Paul Boshears Paul Boshears Georgia State University Ernest G Welch School of Art and Design

Dissertation

My dissertation, "Chinese Whispers: Addiction and Confucian Philosophy," was adult under the ... more My dissertation, "Chinese Whispers: Addiction and Confucian Philosophy," was developed under the advisement of Avital Ronell and read by Christopher Fynsk and Diane Davis.

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Technosphere Magazine , 2019

An essay commissioned for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt's Technosphere Mag and its special ... more An essay commissioned for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt's Technosphere Magazine and its special issue "Substance."

This essay presents some thinking on the nature of substances, informed past both the Occidental traditions and those institute in Chinese philosophical history.

Special attending is paid to the historical development of the medical definition of addiction in the nineteenth century.

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An essay on how to become particular. Commissioned for the Swiss Exhibition, "Body of United states" at the ... more An essay on how to become particular.
Commissioned for the Swiss Exhibition, "Body of Us" at the 2018 London Design Biennale at Somerset House.

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Neuron , Oct 10, 2018

Increasingly, national governments across the world are prioritizing investments in neuroscience.... more Increasingly, national governments across the globe are prioritizing investments in neuroscience. Currently, seven agile or in-development national-level encephalon research initiatives exist, spanning 4 continents. Engaging with the underlying values and ethical concerns that drive encephalon research beyond cultural and continental divides is critical to time to come research. Culture influences what kinds of science are supported and where science can be conducted through ethical frameworks and evaluations of risk. Neuroscientists and philosophers alike have found themselves together encountering perennial questions; these questions are engaged past the field of neuroethics, related to the nature of understanding the self and identity, the existence and significant of free volition, defining the part of reason in human beliefs, and more than. With this Perspective article, we aim to prioritize and advance to the foreground a list of neuroethics questions for neuroscientists operating in the context of these international encephalon initiatives.

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AJOB Neuroscience , 2017

An editorial apropos Dr. Sergio Canavero, et al.'s head anastomosis venture (human caput transp... more An editorial concerning Dr. Sergio Canavero, et al.'s head anastomosis venture (human being head transplantation) and the demand for Comparative Philosophy in the field of Neuroethics.

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An invited remembrance of a beloved philosopher and Ruist (儒家) scholar for the Journal of World P... more An invited remembrance of a beloved philosopher and Ruist (儒家) scholar for the Journal of World Philosophies (forthcoming, 2017).

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Art Papers , Sep 2016

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I was invited to write a brief note discussing the affair for time to come scholarly inquiry and activ... more than I was invited to write a brief note discussing the affair for hereafter scholarly enquiry and activities.

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ART PAPERS vol 39, no six , Nov 2015

This is a book review of John Durham Peters' The Marvelous Clouds.

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Charles Stankievech presents his fieldwork—research into the technologies and architectures of th... more Charles Stankievech presents his fieldwork—research into the technologies and architectures of the twentieth century global north—equally uncanny self-portraits of the societies that built those structures. And then presented, these peripheral spaces and exceptional technologies can be understood as generating the cores of the societies that commissioned those outlying structures and technologies.

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The goal of our qualitative report was to gain a phenomenological agreement of routes to recov... more The goal of our qualitative written report was to gain a phenomenological understanding of routes to recovery from problematic drug use. In-depth interviews and drug histories were collected from 50 onetime methamphetamine users recruited from a U.Southward. metropolitan suburb who identified as having had problematic apply of this drug in the by. Transcripts of the audio-recorded interviews were coded for common themes regarding types of recovery strategies or tools employed on the road to recovery. The common strategies used in all routes for recovery from problematic methamphetamine use were social in nature and did non necessarily include the cessation of all substances. Based on our findings, we suggest a conceptualization of social recovery that focuses on reducing the social harms acquired past problematic drug utilise rather than focusing primarily on abeyance of all drug utilise. Social recovery may exist employed every bit both a treatment strategy and belittling tool. More than research is needed to advance the concept of social recovery for intervention, drug policy, and criminal justice implications.

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The goal of our qualitative study was to gain a phenomenological understanding of routes to recov... more The goal of our qualitative study was to gain a phenomenological understanding of routes to recovery from problematic drug use. In-depth interviews and drug histories were collected from fifty quondam methamphetamine users recruited from a U.Southward. metropolitan suburb who identified as having had problematic use of this drug in the past. Transcripts of the audio-recorded interviews were coded for mutual themes regarding types of recovery strategies or tools employed on the road to recovery. The common strategies used for recovery from problematic methamphetamine use in all routes were social in nature and did not necessarily include cessation of all substances. Based on our findings, we suggest a conceptualization of social recovery that focuses on reducing the social harms caused past problematic drug utilize rather than focusing primarily on cessation of all drug use. Social recovery may be employed as both a handling strategy and analytical tool. More research is needed to advance the concept of social recovery for intervention, drug policy, and criminal justice implications.

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[UNCORRECTED PROOF] We are witnessing the irresolute nature of academic practise. This change in pr... more [UNCORRECTED PROOF] Nosotros are witnessing the irresolute nature of academic practice. This change in practise is beingness spurred-on by the dramatic shift in the technologies through which knowledge work is done. The para-bookish proposition is both a response to and a detour away from the conditions that accompany the changes occurring in the Academy. The para-academic is non a fully-formed idea, information technology is a proffer and it has multiple valences. Bruce Macfarlane emphasizes the para-academic as support office, as in "para-professional." The PhD holder that acts as counselor to the cohorts, rather than as the traditional mentor, say. What does "para-academic" afford us? Why this term that so clearly adheres to "academia," a conservative, discipline-insistent, change-averse social institution? For Eileen Joy and Nicola Masciandaro the phrase:
"captures the multivalent sense of something that fulfills and/or frustrates the academic from a position of intimate exteriority [....] The para-bookish embodies an unofficial excess or extension of the academic that helps, threatens, supports, mocks (par-ody), perfects and/or calls it into question but by existing side by side to it." To their description I would similar to add the concept, parabole. A term inside rhetoric, parabole operates in a manner non unlike from analogy: a transaction that enables two incommensurable items to become somehow representative of a truth. The complete performance of communal living, what I believe the para-bookish proposition aspires toward, is a generative activity in the cosmos of further exchanges. Let united states maintain an openness toward the para-academic as a parabolic figure, concerned with the generation of knowledge. The para-academic, regardless of the human relationship to the University at any particular point, will exist characterized past their practices for novelty generation as a mode of educational working.

