Becoming Molecular as a Condition for Creating New Spaces of Freedom

This volume includes texts by authors who are explicitly inspired by the ecosophical pragmatics of Félix Guattari or who resonate with it. Published in a blend of English and Spanish, the thirteen articles were written by researchers, artists, art historians, philosophers, and schizoanalysts from Asia, America, and Europe. Their methods, ideas, and approaches highlight the ability of creative practice to map and engender complex, relational, singularized, transversal, and constitutive forms of life. Departing from bold analyses of capitalism’s mechanisms of subjection, their contributions describe how art is able to resist the repressive politics of dominant representations and mobilize processes of existential heterogenesis through molecular becomings. The origin of this publication is the IV International Symposium Mutant ecologies in contemporary art: machinic capitalism, molecular beings, and subsistence territories that took place online on November 25-26, 2020, which had as special guest the philosopher and art theorist Gerald Raunig. This special issue of the Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art builds on the project started with the book Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona) which investigated the conjunction of the ecological turn in contemporary art and Guattarian ecosophy to inquire about the role of art in light of the challenges posed by the environmental degradation and the socio-political crises of today. Thirty years after Guattari’s death and the publication of Chaosmosis (1992), this collection of texts testifies that Guattari’s clinical and critical analyses continue to infuse artistic, ecological, and political practice with a revolutionary potential.This volume includes texts by authors who are explicitly inspired by the ecosophical pragmatics of Félix Guattari or who resonate with it. Published in a blend of English and Spanish, the thirteen articles were written by researchers, artists, art historians, philosophers, and schizoanalysts from Asia, America, and Europe. Their methods, ideas, and approaches highlight the ability of creative practice to map and engender complex, relational, singularized, transversal, and constitutive forms of life. Departing from bold analyses of capitalism’s mechanisms of subjection, their contributions describe how art is able to resist the repressive politics of dominant representations and mobilize processes of existential heterogenesis through molecular becomings. The origin of this publication is the IV International Symposium Mutant ecologies in contemporary art: machinic capitalism, molecular beings, and subsistence territories that took place online on November 25-26, 2020, which had as special guest the philosopher and art theorist Gerald Raunig. This special issue of the Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art builds on the project started with the book Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona) which investigated the conjunction of the ecological turn in contemporary art and Guattarian ecosophy to inquire about the role of art in light of the challenges posed by the environmental degradation and the socio-political crises of today. Thirty years after Guattari’s death and the publication of Chaosmosis (1992), this collection of texts testifies that Guattari’s clinical and critical analyses continue to infuse artistic, ecological, and political practice with a revolutionary potential.This volume includes texts by authors who are explicitly inspired by the ecosophical pragmatics of Félix Guattari or who resonate with it. Published in a blend of English and Spanish, the thirteen articles were written by researchers, artists, art historians, philosophers, and schizoanalysts from Asia, America, and Europe. Their methods, ideas, and approaches highlight the ability of creative practice to map and engender complex, relational, singularized, transversal, and constitutive forms of life. Departing from bold analyses of capitalism’s mechanisms of subjection, their contributions describe how art is able to resist the repressive politics of dominant representations and mobilize processes of existential heterogenesis through molecular becomings. The origin of this publication is the IV International Symposium Mutant ecologies in contemporary art: machinic capitalism, molecular beings, and subsistence territories that took place online on November 25-26, 2020, which had as special guest the philosopher and art theorist Gerald Raunig. This special issue of the Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art builds on the project started with the book Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art (Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona) which investigated the conjunction of the ecological turn in contemporary art and Guattarian ecosophy to inquire about the role of art in light of the challenges posed by the environmental degradation and the socio-political crises of today. Thirty years after Guattari’s death and the publication of Chaosmosis (1992), this collection of texts testifies that Guattari’s clinical and critical analyses continue to infuse artistic, ecological, and political practice with a revolutionary potential

Extending DBMSs with satellite databases

In this paper, we propose an extensible architecture for database engines where satellite databases are used to scale out and implement additional functionality for a centralized database engine. The architecture uses a middleware layer that offers consistent views and a single system image over a cluster of machines with database engines. One of these engines acts as a master copy while the others are read-only snapshots which we call satellites. The satellites are lightweight DBMSs used for scalability and to provide functionality difficult or expensive to implement in the main engine. Our approach also supports the dynamic creation of satellites to be able to autonomously adapt to varying loads. The paper presents the architecture, discusses the research problems it raises, and validates its feasibility with extensive experimental result

A local-in-time theory for singular SDEs with applications to fluid models with transport noise

In this paper, we establish a local theory, i.e., existence, uniqueness and blow-up criterion, for a general family of singular SDEs in some Hilbert space. The key requirement is an approximation property that allows us to embed the singular drift and diffusion mappings into a hierarchy of regular mappings that are invariant with respect to the Hilbert space and enjoy a cancellation property. Various nonlinear models in fluid dynamics with transport noise belong to this type of singular SDEs. With a cancellation estimate for generalized Lie derivative operators, we can construct such regular approximations for cases involving the Lie derivative operators, or more generally, differential operators of order one with suitable coefficients. In particular, we apply the abstract theory to achieve novel local-in-time results for the stochastic two-component Camassa--Holm (CH) system and for the stochastic C\'ordoba-C\'ordoba-Fontelos (CCF) model

Modelling the field behaviour of a granular expansive barrier

The large scale ‘‘Engineered Barrier’’ (EB) experiment, performed at the Mont Terri Underground Laboratory is described. A coupled hydromechanical model is then used to simulate the test performance. Constitutive parameters for the bentonite granular backfill are based on experimental work described in a companion paper. An elastoplastic model describes the granular fill, while the host rock is simulated by a damage model. Predictions of EDZ development around the tunnel are compared with some indirect measurements. Calculated evolutions of relative humidity and stresses within the buffer are compared with sensor records. Good agreement was found for the bentonite blocks supporting the canister. The granular expansive fill exhibit a more irregular behavior. Calculated displacements of the canister agree in absolute terms with actual measurements.Peer Reviewe

