PLATO, XENOPHON, AND SOCRATES’ INNER CIRCLE

The main purpose of this study was to compare reported intimate relationship of the southern Taiwan college students in cyberspace vs. in face-to-face relationships in everyday contexts (＂realspace＂). Research was rely mainly on the college students of the southern areas in Taiwan, in order to establish qualification its via cyberspace intimate relationship or realspace two kinds of population that border associate analyses face-to-face. Putting up the exploitation in the school sampling, the person who accords with qualification of the invitation enters webp ages to fill out and answer, have 462 effective questionnaire cyberspace have 152 altogether, realspace there are 310, there are 158 men, there are 304 women, interviewee's mean age is 20.26 years old. It is a cyberspace questionnaire to study the tool, including personal basic data, intimate relationship scale. Study the data and count suit software and carry on filing and analysis by 11.5 editions of SPSS for Windows. This result of study is found: 1.To fill out and answer the age cyberspace situation is younger than realspace situation. 2.The situation of cyberspace of time of associating is shorter than realspace situation. 3.The high one is rather than realspace in the situation of cyberspace that the characters / symbol vibration. And there is the one that shows the difference intimately in the characters / symbol vibration spirit on intimate terms that the characters / symbol vibration the intimate relationship of the cyberspace.4.The social activity that in the intimate relation on intimate terms is that cyberspace is higher than the realspace. 5.There is difference of showing intimately in the cyberspace / realspace in the emotion spirit on intimate terms in the intimate relation, cyberspace is lower than realspace.

Samuel Beckett is not often thought of as a love poet, but much of his early poetry explores such personal relationships in intimate terms. In Shakespeare’s most poignant plays, love is almost always lost (except for his most formulaic comedies), as it is in Beckett’s poetry, despite one’s labors. This essay explores that thread of love in Beckett’s poetry, and, more importantly, its return in his late media experiments as a series of hauntings, a preoccupation that Derrida would call hauntology. The principal fi gures of Krapp’s Last Tape, “Ohio Impromptu”, “...but the clouds...”, “Ghost Trio”, and “Eh, Joe” remain haunted by failed love as they replay, time and again, the separation and its ghostly aftermath after one of the partners either dies or leaves to pursue what at the time was deemed a higher goal, art, of one form or another. This treatment of Beckett’s writings on love was originally delivered as a keynote address, “Beckett’s Love’s Labor’s Lost”, for the University of Gdańsk Samuel Beckett Seminar, “Beckett’s Faces”, and for the BETWEEN.POMIĘDZY 2018 Festival and Literary Conference as something of a backstory to the laboratory fi lm made during and sponsored by that conference and called Beckett on the Baltic: Love’s Labor’s Lost. Its world premiere was held at the BETWEEN.POMIĘDZY 2019 Festival and Literary Conference.

Men Are Also Victims of Intimate Partner Violence

In this article I conceptualise BDSM (Bondage, Domination and Submission, Discipline, Sadism and Masochism) practices within the frame of contemporary intimacies. This article draws from an empirical research in Milan, involving qualitative interviews and participant observations. Initially, I present a definition of BDSM drawn from contemporary sociological and anthropological literature. Then, I focus on the literature on intimacy, the public/private divide, the marketization of intimacy, and kinship and queer studies of the last decades, to frame BDSM practices among contemporary forms of intimacy. These include practices and identities beyond the heterosexual monogamous couple, such as non-heterosexual or reconstituted families, polyamorous or bareback practitioners, singles, and others; and move outside of the primacy of the sexual realm, by shifting the attention from the supremacy of the sexual sphere and the sexual intercourse. Intimacy is here primarily intended as access to the Other; to its inner and most secret parts. In order to widen our perspectives on intimacy, I provide examples from my empirical research of how practitioners intend and conceptualise BDSM as intimacy both as a risky and unsafe activity when dealing with violation of consent, and in a positive and constructive way as a qualitatively different and rich relationship with their play partners.