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In this commentary, I ask what is meant by the phrase Open Access (OA)? If OA publishing has eman... more In this commentary, I ask what is meant by the phrase Open Access (OA)? If OA publishing has emancipatory potential for the publics that are idea to benefit from the do, why is there and then much concern every bit usual? Para-academic practices are about affirming scholarship every bit a symptom and creating a common practiced, creating a public knowledge that is a knowledgable public. It is considering OA shares this concern for publics that para-bookish practices include OA publishing. By debating the merits of, experimenting with, and invigorating our understanding of OA I believe para-academic practices become more evidently necessary because ultimately OA, similar Academia, is haunted by the effigy of the public as an already-formed thing.

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Nosotros're All Infected": Essays on AMC's "The Walking Expressionless" and The Fate of the Homo , 2014

"Keywords: White Flying, Walter Benjamin, The Walking Dead (Television serial), Erlebnis and Erfa... more than "Keywords: White Flight, Walter Benjamin, The Walking Expressionless (Television series), Erlebnis and Erfahrung

Why Atlanta? Why not New York, or Los Angeles? These are the towns where big stories happen, they are dream factories and the twin seats of the American cultural empire. Or, why not take the Simpsons route and set The Walking Dead in a generic "Springfield"? There are economical reasons to picture in the land of Georgia: the state legislature passed generous tax programs in 2008 and 2012 that benefit film and video game production companies—among the most generous in the world, with no cap to how much an individual film production company can accrue in tax credits. But, the economical incentive is also what motivated Curiosity to film Avengers Assemble in Cleveland (a city not only willing to shutdown several parts of its downtown for 24 hours at a stretch, but generic enough to portray itself as both New York City and Stuttgart, Germany). There must be something peculiar to Atlanta. But the prevailing theories about this sprawling city are inconclusive, "Atlanta is non a city, it is a landscape," as Rem Koolhaas stated, the postmodern urban center, a middle-less metropolis. Culturally information technology is marked by its "noplaceness" and peradventure this unique blankness might assistance united states of america empathize why Atlanta and its environs are the location for The Walking Dead. Manifestly Atlanta isn't empty, it just looks appears as such; what exercise we run into in this city'due south bare stare? What identification is prompted by the "city too busy to hate"? At that place is a psycho-genealogical demand for The Walking Dead to be located in Atlanta."

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Interstitial: A Periodical of Modern Culture and Events , Mar 29, 2013

A review of Graham Harman'south book, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy.

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In Media Res

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The authors of this give-and-take will before long meet at a panel discussion entitled "The Aesthetics of (... more The authors of this discussion will shortly meet at a console discussion entitled "The Aesthetics of (Para)Academic Do" during the upcoming Aesthetics in the 21st Century briefing at the University of Basel, Switzerland in September. What follows serves as both prologue to this discussion, as well as invitation for comment and involvement. Nosotros thank the conference organisers at the University of Basel and the University College Dublin for their efforts in organising an event that serves to debate the very resourcing and operation of the structures within which it volition take place. The panel event will celebrate and blend ideas around variegated accesses to knowledge. At upshot, most generally, are the ways that monotonic institutional structures support, warp or sustain the mind, torso, and our relationships and responsibilities to one another equally creators, teachers and learners.

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Wang pushes toward a postcolonial reading of Legge'south translations of the Zhongyong, and notes tha... more Wang pushes toward a postcolonial reading of Legge'south translations of the Zhongyong, and notes that Marxist, humanist, nativist, culturalist, and poststructuralist approaches to decolonization have been attempted. Simply why not a Confucian arroyo? What would a Confucian arroyo to decolonization even look like? It's not equally though the Chinese accept non exerted a colonial influence in the globe (we wait to the histories of the Korean peninsula, the Ryukyus, and Southeast Asia). If there is a Confucian text that could provide insights or suggest potential tools for decolonization, surely the Zhongyong is the repository. The overall Confucian project volition emphasize the do of reciprocity in one'due south relationships to the homo community, just the Zhongyong is singular in its cosmological insistence. The Zhongyong is unique in its presentation of the human as mutual collaborator with the processes through which the universe itself is manifest.

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What would an assemblage theory of addiction tell the states about the process of becoming an addict and ... more What would an assemblage theory of addiction tell us about the process of becoming an addict and in what means would it inform our understanding of recovering from addiction? That process through which i develops problematic apply of methamphetamine may as well be that which leads to the cessation of methamphetamine use. Based on an ethnographic written report of methamphetamine apply in suburban Atlanta, I suggest that the interdependencies which grade as methamphetamine users pursue opportunities: to practice their methamphetamine employ, to disclose the consequences of their practices, and to display recovering identities, illustrate a fundamentally relational character to methamphetamine apply. In this newspaper I explore what Jane Bennett's concept of thing-power, an effervescence of capacity realized across a range of man and non-homo actors, tin can do for developing responses to the myriad effects associated with sustained problematic employ and manufacturing of methamphetamine.

*The project described was funded by NIDA Honor Number 1R15DA021164-01A1 and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Establish on Drug Abuse or the National Institutes of Health, Kennesaw Country University nor the European Graduate School.

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My dissertation, "Chinese Whispers: Addiction and Confucian Philosophy," was developed under the ... more My dissertation, "Chinese Whispers: Addiction and Confucian Philosophy," was adult nether the advisement of Avital Ronell and read past Christopher Fynsk and Diane Davis.

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Technosphere Magazine , 2019

An essay deputed for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt's Technosphere Magazine and its special ... more An essay deputed for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt'south Technosphere Magazine and its special consequence "Substance."

