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Abstracts of papers submitted in 1985 for publication : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
No full textThis volume contains all abstracts submitted for
publication during calendar year 1985 by the staff and students
of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Because some of the
abstracts may not be published in the journal to which they have
been submitted initially, we have purposely omitted identifying
the journals. The volume is intended to be informative, but not
a bibliography.
The abstracts are listed by title in the Table of
Contents and are grouped into one of our five departments,
marine policy, or the student category. An author index is
presented in the back to facilitate locating specific papers
Scale Critique and the Subject of Technoscience
No full textPost-structuralism argues for the dissolution of the modern subject, especially the subject’s individuality, interiority, and abstraction from embodiment. The subject is a knot in strings of language, driven by external and unconscious forces, less the free origin of ideas and actions than a site where bodies meet flows of information. For Felix Guattari, ‘rather than speak of the “subject”, we should perhaps speak of components of subjectification’ and distinguish between the concepts of the individual and subjectivity. If the subject of technoscience bound up with issues such as the authority of climate modelling is a processual subject in this sense, then how should one think the role of scaling and scale critique in its formation? How does scalar subjectification influence the politics of scientific truth in today’s context of corporate capitalism, anti-colonial critique, and post-truth media? This talk addresses the relationship between subject formation in contemporary technoscience and the theoretical problems of scale at work in ICI’s lecture series. Drawing on the ontology and media theory of Gilbert Simondon, Woods understands scientific subjectification in terms of a tension between at least two qualitatively different scales such as weather and climate. His central example is computational climate modelling — especially the use of grids, time steps, and parameters to establish a model’s resolution. In such knowledge-political contexts, scale theory and scale critique have taken the subject’s integrity for granted in their various ways of conceptualizing ‘the human scale’ and opposing it to the imperceptible, nonhuman phenomena that lie beyond it. One viable alternative can work with post-structuralist theories of subjectivity to complicate the relation between human and nonhuman scale domains. Derek Woods is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University in Canada. Woods works to create dialogue between the sciences and humanities for the sake of anti-capitalist climate politics. He studies the human condition in a time of accelerating ecological crisis, including how environmental damage and restoration intersect with the production of inequality and efforts to redistribute wealth and power. With Joshua Schuster, he is the author of Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). He has published articles about scale in relation to climate, film, and ecology in journals like New Formations and The Minnesota Review. With Karen Pinkus, he co-edited a special issue of diacritics on terraforming, which was the topic of an ICI colloquium organized by Alison Sperling in 2019. His other recent publications appear in journals like New Literary History, CR: The New Centennial Review, and Symplokē. Currently, Woods is completing a book manuscript about the ecosystem and earth system concepts entitled Trophic Time: A Media Theory of the Ecosystem. His other ongoing research takes up the cultural politics of symbiosis and eco-Marxist critiques of green technology/carbon markets. Before starting at McMaster, he worked in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia and the interdisciplinary Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College.00:00
Introduction by Marietta Kesting06:24
Talk by Derek Wood
"The Fallacy of the Revised Bretton Woods Hypothesis: Why TodayÕs International Financial System Is Unsustainable"
No full textThe stability of the international financial system is in doubt. Analysis of the system has focused mainly on the sustainability of financing the U.S. trade deficit and has failed to understand the microeconomics of transactions within the system. According to this brief by Thomas I. Palley, the international financial system is unsustainable for reasons of demand, not supply. He recommends a global system of managed exchange rates to replace the current system before it crashes, along with the U.S. economy. East Asian economies are pursuing export-led growth and running huge trade surpluses with the United States by actively pursuing policies aimed at maintaining undervalued exchange rates. Their governments continue to accumulate U.S. financial assets in order to support and stabilize the international financial system.While East Asian policymakers are correct in their belief that they can improve economic outcomes through exchange rate intervention, the system is undermining the structure of income and aggregate demand and eroding U.S. manufacturing capacity.
Abstracts of manuscripts submitted in 1988 for publication
No full textThis volume contains the abstracts of manuscripts
submitted for publication during calendar year 1988 by the staff and
students of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. We identify
the journal for those manuscripts which are in press or have been
published. The volume is intended to be informative, but not a
bibliography.
The abstracts are listed by title in the Table of Contents
and are grouped into one of our five departments , marine policy, or
the student category. An author index is presented in the back to
facilitate locating specific papers
Neck of the woods
No full textLocation: St. Kevin’s Park Dublin. Art, Photography, & Nature. Author keywords: Neck, woods, tre
Abstracts of manuscripts submitted in 1993 for publication
No full textThis volume contains the abstracts of manuscripts submitted for publication during calendar year 1993 by the staff and
students of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. We identify the journal of those manuscripts which are in press or have
been published. The volume is intended to be informative, but not a bibliography.
The abstracts are listed by title in the Table of Contents and ar grouped into one of our five departents, Marine Policy
Center, Coastal Research Center, or the student category. An author index is presented in the back to facilitate locating specific
papers
Abstracts of manuscripts submitted in 1992 for publication : research in progress
No full textThis volume contains the abstracts of manuscripts submitted for publication during calendar year 1992 by the staff and students
of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. We identify the journal of those manuscripts which are in press or have been
published. The volume is intended to be informative, but not a bibliography.
The abstracts are listed by title in the Table of Contents and are grouped into one of our five deparents, Marine Policy
Center, Coastal Research Center, or the student category. An author index is presented in the back to facilitate locating specific
papers
Author Pearl Buck given Key to City by Councilman Freeman Woods
No full textVice Mayor G. Freeman Woods proclaimed author Pearl Buck an honorary citizen of Tucson in March of 1965. She was campaigning for funds for her Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which aided Korean-American children. [Chapter 9 Page 185
Abstracts of manuscripts submitted in 1991 for publication
No full textThis volume contains the abstracts of manuscripts submitted for publication during calendar year 1991 by the staff and students
of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. We identify the journal of those manuscripts which are in press or have been
published. The volume is intended to be informative, but not a bibliography.
The abstracts are listed by title in the Table of Contents and are grouped into one of our five departents, Marine Policy
Center, Coastal Research Center, or the student category. An author index is presented in the back to facilitate locating specific
papers
Abstracts of manuscripts submitted in 1989 for publication
No full textThis volume contains the abstracts of manuscripts submitted for publication during calendar year 1989 by the staff and
students of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. We identify the journal of those manuscripts which are in press or have been
published. The volume is intended to be informative, but not a bibliography.
The abstracts are listed by title in the Table of Contents and are grouped into one of our five deparments, marine policy, or the
student category. An author index is presented in the back to facilitate locating specific papers
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