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Endless Enlightenment: Eye-Operated Technology And The Political Economy Of Vision, Michael Gardiner

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Despite a residual popular temptation to see the posts of cultural analysis as signs of temporal closure, the logic of global visual media is strengthening, not weakening, metaphors of visibility which remain intact from the Enlightenment. Here I describe a stand-off between post-Enlightenment critiques (as in some sectors of Cultural Studies) and a narrow power base which is defined by producing light and managing the very conditions of visibility. For the world's most powerful state, still strongly bound to its original Enlightenment foundations, intervention into other states' sovereignty is increasingly justified by evidence from spy planes (rather than …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 45 No. 2, Peter Firchow, Ira Brooker, Tom Henthorne, Tim Conley, Adam Brooke Davis, Barry Ballard, Baloian Baloian, Raymond Barfield, Thomas Robert Barnes, Alan Britt, T. Alan Broughton, Jaime Curl, Chris Dombrowski, Gary Duehr, Taylor Graham, Robert King, Shelly Krehbiel, Matthew Scott Lapierre, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, G. C. Waldrep, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

PETER FIRCHOW views H. G. Wells's Time Machine not as a "facile work of scientific fantasy" but as a novel valuable for "its extraordinary innovativeness ... that is as literary as it is scientific." Among Wells's distinctions in this work is that he "is the first writer of Utopian fiction to argue that the achievement of Utopia will inevitably lead to stagnation and degeneration.,, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Firchow has also served as Visiting Professor at universities in Europe, Central America, and Asia, most recently at the University of Graz in Austria. The author of more …

The Abnā Al-Dawla: The Definition And Legitimation Of Identity In Response To The Fourth Fitna, John P. Turner

Faculty Articles

Reopens the question about the identity and provenance of the abã al-dawla of the Abbasid dynasty. Period when these individuals formed an identity; Previous definitions of abã al-dawla; Reason why they formed a collective.

The Case For Open Immigration, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

People favor or are opposed to immigration for a variety of reasons. It is therefore difficult to tie views about immigration to ideological positions. While it seems obviousthat political conservatives are the most unlikely to defend freedom of movement,and that socialists and liberals (classical and modern) are very likely to favor more openborders, in reality wariness (if not outright hostility) to immigration can be foundamong all groups. Even libertarian anarchists have advanced reasons to restrict themovement of peoples.

Nationalism And Multiculturalism, Chandran Kukathas

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

If any issue dominates contemporary political theory, it is how to deal with cultural diversity and the claims –moral, legal, and political – made in the name of ethnic, religious, linguistic, or national allegiance (Kymlicka,2001: 17). Today, governments are confronted by demands from cultural minorities for recognition, protection,preferential treatment, and political autonomy within the boundaries of the state. Equally, international societyand its political institutions, as well as states themselves, have had to deal with demands from various peoplesfor political recognition as independent nations, and for national self-determination. The turbulent politics ofthe contemporary world may account in part for this development: …

Moral Imagination, Joanne B. Ciulla

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

Moral imagination provides leaders with insight into others and the world and helps them make moral decisions and form visions. Leaders need imagination to determine the values they embrace and the feelings that these values engender in themselves and others. Leaders use imagination to animate values, apply moral principles to particular situations, and understand the moral aspects of situations. Imagination and moral values are the fundamental components of a vision.

What Are The "Four Roots Of Capacity And Nature"?, Alan Kam Leung Chan

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

During the third century C.E., a debate on the relationship between “capacity” (cai 才) and “nature” (xing 性) captured the imagination of the Chinese elite. Historical sources relate that four views were put forward on the subject, which continued to dominate the intellectual scene during the fourth and fifth centuries. Yin Hao 殷 浩 (306–356), a major statesman and leader of the literati, for example, was known especially for his expertise on the four views of “capacity and nature” (caixing) (Shishuo xinyu 1992, 4.34; cf. Mather 1976, 110).1 Writing in the fifth century, Wang Sengqian 王 僧 虔 (426–485) observed …

Human Nature: An Economic Perspective, Vernon L. Smith

Economics Faculty Articles and Research

An economist writing on the topic of human nature is surely expected to talk about decision making by narrowly self-interested rational agents.

