Chaotic Forces Research Articles

A Whirling Tempest

Abstract In comparison to research on the Psalms, Isaiah, and other prophetic books, the mythic portrayal of YHWH’s combat of chaotic opposition has received little attention in the study of Jeremiah. By drawing up a holistic profile of Jeremiah’s Chaoskampf, my article demonstrates that this theme is more central to this prophetic book than the scholarly landscape might suggest. Divine mastery of various manifestations of chaos plays a key role in how the book presents YHWH’s work in creation (past), YHWH’s judgment on Israel (present), and YHWH’s defeat of Israel’s enemies and the people’s restoration (future). In conversation with myth and trauma theory, I will argue that the tension between YHWH’s unleashing and quenching of chaotic forces is rooted in the flexible character of the combat myth and that it contributes to the book’s efforts of explaining the crisis of 587 BCE.

Unveiling the Nanoscale Dynamics of the Exocytic Machinery in Chromaffin Cells with Single-Molecule Imaging.

Neuronal and hormonal communication relies on the exocytic fusion of vesicles containing neurotransmitters and hormones with the plasma membrane. This process is tightly regulated by key protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions and culminates in the soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) complex formation and zippering that promotes vesicular fusion. Located on both sides of the vesicle and the plasma membrane, the zippering of the SNARE complex acts to overcome the energy barrier afforded by the repulsive electrostatic force stemming from apposing two negatively charged phospholipid membranes. Another component opposing the timely organization of the fusion machinery is thermal Brownian energy that tends to homogenize all cellular molecules by constantly switching their motions and directions through short-lived molecular interactions. Much less is known of the mechanisms counteracting these chaotic forces, allowing seamless cellular functions such as exocytic fusion. Super-resolution microscopy techniques such as single-molecule imaging have proven useful to start uncovering these nanoscale mechanisms. Here, we used single-particle tracking photoactivatable localization microscopy (sptPALM) to track syntaxin-1-mEos, a SNARE protein located on the plasma membrane of cultured bovine chromaffin cells. We demonstrate that syntaxin-1-mEos undergoes dramatic change in its mobility in response to secretagogue stimulation leading to increased nanoclustering. These nanoclusters are transient in nature and likely to provide docked vesicles with a molecular environment conducive to exocytic fusion.

Jeffery M. Leonard. Creation Rediscovered: Finding New Meaning in an Ancient Story

Jeffery M. Leonard. <i>Creation Rediscovered: Finding New Meaning in an Ancient Story</i>

The Confluence of Mystic and Animalistic Constituents Problematizes Human Consciousness: A Study of Ted Hughes’s Selected Poems

The study expounded upon “The Confluence of Mystic and Animalistic Constituents Problematizes Human Consciousness: A Study of Ted Hughes’s Selected Poems”. The impacts of the chaotic forces of the universe, lack of equilibrium between man’s material and mystic self, post-traumatic stress of World war I &amp; II, dispersion of emotions, the dilemma of fear, doubt and uncertainty on the construct of individual’s socio psychic existence are the pivotal focus of this research. It explored those hurdles that obstacle the elevation of man’s actual self regardless of his multiple performative identities. This paper probed into the perpetuity of the contention between positive and negative energies of the World, necessary for the pacification of the wild instinctive self of man, and the quest for a singular identity were the core features that fabricate human consciousness. It was qualitative research undertaking psychoanalytical reading of Hughes’s poetry. Freudian theory of psychoanalysis, Jungian theory of individuation, Lacan’s concept of Lack, Gaze, Desire, and Mirror stage were the key concepts to explore the modern man’s socio psychic maladaptive attitude. The study may have further implications on the researchers studying advanced psychological and sociological theories related to the ruptured consciousness of the human mind in this dynamic World.

The recalibration of our relationships with science (and nature) by natural hazard risk mitigation practitioners

Unrealistic expectations in society about science reducing and even eliminating the risk of natural hazards contrasts with the chaotic forces of these events, but such expectations persist nonetheless. Risk mitigation practitioners must grapple with them, including in the cycles of blame and inquiry that follow natural hazard events. We present a synthesis of such practitioner experiences from three consequential bushfire and flood risk landscapes in Australia in which science was being used to change policy and/or practice. We show how they chose to work with, counter and recalibrate unrealistic expectations of science, as well as embrace socionatural complexity and a consequential nature. The mismatch between the challenges faced by the sector and the unrealistic expectations of science, generated more stressful work conditions, less effective risk mitigation, and less effective use of research monies. In response, we argue for structural and procedural change to address legacy pathways that automatically privilege science, especially in relation to nature, with broader relevance for other environmental issues. This is not to dismiss or debase science, but to better understand its use and utility, including how facts and values relate.

Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Witnessing Urban Placemaking from the Immanence of “the Middle”

This paper offers a critical analysis of how urban placemaking as a top-down or bottom-up action, involving organizational intervention or facilitation, is typified by problematic angles of approach. Instead, we evidence a flat ontological perspective, entering into urban assemblages to feel the chaotic and ever-changing forces that make places. Specifically, we use the Deleuzoguattarian lens of the refrain to employ a transversal analysis of the placemaking inherent within an urban event—the Manchester and Salford Whit Walks, a Church of England procession that has been iterated for over 200 years. This reveals the importance of always-becoming place, characterized by ongoing repetition with difference, and embodied in the notion of Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . . Sometimes. . .. We conclude that urban placemaking is not something that can be simply started through organizational intervention, or facilitation of community-led approaches, but a process that needs to be engaged with from the middle.

Aesthetic Post-Phenomenological Inquiry: A Compositional Approach to the Invention of Worlds

In this article, I think retrospectively with art and passages of writing produced in connection to a study on aesthetic activity and urban nature with two classes of fifth graders attending school in a city of the American Midwest. For this, I take on the art philosophy of Deleuze, Deleuze and Guattari and Deleuzian scholars to discuss how aesthetics and processes of art-making can inform empirical gestures based on distance from and invention of worlds. Art extracts sensations from chaotic forces that function in excess, variation, and proliferation, offering valuable practices to attune toward the affectivity of post-phenomenological life worlds.

Stochastic differential equations driven by deterministic chaotic maps: analytic solutions of the Perron–Frobenius equation

We consider discrete-time dynamical systems with a linear relaxation dynamics that are driven by deterministic chaotic forces. By perturbative expansion in a small time scale parameter, we derive from the Perron–Frobenius equation the corrections to ordinary Fokker–Planck equations in leading order of the time scale separation parameter. We present analytic solutions to the equations for the example of driving forces generated by Nth order Chebychev maps. The leading order corrections are universal for but different for N = 2 and N = 3. We also study diffusively coupled Chebychev maps as driving forces, where strong correlations may prevent convergence to Gaussian limit behavior.

