55 research outputs found
Shifting Comprehension in Novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zoë Wicomb: Lingualism in Action
No full textIn an attempt to conceptualise literary multilingualism—or just “lingualism,” to use Robert Stockhammer’s term—without reifying language boundaries, this article reads literary fiction as a negotiation of different regimes of comprehensibility. These negotiations occur (1) on the level of the story-world, (2) materially, in the mediation of the narrative as book artefact and (3) between these two levels. Lingualism, then, is notjust context-sensitive but context-constituted. The apparently anarchic freedom of literary language is held in check by regimes of comprehensibility that ensure that even nonsense will carry meaning. The article’s analysis of works by Abdulrazak Gurnahand Zoë Wicomb shows how they engage potentially transformative moments of (in)comprehensibility in what Pratt named the colonial “contact zone.”</p
The Janus Faces of Risk
No full textThis volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the latest management and organizational research related to risk, crisis, and emergency management. It is the first volume to present these separate, but related disciplines together. Combined with a distinctly social and organizational science approach to the topics (as opposed to engineering or financial economics), the research presented here strengthens the intellectual foundations of the discipline while contributing to the development of the field
Responsibility for scientific misconduct in collaborative papers
No full textThis paper concerns the responsibility of co-authors in cases of scientific misconduct. Arguments in research integrity guidelines and in the bioethics literature concerning authorship responsibilities are discussed. It is argued that it is unreasonable to claim that for every case where a research paper is found to be fraudulent, each author is morally responsible for all aspects of that paper, or that one particular author has such a responsibility. It is further argued that it is more constructive to specify what task responsibilities come with different roles in a project and describe what kinds of situations or events call for some kind of action, and what the appropriate actions might be
Pessoa, Anon, and the Natal Colony" Retracing an Imperial Matrix
No full textABSTRACT: Fernando Pessoa’s years in Durban (1896–1905) have often been sidelined by critics. Conversely, the memory and reception of Pessoa in South Africa have been slight, sustained by only a few individuals. By contextualizing Pessoa’s placement in the historically peculiar Natal Colony, and by reading some early work by Pessoa’s English literary persona Charles Robert Anon against the backdrop of the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), this article adds to the emergent understanding of the Durban years as deeply formative for Pessoa’s work. It is here, not least, that we can trace the early formation of the imperial view of history that also becomes a strange limitation to his thinking. The “empire” as a frame of reference, an object of desire, a cause for ridicule, and a lofty ideal, recurs repeatedly in Pessoa’s writing, and even when Anon expresses severe criticism of British imperial conduct, he remains beholden to an imperial optic, almost by default restricted to a white outlook on events in southern Africa. We find thereby in the early work the makings of an imperial ambivalence that is then dispersed and refracted through multiple poetic voices in Pessoa’s oeuvre.
KEYWORDS: Fernando Pessoa, Charles Robert Anon, Roy Campbell, Natal Colony, Anglo-Boer War, imperialis
Bunceeld stories:Organizational Learning and Remembering for Crisis Prevention
No full textMany investigations nd that those who deal with hazardous technologies need to be aware of the potential consequences of their actions to inform their risk decision-making; that is they need a good safety imagination. Safety imagination is not fostered by changes to technical standards and the like but rather requires lessons to be integrated into professional practice. Scholarship on professional learning emphasizes the social nature of learning, including the sharing of stories.</p
Pessoa in Sweden : the Northern trajectory of a lonely canonical
No full textBy looking simultaneously at the succession of translations of Pessoa into Swedish and the critical reception of Pessoa in Sweden, this article investigates when and how Pessoa became a point of reference in the Swedish literary field. The hypothesis is that there currently are two overlapping versions of Pessoa in circulation in Sweden. One is Pessoa as a metonym for Lisbon, the other is Pessoa as a distinct author figure defined by his four main heteronyms but often disconnected from any specific corpus of poetry. In the 1980s, this author figure was enlisted (by the winning side) in a struggle between competing aesthetic paradigms in Sweden. Among the handful of critics and translators that have shaped the Swedish reception, this article looks especially at the pioneering contributions of Arne Lundgren and Bengt Holmqvist. Particular attention is then paid to Orons bok (Livro do desassossego). First published in 1991, Orons bok has since appeared in two more editions and is the translation that has reached the largest number of readers. In this regard, the Swedish reception follows an international tendency to construct Pessoa as the author of Livro.</p
