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Grant Stevens : Are You Upset with Me?
No full textGrant Stevens is ambivalent. The young Brisbane artist made his name with a series of computer-generated animated-text videos that explore clichés but seem undecided as to whether they are trivial and vacuous, profound and authentic or somehow both at once. Stevens plunders mass-media sources (the familiar image repertoire dished up by Hollywood, television, pop music and the Internet) as readymade content. He explores this everyday language, sometimes for its ambiguity, but more often for its almost uncanny lucidity. Resembling meditation and relaxation guides, his recent videos beg the question: what made us so anxious?\ud
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This book examines Stevens' artistic output over the first ten years of his practice. It includes essays by Mark Pennings and Chris Kraus.\u
Interview: Karen Stevens on characterisation, class and ‘Brilliant Blue'
No full textJoe Bedford interview series 'Writers on Research'. Author Karen Stevens discusses the research process behind her short story collection Brilliant Blue (Barbican Press, 2025)
The reduction of metaphysics and the play of violence in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
No full textPhDThe thesis demonstrates how Wallace Stevens' poetry utilises pre-Socratic philosophy in overcoming post-Kantian dislocation from the 'thing-in-itself'. I initially consider Stevens’ poetry in terms of Hans-Georg Gadamer's ontological conception of the 'play' of art, an interactive existence overlooked by Kant. Through the ‘play’ of Stevens’ poems the reading audience are implicated in their reduction to being. The origin of this conception leads Gadamer back to Parmenides who Stevens had read. I argue that Stevens’ poetry ‘plays’ its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his ‘reduction of metaphysics’ is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of how the language and form of Stevens’ poems attempt to reduce mind and world to concepts that parallel Parmenides’ poetic sense of being, and Heraclitus’ notion of becoming, the thesis uncovers the ground in which Stevens attempts a reconnection with the ‘thing-in-itself’. It is through the experience of reconnecting to an ontological centre, which his poetry presents as the human project, that Stevens’ poetry also presents itself as a means of replacing religion.From here we turn to Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida for an exposition of how such a reduction reduces the ‘Other’ to ‘otherness’ and their worry that this reduction legitimates violence within the thought of Martin Heidegger and Parmenides. From this I make a case for how such reductions are connected to what I refer to as 'the play of violence' in Stevens' poetry, and to refer this violence back to the mythology Stevens' poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidegger and Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a ‘reduction of metaphysics’
Offspring (2001)
No full textDocumentary film-maker Barry Steven s quest to find his anonymous, sperm-donor father, takes viewers through the early history of donor insemination (DI) (previously termed artificial insemination by donor or AID) and the evolving social views about the practice and resulting children. Genetic testing is used as a tool to find donor siblings and to unravel this biological mystery. Viewers painlessly learn about DNA and genetic testing techniques as a part of the story. The film is filled with humor, but deals with serious ethical issues, such as society s role in causing intentionally anonymous parentage and the related loss of genetic/health information and what constitutes ethical behavior in the face of infertility. Other poignant questions are raised about of self identity and the nature of the parent and child relationship. Doctors Mary Barton and Berthold Wiesner (husband and wife) and early workers in assisted reproduction helped create the pregnancies that were Barry Stevens and his sister in their London clinic because their (social) father and their mother's husband was unable to father children of his own. Stevens provides references to early medical papers about donor insemination and to the social context and attitudes toward the practice. This program is one of my favorite "bioethics" videos. Nominated for an International Emmy (2001) and winner of the Audience Award at the 2001 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. The CBC website for Mr. Stevens' related program Bio-Dad (2009) contains material relevant to this first documentary. See http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/biodad/ Program may be viewed in its entirety online in Canada only. See Mr. Stevens testimony before Canada's Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights in Ottawa on October 2, 2006 at http://www.parl.gc.ca/39/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/Com-e/huma-e/10ev-e.htm?Language=E&Parl=39&Ses=1&comm_id=77 See CBS "Keeping a Secret: Should the Identity of Sperm Donors Be Revealed?" at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/11/60minutes/main562830.shtml Stevens made a 2009 update of this story called Bio-Dad
John Stevens Wade Correspondence
No full textEntries include a typed letter presenting the book Gallery for the Maine Author Collection and a lengthy typed biographical sketch of the author C.J. Stevens, contributed as John Stevens Wade, his pseudonym
Recovery through contradiction?
