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The future of pornography - panel debate. Speakers | Finn Mackay, Rowan Pelling, Peter Tatchell
No full textMany believe that porn's dark fantasies risk corrupting relationships and society. Has this arisen because pornography is largely created by men? Could feminist pornography featuring authentic sex, diverse bodies and female perspectives offer a truly liberating alternative? Or is porn fundamentally incompatible with intimacy and a problem for all of us until its abolished? Feminist thinker Finn Mackay, author of Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl Brooke Magnanti, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and Erotic Review editor Rowan Pelling imagine the future of pornography.In association with the New College of the Humanities
Duurzame energie: Een nuchter verhaal
No full textEen samenvatting van het boek 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' van David J.C. MacKay. Professor MacKay is hoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Cambridge en Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change van de Britse regering. In het boek vergelijkt hij het gebruik van energie met de hoeveelheid energie die opgewekt kan worden met duurzame energie.Delft Research Initiative
Letter to Henry Bright, Bristol, from Alex Baillie, Edinburgh
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/236002Re: My brother, Duncan, will drink the waters for 5-6 weeks and then embark for Jamaica. Sorry that your gout has been so severe this spring. I arrived here a few days ago with my brother, James who is soon to be married to Ms Campbell, niece to the Honorable General Mackay.125887
Sub-Item: [1980.0075.01018] "Letter to Henry Bright, Bristol, from Alex Baillie, Edinburgh
Costs and benefits in technological decision making under variable conditions: examples from the late Pleistocene in southern Africa
No full textThe issue of technological time costs as applied to the manufacture of flaked stone artefacts is considered. Assuming a positive correlation exists between technological cost and improvements in resource capture, it is shown that the viability of costly technologies is constrained by the abundance of resources in a landscape such that more costly technologies would be likely to be pursued in resource-poor landscapes. This outcome mirrors the results of past assessments of ethnographic data concerning the relationship between subsistence risk and technological complexity. These hypothetical and ethnographic models are then compared to archaeological changes in technological costs at three sites occupied through the late Pleistocene in southern Africa. It is shown that while there is agreement in some respects, there are also times where archaeological outcomes differ dramatically from expectations. The results are taken to suggest that while costly technologies are generally pursued under conditions of increasing global cold, peak cold conditions at the height of Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 2 encouraged a reversion to least-cost technological systems. This may reflect a switch in the focus of optimisation from resource return rates to maximisation of early resource acquisition and/or maximisation of number of subsistence encounters
Mackay-Whitsunday-Isaac Seagrass Monitoring 2017-2021: Marine Inshore South Zone (Clairview)
No full textThis is the fifth year of annual seagrass monitoring for the southern marine zone in Mackay-Whitsunday-Isaac Healthy Rivers to Reef Partnership (HR2RP).
The overall condition of seagrasses across the three monitoring meadows was rated as good in 2021 with all three indicators (biomass, meadow area and species composition) scoring good or very good against the baseline.
This year is the first time that scores can be generated for inclusion in the HR2RP report card, now that the requirement for 5 years of baseline data has been met.
There were favourable conditions for seagrass growth leading up to the 2021 survey, with no noteworthy natural or anthropogenic impacts in the region since the previous survey.
The two large seagrass meadows along the mainland coast were in a similar condition to 2020 when they had shown a general improvement in meadow area and biomass from the initial seagrass monitoring conducted in 2017 following Cyclone Debbie.
The smaller offshore meadow adjacent to Flock Pidgeon Island had recovered from the substantial decline in area recorded in 2020 to be in good condition in 2021.
The low above-ground biomass thin leaf seagrasses meadows in the region continued to have a high level of utilisation by dugongs with dugong feeding trails recorded in all meadows as well as the presence of a numerous green turtles during the survey
Mackay-Whitsunday-Isaac Seagrass Monitoring 2017-2021: Marine Inshore South Zone (Clairview)
No full textThis is the fifth year of annual seagrass monitoring for the southern marine zone in Mackay-Whitsunday-Isaac Healthy Rivers to Reef Partnership (HR2RP).
The overall condition of seagrasses across the three monitoring meadows was rated as good in 2021 with all three indicators (biomass, meadow area and species composition) scoring good or very good against the baseline.
This year is the first time that scores can be generated for inclusion in the HR2RP report card, now that the requirement for 5 years of baseline data has been met.
There were favourable conditions for seagrass growth leading up to the 2021 survey, with no noteworthy natural or anthropogenic impacts in the region since the previous survey.
The two large seagrass meadows along the mainland coast were in a similar condition to 2020 when they had shown a general improvement in meadow area and biomass from the initial seagrass monitoring conducted in 2017 following Cyclone Debbie.
The smaller offshore meadow adjacent to Flock Pidgeon Island had recovered from the substantial decline in area recorded in 2020 to be in good condition in 2021.
The low above-ground biomass thin leaf seagrasses meadows in the region continued to have a high level of utilisation by dugongs with dugong feeding trails recorded in all meadows as well as the presence of a numerous green turtles during the survey
Speculative aesthetics /
No full textOp omslag titel met auteurs: Speculative aesthetics / Amanda Beech, Ray Brassier, Mark Fisher, Robin Mackay, Benedict Singleton, Nick Srnicek, James Trafford, Tom Trevatt, Alex Williams, Ben WoordardIncludes bibliographical references
Politics of Feminist Revision in di Prima\u27s Loba
No full textIn her article Politics of Feminist Revision in di Prima\u27s Loba Polina Mackay explores Diane di Prima\u27s two-volume epic Loba (1998) and, through a comparison of di Prima to the work of Adrienne Rich, argues that Loba practices a politics of feminist revision. Further, Mackay examines the ways in which di Prima starts to move away from the recovery project of female voices in patriarchal culture, associated with late twentieth-century Feminism, towards a women\u27s literature which need not be defined entirely through its resistance to patriarchal narratives of gender in men\u27s literature. Here it focuses on di Prima\u27s revisionist critique of another epic by a modern female writer, H.D.\u27s Helen in Egypt (1961), where di Prima rewrites the mythical Helen into a single mother facing modern-day hardship. Mackay concludes that di Prima\u27s decision to appropriate H.D.\u27s Helen in Egypt is suggestive of the politics of feminist revision the author practices. It shows that, in addition to the rewrite of straightforwardly patriarchal narratives, such as the story of Mary in the Christian discourse, a fully revised script of female presence in literature and culture would also have to include a critique of women\u27s literature
Dorothy Mackay: A Forgotten Female Pioneer in Archaeology
No full textIn 2022, the author of this paper came across four letters regarding epigraphic documentation of some elite tombs in the Theban necropolis, Egypt, written by Dorothy Mackay and addressed to Alan H. Gardiner, at the archive of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford. The author of the letters was the wife of Ernest Mackay (1880–1943), a British archaeologist best known for his later work on the Indus Valley Civilisation, who was excavating on the Theban west bank between 1913 and 1916. However, as further investigation revealed, Dorothy, until recently an obscure figure, was an accomplished scholar in her own right, who worked together with her husband, acted as a curator of two museums, and published extensively in times when it was far from easy for women to obtain an education, let alone conduct research. Despite that, the only recent sources discussing Dorothy and her scholarly accomplishments lack some vital details on her life. The aim of this contribution is to provide some further information and context on Dorothy Mackay and her research in the first half of the twentieth century
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