Peter Svedberg
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198292685
- eISBN:
- 9780191596957
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198292686.003.0013
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter addresses conceptual issues related to the use of anthropometric measures as indicators of nutritional status. One problem is that there is no consensus on whether children of different ...
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This chapter addresses conceptual issues related to the use of anthropometric measures as indicators of nutritional status. One problem is that there is no consensus on whether children of different ethnic origin have the same genetic potential for growth in stature (as the uniform norms imply). It is also acknowledged that anthropometric measurements are silent on how much energy (calories) a person expends on physical activity; a person can in extreme cases have an adequate body weight, but be undernourished in the sense that he or she is too inactive to stay healthy. Further, a new more disaggregated classification of anthropometric failure is suggested, with the intention to improve targeting efficiency, i.e. to raise the predictability power of anthropometrics for subsequent (avoidable) morbidity and mortality. Finally, a Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) is constructed that captures all individuals in a population with at least one anthropometric shortcoming.Less
This chapter addresses conceptual issues related to the use of anthropometric measures as indicators of nutritional status. One problem is that there is no consensus on whether children of different ethnic origin have the same genetic potential for growth in stature (as the uniform norms imply). It is also acknowledged that anthropometric measurements are silent on how much energy (calories) a person expends on physical activity; a person can in extreme cases have an adequate body weight, but be undernourished in the sense that he or she is too inactive to stay healthy. Further, a new more disaggregated classification of anthropometric failure is suggested, with the intention to improve targeting efficiency, i.e. to raise the predictability power of anthropometrics for subsequent (avoidable) morbidity and mortality. Finally, a Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) is constructed that captures all individuals in a population with at least one anthropometric shortcoming.
Georgia Levenson Keohane
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231178020
- eISBN:
- 9780231541664
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231178020.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration, ...
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Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration, and economic inequality. While governments commit to addressing these challenges, traditional public and philanthropic dollars are not enough. Here, innovative finance has shown a way forward: by borrowing techniques from the world of finance, we can raise capital for social investments today. Innovative finance has provided polio vaccines to children in the DRC, crop insurance to farmers in India, pay-as-you-go solar electricity to Kenyans, and affordable housing and transportation to New Yorkers. It has helped governmental, commercial, and philanthropic resources meet the needs of the poor and underserved and build a more sustainable and inclusive prosperity.
Capital and the Common Good shows how market failure in one context can be solved with market solutions from another: an expert in securitization bundles future development aid into bonds to pay for vaccines today; an entrepreneur turns a mobile phone into an array of financial services for the unbanked; and policy makers adapt pay-for-success models from the world of infrastructure to human services like early childhood education, maternal health, and job training. Revisiting the successes and missteps of these efforts, Georgia Levenson Keohane argues that innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision-making as it is about money. When it works, innovative finance gives us the tools, motivation, and security to invest in our shared future.Less
Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration, and economic inequality. While governments commit to addressing these challenges, traditional public and philanthropic dollars are not enough. Here, innovative finance has shown a way forward: by borrowing techniques from the world of finance, we can raise capital for social investments today. Innovative finance has provided polio vaccines to children in the DRC, crop insurance to farmers in India, pay-as-you-go solar electricity to Kenyans, and affordable housing and transportation to New Yorkers. It has helped governmental, commercial, and philanthropic resources meet the needs of the poor and underserved and build a more sustainable and inclusive prosperity.
Capital and the Common Good shows how market failure in one context can be solved with market solutions from another: an expert in securitization bundles future development aid into bonds to pay for vaccines today; an entrepreneur turns a mobile phone into an array of financial services for the unbanked; and policy makers adapt pay-for-success models from the world of infrastructure to human services like early childhood education, maternal health, and job training. Revisiting the successes and missteps of these efforts, Georgia Levenson Keohane argues that innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision-making as it is about money. When it works, innovative finance gives us the tools, motivation, and security to invest in our shared future.
Anna Dezeuze
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719088575
- eISBN:
- 9781526120717
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719088575.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
This book proposes a new reading of contemporary art between 1958 and 2009 by sketching out a trajectory of ‘precarious’ art practices. Such practices risk being dismissed as ‘almost nothing’ because ...