This essay presents some thinking on the nature of substances, informed by both the Occidental traditions and those constitute in Chinese philosophical history.

Special attention is paid to the historical development of the medical definition of addiction in the nineteenth century.

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An essay on how to become detail. Deputed for the Swiss Exhibition, "Torso of Us" at the ... more An essay on how to become particular.
Commissioned for the Swiss Exhibition, "Torso of Us" at the 2018 London Design Biennale at Somerset Business firm.

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Neuron , Oct 10, 2018

Increasingly, national governments across the globe are prioritizing investments in neuroscience.... more Increasingly, national governments across the earth are prioritizing investments in neuroscience. Currently, seven active or in-development national-level brain research initiatives be, spanning 4 continents. Engaging with the underlying values and ethical concerns that drive brain inquiry across cultural and continental divides is disquisitional to futurity enquiry. Culture influences what kinds of science are supported and where science can be conducted through upstanding frameworks and evaluations of chance. Neuroscientists and philosophers alike accept found themselves together encountering perennial questions; these questions are engaged by the field of neuroethics, related to the nature of understanding the self and identity, the being and meaning of free will, defining the role of reason in human behavior, and more. With this Perspective article, we aim to prioritize and advance to the foreground a list of neuroethics questions for neuroscientists operating in the context of these international brain initiatives.

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AJOB Neuroscience , 2017

An editorial concerning Dr. Sergio Canavero, et al.'s head anastomosis venture (human being head transp... more An editorial apropos Dr. Sergio Canavero, et al.'south head anastomosis venture (human caput transplantation) and the need for Comparative Philosophy in the field of Neuroethics.

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An invited remembrance of a beloved philosopher and Ruist (儒家) scholar for the Journal of World P... more than An invited remembrance of a honey philosopher and Ruist (儒家) scholar for the Journal of World Philosophies (forthcoming, 2017).

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Art Papers , Sep 2016

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I was invited to write a brief note discussing the matter for future scholarly enquiry and activ... more I was invited to write a brief note discussing the matter for future scholarly research and activities.

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ART PAPERS vol 39, no 6 , Nov 2015

This is a book review of John Durham Peters' The Marvelous Clouds.

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Charles Stankievech presents his fieldwork—research into the technologies and architectures of th... more Charles Stankievech presents his fieldwork—research into the technologies and architectures of the twentieth century global due north—equally uncanny cocky-portraits of the societies that built those structures. So presented, these peripheral spaces and exceptional technologies tin can be understood as generating the cores of the societies that commissioned those outlying structures and technologies.

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The goal of our qualitative study was to gain a phenomenological understanding of routes to recov... more than The goal of our qualitative study was to gain a phenomenological agreement of routes to recovery from problematic drug utilise. In-depth interviews and drug histories were collected from l sometime methamphetamine users recruited from a U.Southward. metropolitan suburb who identified every bit having had problematic use of this drug in the past. Transcripts of the sound-recorded interviews were coded for common themes regarding types of recovery strategies or tools employed on the route to recovery. The mutual strategies used in all routes for recovery from problematic methamphetamine use were social in nature and did not necessarily include the cessation of all substances. Based on our findings, we suggest a conceptualization of social recovery that focuses on reducing the social harms caused by problematic drug utilise rather than focusing primarily on cessation of all drug utilize. Social recovery may be employed as both a treatment strategy and analytical tool. More research is needed to advance the concept of social recovery for intervention, drug policy, and criminal justice implications.

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The goal of our qualitative study was to gain a phenomenological agreement of routes to recov... more The goal of our qualitative report was to gain a phenomenological agreement of routes to recovery from problematic drug use. In-depth interviews and drug histories were nerveless from 50 former methamphetamine users recruited from a U.S. metropolitan suburb who identified as having had problematic use of this drug in the past. Transcripts of the sound-recorded interviews were coded for common themes regarding types of recovery strategies or tools employed on the road to recovery. The common strategies used for recovery from problematic methamphetamine use in all routes were social in nature and did not necessarily include cessation of all substances. Based on our findings, we suggest a conceptualization of social recovery that focuses on reducing the social harms caused by problematic drug use rather than focusing primarily on abeyance of all drug employ. Social recovery may be employed as both a treatment strategy and analytical tool. More than enquiry is needed to accelerate the concept of social recovery for intervention, drug policy, and criminal justice implications.

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[UNCORRECTED PROOF] Nosotros are witnessing the changing nature of academic practice. This modify in pr... more [UNCORRECTED PROOF] We are witnessing the changing nature of bookish practice. This modify in do is being spurred-on by the dramatic shift in the technologies through which knowledge work is done. The para-academic proposition is both a response to and a detour away from the conditions that accompany the changes occurring in the University. The para-academic is not a fully-formed idea, it is a suggestion and it has multiple valences. Bruce Macfarlane emphasizes the para-bookish as support function, as in "para-professional." The PhD holder that acts as counselor to the cohorts, rather than as the traditional mentor, say. What does "para-academic" afford us? Why this term that and then clearly adheres to "academia," a bourgeois, discipline-insistent, change-averse social institution? For Eileen Joy and Nicola Masciandaro the phrase:
"captures the multivalent sense of something that fulfills and/or frustrates the academic from a position of intimate exteriority [....] The para-bookish embodies an unofficial excess or extension of the academic that helps, threatens, supports, mocks (par-ody), perfects and/or calls it into question just past existing next to it." To their description I would like to add the concept, parabole. A term inside rhetoric, parabole operates in a style not dissimilar from analogy: a transaction that enables two incommensurable items to become somehow representative of a truth. The complete performance of communal living, what I believe the para-academic proposition aspires toward, is a generative action in the creation of further exchanges. Let us maintain an openness toward the para-bookish as a parabolic effigy, concerned with the generation of noesis. The para-bookish, regardless of the relationship to the University at any item point, will be characterized by their practices for novelty generation as a mode of educational working.

