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Demotic possession
No full textAs Allan Brown reports, Robin Hardy regarded The Wicker Man (1973) as an anti-fascist film. As such it fits into the classical liberal political schema, based on Enlightenment thinking that freedom and the democratic distribution of power is a product of reason. The obverse is that irrationality and superstition lead to authoritarian forms of government. In this sense Hardy’s film coheres with then contemporary orthodox fears that the counter-culture, with its rejection of traditional sexual moral codes and religious practices, were either opening up the way for dictatorial governance or were implicitly totalitarian. As such the film adopts an analysis that, on the surface, corresponds with Max Weber’s approach to understanding the relationship between political power and authority to rule. Despite Hardy’s intentions, more recent Mayday celebrants, namely anti-capitalist activists, have adopted the text to promote revolutionary, anti-hierarchical politics (an appropriiation of the text by, and for, the demos or 'demotic possession'). This paper explores these subversive interpretations and uses of the film, and examines the celebration of the libidinal lifestyles, and the lampooning of established totems of power. The paper also considers how anarchists approach, what are for them, problematic features of the text such as the hierarchical status of Lord Summerisle. The playing with the filmic text by anarchists draws attention to the ways in which the film ultimately undermines liberal approaches to legitimate authority, and the just exercise of power
Box 53, Neg. No. 59230A: Lester Wicker
No full textThis black and white photograph features a portrait of Lester Wicker - he is sitting and is wearing a light shirt. Lester Wicker ordered the photograph.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/stafford_county/7096/thumbnail.jp
[Portrait of Two Unknown Children with a Wicker Chair]
No full textPhotograph of an unidentified pair of children together in front of a dark background. A child stands in a wicker chair at left, wearing a shirt with frilly shoulders, and a child stands on a rug at right, wearing a dark-colored coat, and resting his left arm on the backrest of the wicker chair to his left
Rapanui Wicker Figures and their Names
No full textWe know from different sources that small human figures in bark-cloth as well as large wicker figures were used in ancient times on Easter Island. There are now only three bark-cloth images in two museums of the world--Boston and Belfast. Their ancient name is forgotten by the Rapanui. Of the large wicker figures, none survive and we know them only from descriptions made by voyagers and scientists. These two types of anthropomorphic figures are very interesting, not only as art objects, but also as attributes of the ritual practices of the Easter Islanders. Some features of the small bark-cloth figures are described in early publications and reports, including one by the author of this article.</p
Box 36, Neg. No. 39143: R. R. Fergus
No full textThis black and white photograph features a portrait of R. R. Fergus - he is standing next to a wicker chair and is wearing a light shirt, dark colored trousers and a hat. R. R. Fergus ordered the photograph.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/stafford_county/5417/thumbnail.jp
50 Year Celebration of The Wicker Man
No full textWe will be hosting a live virtual event on Wednesday 22nd November at 7pm (GMT) to celebrate 50 years of one of the most iconic British folklore horror films… THE WICKER MAN.Hosted by: Rebecca McCallum, Assistant Editor at Ghouls MagazineGuests:- Harriet Fletcher, Ghouls Magazine Contributor- Lakkaya Palmer, Ghouls Magazine Contributor- Becci Sayce, Freelance Journalist at MetroUK, Dread Central & Ghouls Magazine- Mike Snoonian, Co-Host of Pod and The Pendulum Podcast- Ali Taylor, Author of Troubled Every Day and Possessio
Constraining the mass and redshift evolution of the hydrostatic mass bias using the gas mass fraction in galaxy clusters
No full textThe gas mass fraction in galaxy clusters is a quantity which can be used as a robust cosmological probe. It is however subject to various effects from the baryonic physics inside galaxy clusters, which may bias the obtained cosmological constraints. Among different aspects of the baryonic physics, in these proceedings we focus on the impact of the hydrostatic equilibrium assumption. From X-ray measurements of cluster gas fraction in the Planck-ESZ sample, we analyse the hydrostatic mass bias B, constraining a possible mass and redshift evolution of this quantity and its impact on the cosmological constraints. We show a degeneracy between the redshift dependence of the bias and cosmological parameters. In particular we find a 3.8σ evidence for a redshift dependence of the bias when assuming a Planck prior on Ωm. On the other hand, assuming a constant mass bias would lead to the extreme large value of Ωm > 0.860. We however show these results to be depending on the mass and redshift selections inside the main sample. Nevertheless, in all the analyses we find a value for the amplitude of the bias that is consistent with B ∼ 0.8, as expected from hydrodynamical simulations and local measurements, but still in tension with the low value of B ∼ 0.6 derived from the combination of cosmic microwave background primary anisotropies with cluster number counts. We also discuss cosmological constraints obtained from gas fraction data, combined with other probes like cluster number counts
Beitragselastizitäten in gesundheitsorientierten Vereinssportarten
No full textWicker P. Beitragselastizitäten in gesundheitsorientierten Vereinssportarten. In: Kähler R, Schröder S, eds. Ökonomische Perspektiven von Sport und Gesundheit. Sportökonomie. Vol 11. Schorndorf: Hofmann; 2010: 99-109
Federal Jurisdiction: A Proposal to Simplify the System to Meet the Needs of a Complex Society
No full textCo-author: James William MooreProfessors Wicker and Moore tackle the seemingly age-old problem of gridlock in the courts. They provide the following suggestions: 1) original jurisdiction should implement the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; 2) venue and process should support the functioning of the Rules; 3) jurisdictional amount should be eliminated; 4) removal jurisdiction should be reduced to a minimum; and 5) diversity jurisdiction should be retained, but simplified
The 2020 Peter Sloane Award: Honoring the contribution of Stefan Kesenne to European sports economics
No full textSimmons R, Taks M, Wicker P. The 2020 Peter Sloane Award: Honoring the contribution of Stefan Kesenne to European sports economics. International Journal of Sport Finance. 2022;17(4):183-186
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