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Review Randy Fertel: A Taste for Chaos
No full textBook review of Randy Fertel\u27s A Taste for Chaos: The Art of Literary Improvisatio
The BP Oil Spill and the Bounty of Plaquemines Parish
No full textThe source of 25 to 30 percent of America’s seafood, the Mississippi River Delta’s cornucopian world is now uncertain. And yet, even if shrimp, oysters, and finfish are unaffected by the BP Oil Spill—a big if—one can already reflect on the passing of the culture once built upon gathering them. For almost three centuries, levees made life possible along the riverbanks and in the wetlands beyond. Those same levees also ensured the wetlands would eventually melt away into the Gulf. Cutting off the silt left behind during annual river inundations subjected the fragile land to erosion. Sulfur, natural gas, and oil production companies dug twenty thousand miles of canals to gain more direct routes to their fields and to pump out their mineral wealth. This caused salt-water intrusion that killed off plant life and caused more erosion. The world that sustained my Plaquemines ancestors was less subject to collapse following disasters not only because the ecosystem before the wetlands’ ongoing loss was then more vibrant, complex, and robust; but also because their lives, especially their culinary lives, were more vibrant, complex, and robust. Life was hard, but when it came to putting food on the table, life followed the seasons.</jats:p
Jung’s Red Book, improvisation, and the mētic spirit
No full textABSTRACTUnderstandingThe Red Book as an improvisation and Jung as an improviser offers a new approach to understanding the active imagination and the analytic method that emerged from it. Such an approach uncovers the mētic spirit – the spirit of polytropic intelligence – that informsThe Red Bookand the archetypal figure of Hermes/Mercurius/Trickster that informs all improvisations and will come to dominate Jung’s career. The rhetoric of improvisation inThe Red Bookconveys that, uncontaminated by the directed consciousness or ego, personae and imagoes arise spontaneously from his unconscious and control him, not he them. Such gestures privilege non-rational ways of making art and knowing the self and world, part and parcel of the paradigm shift that characterizes the 20th century. Jung’s Red Book is on the leading edge of that effort to shift from objective rationality to a rationality that can embrace subjective elements: the unconscious and the irrational, not just the “broad highways” but also the “back alleys” of human experience.</jats:p
"Footnotes in Gaza", El cómic-reportaje como género periodístico
No full textThe recent explosion of non-fiction comic has been followed by the birth of a genre characterized by current contents relate. This creative formula imports journalism codes to report facts, through sequential narrative, with a veracity objective. A circumstance which suggests a theoretical conflict against the normative tradition of journalism. This paper investigates the journalistic dimension of these products from an specific case of study: the analysis of Footnotes in Gaza. A comic that won 2010 award for investigative journalism of Fertel Foundation, and whose author, Joe Sacco, is considered one of the most respected names in this trend that hybridizes comics and journalism.La reciente explosión del cómic de no-ficción se ha visto acompañada del nacimiento de un subgénero que se caracteriza por la narración de contenidos de actualidad. Esta fórmula creativa importa códigos del periodismo para informar sobre hechos reales y con voluntad de veracidad en el relato secuencial. Una circunstancia que sugiere un conflicto teórico frente la tradición normativa del periodismo. Este trabajo investiga la dimensión periodística de estos productos a partir de un caso práctico: el análisis de Footnotes in Gaza. Un cómic premiado en 2010 como mejor trabajo periodístico de investigación por la Fundación Fertel y cuyo autor, Joe Sacco, está considerado uno de los nombres más reputados dentro de esta corriente de hibridación de cómic y periodismo
OBSERVATION OF TWO-MODE BEHAVIOR IN AN ALKALI HALIDE MIXED CRYSTAL SYSTEM.
No full textThis work was supported in part by the Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DA28-043-AMC 02526(E) ) and by the U.S. Air Force (ESD Contract AF19(628)-6066). Present address of C.H. Perry: Department of Physics Northeastern University, Boston, Mass. 02115.Author Institution: Spectroscopy Laboratory and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUntil recently only one mode behavior has been observed in alkali-halide mixed crystals such as KCl-KBr. However solid solutions of appear to exhibit two modes over part of the composition range. These results have been observed directly in transmission measurements of evaporated thin films and in reflection of pressed powders as a function of temperature. Several models have been applied to describe the observed frequency variation with composition, and the conditions necessary for the existence of local and gap modes will be discussed
Polyunsaturated fatty acid-derived lipid mediators and T cell function
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