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Ep. #136 - Jennifer Gabrys
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Your cohosts discuss what sensory technologies they might wish for their own home and the kind of multispecies encounters Cymene might have had in a Tegucigalpa red light district hotel (trigger warning: there be cockroach stories ahead!) Then (20:29) we chat with the multitalented Jennifer Gabrys from Goldsmiths (https://www.jennifergabrys.net), author most recently of Program Earth (U Minnesota Press, 2016), and her fascinating work on the spread of environmental sensing technologies and the impacts they are having on our worlds. Jennifer explains to us why she became taken with Whitehead’s concept of the “superject” as a different, more distributed and relational way of thinking about sensation and experience. That gets us to talking about nonhuman modes of sensing, what humans want from all these sensors, the problem of environmentality in smart city designs, computational urbanism, and why the figure of the idiot interests her in terms of thinking about models of digital participation. Jennifer explains how we can be for a world (and for other worlds) rather than simply of the world and why the etho-ecological is thus such an interesting domain for her. In closing, we return to Jennifer’s pathbreaking work on digital waste and the need for electronic environmentalism and talk about the e-waste/energy nexus and the paradox of spending ever more energy to monitoring ourselves using more energy. Listen on
Cult: A Composite Novel
No full textCult (redacted)
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
A cross-cultural test of the relational turbulence model: Relationship characteristics that predict turmoil and topic avoidance for Koreans and Americans
No full textThis study models associations among intimacy, relational uncertainty, partner interference, relational turmoil, and topic avoidance in Korean and American romantic relationships. We surveyed 294 individuals from the United States (N = 156) and South Korea (N = 138). The American model indicated that intimacy was negatively associated with relational uncertainty and curvilinearly associated with partner interference, relational uncertainty was positively associated with topic avoidance, and partner interference was positively associated with perceived turmoil. The South Korean model revealed that intimacy was negatively associated with relational uncertainty, both relational uncertainty and partner interference were positively associated with perceived turmoil, which was positively associated with topic avoidance. Although the American and Korean models were statistically invariant, some notable cultural differences are discussed.Peer reviewe
New Archaeological Findings on Santa Barbara Island
No full textDozens of archaeological sites have recently been discovered on the Channel Islands by a group of South Coast researchers. Santa Barbara Island is only one-square mile. It's the smallest of the Channel Islands and the most isolated. In the 1960s, 19 archaeological sites were discovered. Jennifer Perry, a Cal State Channel Islands anthropologist and archaeologist, was part of a team that re-surveyed the island over the last few years to find more than 40 additional archaeological sites, tripling the number of known sites and changing the view of the island's prehistory. "The surprise comes with the sites that have evidence of whole families or communities settling on the island for a season or for longer periods of time. So, there is a great variety of artifacts that show all aspects of daily life," she said. She says the sites contain stone tools and bowls and marine shells. They date back between 4,000 and 500 years ago."New Archaeological Findings on Santa Barbara Island." Radio Interview. KCLU. Sep 18, 2017
Student musicale, December 6, 1978
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Kanley Chapel, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, December 6, 1978, program no. 84. of the Department of Music's 1978-1979 season.1st work: Ann Jeans, violin ; Regina Haag, cello ; Carol Perry, piano. 2nd work: Kraig Kossuth, trombone ; Carol Perry, piano. 3rd work: Cary Belcher. 4th-5th works: Barbara Kronewitter, piano. 6th work: Gary McCourry, alto saxophone. 7th-9th works: Jennifer Janke, soprano ; Melodee Wagen, piano.Information from performance program.Trio in D major, op. 70, no. 1. Allegro vivace e con brio / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Concerto for trombone (1956). Andante et scherzo, valse tambourin / Henri Tomasi -- Three preludes: Brouillards ; Voiles ; Le vent dans la plaine / Claude Debussy -- Caprice (1950) / Paul Bonneau -- Mandoline / Claude Debussy -- See how they love me / Ned Rorem -- La Boheme. Quando m'en vo / Giacomo Puccini
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
No full textThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity on California’s Channel Islands : Feasting, Ceremonialism, and the Ritual Economy
No full textResource sustainability: Practices and promises : a document submitted in partial fulfillment ... for the degrees of Master of Science (Natural Resources) and Master of Science (Water Resources Management) ...
No full textTania E. Hurie, Melissa M. Nagel, Jennifer E. Puntenney, Nompumelelo Tshabalala, Tara E. Ward, Wendy A. Woods, with Almut Beringer, Nandita Jain.; Thesis equivalent (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1989
E-journals in a networked environment : its impact on academic libraries in the digital millennium
No full textThis paper tries to describe the Advantages of E-journals in terms of Accessibility, Speed distribution and production, Subscription Cost, Multimedia Capabilities, Internal and External Links etc and also tries to find out the Technological, Socio-cultural and Economic Barriers. The issues like Refereeing, Copyright and Licensing, Longevity and Storage and recent trends in E-journal publication and its implication on Academic Libraries in selection and acquisition, Cataloguing, archiving, user's access, training and support to staff and users are discussed in this paper
G. Petrone, Quando le Muse parlavano latino. Studi su Plauto, Bologna 2009, “Aevum” 85, 2011, pp. 223-225
No full textThe author collected her articles with a bibliographical revisio
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