Render Copyright Unto Caesar: On Taking Incentives Seriously, Wendy J. Gordon

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay suggests we bifurcate our thinking. Conventional copyright rules by money, so let it rule the money-bound. Let a different set of rules evolve for more complex uses, particularly when the users have a personal relationship with the utilized text. Much recent scholarship contains dramatic suggestions to secure a freedom to be creative, rewrite, and be imaginative. My work has long sought to defend such freedoms, but I believe we understand imagination and its conditions too little to employ it as a starting point. I suggest instead that we acquire a better conceptual map of the generative process and …

Sublime Hunger: A Consideration Of Eating Disorders Beyond Beauty, Sheila Lintott

Faculty Journal Articles

n this paper, I argue that one of the most intense ways women are encouraged to enjoy sublime experiences is via attempts to control their bodies through excessive dieting. If this is so, then the societal-cultural contributions to the problem of eating disorders exceed the perpetuation of a certain beauty ideal to include the almost universal encouragement women receive to diet, coupled with the relative shortage of opportunities women are afforded to experience the sublime.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 45 No. 1, Derek Parker Royal, Quentin P. Taylor, Janelle Collins, Susannah B. Mintz, Steven Lovett, Priscilla Atkins, Jody Azzouni, Marion Boyer, Dan Campion, Eva Alice Counsell, Mary Crow, K. E. Duffin, Tom Hansen, Jo Mcdougall, Kobus Moolman, Lisa Roullard, Jason W. Selby, Young Smith, Eric Trethewey, Steve Wilson, Cynthia Allan, Denise Low, Ronald Charles Epstein, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

DEREK PARKER ROYAL suggests that Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee exhibited a tension between a deeply felt democratic impulse and an equally fervent belief in capitalism. The "apocalyptic crescendo" at the end of the novel indicates Twain understood the "dangers" of unrestrained capitalism, that "an economy that nurtures an unrestrained individualism can easily give birth to saviors and tyrants alike--yet with no ready means of distinguishing one from the other." Assistant Professor of English at Prairie View A & M University, Royal has published on such disparate figures as Philip Roth, Albert Camus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Miller, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, …

Three Questions On Torture, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes three common questions intrinsic to public discourse on torture.

An Intractable Problem With The Security Classification Of Information, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies an infrequently discussed but highly significant problem with the protection of information for security purposes.

Trends. Psychology Of The Alienated And Political Violence, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses alienation and the psychology of the alienated in literature (Camus and Dostoevsky) and society.

Commentary On Philosophy And Aviation Security, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article outlines how the formal study of philosophy can be applied to aviation security, considering the merits of the inclusion of philosophers in the international working groups tasked with discerning and commenting on aviation security trends and their relevance for intelligence and security activities.

Trends. Car Bomb Explosion And An Explosion Of Truths, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses multiple political psychological aspects of the August 29, 2003 car bomb explosion adjacent to the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq

Trends. Why Humanitarian Workers Should Be Killed: A Perspective From Nietzschean Slave Morality, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses different views of the murders of United Nations humanitarian workers in Iraq – first, from a modern Western perspective, and, second, from the perspective of Friedrich Nietzsche as he considered the transvaluation of what is Good on the part of the powerless.

Trends. Intelligence, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, And Truth: A Philosophical Perspective, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Tends article discusses the issue of the possibility of Bush administration policymakers lying about the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Teaching The Ethical Foundations Of Economics, Jonathan B. Wight

Economics Faculty Publications

Some economists consider their discipline a science, and thereby divorced from messy ethical details, the normative passions of right and wrong. They teach in a moral vacuum, perhaps even advocating economic agents' operating independently and avariciously, asserting that this magically produces the greatest good for society.

