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“And Yet the Body Is His Book”: Articles of Incorporation

A & Q 73 psychoanalytic turn in Asian studies is not a reduction of, but rather a return to, an epistēmē of Asia. Meera Lee is assistant professor of Asian/Asian American studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. 6 notes I have taken the term imaginary ethnography from the works of literary critic and psychoanalytic theorist Gabriele Schwab. 1. For a more detailed discussion of psychoanalysis’s transformation, see Oliver (2004, xiii). 2. The notion of “colonizing ratio” appears in the concluding part of Foucault’s (1970) The Order of Things. For an expanded account of “colonizing ratio” and “countertransference,” see also Lambert (2013), who explained the cultural imaginary between a literary critic and the stranger. 6 works Cited Foucault, Michel. 1970. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. Translated by Les Mots et les choses. New York: Vintage Books. Lambert, Gregg. 2013. “Strangers, Analysts, and Literary Critics: On the ‘Unhappy’ Marriage of Psychoanalysis and Ethnology.” Keynote address presented at the Affect, Politics, Psychoanalysis: International Conference, National Taiwan University. Oliver, Kelly. 2004. The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Schwab, Gabriele. 2012. Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity. New York: Columbia University Press. “And Yet the Body Is His Book”: Articles of Incorporation Haun Saussy The three questions the editors ask are an invitation to Bovaryism, the lure of the lives one hasn’t lived—in Emma Bovary’s case, a poisonous enchantment. Who, in the literary profession, has not felt that lure? Like the rhapsode in Plato’s dialogue Ion, we know all about war, shipbuilding , economics, law, medicine, not from direct practical experience but 74 A & Q by being plunged into the representations of them all. And, because we read the dialogue well enough to see that it is a prolonged send-up of the self-satisfied rhapsode, we often think we ought to have gone into one of those fields that would teach us how to get our hands around something more substantial than a representation. Julie Stone Peters’s (2005) wonderful essay about interdisciplinary envy tells us what happens when we directly confront the objects of our professional “reality hunger”: the practical professionals in law, too, think of their field as overly technical , formal, distanced from reality, and look to us literature specialists to restore the living, breathing, bleeding texture of experience through our magical art. Something similar would probably happen on the other side of whatever interdisciplinary fence you chose. When I think about what “fields or subfields outside my current area of expertise” I could and should have gone into while I had the chance, it is not with the regret of having done the wrong things with the last twenty-five years of my life. I say this at the risk of sounding selfsatisfied . There are languages I should have learned (Russian, Sanskrit, Old Persian, Turkish, Portuguese) and reasons why I should have learned them: to plunge into Acmeist poetry, Chekhov and Formalist criticism; to consider the Vedas and the epics from close up; to understand another huge, multicultural, early empire; to have a handle on Central Asia as it impinges on China and Europe; to read Pessoa; and other reasons I can’t imagine before getting involved in those languages and the paths to which they might lead. That is how languages are. To learn a language is to start on a long-term relationship. In the unlikely event that I could show up (mirror, mirror on the wall) at my first squirrel-infested attic apartment in New Haven in 1983 to speak with my earlier self, the advice I’d want to give would be mainly about personal and sentimental matters—which are outside the scope of this article. About the things of the mind, here’s roughly what I’d say: “Soak up all of that good deconstruction stuff you can—it’s not going to be around forever. Learn a lot of classical philology, because, as you’re already surmising, that’s where the tools of deconstruction were first forged. Take some classes on philosophy with the professional philosophers , despite the flashes of antagonism occupying...

Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds

Now I am become DOI, destroyer of gatekeeping worlds

Thematic analysis of the effectiveness of an inpatient mindfulness group for adults with intellectual disabilities

Accessible summary Mindfulness helps people focus instead of worrying about the past or future. We talked to six people who took part in a mindfulness group. They all had intellectual disabilities and were in hospital for mental health problems. They told us the group helped, and we hope that mindfulness can help other people too. SummaryThe study focused on the effectiveness of group mindfulness for people with intellectual disabilities in an assessment and treatment unit. Six participants with mild or moderate intellectual disabilities were interviewed using semi‐structured interviews. The interviews focused on identifying the benefits and difficulties of using mindfulness. The interviews were analysed using thematic analysis. Five themes were identified which were categorised into interpersonal (‘helping people’) and intrapersonal (‘focusing on one particular thing’; ‘improving skills’; get rid of all nasty bad stuff you want to get rid of’) benefits. The theme ‘bit too late to teach old dog new tricks’ captured the difficulties encountered. The themes highlighted that people with intellectual disabilities were able to form an understanding of mindfulness and were able to benefit from the intervention.

