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Contact Zones and Elsewhere Fields: The Poetics and Politics of Environmental Sound Arts
No full textHow is agency distributed “in the field” and how can the practice of field recording critically manifest the relationship between humans and non-humans?
This thesis posits an original art practice of field recording based on a perspective I am calling “Inter-agential”. Employing the self-reflexive anthropological turn of the 1970’s as parallel critique throughout, I argue environmental sound art has ignored the politics of observer-subject relations and instead engaged place and sound through divisive legacies of conservation and composition.
I propose a hybrid conceptual framework from contemporary sound and anthropological studies that foregrounds issues relating to ethics, agency and representation. These subjects are examined in practice by converting “the field” into a collaborative and contested arena for intervention and performance. The result is a unique and formally diverse body of work that seeks to actively disrupt, critique and re-imagine the ontological foundations of field recording through an original and politicised aesthetics.
All practice-based experimentation has been conducted in one fixed location along the North-East Coast of England called South Gare. It is an industrial and ecologically embroiled site, both in terms of its history and present day impact. I situate this site-specific setting through artistic legacies found in Land Art. This context helps to re-imagine modes of documentation, production and subjectivity within field recording and builds a nuanced understanding of the field in relation to the representation of place and sonic experience
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Folder 37: C-21: Peter Brooks Letters, 1991-1992
No full textLetter from President of The Friends of Maple Springs Oscar Monsaibais, Jr. sent to Peter Brooks on April 24, 1992. Monsaibais thanks Brooks for his speaking on behalf of the Wright Amendment at the April 8, 1992 Dallas City Council meeting
Folder 37: C-21: Peter Brooks Letters, 1991-1992
No full textLetter from President of The Friends of Maple Springs Oscar Monsaibais, Jr. sent to Peter Brooks on April 24, 1992. Monsaibais thanks Brooks for his speaking on behalf of the Wright Amendment at the April 8, 1992 Dallas City Council meeting
Theological Seminary Johnson C. Smith University visting lecturers, 1965-1967
No full textSpeakers include: Benjamin E. Mays, L. Harold Dewolf, Ernst Kasemann, Israel J. Gerber, G. Ernst Wright, Edward A. Dowey, Paul L. Lehmann and Peter A. Bertocci
Investigation of damage in laminated carbon fibre composites using high resolution computed tomography
No full textLaminated fibre reinforced polymer matrix composites have been used in design and manufacture for more than 50 years, exploiting desirable material properties such as high specific strength and stiffness, enabling large weight savings to be made on structural components. To take full advantage of this class of materials a comprehensive knowledge of behaviour under different service conditions is required. This thesis illustrates the degree to which this is currently achieved, and describes the motivation and progression of an experimental and theoretical analysis of the static damage growth in carbon fibre reinforced polymers.Notched carbon fibre-epoxy cross-ply composite samples have been manufactured and loaded in uni-axial tension. Synchrotron radiation computed tomography (SRCT) has been used to characterise in 3-D the initiation and evolution of damage during in situ loading. Characteristic splitting, off-axis matrix cracking, interlaminar cracking and fibre failure within the samples were identified and the interaction of the damage mechanisms during crack growth has been evaluated. Splitting in the plies aligned with the loading direction was studied in greater detail, including measurements of crack opening displacement and shear deformation at crack flanks.3-D finite element models of splitting have been developed based on the observed damage and specimen microstructure from the SRCT results. Thermal residual stress and mechanical loading conditions were simulated for comparison with the experimental findings. Effects of local microstructural inhomogeneities were also embedded in models of varying complexity to assess the degradation of the results or model predictions due to simplifications or homogenisation. Significant discrepancy was found between the measured experimental data and finite element predictions due to simplifications in the model. Likely candidates for the over-prediction of crack growth include the effects of transverse ply cracks, delaminations and the lack of symmetrical damage formulation. Of particular significance is the confirmation that, via qualitative observations and quantitative data extraction, SRCT has facilitated the first known instance of direct full field comparison of model predictions for composite damage for a practical engineering layup
Peter C. Stanup: A Leader Among the Generous People
No full textPuyallup Tribal Elder Lena Landry and Puyallup Tribal Historian Judy Wright discuss the plight of Pacific Northwest Native Americans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and reflect on the life of Peter Stanup, a Puyallup tribal leader and activist whose 1893 death remains a source of enduring controversy. Charles Thomas, Peter Stanup's great-grandson, also shares his family's quest to uncover their history and their discovery of their connection to Stanup.The Peter C. Stanup oral history interviews form the core of a class project by Darlyne Reiter for the Community History Project under the supervision of Professor Michael K. Honey. The contents of Reiter's project are contained in a comb-bound binder, which includes the transcripts of the interviews, Reiters research paper, and related research materials. Also included are three mounted photographs of the interviewees, presumably taken on the days of their respective interviews, and a series of undated photos showcasing the River Road, T Street Gulch, and Gog-le-hi-te Wetland areas, where Stanup lived and died. The original sound recordings of the interviews are contained on two audio cassette tapes
Donkeys and Hares. The Enemy Warrior in the Early European Chronicles of the Conques
No full textThe Author scrutinizes the image of the enemy warrior in the early European chronicles of the Spanish conquest, within a historical-comparative approach. In the 16th century sources the image of the Indios fighting Europeans offers a very specific vision of this enemy. It was an image that had its roots in stereotypes of the past. But it had been reshaped into a new and original version. Solidarity between the devil and the Indios did not produce fearsome warriors. It was an image that did not have to hinder the expansion of European traffic
Imaging nuclear, endoplasmic reticulum and plasma membrane events in real time
No full textLive cell imaging can provide important information on cellular dynamics; however, the full utilisation of this technology has been hampered by the limitations of imaging reagents. Metal-based complexes have the potential to overcome many of the issues common to many current imaging agents. The rhenium (I)-based complex fac-[Re(CO)3 (1,10-phenanthroline)(4-pyridyltetrazolate)], herein referred to as ReZolve-ER(™) , shows promise as a live cell imaging agent with rapid cell uptake, low cytotoxicity, resistance to photobleaching and compatibility with multicolour imaging. ReZolve-ER(™) localised to the nuclear membrane/endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and allowed the detection of exocytotic events at the plasma membrane. Thus, we present a new imaging agent for monitoring live cell events in real time, which is ideal for imaging either short- or long-time courses.Christie A. Bader, Alexandra Sorvina, Peter V. Simpson, Phillip J. Wright, Stefano Stagni, Sally E. Plush, Massimiliano Massi and Douglas A. Brook
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
Correspondence and Photograph from Ernest W. Wright to Dr. C. A. Bacote, August 30, 1977
No full textCorrespondence between Ernest W. Wright (Employment Security Agency, Georgia Department of Labor) and Dr. C. A. Bacote, 30 August 1977. Enclosed 8"x10" photograph circa 1955, depicting voter registration participants. Written on Verso: "Left to Right: (Seated): Dr. Clarence A. Bacote, Dr. William Hale, Mr. Ron Harris? Dr. Robert Brisbane (Standing): Mr. Michael? Mr. C. A. Scott? Mr. Milton White"
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