Cost Analysis in a SME: Hotel Picos de Europa

RESUMEN: En este trabajo analizamos las cuentas anuales y realizamos un análisis interno y externo de la empresa con el objetivo de conocer la situación económica y financiera y su situación en el mercado. Tras estos análisis se determina que la situación económico-financiera es algo negativa, ya que no posee demasiada solvencia para pagar sus deudas con entidades de crédito y proveedores, y no tiene demasiada capacidad para convertir sus activos en liquido; aunque esto no supone un gran problema a largo plazo porque sí que es capaz de solventar dichas deudas a un plazo más largo. Y en cuanto a los beneficios de la empresa, vemos que son bastante menores de lo esperado respecto a años anteriores, ya que tiene más gasto por otros activos no comunes debido a una situación especial. Además, también tiene una nueva contratación de personal, por lo que más adelante se mejorara la situación empresarial al equilibrarse este tipo de gasto. En cuanto a la situación en el mercado, después de analizar los entornos internos y externos, vemos que la empresa se encuentra en un entorno adecuado para la actividad empresarial, aunque destaque negativamente en la falta de tecnología y de ecología. En el entorno interno se da una situación similar ya que las empresas con el mismo nivel de competencia tienen características similares a excepción de los resultados económicos, siendo más positivos que los de este hotel. Mediante el análisis DAFO vemos los problemas que existen en la empresa, tanto externos como internos, y así poder buscar posibles soluciones para mejorar el funcionamiento de la empresa; y con la matriz BCG analizamos los productos que ofrece la empresa y su valor dentro de la empresa. Por último, analizamos los problemas que localizamos mediante el análisis DAFO y la matriz BCG, y buscamos posibles soluciones a estos con el fin de obtener mejoras en las ventajas competitivas en el sector. Los principales problemas localizados dentro de la empresa son la competencia procedente de empresas de internet como son Airbnb, para lo cual se recomienda mejorar las ofertas de los servicios, así como de su calidad para atraer más clientes. En cuanto a la competencia procedente de otros hoteles, se recomienda solucionar tanto los problemas de publicidad como de la propia página web, entre otros, para lograr una diferenciación en el sector. ABSTRACT: In this project we analyze the annual accounts and carry out an internal and external analysis of the company with the objective of knowing the economic and financial situation and its situation in the market. Following these analyses it is determined that the economic-financial situation is somewhat negative, since it does not have too much solvency to pay its debts to credit institutions and suppliers, and does not have much capacity to convert its assets into liquid; although this does not pose a big problem in the long term because it is capable of settling these debts in the longer term. And as for the profits of the company, we see that they are quite lower than expected compared to previous years, as it has more expense for other non common assets due to a special situation. In addition, it also has a new recruitment of staff, so that the business situation will be improved later by balancing this type of costs. As for the market situation, after analysing the internal and external environments, we see that the company is not in a negative situation in the external environment, since the most harmful thing is the lack of technology and ecology, and in this sector it is not a very important factor. In the internal environment there is a similar situation since companies with the same level of competition have similar characteristics except for the economic results, being more positive than those of this hotel. Through the SWOT analysis and the BCG matrix we find the problems that the company has, as well as the products offered more and less profitable, and then show possible solutions to these problems to achieve improvements in the competitive advantages in the industry. Finally, we analyze the problems we locate through the SWOT analysis and the BCG matrix, and look for possible solutions to these in order to obtain improvements in the competitive advantages in the sector. The main problems located within the company are the competition from internet companies such as Airbnb, for which it is recommended to improve the offers of the services as well as their quality to attract more customers. As regard to competition from other hotels, it is recommended to solve both the advertising problems and the website itself, among others, to achieve a differentiation in the sector.Grado en Administración y Dirección de Empresa

Politics and Red Tape

Panel Chair: Scott Cheney Papers Presented: The Outcome of the Forgotten by Alexandra Quinn Domingue The Echo Chamber by John Frick Abstract: Political polarization seems to be rising in America and indeed across the world, and there does not seem to be a clear explanation of the reason behind it. Some attribute it to international events such as 9/11, while others blame the millennial generation; yet what if it is something else entirely? What if our ever increasing dependence on social media for news can have adverse effects on the political climate? The “echo chamber” in this case refers to the idea that social media users will often delete or unfollow other users who have different opinions; this leads to those users then only getting responses agreeing with their political views, with no one left to challenge them. This effect might then lead those same users to vote differently, or become more radical in their views, as they will be increasingly susceptible to groupthink. Not only were these ideas discussed in the paper, taking into account modern political context, but two polls were conducted, with a combined 1,845 respondents. Through the collection of this data, the “echo chamber” idea can be put into context. Keywords: Politics, Polling, Elections, Social Media, Media Why do Americans consider Mexican Immigrants a Problem? By Christian Alonso Hernandez Immigration: Criminal or Constructive by Caroline Dillar

Photometric analysis of the eclipsing binary 2MASS 19090585+4911585

We report on observations of the eclipsing binary 2MASS 19090585+4911585 with the 25 cm auxiliary telescope of the University Observatory Jena. We show that a nearby brighter star (2MASS 19090783+4912085) was previously misclassified as the eclipsing binary and find 2MASS 19090585+4911585 to be the true source of variation. We present photometric analysis of VRI light curves. The system is an overcontact binary of W UMa type with an orbital period of (0.288374 +/- 0.000010) d.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in A