David Sumpter

David Sumpter

‘You get the quickest and the cheapest stuff you can’: Food security issues among low-­‐income earners living with diabetes

‘You get the quickest and the cheapest stuff you can’: Food security issues among low-­‐income earners living with diabetes

'You get the quickest and the cheapest stuff you can': Food security issues among low-income earners living with diabetes.

Diabetes prevalence is increasing worldwide. More than 800,000 Australians live with diabetes, and there are stark inequities in prevalence and clinical outcomes among Indigenous people and low socio-economic groups. This paper focuses on food security issues experienced by low-income earners living with type 2 diabetes in Perth, Western Australia. The results presented here are part of a broader qualitative study exploring the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage on diabetes. Data was collected through focus groups and semistructured interviews conducted from October 2008 to November 2009. The sample, comprising 38 participants ( Indigenous and non-Indigenous), was recruited from areas with high indices of socio-economic disadvantage in Perth. Deductive data analysis identified categories from an existing conceptual framework for the relationship between socio-economic position and diabetes health outcomes, while an inductive approach was adopted to identify new themes. Participants had a good understanding of their dietary requirements. However, access to healthy food was not always realised, as many participants depended on others for food provision and meal preparation and had little control over their diets. Furthermore, the majority struggled to accommodate the price of healthy food within a limited budget. In this study, low-income earners living with diabetes faced food security issues. Participants reported cost barriers, but also physical barriers relating to functional limitations and lack of transport. This study highlights that the socioeconomic circumstances in which vulnerable populations experience their disease need to be understood and addressed in order to reduce the inequities surrounding diabetes outcomes.

You get the quickest and the cheapest stuff you can’: Food security issues among low-income earners living with diabetes

You get the quickest and the cheapest stuff you can’: Food security issues among low-income earners living with diabetes

Communion, and: Bad Luck

Communion, and: Bad Luck J. D. Schraffenberger (bio) Communion More to this than rootsand leaves themselves alone. More to this than elegantwhiffs of the wild,a creepy seep of the fungal,of horse, of algal scum. More than a rafter of turkeysperched in the pinesacross the street. More to this than finger,than nail, than tooth and tongue. More, too, than callupon call of unseen crowswaking you from pleasant dreams. More to this than wind,more than scattered seeds. More because I cannot untanglethe roots of myself,all this blasé braininessbunk at last. More because I cannot lay barethe prattle of so much singing. One is always thinking.One is always thinking. [End Page 18] Bullfrogs in the marsh,woodchucks in the cellar. More than this but forever less:warmth and light breakingover the furled bud,crashing in coilslike grief on our heads. Bad Luck It's bad luck to say or spell your name backwardUnless of course you do so while looking into a mirror,And then only if the mirror isn't scratched or cracked,And only if it's not midnight, or February 29th, or your birthday.But I'm sure you know that already. (To be safe you should just avoidSaying or spelling your name backward at all, even as a joke.) It's also bad luck to forget to trim one of your nailsWhen you're trimming your nails unless you or someoneIn the same room—or your mother, your father, or a sibling—Is missing a finger. Some think it's bad luck to be missing a finger,But those people are insensitive and superstitious. Swallowing any coin is bad luck unless you find itOnce you've passed it, in which case, it's tremendously good luck. (Yay!)But it's bad luck—obviously the worst luck of all—To spend a coin that you've swallowed, passed, and found.To receive such a coin in a monetary transactionHas no bearing whatsoever on your luck. [End Page 19] It's bad luck to have a medical procedure on your birthday.This doesn't include dental work. (Don't worry about dental workOn your birthday.) But dreams in which you are able somehow to speakA foreign language that you are not actually able to speakIn your awake life are bad luck unless you're having that dreamOn your birthday, and then it's good luck (all right!) because it meansYou'll eventually learn to speak that or a related language fluently. A lot of things people dream about used to be bad luck,Like eating something that isn't food, or becoming someone else,Or falling asleep while you're already asleep and then waking up again and again,But for the most part now it's safe to go ahead and dreamWhatever it is you dream without worrying aboutHow it will affect your luck or the luck of anyone around you. Everybody knows it's bad luck to fall asleep at a funeral,But did you know that it's worse luck to sneeze at a funeral?In fact, there's a lot of stuff you should definitely not do at funerals.In general, I'd recommend laying pretty low when someone you know dies. It remains bad luck, just so you know, to predictHow the world will end (fire, ice, et cetera) when it's obvious reallyThat it ends the same way every time. [End Page 20] J. D. Schraffenberger J. D. Schraffenberger is the author of a book of poems, St. Joe's Passion (Etruscan). His work has been published in Best Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Diagram, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. He is the associate editor of the North American Review. Copyright © 2011 University of Nebraska Press

