Present Moment In Time Research Articles

National project «Education» of the Russian Federation in the conditions of the modern world

The national project in the field of education at the present moment of time is being developed together with the projects aimed at the development of the health care system, housing construction and agriculture. Modern national projects are a tool that aims to achieve the most important goals of state development. The main purpose of writing this paper is to determine the main characteristics of the national project «Education» on the territory of the Russian Federation. The methodological basis of the study is analysis and synthesis, economic< statistical and graphical methods. The result of the study reflects the essence of the national project «Education» in the Russian Federation, defines its key areas and targets, expected results from the implementation. The education system is a unique social institution designed to improve human potential, create new ideas, goals, solve various levels of complexity of tasks — these positions form both the social future and the future of each individual and citizen. In the modern world every person should have humanity, justice, morality, kindness and courtesy, it is the education system that will help to realize and develop these functions.The National Project «Education» helps to form uniform conditions for education among all territorial subjects of the Russian Federation, helps to introduce new management mechanisms.The paper also analyzes the main results of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the implementation of the national project, identifies problems and offers recommendations for their solution.

Existential Philosophy and Poetry Imaginism about the Temporalization of Despair

Introduction. The tragic times of trials at the beginning of the 20th century motivated existentialist philosophers and imaginists poets to search for the temporal meaning of despair in people's lives. Philosophers comprehended the nature of despair, and came to the conclusion about its origin in person’s soul at the moment of subordination of human temporality to objective time as the cause of inevitable losses. Liberation from its power begins with the person’s turn to the value content of their own temporality. The word-image connects despair with the present moment of time as part of human temporality and outside of objective time. Revealing the features of the temporalization of despair in imaginists poetry, the author suggests that the word-image changes the existential attitude of a desperate person, giving value to their temporal existence.Methodology and sources. The methodological basis of the work is a hermeneutic approach to understanding the concept of ”despair”, a conceptual analysis of the term “word-image”, a method of component analysis of language units with temporal meaning and a comparative analysis of the interpretations of the temporalization of despair in existentialist philosophy and imaginist poetry.Results and discussion. The results of studying the problem of the temporalization of despair are the following conclusions. Firstly, despair may be a consequence of the involvement of a person who hopes, into objective time or part of the subjective time of a desperate person. Secondly, despair may lead a person not only to losses, but also to the search for values in the confrontation of objective and subjective times. Thirdly, the temporalization of despair is understood as a transition from a temporary experience to a timeless concept in philosophy and is expressed by the timelessness of this experience in poetry. Fourth, in philosophy the meaning of despair is revealed in the temporal sequence of losses, and the word-image puts a limit to losses in poetry, which returns a desperate person to values and contributes to the correction of their temporal existence.Conclusion. The scope of objective time expands in the technogenic epoch and subordinates a person's temporality to its rhythms, leading them to despair. Existentialists consider temporalization as a way to reveal the true meaning of despair, and imaginists use it so that a person experiences this feeling differently and builds their temporal existence in a different way.

Procedural Integrity and Partisan Gerrymandering

In the opening lines of her dissent in Rucho v. Common Cause, Justice Kagan articulated a concern that the practice of partisan gerrymandering endangers the legitimacy of American democracy. The primary task of this article is to flesh out the contours of this concern and articulate precisely how partisan gerrymandering undermines the enterprise of democratic decision-making. The key concept I introduce is a norm of procedural integrity. This norm demands some separation or distance between the purpose(s) motivating the choice of a collective decision-making rule, and the substance of the decisions reached under that decision-making rule. In illuminating the normative appeal of procedural integrity and its necessity to the enterprise of democratic decision-making, this article seeks to make three primary contributions: first, it will help to bring conceptual clarity to the harms posed by partisan gerrymandering in both normative-theoretical terms and in more policy-oriented terms. Second, it will also help to clarify those respects in which partisan gerrymandering should trouble us less. My argument is not a categorical critique of the practice, and I do believe there are circumstances in which partisan gerrymandering would not pose significant harm to democratic principles or democratic legitimacy. Third, my critique of partisan gerrymandering will also suggest better and worse judicial responses to dealing with the problem in the present time. As I will argue, there is much to be commended in the spirit of caution that can be found in past discussion of partisan gerrymandering in various Supreme Court opinions. The article proceeds as follows: in Part I, one of my main tasks is to flesh out and defend the concept of procedural integrity. My second primary task in Part I is to clarify the qualified nature of my critique. While I argue that procedural integrity is implicit in the idea of democratic decision-making and is an element that contributes to democratic legitimacy, I also argue that there may be contexts in which it is less important — such as moments in time where the policy consequences of particular elections are less important. Nonetheless, I conclude Part I by emphasizing the significance of procedural integrity for contemporary American politics. In Part II, I further develop the concept of procedural integrity by grounding it in the various arguments put forth in key Supreme Court opinions on partisan gerrymandering, and in some of the key scholarly works on the topic. In Part III, I elaborate on precisely why partisan gerrymandering poses such a threat to democratic legitimacy at the present moment in time. In particular, I identify and elaborate on three conditions of contemporary American politics that both heighten the need for procedural integrity, and that create significant opportunities for lasting damage to be done by partisan gerrymandering. They are, in turn, (1) The existence of a broad policy space within which partisan conflict has the potential to touch on significant domains of American society; (2) The mapping of sharp ideological divisions within society onto sharp partisan divisions; and (3) A signaling by political elites of their willingness to drive forward on significant changes in American politics and society. Finally, in Part IV, I conclude by discussing how the Supreme Court might proceed given the polarized context of the present moment in time, and the troubling consequences that might flow from unchecked partisan manipulation of electoral districting.

