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No full textAbstract In this essay, I interrogate different ways for critical social science to look at ES and their analytical effects by way of telling three different kinds of stories about the same empirical material. I give ethnographic accounts of the 2012 annual conference of the IUCN UK Peatland Programme, a research and policy advocacy programme in which a community of scientists, conservation practitioners and policy people deploys ES towards their shared goal of peatland restoration. In my first story, I interrogate the established social science framings of simplification, neoliberalisation and commodification. While they resonate with some of the things that are going on in my empirical material, they leave critical social scientists rather helpless in that they don't suggest meaningful ways to engage. Moreover, there is also a whole other reality present which is difficult to unpack by means of these concepts. In the second story, I focus on this other reality and interrogate the tropes of discourse and conflict through which it is articulated as well as the kind of engagement these tropes suggest. In my third story, I mobilise relational materialist theory from Science and Technology Studies (STS) to propose that there may be value in the alternative figures of (collective) work and (modes of) ordering. These provide for detailed accounts of the simultaneous but distributed presence of simplifying narratives, their debunking, and practical going-on-together
Editorische Bemerkungen zu Niklas Luhmanns Manuskript „Ebenen der Systembildung“
No full textSchmidt J. Editorische Bemerkungen zu Niklas Luhmanns Manuskript „Ebenen der Systembildung“. In: Heintz B, Tyrell H, eds. Interaktion, Organisation, Gesellschaft revisited. Anwendungen, Erweiterungen, Alternativen. Sonderheft der Zeitschrift für Soziologie . Vol [2] . 1. Auflage. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius; 2015: 3-5
Using RISE, an International Perspective
No full textInstitutional readiness in Research Data Management (RDM) services and infrastructure is an important prerequisite for today’s increasingly digitally connected scientific domains. The Research Infrastructure Self-Evaluation Framework (RISE) is a tool to facilitate strategy processes for RDM-support development. Published in 2017 by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), RISE has been picked up by institutions in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany, among others.Accepted abstract for a Lightning Talk at the 15th International Digital Curation Conference in Dublin , 17 - 20 February 202
Konsumtionsrapporten 2023
No full textI Konsumtionsrapporten 2023 sammanfattas och analyseras konsumtionen i Sverige under
2022. I den första delen, ”Hushållens konsumtion” ges en översikt över den privata
konsumtionen i Sverige och hur den förändrats. Här beskrivs även skillnader mellan olika
hushållstyper och konsumentgrupper, hållbarhetsaspekter på konsumtionen samt
hushållens framtidsförväntningar på den egna ekonomin. I andra delen, ”Detaljhandeln”
beskrivs försäljning och utveckling inom detaljhandeln under 2022 med fokus på olika
delbranscher, kanaler och platser, inom e-handeln respektive den butiksbaserade
detaljhandeln. Den andra delen avslutas med handelns framtidsförväntningar. Årets
Konsumtionsrapport innehåller två fördjupningsdelar som var en och analyserar aktuella
teman inom konsumtion. I den första av fördjupningsdelarna analyserar Emma Björner
digitalisering inom turism, besöksnäring och upplevelseekonomi. I den andra
fördjupningsdelen analyserar och diskuterar Benjamin Hartmann olika exempel på
nostalgisk konsumtion
[[alternative]]Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems and Its Implication to the Educational Analysis
No full text[[abstract]]Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems and Its Implication to the Educational Analysis
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This thesis aims to study Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems and its educational implications. The first chapter explores major problems and predicament in the study of education. It also points out contributions of Luhmann to educational studies. The second chapter traces sources of Luhmann’s theory of intellectual traditions. The third chapter then explicates the structure of Luhmann’s theory with an analysis of important ideas and concepts implicated in his works.These ideas and concepts include , for example , system , complexity , meaning , function , communication , self-reference and others. The fourth chapter discusses how Luhmann has reflected on current educational systems on the basis of his own theory. In particular,Chapter Five takes up Luhmann’s discussion in Reflexionsprobleme im Erziehungssystem. The last chapter , in conclusion , reviews major themes of this research , identifies the difficulties thus encountered, and suggests possible directions for future studies.