Questions and Answers from IRI's Members

What are IRI members talking about? These questions were recently posed on IRI's community forum. Q: Are you listening to your supply chain, or just your customers? Has anyone had success in driving innovation by bypassing your immediate (direct) customers and significantly impacting end users or other parts of the supply chain? For instance, how could someone near the beginning of a supply chain (primary resources, materials, energy, etc.) successfully influence final design or end use? If you are an OEM or end-use supplier, what would cause you to listen to someone deep in the supply chain as opposed to insisting that they listen for your needs? Are you listening to your supply chain, or just your customers? Dave Helmick R&D Manager Carpenter Technology Corp. Answers I've seen this done in other organizations where I've worked, where it was referred to as pull-through sales. concept is simple enough in principle, and the basic approach to your customers' customers' customer is, Hello, we make the stuff that makes the stuff you buy from your suppliers much better. (You may recall there is a catchy advertising campaign for a major specialty chemical company that sells this to the masses.) trick I believe is in the folks you use to employ this technique and their approach to more downstream end users. most successful individuals were those who were naturally predisposed to good contextual interviewing, which at that time wasn't a skill as readily trainable as it may be today. These individuals approached the value chain in a manner that looked for who was feeling pain, and they would try to get an understanding of whether that pain was something that our products and services could substantively relieve. In one example, a major food packager was distressed about the control and quality of the printing in their products packaging and the limitations on the graphics that this lack of quality and control required. Understanding that our company could produce a key component in the printing process that would allow printers to achieve a higher quality, more consistent graphic was available but at a price point that was anathema to our traditional buyers, they embarked on a new path. By arranging a meeting based on a theme that was compelling to the downstream end user as well as our existing customers, The Future of Graphics for Packaging, going where no printer has gone before! (No, this wasn't really the title, just an example), they were able to open a forum in a nonthreatening manner for discussions about measurable objectives with both today's customers and their downstream end users. rest of the process allowed cross-functional teams access to the downstream folks unhindered by today's customers, and when a product was developed that met the established needs of the end user, the negotiations were more dynamic and did not involve any purchasing agents until after the product was spec-ed in by the end user. It was remarkable how the tone of the conversations changed at that point, too. In this example, the end user was only two steps removed from the normal customer, yet it adequately covers some essential basics that provide opportunities for success in this approach. Will Goss R&D Section Manager Champion Technologies, Inc. This is a great question, and one that is eventually faced by most thoughtful companies who supply materials to a lengthy supply chain. Your immediate customers are often not interested in educating you about the needs of their customers. In fact, they may jealously guard such information for fear that their competitors might get access to it, or even that their suppliers (you) might bypass them in the supply chain. It is often difficult for a supplier to unilaterally approach a customer's customer. For one thing, it may anger your immediate customers. …

A Closer Look at Climate Change Skepticism

Debate over climate change is nothing new. Scientists have been arguing about whether greenhouse gases released by human activity might change the climate since the late nineteenth century, when Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius first proposed that industrial emissions might cause global warming.1 Fueled by partisan bickering, this dispute now is more bellicose than ever.

Acoustic design of wall, ceiling, and plenum for college buildings.

What can you do when an owner wants to design and build flexible learning spaces that can be reconfigured as the needs of the school teaching program changes? Well, we have done a research program on this issue and will share both laboratory and field testing data. Demountable wall systems, raised floors, deep ceiling plenums, stuff you stuff into the plenum, and high CAC ceiling tile. Does it make a difference if the teaching is live voice, recorded voice program, or how about music? Of course, it does. So let us talk sound transmission through the ceiling plenum and what to do about it.

