However, most work has used cross-sectional designs and not considered the differential roles of hyperreactivity and hyporeactivity to sensory inputs, and is thus limited in specificity.
Methods:161 infants with and without an elevated likelihood of developing autism and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were followed from 10-36 months of age. Parents rated an infant precursor of later anxiety (fearfulness) using the Infant Behaviour Questionnaire at 10 and 14 months, and the Early Childhood Behavioural Questionnaire at 24 months, and sensory hyperreactivity and hyporeactivity at 10, 14 and 24 months using the Infant Toddler Sensory Profile. Domains of autistic traits (restrictive and repetitive behaviours; RRB, and social communication interaction, SCI) were assessed using the parent-rated Social Responsiveness Scale at 36 months. Cross-lagged models tested 1) paths between fearfulness and hyperreactivity at 10-24-months, and from fearfulness and hyperreactivity to later autism traits, 2) the specificity of hyperreactivity effects by including hyporeactivity as a correlated predictor.
Results: Hyperreactivity at 14 months was positively associated with fearfulness at 24 months, and hyperreactivity at 24 months was positively associated with SCI and RRB at 36 months. When hyporeactivity was included in the model, paths between hyperreactivity and fearfulness remained, but paths between hyperreactivity and autistic traits became non-significant.
Conclusions: Our findings indicate that alterations in early sensory reactivity may increase the likelihood of showing fearfulness in infancy, and relate to later social interactions and repetitive behaviours, particularly in individuals with a family history of autism or ADHD
Emigration, social remittances and fiscal policy preferences: experimental evidence from Mexico
Get PDFHow does emigration affect tax preferences in migrant-sending countries? Experiencing public services in a high tax-capacity destination may reduce support for tax increases by throwing fiscal failure at home into stark relief (the socialization hypothesis). Alternatively, migrants’ exclusion from certain public services may increase desire to fund these services in migrant origin countries (the exclusion hypothesis). We test these competing hypotheses with an online survey experiment in Mexico and explore variation in US healthcare access on fiscal policy preferences of migrant households. Migrant households, especially those with returned migrant members, are more supportive of taxation when tax revenue is earmarked for healthcare, a service to which many Mexican immigrants in the US lack access. It is migrants’ exclusion from, rather than their socialization into, the fiscal contract in destination countries that influences fiscal policy preferences in their countries of origin
Immortalising the golden age of Middle Eastern crime: police-media liaisons, essentialism, and epistemic violence
No full textThis chapter considers how the work of professional police staff brings race into being, focusing on police media units and research gatekeepers. Although the institutionalised practices of such professional police staff are often overlooked as sites of racialised police power, this chapter argues that police media liaisons and research gatekeeping can facilitate racial essentialism and produce epistemic violence, as well as legitimating directly and physically violent policing. To illustrate its key contentions, the chapter takes the policing of so-called Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia, as a case study. It details how the police’s media unit leveraged the organisation’s influence over the traditional media and channeled police knowledge claims attesting to the criminal capacity of Middle Eastern people into popular reporting, whilst research gatekeeping practices obstructed the author – a person of Lebanese heritage – from producing an alternative account of the policing of Middle Eastern Crime. The chapter therefore implicates the work of professional police staff in propping up an Orientalist regime of policing in Sydney. But while the chapter concentrates on one Australian city, it will be of interest to scholars in other jurisdictions, demonstrating that racialised policing is not limited to the targeted use of legal powers on the street but also extends to the police’s ability to shape public knowledge about race and crime
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