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Peter Szendy: Images of Energy/Energies of the Image Podcast:An interview between Dominic Smith and Peter Szendy
No full textAn interview between Dominic Smith and Peter Szendy, around energy, image(s) and artificial intelligence. Recorded as part of the AHRC-funded project ENERGY: A Philosophy of Practice, University of Dundee. Find out more: energy-philosophy.ac.uk/ Peter Szendy is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Brown University in the United States, and lead for the Cogut Institute’s ‘Economies of Aesthetics’ initiative. Peter is the author of many important works at the intersection of philosophy, literature, technology, sound, and the image, including The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images (2016 translation with Fordham), All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage (2016 translation with Fordham), and Kant in the Land of the Extraterrestrials (2013 with Fordham). This episode explores Peter’s work as an ‘energetics of the image’, excavating how the energies of images may function differently to those of concepts, and touching suggestively on what Peter diagnoses as the ‘euergeia’ of images generated by Artificial Intelligence. As a focal point, we use Peter’s 2021 book Pour une écologie des images (For an Ecology of the Image), forthcoming in translation by Verso in early 2025
Peter Szendy: Images of Energy/Energies of the Image Podcast:An interview between Dominic Smith and Peter Szendy
No full textAn interview between Dominic Smith and Peter Szendy, around energy, image(s) and artificial intelligence. Recorded as part of the AHRC-funded project ENERGY: A Philosophy of Practice, University of Dundee. Find out more: energy-philosophy.ac.uk/ Peter Szendy is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Brown University in the United States, and lead for the Cogut Institute’s ‘Economies of Aesthetics’ initiative. Peter is the author of many important works at the intersection of philosophy, literature, technology, sound, and the image, including The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy of Images (2016 translation with Fordham), All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage (2016 translation with Fordham), and Kant in the Land of the Extraterrestrials (2013 with Fordham). This episode explores Peter’s work as an ‘energetics of the image’, excavating how the energies of images may function differently to those of concepts, and touching suggestively on what Peter diagnoses as the ‘euergeia’ of images generated by Artificial Intelligence. As a focal point, we use Peter’s 2021 book Pour une écologie des images (For an Ecology of the Image), forthcoming in translation by Verso in early 2025
The influence of social context on reward-processing and associated neural signals
No full textHuman decision-making is often motivated by a pursuit of valued goals, such as food and money. Such pursuits can be influenced not only by the actual value of the goal (e.g., 10), but also importantly by the social context in which they occur (e.g., with a close peer vs. with a business colleague). The aim of this dissertation was to characterize how social information affects the subjective and neural representations of reward-processing. Neural structures within corticobasal ganglia loops support reward-processing and motivated behavior in part by coding value signals for expected and experienced outcomes, as well as the actions that lead to them. However, most day-to-day experiences occur within varying social contexts. We may thus place higher value on social outcomes such as approval or acceptance, particularly from members of our social networks (e.g., close friends). It remains to be seen how information regarding social network may modulate reward-processing. A novel manipulation of social network was applied to an established reward-processing paradigm such that achieved outcomes were experienced with a close friend (in-network), a confederate (out-of- network), or a non-social entity. Across cooperative and competitive contexts, social network significantly modulated the subjective experience of outcome value and associated computations generated in reward circuitry. To further explore how the effects of social context on reward-processing can modulate behavior, we employed an economic paradigm––the trust game––to investigate learning of partner reputation (e.g., will s/he reciprocate my generosity). We examined the role of prior social impressions formed from direct experience with unknown fictional others in an unrelated domain on subsequent trust game interactions with these same partners. We subsequently applied our social network manipulation to the trust game to investigate how real-life experience informs behavior in trust interactions. In both contexts, previous social impressions significantly influenced participants’ trust decisions. Further, the ability to update beliefs about partner reputation relied on learning-related outcome value signals in neural reward circuitry. In sum, these studies extend the current understanding of reward-processing, demonstrating that the value of a reward is subject to the strong influence of the social context in which it is experienced.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Dominic Stephen Farer
Gendering the Diaspora: Zimbabwean Migrants in Britain
Get PDFThis article analyses the performative and lived realities of the Zimbabwean diaspora in Britain. The author explores the way in which both public and private spaces of the diaspora are important arenas in the construction and reconstruction of gendered identities. It is based on multisited ethnography, comprising 33 in-depth interviews and participant observation in four research sites, and draws upon concepts of diaspora and transnationalism as theoretical and analytical frameworks. The findings suggest that the challenges to patriarchal traditions in the hostland in terms of women's primary migrant status and financial autonomy, the different labour market experiences of men and women, and egalitarian laws have caused tensions and conflict within diaspora households. The article examines how men use religious and social spaces, which provide for the affirmation of more traditional roles and relations, as a form of public resistance to changes happening within the domestic sphere
