104 research outputs found
An Interview with Nick Baigent
No full textOSInternational audienceThe interview was conducted by Constanze Binder (CB) Miriam Teschl (MT) and Yongsheng Xu (YX) via email over a period of a few weeks in the Summer/Fall of 2014
An Interview with Nick Baigent
No full textOSInternational audienceThe interview was conducted by Constanze Binder (CB) Miriam Teschl (MT) and Yongsheng Xu (YX) via email over a period of a few weeks in the Summer/Fall of 2014
Constanze Binder, Agency, Freedom and Choice
No full textL’ouvrage de Constanze Binder, dont le titre n’est pas sans faire écho à celui des Dewey Lectures données par Amartya Sen à l’Université de Columbia en septembre 1984 (« Well-Being, Agency and Freedom » ; Sen, 1985a), a pour but principal d’améliorer l’analyse et l’évaluation de la liberté d’agent (agency freedom). Cet objectif contraste avec celui énoncé par Sen pour ses conférences, qui consistait à « différencier l’aspect ‘bien-être’ (well-being) et l’aspect ‘qualité d’agent’ (agency) » (S..
Agency, freedom and choice
No full textIn her dissertation Constanze Binder shows how social states can be compared in terms of freedom’s agency value, that is, the value freedom has because of it allowing a person to reflect upon her motives and shape her life in accordance with them. Sheargues that a number of prominent problems in the philosophical literature on freedom, such as the ‘happy slave problem’, arise due to a neglect of freedom’s agency value. This dissertation demonstrates that the formal freedom ranking literature, which aims to establish rankings of choice situations in terms of the amount of freedom they offer to a person, can also be employed to develop a ranking in terms of freedom’s agency value. For this purpose Binder shows how information about those differences between choice options that matter to people can be revealed and incorporated in freedom rankings. Moreover, it is shown that the assumption of a person being rational, or formally speaking that her preferences satisfy transitivity, is in tension with the idea of a person reflecting upon a plurality of (possibly conflicting) identities. Finally, the results obtained provide new insights in the evaluation of human well-being with the capability approach across different societies and cultures.
[EFF15S6] Session 7: Constanze Ruhm, Re-staging the Locations of Film History
No full text27 March 2015, 12:30, Birkbeck Cinema
Constanze Ruhm is an artist and author, whose work, exhibited internationally, encompasses installations, films and videos, publications and curatorial activities. Her artistic practice explores the interactions between film, film theory, theatrical forms, and new media, primarily with regard to questions of identity, representation and (feminist) film theory. Since 2006, she has been professor for Art and Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2007, she has also been an adjunct professor at the Art Institute Boston/Lesley University.
This event, combining screenings and discussion, was structured in two parts.
Part one – Constanze Ruhm in conversation with Roland-Francois Lack (UCL, creator of website: The Cine-Tourist) [Link: https://www.thecinetourist.net]
In La Difficulté d’une perspective: A Life of Renewal (2013), Constanze Ruhm, with Emilien Awada and using location research by Roland-Francois Lack, created this photographic series of eight locations from Une Femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961) shot from two different perspectives: first, as a precise replica of a shot from the original film, and then as a representation of the subjective perspective of the main female character (Angela/Anna Karina). The photos show what Anna Karina must have seen when she herself was seen by Godard and his camera.
Part two – screening and presentation
Film: Panoramis Paramount Paranormal (part of the Invisible Producers series), Constanze Ruhm with Emilien Awada, Austria, 2014, digital, 59 minutes, French and German with English subtitles
Out of their work on Une Femme est une femme, Ruhm and Awarda discovered the film studio St. Maurice, founded in 1913 and destroyed by fire in 1971. The film focuses on the history of this specific location and its place within the history of cinema. Subsequently, the apartment complex Le Panoramis was built on the same site
Constanze Mozart Kajaanin Kaupunginteatterissa : Pukusuunnittelijan prosessi rokokoonäytelmän henkilöhahmon rakentamisessa
Full text linkOpinnäytetyön aiheena oli teatteripuvustuksen suunnittelu Kajaanin Kaupunginteatterin Amadeus-näytelmän yhdelle pääroolille, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartin vaimolle Constanzelle. Amadeuksen ensi-ilta on 20.09.2014 teatteritalon näyttämöllä. Tekijän suunnittelema rokokootyylinen puvustus sisälsi seitsemän asukokonaisuutta, joista valmistettiin yksi kokonaisuus teknisine ohjeistuksineen. Opinnäytetyö toteutettiin tekijän pukusuunnittelu- ja ompelutaitoja hyödyntäen, sekä Pirkko Anttilan kriittis-realistisen evaluaation prosessimallia mukaillen. Suunnitteluprosessin tukena käytettiin J. Michael Gilletten teatterituotantoon tarkoitettua suunnittelu- ja ongelmanratkaisumallia. Lisäksi pukusuunnittelussa hyödynnettiin tekijän aikaisemmin suunnittelemia Amadeus-näytelmään sopivia printtikuvioita.
