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Michel Foucault and Judith Butler: troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work
No full textOne of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later develops this interpretation in line with the progress of her own project. In the main part of the thesis, I present an analysis of Foucault‘s thinking in the period from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to The History of Sexuality volume 1 (1976). This analysis focuses on the aspect of his work which has most influenced Butler‘s thinking: namely the notion of a relationship between knowledge, discourse and power. The other issues in his work which Butler addresses—genealogy, the subject, the body, abnormality, and sexuality—are discussed within this framework. I show how, in the early 1970s, Foucault develops the notion of power-knowledge, and sets out a relationship between power-knowledge and discourse which is overlooked by Butler. I argue that Butler interprets Foucaultian power through the notions of repression and social norms, and ignores the concepts of technology and strategy which form a key part of Foucault‘s thinking. I show how, from The Archaeology of Knowledge on, Foucault develops a socio-historical ontology and a genealogy of the subject, both of which are at variance with Butler‘s interpretation of his thinking
Interview with Jeffrey Rasley
No full textIt may come as a surprise to some that there are still villages of people throughout the world that have been unaffected by modern society. They live without running water, electricity, sometimes even schools. Their heat their homes, cook their food, do everything needed with burning wood. They have no idea of how harmful the carbon smoke is. Each family lives in a beautiful, hand-chiseled stone houses with flower gardens. There is no healthcare. The specific place we will be talking about today is exactly as I have described to you. It is a village in a remote valley in the Solu region of Nepal named Basa. Our guest today, with 2 other adventurers were only the third group of white people ever seen in this village of farmers. First they asked for education for their children, then electricity for their village. It is an amazing story and an ever more remarkable journey for our guest today. He is a lawyer from Indiana, our home state at Your Life Matters. But I truly believe more importantly he is a truly caring person, he is a father, a husband, an author, philanthropist and an educator who has won numerous awards in his career. It is our honor to welcome to Your Life Matters Jeffrey Rasley
From Djeffrey to Jyfree
No full textOver the years I have seen many different variants of my first name, Jeffrey. This is an attempt to catalogue some of them. 400 examples were found on the Internet using the Google search program. The subset below contains 124 apparently genuine variants, all of which are probably pronounced more or less the same as Jeffrey. The ones with a plus are recorded on the Kabalarians online name database (www.kabalarians, How important is your name? ), and those with an asterisk are old forms
Inner Conflicts in Calliope’s Intersexuality in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex
No full textThis study aims at finding the inner conflicts, including the causes and the resolutions to the conflicts, experienced by the main character in the novel Middlesex written by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Middlesex is an epic novel written in memoir mixed autobiography about an intersexual person of Greek decent. This issue has become important, especially in sexual movement, for surgical or hormonal alteration is usually taken to create more socially acceptable sex characteristics without having a thorough counceling to the intersexual person.
Using objective criticism as the tool of the analysis, the writer analyzes the novel through its intrinsic elements. Nevertheless, analyzing a novel using intrinsic elements cannot be entirely separated from its extrinsic elements. Therefore, the writer includes the novel’s extrinsic elements whenever he needs to support his analysis.
On gender and sexualities, the writer frames his analysis within social constructionist theory, specifically that of Judith Butler on gender as performance
Uri Caine and his Jewishly influenced music
No full textThe Introduction to Uri Caine and His Jewishly Influenced Music contains brief reviews of Mike Gerber's Jazz Jews and Jeffrey Melnick's A Right to Sing the Blues, and a definition of Jewishly influenced music. Part I is a detailed biography of Caine's life as described by Caine in interviews. Part II seeks to understand Caine's work through his roles as leader, composer, sideman, arranger, collaborator and keyboardist, and it looks at a few examples of his Jewishly influenced music. Caine has won the Down Beat Talent Deserving Wider Recognition award for the Jazz Artist and Electric Keyboardist categories, the International Composers' Hit award for Best Mahler CD and he was the first jazz artist to be named the artistic director of the musical segment of the Venice Biennial. Caine's early JMT and recent Winter & Winter recordings are discussed in the Leader section. Caine's breadth and compositional process is described in the Composer section. Caine's fellow musicians praise his humility and talent in the Sideman section. Caine blurs the line as an Arranger/Collaborator with his composing and interpreting prowess. Caine discusses his familiarity with the Korg organ, the Fender Rhodes and the piano while outlining his practice routines in the Keyboardist section. Finally, this Master's thesis presents an analysis of three of Caine's Mahler-inspired works, and it shows how those pieces are Jewishly influenced. Caine, born and raised in Philadelphia, is known as a jazz pianist who played with the great Bootsie Barnes, Hank Mobley, Philly Joe Jones and others. But Caine's desire to push the musical envelope has led him to work with John Zorn, the Radical Jewish Culture series (on the Tzadik label), the Downtown music scene in New York, the more commercially successful Grover Washington Jr. and a plethora of classical musicians. Caine has reworked, arranged, composed in the style of and/or interpreted Mahler, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Schumann and Schoenberg. Uri Caine is an extraordinary musician who cannot be defined in one box, one pigeon hole, one genre or one style. Uri Caine is a creative and prolific leader, composer, sideman, arranger, collaborator and keyboardist.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Jeffrey David Benata