Interactive surfaces and tangibles

Tap. Slide. Swipe. Shake. Tangible user interfaces have some scientists toying around with stuff you can really put your hands on.

Education: An Essential Leg for Anesthesiology's Four-legged Stool!

Education: An Essential Leg for Anesthesiology's Four-legged Stool!

Pearls: stuff you gotta know.

Pearls: stuff you gotta know.

Oriental Cities, Postmodern Futures: Naked Lunch, Blade Runner, and Neuromancer

When Leopold Bloom first walks out into the streets of Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses, the reader is treated to a series of realistic details about this Irish urban landscape: street numbers, pavement, and the bread van from Boland's. But barely half a paragraph passes before Bloom begins to asso ciate this urban landscape with Someplace in the east (57). As Bloom walks, the landscape of Dublin is overlaid with that of an imagined oriental city: Walk along a strand, a strange land, come to a city gate . . . Wander through awned streets. Turbaned faces going by. Dark caves of carpet shops, big man, the terrible, seated crosslegged smoking a coiled pipe (57). Bloom's vision is, of course, built entirely on orien tal clich?s, as well as on images of imported commodities (carpet shops) and urban popular culture (the pantomime show of Turko the Terrible) that are less facets of the Orient than aspects of Dublin itself with oriental associations. Although Bloom's reverie may seem constructed from whole cloth, careful parsing of the allusions shows how the Western city itself is rich in oriental signifiers; Orientalism is already part of the European urban fabric. At the heart of the modernist canon, oriental tropes prove central to the construction of modernist urban space. But this oriental Dublin is also remarkable for its self-consciousness as a literary construction, as Bloom draws a distinction between his reverie and the actual East: Probably not a bit like it really. Kind of stuff you read: in the track of the sun. Sunburst on the titlepage. Bloom not only acknowledges the role of orientalist travelogue in constructing his vision of the city, but he even pinpoints his exact source: Frederick Thompson's In the Track of the Sun (1893). This image of the oriental sun is associated with fantasy and error: What Arthur Griffith said about the headpiece over the Freeman leader: a homerule sun rising up in the northwest from the laneway behind the bank of Ireland (57). Thus Joyce's orientalized Dublin, while demonstrating the degree to which Orientalism already, at the beginning of the twentieth century, structures the Western city, exposes urban Orientalism as a literary fiction. The complex role of oriental tropes in such modernist imaginings of

W. T. Sullivan III & J. A. Baross (eds) 2007. Planets and Life. The Emerging Science of Astrobiology. xxi + 604 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £80.00, US $150.00 (hard covers), £40.00, US $75.00 (paperback). ISBN 9780 521 82421 7; 9780 521 53102 3 (pb).

How do we fit into the Universe? Are we alone? By taking these questions seriously, astrobiology is attracting public attention and students. Two new astrobiology journals have sprung up and NASA funding is flowing again. With the publication of Planets and Life , a textbook for graduate students and upper level undergraduates, astrobiology is taking another large step towards formalizing itself as an established multidisciplinary field. If you’re becoming an astrobiologist, this thick authoritative text contains the stuff you need to know. Job-conscious Ph.D. students studying astrobiology and worried about some of …

