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In the Margins of Representation: A Critique of Plascencia's The People of Paper
No full textThis thesis explores the common features that unite postcolonial and posthumanist theories, finding that the Cartesian notion of representationalism has enabled the humanist hierarchy that both fields decry. This humanist hierarchy coalesces in the figure of the author, and as such its most effective criticism takes the form of metafiction. The object of this analysis is The People of Paper, which explores the limits of the author perspective through a narrative that follows a character born of paper, as well as a narrative that is unmade by a characters’ war against the author. The characters' war against the author illustrates an intimacy between representation, materiality, and subjectivity that demonstrates the difficulty of engaging in anti-humanist narration – particularly when Cartesian disassociation is woven into the epistemology of authorship. To demonstrate how postcolonialism and posthumanism work together, I mobilize these theories in a reparative reading that evinces a hierarchy inherent to authorship
Public Philosophy in a New Key
No full textThese two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor Tully takes the reader step-by-step through the principal debates in political theory and the major types of political struggle today. These volumes represent a genuine landmark in political theory from the author of Strange Multiplicity, one of the most influential and distinctive commentaries on politics and the contemporary world published in recent years. This first volume of Public Philosophy in a New Key consists of a presentation and defence of a contextual approach to public philosophy and civic freedom, and then goes on to study specific struggles over recognition and distribution within states.</jats:p
Réponse à James Tully. Le défi canadien : faire droit à deux visions différentes du pays
No full textL’auteur commente dans cet article un texte de James Tully publié dans une récente livraison de GLOBE Revue internationale d’études québécoises sous le titre « Liberté et dévoilement dans les sociétés multinationales ». L’auteur situe dans son contexte historique l’impasse constitutionnelle qui perdure entre le Québec et le reste du Canada. Il évoque en particulier trois événements majeurs, soit la Loi constitutionnelle de 1982, l’échec de l’Accord du Lac Meech et l’Avis de la Cour suprême, rendu en 1998, sur la sécession du Québec. Il rappelle aussi qu’au cours des dernières décennies, par-delà des échecs pénibles, le Québec a enregistré nombre de gains dont la portée ne fut pas négligeable. À la différence de Tully, qui a surtout mis l’accent sur les conséquences positives qui pourraient découler des principes énoncés par la Cour suprême, l’auteur souligne que l’Avis, dans ses aspects proprement légaux, laisse peu de marge de manoeuvre au Québec et a déjà servi de justification pour le dépôt au Parlement du projet de loi C-20. L’impasse entre le Québec et le reste du Canada ayant sa source dans l’existence de deux visions très différentes du pays, la démarche de dévoilement et de reconnaissance préconisée par Tully pourrait, selon l’auteur, aider grandement les tenants des deux visions à mieux connaître leurs positions respectives et à mettre au point des formes de cohabitation davantage acceptables.The author examines in this article a text by fames Tully published in a recent issue of GLOBE. Revue internationale d’études québécoises under the title "Liberté et dévoilement dans les sociétés multinationales" (Revelation and recognition in multinational societies). The author situates, in this historical context, the constiuitional impass enduring between Quebec and the rest of Canada. He evokes three major events in particular: the constitutional Bill of 1982, the failure of the Meech Lake Accord and the Opinion of the Supreme Court, pronounced in 1998, on Quebec separation. He also recalls that over the course of the last few decades, beyond painful failures, Quebec has demonstrated a great number of gains whose scope was hardly negligeable. Unlike Tully, who especially emphasized the positive consequences which could ensue from the principles expressed by the Supreme Court, Ryan underlines that the Opinion, in its specifically legal aspects, leaves little room for manoeuvre in Quebec and has already served as a justification for the submitting of Bill C-20 in Parliament. The impass existing between Quebec and the rest of Canada originating with the existence of two very different visions of the country, the step defined by revelation and recognition recommended by Tully could according to the author, significantly help the supporters of the two visions to better acquaint themselves with their respective positions and to perfect forms of more acceptable cohabitation
The author as actor: a defense of Quentin Skinner
No full textIn this thesis, I defend Quentin Skinner's work against some criticisms raised by three of his interlocutors: John Keane, Kennet Minogue, and Joseph Femia. All three of these critics take issue with Skinner's author-centered approach to the historical interpretation of texts. Femia, invoking Roland Barthes 'death of the author' thesis, argues that Skinner's attempt to recover the intentions of authors is impossible. While Minogue and Keane do not dispute the possibility of recovering an author's intentions, they question the unity of such an enterprise. In order to answer Femia's criticism of Skinner, I draw an analogy between Skinner's figure of the author, and Arendt's figure of the political actor. I argue that just as it is possible for someone to know what a political actor is doing in performing a political act, it is similarly possible for an intellectual historian to understand what political acts an author was doing in writing his or her text. To refute Minogue's and Keane's claims that a Skinnerian approach to intellectual history is of no use to the political theorist, I point to three examples of how Skinner's recovery of forgotten political discourses have been applied to contemporary debates in political theory.Graduat
Other Worlds are Actual : Tully on the Imperial Roles of Modern Constitutional Democracy