Continuous-flow, electrically-triggered, single cell-level electroporation
No full textElectroporation creates transient openings in the cell membrane, allowing for intracellular delivery of diagnostic and therapeutic substances. The degree of cell membrane permeability during electroporation plays a key role in regulating the size of the delivery payload as well as the overall cell viability. A microfl uidic platform offers the ability to electroporate single cells with impedance detection of membrane permeabilization in a high-throughput, continuous-fl ow manner. We have developed a fl ow-based electroporation microdevice that automatically detects, electroporates, and monitors individual cells for changes in permeability and delivery. We are able to achieve the advantages of electrical monitoring of cell permeabilization, heretofore only achieved with trapped or static cells, while processing the cells in a continuous-fl ow environment. We demonstrate the analysis of membrane permeabilization on individual cells before and after electroporation in a continuous-fl ow environment, which dramatically increases throughput. We have confi rmed cell membrane permeabilization by electrically measuring the changes in cell impedance from electroporation and by optically measuring the intracellular delivery of a fl uorescent probe after systematically varying the electric fi eld strength and duration and correlating the pulse parameters to cell viability. We fi nd a dramatic change in cell impedance and propidium iodide (PI) uptake at a pulse strength threshold of 0.87 kV/cm applied for a duration of 1 ms or longer. The overall cell viability was found to vary in a dose dependent manner with lower viability observed with increasing electric fi eld strength and pulse duration. Cell viability was greater than 83% for all cases except for the most aggressive pulse condition (1 kV/cm for 5 ms), where the viability dropped to 67.1%. These studies can assist in determining critical permeabilization and molecular delivery parameters while preserving viability.Peer reviewe
Author response to second letter to the editor, <i>J. Air Waste Manage. Assoc</i>. 65: 245–246
No full textAuthor response to second letter to the editor, <i>J. Air Waste Manage. Assoc</i>. 65: 245–24
Hidden dynamics in models of discontinuity and switching
No full textSharp switches in behaviodr, like impacts, stick slip motion, or electrical relays, can be modelled by differential equations with discontinuities. A discontinuity approximates fine details of a switching process that lie beyond a bulk empirical model. The theory of piecewise-smooth dynamics describes what happens assuming we can solve the system of equations across its discontinuity. What this typically neglects is that effects which are vanishingly small outside the discontinuity can have an arbitrarily large effect at the discontinuity itself. Here we show that such behaviour can be incorporated within the standard theory through nonlinear terms, and these introduce multiple sliding modes. We show that the nonlinear terms persist in more precise models, for example when the discontinuity is smoothed out. The nonlinear sliding can be eliminated, however, if the model contains an irremovable level of unknown error, which provides a criterion for systems to obey the standard Filippov laws for sliding dynamics at a discontinuity. (C) 2014 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).</p
The Representation of Gender in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex
No full textThis thesis presents an exploration of the representation of gender in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex mainly in light of the theories of Judith Butler. The focus will be on how the two novels challenge the traditional concept of gender and gender categories, and in what ways the novels can give us new perspectives on the concept of gender. The theoretical focus will be on Judith Butler, more precisely her idea of gender as performance, and her deconstructionist approach to identity categories. I will present Butler’s proposal for a “new feminist genealogy,” and through my investigation of the representation of gender in Orlando and Middlesex I will show how both novels take on a “Butlerian” understanding of the concept of gender.
By looking at various issues related to gender explored in the two novels, and pointing to similarities and differences between the two works, I hope to show how the protagonists, Orlando and Cal/lie, break down and transcend the fraught categories of male and female, thus disrupting the traditional gender norms and conventions, showing them to be socially and culturally constructed. Judith Butler’s hope is for every human being to be acknowledged as a subject, no matter which gender and/or sexual identity he or she has, and my aim is consequently to present how Orlando and Middlesex, through their representation of gender, open up for a greater understanding and broader acceptance for every individual
Listening to the Snake; or, On Having a Spine
No full textThe western prohibition of reflection on what we call today religion begins not with a banned scholarly monograph or a taunted academic, but with a myth about a transgressive desire for mature moral knowledge and a subsequent sexual emotion, namely, Adam and Even\u27s shameful sense of being naked after accepting the serpent\u27s gift of the knowledge of good and evil. Elsewhere, I have explored some of the ways that western religions thought has sexualized this foundational myth in order to take up this gnosis as my own and explore the problems and promises of sexual desire, gender difference, sexual orientation, love, mortality, and -- above all -- the inescapably transgressive nature of radical thinking about religion in the contemporary academy
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