“We Can Remember It for You”: Location, Memory, and Commodification in Social Networking Sites

This article explores the spatial self through the performative aspects of location sharing and geotagging in the process of self-representation on social networking sites (SNSs). Based on the legacy of early experimentations with location-based technologies for social interaction, the article asserts that the representation of location in SNSs has more temporal than spatial attributes. The article explores the immediacy of networks and the different kinds of temporality encountered in SNSs to address the commodification of geotagged content uploaded on SNSs. Location-based data are valuable commodities bought and sold in the market. Therefore, the act of archiving memories on SNSs is commodified and performed within the predetermined functions and actions set within the SNSs’ interfaces. SNSs devise ways to keep users constantly interacting with the present moment in time and simultaneously create memories of the recent past while disclosing personal data that companies use for profit.

Time taken and time told: Serial drawing as the becoming of now

Abstract This article presents a brief report of a first-person investigation through drawing, discussing how serially developed drawing can be understood to express the becoming of now – the present moment in time. By employing a phenomenological approach, the notion that drawing expresses the becoming of now is treated as an assumption, meaning a hypothesis to be tested through practice and theory combined. This occurs as part of my developing research practice, where I look to ‘perform philosophy in a non-philosophical way’ (Emoe 2014). Rather than treat art as an object for philosophy, I use philosophy to question a thought that I, as a practitioner, believe is immanent to drawing as form of art – that drawing itself is a form of becoming, based on the intentionality underpinning the temporal experience of drawing. I employ a largely Husserlian ([1931] 2012) approach to my research, using the methods of variational practice and ‘bracketing’ to actively suspend my assumptions for the duration of each test. Deploying it here means I stand back from my uncritical ‘lived experience’ of time to establish how phenomenological theory renders the now an aporia, or puzzle, difficult to express in conventional terms. I then use this theory to develop an alternative mode of expression through drawing, developing the now as a rhythm with a fixed temporal duration, which then ‘becomes’ a spatial extension through drawing serially developed lines. In my analysis I seek the invariant understanding – meaning I ask the series what it expresses beyond the individual variation each drawing presents. I emerge from this process better able to articulate how drawing operates, but also with some reservations, leading towards some suggestions for potential development of the research.

Rhythmanalysis: the line as a record of the moving present

This article presents a particular aspect of a recent investigation through drawing. This was set up with the aim of exploring the potential for the drawn line to ‘record’ (re-present) the present moment as it passed. The aspect discussed here concerns the analysis of rhythm to facilitate the understanding of one ‘recording’ the other. The so called ‘moving present’ is the present moment of time we experience ourselves to live within. Time can be understood as either cyclical or linear in view of its rhythms, yet within the unified present as duration we subjectively experience time to flow by, one moment appearing after the next. Using Henri Lefebvre's criteria for what he termed rhythmanalysis, this article will outline an initial theoretical argument for how rhythm within the spatially drawn line and rhythm within the experience of the temporally extended present can be understood. By ‘thinking about the phenomenon’ (phenomeno-logy) of space and time together in this way, my aim is to present drawings that combined this theory into practice, produced in response to an analysis of these rhythms. This exercise is undertaken in view of the fact that we experience space and time together within lived experience, and so I seek to record the essence of that relationship through drawing.

