Non-human Aspects Research Articles

Without Latency

This paper discusses a three-year radio project Cathode Immersions, which was aired on 2SER in Sydney Australia. The audio that accompanied free-to-air television was remixed and rebroadcast in real time without latency. It explores the human and non-human aspects of the convergence of these two media, introducing ideas of xenocasting and media adjacency. The weekly xenocast of Cathode Immersions afforded unique translations of cultural narratives, from commentary on the Gulf War to machinic perspectives on the desires that surround commercial broadcasting.

Fantasy and Belief: Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives and Digital Cultures (Danielle Kirby)

<i>Fantasy and Belief: Alternative Religions, Popular Narratives and Digital Cultures</i> (Danielle Kirby)

ASTROLOGI SEBAGAI ILMU BANTU EPIGRAFI: SEBUAH PEMIKIRAN

Of the thousands of inscriptions, both stones and metals, there is only small number known as dated. Other parts are damaged, worn, or missing for various reasons. Generally, inscription contains elements of the date, month, and year in the Saka dates. With a particular method, Saka dates can be converted to AD dates. Even through the knowledge of astronomy, the element of hours can be interpreted. These four elements, namely the date, month, year, and hour are absolutely necessary in the analysis of astrology. Originally astrology is used to predict human life. However, with the development of science, it can also predict the non-human aspects, such as the important events in the history of the world. Through incisive analysis, knowledge of astronomy and astrology is very useful for epigraphy, although the time was far behind. There are several types of astrology it is commonly known, the West Astrology or Greek Astrology and East Astrology of India and China. Actually, almost all major civilizations in the world knew astrology. But among the many traditions, currently only popular Western Astrology, Chinese Astrology, Indian Astrology. Since a few years ago the West began to introduce Archaeology Metaphysics, one of them through the analysis of astrology.

Small States Foreign Policy: The Case of Kosovo

Enormous changes have occurred in international system in the last twenty years. As a result, the number of Small States in international system has grown rapidly. These processes have had strong and noticeable impact in the foreign policy of all states, particularly in the foreign policy of small states. This paper examines Kosovo’s foreign policy behavior as an independent state. By conducting an in depth analysis in this case study, paper attempts to clarify which are the main dominant sources that influence more the Kosovo’s foreign policy behavior. Foreign policy of Kosovo as a small state was characterized by two main behaviors: tendency to secure multinational agreements and join multinational institutions and the tendency to rely on larger states, especially on USA, in order to ensure protection, partnership and resources. The main variables which have proved to have significant impact in Kosovo’s foreign policy behavior are systemic variables: a category which is based mainly in nonhuman aspects of a society’s external environment or in any kind of action occurring abroad and influencing the choices made by officials. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n2p287

Small States Foreign Policy: the Case of Kosovo

Enormous changes have occurred in international system in the last twenty years. As a result, the number of Small States in international system has grown rapidly. These processes have had strong and noticeable impact in the foreign policy of all states, particularly in the foreign policy of small states. This paper examines Kosovo's foreign policy behavior as an independent state. By conducting an in depth analysis in this case study, paper attempts to clarify which are the main dominant sources that influence more the Kosovo's foreign policy behavior. Foreign policy of Kosovo as a small state was characterized by two main behaviors: tendency to secure multinational agreements and join multinational institutions and the tendency to rely on larger states, especially on USA, in order to ensure protection, partnership and resources. The main variables which have proved to have significant impact in Kosovo's foreign policy behavior are systemic variables: a category which is based mainly in nonhuman aspects of a society's external environment or in any kind of action occurring abroad and influencing the choices made by officials.