Generalized General Logics
No full textLogic as a vehicle for sound reason has a long and lustrous history and while most developments follow the traditional notions of binary truth and crisp sentences, great efforts have been placed into the problem of reasoning with uncertainties. To this end the field of "fuzzy logic" is now of great importance both theoretically and practically. The present monograph seeks to extend and clarify the treatment of non-classical notions of logic and, more broadly, information representation in general. This is done using two theoretical developments presented with additional discussions concerning possible applications. The first theoretical development takes the form of a novel and strictly categorical term monad that readily allows for a multitude of non-classical situations and extensions of the classical term concept. For example, using monad composition we may represent and perform substitutions over many-valued sets of terms and thereby represent uncertainty of information. As a complementary example, we may extend this term monad to incorporate uncertainty on the level of variables and indeed the operators themselves. These two notions are embodied inthe catchphrases "computing with fuzzy" and "fuzzy computing". The second theoretical development is a direct generalization of the notion of general logics, a successful categorical framework to describe and interrelate the various concepts included under theumbrella term of 'logic'. The initial leap towards general logics was the introduction of institutions by Goguen and Burstall. This construction cover the semantic aspects of logics and in particular, axiomatizes the crucial satisfaction relation. Adding structures for, e.g., syntactic entailment and proof calculi, Meseguer established general logics as a framework capable of describing a wide range of logics. We will in our generalization further extend general logics to more readily encompass non-classical notions of truth such as in fuzzy logics and logics operating over non-classical notions of sets of sentences.Logik är ett gammalt och kraftfullt verktyg för att föra korrekta resonemang och människor har under lång tid studerat och tillämpat olika logiska system. Dessa studier har till stor del fokuserat på logik som innefattar ett binärt sanningsbegrepp, det vill säga logik där en utsaga är antingen sann eller falsk. Givetvis är detta en väldigt begränsad vy då vi i vår vardag ofta måste värdera sanning på en betydligt mer flexibel skala. På samma sätt måste vi ofta resonera och fatta beslut utifrån information som på olika sätt kan vara osäker. En djupare förståelse för dessa otraditionella logiker är därför av stort intresse till exempel i expert-system som mekaniskt föreslår beslut utifrån osäker information. I denna monografi beskriver vi två matematiska ramverk som tillåter oss att beskriva dessa typer av otraditionella logiker och otraditionell representation av information i allmänhet. Dessa teoretiska konstruktioner är kompletterade med diskussioner relaterade till praktiska och vidare teoretiska tillämpningar. Den första av de två teoretiska konstruktionerna är en strikt kategoriteoretiskt definierad termmonad som kan beskriva termer och variabelsubstitution för en mängd olika otraditionella termkonstruktioner. Till exempel, genom monadkomposition kan vi representera flervärda mängder av termer och detta ger oss möjlighet att representera osäker information. Alternativt kan vi konstruera en termmonad som uttrycker osäkerhet på ett mer fundamental sätt genom att termernas ingående variabler och operatörer i sig kan ha associerad osäkerhet. Den andra teoretiska konstruktionen är en direkt generalisering av det matematiska ramverket "generell logik" som axiomatiserar de olika komponenter som ofta faller under logikbegreppet. I generell logik beskrivs dock dessa utifrån en traditionell vy och för att beskriva otraditionella logiker krävs därför ofta obekväma representationer. Den nämnda generaliseringen syftar därför till att förenkla konstruktionen av mer exotiska logiker inom ett ramverk som till stor del liknar generell logik. </p
Recherche littéraire / Literary Research
No full textFranca Bellarsi Olga Beloborodova Lidia Morales Benito Jean Bessière Eury Colin Chang Véronique Corinus Santanu Das Subhraleena Deka Elke D'hoker Brahim El Guabli Marlene Hansen Esplin Massimo Fusillo Claudio Gigante Gerald Gillespie Stefan Helgesson Yvon Houssais Višnja Krstić Marie Laureillard Marc MaufortYana Meerzon Kai Mikkonen Florian Mussgnug Anzazi Joan Mwangovya Birgit Neumann Wen-chin Ouyang Daniel-Henri Pageaux Yolaine Parisot Danielle Perrot-Corpet Yannick Preumont E.V.Ramakrishnan Hubert Roland Karen-Margrethe Simonsen Vijaya Singh Daria Tunca Dirk Van Hulle Roberto Vecchi Cyril Vettorato Luke Walker Jenny Webb Robert J.C. Young
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