No full textThe globalization of modern legal and economic practices has not ushered in a state of perpetual peace as Kantians have famously predicted. Rather, it has reinforced the perpetual crises and violence that is today\u27s realm of the political. This article examines James Tully\u27s claim that the formalization of diverse legal traditions into the modular confines of modern constitutions, as nation-states and international taw, is a project of today\u27s imperial hegemony. The global imperialism of modern constitutionalism is one that suppresses the vast multiplicity of existing legal pluralities and, consequently, fuels war and aggression, not perpetual peace. Tully\u27s important analysis of the imperial roles of modern law is understood in the broader contexts of his work on constitutionalism and contemporary debates in the disciplines of legal and political theory. The author provides support for Tully\u27s optimism that law and politics can potentially be decolonized by opening up to the worlds and legal pluralities that are constantly being re-created in the everyday practices, interactions, and relationships of people situated in their own unique localities worldwide. Numerous examples of where these other worlds can be seen are offered
Fair Tales for a New Age (1989)
No full text1. Program [Attached][8 copies] 2. Cover Art [3 copies] 3. Two Posters [1 Attached] 4. News Release [2 copies] 5. Script of Class Announcement 6. Light Cue Sheets 7. Lighting Plot 8. Cast Distribution [2 copies] 9. Cast Breakdown [2 copies] 10. Rehearsal and Production Schedule 11. Box Office Receipts 12. Script 13. Prompt Book 14. Lars. (Nov 27, 1989). Comic Stripe: Incredible Tales of Pub Night! Pro Tem. 15. Author Unknown. (Date Unknown). Bulletin: Personals. Source Unknown. 16. Johnson, Phil. (Nov 30, 1989). Kids, adults can enjoy fairy tales. The Toronto Star. 17. Pictures [Samples attached]Archival file for the Glendon College production of Fairy Tales for a New Age, directed by Ian Tully-barr. The play was performed December 7 to 9, 1989
Democracy: Between the essentially contested concept and the agonistic practice: Connolly, Mouffe, Tully
No full textThe text considers points of view of theoreticians of the radical pluralism (democracy): Connolly (William Connolly), Mouffe (Chantal Mouffe) and Tully (James Tully) with regard to the status and the nature of concepts in the political discourse, as well as the consequences of these conceptual presumptions to understanding democracy. The three authors emphasize the essential contestability of political concepts, the paradox of liberal democracy and the need to revise standard rational consensus theories of democracy. Also, the three authors take over the specific interpretation of Vittgenstein to the direction of political theory the centre of which consists of everyday contingent practices of politics as well as dissent about their assessment. The text analyzes the extent to which this reading is compatible to Wittgenstein's position. The author defends the opinion that the essential contestability does not imply agonism and denial of the significance of rules and tries to indicate to the points of illegitimate transition from antiessentialism to unconsensus rules. Also, the text underlines the flaws of dissent conception of democracy and social integration
A Generalist, Automated ALFALFA Baryonic Tully–Fisher Relation
No full textThe baryonic Tully-Fisher relation (BTFR) has applications in galaxy evolution as a test bed for the galaxy-halo connection and in observational cosmology as a redshift-independent secondary distance indicator. This analysis leverages the 31,000+ galaxy Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (Arecibo L-band Feed Array) Survey (ALFALFA) sample - which provides redshifts, velocity widths, and H i content for a large number of gas-bearing galaxies in the local universe - to fit and test an extensive local universe BTFR. The fiducial relation is fit using a 3000-galaxy subsample of ALFALFA, and is shown to be consistent with the full sample. This BTFR is designed to be as inclusive of ALFALFA and comparable samples as possible. Velocity widths measured via an automated method and M b proxies extracted from survey data can be uniformly and efficiently measured for other samples, giving this analysis broad applicability. We also investigate the role of sample demographics in determining the best-fit relation. We find that the best-fit relations are changed significantly by changes to the sample mass range and to second order by changes to mass sampling, gas fraction, different stellar mass and velocity width measurements. We use a subset of ALFALFA with demographics that reflect the full sample to measure a robust BTFR slope of 3.30 ± 0.06. We apply this relation and estimate source distances, finding general agreement with flow-model distances as well as average distance uncertainties of ∼0.17 dex for the full ALFALFA sample. We demonstrate the utility of these distance estimates by applying them to a sample of sources in the Virgo vicinity, recovering signatures of infall consistent with previous work. © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.Open access journalThis item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]
An investigation into consumer behaviour across e-tourism
No full textThe researcher analyses the consumer behaviour of French people aged between 18 and 25 years old on airline websites. The aim of this dissertation is to understand feelings and attitudes of French student people about online airline market. In a second time, the researcher wants to analyse factors which influence this people to buy online.
In relation to secondary researches, the author has reported some theories in books and academic readings to investigate this subject. A lot of stimuli and factors influence people to online purchase. Furthermore, the researcher will explore consumer behaviour in tourism and in more details the online purchase intention in e-tourism.
Then, the author will organise a focus group to collect all the necessary data of French 18-25 years old about their experiences and their feelings on airline websites. The price is the main factor which attracts people to buy on airline websites. But others factors are also important, like the past experiences of relatives, or the service quality.
Finally, the author will conclude with the help of all data collected during this research. This target audience is really influence by price in particular and sometimes in detriment of quality. Author keywords: e-tourism, tourism, consumer behaviour, airline market, marketin
The morphogenesis of costitutionalism
No full textThe author elaborates the new theoriues of societal costitutionalism, in particular those of G. Teubner, R. Sciulli and Tully trying to demonstrate the imprtance of a new costitutionalism beyon the nation-stat
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