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UMSL Bulletin 2023-2024
The 2023-2024 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1088/thumbnail.jp
UMSL Bulletin 2022-2023
The 2022-2023 Bulletin and Course Catalog for the University of Missouri St. Louis.https://irl.umsl.edu/bulletin/1087/thumbnail.jp
Fictocritical Cyberfeminism: A Paralogical Model for Post-Internet Communication
This dissertation positions the understudied and experimental writing practice of fictocriticism as an analog for the convergent and indeterminate nature of “post-Internet” communication as well a cyberfeminist technology for interfering and in-tervening in metanarratives of technoscience and technocapitalism that structure contemporary media. Significant theoretical valences are established between twen-tieth century literary works of fictocriticism and the hybrid and ephemeral modes of writing endemic to emergent, twenty-first century forms of networked communica-tion such as social media. Through a critical theoretical understanding of paralogy, or that countercultural logic of deploying language outside legitimate discourses, in-volving various tactics of multivocity, mimesis and metagraphy, fictocriticism is ex-plored as a self-referencing linguistic machine which exists intentionally to occupy those liminal territories “somewhere in among/between criticism, autobiography and fiction” (Hunter qtd. in Kerr 1996). Additionally, as a writing practice that orig-inated in Canada and yet remains marginal to national and international literary scholarship, this dissertation elevates the origins and ongoing relevance of fictocriti-cism by mapping its shared aims and concerns onto proximal discourses of post-structuralism, cyberfeminism, network ecology, media art, the avant-garde, glitch feminism, and radical self-authorship in online environments. Theorized in such a matrix, I argue that fictocriticism represents a capacious framework for writing and reading media that embodies the self-reflexive politics of second-order cybernetic theory while disrupting the rhetoric of technoscientific and neoliberal economic forc-es with speech acts of calculated incoherence. Additionally, through the inclusion of my own fictocritical writing as works of research-creation that interpolate the more traditional chapters and subchapters, I theorize and demonstrate praxis of this dis-tinctively indeterminate form of criticism to empirically and meaningfully juxtapose different modes of knowing and speaking about entangled matters of language, bod-ies, and technologies. In its conclusion, this dissertation contends that the “creative paranoia” engendered by fictocritical cyberfeminism in both print and digital media environments offers a pathway towards a more paralogical media literacy that can transform the terms and expectations of our future media ecology
Investigating the Impact of Covid-19 on Mobility Condition.
Having large number of vehicles operating in the freeways of Houston daily, the mobility concern is high as some of the freeways in Houston are among the most congested freeways in United States. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the less congested freeways led to over speeding resulting in various crashes and even fatality. This resulted in changing of drivers; and ultimately the mobility patterns were changed during the study years of 2019, 2020 and 2021. To better understand how this mobility pattern changed over the three years, this research used Machine Learning algorithms to examine the mobility of freeways in Houston during that time. For this purpose, a model was developed using python coding which considered operating speed and other independent variables to understand the change of the traffic mobility. Several methods were used in the study to check the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence modeling. To check how the mobility was impacted over the years, Violin Plots were also plotted to illustrate the change of operating speed from year 2019 to 2021. The results of this research demonstrated that there are eight factors that have significant effects on the vehicular mobility. Among them, annual average daily traffic is the most influencing in traffic mobility study whereas K-factor is the least effective among the selected variables. Relative countermeasures were recommended according to the influencing factors that were identified
Evacuação de Edifícios – Caso de estudo de um edifício escolar
O objetivo deste trabalho é o levantamento dos aspetos que influenciam o tempo de evacuação
num edifício escolar, desde o comportamento humano às caraterísticas físicas do edifício e às
metodologias possíveis de adotar para a gestão da emergência, com vista a calcular o tempo
necessário e disponível para a evacuação do referido edifício. A evacuação de edifícios em
situação de incêndio tem como propósito a proteção da vida humana que é inseparável das
condições de emergência as quais são afetadas por fatores de difícil determinação e que
necessitam de ser definidos para estimar o tempo e as condições de evacuação.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
2007 GREAT Day Program
SUNY Geneseo’s First Annual G.R.E.A.T. Day.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/program-2007/1001/thumbnail.jp
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