The Open Book of the Humanities

THE OPEN BOOK OF THE HUMANITIES James J. Bono, Tim Dean, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek (eds), A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy, Fordham University Press, New York 2008; pp273, £21.95 paperback. What does the future hold for the humanities? Might there be a future that remains receptive to the intellectual practices of the humanities? Indeed, might there be a future at all that will still matter to those who identify themselves as humanists? The collection of essays brought together iriA Time for the Humanities prompts us to recognize that the question of the uncertain futures for the humanities is first of all a critical matter for the humanities themselves. As such, the question about the fate of the humanities and their critical legacies in the light of economic uncertainty, political scepticism, and their potential redundancy as a field and scholarly practice is a pressing one.1 Yet this is not just a question of ensuring that the right kind of future is secured, one within which the humanities are guaranteed the presence they might claim to deserve. And neither is it a matter for simply arguing for the irreplaceability of the humanities by producing the evidential goods for their purportedly indispensable role within a society's knowledge economies.2 It is rather a question of the field's autonomy versus its heteronomy - and it is this question that is opened out in A Time for the Humanities. At a time when the humanities are undergoing substantial changes it might be hard not to empathize with the hopeful humanist who wishes to stay abreast so as to adapt to unpredictable times to come. In other words, if the humanities are deemed to lose the outlines they were once entrusted with, and thus also their alleged autonomy within which the humanist could take shelter, then one might say that it is not unreasonable to invest in the future. (Is not 'investing in the future' at once capitalism's unrelenting premise and its consolation?) Still, the returns of this investment will be more than one could reason with. What the humanities may yield from the endowments of futurity derives its force abo from the nonhuman of time, thus bringing to the fore 'the constitutive tension between human and nonhuman aspects of and praxis' (p3). Or put differently, 'the orientation of any praxis towards the unforeseeable future' involves manifestations 'of the nonhuman agency of time' (p3). The standpoints adopted in A Time for the Humanities, particularly those emphasizing non-human agency, direct us towards a thinking as to how acts of practice in the humanities cannot be solely reduced to the building of an autonomous subject, but how the very potentiality sustaining such practice is 'based on the heteronomy rather than the autonomy of the subject' (p4). As the editors propose: 'Unlike related terms in contemporary theory - such as heterogeneity, otherness, or difference - the notion of heteronomy, in addition to maintaining the reference to differentiation and to the multiplicity of heterogeneous principles, more specifically links otherness to the questioning of subjective autonomy and as the principle of freedom' (p4). What follows, then, is that in order to realize the critical drives of the future, that is, to expose the humanities to futurity's 'ought to', entails the unveiling of the of time itself. What is more, such turning towards the future brings to the fore the broader entanglements of human praxis of doing and thinking with the non-human - of time, its demands and stakes, but also of the letter and its inscribing forces, of the topos of the unconscious and its drives, of the technology of writing and its apparatuses, of the humanities' edict and its evolving disciplinary accounting. Such premises as the technology of writing and its apparatuses are echoed in the book's topical structuring, which gathers the viewpoints of the twelve contributors around four thematic parts: 'The New and its Risks' (Paola Marrati, Andrew Benjamin, Martin Jay); 'Rhetoric and the Future of the Political' (Ernesto Laclau, Jean-Luc Nancy, Rey Chow); 'Heteronomy and Futurity in Psychoanalysis' (Rudi Visker, Tim Dean, Elizabeth Weed); 'Inventions' (Steve McCaffery, N. …

‘Child in Need’ Plans: Tools for Family Empowerment

Social work practice invariably means attention to both human and non-human aspects of the work. It is now widely argued that spending time on computers and bureaucratic requirements comes at the expense of direct work with families and children. But this is a simplistic dualism. This paper advocates a move beyond this dualism through three broad aims. First, this paper argues that social work has been rather slow at rendering non-human ‘things’ of interest to practice debates, and the literature is reported on to show how this has happened. Second, a theoretical model is presented in order to overcome this. Actor Network Theory is offered as a theoretical and practical method where ‘things’ in practice can be conceptualised as partners in the work. The third aim of the paper illustrates this method in action in one local authority setting through a brief anonymised practice illustration. ‘Child In Need’ plans are drawn on to show that for empowerment to be successful social work must draw on its non-human partners. A related aim is to add to the ‘child in need’ practice literature.

