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No full text'A stunning first novel. Behrendt creates vivid characters whose convincing inner lives bring this story of loss and survival powerfully to life.' Kate Grenville, author of The Secret River, on Larissa Behrendt's Hom
Walter Curt Behrendt, LA LOTTA PER LO STILE NELL’ARTIGIANATO E NELL’ARCHITETTURA. La nascita del design e dell’architettura moderna. Edizione italiana a cura di Raimondo Mercadante Nota introduttiva di Ákos Moravánszky Postfazione di Michele Caja.
No full text«Dal cuscino del sofà fino alla costruzione delle città», questo il motto che animò le ricerche di architetti, pittori e designer variamente coinvolti nelle vicende del Werkbund tedesco dal 1907 fino alla Prima Guerra Mondiale. La lotta per lo stile per lo stile nell’artigianato e nell’architettura (Der Kampf um den Stil im Kunstgewerbe und in der Architektur), edito a Stoccarda nel 1920, costituisce una delle prime storie del modernismo europeo nell’ambito dell’architettura e delle arti decorative, con particolare riferimento all’area tedesca e un occhio a quanto avveniva oltreoceano. Walter Curt Behrendt, critico tedesco più avanti noto per il suo volume del 1927 collegato all’inau- gurazione del Weissenhof di Stoccarda, stende in quest’opera un quadro molto incisivo della storia del movimento artigianale, partendo da Schinkel e Semper in Germania e Ruskin e Morris in Inghilterra, per poi descrivere gli elementi caratterizzanti dell’Art Nouveau e dello Jugendstil in Belgio, Francia, Germania e Austria. Sebbene molto diverso per intenzioni da I pionieri dell’architettura moderna di Pevsner, il libro costituisce, insieme ai libri di Jeanneret, Lux, Waentig, Schumacher, una delle primissi- me ricostruzioni degli sviluppi, ancora recenti, di architettura e design di inizio secolo, passando tra van de Velde, Behrens, Olbrich, Otto Wagner, Poelzig, Riemerschmid, Tessenow. Un altro aspetto importante è poi la lettura dei temi dell’urbanistica moderna, dove l’autore si ricollega alle ricerche statunitensi sulla pianificazione regionale e sulla City Beautiful
Settlement or Invasion? The Coloniser's Quandary
No full textIn this lively collection, renowned writers including Paul Daley, Mark McKenna, Peter Stanley, Carolyn Holbrook, Mark Dapin, Carmen Lawrence, Stuart Macintyre, Frank Bongiorno and Larissa Behrendt explore not only the militarisation of our ..
Identity negative priming: a phenomenon of perception, recognition or selection?
No full textThe present study addresses the problem whether negative priming (NP) is due to information processing in perception, recognition or selection. We argue that most NP studies confound priming and perceptual similarity of prime-probe episodes and implement a color-switch paradigm in order to resolve the issue. In a series of three identity negative priming experiments with verbal naming response, we determined when NP and positive priming (PP) occur during a trial. The first experiment assessed the impact of target color on priming effects. It consisted of two blocks, each with a different fixed target color. With respect to target color no differential priming effects were found. In Experiment 2 the target color was indicated by a cue for each trial. Here we resolved the confounding of perceptual similarity and priming condition. In trials with coinciding colors for prime and probe, we found priming effects similar to Experiment 1. However, trials with a target color switch showed such effects only in trials with role-reversal (distractor-to-target or target-to-distractor), whereas the positive priming (PP) effect in the target-repetition trials disappeared. Finally, Experiment 3 split trial processing into two phases by presenting the trial-wise color cue only after the stimulus objects had been recognized. We found recognition in every priming condition to be faster than in control trials. We were hence led to the conclusion that PP is strongly affected by perception, in contrast to NP which emerges during selection, i.e., the two effects cannot be explained by a single mechanism
Private land ownership: future agenda for Indigenous affairs?
No full textIn this paper Larissa Behrendt argues that the ideologies of \u27mainstreaming\u27 and \u27assimilation\u27 have failed in the past to shift the poorer health, lower levels of education, higher levels of unemployment and poorer standard of housing that Aboriginal communities have experienced. In addressing key parts of the government\u27s new arrangements - the National Indigenous Committee, shared responsibility agreements, and Indigenous land issues - Professor Behrendt argues that there needs to be a strong alternative vision from the ALP
Why is overcoming Indigenous disadvantage so hard?
No full textIn this presentation, prize-winning novelist, Professor of Law and 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year Larissa Behrendt addresses the lack of progress on Indigenous issues in Australia.
Behrendt argues for a closer examination of the claim that Aboriginal self-determination is a “failed experiment”. She also interrogates the case of the Northern Territory intervention, citing the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act as a turning point in sidelining the importance of human rights in a politicised, polarising and emotional debate.
Behrendt suggests that the idea of mutual obligation has been plagued by misguided incentivising and a less-than-thorough understanding of Indigenous needs.
Offering some key examples of self-improvement, she laments governments\u27 dismissal of the capacity and creativity of disadvantaged communities.
Duration: 37:51 min
Inhibition in the dynamics of selective attention: an integrative model for negative priming
No full textWe introduce a computational model of the negative priming (NP) effect that includes perception, memory, attention, decision making, and action. The model is designed to provide a coherent picture across competing theories of NP. The model is formulated in terms of abstract dynamics for the activations of features, their binding into object entities, their semantic categorization as well as related memories and appropriate reactions. The dynamic variables interact in a connectionist network which is shown to be adaptable to a variety of experimental paradigms. We find that selective attention can be modeled by means of inhibitory processes and by a threshold dynamics. From the necessity of quantifying the experimental paradigms, we conclude that the specificity of the experimental paradigm must be taken into account when predicting the nature of the NP effect
Reconciliation and human rights: the challenge for all Australians
No full textThe text of Larissa Behrendt\u27s Rerum Novarum Social Justice Lecture 2004, in which she contrasts the federal government\u27s indigenous policies with a more ambitious vision of reconciliation that resolves the unfinished business between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia
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