Why does society describe itself as global? Re-examining the relation between globalization and the states from a second-order perspective

The article uses the second-order perspective developed by Niklas Luhmann to re-examine the relation between globalization and sovereign states. From a second-order perspective, globalization is redefined as a self-description of society supported by the practice of comparing sovereign states with other sovereign states for the purpose of determining what is global at the present moment in time. The article develops a genealogy in order to account for this particular practice of comparing states with each other in historical terms. The genealogy proceeds by treating the states as spatial units within spatial divisions, while four distinct types of spatial division are discussed and aligned in one sequence: stratified, heterogeneous, homogeneous and meta-division. In some cases, not all spatial units are states. Accordingly, states are not always or not only compared with other states. In this way, the genealogy shows that the practice of comparing states in action behind globalization as a self-description of society is linked with the last two forms of spatial division specifically.

A instituição de saúde mental como dispositivo social de produção de subjetividade

Analisa-se a instituição de saúde mental como dispositivo de produção de subjetividade. Embora se trate de um setor singular da produção, a aplicação do referencial de análise das formações sociais e da mercadoria, criado por Marx, pode trazer à luz aspectos de extrema utilidade na análise da composição e dos efeitos produtivos das práticas no campo da saúde mental em nosso contexto na atualidade. Dois modos de produção destacam-se em flagrante contradição: suas lógicas são congruentes com a do modo capitalista de produção ou com a lógica dos modos de produção cooperados que o antecederam; a concepção de saúde variará radicalmente em cada caso. Conclui-se que, no âmbito da saúde psíquica e mental, a produção de saúde é indissociável da produção de subjetividade, podendo estas ser sintônicas ou dessintônicas entre si, dependendo do modo de produção em que são realizadas. Propõe-se nova definição de saúde para a atenção psicossocial.

Does Consciousness Exist Independently of Present Time and Present Time Independently of Consciousness?

th , 2011; revised December 28 th , 2011; accepted January 5 th , 2012 While some are currently debating whether time may or may not be an illusion, others keep devoting their time to the science of consciousness. Time as such may be seen as a physical or a subjective variable, and the limitations in our capacity of perceiving and analyzing temporal order and change in physical events definitely constrain our understanding of consciousness which, in return, constrains our conceptual understanding of time. Temporal codes generated in the brain have been considered as the key to insight into neural function and, ultimately, as potential neural substrates of consciousness itself. On the basis of current evidence and opinion from neuroscience and philosophy, we consider the interrelation between consciousness and time in the light of Hegel and Heidegger’s concepts of Sein (Being) and Zeit (Time). We suggest that consciousness can be defined in terms of a succession of psychological moments where we realize that we exist in, and are part of, a present moment in time. This definition places all other perceptual or sensorial processes which may characterize phenomenal experience at a different level of analysis and centers the debate around consciousness on the fundamental identity link between awareness of the Ich (I) and awareness of what Heidegger termed Ursprungliche Zeit (original time). We argue that human consciousness has evolved from the ability to be aware of, to remember, and to predict temporal order and change in nature, and that the limits of this capacity are determined by limits in the functional plasticity of resonant brain mechanisms. Although the conscious state of the Self is the ultimate expression of this evolution, it is devoid of any adaptive function as such.

Confusion in equal measure

Sir, With successive ocular oscillations I was able to visually partake in your scripted correspondence which you had consensually contributed to the JRSM.1 It was only by this due process, and not, I hasten to add, by any other assimilated or subjunctive discursions [sic], that I am both rendered and obligated (here and now, that is, in this present moment of time) to concur and unconditionally agree with your stated and assumed viewpoint. Your avowed, declared and affirmed stance is admirable – and I am minded to assume a positive, and thus non-negative, psyche which is in turn positive (and thus non-negative) in both willpower and essence. That said, one must remember, that I should not publicly nor openly state these assertions. We know that overt is superior to covert, but equally it then surely is by the same token akin to the pouch of Douglas in your own profession: what lurks therein should by definition lurk. To be seen to be not lurking implies a measure of dissimilitude, and this leads to a lack of perspective. Elaboration evaporates to a greater sense of overdoing. And the result? Well, failure of course. Just as the sun should never set on a breech, then too much exaggeration leads to the greater folly. The folly of Lord Darzi's attempt at evidence-based medicine. To gain a foothold in such arguments is to clutch at random ideas which float, ballpark-figure-like, in an imaginary delusional ether. My point is thus: it is to realize that this letter will be of greater worth but, surely, lesser by dint of its certain context. My approach in such matters is but surely akin to that of your own. In shared and mutual confusion, Yours etc,

