501 research outputs found
Digital Collections Team documentation
No full textThis project collects materials related to an article written by Sara Szobody, Dulce Kersting-Lark, Olivia Wikle, Devin Becker on the creation of a digital collections team at the University of Idaho Library
Review of the book How Fascism Works, by J. Stanley
No full textDr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) reviews the book How fascism works, by J. Stanley (2020).Final article published
Review of the book Critiquing Brahmanism: A collection of essays, by K. Murali (Ajith)
No full textDr. Devin Zane Shaw (Douglas College) reviews the book Critiquing Brahmanism: A collection of essays, by K. Murali (Ajith) (2020).Final article published
From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front
No full textDr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) writes the book chapter From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front (2021).Final book published.DC Author's celebration 202
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Le devin du village (The Cunning Man)
No full textRecording of the Friday evening performance of the opera "Le devin du village (The Cunning Man)" at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater
Philosophy of antifascism: Punching Nazis and fighting white supremacy
No full text"Through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon and Sartre, this book identifies the philosophical reasons for the political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists. In addition, using the work of Jacques Rancière, it argues that the alt-right and the far right aren’t a kind of politics at all, but rather forms of parapolitical and paramilitary mobilization aimed at re-entrenching the power of the state and capital. Devin Shaw argues that in order to resist fascist mobilization, contemporary movements find a diversity of tactics more useful than principled nonviolence. Antifascism must focus on the systemic causes of the re-emergence of fascism, and thus must fight capital accumulation and the underlying white supremacism. Providing new, incisive interpretations of Beauvoir, existentialism, and Rancière, he makes the case for organizing a broader militant movement against fascism."--From publisher description.bookpublishe
Building a Geospatial Archive of Species Loss as Response to Local Caribou Extinction
Get PDFThis article offers a critical assessment of Storying Extinction: Responding to the Loss of North Idaho’s Mountain Caribou, a public-facing digital environmental humanities project produced by a team of University of Idaho Library researchers following the 2019 extirpation of mountain caribou from the South Selkirk Mountains of the Inland Northwest (the last caribou to inhabit the contiguous United States). The project has been conceptualized as a community response to the specific species loss, and it takes the form of a deep map, or geospatial archive, where users can inhabit and explore the region’s multispecies landscape in the aftermath of caribou extirpation through trail camera footage, nonfiction narrative, and georeferenced oral history videos of North Idaho community members narrating mountain caribou encounters. This article begins by offering a critical assessment of Storying Extinction’s methodology and formal architecture as it relates to representing human and more-than-human dimensions of species loss within a public and virtual setting. It then explores the importance of material practice for the environmental humanities and the specific contributions that performative cartographic processes can offer traditional EH scholarship. The article concludes by arguing that a multidisciplinary synthesis of GIS, digital, and narrative approaches is critical for communicating and exploring shifting spatial relations in the era of the Anthropocene and sixth mass extinction, and that Storying Extinction’s formal and methodological approaches can serve as a model for environmental humanities projects concerned with extinction geographies and environmental justice. © 2025 Jack Kredell, Chris Lamb, and Devin Becker
Egalitarian moments: From Descartes to Rancière
No full textDrawing on the claim that egalitarian politics persistently appropriates elements from political philosophy to engage new forms of dissensus, Devin Zane Shaw argues that Rancière's work also provides an opportunity to reconsider modern philosophy and aesthetics in light of the question of equality. In Part I, Shaw examines Rancière's philosophical debts to the 'good sense' of Cartesian egalitarianism and the existentialist critique of identity. In Part II, he outlines Rancière's critical analyses of Walter Benjamin and Clement Greenberg and offers a reinterpretation of Rancière's debate with Alain Badiou in light of the philosophical differences between Schiller and Schelling. From engaging debates about political subjectivity from Descartes to Sartre, to delineating the egalitarian stakes in aesthetics and the philosophy of art from Schiller to Badiou, this book presents a concise tour through a series of egalitarian moments found within the histories of modern philosophy and aesthetics. --From publisher description
Freedom and nature in Schelling's philosophy of art
No full textSchelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling's philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810. Schelling's philosophy of art is the 'keystone' of the system; it unifies his idea of freedom and his philosophy of nature. Schelling's idea of freedom is developed through a critique of the formalism of Kant's and Fichte's practical philosophies, and his nature-philosophy is developed to show how subjectivity and objectivity emerge from a common source in nature. The philosophy of art plays a dual role in the system. First, Schelling argues that artistic activity produces through the artwork a sensible realization of the ideas of philosophy. Second, he argues that artistic production creates the possibility of a new mythology that can overcome the socio-political divisions that structure the relationships between individuals and society. Shaw's careful analysis shows how art, for Schelling, is the highest expression of human freedom. --From publisher description.bookPublished
Pain inhibits GRPR neurons via GABAergic signaling in the spinal cord
Get PDFIt has been known that algogens and cooling could inhibit itch sensation; however, the underlying molecular and neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we show that the spinal neurons expressing gastrin releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) primarily comprise excitatory interneurons that receive direct and indirect inputs from C and Aδ fibers and form contacts with projection neurons expressing the neurokinin 1 receptor (NK1R). Importantly, we show that noxious or cooling agents inhibit the activity of GRPR neurons via GABAergic signaling. By contrast, capsaicin, which evokes a mix of itch and pain sensations, enhances both excitatory and inhibitory spontaneous synaptic transmission onto GRPR neurons. These data strengthen the role of GRPR neurons as a key circuit for itch transmission and illustrate a spinal mechanism whereby pain inhibits itch by suppressing the function of GRPR neurons
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