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This book proposes a new reading of contemporary art between 1958 and 2009 by sketching out a trajectory of ‘precarious’ art practices. Such practices risk being dismissed as ‘almost nothing’ because they look like trash about to be thrown out, because they present objects and events that are so commonplace as to be confused with our ordinary surroundings, or because they are fleeting gestures that vanish into the fabric of everyday life. What is the status of such fragile, nearly invisible, artworks? In what ways do they engage with the precarious modes of existence that have emerged and evolved in the socio-economic context of an increasingly globalised capitalism?
Works discussed in this study range from Allan Kaprow’s assemblages and happenings, Fluxus event scores and Hélio Oiticica’s wearable Parangolé capes in the 1960s, to Thomas Hirschhorn’s sprawling environments and participatory projects, Francis Alÿs’s filmed performances and Gabriel Orozco’s objects and photographs in the 1990s. Significant similarities among these different practices will be drawn out, while crucial shifts will be outlined in the evolution of this trajectory from the early 1960s to the turn of the twenty-first century.
This book will give students and amateurs of contemporary art and culture new insights into the radical specificities of these practices, by situating them within an original set of historical and critical issues. In particular, this study addresses essential questions such as the art object’s ‘dematerialisation’, relations between art and everyday life, including the three fields of work, labour and action first outlined by Hannah Arendt in 1958.Less
This book proposes a new reading of contemporary art between 1958 and 2009 by sketching out a trajectory of ‘precarious’ art practices. Such practices risk being dismissed as ‘almost nothing’ because they look like trash about to be thrown out, because they present objects and events that are so commonplace as to be confused with our ordinary surroundings, or because they are fleeting gestures that vanish into the fabric of everyday life. What is the status of such fragile, nearly invisible, artworks? In what ways do they engage with the precarious modes of existence that have emerged and evolved in the socio-economic context of an increasingly globalised capitalism?
Works discussed in this study range from Allan Kaprow’s assemblages and happenings, Fluxus event scores and Hélio Oiticica’s wearable Parangolé capes in the 1960s, to Thomas Hirschhorn’s sprawling environments and participatory projects, Francis Alÿs’s filmed performances and Gabriel Orozco’s objects and photographs in the 1990s. Significant similarities among these different practices will be drawn out, while crucial shifts will be outlined in the evolution of this trajectory from the early 1960s to the turn of the twenty-first century.
This book will give students and amateurs of contemporary art and culture new insights into the radical specificities of these practices, by situating them within an original set of historical and critical issues. In particular, this study addresses essential questions such as the art object’s ‘dematerialisation’, relations between art and everyday life, including the three fields of work, labour and action first outlined by Hannah Arendt in 1958.
Bruce Arroll
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780195383263
- eISBN:
- 9780199344871
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383263.003.0022
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
In Chapter 22, the author discusses his career as a physician in general practice. He describes an especially harrowing experience accompanying a patient on a helicopter ride to the hospital with ...
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In Chapter 22, the author discusses his career as a physician in general practice. He describes an especially harrowing experience accompanying a patient on a helicopter ride to the hospital with severe wounds that suddenly stopped breathing. The lessons learned from his career are both practical and theoretical. A practical lesson is the need to train rural physicians and staff in the skills and issues of transferring sick patients. The author also discusses self-criticism limitations and the need to accept one’s limitations and try to learn from mistakes.Less
In Chapter 22, the author discusses his career as a physician in general practice. He describes an especially harrowing experience accompanying a patient on a helicopter ride to the hospital with severe wounds that suddenly stopped breathing. The lessons learned from his career are both practical and theoretical. A practical lesson is the need to train rural physicians and staff in the skills and issues of transferring sick patients. The author also discusses self-criticism limitations and the need to accept one’s limitations and try to learn from mistakes.
T.G. Otte
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262028998
- eISBN:
- 9780262326773
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028998.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Security Studies
No great power was forced to go to war by domestic politics. Each had profound reasons for hesitation and countries were divided on action. While Eckart Kehr and his followers were wrong to claim ...
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No great power was forced to go to war by domestic politics. Each had profound reasons for hesitation and countries were divided on action. While Eckart Kehr and his followers were wrong to claim that domestic divisions forced a war, domestic paralysis did not prevent a conflict.Less
No great power was forced to go to war by domestic politics. Each had profound reasons for hesitation and countries were divided on action. While Eckart Kehr and his followers were wrong to claim that domestic divisions forced a war, domestic paralysis did not prevent a conflict.
J. F. Bernard
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474417334
- eISBN:
- 9781474453752
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417334.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
The chapter suggests that late Shakespearean drama develops a melancomic philosophy predicated on the yoking together of past memories of sorrow and a present sense of gratification. The late plays’ ...