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In this commentary, I inquire what is meant by the phrase Open Admission (OA)? If OA publishing has eman... more In this commentary, I ask what is meant by the phrase Open Access (OA)? If OA publishing has emancipatory potential for the publics that are thought to benefit from the practice, why is there and so much concern equally usual? Para-bookish practices are virtually affirming scholarship every bit a symptom and creating a common good, creating a public knowledge that is a knowledgable public. Information technology is because OA shares this business concern for publics that para-academic practices include OA publishing. By debating the merits of, experimenting with, and invigorating our agreement of OA I believe para-academic practices become more apparently necessary because ultimately OA, similar Academia, is haunted by the figure of the public as an already-formed thing.

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We're All Infected": Essays on AMC's "The Walking Dead" and The Fate of the Human , 2014

"Keywords: White Flight, Walter Benjamin, The Walking Dead (Television serial), Erlebnis and Erfa... more "Keywords: White Flight, Walter Benjamin, The Walking Expressionless (Television series), Erlebnis and Erfahrung

Why Atlanta? Why not New York, or Los Angeles? These are the towns where large stories happen, they are dream factories and the twin seats of the American cultural empire. Or, why not take the Simpsons road and set The Walking Dead in a generic "Springfield"? There are economic reasons to film in the state of Georgia: the state legislature passed generous tax programs in 2008 and 2012 that benefit picture and video game production companies—among the most generous in the earth, with no cap to how much an individual moving-picture show product company can accrue in tax credits. But, the economic incentive is also what motivated Marvel to film Avengers Get together in Cleveland (a city not merely willing to shutdown several parts of its downtown for 24 hours at a stretch, but generic enough to portray itself as both New York City and Stuttgart, Frg). There must be something peculiar to Atlanta. Simply the prevailing theories about this sprawling city are inconclusive, "Atlanta is not a city, information technology is a landscape," as Rem Koolhaas stated, the postmodern urban center, a center-less metropolis. Culturally information technology is marked by its "noplaceness" and perhaps this unique blankness might assist the states understand why Atlanta and its surroundings are the location for The Walking Dead. Obviously Atlanta isn't empty, information technology just looks appears every bit such; what exercise we see in this city's blank stare? What identification is prompted by the "metropolis also busy to hate"? There is a psycho-genealogical demand for The Walking Dead to be located in Atlanta."

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Interstitial: A Journal of Modernistic Culture and Events , Mar 29, 2013

A review of Graham Harman'south book, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy.

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In Media Res

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The authors of this discussion volition before long meet at a panel discussion entitled "The Aesthetics of (... more than The authors of this discussion will before long meet at a console word entitled "The Aesthetics of (Para)Academic Exercise" during the upcoming Aesthetics in the 21st Century conference at the University of Basel, Switzerland in September. What follows serves as both prologue to this discussion, as well as invitation for comment and interest. We thank the briefing organisers at the Academy of Basel and the University College Dublin for their efforts in organising an event that serves to debate the very resourcing and operation of the structures within which it will take place. The panel upshot volition celebrate and alloy ideas around variegated accesses to cognition. At issue, most generally, are the ways that monotonic institutional structures back up, warp or sustain the mind, body, and our relationships and responsibilities to i another as creators, teachers and learners.

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Wang pushes toward a postcolonial reading of Legge's translations of the Zhongyong, and notes tha... more Wang pushes toward a postcolonial reading of Legge's translations of the Zhongyong, and notes that Marxist, humanist, nativist, culturalist, and poststructuralist approaches to decolonization have been attempted. Just why not a Confucian approach? What would a Confucian approach to decolonization even look like? Information technology's not as though the Chinese have not exerted a colonial influence in the world (we look to the histories of the Korean peninsula, the Ryukyus, and Southeast Asia). If there is a Confucian text that could provide insights or suggest potential tools for decolonization, surely the Zhongyong is the repository. The overall Confucian project will emphasize the practice of reciprocity in 1'due south relationships to the human being community, but the Zhongyong is singular in its cosmological insistence. The Zhongyong is unique in its presentation of the homo as mutual collaborator with the processes through which the universe itself is manifest.

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What would an assemblage theory of addiction tell us nearly the procedure of becoming an aficionado and ... more than What would an assemblage theory of addiction tell usa nearly the procedure of becoming an addict and in what ways would information technology inform our understanding of recovering from addiction? That process through which 1 develops problematic use of methamphetamine may also be that which leads to the cessation of methamphetamine use. Based on an ethnographic study of methamphetamine apply in suburban Atlanta, I advise that the interdependencies which form as methamphetamine users pursue opportunities: to do their methamphetamine use, to disembalm the consequences of their practices, and to display recovering identities, illustrate a fundamentally relational character to methamphetamine use. In this paper I explore what Jane Bennett's concept of thing-power, an effervescence of capacity realized across a range of human and not-homo actors, can do for developing responses to the myriad effects associated with sustained problematic employ and manufacturing of methamphetamine.

*The project described was funded by NIDA Award Number 1R15DA021164-01A1 and does non necessarily represent the official views of the National Establish on Drug Corruption or the National Institutes of Health, Kennesaw State University nor the European Graduate School.

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In Media Res challenges authors to discover a media object online and curate this object within a wee... more than In Media Res challenges authors to find a media object online and curate this object within a weekly theme. Authors have only 400 words in which to communicate their thinking nearly the media.

In this writing we consider the significance of Atlanta and its recent history to understand why this item metropolis acts as the backdrop for this internationally-popular program. What has happened in Atlanta to transform it from a "Noplace" as the recent arts survey calls it, to Everyplace?

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continent. Yr i: A selection of issues i.i–i.4 collects a diversity of thoughts and tropes from t... more continent. Yr ane: A choice of issues 1.1–ane.4 collects a diversity of thoughts and tropes from the 2011 issues of continent., ranging from work on Greek poetry to deep encephalon recordings, from speculative realism to the fragments as a unit of prose, and from queer theory to mass murder. This collection presents the fruits of an intense collaboration throughout the different zones of the University.