Life cycle assessment of a multi-megawatt wind turbine

At the present moment in time, renewable energy sources have achieved great significance for modern day society. The main reason for this boom is the need to use alternative sources of energy to fossil fuels which are free of CO 2 emissions and contamination. Among the current renewable energy sources, the growth of wind farms has been spectacular. Wind power uses the kinetic energy of the wind to produce a clean form of energy without producing contamination or emissions. The problem it raises is that of quantifying to what extent it is a totally clean form of energy. In this sense we have to consider not only the emissions produced while they are in operation, but also the contamination and environmental impact resulting from their manufacture and the future dismantling of the turbines when they come to the end of their working life. The aim of this study is to analyse the real impact that this technology has if we consider the whole life cycle. The application of the ISO 14040 standard [ISO. ISO 14040. Environmental management – life cycle assessment – principles and framework. Geneva, Switzerland: International Standard Organization; 1998.] allows us to make an LCA study quantifying the overall impact of a wind turbine and each of its components. Applying this methodology, the wind turbine is analysed during all the phases of its life cycle, from cradle to grave, with regard to the manufacture of its key components (through the incorporation of cut-off criteria), transport to the wind farm, subsequent installation, start-up, maintenance and final dismantling and stripping down into waste materials and their treatment.

Teaching Mindfulness to Children

Abstract Mindfulness, which features focused awareness training, is increasing in popularity among mental health professionals. Mindfulness training emphasizes focused attention to internal and external experiences in the present moment of time, without judgment. While mindfulness interventions have been used in treatments for stress, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, and addiction, researchers suggest that this type of training also can be beneficial in everyday life. Most research and writing on mindfulness training has been about adults. In this paper, the authors argue for adapting mindfulness techniques for work with children. The authors propose that training in mindfulness has the potential to enhance children's attention and focus, and improve memory, self-acceptance, self-management skills, and self-understanding. Specific exercises to teach children to be mindful are presented in progression, beginning with awareness of the external environment, then awareness of the self in the environment, awareness of the body, and finally, mindfulness meditation exercises that feature attending to cognitive processes. Suggestions are made for incorporating mindfulness into school curricula.

Excerpts from sidekick

sidekick is a descriptive text which annotates the incremental progression of a labout-intensive activity. This activity is fairly straightforward: packing tape is wound from the roll upon which it is commercially distributed, onto itself, to form a sphere. I call this sphere boulder.boulder was started in 1996 and is ongoing. It was initiated with a simple task, yet the repetition of this task incited certain material inevitabilities. As the sphere became larger and its surface area increased, the process became slower because the tape had a gradually decreasing relative impact. Each roll added to the sphere lessened the value of the next and after a while the addition of a roll was impossible to detect. At the present moment of time the ratio of time-spent to visible result is so protracted, that it is difficult to perceive the effects of my action. One of the critical problems of this work, has been knowing how to conclude it — the slippage of the labour out of the range of visible cause and effect, has made it difficult to know how to act. I have resigned myself to continuing it indefinitely.sidekick was initiated in 1997. It was started when the boulder began to slow down. It is ongoing.

Set probability identification in forest fire simulation

Average measure simulation of forest fire spread is one of the applications of set probability theory. Probability spread calculations are carried out using set identification methods of a model of random spread, taking into account initial data of fire condition in a present moment of time we get prognosis — average measure fire contour — in any post coming moment of time.

The Evolution of Mastery

T HE history of human progress from its beginnings in a creature barely maintaining itself in a hostile world to that creature's latest descendant, a navigator of the air, a flyer underseas, is a tale of prolonged warfare upon foes visible and invisible, a tale of successive intrusions upon farther and farther reaches of the environment, -a stupendous series of masteries. To-day, the foes that ringed man round in his first savage den are vanquished, but new ones have taken their places; the conflict by which from the start he prospered, and for the sake of which he developed sinew and cunning, has merely been moved farther afield. With the extension of conquest and the trampling upon ever vaster and more insidious obstacles to his supremacy he has multiplied his aggressions, and crashing through the bonds of ancient superstitions has flung the challenge of his restless spirit even to the citadels of heaven and fastnesses of hell. For it is no longer sufficient to count his triumphs in terms of the substantial universe of earth and sky and water. The subjugated domain of the human will at the present moment of time comprehends indeed the multitudinous forces of that universe, but it comprehends likewise a realm of laws and ideals possessing a range and significance before which the immensities of steller spaces shrivel to a point. The process of mastery, which among the later generations of men has reached these proportions, began with, not man himself, but his earliest progenitor. Aggression, destined to issue in almost limitless dominion, had its birth in the first vague stirrings of vitalized matter in the welter of primeval slime. What connections there are between such unpurposive stirrings and the finest achievements of civilized man, what the decisive steps in that most splendid of evolutions, it is the purpose of the present inquiry to