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An Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play
No full textAn Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play, by Sean Scanlan. Matthew Kaiser, the author of The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford UP, 2012) says that “[c]ompetition is the disease from which modern life suffers,” and that “[c]ompetition is the only cure” for this suffering. This contradictory pairing seems to get at the heart of his thesis: play, as a totalizing, umbrella-like concept, emanates from a host of philosophical, political, and scientific work produced by Victorians who posed many of their ideas of play in sports metaphors, competitive logics, and narratives of struggle. Kaiser goes beyond the dichotomy of competition and play/competition or play, by stating “I’m interested in the totalizing potential of both concepts, the way that play, or competition for that matter, swallows the world whole, becomes in the minds of so many people, the organizing principle of reality, whether of culture or nature or consciousness, or of all three.
Some New Adaptive Protocols for the Wireless Relay Channel Bin Zhao and Matthew C. Valenti
No full textThe AWGN capacity is given for several adaptive relaying schemes. A constraint is imposed that requires the source and relay to transmit orthogonally through time division duplexing, which divides each transmission into two time slots. During the first slot, the source always transmits. During the second slot, either the source will continue to transmit or the relay will forward using either a decode-forward or amplify-forward rule. The criterion used to select which node transmits during the second slot and the relaying rule is what distinguishes the various protocols
Artful living and the eradication of worry in Søren Kierkegaard's interpretation of Matthew 6:24-34
No full textDanish thinker Søren Kierkegaard published fourteen discourses, across four collections, on Matthew 6:24-34. The repeated readings of the biblical text, whose themes include the choice between God and mammon, worry, what it means to consider the birds and lilies, and how to seek first the kingdom of God, converge with Kierkegaard’s interest in anxiety, despair, worry, subjectivity, indirect communication, choice, the moment, and life before God. Accordingly, the discourses make connections with his larger works, elucidate frequently explored Kierkegaardian themes in recent scholarship, and contribute to his critique of nineteenth-century Copenhagen. Additionally, the collections present an interpretation of each verse and phrase of Matthew’s text and, held up against modern Matthew scholarship, they correlate with and contribute to Sermon on the Mount and New Testament studies. Kierkegaard’s reading of Matthew also holds implications for the practice of biblical interpretation as it promotes the importance of awareness of sin, interestedness, and appropriation as central to proper reading. His emphasis on Christ as the primary exemplar of Matthew’s text adds an additional Christological element to his hermeneutic. Furthermore, the discourses serve as spiritual treatises which provide the reader with theological terminology to help confront the problem of worry and suffering. In light of a human being’s distinctiveness as imago Dei, Kierkegaard elucidates ways an individual may respond artfully to the ongoing possibility of worry, a possibility which the discourses connect with Christian anthropology and external labels associated with possessions and status. The Matthew 6 discourses intimate Kierkegaard’s sympathy with classic Christian spirituality and, in combination with the cultural-ecclesiastical critique, the creative exegesis, and the in-depth analysis of the cause of and cure for worry, his work emerges as an excellent example of spiritual theology
Matthew’s Emmanuel Messiah: a paradigm of presence for god's people
No full textThe motif of divine presence is a clear phenomenon within the Gospel of Matthew. The modern critical means for assessing the ancient biblical text have multiplied to the point, some claim, of disparity. This study employs both narrative and redaction criticism in an attempt to respond authentically to the structural, historical and theological dimensions of Matthew's Gospel. This study begins with the presumption of the wholeness and integrity of Matthew's narrative, and assumes the gospel story to have an inherently dramatic structure which invites readers to inhabit imaginatively its narrative world and respond to its call. But since we are concerned with the role of both reader and author, this study also assumes a text with an historical author and context. The introduction focuses on the meta-critical dilemma facing New Testament students - what is the text and how do we read it? - and seeks some balance in terms of Krieger's analogy of the text as both window and mirror. Proposed is a narrative reading of Matthew's presence motif alongside a redaction critical assessment of it. In Chapter 2 the elements of narrative theory are introduced and relevant terms defined: the structure of narrative, the function of the narrator, points of view. Chapter 3 becomes an exercise in narrative reading, with Matthew's presence motif providing the focus, and the implied reader’s interaction with the story being predominant in interpretation. Characters, rhetorical devices, and points of view are discussed, to understand the motif's development throughout the story's progress. The thrust of Chapter 4 is thereafter to examine divine presence as a dominant motif within Matthew's most important literary context: the Jewish scriptures. Here the primary paradigms of divine presence provided by the Patriarchs, the Sinai experience, and the Davidic-Zion traditions are assessed. Chapter 5 follows with a more detailed examination of the OT "I am with you/God is with us" formula and its µeo' vµwv/ηuwv language, so strongly connected to Matthew's presence motif. Chapters 6-8 build on these investigations with a closer analysis of the three critical "presence passages" of Mt 1:23. 18:20 and 28:20. The passages and their contexts are probed from a redaction critical perspective, guided by the narrative investigation of Chapter 3, and the background from Chapters 4 and 5.The three major "presence passages" examined in Chapters 6-8 are also complimented by a number of secondary issues: worship, wisdom, the Spirit and the poor in Matthew, and their relation to Jesus' divine presence. These are discussed in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 summarizes and looks briefly at some implications. Matthew' presence motif proves to be an important element of the Gospel’s rhetorical design, redactional strategy and Christology. The presence of Jesus, the Emmanuel Messiah, exhibited in his risen authority, becomes the focus of his people's hopes and experiences in the post-Easter world. What the presence of Yahweh was to his people. Jesus now provides in a new paradigm for his people - his followers, the little ones, the poor and the marginalized, from all nations
From Philosophy to Flourishing: A Compassionate Case for Going Vegan with Matthew C. Halteman
No full textThere’s a way to talk about going vegan that doesn’t involve shame, blame, or rigid rules. A way that invites people in, instead of pushing them away.