With contributions past Jamie Allen, Alain Badiou, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, A. Staley Groves, Graham Harman, Nikos Karouzos, Evan Lavender-Smith, Renata Lemos-Morais, Feliz Molina, Timothy Morton, Gregory Kirk Murray, Maggie Nelson, Michael O'Rourke, Gilson Schwartz, Ben Segal, Nick Skiadopoulos, Karen Spaceinvaders, Phillip Stearns, John van Houdt, and Ben Woodard.

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This is the third volume in a unique series that combines the work of promising undergraduate and... more than This is the third volume in a unique series that combines the work of promising undergraduate and graduate students with essays by distinguished scholars. Essays are selected from the 3rd Annual North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference and represent its best papers. In his keynote address, From the Earth's Veins to the Torso'southward Meridians: Classical Chinese Views of the Environment and Health, Graham Parkes of the Academy of Hawai'i at Manoa argued that, "the importance of place in the practice of the medical arts is common in ancient treatments of the topic. But rather than seeing this concern merely equally an outmoded piece of folk scientific discipline, nosotros might more than fruitfully understand information technology every bit an anticipation of the recent talk in medical and epidemiological soapbox of the importance of "contextualizing the person"—but in this case a contextualization that extends beyond the community and social spheres to the biosphere and atmospheres that are the context for all human existence." Information technology would seem that since the onset of environmental ethics in the 1960'due south, "a new paradigm" for understanding place would be appear every few years, simply, as Dr. Parkes notes, "the more than of these 'new paradigms' I came beyond in the literature, the more than I kept thinking that I had seen them all somewhere earlier—in classical Chinese idea, where the private's relation to identify is paramount."

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In this presentation I will discuss how I incorporate Atlanta Studies into my Art 3910 Critical T... more In this presentation I volition discuss how I incorporate Atlanta Studies into my Fine art 3910 Disquisitional Thinking Through Writing grade, "Issues in Gimmicky Fine art" curriculum. June 3, 2017, will mark the fifty-fifth anniversary of the doomed Air France Flight 007 in which 106 of Atlanta's leading arts patrons died at Orly Airport exterior of Paris. Only 2 people out of 132 would walk abroad from that crash. It was the worst air disaster in history to that point. The bear on of this tragedy on Atlanta was enormous. The accident left thirty-1 children orphaned, and the broader metro area continues to grapple with this tragedy today. The nearly obvious upshot of the Orly explosion is the cosmos of the Atlanta Memorial Arts Heart, renamed the Woodruff Arts Middle in 1982. Robert W. Woodruff, the Coca-Cola magnate and future namesake of the enormous cultural center on Peachtree Street, was initially guided by the head of his foundation and quondam president of Oglethorpe University, Dr. Philip Weltner, to build an arts complex in Piedmont Park. This would have been a natural selection at the time because Piedmont Park had become the site of the almanac Arts Festival. The plan to finance the building of this cultural center, however, failed to pass a public plebiscite in August of 1962, in no small part due to the charged racial atmosphere. At that place were two reasons for this failed referendum. Beginning, the strongest link between the Atlanta Arts Alliance and the urban center'southward Cultural Needs Commission, Del Paige, had died in the wreckage at Orly. 2d, Woodruff insisted on donating the initial $four 1000000 anonymously. The white power structure of the time allowed a whisper campaign suggesting that the mysterious donor was really the family of millionaire Alonzo Herndon, a "negro" family.
Not only does Atlanta savor the privilege of hosting the largest collecting art establishment in the region as a outcome of this tragedy, but the Orly disaster has also had a meaning impact on the development of contemporary fine art across the globe. Andy Warhol institute an epitome of the Orly disaster on the forepart page of the New York Mirror. This image was the basis for Warhol's "129 Die in Jet (Aeroplane Crash)," and it was the cataclysmic loss of Atlanta'south most active arts patrons that launched Warhol's Death and Disaster paintings (in 2007, his "Dark-green Motorcar Crash Three" would fetch $71.7 million at Christie's sale). Contemporary Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn stated in the pages of ARTFORUM that it was viewing Warhol's "129 Die in Jet" in 1978 that made him aware that he needed to be an artist. "It was the first time in my life that art had an impact on me, the first time I was directly in dialogue with it," he said. "'129 Die in Jet' changed my life." It is my aspiration that learning about and critically engaging with the events surrounding this terrible disaster will likewise change the lives of my students.

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What tin can exist washed to reduce the paranoia and egoistic disquiet one may experience after learning t... more What can exist done to reduce the paranoia and egocentric disquiet i may feel after learning that they are being indiscriminately spied upon at all times by the National Security Agency (NSA)? Following from Bernhard Siegert's word of Kulturtechniken (cultural techniques), nosotros suggest that the spinning solid state drives used in information centers—such equally the NSA's multi-exabyte information centre in Utah—provide dual uses. Through the lens of cultural techniques we understand that these servers are "material considerations," they have the capacity to transform a subjective promise into an objective obligation. In addition we see that these spinning disks monitor as well as provide a medium for machines to participate in the liberation of all sentient beings.
In Tibetan Buddhism it is believed that the movement of a concrete object inscribed with a prayer is alike to speaking the prayer. Thus prayer wheels adorn many temples such that devotees, including illiterate individuals, can release the prayers and acquire their karmic merit. Prayer flags work the same mode; the wind blowing through the flags is like the air in our throats and too says the prayer. Today one may purchase electric prayer wheels or machines that recite prayers endlessly. Our NSA Bodhisattva Project makes apply of the NSA'south electronic communications surveillance spinning disc technologies to generate karmic merit at exponential rates. By archiving the weekly emails we ship to participants these spinning disc media turn into thousands of 3600-rpm prayer wheels filling the universe with karma and enlightenment.

