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Final report : task 4 : waste minimisation in construction
The Regenerating Construction Project for the CRC for Construction Innovation aims to
assist in the delivery of demonstrably superior âgreenâ buildings. Components of the
project address eco-efficient redesign, achieving a smaller ecological footprint,
enhancing indoor environment and minimising waste in design and construction. The
refurbishment of Council House 1 for Melbourne City Council provides an opportunity
to develop and demonstrate tools that will be of use for commercial building
refurbishment generally. It is hoped that the refurbishment will act as an exemplar
project to demonstrate environmentally friendly possibilities for office building
refurbishment
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Child As Metaphor: Colonialism, Psy-Governance, and Epistemicide
This paper mobilizes transdisciplinary inquiry to explore and deconstruct the often-used comparison of racialized/colonized people, intellectually disabled people and mad people as being like children. To be childlike is a metaphor that is used to denigrate, to classify as irrational and incompetent, to dismiss as not being knowledge holders, to justify governance and action on othersâ behalf, to deem as being animistic, as undeveloped, underdeveloped or wrongly developed, and, hence, to subjugate. We explore the political work done by the metaphorical appeal to childhood, and particularly the centrality of the metaphor of childhood to legitimizing colonialism and white supremacy. The article attends to the ways in which this metaphor contributes to the shaping of the material and discursive realities of racialized and colonized others, as well as those who have been psychiatrized and deemed âintellectually disabledâ. Further, we explore specific metaphors of child-colony, and child-mad-âcripâ. We then detail the developmental logic underlying the historical and continued use of the metaphorics of childhood, and explore how this makes possible an infantilization of colonized peoples and the global South more widely. The material and discursive impact of this metaphor on childrenâs lives, and particularly children who are racialized, colonized, and/or deemed mad or âcripâ, is then considered. We argue that complex adult-child relations, sane-mad relations and Western-majority world relations within global psychiatry, are situated firmly within pejorative notions of what it means to be childlike, and reproduce multi-systemic forms of oppression that, ostensibly in their âbest interestsâ, govern children and all those deemed childlike
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Writing space, living space: time, agency and place relations in Herodotusâs Histories
This chapter examines lived space in Herodotusâs Historiesâ and explores how the picture that emerges differs from abstract depictions of space. Such overly schematic representations we see articulated by the Persians at the very beginning of the Histories, or explicitly challenged by Herodotus when he âlaughs atâ the maps produced by his Ionian contemporaries that similarly divide the world into two regions of equal size (4.36.2), or more subtly undercut when Aristagoras turns up with just such a map and puts it to service an argument in favour of conquest. In particular, we want to challenge conventional readings of a polarised world of East versus West, which, while grounded in Herodotusâs concern to show how âGreeks and barbarians came into conflict with each otherâ (1.1), fail to take into account either Herodotusâs implicit rejection of the Persian model of an Asia-Europe divide in favour of an inquiry that recognises that places change over time, or the extent to which Herodotus or his historical agents relate those places to each other. Using key features of lived spaceâtime, agency and relationâ, we sketch out the beginnings of a network analysis of book 5, backed up by a close textual study of the bookâs opening episode. Both methods help to unpack the idea of the Historiesâ lived space that underpins and greatly complicates the historical agentsâ own understanding of the world around them
New materialism and runaway capitalism: a critical assessment
The âreturn to materialityâ is a burgeoning phenomenon in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities. New materialists make a case against cultural constructionism and for a nondualist account of the world as comprised of fluid, ever-changing entities. This would allegedly offer grounds for an embodied, post-humanist emancipatory politics. The article problematizes such claim. By relying on techno-scientific accounts of materiality, new materialism embroils with the analytics of truth, neglecting how nondualist ontologies underpin today intensifying forms of domination over humans and nonhumans. A âcriticalâ humanism is needed, which refrains from ambivalent post-humanist narratives without reverting to dualist thinking. To this purpose Heidegger offers valuable insights.El âregreso a la materialidadâ es un fenĂłmeno floreciente en la filosofĂa, las ciencias sociales y las humanidades. Los nuevos materialistas desarrollan argumentos en contra del construccionismo cultural y a favor de un relato no dualista del mundo, compuesto de entidades fluidas y en constante cambio. Esto presuntamente ofrecerĂa fundamentos para una polĂtica emancipatoria de carĂĄcter post-humanista. El artĂculo problematiza tal afirmaciĂłn. Al confiar en los relatos tecnocientĂficos de la materialidad, el nuevo materialismo se ha embrollado con la analĂtica de la verdad, descuidando cĂłmo las ontologĂas no dualistas sustentan hoy formas intensificadoras de dominaciĂłn sobre los humanos y los no humanos. Se necesita un humanismo âcrĂticoâ, que se abstenga de las narrativas ambivalentes post-humanistas sin volver al pensamiento dualista. Con este propĂłsito, Heidegger ofrece ideas valiosas
Reconsidering Resistance in the Post-Human Era