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The chapter suggests that late Shakespearean drama develops a melancomic philosophy predicated on the yoking together of past memories of sorrow and a present sense of gratification. The late plays’ the staging of a miraculous resolution to powerful trauma stems from taxonomies related to comic melancholy rather than from the tragic overtones of their initial premises. In late Shakespeare, irreparable past tragedies, exacerbated by lengthy time gaps, haunt seemingly joyous conclusions. This melancholy suggests a voluntary sense of comic failure, since the melancomic quality of the plays infers both the legitimising of melancholy as a valid comic emotion and the nostalgic impossibility of return to a dramatic state of bliss. This emotional response transcends generic quagmires in representing a highly pleasurable feeling that can be understood as a precursor to nostalgia. Lastly, the chapter examines The Two Noble Kinsmen as evidence that, despite its transformative achievements, Shakespeare’s comic melancholy loses out in the dramatic landscape of the seventeenth-century, being supplanted by works predicated on a focal return towards humourality and the increased dramatic presence of medical practitioner characters.Less
The chapter suggests that late Shakespearean drama develops a melancomic philosophy predicated on the yoking together of past memories of sorrow and a present sense of gratification. The late plays’ the staging of a miraculous resolution to powerful trauma stems from taxonomies related to comic melancholy rather than from the tragic overtones of their initial premises. In late Shakespeare, irreparable past tragedies, exacerbated by lengthy time gaps, haunt seemingly joyous conclusions. This melancholy suggests a voluntary sense of comic failure, since the melancomic quality of the plays infers both the legitimising of melancholy as a valid comic emotion and the nostalgic impossibility of return to a dramatic state of bliss. This emotional response transcends generic quagmires in representing a highly pleasurable feeling that can be understood as a precursor to nostalgia. Lastly, the chapter examines The Two Noble Kinsmen as evidence that, despite its transformative achievements, Shakespeare’s comic melancholy loses out in the dramatic landscape of the seventeenth-century, being supplanted by works predicated on a focal return towards humourality and the increased dramatic presence of medical practitioner characters.
Andrew Dilts
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262410
- eISBN:
- 9780823268986
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262410.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The final chapter calls a refiguring of justice that moves toward communicative and deliberative theories of democracy and democratic practice that begin by theorizing injustice, difference, and ...
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The final chapter calls a refiguring of justice that moves toward communicative and deliberative theories of democracy and democratic practice that begin by theorizing injustice, difference, and subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Iris Marion Young, Michel Foucault, and Simon de Beauvoir, the normative evaluation of felon disenfranchisement must begin by recognizing what it as a productive failure that manages paradoxes of liberal punishment and membership. This calls for a provisional acceptance of the relationship between punishment and the boundaries of political membership and a deeper rethinking and refiguring of practical and institutional practices of exclusion, inclusion, and punishment. Recognizing the relation between persons who have and have not been subjected to the criminal punishment system in the US as one of seriality, this chapter calls for a critical, self-reflective, and radical democratic practice. To end the legacy of racialized social and political hierarchization requires removing disenfranchisement provisions, but also demands moving beyond the logic of inclusion, divesting the vote as a location that finalizes, essentializes, and fixes the boundaries of the polity.Less
The final chapter calls a refiguring of justice that moves toward communicative and deliberative theories of democracy and democratic practice that begin by theorizing injustice, difference, and subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Iris Marion Young, Michel Foucault, and Simon de Beauvoir, the normative evaluation of felon disenfranchisement must begin by recognizing what it as a productive failure that manages paradoxes of liberal punishment and membership. This calls for a provisional acceptance of the relationship between punishment and the boundaries of political membership and a deeper rethinking and refiguring of practical and institutional practices of exclusion, inclusion, and punishment. Recognizing the relation between persons who have and have not been subjected to the criminal punishment system in the US as one of seriality, this chapter calls for a critical, self-reflective, and radical democratic practice. To end the legacy of racialized social and political hierarchization requires removing disenfranchisement provisions, but also demands moving beyond the logic of inclusion, divesting the vote as a location that finalizes, essentializes, and fixes the boundaries of the polity.
Heather Hindman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804786515
- eISBN:
- 9780804788557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804786515.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
Sending workers overseas is an expensive proposition and a great deal of research is invested in minimizing costs and maximizing returns of expatriate employees. This chapter explores the widely held ...