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[Presented at the Georgia State University Briefing on Digital Literacy, February 2017] This p... more than [Presented at the Georgia Land University Conference on Digital Literacy, February 2017]

This presentation is the issue of my experience teaching undergraduate Fine art majors in a Critical Thinking through Writing (CTW) grade, "Critical Bug in Contemporary Fine art." Much of my specialized information about Contemporary Art has come through my years of working in the arts publishing manufacture, in improver to the specialized training I received in graduate school. In this presentation I will share some of the challenges I've faced in didactics Contemporary Fine art equally well as some of the online resources I've deployed to help me in meeting these challenges. As the title of the course likely intimates, this CTW class is centered on the discussion of Contemporary Fine art, a field of art making that resists definition. Contemporary Art is perhaps most easily recognized by the book of disquisitional philosophies viewers are often assumed to have mastered, or at to the lowest degree consumed, prior to gaining a toehold on the materials presented. Contemporary Art distinguishes itself from Modern Fine art by its extension of the philosophical debates that Modernistic Art began: What is the nature of a medium? What is the nature of identity? What ideological commitments are ensconced in the white cube gallery? And so on. Despite working with Art majors, many or almost of my students had very little agreement of what Contemporary Art is, nor the issues driving the development of the field. Using a prior knowledge form, I identified several problems to be overcome with my students, chief amongst these were one) a lack of noesis about the course materials, 2) a lack of familiarity with the literary conventions used in the field, and 3) a lack of experience in writing about art and theories pertaining to fine art. To address each of these problems, I deployed several tactics for overcoming these matters and for inculcating habits that have enhanced the learning and educational activity experiences for my students and myself. Among these tactics, I've establish greatest efficacy in using digital tools that promote the behaviors I want to see in the students: writing more, attending more frequently, and demonstrating a broader knowledge of the field. I will present the tools I've institute useful and ways in which I've activated those tools when teaching. In sharing my experiences, I seek the collaborative thinking of young man attendees.

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In society to palpate how social modify happens Michel Foucault deployed the term dispositif (virtually ... more In guild to palpate how social change happens Michel Foucault deployed the term dispositif (near ofttimes translated into English every bit "apparatus"), to emphasize the power differential intrinsic in the networked relations of social actors. According to Foucault the eighteenth century Physiocrats are the exemplars to whom we must look if we are to understand how the shift from monarchy to democracy could happen. Foucault tells us that what the Physiocrats advanced was an appliance (dispositif) for adjusting materials in response to scarcity. Who were the Physiocrats? The leading figure of the Physiocrat movement, François Quesnay saw himself—and insisted his pupils also refer to him—equally "the Confucius of Europe." The Marquis de Mirabeau fifty-fifty referred to Quesnay's Tableau économique as the Physiocrat'southward Yijing 易經. I am obligated to note that Foucault chose non to pursue this Sinophilia in the origin of our gimmicky dispositif. Rather, he points to Louis-Paul Abeille's Lettre d'un negociant sur la nature du commerce des grains (1763) equally representative of the "pivotal position in the economic idea of that time." We can speculate as to why Foucault chose not pursue the Sinophilic tendencies, simply it is staggering to meet that at precisely the moment where Foucault sees a pivotal shift in Occidental political-economic thought in that location was an equally important report written in China titled "A Memorial on Grain Prices, the Grain Merchandise, and Government-Controlled Brokerages," (1763) written by Yang Yingju. Was it simple serendipity that Abeille and Yang wrote these reports at the aforementioned moment? Here I will present a pocket-size introduction to the Chinese philosophical roots of the evolution of laissez-faire commercialism. Or maybe I should say that it is an introduction to a misreading of Chinese philosophy.

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Addiction, disorder, dependence, and abuse are sometimes used interchangeably, and although ... more Addiction, disorder, dependence, and abuse are sometimes used interchangeably, and although the DSM-4 TR fabricated a clear distinction betwixt these, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual-five now conflates these into a spectrum of abuse. Any definition of addiction is likely to upshot in heated contestation, nonetheless the field tends to feel near comfortable discussing addiction as phenomena characterized by repeated problematic utilize and an impaired ability to terminate this activity. The term "addiction" betrays a specific, historical project at work in my argument. It is a metaphysical project that seeks to secure a class of autonomy and certain kinds of object relations advisable to a particular kind of metaphysical schema. This metaphysical project carries commitments that historically accept led to tiresome arguments most the social construction of the real, a human field of study hidden behind the veil of language, and objects in the world that resist the states with their recalcitrance. These positions maintain humans equally the unique focal point of the universe and equally the sole arbiters of Reason. Established every bit such, humans are then condemned to never take straight access to the universe itself, just knowledge of information technology. Addiction is an ideal subject area for those interested in this philosophical dilemma. Who is the culprit in addiction? Is it the substance of abuse, or a faulty dopaminergic system? Is it individuals who cannot control their urge to gamble?
Addiction is comprised of the knotty interactions between human and nonhuman actors. Information technology is a networked phenomenon. One is not born with an innate noesis of how to acquire, manufacture, or consume methamphetamine, for example. One undergoes an apprenticeship and is brought into the fold of the methamphetamine-using customs. Given that the human encephalon's dopaminergic system reveals itself to exist so very susceptible to hijacking past such a variety of substances and activities for the purpose of learning, there are several desirable affordances when thinking about addiction from the Confucian perspective. A primal business organization in Confucianism is the transformative potential found in performing the rituals of our daily diplomacy. These rituals, whether cultivating the appropriate manus milkshake or properly reciting a sacred text in a pageant, consummate homo relations. The Confucian canonical text Zhongyong 中庸 is concerned with the role of education in the development of administrative conduct. Information technology is a technical manual for the enhancement of the stop user's life in the human community. Despite having no words concerned with drug use, this ancient text is continuously cited as a prophylactic against certain modes of drug use.
In this talk I highlight the social nature of drug use practices. I am peculiarly interested in prompting a discussion of addiction every bit a mode of significant generation and as a tool for understanding subjectivity cultural project.

