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Organising invention through technical mentality: Simondon’s challenge to the ‘civilisation of productivity’
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Culture and Organization on 13/10/2016, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14759551.2016.1240400.According to Simondon, it is through the implementation of a ‘technical mentality’ that a technocratic system grounded on a communitarian ‘ethics of productivity’ can be transformed into a system of metastable functioning as a value. Simondon’s overall project is twofold, aiming both at a unified paradigm for the social sciences, and at a pedagogy of technics, inspired by the concept of the technical mentality. The goal of this article is to provide a conjoint and consistent analysis of Simondon’s paradigm by connecting the concepts of ‘organising amplification’ and ‘technical mentality’
Philosophy as political technē: The tradition of invention in Simondon’s political thought
No full textGilbert Simondon has recently attracted the interest of political philosophers and theorists, despite he is rather renowned as a philosopher of technics – as the author of Of the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects – who also elaborated a general theory of complex systems in Individuation in the Light of the Notions of Form and Information. A group of scholars has developed Gilles Deleuze’s early suggestion that Simondon’s social ontology might offer the basis for a re-theorisation of radical democracy. Others, following Herbert Marcuse, have instead focused on Simondon’s analysis of the relationship between technology and society. However, only a joint study of Simondon’s two major works can reveal their implicit
political stakes. As I will argue, Simondon’s anti-Aristotelianism and his anti-Heideggerian understanding of the Greek origins of philosophy, allow us to conceive philosophical thought as a ‘tradition of invention’, that is, a pedagogical technē endowed with the political task of maintaining the openness of the social system and allowing normative invention to emerge from within
On-shell approximation for the -wave scattering theory
No full textWe investigate the scattering theory of two particles in a generic D-dimensional space. For the s-wave problem, by adopting an on-shell approximation for the T-matrix equation, we derive analytical formulas which connect the Fourier transform V similar to(k) of the interaction potential to the s-wave phase shift. In this way we obtain explicit expressions of the low-momentum parameters g similar to 0 and g similar to 2 of V similar to(k) = g similar to 0 + g similar to 2k2 + center dot center dot center dot in terms of the s-wave scattering length as and the s-wave effective range rs for D = 3, D = 2, and D = 1. Our results, which are strongly dependent on the spatial dimension D, are a useful benchmark for few-body and many-body calculations. As a specific application, we derive the zero-temperature pressure of a two-dimensional uniform interacting Bose gas with a beyond-mean-field correction which includes both scattering length and effective range
Occupazione e professioni nel comparto turistico veneto
No full textIl volume descrive le metodologie e le tecniche adottate per una indagine sulle imprese del comparto turistico veneto. La rilevazione riguarda sia le figure professionali d interesse per le imprese turistiche e sia le previsoni di medio periodo per l'occupazione nel settore
Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction of individual Trichinella specimens
No full textRecently, 5 sibling species and 3 other phenotypes were identified in the genus Trichinella. Single primers of arbitrary nucleotide sequence were used to produce random amplified polymorphic DNA starting from decreasing amounts of Trichinella spiralis and Trichinella britovi DNA. Reproducible amplification products from 30 pg of DNA were obtained using 1 of 6 examined primers. These fragments distinguish between 2 European Trichinella species, T. spiralis, showing a 1,350-bp band, and T. britovi, showing 400- and 1,100- bp bands. The developed procedure allows the characterization of crude DNA preparations of single muscle-stage larvae, avoiding time-consuming passages of parasites in laboratory animals
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