Higher education has a dual responsibility, both to the academy and to society at large, to effectively confront racism on campus. And yet, in the United States and perhaps elsewhere, it fails to ...effectively confront racism as the result of systemic flaws, expressed as organizational intransigence, even as new “supportive and protective” structures are created. Thus, the central question raised by the anonymized, composite narrative case study at the core of this paper is as follows: To what extent, if any, do the familiar organizational structures of higher education, encompassing both leadership and management processes, reinforce or resist racism on campus? Consistent with other social science researchers, the authors believe that richly contextualized narrative cases help to bridge the world of ideas and conjecture and actual situations. We used an iterative process spanning three months for drawing our case, involving a back-and-forth communication of actual experiences involving campus racism. The resulting composite narrative provides a richly contextualized situation drawn from real life, while still preserving anonymity. We regarded this later aspect as crucial for making possible the close examination of an ethically challenging situation that might otherwise remain invisible due to sensitive information. Our analysis focused on campus responsiveness to the challenge of racism within a mechanistic organization, rooted in structuralism, versus an organic organization, rooted in post-structuralism. Four aspects of a more organic university design are identified as key to bringing about meaningful, ethically sound change within the academy: deep, reflective listening; a more horizontal, consensus-based leadership structure that empowers professionals at various ranks; freedom within a framework; and a broadly shared, continually reinforced focus on overarching principles, goals, and ideals.
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Using properties of
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The Anthropocene is giving rise to novel challenges for global environmental governance. The barriers and opportunities shaping the ways in which some of these complex environmental challenges become ...governable on the global level are of increasing academic and practical relevance. In this article, we bring neo-institutionalist and post-structuralist perspectives together in an innovative framework to analyse how both institutional and discursive structures together bound and shape the global governance opportunities which become thinkable and practicable in the face of new global environmental challenges. We apply this framework to explore how governance of climate engineering – large scale, deliberate invention into the global climate system – is being shaped by discursive and institutional structures in three international forums: The London Convention and its Protocol, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the United Nations Environment Assembly. We illustrate that the ‘degree of fit’ between discursive and institutional structures made climate engineering (un)governable in each of these forums. Furthermore, we find that the ‘type of fit’ set the discursive and institutional conditions of possibility for what type of governance emerged in each of these cases. Based on our findings, we critically discuss the implications for the future governance of climate engineering at the global level.
•Climate engineering presents a novel challenge for global environmental governance•Institutional and discursive structures co-shape global environmental governance•A lack of joint analyses of both structures impedes understanding of governance emergence•A joint neo-institutionalist and post-structuralist analysis addresses this gap•Varying structures shape differing climate engineering governance decisions in several forums
An interview with O. A. Kling is presented, revealing the significance of Yu. M. Lotman’s works for literary criticism of the XX–XXI centuries. Oleg Alekseevich Kling is a Russian literary critic, ...Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Literary Theory of the Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University, winner of the magazine award “Questions of Literature”. The areas of scientific interests are Russian literature, the history of Russian literary studies, symbolism and post-symbolism, the Silver Age. He is the author of many works in these fields, including books: “Alexander Blok: The Structure of the Novel in Verse”, “Russian Poetry: The poem ‘Twelve’” (2004), “The Poetic World of Marina Tsvetaeva” (2004), “The Influence of Symbolism on Post-Symbolist Poetry in Russia of the 1910s: Problems of Poetics” (2010), “‘The Platinum Age’ in Russian Literature” (2017), editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia “Russian Literary Critics of the twentieth Century: BioBibliographic Dictionary. Vol. I: A–L” (2017).
In the wake of post-structuralism, as theologians, we cannot limit ourselves to the realm of negation and the hopelessness of deconstruction without the horizon of building anew. There must be a ...concise effort on the part of theology, through the lens of anatheistic theology specifically, to push past the boundaries of admitting weakness and rejecting sovereignty as well as to avoid the relegation of such discussions to the realm of theory. The following article will examine the ways in which such steps might be taken through a comparison of John Caputo's reflection on Divine Weakness and Sacred Anarchy as it relates to the Catholic Worker movement begun by Dorothy Day. The intersections between the theopoetic outlining of concepts within Caputo's canon and the practical actions of the Catholic Worker movement and its radical lay apostolate highlights the potential that such a marriage of theory and praxis may have as we firmly move into a new millennium.