Violences de la nature par Gérard Gouesbet

Gouesbet, Gérard. Violences de la nature. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2016. ISBN 978-2-34308982 -9. Pp. 324. 33 a. This is the first major work of philosophy written by Gouesbet, a physicist. It is the first installment of a tetralogy that examines the “victoires de la violence” and the “défaite des doux”from a scientific and objective lens (9). This interdisciplinary essay blends modern science, philosophy, literature, and theology in order to understand the complex and paradoxical nature of the many forms of violence that occur throughout the universe. Although Gouesbet received most of his formal academic training in the hard sciences, he demonstrates a formidable grasp of both ancient and contemporary philosophy from many different traditions. Moreover, the author possesses a veritable plethora of knowledge about Eastern and Western forms of spirituality. Gouesbet’s main premise in this philosophical treatise inspired by scientific erudition is that the roots of aggression are cosmic in nature. Building upon the theories of the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles and placing them into the context of the inner workings of the biosphere, the author posits that the opposing ecological forces of “love” and “strife” ground our very being. In simple terms, “l’Amour et la Haine” are the basic building blocks that are emblematic of life in all of its divergent forms (28). In an interconnected and interdependent cosmos in which every sentient and non-sentient entity has the same ontological essence from an empirical standpoint , Gouesbet maintains that our evolutionary penchant for destructive, violent behavior is inextricably linked to the indiscriminate, turbulent, chaotic forces that spawned all life on this planet and that still lurk beneath the surface. Gouesbet reminds us that chaos still reigns supreme in a universe in which order is the temporary exception to the rule. Although other contemporary philosophers like Michel Serres cover similar ground, perhaps Gouesbet’s greatest contribution to ongoing discussions in the environmental humanities is his focus on the role of entropy and the repercussions of the second law of thermodynamics in general. All of our efforts to decrease this gradual decline of energy for ourselves come at the expense of increasing entropy for everything else around us. After pinpointing entropy as the “source principale et ‘fondamentale’ de la violence,” Gouesbet underscores the innate parasitic impulses that compel all living creatures to stave off the forces of death for as long as possible (153). Since entropy cannot be avoided in a closed system, Gouesbet describes the earth as a“royaume démoniaque pour d’autres succions et d’autres dévorations”(153). In the final lines of the essay, Gouesbet offers no facile optimism that there is a remedy for this cosmic aggression that renders our continued existence in this ontological shape possible. However, Gouesbet’s theories represent an important part of the environmental conversation in the wake of the anthropogenic ecological crisis. Violences de la nature is an accessible, thought-provoking, provocative essay predicated 256 FRENCH REVIEW 90.4 Reviews 257 upon the basic tenets of modern science that illustrates the urgency of rethinking the nature of violence and our attempts to minimize it. Mississippi State University Keith Moser Hanneken, Jaime. Imagining the Postcolonial: Discipline, Poetics, Practice in Latin American and Francophone Discourse. Albany: SUNY, 2015. ISBN 978-1-43845621 -8. Pp. 220. $85. Hanneken’s book is an ambitious foray into the comparative analysis of Latin American and Francophone postcoloniality. Affirming that postcolonial studies are not “dead” and examining both senses of postcoloniality’s identity, Hanneken treats “themes and problematics of postcolonial identity in cultural and literary expression but also with disciplinarity’s stakes in that identity,” which he claims “are determined by the institutional and geopolitical places that house Latin Americanism and Francophone Studies as much as by the residual proprieties of postcolonialism as a metropolitan, Anglophone, and twentieth-century construct” (1–2). Hanneken proposes theories with a wide base of connotations. The strength behind his theoretical point of view lies in his thorough and comparative exploration of the readings of José Lezama Lima and Édouard Glissant’s poetics of place, combined with his detailed examination of the symbolic value of Paris in modernista writing and in Congolese Société des...

‘Those Chosen by the Planet’: Final Fantasy VII and Earth Jurisprudence

This article allies the 1997 PlayStation video game Final Fantasy VII with Slavoj Žižek’s writings on ecology to critique the area of legal philosophy known as ‘earth jurisprudence’. Earth jurisprudents argue that law bears a large part of the responsibility for humanity’s exploitation of the environment, as law helps to bar nature from subjectivity. However, as Žižek warns—and as FFVII illustrates—the desire for meaning incites people to manufacture a harmonious vision of nature that obscures the chaotic forces at work in the environment and ultimately absolves humanity of responsibility towards the world. Therefore, earth jurisprudence’s program of using legal rights to limit human intervention should be rejected in favour of an approach that enables people to take an active role in addressing the ecological crisis.

Black hole capitalism

The planetary urbanization of capital entails the collapse of all traditional morphological distinctions into a seething morass of implosion–explosion that recalls the creative–destructive fury of a black hole. As an invisible presence–absence only identifiable by its spatiotemporal effects, the black hole resembles both the Lacanian Real and Marx’s value-theoretical understanding of capital. Utopian fantasies of postmodern hyperspace and rational spatial order function to fill in the void of the Real of Capital, but are ultimately undermined by the chaotic forces that they conceal. At the event horizon of black hole capitalism, where the crushing agglomeration of capital threatens to obliterate all social life, the seemingly impossible construction of Real utopias becomes an urgent necessity. The dynamics of this process are illustrated by the case of the Manta–Manaus multimodal transport corridor, which reveals the possibilities, limitations and antagonisms of utopian urban projects under conditions of black hole capitalism.