IMPLEMENTASI ADKAR APPROACH DALAM PENGELOLAAN LIFESKILLS DI PROVINSI DIY

Management of life skills education programs were intended to give benefits for target groups. Attainment of the benefits of the programs depended on how much participation was realized by the target groups. The present study was aimed at providing information as input for developing the quality of the program. The study was qualitative research involving the programs in Yogyakarta Special Province. The results of study showed that of the eight of the programs analyzed, the mayority of the students were aware of the benefits of the programs, move toward involvement, have both intrinsic or extrinsic motivation, have knowedges mainly in the main competencies, and implement the output of trainning on the field of self-efforts or work with others. The implementation of the ADKAR approch was characterized by two traits, namely: human aspects and non-human aspects. So, as conclusion of the study, it was necessary to implement the ADKAR approach continuously for each stage of the management of the life skills education programs.

IMPLEMENTASI �ADKAR APPROACH� DALAM PENGELOLAAN LIFESKILLS DI PROVINSI DIY

Management of life skills education programs were intended to give benefits for target groups. Attainment of the benefits of the programs depended on how much participation was realized by the target groups. The present study was aimed at providing information as input for developing the quality of the program. The study was qualitative research involving the programs in Yogyakarta Special Province. The results of study showed that of the eight of the programs analyzed, the mayority of the students were aware of the benefits of the programs, move toward involvement, have both intrinsic or extrinsic motivation, have knowedges mainly in the main competencies, and implement the output of trainning on the field of self-efforts or work with others. The implementation of the ADKAR approch was characterized by two traits, namely: human aspects and non-human aspects. So, as conclusive of the study, it was necessary to implement the ADKAR approach continuously for each stage of the management of the life skills education programs. Key words: ADKAR approach, life skills, nonformal education, involvement, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, self efforts

Ethics: The Expanding Circle of Environmental Ethics

Citation: Dinkins, C.S., & Sorrell, J.M. (Nov. 30, 2007). Column: Expanding Circle of Ethics OJIN: Online Journal of issues in Nursing, Vol. #13, No. #1. Available: www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/Columns/Ethics/EnvironmentalEthics.aspx ethics is the discipline that studies the moral relationship of human beings to the environment (Brennan & Lo, 2007). The articles in the May 31, 2007, OJIN topic, Environmental Health: Important Choices for a Greener World, suggest the many ways in which nursing can be instrumental in advocating for a new awareness of the need for environmental ethics. Exploitation of the environment has exposed us to a wide variety of diseases caused by chemical, physical, biological, and psychological agents; and there is increasing evidence that global climate changes are already affecting human health. Thus, we must clarify the role nursing should play in a new era of environmental health activity. asks us to live mindfully, taking care about how we act (Weston, 2002, p. 2). Through the past 30 years, the circle of our ethical concerns has grown, becoming more inclusive. The inspiration for environmental ethics was the first Earth Day in 1970 when environmentalists started urging philosophers who were involved with environmental groups to focus on ethical concerns in the environment. Today, philosophers remind us that we must begin to view all of nature ethically, taking a new look at whole ecosystems. We are becoming increasingly aware of the enormous creativity, complexity, and depth of nonhuman aspects of the world and the delicate balance of nature. Weston (2002, p. 80) points out that 30 years ago, we did not imagine something now as basic as recycling bins in our homes or whale songs on CDs, heralding a new period of unimagined ethical growth. One way to continue and strengthen this forward vision may be to look far into the past for guidance, to the ethics of the ancient Greeks. Plato's famous allegory of the cave captures well our current relationship with our environment and the means to finding a better way to live in, and live with, the world. In Plato's story, prisoners are shackled in a dark cave where firelight and shadows and echoes of distant voices are all they know. To them, the cave is the world - no exit, and no other world, can be imagined. Eventually one prisoner leaves the cave, making his way up to fresh air and sunlight, and only then does he realize that the cave in which he was shackled only seemed to be the real world. The world of sunlight is far more real. Plato's lesson here is that we are all prisoners shackled in a cave. Our morals and systems of justice are only mere shadows of the ideals that we could and should be striving toward. In order to discover and pursue those ideals, we first need to unshackle ourselves from our current misconceptions and problematic way of life. Living in today's world, it is easy to feel shackled to a way of life that will inevitably lead to further destruction of the planet and therefore of ourselves. But how do we escape our way of life? How do we change it dramatically enough to make a difference? How do we even see the light of the right way to live, when all we know are shadows, all we know is how we have always lived? We have, in the last few years, finally made the important first step toward escaping Plato's cave. We now understand that we are in a cave: we know we are shackled in a world of our own making. Indeed, the situation today with climate change and dangerous chemical and biological pollutants can begin to feel like a Cave. But are we trapped? Is this how things Have to Be? It is difficult to see a way out when, paradoxically, our quality of life seems to necessitate the creation of yet more pollution and greenhouse gasses even when those by-products at the same time threaten our quality of life, or the continuation of life at all. …

