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Capital-as-presence and space-as-absence: the language of Neoliberalism and the narrative of capital in Glenn Diaz’s The Quiet Ones
Get PDFGlenn Diaz’s The Quiet Ones explores people’s lives in the labor force created by a global market system. Work, public services, geography, identities, production, and consumption are generally shaped and directed by the flow of boundary-less foreign capital investments from developed countries. The novel presents characters as workers in the business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines, expatriates as highly skilled workers who migrated to the country to look for better economic and social capital opportunities, and the various relationships with people surrounding these workers. This paper charts the terrain, nature, and the systemic movements of capital through (1) capital-as-presence in the text, framing or creating work patterns, human relationships, consumption behavior, and (2) space-as-absence that mediates relationships between states, citizens, and the State (represented by the law and state authorities), between citizens as workers, between citizens as workers and their cities. The paper concludes that the neoliberal economic agenda in/of globalization created a language where capital is deeply embedded in a textual negotiation of/in meanings that legitimizes the power structure that perpetuates, supports, enables, and reinforces an oppressive elite, imperialist, and capitalist economic market system as the only alternative in rendering a concrete livable world
Cavity
No full textCavity is from a poetry collection called Failed Beginnings. These poems explore early conception failure. Cavity deals with the grief and loss experienced by a failed pregnancy attempt and the ambiguity of experiencing loss without having anything tangible to mourn
Predicting the pro-longevity or anti-longevity effect of model organism genes with enhanced Gaussian noise augmentation-based contrastive learning on protein-protein interaction networks
Get PDFAgeing is a highly complex and important biological process that plays major roles in many diseases. Therefore, it is essential to better understand the molecular mechanisms of ageing-related genes. In this work, we proposed a novel enhanced Gaussian noise augmentation-based contrastive learning (EGsCL) framework to predict the pro-longevity or anti-longevity effect of four model organisms’ ageing-related genes by exploiting protein-protein interaction networks. The experimental results suggest that EGsCL successfully outperformed the conventional Gaussian noise augmentationbased contrastive learning methods and obtained state-of-the-art performance on three model organisms’ predictive tasks when merely relying on protein-protein interaction network data. In addition, we use EGsCL to predict 10 novel pro-/anti-longevity mouse genes, and discuss the support for these predictions in the literature
The Sanctuary of Bel in perspective: selective destructions, selective memories, selective realities
Get PDFIn this chapter, we trace how the actions of Western archaeologists created a classical vision of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra at the expense of other histories. We draw on archival documents and photographs to demonstrate how the lenses and pens of the archaeologists working at the site since its ‘discovery’ in the eighteenth century transformed the complexity of the sanctuary into a single narrative that paid insufficient attention to the living population of Tadmor-Palmyra. We argue that a consistent practice of heritagizing the sanctuary, emptying the sanctuary, and divorcing it from its local community have led to actions in the present, both by Da’esh, but also by Western institutions, that continue that process of emptying and the disenfranchisement of local communities
Non-Rigid Designators in Modal and Temporal Free Description Logics
Get PDFDefinite descriptions, such as ‘the General Chair of KR 2024,’ are a semantically transparent device for object identification in knowledge representation. In first-order modal logic, definite descriptions have been widely investigated for their non-rigidity, which allows them to designate different objects (or none at all) at different states. We propose expressive modal description logics with non-rigid definite descriptions and names, and investigate decidability and complexity of the satisfiability problem. We first systematically link satisfiability for the one-variable fragment of first-order modal logic with counting to our modal description logics. Then, we prove a promising NEXPTIME-completeness result for concept satisfiability for the fundamental epistemic multi-agent logic S5^n and its neighbours, and show that some expressive logics that are undecidable with constant domain become decidable (but Ackermann-hard) with expanding domains. Finally, we conduct a fine-grained analysis of decidability of temporal logics
Ethnic spaces
No full textBook synopsis: Presenting a detailed examination of the origins, evolutions, and state-of-the-art of linguistic landscape research, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes is a comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of linguistic landscapes and the study of meaning and interpretation in public spaces and settings.
Providing a thorough synopsis of the theories, methodologies, and objects of study which inflect linguistic landscape research across the world, this book is the ideal companion for both new and experienced readers interested in the processes of communication in public spaces across diverse settings and from a broad range of perspectives. Through a wide selection of case studies and original research, the handbook highlights the global reach of linguistic landscape theories and practices. Scrutinising an array of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodological approaches for analysing a wide spectrum of meaning-making phenomena, it investigates semiosis in contexts ranging from graffiti and street signs to tattoos and literature, visible across a variety of sites, including city centres, rural settings, schools, protest marches, museums, war-torn landscapes, and the internet
Watering the seeds of the rural economy: evidence from groundwater irrigation in India
Get PDFWe study the impact of private investment in groundwater irrigation on the spatial and sectoral distribution of rural economic activity in India. Exploiting a kink in access to groundwater irrigation, generated from an absolute technological constraint on the operational capacity of irrigation pumps with depth of the water table, we find evidence of a significant improvement in agricultural production accompanied with modest consumption gains. Irrigation causes a substantial increase in population density, but has no effect on the employment rate or labour reallocation between sectors of the economy. Furthermore, irrigated agriculture appears to provide additional employment opportunities for waged labour from surrounding non-irrigated villages. Investigating the dynamic effects from adoption indicate important in-migration of labour in the short-run, as well as changes to fertility/mortality in the long to medium-run
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