Henry David Thoreau portrayed social order as a spontaneous and evolving result of human interactions. Government, however, stymies evolution by imposing orders privileging goals like economic ...development. Thoreau encourages escape from “state space,” hoping individuals will chance upon new practices that might coalesce into the kernel of future orders.
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Interdisciplinary scholarship on the era of the American Civil War has invigorated a well-trodden field. This essay addresses recent scholarship on the history of emotions, medicine, and the ...environment in the Civil War era, analyzing key themes and suggesting areas for future research. Together, these fields have added nuance to the “dark turn” in Civil War studies, historicized concepts often treated ahistorically, and allowed Civil War historians to engage in meaningful conversations with scholars in other fields and disciplines.
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Prep roundup Barron, James
The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M. : 1988),
01/2020
Newspaper Article
Seeking a coherent definition of national resilience, this paper conceptualizes the term National Resilience, based on an in-depth interview with Lieutenant General (ret.) Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon. ...Ya'alon argues that the components of national resistance are first and foremost leadership, trust in this leadership, faith in the righteousness of our way, shared destiny, and unity of purpose. Israeli society's purpose ought to be linked to a shared destiny, to the life of a people that has returned to its land and is prepared to sacrifice for its national home. Therefore, it is necessary to have a leadership that will know to present these goals clearly and to say this explicitly. Today we are in a situation of sub-conventional war where the target of enemy attacks is not our military forces but our civilians. In recent years what was tested in all the military campaigns was society's ability to remain steadfast. This situation requires the leadership to speak directly to the citizens about the cost of independence and to state clearly that the road is long and hard. Leadership which is based upon public trust is a matter of critical importance. Therefore, it is forbidden for the leadership to act under a cloud of doubt as to the purity of its character. Keywords: national resilience, national solidarity, leadership, trust, education, shared destiny, people's army model, governance, a Jewish and democratic state
The present paper, drawing mainly on the findings of Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, and Richard Kearney, aims to explore the complex framing as subalterns undergone by Spike, the obscenely beautiful ...Robo sapiens of Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, as well as Sonmi-451, one of the ascended fabricants or cognitively awakened clones in the service industry of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. There is an inherent paradox here: if these posthumans are both posterior and superior, what makes it possible to infantilise or fetishise them to the point of talking them down? Both the Robo sapiens and the fabricants are, ultimately, what Haraway terms “companion species” forced into affective kinship with humans. Their liminality triggers in us a feeling of “hostipitality” (Jacques Derrida) given the urge towards an “ontological hygiene” (Elaine Graham) and so they are scapegoated to preserve the illusion that (trans)human identity is stable and that there is no need for a “flat ontology” (Levi Bryant).
"Synchronicity, Intentionality, and Archetypal Meaning in Therapy" addresses the frequent occurrences of synchronicity in psychotherapy and their potential influence on the therapeutic relationship. ...Such synchronicities can take the form of biographical parallels, shared dreams and images, and striking astrological correlations, with a specific focus on the first session, marking the initiation of the therapeutic relationship. The research was based on interviews with thirty therapists. The presented case examples demonstrate how the observed synchronistic connections generated for the therapeutic couple a greater sense of connection, efficacy, growth, and healing, with often a profound sense of a greater intentionality informing the shared process of transformation.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH BEN OKRI Rowell, Charles Henry; OKRI, BEN
Callaloo,
04/2014, Volume:
37, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Rowell interviews poet Ben Okri about art in relation to his work. Among other things, Okri says, society is held together by laws, but is animated by art. When the art of a people die, not long ...afterwards, the people die. It's the art that keeps the brightest and the most important aspects of a people, inwardly, alive.
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Kaplan poses the question of how the ideology of separate spheres in antebellum America contributed to creating an American empire by imagining the nation as a home at a time when its geopolitical ...borders were expanding rapidly through violent confrontations with Indians, Mexicans and European empires.
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Pentecostal Christians in southwest Nigeria claim to experience divine revelations of personal destiny by reading scripture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with the Redeemed Christian Church of ...God, this article argues that members' sensual reading practices are entangled with perceptions of time. Church members use bodily experience to construct a near future that they understand as continuous with the lived present. To examine the production of embodied religious temporality, I use a stage-based analysis of Pentecostal hermeneutic development. Church members gradually progress from "beginning" to "advanced" stages of Bible reading, generating new relationships to the self and to a Christian cosmology. Les chrétiens pentecôtistes du sud-ouest du Nigéria affirment qu'ils éprouvent des révélations divines sur la destinée personnelle par la lecture de l'Écriture. Me basant sur un terrain ethnographique au sein de l'Église Chrétienne des Rachetés de Dieu, je soutiens que les pratiques de lectures sensuelles des membres de cette Église sont enchevêtrées à leur perception du temps. Ces chrétiens pentecôtistes recourent à des expériences corporelles pour construire un avenir rapproché qu'ils comprennent en continuité avec leur vécu présent. Pour examiner la production de cette temporalité religieuse incarnée, j'utilise une analyse qui se base sur les étapes de développement de l'herméneutique pentecôtiste. Les membres de cette Église progressent graduellement des « débuts » aux stades « avancés » de lecture de la Bible, qui génèrent de nouvelles relations au soi et à la cosmologie chrétienne.
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