The partnership between project management and organizational change: Integrating change management with change leadership

The nature of project management is change. Even though all knowledge areas in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) are rooted in controlling change, none of these areas specifically addresses the human elements of change. There is a significant distinction between directly controlling change relative to the nonhuman aspects of a project ( change control) and effecting change in the human dimensions of a project through leadership ( change leadership). This article characterizes the distinctive activities of change leadership and change control and their interrelationship throughout the project life cycle. Although distinct, change control and change leadership are interdependent and mutually supporting—both are needed to support project success.

New developments in the conduct and management of multi-center trials: an international review of clinical trial units.

There is an urgent need for the performance of more, better designed, and better managed randomized clinical trials. After visits to 43 leading organizations and units involved in clinical trials in Europe and North America during 1993, the way of conducting randomized clinical trials was analyzed. By using a structured questionnaire, information on recent improvements in the way randomized clinical trials are performed was identified. These developments encompass human aspects (better information, collaboration, and communication) as well as non-human aspects (press button phone randomization and data management systems). By employing such developments, randomized clinical trials can run much more efficiently. This facilitates faster and better answers to the questions addressed by randomized clinical trials, thereby also making them more ethical.

Ground, Pivot, Motion: Ecofeminist Theory, Dialogics, and Literary Practice

Ecofeminist philosophy and literary theory need mutually to enhance each other's critical praxis. Ecofeminism provides the grounding necessary to turn the Bakhtinian dialogic method into a critical theory applicable to all of one's lived experience, while dialogics provides a method for advancing the application of ecofeminist thought in terms of literature, the other as speaking subject, and the interanimation of human and nonhuman aspects of nature. In the first part of this paper the benefits of dialogics to feminism and ecofeminism are explored; in the second part dialogics as method is detailed; in the third part literary examples are discussed from a dialogical ecofeminist perspective.

Father Absence and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Perspective

Explanations offered by social scientists for the effects of father absence on children are reviewed; certain aspects of these interpretations are found wanting. Another explanation using theory from evolutionary biology is suggested: children show evolved, sensitive-period learning in early childhood which is linked to mother's pair-bond status or to mother's attitude toward males. As a result of children's perceptions a developmental track is established, which influences expression of reproductive strategy in adulthood. Male children born into matrifocal households exhibit at adolescence a complex of aggression, competition, low male parental investment, and derogation of females and feminity, while females show early expression of sexual interest and assumption of sexual activity, negative attitudes toward males, and poor ability to establish long-term relationships with one male. Male children reared in father-present or nuclear households show less interest in competitive dominance with other males and more interest in manipulation of nonhuman aspects of the environment, while females show delayed sexual interest and activity and a mating strategy directed at locating a male who will invest in her and her offspring.

New places — New identities: Settings in the lives of the old

This paper addresses the relationship between meaning attached to settings by social actors and their self-identities. In the context of research on the social worlds of old widows the author identifies “ideal type” self-designated identities, namely that of “resident” vs. “newcomer” in a setting. These self-identities are considered in light of the bearing upon them of the non-human or physical aspects of settings as well as of the people who share the settings. Finally, strategies for maintaining “resident” status are shown to be more limited for the old than for the younger members of society.