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2012

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Relic Texts, James Watts Jun 2012

Relic Texts, James Watts

James Watts

Religious traditions typically ritualize their scriptures in three dimensions. Other kinds of texts may be ritualized in one or two dimensions (e.g. the performative dimension of the scripts of plays or sheet music, the semantic dimension of national law codes), but the regular ritualization of a text in all three dimensions usually distinguishes it as a scripture or sacred text. There are, however, some texts or, more accurately, some specific copies of texts, that tend to be ritualized only in the iconic dimension, and scriptures feature prominently among them. I term such texts “relic books.” Relic books are writings that …

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Information Literacy In The Workplace: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu Apr 2012

Information Literacy In The Workplace: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Yuhfen Diana H. Wu

Diana H. Wu

This cross-cultural study has two main purposes: to investigate how information literacy is perceived in the workplace and to discover how employees obtain information to carry out their jobs in an effective and timely fashion. This project applies a mix of research methods, including site visits, interviews, and a survey. More than 120 participants from forty companies were involved in this study. They were from a wide variety of industries in Taiwan and Silicon Valley, in Northern California, where many companies base offices or operations from around the world. Major obstacles in conducting cross-continent research are cost, time demands, scheduling, …

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Webs Of Faith As A Source Of Reasonable Disagreement, Gregory Brazeal Jan 2012

Webs Of Faith As A Source Of Reasonable Disagreement, Gregory Brazeal

Gregory Brazeal

Contemporary political theorists and philosophers of epistemology and religion have often drawn attention to the problem of reasonable disagreement. The idea that deliberators may reasonably persist in a disagreement even under ideal deliberative conditions and even over the long term poses a challenge to the common assumption that rationality should lead to consensus. This essay proposes a previously unrecognized source of reasonable disagreement, based on the notion that an individual's beliefs are rationally related to one another in a fabric of sentences or web of beliefs. The essay argues that an individual's beliefs may not form a single, seamless web, …

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Rhetorical Materialism: The Cognitive Division Of Labor And The Social Dimensions Of Argument, Ronald Walter Greene, Heather Ashley Hayes Jan 2012

Rhetorical Materialism: The Cognitive Division Of Labor And The Social Dimensions Of Argument, Ronald Walter Greene, Heather Ashley Hayes

Ronald Walter Greene

No abstract provided.

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Lessons From The Ymca: The Material Rhetoric Of Criticism, Rhetorical Interpretation, And Pastoral Power, Ronald Walter Greene Jan 2012

Lessons From The Ymca: The Material Rhetoric Of Criticism, Rhetorical Interpretation, And Pastoral Power, Ronald Walter Greene

Ronald Walter Greene

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Czym Są Badania Jakościowe, Dariusz Jemielniak Jan 2012

Czym Są Badania Jakościowe, Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jemielniak

Wstęp do podręcznika "Badania jakościowe: Podejścia i teorie" przybliża problematykę badań jakościowych i metodologii jakościowej.

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High-Tech Environments: To Boldly Go, Dariusz Jemielniak, Abigail Marks Jan 2012

High-Tech Environments: To Boldly Go, Dariusz Jemielniak, Abigail Marks

Dariusz Jemielniak

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Global Cosmopolitanism And Nomad Citizenship, Eugene W. Holland Jan 2012

Global Cosmopolitanism And Nomad Citizenship, Eugene W. Holland

Eugene W Holland

This essay develops a vision of global citizenship based on Deleuze & Guattari's concept of nomadism. {NB: non-conforming pagination; do not cite this version.}

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Deleuze And Psychoanalysis, Eugene W. Holland Jan 2012

Deleuze And Psychoanalysis, Eugene W. Holland

Eugene W Holland

This essay lays out Deleuze and Deleuze & Guattari's engagements with psychoanalysis, presenting their relationship to Freud and the often ignored influence of Jung before presenting their own positive account of schizoanalysis, which results from subjecting psychoanalysis to critiques by Marx and Nietzsche. {NB: Non-conforming pagination; do not cite this version.}

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The Enclosure And Alienation Of Academic Publishing: Lessons For The Professoriate, Wilhelm Peekhaus Jan 2012

The Enclosure And Alienation Of Academic Publishing: Lessons For The Professoriate, Wilhelm Peekhaus

Wilhelm Peekhaus

This paper interrogates and situates theoretically from a Marxist perspective various aspects and tensions that inhere in the contemporary academic publishing environment. The focus of the article is on journal publishing. The paper examines both the expanding capitalist control of the academic publishing industry and some of the efforts being made by those seeking to resist and subvert the capitalist model of academic publishing. The paper employs the concepts of primitive accumulation and alienation as a theoretical register for apprehending contemporary erosions of the knowledge commons through the enclosure effects that follow in the wake of capitalist control of academic …

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