User resistance to new technology has long been a central concern to the information systems discipline. The current discourse on âsociomaterialityâ invites us to rethink what resistance means in individual terms. This essay represents a preliminary effort to recast resistance as a phenomenon that reflects the politics of personal boundaries. Sociomateriality figures into the discussion because it challenges distinctions that have customarily been assumed to hold between the human and social, on the one hand, and the material and technological, on the other. Notwithstanding this challenge, however, to make progress in understanding resistance, we must recognize that the dissolution of such distinctions is a pragmatic accomplishment. Here I propose that it is useful to view the individual as having personal boundaries that flex with the tasks and technologies that are engaged. Resistance, then, arises when new technologies pose disruptive and undesired changes to those boundaries
Thinking outside the ROCs: Designing Decorrelated Taggers (DDT) for jet substructure
We explore the scale-dependence and correlations of jet substructure
observables to improve upon existing techniques in the identification of highly
Lorentz-boosted objects. Modified observables are designed to remove
correlations from existing theoretically well-understood observables, providing
practical advantages for experimental measurements and searches for new
phenomena. We study such observables in jet tagging and provide
recommendations for observables based on considerations beyond signal and
background efficiencies
Historical sociology, international relations and connected histories
This article addresses three recent developments in historical sociology: (1) neo-Weberian historical sociology within International Relations; (2) the 'civilizational analysis' approach utilized by scholars of 'multiple modernities'; and (3) the 'third wave' cultural turn in US historical sociology. These developments are responses to problems identified within earlier forms of historical sociology, but it is suggested each fails to resolve them precisely because each remains contained within the methodological framework of historical sociology as initially conceived. It is argued that their common problem lies in the utilization of 'ideal types' as the basis for sociohistorical analysis. This necessarily has the effect of abstracting a set of particular relations from their wider connections and has the further effect of suggesting sui generis endogenous processes as integral to these relations. In this way, each of the three developments continues the Eurocentrism typical of earlier approaches. The article concludes with a call for 'connected histories' to provide a more adequate methodological and substantive basis for an historical sociology appropriate to calls for a properly global historical sociology
Between Analogue and Digital Diagrams
This essay is about the interstitial. About how the diagram, as a method of design, has lead fromthe analogue deconstruction of the eighties to the digital processes of the turn of the millennium.Specifically, the main topic of the text is the interpretation and the critique of folding (as a diagram)in the beginning of the nineties. It is necessary then to unfold its relationship with immediatelypreceding and following architectural trends, that is to say we have to look both backwards andforwards by about a decade. The question is the context of folding, the exchange of the analogueworld for the digital. To understand the process it is easier to investigate from the fields of artand culture, rather than from the intentionally perplicated1 thoughts of Gilles Deleuze. Both fieldsare relevant here because they can similarly be used as the yardstick against which the era itselfit measured. The cultural scene of the eighties and nineties, including performing arts, movies,literature and philosophy, is a wide milieu of architecture. Architecture responds parallel to itsera; it reacts to it, and changes with it and within it. Architecture is a medium, it has always beena medium, yet the relations are transformed. That's not to say that technical progress, for exampleusing CAD-software and CNC-s, has led to the digital thinking of certain movements ofarchitecture, (it is at most an indirect tool). But the âup-to-dateness' of the discipline, however,a kind of non-servile reading of an âapplied culture' or âused philosophy'2 could be the key.(We might recall here, parenthetically, the fortunes of the artistic in contemporary mass society.The proliferation of museums, the magnification of the figure of the artist, the existence of amassive consumption of printed and televised artistic images, the widespread appetite for informationabout the arts, all reflect, of course, an increasingly leisured society, but also relateprecisely to the fact that, faced with the tedium of everyday, real, lived experience, of the scientificillusion, of work and production, the world of art appears as a kind of last preserve of reality,where human beings can still find sustenance. Art is understood as being a space in whichthe fatigue of the contemporary subject can be salved away.)
Reconsidering Public Relationsâ Infatuation with Dialogue: Why Engagement and Reconciliation Can Be More Ethical Than Symmetry and Reciprocity
Advocates of dialogic communication have promoted two-way symmetrical communication as the most effective and ethical model for public relations. This article uses John Durham Petersâs critique of dialogic communication to reconsider this infatuation with dialogue. In this article, we argue that dialogueâs potential for selectivity and tyranny poses moral problems for public relations. Dialogueâs emphasis on reciprocal communication also saddles public relations with ethically questionable quid pro quo relationships. We contend that dissemination can be more just than dialogue because it demands more integrity of the source and recognizes the freedom and individuality of the source. The type of communication, such as dialogue or dissemination, is less important than the mutual discovery of truth. Reconciliation, a new model of public relations, is proposed as an alternative to pure dialogue. Reconciliation recognizes and values individuality and differences, and integrity is no longer sacrificed at the altar of agreement
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