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Letter From Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson to Samuel T. Ansell, September 18, 1918
No full textA typed copy of a letter from Francis Mairs Huntington-Wilson to Samuel T. Ansell, dated September 18, 1918. Within, Wilson inquires about his prior application for a position in the Judge Advocate General\u27s office.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/fmhw_firstworldwar_documents/1103/thumbnail.jp
FIGURE. Photos showing the broader stamens in Tulipa toktogulica compared to T. talassica. A. Tulipa toktogulica. B. Tulipa talassica. Photos by Brett Wilson and Georgy Lazkov in Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan
No full textFIGURE. Photos showing the broader stamens in Tulipa toktogulica compared to T. talassica. A. Tulipa toktogulica. B. Tulipa talassica. Photos by Brett Wilson and Georgy LazkovPublished as part of Wilson, Brett, Lazkov, Georgy A., Shalpykov, Kaiyrkul T. & Brockington, Samuel F., 2022, Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan, pp. 1-12 in Phytotaxa 566 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.566.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/710338
On leadership, continuity, and the common good
No full textThe public interest. The public good. The common good. All these terms describe ways of thinking about our collective selves and our shared interests that transcend our memberships of such groups as families, teams, and workplaces that typically inform our understanding of who we are and pattern our expectations and experience of the social world. Whereas groups such as these are ‘concrete’ in the sense that we interact with many of the members of these groups, know the group’s defining features, and can recognise exemplary members, the community of individual citizens to whom concepts like the public good apply is more abstract. Indeed, we know such communities not through direct face-to- face interaction with their members but rather indirectly, through our imaginations. It is not for nothing that Benedict Anderson (1983) described such collective, temporally continuous entities as ‘imagined communities’.
In this article, I explore the idea that certain of our current cultural ideals and practices may be inimical to our ability to imagine and experience ourselves as members of these imagined, enduring communities. In particular, I explore the idea that in our prevailing culture of flux, impermanence, and uncertainty, characterised by Bauman (2012) as ‘liquid’ modernity, we have fallen out of the habit of thinking about our ourselves as members of an imagined community of citizens with common interests who act with collective purpose in the service of these interests. Given that the type of imagined community necessary to overcome the kinds of problems that deform the public good is precisely the type of collective identity that is neither valorised nor cultivated in liquid modernity, we find ourselves less capable of acting in concert with one another to enhance the public good than we ideally should be. Notwithstanding this state of affairs, it affords us an opportunity to re-imagine the common good and to enact, entrench and expand the practice of leadership in its service
FIGURE. Map of specimens collected for the phylogenetic analysis in this study, excluding Tulipa iliensis and T. altaica, which both lacked GPS information. Populations of the new species T. toktogulica are labelled in order of discovery. in Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan
No full textFIGURE. Map of specimens collected for the phylogenetic analysis in this study, excluding Tulipa iliensis and T. altaica, which both lacked GPS information. Populations of the new species T. toktogulica are labelled in order of discovery.Published as part of Wilson, Brett, Lazkov, Georgy A., Shalpykov, Kaiyrkul T. & Brockington, Samuel F., 2022, Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan, pp. 1-12 in Phytotaxa 566 (1) on page 2, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.566.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/710338
Feeling connected to the future: Why you can't be a leader without it!
No full textToo often, our response to complex social, economic and environment problems reflects our tendency to focus on the short-term; on what ails us in the here and now. Rarely do we implement long-term, sustainable solutions. In this talk, Samuel Wilson discusses our tendency to focus on the short-term in the context of psychological connectedness, defined as the sense of continuity or connection we experience, or imagine, between our past, present and future selves. Experiencing psychological connectedness is typical, but not inevitable, and the consequences of experiencing disconnection can be devastating. In particular, Samuel reviews new psychological research into the causes and consequences of psychological connectedness and explores what this research suggests about how to cultivate the leadership we need to address our wicked problems and to create a truly sustainable society.
Recorded on 27 February 2014.
 
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
FIGURE. A. Multi-partition plastome tree. B. 35S in Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan
No full textFIGURE. A. Multi-partition plastome tree. B. 35S rDNA tree. New species shown in red on both trees.Published as part of Wilson, Brett, Lazkov, Georgy A., Shalpykov, Kaiyrkul T. & Brockington, Samuel F., 2022, Tulipa toktogulica (Liliaceae), a cryptic, endangered new species from the western Tien-Shan, Kyrgyzstan, pp. 1-12 in Phytotaxa 566 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.566.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/710338
Usability and acceptability of a website that provides tailored advice on falls prevention activities for older people
No full textThis article presents the usability and acceptability of a website that provides older people with tailored advice to help motivate them to undertake physical activities that prevent falls. Views on the website from interviews with 16 older people and 26 sheltered housing wardens were analysed thematically. The website was well received with only one usability difficulty with the action plan calendar. The older people selected balance training activities out of interest or enjoyment, and appeared to carefully add them into their current routine. The wardens were motivated to promote the website to their residents, particularly those who owned a computer, had balance problems, or were physically active. However, the participants noted that currently a minority of older people use the Internet. Also, some older people underestimated how much activity was enough to improve balance, and others perceived themselves as too old for the activities
The idler [electronic resource] : By the author of The rambler. With additional essays. In two volumes. The sixth edition.
No full textThe author of the Rambler = Samuel Johnson and others.O & L report frontispieceElectronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford)
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