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BioTechniquesVol. 43, No. 4 WebWatchOpen AccessWebWatchKevin AhernKevin AhernSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:16 May 2018https://doi.org/10.2144/000112572AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SNP Lust in SeattleThe lowest level of biological information, the single base pair, turns out to have a vastly elevated importance when it is mutated and then viewed in the context of sequences surrounding it. That these single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have enormous biological importance is no secret. They are, of course, the roots of genetic diversity and give rise to readily identifiable distinguishing features of DNAs, such as restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs). Tracking these tiny mutations and their impacts on human inflammatory responses is SeattleSNPs, a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Program for Genomic Applications hosted at the University of Washington. Here, visitors can access sequenced genes, obtain educational material, extract genomic variation information from a dedicated server, and even download SNP variation data chromosome by chromosome.@ pga.gs.washington.edu“E” is for More Than EffortTaking the “Think Globally, Act Locally” mantra of the environmental movement strictly to heart, LEEF (London Environmental Education Forum) aims to improve its home base of London by embracing the three e's: education, events, and environmentalism. Open to anyone interested in promoting environmental education in the city, LEEF excels with clearly written articles on human behavior impacting the environment (and vice-versa). Did you know that a copier left on overnight wastes enough energy to make over 5000 copies? That's just one of many “points of light” to be discovered at the LEEF site.@ www.leef.org.ukWired for BiologyAn aspect of the internet that undoubtedly is an attractant to many is that of being a source of free things. To be sure, the web contains an enormous amount of information available for the looking, and much of that is educational in nature. One notable (and also free) biological resource is Dr. Michael Farabee's Online Biology Book, hosted at the Estrella Mountain Community College in Avondale, AZ. Visited by an astonishing 2,000,000 people in 7 years, the site provides what is essentially an online textbook on the subject of biology. With 59 topics and innumerable hyperlinked subtopics embedded in well-written text, the Online Biology Book satisfies even the most demanding of online bio-bargain hunters.@ www.estrellamountain.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobooktoc.htmlGood as GoldHumanitarian efforts come and go, but one notable gift that is poised to “keep on giving” is golden rice. Created in the labs of Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer, the food was genetically engineered to produce β-carotene, and for this trait it has been described as the genetically modified organism equivalent of fluoridated water and iodized salt. For the 124 million people worldwide whose diets are deficient in vitamin A, golden rice will likely become an important source of this micronutrient, which has been implicated in 1–2 million deaths and about half as many cases of blindness per year. Integration of golden rice into the seed stocks of farmers in developing countries is ongoing today as a result of genetic crossing and (importantly) free licensing made possible by the magnanimous efforts of these idealistic inventors, noted prominently at the site.@ www.goldenrice.orgValuable Junk BondsIn a world of DNA commodities, introns are probably as close to being biological junk bonds as any other components of eukaryotic chromosomes. As pointed out at the Ares Lab Yeast Intron Database (ALYID), though, these intervening DNA segments are not worthless, because learning the how and why of them is essential to understanding the phenomenon of spliceosomal splicing. With info extracted from the Saccharomyces Genome Database, ALYID organizes intron-related data in an alphabetized table and then adds value with “stuff you won't find anywhere else,” a collection that includes a tool to flag S. cerevisiae-like introns in user-provided sequences and summaries of yeast introns in the 5′ UTRs of mRNAs and snoRNA genes.@ www.soe.ucsc.edu/research/compbio/yeast_introns.htmlFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Vol. 43, No. 4 Follow us on social media for the latest updates Metrics Downloaded 150 times History Published online 16 May 2018 Published in print October 2007 Information© 2007 Author(s)PDF download

C-Spine on the Side: More stuff you can do with a blanket

C-Spine on the Side: More stuff you can do with a blanket

Tumour suppressor genes--one hit can be enough.

For people who received their introduction to cancer genetics in college in the first half of the 1990s, everything looked simple and straightforward. It was the stuff you could explain to sincerely interested relatives who wanted to know what you were spending your time on. There were oncogenes and there were tumour suppressor genes. Oncogenes were overactive genes and proteins that somehow caused cancer because they were overactive; therefore, they were dominant. Tumour suppressor genes were genes that would normally prevent a tumour from happening and that needed to be inactivated for a tumour to start to form; both copies of a tumour suppressor gene had to be inactivated, and the mutation was recessive. If inactivation of these genes is a random process, it was understandable that people who inherit an inactivated copy of a tumour suppressor gene had a higher risk of developing the associated form(s) of cancer than people born with two normal copies, as postulated in Alfred Knudson's (1971) two-hit model. And, indeed, it was shown that in the tumours in these predisposed patients, the remaining wild-type copy of the tumour suppressor gene was lost, a process referred to as loss of heterozygosity.

Stuff you don't learn in engineering school

New engineers often leave school with technical know-how but without workplace savvy. Many if not most young engineers emerge from school with fabulous technical talent but little ability in the "soft" skills or even the realization of how important such skills are. They include making decisions, setting priorities, working in teams, running meetings, and negotiating. When students eventually hit the workplace, they may find their soft skills woefully undeveloped. Who will teach them then? That's the goal of this series of articles: to acquaint readers with the most important nontechnical skills that every engineer needs to be more effective in the workplace and happier in life. In this article the author gives advice on effective communication: writing, speaking and listening.