1,123 research outputs found
Ana em Veneza: ex-cêntricos antimodernos
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em LiteraturaAna em Veneza (1994), romance escrito por João Silvério Trevisan, apresenta um conjunto bem vasto de características que apontam para o tempo e o texto de agora, como a intertextualidade, o discurso paródico e irônico, a fragmentação do sujeito, tempo e espaço, a presença dos "ex-cêntricos" e discussões acerca da modernidade. O que propomos é um estudo da modernidade a partir da ótica do pensador Walter Benjamin e seus interlocutores, como o italiano Giorgio Agamben. Nossa análise parte de premissas baseadas em uma leitura antimoderna, que se revela em forma de oposição à modernidade. O discurso de negação é construído, essencialmente, a partir do personagem Alberto Nepomuceno. Por fim, temos o intuito de armar um pequeno diálogo intertextual entre Ana em Veneza e a obra de Thomas Mann Morte em Veneza, atendo-nos principalmente aos personagens Alberto Nepomuceno e Gustav von Aschenbach.Ana em Veneza (1994), novel written by João Silvério Trevisan, presents a very broad set of characteristics that indicate the time and the text now, as intertextuality, parody and ironic speech, the fragmentation of the subject, time and space, the presence of "ex-centric", discussions of modernity. We propose a study of modernity from the perspective of philosopher Walter Benjamin and his interlocutors as the Italian Giorgio Agamben. Our analysis is based on assumptions based on an anti-modernist reading, which reveals itself in the form of opposition to modernity. The discourse of denial is built mainly from the character Alberto Nepomuceno. Finally, our aim is to set an intertextual dialogue between Ana em Veneza and work by Thomas Mann Death in Venice, sticking mainly to the characters Alberto Nepomuceno and Gustav von Aschenbach
Global vulnerability to near-Earth object impact
No full textA clear appreciation of the consequences resulting from an asteroid impact is required in order to understand the near Earth object (NEO) hazard. Three main processes require modelling to analyse the entire impact event. These are the atmospheric entry phase, land impact events and ocean impact events. A range of impact generated effects (IGEs) are produced by different impact scenarios. It is these IGEs that present the threat to human populations world wide, and the infrastructure they utilise. A software system for analysing the NEO threat has been developed, entitled NEOimpactor, to examine the social and economic consequences from land and ocean impacts. Existing mathematical models for the three principal impact processes have been integrated into one complete system, which has the capability to model the various effects of a terrestrial asteroid impact and, critically, predict the consequences for the global population and infrastructure. Analysis of multiple impact simulations provides a robust method for the provision of an integrated, global vulnerability assessment of the NEO hazard. The primary graphical outputs from NEOimpactor are in the form of ‘relative consequence’ maps, and these have been designed to be comprehensible to a non-specialist audience. By the use of a series of multiple-impact simulations, the system has identified the five countries most at risk from the impact hazard, as well as indicating the various factors influencing vulnerability
Relationship between XBP1 genotype and personality traits assessed by TCI and NEO-FFI
No full textThere have been several researches on the role of personality in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder. Recently, a polymorphism of XBP1, a pivotal gene in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response, was shown to contribute to the genetic risk factor for bipolar disorder. Therefore, in this study, we examined the relationship between the XBP1 gene polymorphism and the personality traits assessed by two self-rating scales, a shortened version of Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) in healthy subjects. The present results suggested that the XBP1 gene polymorphism was associated with the NEO-FFI score of neuroticism in female subjects. However, no significant differences in the other personality scale scores of both assessments were observed among normal subjects with -116C/C, C/G and G/G genotypes. Further investigations are necessary to examine the relationship in patients with bipolar disorder, or use full version of various self-rating personality assessments
The Community Settlement: a neo-rural territorial tool
No full textThe Israeli Community Settlements are small-scale non-agricultural villages that consist of a limited number of families and a homogenous character. This method began to be used by the Israeli government and its different planning agencies during the 1970s as a tool to strengthen the state's territorial and demographical control over the Israeli internal frontiers of the Galilee, the West-Bank and along the Green-Line. Unlike earlier settlement methods that relied on ideological values such as labour, agriculture, redemption, identity and integration, as part of the nation-building years, the Community Settlements promoted a more individual and neo-rural lifestyle. In this paper I ask to show how the Community Settlements formed the new leading tool for a national agenda, in correspondence with the changing ideals in Israeli culture, moving from a quasi-socialist society into a market-driven neoliberal one. Later, suburbanising the neo-rural phenomenon.History, Form & Aesthetic
Now is the time! Confronting neo-liberalism in early childhood
No full text© The Author(s) 2021. Over the last 30 years, neo-liberalism has permeated early childhood, as all other aspects of life. Having introduced what neo-liberalism is, the article looks at some of its effects on early childhood education and care, including markets, imaginaries and governance. It argues that though neo-liberalism is a powerful force, it is resistible and replaceable – and that now is the time to be developing alternatives to existing policies, grounding them in ideas that contest neo-liberalism
Neo-villeiny and the service sector: the case of hyper flexible and precarious work in fitness centres