Trends. Intelligence And Weapons Of Mass Destruction In A World With No Truth, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses questions surrounding whether the Bush administration intentionally did not tell the truth about the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Trends. The Political Psychology Of Deviance Regulation, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses deviation regulation in social context, commenting on the idea that deviance is intrinsic to us all.

Review Of Time For Revolution, By Antonio Negri, John Conley

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 44 No. 4, Scott Helmes, Barry Ballard, Fleda Brown, Ed Chaberek, Kelly Cherry, Peter Cooley, Anne Coray, Philip Dacey, Sean Enright, Carol Frith, Vicki Graham, Therése Halscheid, Carol Hamilton, Lola Haskins, Michael Heffernan, Michael Hettich, Steven Hind, David James, Steve Kirchhoff, Gar Bethel, Katherine Snider Blackbird, Edward Boccia, Mark Christhilf, Rachel Dacus, Andrew Dillon, Faye George, George Gott, Michael L. Johnson, Amy Mitchell, Susan Terris, Bill Tremblay, Jeanne Murray Walker, Timothy Walsh, Laura Lee Washburn, Ted Kooser, Steve Langan, Peter Markus, Jo Mcdougall, J. J. Mckenna, Bill Meissner, Sheryl L. Nelms, Louis Phillips, Naomi Rachel, Judy Ray, Dave Roberts, Anele Rubin, Mark Sanders, Yvette A. Schnoeker-Shorb, James Scofield, D. James Smith, Paul Sohar, Jim Thomas, Jack Turner, Bob Vance, Mark Vinz, Don Welch, Warren Woessner, Z Z, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Letters to a Young Poet: A special issue of The Midwest Quarterly

"Letters, to a Young Poet" used as the title page for this issue is by Scott Helmes. In the early part of the 20th century, Franz X. Kappus, a young man who was trying to get started as a poet, wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke asking him for advice. Their correspondence continued over a period of several years. Kappus never became a poet of note, but two decades or so after their exchange of letters ended, he published one of the more important books in the history of …

Hope Springs Eternal: The Psychology Of Deception, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author considers the idea of detecting deception, noted difficulties in doing so, and questions whether additional funding applied to detecting deception in the context of terrorism would be effective. The author refers to the efforts of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) specifically.

Moral Visions And The New American Politics, J. Matthew Wilson

Occasional Papers

No abstract provided.

Special Article. A Statement On The Iraq War From Psychologists For Social Responsibility: Sense And Nonsense, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies problematic attributions in a statement by Psychologists for Social Responsibility on the United States-led military intervention in Iraq.

Trends. Is Saddam Hussein Dead?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses how we might know whether Saddam Hussein is dead, as well as his significance in the ongoing political narrative in Iraq.

Review Of Subject, Society, Culture, By Roy Boyne, Michael Ian Borer

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 44 No. 3, Eric Carl Link, Steven Frye, Jane Varley, Aimee Broe Erdman, Suzy Clarkson Holstein, J. P. Steed, Arthur Saltzman, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Andrea Hollander Budy, Barbara Crooker, James Grinwis, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Walt Mcdonald, Geri Rosenzweig, Donna Baier Stein, Robert Tremmel, David Wehmeyer, Marlys West, Rob Whitbeck, Denise Low, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

ERIC CARL LINK and STEVEN FRYE argue that "in literary studies we must create a new and productive myth of 'objectivity' that can be used to explore the possibility that history matters, that authors count, that criteria for canonization can be provisionally stabilized without being exclusionary" in order to "proceed with the act of literary criticism." The present essay, they suggest, establishes the epistemological foundation and defines the methodology for this new myth. Link teaches American literature at North Georgia College and State University where he is the Hugh Shott Professor of English. He has published a number of articles …

The Political Psychology Of Collateral Damage, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides commentary on how a government purporting to be representative democracy might best approach the construct of collateral damage.