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Sending workers overseas is an expensive proposition and a great deal of research is invested in minimizing costs and maximizing returns of expatriate employees. This chapter explores the widely held claim that the families of workers - mostly wives/women - cause expatriates to fail. To discuss this claim, the text explores the predominance of this assumption, not only in scholarship but in the minds of overseas workers. It describes the work of families to ensure that their actions reflect positively on the wage-laboring member. In Nepal, this often entails a great deal of boundary making to produce a neutral, homey environment amidst the unfamiliar and difficult conditions in-country. The problems encountered by expatriates in Nepal are contextualized in relation to the unpaid labor of family members that is often demanded by employers and to the rise of human resources as an independent technical field.Less
Sending workers overseas is an expensive proposition and a great deal of research is invested in minimizing costs and maximizing returns of expatriate employees. This chapter explores the widely held claim that the families of workers - mostly wives/women - cause expatriates to fail. To discuss this claim, the text explores the predominance of this assumption, not only in scholarship but in the minds of overseas workers. It describes the work of families to ensure that their actions reflect positively on the wage-laboring member. In Nepal, this often entails a great deal of boundary making to produce a neutral, homey environment amidst the unfamiliar and difficult conditions in-country. The problems encountered by expatriates in Nepal are contextualized in relation to the unpaid labor of family members that is often demanded by employers and to the rise of human resources as an independent technical field.
Karen Throsby
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719099625
- eISBN:
- 9781526114976
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719099625.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores the ways in which pain, injury and the failure to complete a long swim are experienced and accounted for in marathon swimming, and asks what this means for our understandings of ...
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This chapter explores the ways in which pain, injury and the failure to complete a long swim are experienced and accounted for in marathon swimming, and asks what this means for our understandings of what counts as the healthy body. It argues that rather than constituting mutually exclusive, zero-sum categories, health and injury, and bodily success and failure, are determined by the extent to which they can be aligned with normative social world values of autonomy, bodily discipline and self-reflexivity, rather than demonstrable levels of sporting accomplishment. This highlights the provisionality of the normative linking of health and physical activity, and the failure of utilitarian notions of health to account for the sustained engagement with marathon swimming.Less
This chapter explores the ways in which pain, injury and the failure to complete a long swim are experienced and accounted for in marathon swimming, and asks what this means for our understandings of what counts as the healthy body. It argues that rather than constituting mutually exclusive, zero-sum categories, health and injury, and bodily success and failure, are determined by the extent to which they can be aligned with normative social world values of autonomy, bodily discipline and self-reflexivity, rather than demonstrable levels of sporting accomplishment. This highlights the provisionality of the normative linking of health and physical activity, and the failure of utilitarian notions of health to account for the sustained engagement with marathon swimming.
Katherine Fusco and Nicole Seymour
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041242
- eISBN:
- 9780252050107
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041242.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This introduction outlines Reichardt’s career, from promising indie auteur in the 1990s to a subsequent retreat from the spotlight to a triumphant return in the mid-2000s. The book’s argument is laid ...
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This introduction outlines Reichardt’s career, from promising indie auteur in the 1990s to a subsequent retreat from the spotlight to a triumphant return in the mid-2000s. The book’s argument is laid out here: chronicling the banal aftermath of crisis rather than its spectacular epicenter, Reichardt’s films establish emergency as an everyday experience. This section also claims that Reichardt focuses on two contemporary emergencies in particular: U.S. economic decline – and the rise of the new class known as “the precariat” – and environmental degradation – especially in the U.S. postindustrial Pacific Northwest. In this way, Reichardt is a filmmaker interested in uniquely American experiences of failure. Finally, this section offers synopses for all the Reichardt works covered in the book, including both feature films and short films.
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This introduction outlines Reichardt’s career, from promising indie auteur in the 1990s to a subsequent retreat from the spotlight to a triumphant return in the mid-2000s. The book’s argument is laid out here: chronicling the banal aftermath of crisis rather than its spectacular epicenter, Reichardt’s films establish emergency as an everyday experience. This section also claims that Reichardt focuses on two contemporary emergencies in particular: U.S. economic decline – and the rise of the new class known as “the precariat” – and environmental degradation – especially in the U.S. postindustrial Pacific Northwest. In this way, Reichardt is a filmmaker interested in uniquely American experiences of failure. Finally, this section offers synopses for all the Reichardt works covered in the book, including both feature films and short films.