Travel Demand Analysis: Requirements for Transit Modeling for Metropolitan Manila
Get PDFTraffic congestion has been an everyday phenomenon in Metro Manila. With road-based and rail-based transport facilities operating at overcapacity, it can be construed that transport planning employed for the capital region of the Philippines has been inadequate. In-depth scrutiny of the transport planning carried out in the metro, however, would reveal that there had been plenty of transport plans completed since the late 1960s—with most of these plans’ recommendations unimplemented. It is in this context that this research note seeks to bring to light these past transport plans. Using available state-of-the-art transport modeling software, the project’s proponents aimed to overlay these railway plans on existing traffic and land use conditions in Metro Manila, and, in this research note, presented the requirements to simulate the counterfactual scenarios in relation to past transport plans. The model outcomes of the simulation would fill in the what-if scenarios being sought as the key to understanding what could have been the state of traffic in Metro Manila if past rail transport plans had been implemented
Flowers in cupped hands for Śiva. A critical edition of the Śambhupuṣpāñjali, a seventeenth-century manual of private worship by Saundaranātha
No full textInternational audienceThe Śambhupuṣpāñjali is a seventeenth-century manual in 824 Sanskrit verses, with some prose, that describes the worship of Śiva, not in a temple, but in a South Indian domestic context. It is full of quotations from scriptures and manuals of the Śaivasiddhānta, notably those of Somaśambhu (C11th), Aghoraśiva (C12th) and Vedajñāna (C16th). About the author, Saundaranātha, we can deduce little other than his provenance, for he tells us that he also wrote a manual, now lost, about the worship of Śivasūrya (Śiva as the sun) in Maṇipravāḷam, a mixture of Sanskrit vocabulary and Tamil inflections and syntax, a literary idiom usually associated today with Vaiṣṇava commentarial works. Several features of his Sanskrit style also reveal the influence of Tamil. The introduction presents the work and gives a detailed synopsis of its structure.Le Śambhupuṣpāñjali (« Florilège en l’honneur de Śambhu ») est un manuel de rituel śivaïte datant du XVIIe siècle en 824 stances sanskrites, avec quelques passages en prose, qui décrit le culte de Śiva non pas dans en temple, mais dans un contexte domestique en Inde méridionale. Il contient de nombreuses citations tirées d’un large éventail de textes scripturaires (Siddhāntatantras) et de manuels similaires, notamment ceux de Somaśambhu (XIe s.), d’Aghoraśiva (XIIe s.) et de Vedajñāna (XVIe s.). Concernant l'auteur, Saundaranātha, nous savons peu de choses à part son origine géographique, car il mentionne avoir rédigé un manuel, maintenant perdu, sur le culte de Śivasūrya (Śiva considéré sous l’aspect du soleil) en Maṇipravāḷam, une langue hybride dont l’essentiel du vocabulaire est sanskrit alors que la syntaxe et la morphologie sont plus proches du tamoul, généralement associée avec la tradition d’exégèse vishnouïte. Des traits du style sanskrit de Saundaranātha révèlent également une influence du tamoul. L’introduction présente l’ouvrage et fournit un synopsis détaillé de sa structur
Flowers in cupped hands for Śiva. A critical edition of the Śambhupuṣpāñjali, a seventeenth-century manual of private worship by Saundaranātha
No full textInternational audienceThe Śambhupuṣpāñjali is a seventeenth-century manual in 824 Sanskrit verses, with some prose, that describes the worship of Śiva, not in a temple, but in a South Indian domestic context. It is full of quotations from scriptures and manuals of the Śaivasiddhānta, notably those of Somaśambhu (C11th), Aghoraśiva (C12th) and Vedajñāna (C16th). About the author, Saundaranātha, we can deduce little other than his provenance, for he tells us that he also wrote a manual, now lost, about the worship of Śivasūrya (Śiva as the sun) in Maṇipravāḷam, a mixture of Sanskrit vocabulary and Tamil inflections and syntax, a literary idiom usually associated today with Vaiṣṇava commentarial works. Several features of his Sanskrit style also reveal the influence of Tamil. The introduction presents the work and gives a detailed synopsis of its structure.Le Śambhupuṣpāñjali (« Florilège en l’honneur de Śambhu ») est un manuel de rituel śivaïte datant du XVIIe siècle en 824 stances sanskrites, avec quelques passages en prose, qui décrit le culte de Śiva non pas dans en temple, mais dans un contexte domestique en Inde méridionale. Il contient de nombreuses citations tirées d’un large éventail de textes scripturaires (Siddhāntatantras) et de manuels similaires, notamment ceux de Somaśambhu (XIe s.), d’Aghoraśiva (XIIe s.) et de Vedajñāna (XVIe s.). Concernant l'auteur, Saundaranātha, nous savons peu de choses à part son origine géographique, car il mentionne avoir rédigé un manuel, maintenant perdu, sur le culte de Śivasūrya (Śiva considéré sous l’aspect du soleil) en Maṇipravāḷam, une langue hybride dont l’essentiel du vocabulaire est sanskrit alors que la syntaxe et la morphologie sont plus proches du tamoul, généralement associée avec la tradition d’exégèse vishnouïte. Des traits du style sanskrit de Saundaranātha révèlent également une influence du tamoul. L’introduction présente l’ouvrage et fournit un synopsis détaillé de sa structur
Disadvantages of having an adolescent mother
Get PDFWe recently reported associations between maternal age at childbirth and outcomes in the off spring, using data from fi ve birth cohorts (COHORTS collaboration) in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), in The Lancet Global Health. Young maternal age (<19 years) was associated with lower offspring birthweight, gestational age, childhood nutritional status (weight-for-age and height-for-age at 2 years), and attained schooling, and higher adult glucose concentration, compared with off spring of mothers aged 20–24 years. These associations were independent of maternal socioeconomic status, height, and parity
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