Three poems

This contribution contains three poems. Two -- "Bay Landscape" and "Waste" -- are about pollution, cancer, art and loss of one's mother. The third, "To You Who Have Been Invaded by America," is an antiwar poem.Esta contribución contiene tres poemas. Dos de ellos "Bay Landscape" y "Waste" - tratan de la polución, el cáncer, el arte y la pérdida de la madre. El tercero, "To You Who Have Been Invaded by America," es un poema antibélico

\u3cem\u3eGray Toad\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eColor of the Season\u3c/em\u3e by Ōte Takuji

Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Dean A. Brink

Situating a Badiouian Anthropocene in Hagiwara\u27s Postnatural Poetry

In his article Situating a Badiouian Anthropocene in Hagiwara\u27s Postnatural Poetry Dean A. Brink discusses the ecological dimension of the poetry of one of the founding voices in modern Japanese poetry, Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886-1942). Brink argues that Hagiwara developed a poetics characterized by engagements with nonhuman organisms and actants to situate the materiality of these actants in ways that diffuse the binary of language and nature and present a postnatural relationality that Bruno Latour describes. Drawing on the recent work of Alain Badiou, Brink explores materialist alternatives to representationalism—including the Lacanian triangle of the imaginary real and symbolic—by emphasizing human-nonhuman relations and Badiouian models of change in reading poetry in the Anthropocene

Three poems

This contribution contains three poems. Two -- "Bay Landscape" and "Waste" -- are about pollution, cancer, art and loss of one's mother. The third, "To You Who Have Been Invaded by America," is an antiwar poem.Esta contribución contiene tres poemas. Dos de ellos "Bay Landscape" y "Waste" - tratan de la polución, el cáncer, el arte y la pérdida de la madre. El tercero, "To You Who Have Been Invaded by America," es un poema antibélico

\u3cem\u3eTwelve Tanka on Scooters\u3c/em\u3e by Huang Minhuei

Translated from the Japanese by Dean A. Brink

Cheerful Dissensus: Almighty Satirical Poetry Columns in Neoliberalist Japan

[[abstract]]This essay demonstrates how ‘current events senryū’ has grafted onto the intertextual structuration of traditional Japanese poetics a foregrounding of contemporary events. As premodern Japanese poetic forms (such as haiku) depend upon working in tandem with matrices of conventional uses and associations, their intertextual deference is extreme. In modern writing, this extreme intertextuality allows foregrounding of multiple intertexts from various discourses, so as to bring to bear a density of reference in the poetry. In articulating satirical observations of current events, senryū borrows only this conventional form of extreme intertextuality while largely abandoning (or at best parodying) conventional associations of such poetic matrices of conventional phrasings and association (common to literary senryū and haiku). Thus contemporary discourses fulfil the formal function of the poetic matrices, obviating conventional coordinates of linear expressivity in prose or free verse. This satirical poetry's radically intertextual articulations necessarily assert choices of attention as constitutive originary discourses or proto-discursive utterances capable of defying the status quo postmodern deferral of meaning and concomitant reproduction of a static ‘social’ that Baudrillard describes, and sustain what Jacques Rancière calls dissensus in the redefining of what is visible in the ‘distribution of the sensible’.[[incitationindex]]SSCI[[incitationindex]]A&HCI[[booktype]]紙

Study of the Role of Vocational Agriculture Teachers in Environmental Awareness in Oklahoma

Agricultural Educatio

Pairing Reentrance Phenomenon in Heated Rotating Nuclei in the Shell Model Monte Carlo Approach

Rotational motion of heated 72-Ge is studied within the microscopic Shell Model Monte Carlo approach. We investigate the the angular momentum alignment and nuclear pairing correlations associated with J-pi Cooper pairs as a function of the rotational frequency and temperature. The reentrance of pairing correlations with temperature is predicted at high rotational frequencies. It manifests itself through the anomalous behavior of specific heat and level density.Comment: 4 pages; 4 figure

Spin excitations in a single La2_2CuO4_4 layer

The dynamics of S=1/2 quantum spins on a 2D square lattice lie at the heart of the mystery of the cuprates \cite{Hayden2004,Vignolle2007,Li2010,LeTacon2011,Coldea2001,Headings2010,Braicovich2010}. In bulk cuprates such as \LCO{}, the presence of a weak interlayer coupling stabilizes 3D N\'{e}el order up to high temperatures. In a truly 2D system however, thermal spin fluctuations melt long range order at any finite temperature \cite{Mermin1966}. Further, quantum spin fluctuations transfer magnetic spectral weight out of a well-defined magnon excitation into a magnetic continuum, the nature of which remains controversial \cite{Sandvik2001,Ho2001,Christensen2007,Headings2010}. Here, we measure the spin response of \emph{isolated one-unit-cell thick layers} of \LCO{}. We show that coherent magnons persist even in a single layer of \LCO{} despite the loss of magnetic order, with no evidence for resonating valence bond (RVB)-like spin correlations \cite{Anderson1987,Hsu1990,Christensen2007}. Thus these excitations are well described by linear spin wave theory (LSWT). We also observe a high-energy magnetic continuum in the isotropic magnetic response. This high-energy continuum is not well described by 2 magnon LSWT, or indeed any existing theories.Comment: Revised version to appear in Nature Materials; 6 pages,4 figure