Luis Perez-Breva and Nick Fuhrer
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035354
- eISBN:
- 9780262336680
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035354.003.0007
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
Figuring out how to show that your problem is wrong is, in essence, how you work your way through innovating. As you do so, try to imagine the next thing about your innovation prototype that will ...
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Figuring out how to show that your problem is wrong is, in essence, how you work your way through innovating. As you do so, try to imagine the next thing about your innovation prototype that will “kill” your mission. Make it a routine to assume that you will fail, and go systematically through all the parts and insights that make up your prototype to prove it will indeed not work. You are searching for a culprit that would turn an error at one scale into a failure at the next scale, and you do that by interrogating your prototype with parts and with insights you get from people. As you go along, you ought to find it easier to add new parts and insights that you don’t believe will work together; pose the same questions, and find the near misses—all of which carry information of value to you. This is how you commandeer nonlinearities and make your innovating robust.Less
Figuring out how to show that your problem is wrong is, in essence, how you work your way through innovating. As you do so, try to imagine the next thing about your innovation prototype that will “kill” your mission. Make it a routine to assume that you will fail, and go systematically through all the parts and insights that make up your prototype to prove it will indeed not work. You are searching for a culprit that would turn an error at one scale into a failure at the next scale, and you do that by interrogating your prototype with parts and with insights you get from people. As you go along, you ought to find it easier to add new parts and insights that you don’t believe will work together; pose the same questions, and find the near misses—all of which carry information of value to you. This is how you commandeer nonlinearities and make your innovating robust.
Gian Maria Annovi
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231180306
- eISBN:
- 9780231542708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231180306.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
In chapter Two, I examine the thematization of authorial performance in La Divina Mimesis (Divine Mimesis, 1974). Composed over the course of several years, Divine Mimesis is Pasolini’s attempt to ...
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In chapter Two, I examine the thematization of authorial performance in La Divina Mimesis (Divine Mimesis, 1974). Composed over the course of several years, Divine Mimesis is Pasolini’s attempt to rewrite Dante’s Comedy and is comprised of drafts, working notes, tentative paratexts, and photographs. In it, Dante emerges as one of the most persistent and complex Pasolinian authorial personae, a model not only for his early realism, but also for his use of autobiography. Previous criticism of Divine Mimesis considered it a literary failure, or, at best, a metaphor for the shattering of authorial subjectivity. However, I argue that it is a pivotal work within Pasolini’s oeuvre, skillfully reinforcing the idea of an author in control of his work and even its reception. Divine Mimesis introduces us to an interpretative system in which authorship and the performance of an author failing in producing a cohesive text become central and explicit, producing a conception of identity as fluid, unfinished, or in the making.Less
In chapter Two, I examine the thematization of authorial performance in La Divina Mimesis (Divine Mimesis, 1974). Composed over the course of several years, Divine Mimesis is Pasolini’s attempt to rewrite Dante’s Comedy and is comprised of drafts, working notes, tentative paratexts, and photographs. In it, Dante emerges as one of the most persistent and complex Pasolinian authorial personae, a model not only for his early realism, but also for his use of autobiography. Previous criticism of Divine Mimesis considered it a literary failure, or, at best, a metaphor for the shattering of authorial subjectivity. However, I argue that it is a pivotal work within Pasolini’s oeuvre, skillfully reinforcing the idea of an author in control of his work and even its reception. Divine Mimesis introduces us to an interpretative system in which authorship and the performance of an author failing in producing a cohesive text become central and explicit, producing a conception of identity as fluid, unfinished, or in the making.
Daniel Marrone
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781496807311
- eISBN:
- 9781496807359
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496807311.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter considers the frequent revaluation of success and failure in Seth’s narratives, placing him in a Chekhovian tradition of storytelling that is characterized by “the irony of ...
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This chapter considers the frequent revaluation of success and failure in Seth’s narratives, placing him in a Chekhovian tradition of storytelling that is characterized by “the irony of unfulfillment.” An examination of the “rhetoric of failure” – which David M. Ball identifies in the work of cartoonist Chris Ware – is framed by a critical approach that borrows from Francesco Orlando’s study of obsolete objects in literature.
For Orlando, the failure of the obsolete body is the failure to function, a failure which is directly related to the passage of time. Many of Seth’s characters value objects precisely because of their age. The twilight, in-between tone of Seth’s work is accompanied by a strong impulse to save.