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Since the 1970s, the incorporation of European critical theory into the academic discipline of art history within the Anglophone context has become an established scholarly convention. This article ...aims to attend to one example of this institutionalised referencing practice: Michel Foucault's notion of the 'author function' as explicated in the famous essay, 'What is an Author?' From Craig Owen's attempt to develop a 'materialist cultural practice' to Caroline Jones's recent exploration of the 'artist-function' in the reception of Robert Smithson's work, Foucault's concept has proved to be a rich source for art historians. That being said, the deployment of 'author function' has, as I will show, come at the price of a more careful examination of Foucault's essay - one that does not permit the seamless reproduction, via a citational practice, of a concept from one study to the next.
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The theoretical biology movement originating in Britain in the early 1930's and the biosemiotics movement which took off in Europe in the 1980's have much in common. They are both committed to ...replacing the neo-Darwinian synthesis, and they have both invoked theories of signs to this end. Yet, while there has been mutual appreciation and some influence, particularly in the cases of Howard Pattee, Rene Thom, Kalevi Kull, Anton Markos and Stuart Kauffman, for the most part, these movements have developed independently of each other. Focussing on morphogenesis understood as vegetative semiosis, in this paper I will argue that the ideas of these movements are commensurate. Furthermore, synthesising them would enable us to see life processes as proto-narratives. Doing so will involve synthesising biohermeneutics, Peircian biosemiotics and Piagetian genetic structuralism with Waddington's theoretical biology, and this, I claim, would strengthen the challenge of these traditions to mainstream biology. At the same time, this should contribute to overcoming the opposition between the sciences and the humanities, developing a broader tradition of Schellingian thought which involves developing the humanities and then demanding of the physical and biological sciences that they are consistent with and can make intelligible the emergence of humans as conceived by the humanities. KEYWORDS: Vegetative semiosis; Biosemiotics; Biohermeneutics; C.S. Peirce; Kalevi Kull; Anton Markos; Morphogenesis; C.H. Waddington; A.N. Whitehead; Robert Rosen; Genetic structuralism; Piaget; Bourdieu; Narratology; Paul Ricoeur; David Carr; Process metaphysics; F.W.J. Schelling
Odpowiedź na pytanie Foucault, Michel
Praktyka Teoretyczna,
2016
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Journal Article
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Prezentowany artykuł Michela Foucaulta został opublikowany w 1963 roku. Foucault rozwija w nim koncepcję archeologii wiedzy – metody analizy historycznych dyskursów, którą zaprezentuje w sześć lat ...później w książce o tym właśnie tytule. Artykuł powstał na kanwie pytania wybranego przez autora spośród zadanych mu przez redakcję „Esprit”, które dotyczyło możliwości pojęciowego opracowania przymusu systemu dyskursywnego przy jednoczesnym zaakcentowaniu nieciągłości w jego obrębie a tym samym możliwości twórczego działania w historii ducha. A także, czy tak sformułowana aporia zakładałaby z konieczności zgodę na przymus systemu lub afirmację siły zdolnej do przekształcenia go za pomocą zewnętrznej przemocy? Tekst jest wprawką do sformułowania dojrzałej teorii dyskursu, rodzajem autoanalizy, która pozwala Foucaultowi powiązać własną metodę historyczną z „progresywistyczną polityką” myśli i rozwiązać w ten sposób dylemat pełnej determinacji i wolnego sprawstwa obecny w rozważaniach wielu strukturalistów.
Two positions in which the mode of existence of Spacetime is considered are reconstructed — relationism and structuralism (I discuss the version of structuralism one can find in the so-called Ontic ...Structural Realism). I present and describe the notion of gravitational nonlocalities, at which one arrives through the difficulties with formulating laws of energy conservation in General Relativity. I state and try to defend a thesis, that the above difficulty may rise two different „weak” holisms on the ground of each mentioned position.
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