The period 1080-1180 is recognized as one of dynamic social and cultural change in Western Europe. This thesis explores the appropriate negotiation of relationships between men and women, particularly those living under a religious vocation, as part of a wider discourse aimed at reforming and renewing contemporary society, both lay and religious. Utilizing a cultural historical approach this thesis examines a variety of experimental approaches men and women took during this period to renegotiate male/female relationships. It argues that women played a vital role, under-recognized in previous scholarship, in the development of intimate relationships between the sexes that combined spiritual and personal intimacy. In developing these experimental approaches these women, and their male partners, friends and lovers, drew on a range of existing traditional models of intimacy. The writings of Cicero provided a guide to virtuous friendship. Ovid’s writings provided a model for love. A long-standing Christian tradition, based on the letters of Jerome, advocated close spiritual relationships between male clerics and their pious female devotees. These traditions were explored and entwined creating novel approaches to intimacy between men and women that preserved close, personal connections within a wider framework of appropriate social interaction between the sexes. It considers six examples of intimate relationships between women and men. Anselm of Canterbury has long been recognized as an innovator in articulating close friendship between men. However, he also engaged in close relationships with women, notably Ida of Boulogne and Queen Matilda of England (wife of Henry I). The monk Goscelin of St Bertin wrote a book of consolation for the recluse, Eve of Wilton, aimed at reaffirming their intimacy after a separation. A third chapter considers how Robert of Arbrissel experimented with intimacy by advocating religious men and women live together, a vision he realized in the foundation of the abbey of Fontevraud. Baudri of Bourgueil exchanged intimate poems with the women of the abbey of Le Ronceray in Angers. In these he attempted to combine Ovidian allusion with the traditional Christian practice of spiritual friendship. The authors of the Epistolae Duorum Amantium successfully created a synthesis that reconciled virtuous friendship with personal passion. Finally, the authors of the Tegernseer Liebesbriefe attempted a similar synthesis, extending its remit from their own personal relationships to a courtly setting beyond. Women’s voices from the period are not preserved to the same extent as men’s. This has led to much debate among scholars concerning the authenticity of the voices that do survive. In arguing that women played a vital role in developing novel models of intimate relationships between the sexes this thesis argues that these voices should be considered as authentic. A cultural historical approach combining social and literary history allows for the consideration of both women’s direct and indirect voices from the period, helping to contextualize the documents that do survive and the women who produced them. Women matter in these discourses and their contribution to understandings of intimate gender relations influenced their male partners and contemporary attitudes to relationships between the sexes.

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In contemporary Taiwan, advertisements for zhengxinshe, de facto private investigation businesses, saturate the public sphere, and can be found on the sides of buses, in popular magazines, and elsewhere. The myriad services that they claim to offer include the collection of evidence of extramarital affairs, legal advice, and even the curious “emotional repair.” The print media offers us a multitude of salacious private investigator stories—of detectives and their angry clients storming into “love hotels” to “apprehend adulterers” in the act, of suspicious husbands and wives installing GPS tracking devices on the undercarriage of their spouses’ cars, of zhengxinshe and their clients facing criminal charges after engaging in clandestine audio and video recording, and even of “malevolent” zhengxinshe extorting money from those they investigate behind their clients’ backs. The intervening of zhengxinshe in people’s intimate disputes constitutes a rich and dynamic socio-legal phenomenon, the investigation of which promises to further our understanding of the relationship between intimacy, legal knowledge production, and power in contemporary Taiwan. To present, however, extramarital affair investigations and other such activities of zhengxinshe have not been the subject of in-depth Taiwanese or foreign legal or sociological research. Previous work on zhengxinshe comes out of the Central Police University, and tends to focus on the rule of law and a normative discussion of the proper public-private division of investigative authority. This research lacks gendered analysis, and does not examine the phenomenon of zhengxinshe through the lens of intimate disputes. This thesis, by contrast, focuses on the social visibility of zhengxinshe as affair detectives and the legal and sociological aspects of zhengxinshe intervening in specific intimate disputes, and furthermore attempts to illuminate a particular dialectical relationship between these. The thesis comprises three parts. First, it seeks to analyze how current law shapes intimate disputes. It reviews previous research relating to divorce law and criminal adultery, and drawing on sociology of law research, seeks to conceptualize how the normative environment related to extramarital intimacy influence people’s behavior in the judicial system as well as in out-of-court bargaining. Secondly, the public visibility of zhengxinshe is infused with illegality and criminality, but the industry has been able to successfully create for itself a positive and even feminized image. Moreover, while zhengxinshe are synonymous with extramarital affair investigations, the letter of the law has long confined the activity of zhengxinshe to “economic investigations.” This phenomenon is the product of a particular historical context. This thesis will investigate the inception of this contradictory social visibility as well as its relationship with intimate disputing behavior. Finally, utilizing judicial documents, the thesis analyzes three specific intimate disputes as case studies, and reveals how the evidence collected by zhengxinshe influences the behavior and disputing outcomes of both these businesses’ clients and those whom they investigate. Thus, it is suggested that the zhengxinshe phenomenon is not merely the result of the freewheeling behavior of an unregulated industry, but rather the complex product of laws related to intimacy, the behavior of disputants, various state actors, and the selective interpretation of the professional judiciary.

