"On the Spot": travelling artists and Abolitionism, 1770-1830

Until recently the visual culture of Atlantic slavery has rarely been critically scrutinised. Yet in the first decades of the nineteenth century slavery was frequently represented by European travelling artists, often in the most graphic, sometimes voyeuristic, detail. This paper examines the work of several itinerant artists, in particular Augustus Earle (1793-1838) and Agostino Brunias (1730–1796), whose very mobility along the edges of empire was part of a much larger circulatory system of exchange (people, goods and ideas) and diplomacy that characterised Europe’s Age of Expansion. It focuses on the role of the travelling artist, and visual culture more generally, in the development of British abolitionism between 1770 and 1830. It discusses the broad circulation of slave imagery within European culture and argues for greater recognition of the role of such imagery in the abolitionist debates that divided Britain. Furthermore, it suggests that the epistemological authority conferred on the travelling artist—the quintessential eyewitness—was key to the rhetorical power of his (rarely her) images. Artists such as Earle viewed the New World as a boundless source of fresh material that could potentially propel them to fame and fortune. Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858), on the other hand, was conscious of contributing to a global scientific mission, a Humboldtian imperative that by the 1820s propelled him and others to travel beyond the traditional itinerary of the Grand Tour. Some artists were implicated in the very fabric of slavery itself, particularly those in the British West Indies such as William Clark (working 1820s) and Richard Bridgens (1785-1846); others, particularly those in Brazil, expressed strong abolitionist sentiments. Fuelled by evangelical zeal to record all aspects of the New World, these artists recognised the importance of representing the harsh realities of slave life. Unlike those in the metropole who depicted slavery (most often in caustic satirical drawings), many travelling artists believed strongly in the evidential value of their images, a value attributed to their global mobility. The paper examines the varied and complex means by which visual culture played a significant and often overlooked role in the political struggles that beset the period

Foucault, the museum and the diagram

Foucault’s work on the museum is partial and fragmentary but provides an interesting opportunity through which to explore issues of power, subjectivity and imagination. Following a discussion of Deleuze’s reading of Foucault and his introduction of the issue of diagram as a way of understanding the discursive and visual operation of power, the paper explores some of Foucault’s work from the period around 1967-9 on the non-relation to explore how he engaged with the question of seeing/saying that Deleuze identifies as a key problematic in his work. Through analysis of Foucault’s discussions of the themes of the outside, heterotopia and the work of the painter Manet, in the context of the museum, the paper explores how power operating through the diagram of the museum allows us to understand the space of imagination as one in which subjectivity is constituted

Science and perception of nature British landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century

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Zusammenstellung der Genehmigungswerte fuer Ableitungen radioaktiver Stoffe mit der Fortluft und dem Abwasser aus kerntechnischen Anlagen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Stand Juli 2000)

Der vorliegende Bericht enthaelt in tabellarischer Uebersicht die Genehmigungswerte fuer Ableitungen radioaktiver Stoffe mit der Fortluft und dem Abwasser aus den kerntechnischen Anlagen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Es wurden die in Betrieb befindlichen und die abgeschalteten bzw. stillgelegten Kernkraftwerke und Forschungsreaktoren sowie die hier relevanten Anlagen des Kernbrennstoffkreislaufs und die Forschungszentren beruecksichtigt. Aufgefuehrt sind die derzeit gueltigen Grenzwerte fuer Ableitungen radioaktiver Stoffe, wie sie in den Genehmigungsbescheiden nach dem Atomgesetz (AtG) im Zusammenhang mit Paragraph 46 der Strahlenschutzverordnung (StrlSchV) durch die jeweils zustaendige Landesbehoerde festgelegt und in den entsprechenden Genehmigungsbescheiden veroeffentlicht wurden. Die Grenzwerte fuer Ableitungen radioaktiver Stoffe mit dem Abwasser sind fuer einige Anlagen ausschliesslich durch die nach Wasserrecht zustaendigen Behoerden festgelegt. Die Angabe der Aktivitaet erfolgte durchgaengig in Bequerel (Bq) und bezogen auf die jeweils relevanten Zeitraeume. Der Bericht wird fortgeschrieben und bei Bedarf aktualisiert herausgegeben. (orig.)The report summarises the prescribed limits for radioactive discharges from the nuclear facilities in the Federal Republic of Germany. All nuclear power plants and major research reactors in operation and those already shut down or decommissioned as well as the facilities of the nuclear fuel cycle and research centres have been considered. The limits for emissions of radioactive substances have been set by the licensing authorities of the Federal States (Laender) during the licensing procedures for nuclear facilities pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act and according to paragraph 46 of the Radiation Protection Ordinance. They are published in the corresponding license notifications. All activity values are generally indicated in Bequerel (Bq) for each relevant period of time. This report reflects the status of July 2000 and will be updated and published as required. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RR 1571(25/00) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman