Computable Rationality, NUTS, and the Nuclear Leviathan

This paper explores how the Leviathan that projects power through nuclear arms exercises a unique nuclearized sovereignty. In the case of nuclear superpowers, this sovereignty extends to wielding the power to destroy human civilization as we know it across the globe. Nuclearized sovereignty depends on a hybrid form of power encompassing human decision-makers in a hierarchical chain of command, and all of the technical and computerized functions necessary to maintain command and control at every moment of the sovereign's existence: this sovereign power cannot sleep. This article analyzes how the form of rationality that informs this hybrid exercise of power historically developed to be computable. By definition, computable rationality must be able to function without any intelligible grasp of the context or the comprehensive significance of decision-making outcomes. Thus, maintaining nuclearized sovereignty necessarily must be able to execute momentous life and death decisions without the type of sentience we usually associate with ethical individual and collective decisions

NEWSPAPER IDEOLOGY: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON 2002 BALI BOMBING AND PAPUA CONFLICT REPORTED BY SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

SMH is written with social, cultural and ideological context of Australian societies so what is written in thenewspaper is the reflections of Australia’s views towards certain issues it is reported, therefore, as one ofthe influential Australian printed mass media, SMH is assumed to view the issues in Indonesia such asPapua Conflict and 2002 Bali Bombings from its particular point of view. This research paper, hence, isaimed at describing, interpreting and explaining the ideology represented in the lexical choices, used inSMH. To uncover those ideologies, Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Halliday’sSystemic functional Grammar (SFG) were used. There are two allotments of social actors described in thisresearch, the Out groups who are those of having different point of view from the SMH in examining theissues and the In groups who have the same point of view as the media at looking at the issues. The researchfindings show that mostly the Out groups were evaluated negatively. This evaluation is as the reflection ofAustralia’s different ideologies from Indonesia, its interest towards Indonesia particularly Papua,Australia’s anxiety towards JI movement and it’s sensitivity that JI is considered as a threat for Australiaand its assets

Moral and Ecological Function of Students' Upbringing

The paper considers some social problems and consequences of the consumer attitude of man and modern society to nature. The necessity of changing the stereotypes of man and nature interaction and forming man's reasonable needs is stressed. It is argued that human mentality and value reference points need changing by means of upbringing. The authors develop questions related to the upgrade of higher school in Russia and to the use of functionalist ideas in the upbringing process of higher education institutions. The pedagogical model of implementing the moral and ecological function of students' upbringing at a higher education institution is developed and represented. It includes interrelated structural components: motivational and goal-related, axiological, content-related, technological and final one. The paper reveals the essence of such notions as "new social and ecological ideal", "moral and ecological function of upbringing", "ecological and humanist values". An analysis of upbringing process at a higher education institution is presented from the standpoint of competency-based approach. The researchers underline the significance of art in forming the personality's ecological and humanist values. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd

Local and official forms of symbolic control: An Australian case study of the pedagogic work of para-educational personnel

In this paper an analysis is undertaken of the accounts of pedagogic work provided by para-educational personnel working in two government-funded schools situated in a low socio-economic area of an Australian city. Specifically, the paper examines the accounts of two para-educational personnel who identified as Samoan/Pacific Islander and worked to improve the educational outcomes of students from the local Samoan/Pacific Islander community. It is argued that the pedagogic work of para-educational personnel may play an important role in redistributing discursive (informational) resources transmitted through schooling institutions. However, the positioning of para-educational personnel in the field of the local community and the field of education regulates the form/modality of pedagogic work, that is, what is taught and how it is taught. Moreover, the content and form of pedagogic work has the potential for realising inclusive and/or exclusive relations for students from disadvantaged backgrounds

PRACTICE-ORIENTED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES OF THE CHILDREN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION AS A TOOL TO FORM THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH-GRADERS’ ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY

The Article covers the problem of forming form the seventh and eighth-graders’ environmental responsibility in additional (informal education), which is caused by focus of the modern education on forming  the environment-orientated moral personality qualities, which can assure the switching of the society over to the sustainable development; by significant possibilities of the children environmental associations in developing the  environmental responsibility, and the lack of scientifically substantiated, approbated practice-oriented programs favoring the solution to this problem. The article is aimed at substantiating the specificity of a goal, content-related, procedural and technological components of the program of activities of the children environmental association “My environmental responsibility: to the co-creation with the nature”; opening of the pedagogical раскрытие педагогического tools of diagnostics of its efficiency, presentation of results of the program implementation in the educational practice.   As the leading theoretical methods, simulation and designing were used, which make it possible to develop the key structural components of the program.     The basic empirical method of the research is a pedagogical experiment, during which the program efficiency was diagnosed in terms of criteria and indicators of maturity of the environmental responsibility components with 210 members of the children environmental associations at the age from 11 to 14 years old.    The article considers the theoretical and methodological basis of the program, which includes the ideas of ecohumanism, coevolution and sustainable development; an axiological, personal-activity and ecopsychological approaches, which provide for an organization of the developing ecology-оriented educational environment of the children association as a tool of  forming the environmental responsibility. The article presents the program content, which consists of two components (external and internal components), discusses the succession of forming the environmental responsibility, which includes four stages and substantiates a technology of forming the environmental responsibility in the children association, which is presented by a system of environmentally responsible businesses. The article materials are of practical value to school teachers, additional education teachers, students of pedagogical specialties and advisers of children environmental associations. 

The When (and How) of Intergroup Competition and Discrimination: Distinguishing the Contributions of Competitive Perceptions and Motivations

A new framework is proposed to examine the effects of intergroup competition on discrimination by assessing the influence of participants’ subjective construal of potentially competitive events. It posits that competitive intergroup perceptions (CIP; the perception that one’s ingroup and another group(s) are attempting to gain a reward or desired outcome at the expense of each other) and competitive intergroup motivations (CIM; the desire for one’s ingroup to acquire more of a reward than the other group(s)) are related but distinct constructs. This distinction implies that CIP and CIM should be strongly related, but not to the point of suggesting they are the same variable. A distinction between CIP and CIM also implies that both constructs can be elicited and experimentally manipulated independently of each other. Most importantly, this distinction implies that both constructs will have unique influences on intergroup behaviour. Although this approach has not been systematically investigated previously, the intergroup relations literature suggests two potential explanations by which CIP and CIM may lead to discrimination: i) CIP and CIM have unique, additive effects on intergroup discrimination (the independence perspective); and ii) CIM is the primary contributor to discrimination, such that CIM is more strongly related with discriminatory behaviour than CIP, and that CIP leads to discriminatory behaviour only when CIM is strong (the motivational perspective). These ideas were examined in three studies that assessed and/or manipulated self-reported CIP and CIM within an intergroup context, then assessed discriminatory intentions or behaviour towards a relevant outgroup. The results of these studies collectively supported the construct validity of the proposed framework: CIP and CIM were positively and non-redundantly related with each other, affected to differing degrees by experimental manipulations that were designed for each variable, and had generally distinct influences on intergroup behaviour. Studies 1-3 generally attested to the primary role of CIM over CIP in predicting intergroup discrimination; however, Studies 2-3 illustrated that experimentally-augmented levels of CIM did not lead to very strong discriminatory behaviour without high levels of CIP. The proposed framework may be instrumental in generating more thorough insights on the processes and social consequences of competitive group dynamics

Human Ecology, Process Philosophy and the Global Ecological Crisis

This paper argues that human ecology, based on process philosophy and challenging scientific materialism, is required to effectively confront the global ecological crisis now facing us

THE STRATEGY OF THE TEXT AND THE STRUCTURAL RELATIONSTO EXERCISE SUNDANESE CRITICS’ IDEOLOGICAL HEGEMONY

The action of mind control in Media is executed to reproduce dominance and hegemony. This mind control, however, should be performed less resist and even find “natural”. Van Dijk in Schiffrin (2001:357) argues discursive, a function of the structures and strategies of text, involve in mind control. To perform it, the use of particular strategy may trigger the use of structural relation. In reality, how Ajip Rosidi acted to control Sundaneses may lead to the questions: (1)cwhat textual strategy is applied in the discourse, and (2) what structural relations are developed to reproduce Sundanese critics’ ideological hegemony

Human Ecology, Process Philosophy and the Global Ecological Crisis

This paper argues that human ecology, based on process philosophy and challenging scientific materialism, is required to effectively confront the global ecological crisis now facing us