From Here - To There

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard Colleg

From here to there

The photographs in the series From Here to There are not a description of a place; instead, the images are about engaging in a particular type of looking. Elements of “here” and “time” are included in the work; by photographing a moment that will never exist again, transitory objects are imbued with importance. A tree branch drifts, a puddle evaporates, and light shifts, slowly, but immediately. In the midst of this change, my photographs represent specific moments. Integral to the work is the act of finding the photograph, as is the act of framing, taking, and making the photograph. Each decision informs an image, and each image in turn informs a group of images. Although the images appear simple at first, the longer the viewer spends with the images, the more complicated the imagery becomes. The more connections the viewer finds, the more rewarding the act of looking becomes

Getting From Here to There in Resistricting Reform

This symposium has been largely devoted to whether and how we ought to reform our districting process. Today I want to talk about a related but often neglected question: if we are serious about reform, how do we make it happen? I will thus set aside some of the important normative and practical questions associated with what kind of redistricting reform we should pursue and focus instead on how to get from here to there. As we think about getting redistricting reform passed, we ought to ask ourselves three questions. First, what should our goals be during the 2010 cycle? Second, moving from principle to practice, what specifically can we do to promote reform during this period? Third, if we succeed in getting some traction with reform post-2010, what kind of reform proposals should we push

Getting from Here to There

Milton\u27s genius in Paradise Lost was in urging us to reconceptualize what had traditionally been understood as a tragic fall from grace, and to view it instead as a challenge needful to, and worthy of, the human spirit. The genius of the scholars of the new public law is that they urge upon us a similar conceptual shift. At a time when much of administrative law, as traditionally understood, threatens to become at best irrelevant and misguided, and perhaps affirmatively harmful, they invite us to rethink the nature of the enterprise as well as our ability to contribute to it. They tantalize us with a vision in which law, lawyers, and legal scholars can play a central role in defining and achieving what we as a society want to be. Like Milton\u27s protagonists, we find the world all before us, and we are at once exhilarated and afraid

Lecture: Getting from here to there

Based on his keynote lecture at the international conference on Digital Humanities at Aalborg University in April 2014, John Naughton refl ects on being an engineer in a Humanities research institute that is currently seeking to adapt to the digital potentials and challenges. The Humanities represent an analytical, critical, or speculative approach whereas the so-called hard sciences focus on problem solving. Naughton discusses why he agrees with the authors of the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 and why the digitisation of the Humanities not only eff ects universities and scholars but also industrial and cultural life in general

From here to there, and from there to here: The “pitches” of migration in Puerto Rican bomba

Este artículo estudia cómo se reformula la negritud en Puerto Rico a través del nuevo movimiento de la bomba puertorriqueña. Se presta particular atención a los efectos que tiene el movimiento constante de puertorriqueñas y puertorriqueños entre el archipiélago y la diáspora boricua en Estados Unidos. La bomba es un género musical que comenzó a desarrollarse en Puerto Rico con la llegada de los africanos que fueron traídos durante la trata de esclavos en el siglo XVI. En la actualidad, la proliferación de grupos y escuelas de bomba ha crecido vertiginosamente. Este texto busca contribuir a la comprensión de las dinámicas raciales, cuestionar y explorar las construcciones sobre la raza en la música puertorriqueña. La música contrapone el imaginario racial de los Afropuertorriqueños vis-àvis el discurso nacional sobre negritud. El análisis se aproxima a elementos como la nación, identidad, raza, música y género desde las teorías sobre la racialización y la diásporaThis article studies how blackness is reformulated in Puerto Rico through the new movement of Puerto Rican Bomba. Focuses on the effects of the constant movement of Puerto Ricans between the archipelago and the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States. Bomba is a music genre first developed in Puerto Rico with the arrival of the Africans who were brought during the slave trade in the sixteenth century. Today, the proliferation of Bomba groups and schools has mushroomed. This text seeks to contribute to the understanding of racial dynamics, question and explore the constructions of race in Puerto Rican music. The music contrasts the racial imaginary Afro Puerto vis-à-vis the national discourse on Blackness. The analysis approaches issues of nation, identity, race, music and gender from theories of racialization and the diaspor

Doing business in space: How to get there from here

A step by step process is described through which an existing enterprise or an entrepreneurial venture can initiate and carry out a new space venture. Throughout this process the business and technical aspects must be advanced in parallel with each other. Each depends on the other for its continued success, and companies may be unable to complete the venture if one or the other is neglected. The existing NASA programs and the experience of early trailblazers provide sufficient examples and opportunities for other firms to undertake new ventures with confidence. With the introduction of NASA's Commercial Space Policy, both the opportunities and the ease with which ventures can be carried out should increase significantly