Digital biopolitics : the image of life

In this chapter, I examine components of technology-images through processes of a digital biopolitics, where the images of social difference are created through procedures that science, government and media forms engender. Digital biopolitics has created an image of life. But what does it mean for the political subject to be able to recognize images of herself as DNA strands, as cells in a petri dish, or as a human egg harvested and frozen? To analyze such images, I engage methods of third-wave feminist epistemology, examining the material components of such biopolitical images as mattered states of the body

Travelling and sticky affects: : Exploring teens and sexualized cyberbullying through a Butlerian-Deleuzian- Guattarian lens

In this paper we combine the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari (1984, 1987) with Judith Butler’s (1990, 1993, 2004, 2009) work to follow the rhizomatic becomings of young people’s affective relations in a range of on- and off-line school spaces. In particular we explore how events that may be designated as sexual cyberbullying are constituted and how they are mediated by technology (such as texting or in/through social networking sites). Drawing on findings from two different studies looking at teens’ uses of and experiences with social networking sites, Arto in Denmark, and Bebo in the UK, we use this approach to think about how affects flow, are distributed, and become fixed in assemblages. We map how affects are manoeuvred and potentially disrupted by young people, suggesting that in the incidences discussed affects travel as well as stick in points of fixation. We argue that we need to grasp both affective flow and fixity in order to gain knowledge of how subjectification of the gendered/classed/racialised/sexualised body emerges. A Butlerian-Deleuzian-Guattarian frame helps us to map some of these affective complexities that shape sexualized cyberbully events; and to recognize technologically mediated lines of flight when subjectifications are at least temporarily disrupted and new terms of recognition and intelligibility staked out. Keywords

Decreased occurrence of ketoacidosis and preservation of beta cell function in relatives screened and monitored for type 1 diabetes in Australia and New Zealand

Published December 2022Aims: Islet autoantibody screening of infants and young children in the Northern Hemisphere, together with semi-annual metabolic monitoring, is associated with a lower risk of ketoacidosis (DKA) and improved glucose control after diagnosis of clinical (stage 3) type 1 diabetes (T1D). We aimed to determine if similar benefits applied to older Australians and New Zealanders monitored less rigorously. Methods: DKA occurrence and metabolic control were compared between T1D relatives screened and monitored for T1D and unscreened individuals diagnosed in the general population, ascertained from the Australasian Diabetes Data Network. Results: Between 2005 and 2019, 17,105 relatives (mean (SD) age 15.7 (10.8) years; 52% female) were screened for autoantibodies against insulin, glutamic acid decarboxylase, and insulinoma-associated protein 2. Of these, 652 screened positive to a single and 306 to multiple autoantibody specificities, of whom 201 and 215, respectively, underwent metabolic monitoring. Of 178 relatives diagnosed with stage 3 T1D, 9 (5%) had DKA, 7 of whom had not undertaken metabolic monitoring. The frequency of DKA in the general population was 31%. After correction for age, sex and T1D family history, the frequency of DKA in screened relatives was >80% lower than in the general population. HbA1c and insulin requirements following diagnosis were also lower in screened relatives, consistent with greater beta cell reserve. Conclusions: T1D autoantibody screening and metabolic monitoring of older children and young adults in Australia and New Zealand, by enabling pre-clinical diagnosis when beta cell reserve is greater, confers protection from DKA. These clinical benefits support ongoing efforts to increase screening activity in the region and should facilitate the application of emerging immunotherapies.John M. Wentworth, Helena Oakey, Maria E. Craig, Jennifer J. Couper, Fergus J. Cameron, Elizabeth A. Davis, Antony R. Lafferty, Mark Harris, Benjamin J. Wheeler, Craig Jefferies, Peter G. Colman, Leonard C. Harriso

Deleuze-inspired action research in the university: Mobilising Deleuzian concepts to rethink research on the reflective writing practices of student teachers

This article offers an insight into the process and potential of Deleuze-inspired action research. It draws on a classroom action research (CAR) project that critically reconceptualises practices of reflective writing in teacher education, including the widespread use of the ‘professional learning journal’ as a resource to facilitate reflection on practice. Students following a teacher education programme in England took part in an innovative mode of engagement with texts, including their learning journals, drawing on the Deleuzo-Guattarian notion of the text as an agent that acts outside of itself. The process was called ‘implicated reading’. An example of a teaching and learning intervention, in the form of a seminar transcript, is offered as an illustration of how Deleuzian theory and philosophy can inspire and shape innovations in practice. The transcript also serves as an opportunity to reimagine the ways in which data and data analysis are conceptualised and practiced in action research (AR) projects. Data is (re)conceptualised as agentic, rather than inert or indifferent. Synthesis is privileged over analysis so that the transcript acts as a provocation to rethink the relation between theory and data, asking what is made possible when these are ‘plugged into’ one another to raise questions that otherwise would have remained unthought. Ultimately, the article offers a worked example of what happens when action researchers take up the challenge of working and thinking within a Deleuzian ontology that seeks to maintain the plurality and potentialities of AR in practice

Thermal behavior, spectroscopic studies and free radical scavenging potential of some mefenamate trivalent lanthanides (Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb and Dy)

Lanthanide Mefenamate compounds were prepared in solid state. TG-DSC coupled to FTIR, elemental analysis, complexometry with EDTA, X-ray powder diffractometry, evaluation of scavenging free radical activity with DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazine), and a complete spectroscopic study in the ultraviolet, visible, near-, and middle-infrared regions were realized to obtain some physicochemical properties of the synthesized compounds. The thermal stability, minimum formula, thermal behavior and intermediate compounds were indicated by thermoanalytical results. Furthermore, vibrational spectroscopy data suggests that the complexes are binuclear and two modes of coordination are presented. The DR spectra could be reveal the presence of a large ligand-to-metal charge transfer band in the europium mefenamate. This compound also indicated the higher antioxidant activity with DPPH (77.03% at 200 μg L−1).6517382CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO - CNPQCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DE PESSOAL DE NÍVEL SUPERIOR - CAPESFUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO - FAPESPSem informaçãoSem informaçãoSem informaçã

Thermal Behavior, Spectroscopic Studies And Free Radical Scavenging Potential Of Some Mefenamate Trivalent Lanthanides (sm, Eu, Gd, Tb And Dy)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Lanthanide Mefenamate compounds were prepared in solid state. TG-DSC coupled to FTIR, elemental analysis, complexometry with EDTA, X-ray powder diffractometry, evaluation of scavenging free radical activity with DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazine), and a complete spectroscopic study in the ultraviolet, visible, near-, and middle-infrared regions were realized to obtain some physicochemical properties of the synthesized compounds. The thermal stability, minimum formula, thermal behavior and intermediate compounds were indicated by thermoanalytical results. Furthermore, vibrational spectroscopy data suggests that the complexes are binuclear and two modes of coordination are presented. The DR spectra could be reveal the presence of a large ligand-to-metal charge transfer band in the europium mefenamate. This compound also indicated the higher antioxidant activity with DPPH (77.03% at 200 μg L−1). © 2017 Elsevier B.V.6517382CAPES, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorCNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e TecnológicoFAPESP, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP