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Spectacular Developments: Guy Debord's Parapolitical Turn
No full textFollowing the attacks of September 11th, 2001, Guy Debord’s concept of ‘the
spectacle’ re-emerged in the work of a variety of theorists as a critical prism through
which the attacks and subsequent ‘War on Terror’ could be approached. Debord’s
first book on the spectacle (1967) was written in the context of France’s post-war
boom; his later reflections, contained in a series of minor works written throughout
the seventies and eighties, are heavily influenced by Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’ and a
broader geopolitical climate of armed struggle, terrorism, counter-insurgency and
espionage. Nearly all post-9/11 invocations of Debord’s concept draw on the version
elucidated in Debord’s 1967 book, with its emphasis on commodity fetishism,
ideology, and alienation, and fail to engage his later work and its focus on terrorism,
secrecy, and conspiracy. Among those that do in fact reference Debord’s later work
are several writers whose work could pejoratively be labelled ‘conspiracy theory’.
Looking at Debord’s oeuvre as whole, and investigating how it combines a critique of
late capitalism in its totality with parapolitcal concerns of ‘systemic clandestinity’,
Spectacular Developments: Guy Debord’s Parapolitical Turn provides a bolstered
conception of the spectacle that aims to reconfigure the conceptual foundations of this
debate. This conception of the spectacle allows one to approach the 9/11 attacks and
all that followed in their wake with both a precision and a breadth lacking in these
other works, demonstrating the superficiality of readings that make the concept
synonymous with the mass media or that attempt to unravel nefarious conspiracies of
power. Simultaneously, this approach foregrounds the epistemological and strategic
challenges faced by researchers, politicians and activists working in and on the
society of the spectacle
Maupassant contista traduzido em analogias brasileiras: paratextos
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2014O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal analisar os elementos paratextuais presentes em doze antologias, dos séculos XX e XXI, traduzidas no Brasil, de Guy de Maupassant, autor francês do século XIX, pretendendo revelar como o autor e sua obra são apresentados ao leitor brasileiro, através dos paratextos. Foram analisadas somente as antologias traduzidas com contos do autor francês, não considerando as publicações mistas. O principal referencial teórico abordado foi fundamentado nas reflexões de Gérard Genette (2009) e Marie-Hèléne C. Torres (2011).Abstract: The main objective of this work is to examine the paratextual elements in twelve anthologies of the French author Guy de Maupassant's short stories, translated and published in the 20th and 21st centuries in Brazil, in order to disclose how the writer and his oeuvre are presented to the Brazilian reader, through the use of paratexts. I analysed only the translated anthologies with short stories from the author himself; anthologies that had other authors as well were not considered. The main theoretical framework was based on the reflections of Gérard Genette (2009) and Marie-Hèléne C. Torres (2011)
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Mersenne numbers
No full textThese notes have been issued on a small scale in 1983 and 1987 and on request at other times. This issue follows two items of news. First, WaIter Colquitt and Luther Welsh found the 'missed' Mersenne prime M110503 and advanced the frontier of complete Mp-testing to 139,267. In so doing, they terminated Slowinski's significant string of four consecutive Mersenne primes. Secondly, a team of five established a non-Mersenne number as the largest known prime. This result terminated the 1952-89 reign of Mersenne primes. All the original Mersenne numbers with p < 258 were factorised some time ago. The Sandia Laboratories team of Davis, Holdridge & Simmons with some little assistance from a CRAY machine cracked M211 in 1983 and M251 in 1984. They contributed their results to the 'Cunningham Project', care of Sam Wagstaff. That project is now moving apace thanks to developments in technology, factorisation and primality testing. New levels of computer power and new computer architectures motivated by the open-ended promise of parallelism are now available. Once again, the suppliers may be offering free buildings with the computer. However, the Sandia '84 CRAY-l implementation of the quadratic-sieve method is now outpowered by the number-field sieve technique. This is deployed on either purpose-built hardware or large syndicates, even distributed world-wide, of collaborating standard processors. New factorisation techniques of both special and general applicability have been defined and deployed. The elliptic-curve method finds large factors with helpful properties while the number-field sieve approach is breaking down composites with over one hundred digits. The material is updated on an occasional basis to follow the latest developments in primality-testing large Mp and factorising smaller Mp; all dates derive from the published literature or referenced private communications. Minor corrections, additions and changes merely advance the issue number after the decimal point. The reader is invited to report any errors
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Notice from Guy Robertson, Project Director, to the residents of Heart Mountain, October 1943
No full textNotice from Guy Robertson to incarcerees regarding labor shortage, recruitment, and operations for agricultural laborers at Heart Mountain incarceration camp.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Memo from Guy Robertson, Heart Mountain Project Director, to Committee of Delegates Cooperative, January 14, 1943
No full textMemorandum of understanding from Guy Robertson, Project Director at Heart Mountain incarceration camp, to Committee of Delegates Cooperative regarding the rules and regulations for consumer enterprises at the camp.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Correspondance Parisienne, Jeudi 1 Septembre 1892
No full textPage of the French periodical "Correspondance Parisienne" with a column titled "Bulletin Aeronautique" by Guy De Roope.For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/82
Guy Kawasaki: The Art of Enchantment
No full textGuy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. Formerly, he was an adviser to the Motorola business unit of Google and chief evangelist of Apple. His in-depth knowledge of the high-tech industry combined with his years of management experience enables him to address a wide range of audiences. His particular strength is the ability to quickly understand diverse industries and incorporate his pre-existing knowledge into a highly relevant and customized speech. He is also the author of Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions, APE, What the Plus! and ten other books. His two latest books are The Art of the Start 2.0 and The Art of Social Media. Guy routinely gets rave reviews from clients including trade associations, packaged goods companies, service providers, insurance companies, educational institutions, and technology companies. He has spoken for organizations including Google, Nike, Audi, TEDx, Wal-Mart, Sprint, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Saturn, Stanford University, TIE, Calgary Flames, The Body Shop, MIT, Forbes and Aveda
Memo from Guy Robertson, Project Director, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, to all division heads, January 5, 1943
No full textMemorandum of understanding from Guy Robertson, Project Director, to All Division Heads regarding job responsibility and reporting for divisions at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Includes organizational chart for Heart Mountain incarceration camp with a list of divisions, sections, units, and personnel.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Memo from Guy Robertson, Project Director, Heart Mountain Relocation Project, to block chairmen and block managers, January 22, 1943
No full textMemorandum of understanding from Guy Robertson, Project Director at Heart Mountain incarceration camp, to Block Chairmen and Block Managers regarding the unauthorized use of fire hydrants and fire hoses at the camp and outlining proper procedures for obtaining permission and using equipment.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Memo from Guy Robertson, Project Director, Heart Mountain Relocation Center to all division heads, January 1, 1943
No full textMemorandum of understanding from Guy Robertson, Project Director at Heart Mountain incarceration camp, to All Division Heads regarding "coordination of physical operation for the project."The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
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