271 research outputs found
Peter Adey, Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension
Get PDFCette nouvelle publication de Peter Adey prolonge les précédentes investigations de l’auteur sur l’air et la mobilité aérienne. Tout en maniant le sujet avec humour, l’ouvrage examine en profondeur les expressions polysémiques du corps lévitant. Il offre une histoire culturelle des regards sur la lévitation et sur les tensions qui régissent les potentialités physiques et imaginaires de sa réalisation. L’originalité de cette étude réside dans une approche transversale et diachronique de l’apes..
Peter Adey, Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension
Get PDFCette nouvelle publication de Peter Adey prolonge les précédentes investigations de l’auteur sur l’air et la mobilité aérienne. Tout en maniant le sujet avec humour, l’ouvrage examine en profondeur les expressions polysémiques du corps lévitant. Il offre une histoire culturelle des regards sur la lévitation et sur les tensions qui régissent les potentialités physiques et imaginaires de sa réalisation. L’originalité de cette étude réside dans une approche transversale et diachronique de l’apes..
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No full textA book review forum on Peter Merriman, "SPACE", London, UK, and New York, NY: Routledge (Key Ideas in Geography series), 202
Mobility, Infrastructure, and the Humanities
Get PDFMobility, suggested John Urry, is fundamental as one of “the infrastructures of social life” (13). Yet mobilities are as equally undergirded by infrastructures of systems that can both enable and disable mobilities. This special issue emerged from the 2022 Global Mobility Humanities Conference, and in this introductory article we open out several problematics which framed some of the conference and introduce further the themes explored by the special issue papers. First, we
tease out the academic networks, practices and relations of a broader “infrastructuring” of the (mobility) humanities. Secondly, while theorising a mobility humanities of infrastructure, we introduce the papers by way of exploring several cross-cutting concerns. That is, we discuss how the methodological possibilities stimulated by a humanistic lens may produce nuanced accounts of infrastructures (“Methods as Infrastructures”); how mobility humanities can present the polyvocality of infrastructures, enlarging the conceptualisation of both infrastructure and infrastructuring (“Pluralising Infrastructures”); and how infrastructures can be interrogated ethically and politically in terms of a wide variety of critical issues that pertain to mobility equality, sustainability, and inclusiveness, that is, the notion of mobility justice (“[Ex]change: The [Broken] Promises of Infrastructures.” Thus, we hope this special issue functions as a powerful and productive trigger to stimulate more encounters and develop generative conversations
Cosas
No full textEn este ensayo no se intenta explorar al dron desde su propia historia moderna, en la que se consignan sus antecedentes en los espacios aéreos de Vietnam e incluso durante la segunda guerra mundial o antes (Gregory, 2011; Shaw, 2016). Tampoco busco posicionar al dron en un contexto visual, cultural y político más amplio de historias sobre la visión desde las alturas ni en una emergente geografía de lo vertical (Dorrian y Pousin, 2013; Adey et al., 2013; Graham y Hewitt, 2013). Más bien, trataré de mostrar al dron como un tipo distinto de figura vertical, que tiene sus propias prehistoria e historia que avanzan de forma paralela a la de todo aquello que se mueve en las alturas, así como sus geografías estéticas particulares, que podríamos redistribuir de manera productiva (Hawkins y Straughn, 2015). (p.355
Truth, purification and power: Foucault's genealogy of purity and impurity in and after The Will to Know lectures
No full textFoucault’s 1970–71 lectures at the Collège de France, The Will to Know, highlight the significance of themes of purity and impurity in Western thought. Reflecting on these themes coincided with the emergence of Foucault’s theory of power. This article presents the first analysis of Foucault’s investigation of purity and impurity in The Will to Know lectures, identifying the distinctive theory Foucault offers of purity as a discursive apparatus addressing correspondence between the subject and the truth through the image of relative integrity or mixture. It then traces Foucault’s subsequent reflections on these themes in his later writings on disciplinary power. The implications of Foucault’s position are considered; the article will close by putting Foucault’s ideas in dialogue with those of Kristeva, and in considering the role that purity and impurity may play in resistance
Linking behavior and diet between and within populations of an invasive crayfish faxonius rusticus
Get PDFThis Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-07-01 at 16:29.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14108 on 2019-11-26 at 14:00:39Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:58:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemOpen Restriction set for Item 113031 on 2021-01-20T23:00:12Z with date null by [email protected] Restriction set for Item 113031 on 2021-01-20T23:00:18Z with date null by [email protected] and mesocosm studies are often employed to study basic and applied ecology due to the complexities and lack of external controls in field environments. However, studies conducted on the same questions at different scales do not always have the same results. In my thesis, I used stable isotopes to relate laboratory behavior to field function within and between populations. In my first study, I explored whether stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen could be used to relate laboratory dominance of Rusty Crayfish Faxonius rusticus to their field diet. I assessed whether methodological decisions around tissue analyzed for stable isotopes, laboratory acclimation time, and timing of primary consumer collection affects this relationship. I hypothesized that more dominant crayfish would have higher trophic positions, and tissues with faster turnover rates may exhibit a stronger association between laboratory behavior and recent field function. I failed to find a relationship regardless of these different methodological choices However, I still find this method promising, as other laboratory behaviors may be more related to diet or competition for food, such as exploration or feeding flexibility. In my second study, I expanded this method of relating behavior to diet through stable isotope analysis for questions between, rather than within, populations of F. rusticus. Here, I aimed to determine the relationship between individual specialization and relative population abundances or intraspecific competition. Theoretical studies propose a direct, positive relationship between abundance and individual specialization; however, empirical studies have not always supported these predictions. I assessed behavioral and dietary specialization across a gradient of relative population abundances of F. rusticus. I found a unimodal relationship between relative abundance and dietary specialization, likely due to limited food resources in high abundance lakes. Alternatively, I found a positive linear relationship between relative abundance and behavioral specialization, because this metric of individual specialization is not resource limited (i.e. density dependent). These results indicate that discrepancies between theoretical and empirical studies of the relationship between individual specialization and intraspecific competition might be a consequence of the metric of specialization used. My thesis shows that linking organismal diet and behavior with stable isotopes may be a useful approach in ecology and evolution, but may be best applied to questions between rather than within populations.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2021-08-01The student, Amaryllis Adey, accepted the attached license on 2019-06-28 at 13:53.The student, Amaryllis Adey, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-06-29 at 16:07
Surveillance at the airport: surveilling mobility/mobilising surveillance
No full textIn this paper the author is concerned with the relationship between mobility and practices of surveillance, examining their interconnections within the modern airport. Recent deliberations about airports define these spaces as free, empty of power and social relationships -- open to mobility. The author questions these assumptions and explores the surveillance practices that work to control and differentiate movement, bodies, and identities within the airport. Four examples are discussed, ranging from techniques that ignore mobile passengers towards those that simulate them. The airport is argued to offer perhaps a blueprint for public space, intensifying the surveillance of movement through mobilised and combined forms of monitoring. The author concludes the paper by reflecting upon the implications for the mobility and identity of the passenger as spaces such as airports become increasingly reflexive.
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