No full text© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article presents data from a comprehensive study of hyper flexible and precarious work in the service sector. A series of interviews were conducted with self-employed personal trainers along with more than 200 hours of participant observation within fitness centres in the UK. Analysis of the data reveals a new form of hyper flexible and precarious work that is labelled neo-villeiny in this article. Neo-villeiny is characterized by four features: bondage to the organization; payment of rent to the organization; no guarantee of any income; and extensive unpaid and speculative work that is highly beneficial to the organization. The neo-villeiny of the self-employed personal trainer offers the fitness centre all of the benefits associated with hyper flexible work, but also mitigates the detrimental outcomes associated with precarious work. The article considers the potential for adoption of this new form of hyper flexible and precarious work across the broader service sector
The Assyrian king and his scholars: the Syro-Anatolian and the Egyptian Schools
No full textThe article highlights the presence of scholars from Egypt and Syro-Anatolia in the service of the Neo-Assyrian kings
Neo-Latin Poetry in the Kyivan Poetics: Ukraine in the European Latinitas
No full textIn this paper the Author illustrates a few Neo-Latin poetical compositions that are found in the poetics manuals of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (17th-18th century). They pertain to the genus demonstrativum (epideictic genre), one of the genres into which oratory and poetry were divided, and the genre that more than others allowed poets to represent human deeds and exemplary specimens of virtue that the pupils could and should follow. The importance of the genus demonstrativum becomes clear when one takes into account the main end of poetry in the Mohylan poetics, that is the education of pious men and loyal subjects. The author therefore analyzes a few panegyric poems that praise the person and the activity of Rafajil Zaborovs’kyj (1676-1747), one of the most generous benefactors of the Mohyla Academy in the 18th century. The analysis is particularly focused on the rhetorical strategies and the lexical tools adopted to carry out the praise of Zaborovs’kyj. The celebration of this eminent representative of 18th century Kyivan culture, as that of other eminent characters of the time, witnesses to the foundation of a new ‘Parnassus’ on the hills of Kyiv and to the insertion of the Kyiv-Mohylan Academy and Ukrainian culture in the European Latinitas
Um sobre-ensaio de cegos
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em LiteraturaUm sobre-ensaio de cegos é tentativa de leitura das alegorias de Ensaio sobre a cegueira de José Saramago, que por sua vez, apresenta leitura do real em imagens textuais, reunindo elementos de vários contextos. Explora uma condição petrificada do homem chamada #natureza humana# em uma sociedade que se move centralizando exageradamente imagens visuais fantasmáticas. O primeiro capítulo deste sobre-ensaio trata de uma estética agregadora de sensibilidades e pensamentos. A cegueira é metonímia a abarcar uma #anestética# que afeta todos os sentidos. A crítica do escritor português perfila diversos âmbitos da sociedade em cada cego protagonista tangenciando diferentes dispositivos a engendrar identidades. É microcosmo a comportar muitos exemplares do macrocosmo. No terceiro capítulo Ensaio sobre a cegueira dialoga com Informe sobre ciegos de Ernesto Sábato, tomando como linha mestra, não sem desvios, a questão da forma que aprisiona, captura o corpo em essências, identidades, inscrito por uma lógica de significado formal. Este excesso de forma é desejo de abjeto #informe#. #Informe# no dicionário crítico de Georges Bataille é forma sempre em formação, que escorre em direção eterna à outra-coisa-de-si. No terceiro capítulo outra interlocução convida a um desvio no diálogo: O mez da grippe de Valêncio Xavier que a partir de seu gênero indefinível também não se paralisa em forma estática. Uma epidemia de Influenza evidente na morte em série é negada nas informações e discursos oficiais que se contradizem nas tomadas de providências. Em Ensaio sobre a cegueira, ao contrário, autoridades estatais e militares fazem alarde da epidemia de cegueira trancafiando a população em espaços públicos que se transformam em cárceres com o pretexto de fazer viver, mas com intuito de deixar morrer. Nas duas narrativas uma biopolítica neutraliza o direito, neutralizando, assim, o espaço público e o privado. Um estado de exceção toma forma e a morte é trivializada, sem tempo para a reflexão. Nas três narrativas percebem-se possibilidades de contradispositivos que façam a vida saltar das ruínas em direção à plenitude. Em Ensaio sobre a cegueira seria uma micropolítica receptiva à alteridade, em Informe sobre ciegos uma profanação das formas de vida transformadas em princípio de identidade. Em O mez da grippe seria uma arqueologia da memória funcionando como testemunho dos dispositivos que manipulam a vida tanto quanto banalizam a morte
Strategy and vision: The influence of the AMWU on the NZEU from 1987-1992 with respect to education and training reforms
No full textIt has been established that in the late 1980s, early 1990s the AMWU and the NZEU developed a close relationship through which the NZEU altered it traditional bargaining strategies. This study set out to discover the specific details of this relationship and its implications, with respect to education and training reforms, from around 1987-1992. The thesis began the investigation with a literature review, followed by an extensive series of interviews in Australia and New Zealand. The interviews were conducted with officials and former officials of the AMWU and the NZEU. Key players from the education and training reform process in both countries. The conclusion of this thesis is that, the pressure from the rise of neo-liberalism and the changes to production drove the NZEU to find alternative bargaining strategy. The strength of the unions in Australia and historical ties drew the NZEU to the AMWU, who under similar constraints, had formulated new bargaining strategies. These new strategies embraced 'partnership unionism' which used co-operative practices and training as a means of maintaining leverage under hostile conditions. This thesis asserts that the NZEU took on board the AMWU's 'partnership unionism', through their relationship, as they saw them as a means of maintaining leverage in a neo-liberal environment. Training is the linchpin of this approach highlighting the strategic importance of education and training to unions. This thesis concludes that the NZEU has been able to maintain its leverage in a neo-liberal environment because, in line with Wolfgang Streeck's analysis, it has recognised that education and training provide a degree of leverage in a hostile environment
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