Philosopher and author Matthew C. Halteman, has written one of the most generous, wise, and unexpectedly funny books I’ve read in a long time—Hungry, Beautiful Animals. It’s a love letter to what’s possible when we stop arguing about “being vegan” and start embracing the abundance that can come from going vegan.
Matt is professor of philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics in the UK.
In this conversation, Matt and I explore the role of family legacy, inner conflict, and philosophy in shaping our choices—and how compassion must be at the heart of advocacy if we want real change.
We speak about what it means to approach others as “vegans in waiting,” the metaphors that make change feel safe rather than threatening, and how joy—not obligation—is the most powerful fuel for transformation
NBSV 208: Matthew C. Halteman on the joyful case for going vegan
No full textVeganism isn’t about saying no; it’s about saying yes. Philosophy professor and author Matthew C. Halteman joins me to make the joyful case for going vegan. It’s an invitation to live in alignment with your values — and eat ridiculously good food while you’re at it. We dig into why most people already want a more vegan world (even if they don’t call themselves vegan yet), how to move from guilt and obligation to abundance and flourishing, cognitive dissonance (why people get defensive about veganism even when they agree with you), how to be an actually effective advocate without burning out or blowing up every family dinner, and much more. Matt also shares his own journey from meat lover to ethical vegan, how his dog Gus changed his worldview, and why he thinks veganism should feel like possibility, not pressure. Important topics we discussed: \u3e\u3e The idea of our “inner family” (from Internal Family Systems therapy) and how veganism can harmonize it \u3e\u3e Why going vegan isn’t about stopping something terrible, but starting something beautiful \u3e\u3e The importance of patience, failure, and joy in any long-term lifestyle change
\u3e\u3e Karina’s upcoming TEDx talk on a very similar subjec
Professor Matthew Halteman on Ethics, Animals, and Awe
No full textAccording to Oxford researcher Joseph Poore, going vegan is “the single biggest way” to reduce our environmental impact on Earth. Yet for many, the journey begins not with data, but with a gut-level realization about compassion, identity, and joy. That’s exactly what came to life in a powerful and heart-opening conversation between host Cheryl Moss and Professor Matthew Halteman on the Better Life for Animals Podcast. A philosopher at Calvin University and author of Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan, Halteman shared how awe, humor, and hope—not guilt—can transform hearts and eating habits
Hope for the Animals Podcast: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan with Matthew Halteman
No full textCan you use some positive news for the new year? We’ve got you covered with this interview! Matthew Halteman has written a book called Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan and it is full of positive vegan vibes. Matthew is a professor of philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. He is the author of Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation and coeditor of Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating.
Matthew puts a hopeful spin on going vegan in his new book and helps us to frame the issue with positivity and joy. Hope and Matt explore veganism as a philosophy and how we can deepen the vegan conversation to apply to every aspect of life. Matt shares how he feels that love is a crucial component to a vegan life, both self-love and love for others. They also get into the psychological aspects of vegan arguments and confrontations and effective communication
Matthew and Mark
No full textThe author of the Gospel of Matthew was arguably the very first Christian seeking to rejudaize Jesus of Nazareth. Throughout two millennia, and undeniably most intensively during the last half-century, many students of the Bible have followed in his footsteps. Although he was successful in many respects, we must not forget who paid the price for his endeavour: the Pharisees, the proto-Rabbis and the Founding Fathers of those we know as the Jewish people, those whom Jesus knew as his own
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2005:5, 610–624 c ○ 2005 B. Zhao and M. C. Valenti Position-Based Relaying with Hybrid-ARQ for Efficient Ad Hoc Networking
No full textThis paper presents and analyzes an integrated, cross-layer protocol for wireless ad hoc networking that utilizes position location (e.g., through an onboard GPS receiver) and jointly performs the operations of network-layer relaying and link-layer ARQbased error control. The protocol is a modified version of the hybrid-ARQ-based intra-cluster geographically-informed relaying (HARBINGER) protocol (2005) and unifies the concepts of geographic random forwarding (GeRaF) (2003), point-to-point hybrid-ARQ (2001), and cooperative diversity (2004). The modification makes the protocol especially suitable for sensor networks whose nodes cycle in and out of sleep states and permits a closed-form analysis. Performance bounds and simulations indicate the potential for a dramatic improvement in the tradeoff between active node density and end-to-end message delay as compared with the GeRaF protocol and are used to motivate further study of practical implementation issues. Keywords and phrases: relay networks, ad hoc networking, cross-layer protocols, hybrid-ARQ, GeRaF, HARBINGER. 1
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