No full textWith this new drug strategy, the circle has turned. It was a Conservative government
that introduced the first drug strategy, Tackling Drugs Together, in 1995. This aimed
to reduce drug related crime, protect young people and reduce health harms by
discouraging drug use. It was criticised at the time for having unrealistic, intangible
aims and for not providing the necessary funding. New Labour’s strategies introduced
increasingly specific targets and massively expanded the funding of treatment. This
new Coalition strategy has no targets and provides no new funding
Gwendolyne Stevens
No full text"Gwendolyne Daphne was born on 7 June 1908 at Quorn, South Australia, daughter of Hugo Albert Valentine Healey, painter and later publican, and his wife Jessie Gwendolyne, n?e Napier, both South Australian born.
Gwendolyne attended several rural schools, including Innamincka Public, before proceeding to St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School, Adelaide. Miss Healey trained at Burra public and (Royal) Adelaide hospitals, and was registered as a nurse on 11 July 1929. She then moved to Parkside Mental Hospital where she gained a certificate in psychiatric nursing in 1931 and became sister-in-charge. In 1934 she bought a large house at Payneham that had been built by James Marshall, converted it into a private psychiatric hospital and named it St Margarets. As its owner and matron for eighteen years, she cared for patients suffering the early stages of nervous disorders, and provided them with a secure and restful setting, with aviaries amid beautiful gardens. That she took on such a task during the depression, and succeeded in it, testified to her business acumen, organizing ability and compassion for those in need.
At the chapel of the Collegiate School of St Peter, Adelaide, on 12 April 1940, she married George Dempster Stevens, a clerk employed by Dalgety & Co. Ltd. They were to have two daughters.
Pursuing her interest in community health, Mrs Stevens was founding president (1944-50) and a committee-member (until 1961) of the Payneham branch of the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association.
After she sold her hospital in 1952, she set up Sterling Downs, a Poll Dorset stud on 2200 acres (890 ha) at Currency Creek, in 1957. She employed a manager to supervise the stud and visited it each week. In the 1960s she sold part of the land and moved the stud to Sterling Park, McLaren Vale. The stud was later sold and its sheep replaced with cattle.
Having noticed particular outcrops of rock at Sterling Park, Stevens arranged for drilling to be conducted, as a result of which she opened a quarry and sold building sands to the local council.
In 1968 she became interested in the mining potential of the Northern Territory. She studied maps, obtained advice from geologists and concentrated on an area near Oenpelli, Arnhem Land. She received permission to prospect on 1282 sq. miles (3320 km?) of Aboriginal reserve and negotiated an exploration programme with Queensland Mines Ltd.
In 1970 that company discovered what was then described as the richest body of uranium ore in the world, at a site known to local Aborigines as Nabarlek.
Newspapers referred to Stevens as 'probably the first woman in the world with a right to mine uranium'. She visited the area twice during the early stages of exploration and was staggered by the size of the find.
In August 1971, however, Queensland Mines downgraded the ore reserves to about one-sixth of those announced a year earlier. Intending to use some of the proceeds of her investment to benefit the health of the Aborigines, she transferred the exploration licences to Queensland Mines in May 1973 and negotiated a royalty agreement. Mining at Nabarlek began in 1979.
Mrs Stevens both created and took advantage of opportunities in the areas of mental health, sheep-breeding and mining. Suffering from hypertension, she died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 3 March 1974 in her Kensington Park home and was cremated. She was survived by her husband and their daughters. Her estate was sworn for probate at $416,266." [author Tony Bott].NurseSheep BreederMining EntrepreneurHospital Proprieto
Back to the future by way of an Independent (Police)Commission: the Stevens Report in effect only pursues anestablished police agenda
No full textLord Stevens’ review of policing included a call for the abolition of the elected Police and Crime Commissioners. Barry Loveday thinks it unsurprising this proposal has emanated from a number of current and former chief constables. In this post he questions the potential bias in the views collected by the Stevens commission
Jane Perham Stevens Correspondence
No full textEntries are two, practically indistinguishable copies of a letter written by Thayer of the Maine State Library thanking Stevens for her 1972 book gift of Maine\u27s Treasure Chest: Gems and Minerals of Oxford County to the Maine Author Collection
Replication Data for: How can social branding mitigate racism among fans in sports? A Q-sort analysis on the value of social branding campaigns as vehicles for reducing racism among soccer fans.
No full textThese are the tables of the analyses of the study of Stevens and Cremers (2021) in the Journal of Public Administration and Governance with the title: How can social branding reduce racism among fans in sport? An explorative study on the value of social branding campaigns as vehicles for banning racism from soccer stadiums. Feel free to contact the author for information about the analysis
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