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Three funerals
No full textA short meditation on the queer art of mourning, as viewed through the biography of my relative Bryan Bale and the notion of the family funeral
Historical necessity
No full text“World War One was inevitable.” What sense can we make of such claims? I use recent work in philosophy of science to define historical necessity in terms of causal sensitivity. This implies that it must be understood in a relativized way, and that it is a property of historical explanations rather than of history itself. I then explore how historical necessity relates to chance and determinism, how it relates to predictability, and how the concept can be used by historians, social scientists, and others
WordPress loading theme assets of a different theme to that selected
Full text linkToday’s tech anomaly was odd. I’m working on a new WordPress theme and obviously WordPress has to load its assets like the CSS file and the JavaScript file. I just added some new code to the home page template and suddenly my CSS was not loading. In fact it was pointing to the next theme in the list, Blockbase, and loading its CSS. Nothing I could do with caching resolved this in the slightest.
So it eventually turns out that if you add really bad code that crashes to a template, WordPress decides that it should not load your theme assets and it should load them from somewhere else. You can almost guarantee that this problem occurs because of crashing code somewhere in a theme
Age of granitoid magmatism in South Georgia and correlations to southern Patagonia and the northern Antarctic Peninsula
Full text linkSouth Georgia forms one of the most isolated fragments of continental crust on Earth and lies in a remote location in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Its geology is dominated by Early Cretaceous back-arc turbidite successions that are in faulted contact with a late Palaeozoic – early Mesozoic accretionary complex. The accretionary complex includes fragments of a deformed accretionary prism and ophiolite that are intruded by a suite of granitoid plutons that are dated here. Granitoid magmatism has been identified from the Middle Jurassic (c. 163 Ma) and Late Cretaceous (c. 107 Ma, c. 86 Ma), which can be correlated with convergent margin magmatism from the southern (Fuegian) Andes and Cordillera Darwin of southern Patagonia, and the northern Antarctic Peninsula, with the Late Cretaceous magmatism restricted to the western parts of each area. These correlations support earlier findings that established a contiguous relationship between the southeast sector of South Georgia and southernmost Patagonia (south of the Magallanes fault zone) and the northern sector of Graham Land (Antarctic Peninsula)
The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation
Full text linkThis is a post about pirate libraries and their technologies and documentation. Before we go any further, I wish to clarify that I am not endorsing any of these sites and am certainly not involved in any of their operations. I am merely interested in them as a scholarly publishing phenomenon. To write this post, I had to look at the Anna’s Archive metadata set
"You're not to speak unless you're spoken to": parent voice in public law proceedings in England and Wales
No full textRecent policy rhetoric underlines the value of listening to those with first-hand experience of the family courts to better understand how the system could be adapted to benefit parents’ participation. This paper examines the participative experiences of 28 parents who were involved in recent care proceedings in England and Wales, with a focus on the procedural justice concept of voice. In-depth, narrative interviews highlight embedded, systemic barriers to parents’ participation, including the formality of legal language, procedure, and courtroom layout. Parents’ assessments of their legal representation and their interactions with the judge are important markers of whether they felt heard in the proceedings. The wider implications of findings are examined, including the gulf that exists in interpretations of ‘voice’ between professionals and parents as parties in legal proceedings. Adaptations to professional practice and court processes to better accommodate parent voice are considered
Institutions shifting away from big tech
Full text linkThis morning, Kathleen Fitzpatrick drew my attention to a Mastodon post by Babette Knauer about plans for the University of #Groningen to get away from Big Tech. The article itself is well worth a read, with ambitious approaches to digital independence. I had some not-very-original thoughts on it
Is emotional support in the aftermath of collective traumatic events beneficial? The role of collective rumination
No full textCollective traumas emotionally affect individuals who identify with groups/communities targeted by major traumatic events. When exposed to such occurrences, individuals turn to similarly impacted others for emotional social support. Alongside providing support, turning to others who are also affected by a collective trauma may trigger collective rumination about the traumatic event – with rumination known to decrease rather than increase well-being. We examined whether receiving social support following a collective traumatic occurrence may be unhelpful for the receiver’s wellbeing due to collective rumination and report online survey results from two terrorist attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings from Study 1a and 1b provided initial indications that individuals who received support from others experienced a decrease in wellbeing. Teasing apart potentially competing processes at play in Study 2 (receipt of support/collective rumination) we found supporting evidence for the well-documented positive association between support and wellbeing. However, the collective rumination involved in turning to similarly affected others fully counteracted this positive association
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