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Doing Life Is That Which We Must Think

Declaration of belief:Performance Philosophers seek to think anew, not only for the fun of it but also to destroy (or at least artfully ignore) the well-tended perception that thinking must unfold in a certain way, through specific channels, and with the legitimacy bequeathed to thought (i.e., commodified thought; a kind of thought that might be trademarked) through validated keywords and slogans. For these reasons, Performance Philosophers seek to think the doing of life, with the expectation that to do so would mean to live a life worthy of the name. This manifesto elaborates on these claims and calls for the creation of an Invisible College through which we might express the potential of performance philosophy

The Social and Cultural Factors of Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescent Women

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder that typically begins in adolescence and it is characterized by three diagnostic criteria defined within the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). This criterion consists of the restriction of energy intake, leading to a significantly low body weight, the intense fear of weight gain, and the disturbed sense in which someone perceives their body weight or shape. Adolescence is characterized as the time in aperson’s life which is the period of growth between the ages of 10 and 19 years old. This period of development spans through many milestones, including puberty and the end of high school into college. Adolescence has also been characterized by the need for social acceptance and when an individual may develop their attitudes and behaviors towards eating. Females who are within this period of adolescence, are under extremely impressionable through the society we live in and their own cultural influences that may occur at home. Growing up in an ever- changing technological world, children are constantly exposed to the world of social media, and different advertisements that are on TV or phone applications they use on a daily basis. With these new aspects growing in society, suggestible minds are seeing these posts and advertisements of people with seemingly perfect lives, and bodies and believing that they need to be ‘better’ than the person that they already are. As focus on body image in this society has continued to grow, there has also been a movement of “body positivity” in which advertisers are marketing women to be comfortable in the body that they own in comparison to the advertisements towards the “ideal” feminine body. Each person is also influenced by their own cultural background. This may include how food is seen in your household, and if it is considered to be a focal point in a daily routine, or during larger gatherings. Culture also plays a large role in the diagnosis of AN in general. Anorexia had generally been considered to be a “white-middle-class-female disorder”, which has been proven incorrect. In countries that are not considered to be westernized, the diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa seems to be lower, which is due to how our culture idealizes thinness. In other cultures, AN presents itself without this idea of “fat-phobia”. Because people in other societies are not presenting this idea of the fear of weight gain, they are not diagnosed with AN even though they may be presenting other symptoms such as excessive weight loss and amenorrhea. The discussion of Anorexia Nervosa needs to continue evolving as our society and cultures do in order to provide current research on topics such as social media influencers, and AN presenting in other cultures

High resolution observations of Jovian magnetospheric microwave synchrotron emission

High resolution radio observations of Jupiter were investigated with the use of the Stanford synthesis telescope. The best fit disk was computed from the emission of Jupiter and the residual brightness, due to nonthermal mechanisms was measured

The Adequacy of Technology for Pollution Abatement

Talk by Emilio Q. Daddario, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development, United States House of Representative

Crisis and the Im/possibility of Thought

The ubiquity of "crisis" and its sheer pervasiveness as a description of the contemporary world means that we do not so much write about crisis as much as we write from crisis. What type of thought is possible within crisis? If crisis extends to thought itself, insofar as we find ourselves in a crisis of thought (i.e., the crisis of not being able to think beyond the crisis of thought), then what kind of thinking is possible anymore? These are the questions raised by this special issue of Performance Philosophy, introduced here by the issue's co-editors

Pitch and Revelation

Pitch and Revelation is the first book-length study of the poetry, prose, and dramatic literature of the African American poet Jay Wright (1934–). The authors premise their reading on joy as foundational philosophical concept. In this, they follow Spinoza, who understood joy as that affect necessary for the construction of intellectual love of God, leading into the infinite univocity of everything. Similarly, with Wright, joy leads to a visceral sense of what the authors call the great weave of the world. This weave is akin to the notion of entanglement made popular by physicists and contemporary scholars of Science Studies, such as Karen Barad, which speaks of the always ongoing, mutually constitutive connections of all matter and intellectual processes. By exhibiting and detailing the joy of reading Wright, Pitch and Revelation intends to help others chart their own paths into the intellectual, musical, and rhythmical territories of Wright’s world so as to more fully experience joy in the world generally. Although the exhibitions of meaning making presented are instructive, but they do not follow the “do as I do” or “do as I say” model of instructional texts. Instead,they invite the reader to “do along with us” as the authors make meaning from selections across Wright’s erudite, dense, rhythmically fascinating, endlessly lyrical, highly structured, and seemingly hermetic body of work

An Assignment Problem with Interdependent Valuations and Externalities

In this paper, we take a mechanism design approach to optimal assignment problems with asymmetrically informed buyers. In addition, the surplus generated by an assignment of a buyer to a seller may be adversely affected by externalities generated by other assignments. The problem is complicated by several factors. Buyers know their own valuations and externality costs but do not know this same information for other buyers. Buyers also receive private signals correlated with the state and, consequently, the implementation problem exhibits interdependent valuations. This precludes a naive application of the VCG mechanism and to overcome this interdependency problem, we construct a two-stage mechanism. In the first stage, we exploit correlation in the firms signals about the state to induce truthful reporting of observed signals. Given that buyers are honest in stage 1, we then use a VCG-like mechanism in stage 2 that induces honest reporting of valuation and externality functions