Seth’s work repeatedly depicts an uncertain transmutation: failure develops in the direction of ambivalence, until it ultimately coincides with its opposite. Though such inversions are not stable, failures and obsolete objects are briefly redeemed.Less
This chapter considers the frequent revaluation of success and failure in Seth’s narratives, placing him in a Chekhovian tradition of storytelling that is characterized by “the irony of unfulfillment.” An examination of the “rhetoric of failure” – which David M. Ball identifies in the work of cartoonist Chris Ware – is framed by a critical approach that borrows from Francesco Orlando’s study of obsolete objects in literature.
For Orlando, the failure of the obsolete body is the failure to function, a failure which is directly related to the passage of time. Many of Seth’s characters value objects precisely because of their age. The twilight, in-between tone of Seth’s work is accompanied by a strong impulse to save.
Seth’s work repeatedly depicts an uncertain transmutation: failure develops in the direction of ambivalence, until it ultimately coincides with its opposite. Though such inversions are not stable, failures and obsolete objects are briefly redeemed.
Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034357
- eISBN:
- 9780262332064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034357.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The concluding chapter returns to the method in the digital humanities. It argues that the humanities can be thought of as a dialogue over time and that computing methods have a place in this ...
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The concluding chapter returns to the method in the digital humanities. It argues that the humanities can be thought of as a dialogue over time and that computing methods have a place in this dialogue and that that place is not one of replacing interpretation, but enhancing it. To do this the chapter looks back at Plato’s Phaedrus and the Socratic critique of text technologies as not being responsive or interactive. We don’t claim that computing tools are interactive as Socratic dialogue, but we show the ways that interactive tools like Voyant can be placed into dialogue with electronic texts as “hermeneutica” with which others can interact. The chapter ends with a discussion of the importance of failure in text analysis and the dangers of computing as a form of keeping busy in interpretation.Less
The concluding chapter returns to the method in the digital humanities. It argues that the humanities can be thought of as a dialogue over time and that computing methods have a place in this dialogue and that that place is not one of replacing interpretation, but enhancing it. To do this the chapter looks back at Plato’s Phaedrus and the Socratic critique of text technologies as not being responsive or interactive. We don’t claim that computing tools are interactive as Socratic dialogue, but we show the ways that interactive tools like Voyant can be placed into dialogue with electronic texts as “hermeneutica” with which others can interact. The chapter ends with a discussion of the importance of failure in text analysis and the dangers of computing as a form of keeping busy in interpretation.
Jonathan Kahn
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231156974
- eISBN:
- 9780231527699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231156974.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter discusses the use of racialized medicine, specifically BiDil, and the concerns that emerge over the dangers of reifying race in a manner that could lead to new forms of discrimination. ...
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This chapter discusses the use of racialized medicine, specifically BiDil, and the concerns that emerge over the dangers of reifying race in a manner that could lead to new forms of discrimination. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2005, BiDil was offered as a drug to treat heart failure for only African Americans. NitroMed, the biotech company that produced the drug, requested race-specific approval based on the results of their African-American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT), where the trial population happened to be all “self-identified” African American. The chapter explains how BiDil is part of much larger dynamic of reification in which the purported “reality of race” as genetic may be used to obscure the social reality of “racism.” This matter should be addressed as it reductively reconfigures health and other types of disparity in terms of genetic difference.Less
This chapter discusses the use of racialized medicine, specifically BiDil, and the concerns that emerge over the dangers of reifying race in a manner that could lead to new forms of discrimination. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2005, BiDil was offered as a drug to treat heart failure for only African Americans. NitroMed, the biotech company that produced the drug, requested race-specific approval based on the results of their African-American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT), where the trial population happened to be all “self-identified” African American. The chapter explains how BiDil is part of much larger dynamic of reification in which the purported “reality of race” as genetic may be used to obscure the social reality of “racism.” This matter should be addressed as it reductively reconfigures health and other types of disparity in terms of genetic difference.
Christopher Ali
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040726
- eISBN:
- 9780252099168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040726.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Chapters 2 through 5 house the case studies for the book. Each chapter is sub-divided by country to give the reader a detailed understanding of the dynamics at play. Chapter 2 assesses the structural ...