Tekijä perehtyi Amadeus-näytelmän käsikirjoitukseen ja 1700-luvun loppupuolen naisten pukeutumisen historiaan. Aineistoa hankittiin havainnoimalla yhtä teatteriesitystä ja kahta elokuvaa, jotka sijoittuvat rokokooaikaan. Havainnointiaineistoa täydensi näytelmän ohjaajan, skenografin ja opinnäytetyön tekijän pitämät kolme eri palaveria, joissa keskusteltiin näytelmän ideoista sekä pukuluonnoksista. Palaverit dokumentoitiin videoimalla. Pukuluonnoksista valittu ja tekijän valmistama asukokonaisuus kuvattiin puettuna Constanzen näyttelijälle. Tekijä sai työstään asiantuntijapalautetta ohjaajalta, skenografilta ja teatterin puvustossa työskenteleviltä ammattilaisilta palautelomakkeen avulla.The aim of the final project with thesis was to design theatrical costumes for one of the main characters, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s wife Constanze, in the Amadeus Drama at Kajaani Town Theatre. The premiere of Amadeus is on 20 September 2014 on the stage of the theatre building. The Rococo costume set designed by the author includes seven outfits, of which one outfit with technical drawings was manufactured. The final project with thesis was implemented by exploiting the author’s skills in costume designing and sewing, together with adapting the principles of the critical-realistic evaluation process model presented by Pirkko Anttila. The design and problem solving concept of J. Michael Gillette, intended for theatre production, was used to support the design process. In addition, suitable print patterns designed previously for the Amadeus Play were also exploited in the costume designing.
The author became familiar with the script of Amadeus Drama and the history of women’s clothing in the late 18th century. The information was collected by observing one theatre show and two movies, which are placed in the Rococo time. The observation data was completed by three different meetings held by the director and the scenographer of the play and the author. The ideas and the costume sketches of the play were discussed in the meetings, which were documented by video. One outfit chosen from the sketches and produced by the author was worn by the actor playing the role of Constanze and photographed. The author received expert feedback about her work from the director, scenographer and the professionals of the theatre’s costume shop via the feedback blank
Nondictatorial Arrovian social welfare functions: an integer programming approach
No full textIn the line opened by Kalai and Muller (J Econ Theory 16:457–469, 1977), we explore new conditions on preference domains which make it possible to avoid Arrow’s impossibility result. In our main theorem, we provide a complete characterization of the domains admitting nondictatorial Arrovian social welfare functions with ties (i.e. including indifference in the range) by introducing a notion of strict decomposability. In the proof, we use integer programming tools, following an approach first applied to social choice theory by Sethuraman et al. (Math Oper Res 28:309–326, 2003; J Econ Theory 128:232–254, 2006). In order to obtain a representation of Arrovian social welfare functions whose range can include indifference, we generalize Sethuraman et al.’s work and specify integer programs in which variables are allowed to assume values in the set {0,12,1}: indeed, we show that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the solutions of an integer program defined on this set and the set of all Arrovian social welfare functions—without restrictions on the range
What we want from non-ideal theories of justice
Full text linkThis thesis covers the topic of non-ideal theories of justice. Different types of discussions have been associated with non-ideal theories of justice, but an overarching theme has been a frustration with the lack of influence political philosophy can have in the world. I will claim that, while the discussions surrounding the topic are diverse, if the aim of non-ideal theories of justice is to influence the world, two conditions have to be satisfied: feasibility and comparability. However, both of these concepts are not yet properly defined, and in both cases some shortcomings exist. In this thesis I will show the shortcomings in these concepts related to bringing political philosophy closer to action guidance, and will give a contribution where I can
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