Penser la mort, comme travail et comme besoin

Les objets de nos pensées nous fascinent. Il nous devient alors plus difficile d’observer le processus même qui nous permet de penser ainsi que le travail d’abstraction et de condensation qu’il requiert. Par ailleurs, l’expérience que nous faisons de notre capacité de penser se vit comme un besoin, qu’il s’agisse du besoin de penser ou de celui d’arrêter de penser! La mort peut parfois faire l’objet de nos pensées, penser à la mort ou penser la mort peut parfois être expérimenté comme un besoin ; mais, ultimement, ce qui fait que nous soyons en train de penser, c’est que nous sommes engagés sans réserve dans l’activité qui consiste à vivre.We are so enthralled by the subjects of our thoughts that we find it more difficult to observe the process that makes thinking possible or the abstraction and condensation that thinking entails. Furthermore, we experience our capacity to think as a need, whether as a need to think or a need to stop thinking ! Sometimes, the subject of our thoughts may be death, and we may sometimes experience thinking about or imagining death as a need. Ultimately, though, what makes us think is the activity of being fully alive

CONTRÔLER POUR PENSER, PENSER POUR CONTRÔLER.

Si les apports de Mary P. Follett à la réflexion managériale commencent à être reconnus, sa contribution à la compréhension du concept de contrôle est ignorée. Elle est pourtant originale : contrôler pour cet auteur, c'est créer les conditions pour que les managers n'apprennent pas seulement à agir, mais aussi et surtout à penserFollett; contrôle de gestion; cohérence; cohésion

Solving headswitching translation cases in LFG-DOT

It has been shown that LFG-MT (Kaplan et al., 1989) has difficulties with Headswitching data (Sadler et al., 1989, 1990; Sadler & Thompson, 1991). We revisit these arguments in this paper. Despite attempts at solving these problematic constructions using approaches based on linear logic (Van Genabith et al., 1998) and restriction (Kaplan & Wedekind, 1993), we point out further problems which are introduced. We then show how LFG-DOP (Bod & Kaplan, 1998) can be extended to serve as a novel hybrid model for MT, LFG-DOT (Way, 1999, 2001), which promises to improve upon the DOT model of translation (Poutsma 1998, 2000) as well as LFG-MT. LFG-DOT improves the robustness of LFG-MT through the use of the LFG-DOP Discard operator, which produces generalized fragments by discarding certain f-structure features. LFG-DOT can, therefore, deal with ill-formed or previously unseen input where LFG-MT cannot. Finally, we demonstrate that LFG-DOT can cope with such translational phenomena which prove problematic for other LFG-based models of translation

Metering gun for dispensing precisely measured charges of fluid

A cyclically operable fluid dispenser for use in dispensing precisely measured charges of potable water aboard spacecraft is described. The dispenser is characterized by (1) a sealed housing adapted to be held within a crewman's palm and coupled with a pressurized source of potable water; (2) a dispensing jet projected from the housing and configured to be received within a crewman's lips; (3) an expansible measuring chamber for measuring charges of drinking water received from the source; (4) and a dispenser actuator including a lever extended from the housing to be digitated for initiating operational cycles, whereby precisely measured charges of potable water selectively are delivered for drinking purposes in a weightless environment