In the previous chapter, I argued that a personal life framework — rather than a narrow focus on children’s family relationships or friendships — enables researchers to explore the wide range of relationships that potentially matter to children. This includes parents, sibling relationships (of all kinds), wider kin including grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, ‘like-kin’ relations (a term often used to refer to parents’ and children’s closest friends), and children’s friendships. A sociology of personal life offers a range of conceptual tools for analysing how relationships are lived and imagined, and whilst there are some methodological tools for investigating these dimensions of personal life, there are few texts that bring together methodological discussions about researching families and personal relationships (see Jamieson et al., 2011).

This arts-based research project responds to the denial of Indigenous sovereignty and ongoing processes of colonisation in Australia from a white non-Indigenous perspective. The intimate relationship between colonisation and landscape painting is highlighted through identifying a thread of uncertainty, disquiet, doubt, and discomfort in Australian landscape painting history. This establishes a legacy of white non-Indigenous responsiveness to colonisation within which to contextualise my own visual responses. The cited examples in this legacy routinely distance and depersonalise colonisation in spatial, temporal, and corporeal ways, which omits from consideration the fact that colonisation is an everyday process perpetrated by everyday people living their everyday lives. Analysis of the whiteness studies and white anti-racism discourses laid foundations for my understanding of some of the dilemmas associated with centering ‘the personal’ in my visual responses to colonisation. Subsequently, utilisng writings by Clare Land and Donna Haraway, I position whiteness as a detail of my specific subjective, locational, and historical situatedness that actually compels, constrains, shapes, informs, binds and limits the nature of my own responses to colonisation. I contend that a personal white non-Indigenous response to colonisation has the capacity to address how colonisation facilitated my existence on stolen Indigenous lands, how colonisation manifests in the shape and appearance of my personal surroundings, and how I sustain colonisation while living my everyday life. Works by contemporary white non-Indigenous artists Mark Shorter, Joan Ross, and Helen Johnson are analysed to reveal what might be described as common strategies for a critical responsiveness to colonisation. Namely: ‘critical ambiguity’, collage methods, humour and attendance to issues of subjectivity. However, while issues of subjectivity are raised by all three artists, the personal and everyday nature of colonisation is obscured in various ways, which continues the depersonalization of colonisation identified in Australian landscape painting history. The visual outcomes of this research utilise digital collage, painting, and focus on my own life. That is, they derive from a personal photographic archive of ‘details’ relating to colonisation as it is evident in my own backyard, habits, and possessions. Both the process of gathering this archive and the process of making collage-paintings from it, can be understood in relation to Haraway’s terms of ‘staying with the trouble’. That is: I have chosen the awkwardness of intensely inhabiting and documenting the specificities of my own body, time, and place in order to respond. The collage-paintings that are the outcomes of this research, locate and visualise everyday manifestations of colonisation in order to acknowledge that colonisation is an everyday process perpetrated by everyday people living their everyday lives. These works are visual manifestations of my personal situatedness in relation to, or rather my white non-Indigenous relationship with, colonisation. This research, both written and visual, does not claim to resolve tensions, answer questions, offer solutions, or ameliorate disputes. Nor does it exist in the interests of overcoming Australia’s colonial past and present. Rather it might be apprehended in terms of ‘living with’ this colonial past and present in material and symbolic terms.

This artistic inquiry contributes to the field of performed and acousmatic electronic music by nuancing the relationship between musician and instrument as going beyond control into intimacy, immersion and shifting identities. The main streams of inquiry have been to explore conceptualisations of corporeality in electronic music and how such music can be created in relatedness with the gestural body. I have contextualised the inquiry with corporeality as movement (Sheets-Johnstone) and with the feedback works of Eliane Radigue. I have created a gestural feedback instrument, which has allowed me to explore the movements of the body and of electronic music in performance and composition and to explore the relatedness between musician and instrument. This instrument is explored practically and conceptually with the goal of reaching beyond technological descriptions and the concept control. Through my practice I have explored concepts such as touch (Peters and Parviainen), living individuals (Rodgers), behaviour (Smalley and Keep) and contemporary animism (Bird-David and Viveiros de Castro) in composed and performed music. The music and the performances have been analysed and the findings fed back into the research process. The inquiry is documented in video recordings, technical documentation and process notes. Symbolised by the concept the corporeosonic composer, I have outlined a nuanced form of relatedness between musician and instrument based on intimacy (Bennett) rather than control, and with an attitude in which movement is primary and sounds are seen as living, perhaps spiritual, agencies. Sounds thus leave the ontological status of objects to instead become subjects and dividual persons (Strathern). The relatedness between these sounding subjects and the musician has been conceptualised as corporeosonic states of relatedness, as different forms of literal and apparent touch (Peters), and as shifting identities within a context of contemporary animism (Willerslev and Hedeager).