Balance in the Turbulent World of Economy

The stock market balance can be presented as a result of mutual effect of the supply and demand on the market. This creates high-frequency dynamics of prices for shares, what in turn leads to the appearance of the threedimensional rotary trajectories of the market. The 3-D space is a Cartesian product: prices, volumes, and time. In this space whirling vectors form rotary-spiral trajectories and, they in turn, determine in the appropriate time periods side surfaces of solids of revolution, which rotate as well. Perpendicular projections of rotary trajectories on planes with standing out time axis cause that economic rotary phenomena are depicted on the mentioned planes by means of flat zigzags. Double rotating of economic vectors resembles precession movement. This is the precession movement which guarantees oscillating-rotating vectors around the hypothetical line of economic balance. Economic vectors are always set in rotary motion mainly by stimulating the vectors of demand and supply. Dynamically changing volumes of the mentioned forces cause that permanent state of economic balance practically do not exist in market reality. In the modified by the authors cobwebbed model states of fragile balance are explained by means of precession and accompanying it nutation. The rotary movement occurs universally in our world. The effects of vortexes from the world of nature are extremely quickly reflected in changing in chaotic way forces of demand and supply which in turn are the main generators of economic vortexes. Then the relationship is unambiguous and can be expressed by a short general statement claiming that vortexes generate vortexes regardless of the environment in which they occur. The resemblance between the rotary trajectories observed in hydrodynamics and the stock market rotary-spiral trajectory was the inspiration of the work for creating the econophysical analogue of the so-called stock market Reynolds number (Re). The academic community has long sought a description of the phenomenon of turbulence in financial markets, and this article is an attempt to face this challenge. The original idea behind developing an economic equivalent of the Reynolds number was that market vectors of volumes, prices and time components can be treated as particles of a stream of liquid flowing through a pipe of a given cross-section. The Reynolds number, defined in this way, can be applied in research into the dynamics of stock exchange indices and, in particular, for the development of short-term warning forecasts. Additionally, it can be treated as a coefficient confirming (or rejecting) long-term stock market predictions.

The Order Machine – The Ontology of Information Security

Traditionally, information security has been approached in terms of how to achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. In this paper, we seek to ontologically examine information security by using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophical concepts of machine, coupling, interruption, and territory. Through these concepts, we conceptualize information security as an order-seeking, connection-based, territorial security machine that attempts to subject and harness other actors – from technical devices and physical barriers to employees and various combinations of these actors – to carry out the security machine’s protective tasks. The goal of the security machine is to block or interrupt the chaotic forces of the outside and, thus, to maintain the fragile order of information. However, the process of interrupting the outside requires interruption of the inside as well: users and organizations are interrupted daily by the security machine and its practices. Yet this aspect of information security has remained largely unexamined. We argue that the question of what information security does to its subjects – what its effects are – in the protected system should be examined more thoroughly.

Between the Garden and the Bazaar: The Visions, Spaces and Structures of Colonial Towns in Nineteenth-Century Provincial Bengal

This article looks at the conception and experience of provincial urbanism in colonial Bengal during the nineteenth century. The specific sites of enquiry are ‘civil stations’, colonial administrative towns that were initially established as agricultural revenue collection centres but that later grew to be key nodal points in late nineteenth-century imperial governance in India. Tracing the development of the towns in terms of their site selection and the carefully-mediated relationship between natural and built environments, the article reveals how the pursuit of a ‘picturesque’, idyllic and green urbanism was continuously subverted by apparently chaotic forces and spaces on which, ironically, the very functioning of the towns was dependent.

Motion of vortices outside a cylinder

The problem of motion of the vortices around an oscillating cylinder in the presence of a uniform flow is considered. The Hamiltonian for vortex motion for the case with no uniform flow and stationary cylinder is constructed, reduced, and constant Hamiltonian (energy) curves are plotted when the system is shown to be integrable according to Liouville. By adding uniform flow to the system and by allowing the cylinder to vibrate, we model the natural vibration of the cylinder in the flow field, which has applications in ocean engineering involving tethers or pipelines in a flow field. We conclude that in the chaotic case forces on the cylinder may be considerably larger than those on the integrable case depending on the initial positions of vortices and that complex phenomena such as chaotic capture and escape occur when the initial positions lie in a certain region.

Interaction of a self vibrating beam with chaotic external forces

Abstract Measuring the complexity of physical systems has been traditionally a problem in numerous engineering applications. Lin [Entropy 10 (1) (2008) 1–5] showed that the structural complexity is related to other properties of a solid such as symmetry and its stability over time. In Ratsaby [Entropy 10 (1) (2008) 6–14] a model was introduced which defines the complexity of a solid structure not by a qualitative notion of entropy but by an algorithmic notion of description complexity. According to the model, a dynamic structure in a random surrounding acts as an interfering entity that deforms randomness. In the current Note we report on the results of an empirical study that analyzes the output response of a simulated elastic beam subjected to a field of external random forces input. The relationship between the complexity of the system and the stochasticity of the output is shown to support this model and is a first indication that solids act similar to algorithmic selection rules.