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Education is fraught with treachery. The educatee in search of a teacher is tasked with finding thursday... more than Instruction is fraught with treachery. The student in search of a teacher is tasked with finding the correct instructor, simply past definition cannot be trusted to know what the right teacher would be. Universities go along to manifest their transformation into factories well-stocked with knowledge workers bundled together within disciplines marketed by the degree of open access to social, political, and financial capital they will provide their clients. Against (aslope, perhaps because of) this manifest transformation, sites of learning and ways of sharing cognition without business concern for economic gain are blossoming again, some under the banner of "para-academic" practices. Elsewhere I've put frontwards para-academic publishing as acts of public-making, publicating sociality. Of form, this public good so created can be consumed and as such subject to the compulsion capital exchanges encourage. Duane Rousselle has recently raised concerns almost compromising the revolutionary potential of para-academic practices, characterized equally taking the easy road, "that we pick upward a few dollars outside of the university then that nosotros can remain inside the academy." My response, in friendship, volition consider the perspectives on education we find in the classical Chinese texts Zhuangzi and Zhongyong—education the usefullness of becoming useless in the former, and the co-artistic potential inside a focus upon the familiar affairs of our days in the latter. I volition argue that this focusing on familiar, a translation of the title Zhongyong (中庸), is a technique of profanation not unlike what Giogio Agamben suggests in his essay concerning dispositif. With these perspectives in mind, tin can we think of para-academic practices as a kind of condign ungovernable?

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The work of mourning begins with the recognition that nosotros are haunted past our losses. Torn by confl... more The work of mourning begins with the recognition that we are haunted by our losses. Torn past conflicting feelings of satisfaction at the expiry of the one who cannot be consumed by us and then by the tenderness of our memories for the dead, Freud described the process of projection equally a displacing of our internal dreaded desires onto the external world. These projections are, in themselves, modes of communication betwixt that individual and those they mourn. They are modes of telecommunications. We annotation that, in the airplane pilot episode of The Walking Dead, Rick Grimes is sure his wife is alive because the photo albums are missing. In the era of social media, typified past apps similar Instagram, the purpose of photos is not to encapsulate and recall a morsel of the world as it actually is, but to instead heed the melancholic call that all memories exist externalized rather than metabolized internally. Rick's behavior seems to suggest that the simply reason a photograph album would go missing at the moment of the apocalypse is because the task of collecting photos is to fabricate a commonage, totemic, photo archive. These missing photos (conspicuously absent throughout the seasons of The Walking Dead) are not in service to sharing the life that Rick and Lori accept, merely are calls to witness the deaths that they are having.
I volition share with you hither an hysterical vision of The Walking Expressionless as a means of group therapy. Atlanta's unmourned losses take infected both the nation'southward domestic and strange policies. Perhaps these weekly sessions (or doses) of The Walking Dead will awaken u.s.a. to sympathize why America is interim out in these ways.

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Currently 1 million of the 1.5 million people instruction in American colleges and universities are ... more Currently ane 1000000 of the 1.5 million people teaching in American colleges and universities are contingent, adjunct kinesthesia. The University must produce cheap, precarious labor for itself then that it can proceed to manufacture its products for the greater good of lodge. Today information technology'southward a question, whether or not the University will be able to continue in the face of neoliberal ideological onslaught. 1 wonders if the University is doing itself in past gorging on the labor of adjuncts while simultaneously lowering the value of the work their professors exercise past giving information technology away for free. What MIT'southward OpenCourseWare indicates is that the University is shifting from producing educated man bodies to producing accredited human bodies.
To distinguish between those that toil in these contingent, offshoot weather condition at Universities, we employ Nicola Masciandaro'southward term, Para-Academic. The para-academic coexists with the University. At times the relationship might appear parasitic (perhaps both entities wondering which is the host), at other times their relationship volition exist characterized as complementary—"para-" meaning alongside. The para-academic, regardless of the human relationship to the University at a detail betoken, will be characterized by their practices for novelty generation. Both (Para-) Academia and the University are imagined communities. Withal, the University is an institution that accredits, controls, and stamps the passports of those that would enter its territory. It is a striated space as opposed to Academia's fluid infinite. The Open Admission movement and the sprouting of (para-) bookish activities are not merely about broadly distributing the power to publish as a autonomous gesture. As an editor of an Open Access, Artistic Commons-licensed periodical, continent. (www.continentcontinent.cc), I believe nosotros are making a distinction between publishing and publication: publishing is almost making stuff knowable, publication is well-nigh public-making.

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While her video "The Kitchen I, Homage to Saint Therese" (2009)—which features the Marina Abramov... more While her video "The Kitchen I, Homage to Saint Therese" (2009)—which features the Marina Abramović floating before a bright window inside a dingy kitchen—could be pointed to every bit evidence of a transcendental metaphysical or mystical business concern inside Abramovic's oeuvre, I remember this otherworldly lens is limiting in receiving the video work "The Kitchen V, Carrying the Milk" (2009). I suggest that this piece is more generously viewed through the lens of the Object-Oriented Ontology branch of that family tree called Speculative Realism. Abramović'due south Carrying the Milk depicts the creative person remaining very still while holding a saucer of milk, which contrasts sumptuously with her black dress. As the video progresses, the viewer sees that the milk is anything merely still: it undulates and careens across the edge of its container. If a vessel is divers past its ability to hold textile, then the milk and its meniscus challenge our understanding of that relationship. Upon first consideration, the milk appears to exist still, and it is Abramović who is causing the milk to sway and spill. I could debate that, regardless of the creative person's intention to hold still, her body will have a resting tremble—that is, the natural flexing and relaxing of her muscles will produce these oscillations in what should exist perfectly withal, inert matter. This perspective holds that there is the intentionality of ane's mind, there is the physicality of one's trunk, and there is life, which is lived in the tension between these two poles. But with the Object-Oriented Ontology, we begin to sense that bodies are never still, and that affair is annihilation but inert—indeed, that it is vibrant and thrumming. "Carrying the Milk" challenges the viewer to reexamine the conceit that the "world out there" is composed of impaired affair.