In the usual reliability analysis, researchers often acquire the reliability information about a product by reliability tests and usually regard the product as a whole object to study. Also, the relationships between the attributes of the product are usually ignored. Base on the non-IIDness learning, the attributes of objects are more or less interacted and coupled. Thus, this paper analyzes the coupled relationships between each pair of product attributes and the coupled relationships between each product attribute and reliability lifetime of the product. Specifically, the attributes we analyzed are continuous. The level of interplay between each pair of attributes and between each attribute and product lifetime can be observed by coupled correlation matrices. Keywords-reliability; non-IIDness learning; coupled relationship

The review discusses the book by Edyta Sołtys-Lewandowska O "ocalającej nieporządek rzeczy" polskiej poezji metafizycznej i religijnej drugiej połowy XX wieku i początków XXI wieku, which is aimed at describing contemporary Polish poetry in terms of its religious/metaphysical quests. Sołtys-Lewandowska distinguishes two types of poetry, namely, religious and metaphysical. The first type refers to the poems which depict a personal relationship with God; the second implies a premonition of an outer reality which transcends the limits of human cognition. Sołtys-Lewandowska interprets a variety of poems. She analyzes what she calls the "sacralization" and the "desacralization" effects, describes the figures of God (especially the figure of Father and Lord) and argues that contemporary Polish poetry may be interpreted as an expression of a “return of religion”. The reviewer appreciates the original idea of the book but criticizes the too broad scope of the project which results in very general conclusions. He also disagrees with some typological concepts which don’t seem to be really consistent and helpful.

ResumenA la luz del reciente documento de la Comisión Teológica Internacional, el autor desarrolla en este artículo algunas breves observaciones sobre la teología de la imagen de Dios (imago Dei) y su íntima relación con la ley natural.En este sentido, expone el itinerario de dicha relación indicando algunos aspectos históricos más significativos: desde el pensamiento patrístico, pasando por la gran escolástica medieval, hasta alcanzar la teología y el magisterio contemporáneos, en los que esa doctrina fundamental está pasando a ocupar de nuevo el lugar relevante que le corresponde.

El presente texto busca relacionar la noción de intimidad en las dinámicas del capitalismo contemporáneo con las formas ficcionales que sostienen las dinámicas culturales de nuestros tiempos. Desde las reflexiones de Marx sobre la mercancía y su fetichismo, se pretende indagar en las formas actuales de la vida y su exhibición en el capitalismo. La producción cultural de la intimidad es presentada como una directriz que busca olvidar las condiciones políticas de la existencia del sujeto produciendo mecanismos que regulan la actividad de los sujetos a partir del control sobre sus cuerpos, sus conductas y sus relaciones sociales. Estas condiciones precisan un control de los cuerpos y su normalización que permiten estandarizar las formas en las que lo interior es mostrado como público. Ficción y fetichismo construyen el eje por el cual se analizan algunas de las dinámicas de exposición por las cuales el capitalismo construye su eficaz control sobre el cuerpo y la vida subjetiva.

In this study, I use critical discourse analysis to analyze how queer women are represented in 34 English-language children’s picture books distributed in contemporary U.S. markets. I consider how these books include and exclude particular types of queer women characters and incorporate or omit specific queer women experiences. I argue that, in children's picture books, many queer women identities are “othered” through the binary oppositions of (i) lesbianism and motherhood and (ii) lesbianism and being a woman of color. In addition, (invisible) lesbianism in these picture books is still presented as an “issue.” The binary opposition of lesbianism and motherhood is created by making lesbianism invisible in children’s picture books by emphasizing mothering through the prominence of caregiving activities, limiting queer physical intimacy, limiting queer verbal intimacy, utilizing naming practices based on motherhood labels, and directing homophobia disproportionately at queer characters without children. The binary opposition of lesbianism and being a WOC is created by primarily featuring white queer characters. (Invisible) Lesbianism is still presented as an issue by the representation of two-mom families/queer relationships as “incomplete,” “unnatural,” “special,” “just the same as non-queer families and relationships,” and homonormativity. Informed by these results, I offer (i) a toolkit to evaluate the representation of queer women characters in picture books and (ii) a creative response to the queer women representation gaps in children’s literature.