Briefe aus der Verbannung / Tristia. Epistulae ex Ponto : Lateinisch - Deutsch /
No full textIm Jahre 8 n. Chr. wird Ovid aus nicht bekanntem Grund von Kaiser Augustus nach Tomis am Schwarzen Meer verbannt, an den Rand der zivilisierten Welt, in eine trostlose Gegend, in der niemand Latein spricht und die er bis zu seinem Tod 17 n. Chr. nicht mehr verlassen wird. Er beginnt, verzweifelte Briefe zu schreiben - man würde sie heute "Offene Briefe" nennen - und diese nach Rom zur Veröffentlichung zu schicken. Sie sind sorgsam dichterisch komponiert, der Stil ist geschliffen und sie haben nur ein Ziel: die öffentliche Meinung in Rom für ihn einzunehmen; erfolglos, wie wir wissen. Gleichwohl sind die Briefe bewegende Dokumente frühester Exil-Literatur. Sie wurden das ganze Mittelalter über gelesen und haben das moderne Bewusstsein Europas mitgeprägt. Die neue Einführung des Münchner Altphilologen Niklas Holzberg und die neuen besonders ausführlichen Anmerkungen zu den unzähligen versteckten Anspielungen in den Briefen untersuchen sorgfältig, was an Ovids Klagen echt und was "Literatur" ist, wo er unter der Unerträglichkeit des Exils tatsächlich leidet und wo er nur gängigen Vorstellungen über die Wildnis am Pontos Ausdruck verleiht. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Niklas Holzberg.Im Jahre 8 n. Chr. wird Ovid aus nicht bekanntem Grund von Kaiser Augustus nach Tomis am Schwarzen Meer verbannt, an den Rand der zivilisierten Welt, in eine trostlose Gegend, in der niemand Latein spricht und die er bis zu seinem Tod 17 n. Chr. nicht mehr verlassen wird. Er beginnt, verzweifelte Briefe zu schreiben - man würde sie heute "Offene Briefe" nennen - und diese nach Rom zur Veröffentlichung zu schicken. Sie sind sorgsam dichterisch komponiert, der Stil ist geschliffen und sie haben nur ein Ziel: die öffentliche Meinung in Rom für ihn einzunehmen; erfolglos, wie wir wissen. Gleichwohl sind die Briefe bewegende Dokumente frühester Exil-Literatur. Sie wurden das ganze Mittelalter über gelesen und haben das moderne Bewusstsein Europas mitgeprägt. Die neue Einführung des Münchner Altphilologen Niklas Holzberg und die neuen besonders ausführlichen Anmerkungen zu den unzähligen versteckten Anspielungen in den Briefen untersuchen sorgfältig, was an Ovids Klagen echt und was "Literatur" ist, wo er unter der Unerträglichkeit des Exils tatsächlich leidet und wo er nur gängigen Vorstellungen über die Wildnis am Pontos Ausdruck verleiht. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Niklas Holzberg.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed May 26, 2011
Scandal on campus. Dietrich Schwanitz reads Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory
No full textNiklas Luhmann (1927–1998) is one of the most distinguished sociologists of the twentieth cen-tury and the author of systems theory, which to a great extent has been accommodated into lin-guistics. Dietrich Schwanitz (1940–2004), an anglicist, is one of the most interesting interpreters of Luhmann on the basis of literary studies. Schwanitz is also known as a writer and author of the novel Campus (Der Campus, 1995). The main character, a sociologist, Hanno Hackmann, is wrongly accused of the sexual harassment and rape of a student. His reckless romance is exploited by various people in the university milieu to achieve their own goals. In fact, these people are, however, only the representatives of various social systems, especially politics and the media. Striving for re-election, the university rector needs this matter for his campaign, and the media are only interested in a scandalous story to be exploited for some time. Social communication does not reflect reality, and, at the same time, can be described as based on the “reduction of complexi-ty” (“Komplexitätsreduktion”). This is one of the most important concepts in Niklas Luhmann’s work. It turns out that systems theory provides the specific key to interpret the novel
The Abstract Robot Simulator Manual
No full textRobot Simulator Manual Version 1.0 Sean P. Engelson Niklas Bertani YALEU/DCS/TR-XXX October 1992 This work was partially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, contract number DAAA15-87-K-0001, administered by the Ballistic Research Laboratory. The first author is supported by a fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Ars Magna The Abstract Robot Simulator Manual Version 1.0 Sean P. Engelson Niklas Bertani 0 This work was partially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, contract number DAAA15-87-K-0001, administered by the Ballistic Research Laboratory. The first author is supported by a fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Abstract AI planning research has historically operated in formal abstractions of the real world. This approach was useful in discovering many fundamental issues underlying planning; also, problems in simple domains such as the blocks world can turn out to be surprisingly difficult. Late..
Cross-Topic Author Identification -- a Case Study on Swedish Literature
No full textUsing material from the Swedish Literature Bank, we investigate whether common methods of author identification using word frequencies and part of speech frequencies are sensitive to differences in topic. The results show that this is the case, thereby casting doubt on much previous work in author identification. This sets the stage for a broader future study, comparing other methods and generalising the results
Manipulating Embeddings of Stable Diffusion Prompts
No full textSupplementary material of the paper Manipulating Embeddings of Stable Diffusion Prompts.
The paper can be found on arXiv: arXiv:2308.12059
Please cite as:
@Article{deckers:2023b,
author = {Niklas Deckers and Julia Peters and Martin Potthast},
title = {Manipulating Embeddings of Stable Diffusion Prompts},
journal = {CoRR},
volume = {abs/2308.12059},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12059},
month = aug,
year = 2023
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