Frontier Androgyny: An Archetypal Female Hero in The Adventures of Daniel Boone

Influential American studies scholars of the mid-twentieth century, such as R. W. B. Lewis, Henry Nash Smith, and Leslie A. Fiedler, focussed attention on a mythic American character, the frontiersman who penetrates the wilderness. These critics provided analyses of figures such as Daniel Boone and his fictional counterpart, Natty Bumppo, and discussed the power the romanticized western frontier had over the American imagination. Their observations were accurate, as far as they went. However, these critics did not acknowledge the many narratives in which a female character conquers the frontier. The assumption seemed to be that the literary female figure belonged in the parlor with her sewing basket and not in the forest with her weapon. Unfortunately, this incomplete assessment of the frontier adventure genre is still in evidence today. In this essay, I work towards the development of a more complete understanding of the American frontier story and point out that, even in the iconic John Filson/John Trumbull Boone tale, we find a mini-narrative involving a female hero who triumphs over the “savage” forces of the wilderness. This female figure became a cultural archetype, and similar versions of her story were repeated in countless captivity and western adventure anthologies, almanacs, and the like for the next seventy years. The popularity of this frontier narrative featuring a strong, violent female figure suggests that readers were accepting of the idea of an active, aggressive woman, at least while she was contending with chaotic forces in the wilderness. The popularity of this kind of narrative also undercuts the traditional gender paradigm (the nurturing passive female versus the active aggressive male) too often imposed by scholars on antebellum American letters and culture.

The Education of Henry Adams ou la chronique du chaos

The Education of Henry Adams unsettles the assumptions of scientific historicism by registering the irruption of chaotic forces. And yet a sense of historical continuity is restored by yoking together medieval faith with present-day technology.

Beeldspraak over oorlog en schepping, geweld en geweldloosheid in de Openbaring van Johannes

Images of war and creation, violence and non-violence in the Revelation of John &#x0D; &#x0D; Much of the violent imagery of Revelation can be seen as inspired by the image of God as the Divine Warrior who will overcome the chaotic forces threatening creation and who will bring creation to its fulfillment. This violence is reserved for God and the exalted Jesus although the prophetic ministry of churches shares to some extent in this divine power and even in its violence (11:5-6). However, human victory is won through worship of God instead of worship of Satan and the Beast, and through prophetic witness unto death in order to bring the inhabitants of the world to repentance and so to overcome sin that destroys creation. This human victory is made possible by the “blood of Jesus” and requires that his followers persevere in the works of Jesus to the end (2:26) in order to share in the new creation of which Jesus is God’s agent from the beginning (3:14).

Chaotic markets: thriving in a world of unpredictability

Drawing from decades of research, teaching, and consulting in the fields of marketing and strategy, the author demystifies the forces of market chaos, including technological change, globalization, and consumer behavior, showing readers how to identify those forces that can be turned to their competitive advantage. Featuring dozens of illustrative examples, of both winners and losers, and concluding each chapter with a series of questions designed to help readers apply the book's principles in their own organizations, Samli demonstrates how to detect changes in market conditions early, uncover latent customer needs, create new products and services, and maintain a competitive edge. There is no doubt that the business environment has become increasingly unpredictable. Yesterday's market leaders become tomorrow's has-beens; upstarts take on established giants; customers flock to new technologies while demanding old-fashioned customer service; and, of course, the Internet and the forces of globalization are accelerating the pace of change. Learning how to survive-and thrive-in this environment is of utmost importance for any company that intends to stick around. Drawing from decades of research, teaching, and consulting in the fields of marketing and strategy, the author demystifies these chaotic forces, identifying the pressures on business that create uncertainty, but also the potential for innovation for those who recognize opportunities to strengthen their competitive position. Featuring dozens of illustrative examples of both winners and losers, Samli shows readers how to turn market chaos and uncertainty to their advantage. Concluding each chapter with a series of questions designed to help readers apply the book's principles in their own organizations, Samli demonstrates how to detect changes in market conditions early, uncover latent customer needs, create new products and services, and maintain a competitive edge.