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Chapters 2 through 5 house the case studies for the book. Each chapter is sub-divided by country to give the reader a detailed understanding of the dynamics at play. Chapter 2 assesses the structural regulation of local television by focusing on a key issue in the debate over local television. It thus considers the FCC’s quadrennial ownership reviews in the United States, the fee-for-carriage debate in Canada, and Ofcom’s reviews of public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. This chapter also introduces two key terms: public good and market failure. The chapter demonstrates how the local is bound so tightly to commercial markets, broadcasting technologies and the status quo that alternatives views are effective erased.Less
Chapters 2 through 5 house the case studies for the book. Each chapter is sub-divided by country to give the reader a detailed understanding of the dynamics at play. Chapter 2 assesses the structural regulation of local television by focusing on a key issue in the debate over local television. It thus considers the FCC’s quadrennial ownership reviews in the United States, the fee-for-carriage debate in Canada, and Ofcom’s reviews of public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. This chapter also introduces two key terms: public good and market failure. The chapter demonstrates how the local is bound so tightly to commercial markets, broadcasting technologies and the status quo that alternatives views are effective erased.
Sergey Dolgopolski
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823280186
- eISBN:
- 9780823281640
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823280186.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
The chapter accounts for how the rabbinic political was constructed and thereby productively lost in Jewish secularizing modernist thought and literature of Franz Kafka, Chaim Bialik, and Walter ...
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The chapter accounts for how the rabbinic political was constructed and thereby productively lost in Jewish secularizing modernist thought and literature of Franz Kafka, Chaim Bialik, and Walter Benjamin. Modernist notions of logical implication, literary expression, and language are at the center of analysis in this chapter, as it articulates a crisis in the relationships between law and literature in how these thinkers navigate both the human condition and both the Jewish and general law as its part. The chapter further shows how a departure from neo-Kantianism in these thinkers lead to a reconsideration of the role of mistake and failure in human condition, and how their understanding of both mistaking and failing both purports to capture and misses the Talmudic understanding of mistake in terms of self-refutation. The result is a new vision of the otherwise purely logical notion of implication, a vision in which the very being implicit rather than explicit remains fundamental for human condition, and that no explication of the implicit can ever either replace or tame the power of the implicit in human condition.Less
The chapter accounts for how the rabbinic political was constructed and thereby productively lost in Jewish secularizing modernist thought and literature of Franz Kafka, Chaim Bialik, and Walter Benjamin. Modernist notions of logical implication, literary expression, and language are at the center of analysis in this chapter, as it articulates a crisis in the relationships between law and literature in how these thinkers navigate both the human condition and both the Jewish and general law as its part. The chapter further shows how a departure from neo-Kantianism in these thinkers lead to a reconsideration of the role of mistake and failure in human condition, and how their understanding of both mistaking and failing both purports to capture and misses the Talmudic understanding of mistake in terms of self-refutation. The result is a new vision of the otherwise purely logical notion of implication, a vision in which the very being implicit rather than explicit remains fundamental for human condition, and that no explication of the implicit can ever either replace or tame the power of the implicit in human condition.
Kenneth Cohen
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501705496
- eISBN:
- 9781501714214
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501705496.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter focuses on the rise of “genteel sport,” a particular brand of sporting culture that emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century as part of a broader effort to craft and unite a ...
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This chapter focuses on the rise of “genteel sport,” a particular brand of sporting culture that emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century as part of a broader effort to craft and unite a colonial elite. After detailing the unstratified nature of colonial sporting culture before genteel sport emerged, the chapter moves on to outline how business – not just social standing – united the investors in genteel sporting culture and how they aimed to inspire deference through the architecture and structure of new sporting events, including new venues and professional performers as well as new activities and new rules for older ones. Yet the chapter closes by citing the financial difficulties faced by the new professionals, and suggests that their commercial needs and investors’ own desires to win ran contrary to the magnanimous beneficence elites had intended to project through genteel sport.Less
This chapter focuses on the rise of “genteel sport,” a particular brand of sporting culture that emerged in the middle of the eighteenth century as part of a broader effort to craft and unite a colonial elite. After detailing the unstratified nature of colonial sporting culture before genteel sport emerged, the chapter moves on to outline how business – not just social standing – united the investors in genteel sporting culture and how they aimed to inspire deference through the architecture and structure of new sporting events, including new venues and professional performers as well as new activities and new rules for older ones. Yet the chapter closes by citing the financial difficulties faced by the new professionals, and suggests that their commercial needs and investors’ own desires to win ran contrary to the magnanimous beneficence elites had intended to project through genteel sport.
Jeff Fort
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823254699
- eISBN:
- 9780823260836
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823254699.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter builds on the previous chapter’s discussion of remnants of death as emblems of ghostly temporality. The death mask in Blanchot’s Death Sentence (L’arrêt de mort) is placed at the center ...
