To Live Deliciously : The Imaginary Father in Robert Eggers\u27 The Witch

In this essay I re-examine the archetype of the witch, long viewed in scholarship as the antagonist of the Symbolic Order and phallocentric structures of oppression, through an analysis of Robert Eggers’ supernatural horror film, The Witch (2015). Bringing together Julia Kristeva’s work on primary narcissism and identification and Justyna Sempruch’s analysis of the witch as a trace of archaic, semiotic origins, I argue that the witch can be viewed as a representation of the Imaginary Father, the site of maternal desire that assists the child in its transition from the maternal body to the Symbolic. Specifically, this essay analyzes the film for the way in which it positions the witch, not merely as an antagonist, but as a comforting figure that manifests in an intrasymbolic space as an ideal Third Party comprised of the maternal desire for the Phallus and the daughter’s need for maternal Love that will usher the subject into the narcissistic void necessary for abjection. Through Eggers’ exploitation of maternal imagery, specifically emphasizing womb-like imagery and depictions of the Freudian primal scene, the witch comes to serve, in Sempruch’s view, a type of umbilical cord that I argue leads the subject to a primary identification, not merely with the Phallus, but the maternal desire for the Phallus, that effectively pluralizes subjectivity

The Maternal Assemblage: Nonprocreative Maternity as Contagion and Resistance

This article analyzes the consistent problematic of nonprocreative maternal identity, specifically its positioning in a heteronormative symbolic framework as the antithesis of biological or “real” motherhood. Using Lee Edelman’s work on the queer body’s relationship to a futural horizon, the first part addresses how the epistemological framework whereby nonprocreative maternal bodies are subjected to the image of the Child, a fantasy of wholeness, thematizes the nonprocreative maternal body as deviant and enacts a logic of repetition that supplements a heteronormative future. The second portion of this essay illustrates how, due to the monomaternalist matrix’s refusal to accept it as legitimate, the nonprocreative mother is effectively cast outside the symbolic network of heteronormativity, thereby affording it a heightened level of interconnectivity with other “deviant” bodies.1 This, as the article demonstrates, results in the formation of a maternal assemblage, a collection of disparate bodies connected by contagion, rather than in the reproduction of a heteronormative future. In the concluding section, this essay argues that the nonstratified maternal assemblage produces a queer child, an offspring that does not reorient and supplement the heteronormative structure but instead challenges it by infecting the futural horizon the child inhabits with alterity and difference

Profile of darunavir in the management of treatment-experienced HIV patients

Darunavir (formerly TMC114) is a second-generation, sulfonamide-based, peptidomimetic protease inhibitor (PI) with a modified 3-dimensional structure enabling more efficient binding to HIV protease. It has become an important drug, in combination with low-dose ritonavir boosting, in the treatment of both antiretroviral-naïve and multiclass-experienced patients. Growing data now exist suggesting it possesses a high barrier to resistance and requires multiple PI mutations in order to suffer reduced virological potency

Key Information Technology Issues In Higher Education In The 1990s

The results of a delphi survey of the key information technology (IT) issues facing IS managers in college and universities in the U.S. in the 1990s are reported in this paper. The participants represent 161 colleges and universities that grant at least baccalaureate degrees. The study is similar to those conducted by the Society for Information Management (SIM) and the MIS Research Center (MISRC) at the University of Minnesota which have focused almost exclusively on the private sector, and studies sponsored by CAUSE, a nonprofit association concerned with the use and management of information technology in higher education. The purpose of the research is to identify the key issues facing higher education IS managers in the U.S. in the 1990s. This paper reports that the rank ordering of the key issues for the respondent institutions. The top key issues for research institutions include integrating new technologies into existing systems; improving user access to IS and communications systems; integrating systems and local area networks; managing administrative data resources; developing administrative support systems; establishing an information technology architecture; and improving IS strategic planning. Also reported are the issues on which significant differences exist between research and nonresearch institutions. The results indicate that the most critical IT issue facing public, nonresearch institutions is fundin

Role of raltegravir in the management of HIV-1 infection

The development of multiple agents with potent antiretroviral activity against HIV has ushered in a new age of optimism in the management of patients infected with the virus. However, the viruses’ dynamic ability to develop resistance against these agents necessitates the investigation of novel targets for viral suppression. Raltegravir represents a first-in-class agent targeting the HIV integrase enzyme, which is responsible for integration of virally encoded DNA into the host genome. Over the last 5 years, clinical trials data has demonstrated an increasing role for raltegravir in the management of both treatment-experienced and treatment-naïve HIV-1-infected patients. This review focuses on the evidence supporting raltegravir’s efficacy in an array of clinical settings. Other HIV-1 integrase inhibitors in development are also briefly discussed

User Defined Accounting Model

At the heart of the free market system is the ability of the “Market” to determine what goods and services need to be produced and the appropriate allocation of resources to produce them in the most efficient and effective manner.  Many believe that the current financial reporting model has not facilitated the achievement of this goal as fully as possible.  A few ruling bodies have determined what information that is reported to investors and perhaps it is time to change this model and allow the market (individual users) to determine what financial information is most appropriate for investors, creditors and other external decision makers.  With the improvements in technology, society may be able to create a User Defined Accounting Model (UDAM) that will allow investors to make better informed decisions in a timelier manner.  The current financial reporting model, GAAP, requires companies to report information in one format which contains highly aggregated information that does not adequately address the predictive value of the information.  Some users may believe that market value or replacement cost may be a more useful measure of the company's future value than historical cost.  The current system aggregates the information at the firm level using primarily historical cost and then only forwards the results of this aggregation to users.  An improvement would be to allow users to determine which measure they would like to employ.  This paper proposes a model that allows users to access the primary measures instead of obtaining only aggregated, secondary data, and to compile financial statements in any format they desire

Klamath irrigation project

Presented at SCADA and related technologies for irrigation district modernization: a USCID water management conference on October 26-29, 2005 in Vancouver, Washington.Includes bibliographical references.The U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) operates the Klamath Irrigation Project in Oregon to divert, store and supply irrigation water to over 200,000 acres of farmland below Upper Klamath Lake. Reclamation has partnered with irrigation districts to undertake an active modernization program including the implementation of a Real-Time Water Management SCADA System for remote monitoring of the main diversions on the Project boundaries and at key control points within individual irrigation districts. Data are recorded at frequent intervals, transmitted to base station computers in headquarters offices where it is displayed, manipulated, and stored. This paper presents an interim assessment of the complex issues concerned with SCADA project implementation in a basin-wide environment with multiple irrigation districts, describing the engineering points of particular innovative, and field-tested concepts. Performance specifications and design standards are discussed to illustrate the specialized details critical for successful integration