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Because there is no recognition of subjectivity itself (since it volition only exist desubjectified in t... more Considering in that location is no recognition of subjectivity itself (since information technology will only be desubjectified in the adjacent remixing), we have an eclipsing of politics itself and instead accept shifted into the replication of governance for the sake of having governance alone. While politics historically had as its nascent business concern always an open question every bit to whether justice could be possible, today the question of justice has been denigrated, seemingly as an annoying child's question. Why concern ourselves with justice when there is already the question of how to dispense with what bounty we have before united states of america? Agamben characterizes this situation equally "ceaseless though aimless motion of this car, which, in a sort of colossal parody of theological oikonomia." Agamben seems to be suggesting that at that place is an economic mechanism at piece of work hither, but that we have yet to appreciate what existence economic means. Is there a style to turn the ritualized interactions (becoming subjugated, enjoying our desubjectification-as-amusement) we've come to feel equally routine back into something that is transformative, to brand these activities profane?

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The term 'para-academic' captures the multivalent sense of something that fulfills and/or frustra... more The term 'para-bookish' captures the multivalent sense of something that fulfills and/or frustrates the bookish from a position of intimate exteriority. Para-academia is that which is beside academia, a place whose logic encompasses many reasons and no reason at all (para-, "alongside, beyond, altered, opposite," from Greek para-, "abreast, nigh, from, confronting, opposite to," cognate with Sanskrit para "beyond"). The para is the domain of: shadow, epitome, daemon, parasite, supplement, amateur, elite. The para-academic embodies an unofficial backlog or extension of the bookish that helps, threatens, supports, mocks (par-ody), perfects and/or calls information technology into question simply by existing next to it. Post-obit a series of classes organized through The Public Schoolhouse New York and the Hollow Earth Order on the discipline of "Para-Academia and Theory Fiction," this event brings together a group of editors whose work in publishing falls within the para-academic, in one sense or another. Presenters will address the practice and theory of para-academic publishing, its relation to various areas of life (art, pedagogy, politics), and present some of their recent titles.

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Inspired by the straight actions in Spain, Greece, and the Arab Spring of 2011, the North American ... more than Inspired by the direct actions in Spain, Hellenic republic, and the Arab Spring of 2011, the North American Occupy movements have activated a surprising number of people across a diverseness of social situations. This console will present perspectives from direct activeness participants besides as participant observers of the ongoing Occupations. The panelists volition present a "worm's centre view" of the Occupy movements with an emphasis on contexts (urban vs. suburban) the melancholia politics of not-hierarchical straight action, and what impact these take.

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There is a psycho-genealogical demand for The Walking Dead to be located in Atlanta. The show'southward cin... more At that place is a psycho-genealogical need for The Walking Dead to be located in Atlanta. The show'southward cinematic family tree includes White Zombie, Hitchcock'south Psycho, and of course Night of the Living Dead, which "portrays the end of civilization past endlessly replaying and reversing Freud's speculations on its ancestry in Totem and Taboo (1912)."1 In the concluding essay of Totem and Taboo Freud speculates the origin of human civilization in his famous Oedipal complex. In Freud's imagining, prehistoric brothers that are expelled from their begetter's alpha-male person grouping (constructed of their father and his harem of women), but so return and kill their awe/fearfulness-inspiring father.

Atlanta is a zombie town. Resurgens, the City'due south motto, is a normative framework. The phoenix, Atlanta's totem, is a zombie bird. A totem is some element of the communal identification which is forbidden to be destroyed by any member of the community. In Freud'southward thinking, totems serve as prohibitions against incest. A member of the kangaroo association cannot marry and have sexual relations with another member of the kangaroo clan, but this prohibition against incest also served to avoid the blastoff-male from collecting all the females of the association as his own. According to Ovid, the phoenix flies with the nest in which he was born, it carries with him the sepulcher of his father that is his cradle. Following Laurence Rickels' assay of the "Psycho effect," we notation the nascence of the slasher genre—of which the zombie thriller is a descendant—is Alfred Hitchcock'southward Psycho, whose opening scene is Phoenix, Arizona.

Let'south consider two questions, then, as we seek a reading of The Walking Expressionless that offers some buy on our gimmicky state of affairs.
1) What happened to Atlanta that grips the imaginations of our contemporaries and shifts the City from being a "Noplace," as the recent survey of Atlanta's visual arts states, to an Everyplace?
ii) What work does the zombie, equally a work of art, do?

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In our conversation today I want to touch briefly on a set of concepts from 1 of my teachers, t... more than In our chat today I want to bear on briefly on a set of concepts from i of my teachers, the gimmicky French philosopher, Jacques Rancière: the artful regime, politics, and police. I will present a few art historical developments to illustrate my bespeak then I will present two experiments in social media: Dziga Vertov's film Man with Movie Camera from 1929, and the Net sensation from last week, the Invisible Children's KONY2012. The take away I'grand hoping will be clear is that political activity is an aesthetic action. Following Rancière, I volition bear witness that democratic political action isn't a human relationship between two given entities, just is the activeness through which one becomes a subject. The core of democracy is the question of who can exist heard. That is to say that political activity is the activity of becoming sensible, of becoming available to the sensing capacities of others. This is the root of the term aesthetics, from the Greek aisthesis meaning to judge through what one perceives.

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A graduate seminar discussing Jacques Rancière'due south dissensus and a survey of gimmicky artists w... more than A graduate seminar discussing Jacques Rancière's dissensus and a survey of contemporary artists whose practices are within the social sphere. Special attending is given to research-based art practices and the means past which these are broadcasted.

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I discuss, briefly, Hannah Arendt's reportage from the trial of Adolf Eichmann which served as th... more I discuss, briefly, Hannah Arendt'due south reportage from the trial of Adolf Eichmann which served as the basis of her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. The essence of what I wish to begin discussing with each of you lot is this: the subtitle of the Eichmann volume ("the banality of evil") continues to claiming each one of us, and the challenge each of the states faces in the wake of the Holocaust is to develop and perform Justice when the immoral laws we alive under make it criminal to be moral or merely.

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