Modelling Social Mobilisation – An interdisciplinary exploration of Twitter as a mediating tool for social acts and information networks

In recent years, researchers, social commentators and the mass media have turned their attention to shifts in the use of social media for political and social action. This article provides an overview of the recent discussions focusing on how Twitter specifically functions as a mediating tool for social acts. We present findings from a recent pilot project exploring the mechanics of disseminating information via Twitter across a dynamic human network in order to contribute to an understanding of how people use social media to share information and prompt others into action, and outline some approaches for performing this analysis. Taking the perspective of communities of users operating in hybrid spaces, we make recommendations for further research in this field. Key words: Twitter, hybrid spaces, social networks, social acts, information flo

Il coltello dello sguardo

Un’analisi del libro pubblicato da Antonella Anedda nel 2009, La vita dei dettagli, esemplare unico di collezione di testi in varia misura accomunati dal rapporto con le immagini della storia dell’arte, consente di ricostruire diversi temi e genealogie che anche nel resto del corpus dell’autrice s’incentrano sullo sguardo, l’attenzione, il senso dell’intimità e della caducità.   English titile: «The Eye as a Knife» An analysis of the book published by Antonella Anedda in 2009, La vita dei dettagli, a unique collection of texts to varying degrees united by the relationship with images of art history, allows us to reconstruct different themes and genealogies that also in the rest of the author\u27s corpus focus on gaze, attention, sense of intimacy and transience

The Divine Sade (Historical Archive)

When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Articles A Manner of Thinking- Deepak Narang Sawhney Seven Mirrors of Sade: Sex, Death, Capital and the Language of Monsters- Stephen Pfohl Sade and the Theatre- Annie Le Brun A Turning Point in the Sadean Novel: The Terror- Lucienne Frappier-mazur Sade Contra the Supreme Being- Philippe Sollers Madame De Sade and Other Problems- Margaret Crosland Sade: Critique of Pure Fiction- Catherine Cusset Sade’s Itinerary of Transgression- David Allison Reading the Lack of the Body: the Writing of the Marquis De Sade- Kathy Acker &nbsp

Deleuze and the Transcendental Unconscious

When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one.PapersALPHONSO LINGIS: The Society of Dismembered Body PartsKATH JONES: Response to LingisIAIN HAMILTON GRANT: Energumen CritiqueJAMES WILLIAMS: Monitoring vs. Metaphysical Modelling: or, How to predict the future of the postmodern conditionANDREW GOFFEY: The Cruelty of the (Neo-) BaroqueNICHOLAS BLINCOE: Deleuze and MasochismLORNA CAMPBELL: Anteros and IntensityTIMOTHY MURPHY: The Philosophy (of the Theatre) of Cruelty in Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and RepetitionALISITAIR WELCHMAN: On the Matter of ChaosJACK FULLER: Distillations: A Premonitory Reading of DeleuzeBRIAN MASSUMI: Everywhere you want to be: Introduction to FearNICK LAND: CircuitriesTIMOTHY MURPHY: Bibliography of the Works of Gilles Deleuz

Kant: Trials of Judgement

When citing these papers, be aware of using the right name, title, and pages of each one. Papers:  JAMES WILLIAMS: My Mother is a Fish: Current French Interpretations of Kant’s Philosophy LAPSUS JUDICII: Jean-Luc Nancy HOWARD CAYGILL: Art and the Origin of Geometry PAUL CROWTHER: Moran Insight and Aesthetic Experience: Kant’s Theory of the Sublime NICK LAND: Delighted to Death DREW MILNE: The Gulf- Crisis: Derrida on Kant’s Third Critique WILL MCNEIL, DIANNE BEDDOES, JAMIE BRASSET, DOUGLAS BURNHAM, NICHOLAS BLINCOE: Snapshots of Kant’s Critique of JudgementReviews:  DOUGLAS BURNHAM: Howard Caygill: Art of Judgement JOHN O’REILLY: Douglas Kellner: Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond PETER SNOWDEN: Timothy Raser:  A Poetics of Art Criticism: The Case of Charles Baudelaire