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This chapter builds on the previous chapter’s discussion of remnants of death as emblems of ghostly temporality. The death mask in Blanchot’s Death Sentence (L’arrêt de mort) is placed at the center of a constellation of texts in which the image of the death mask is linked to Kant’s transcendental schematism (Critique of Pure Reason) and thus to the very possibility of image and world. Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay “Masked Imagination” (in The Ground of the Image) is discussed in terms of Heidegger’s analysis of the schematism together with the reference to a death mask found there. These analyses are in turn linked with Blanchot’s essay “Two Versions of the Imaginary” in which the image of the corpse is given a privileged ontological status, reinforcing the connection between the remnant (dépouillement) of the death mask and the corpse (dépouille) as emblems for the constitutive hauntedness of writing. The notion of haunted fiction is explored further in reference to Henry James’ tale “The Turn of the Screw,” phrases and images from which are repeated in Blanchot’s When the Time Comes (Au moment voulu). Reference is made to the mass produced death mask known as l’Inconnue de la Seine, a copy of which Blanchot hung on the wall of his writing space. Finally, an analysis is offered of Blanchot’s essay on Kafka’s Letters to Milena, “Milena’s Failure” (“L’échec de Milena”).Less
This chapter builds on the previous chapter’s discussion of remnants of death as emblems of ghostly temporality. The death mask in Blanchot’s Death Sentence (L’arrêt de mort) is placed at the center of a constellation of texts in which the image of the death mask is linked to Kant’s transcendental schematism (Critique of Pure Reason) and thus to the very possibility of image and world. Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay “Masked Imagination” (in The Ground of the Image) is discussed in terms of Heidegger’s analysis of the schematism together with the reference to a death mask found there. These analyses are in turn linked with Blanchot’s essay “Two Versions of the Imaginary” in which the image of the corpse is given a privileged ontological status, reinforcing the connection between the remnant (dépouillement) of the death mask and the corpse (dépouille) as emblems for the constitutive hauntedness of writing. The notion of haunted fiction is explored further in reference to Henry James’ tale “The Turn of the Screw,” phrases and images from which are repeated in Blanchot’s When the Time Comes (Au moment voulu). Reference is made to the mass produced death mask known as l’Inconnue de la Seine, a copy of which Blanchot hung on the wall of his writing space. Finally, an analysis is offered of Blanchot’s essay on Kafka’s Letters to Milena, “Milena’s Failure” (“L’échec de Milena”).
Lewis Minkin
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780719073793
- eISBN:
- 9781781706770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719073793.003.0019
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter investigates Blair’s acceptance, in 2006, of what had become a notice to quit as Leader. In explaining what forced this position, attention is often primarily focused on Brown and a ...
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This chapter investigates Blair’s acceptance, in 2006, of what had become a notice to quit as Leader. In explaining what forced this position, attention is often primarily focused on Brown and a Brownite ‘coup’ but argued here is that detailed attention should be focused on Blair and his management. The evidence uncovered indicates that in the PLP and on the NEC management had become divided and consequently the rolling managerial coup failed to roll further. There was a new atmosphere of non-cooperation. An impression gained ground that the Leader, who had refused to commit himself to a date of departure, did not feel a duty of care towards the party and his word was not to be trusted. Yet managerial complacency was encouraged by confidence in the continuing insulation of the nominating procedure for Leadership elections. There was a remarkable inability of otherwise resourceful supportive managers to anticipate an outside-the-rules initiative of a section of the PLP. When it happened it exposed Blair’s diminished support and forced his public acceptance.Less
This chapter investigates Blair’s acceptance, in 2006, of what had become a notice to quit as Leader. In explaining what forced this position, attention is often primarily focused on Brown and a Brownite ‘coup’ but argued here is that detailed attention should be focused on Blair and his management. The evidence uncovered indicates that in the PLP and on the NEC management had become divided and consequently the rolling managerial coup failed to roll further. There was a new atmosphere of non-cooperation. An impression gained ground that the Leader, who had refused to commit himself to a date of departure, did not feel a duty of care towards the party and his word was not to be trusted. Yet managerial complacency was encouraged by confidence in the continuing insulation of the nominating procedure for Leadership elections. There was a remarkable inability of otherwise resourceful supportive managers to anticipate an outside-the-rules initiative of a section of the PLP. When it happened it exposed Blair’s diminished support and forced his public acceptance.
