From Transportation to Transformation: On the Use of the Metaphor of Translation within Media and Communication Theory

This paper explores some of the common ground between media/communication and translation theory by focusing on the double metaphor of transportation/transformation. The first part of the paper deals with the more general theoretical implications of a possible interchange between communication and translation in view of the notion of spatiality and the paradigmatic change that has occurred in translation theory in the last few years moving from a transportation to a transformation oriented approach to the process of translation. The second part focuses on the work of a series of theorists who have made extensive use of the metaphor of translation to describe inter-mediatic and communicative processes: Marshall McLuhan, Vilém Flusser, Lev Manovich, and Michel Serres. This section shows that despite the use of a transformative definition of the functioning of translation the single authors have neglected to address the question of the actual nature of this transformative process. Finally, therefore, the paper discusses the relevance of the use of the metaphor of translation within communication and media theory in view of a closer definition of its transformative power

The Ethics of Cookies: Exploring the Collection of Big Data and Its Ramifications

Technology is taking over the world. In every aspect of human life, technology has been able to provide some sort of help or solution. At the forefront of this revolution is the Internet and with it, the activity of day-to-day life that now takes place online. This rapid takeover pushes technological innovations to develop quickly, pushing boundaries and creating a new way of life. Today in the United States, websites are allowed to track user data. When a user clicks on a website that intends on documenting the user\u27s actions, the website installs a tracker, otherwise known as cookie. Websites then use this collected data to create a profile for each and every user that visits their site. This process creates a vast database that has changed the methods of online marketing and increased business revenue. Although websites in the United States are now starting to alert users of cookie collecting, due to the implementation of the European Union\u27s recent General Data Protection Regulation, the alerts are full of lengthy legal jargon, which means that users don\u27t understand what is happening to their data when they browse a website. The four pillars of ethics, when applied to online data collection, suggest that there are issues with autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice within this data collection field. Due to the fast-paced development of technology, there has not been enough time for regulation to catch up with the major companies that are paving the way for big data practices. Along with the pillars of ethics, privacy and security are at stake, not just for the individual consumer, but for society as a whole

L. Hart Wright -- Bibliography

A Bibliography of L. Hart Wrigh

Metafísica fraca: uma crítica ao niilismo hermenêutico de Gianni Vattimo

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia, Florianópolis, 2022.O filósofo italiano Gianni Vattimo defende que, com o advento do niilismo consumado e a derrocada crescente de noções como verdade, razão, ciência etc., a Pós-Modernidade se torna um momento propício para a completa emancipação do pensamento, livre de qualquer referencial de ordem ontológica. Pautado na antimetafisicalidade do niilismo nietzschiano, Vattimo se apropria seletivamente de conceitos de Heidegger a fim de justificar o que chama de niilismo hermenêutico, acontecimento historial de nossa época, a seu ver positivo, em que não é possível que determinado pensamento se arrogue à força de sobrepôr-se ante os demais. Em nosso entendimento, todavia, esta ontologia do declínio é afim à atual aniquilação do sentido e da autenticidade promovida pela imposição técnica, sob a qual nossa única possibilidade de pensamento é inócua e débil. Devido à ausência de critérios valorativos para o pensamento, o nobre ideal de pluralidade democrática de Vattimo permite degenerar-se em retóricas irracionais e arbitrárias ? tudo a que se opõem a hermenêutica e a filosofia ?, sendo impotente ante o eventual despontar da intolerância e da violência, sempre tecnicamente fundadas. Sustenta-se nesta tese, portanto, que a superação da metafísica que Vattimo enxerga no niilismo contemporâneo é apenas aparente, pois não é dada à humanidade a possibilidade de um pensamento pós-metafísico sob o domínio histórico-epocal da técnica. Pensamento fraco, por recusar de modo sistemático o propriamente ontológico, incorre numa metafísica por excelência, que corresponde efetivamente aos nexos do pensar em nossa época. Trata-se de uma metafísica fraca porque seu niilismo, almejando fugir das violências metafísicas, não admite nem a força de um acesso mais originário ao ser, nem a necessidade de orientar-se pelos fundamentos do ente, como as metafísicas fortes da tradição.Abstract: The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo defends that, with the advent of consummate nihilism and the growing downfall of notions such as truth, reason, science etc., Postmodernity become a propitious moment for the complete emancipation of thought, free of any ontological reference. Guided by the antimetaphysicality of Nietzschean nihilism, Vattimo selectively appropriates Heidegger?s concepts in order to justify what he calls hermeneutical nihilism, a historical event of our times ? a positive one, in his view ? in wich a certain thought cannot seize the strength required to supplant others. In our understanding, however, this ontology of decline is related to the current annihilation of meaning and authenticity promoted by technological imposition, under which our only possibility of thought is innocuous and feeble. Due to the absence of valuation criteria for thought, Vattimo?s noble ideal of democratic plurality is allowed to degenerat into irrational and arbitrary rhetorics ? all that hermeneutics and philosophy oppose ?, being powerless in the face of ocasionally rising intolerance and violence, always technologically grounded. It is argued in this dissertation, therefore, that the overcoming of metaphysics that Vattimo identifies in contemporary nihilism is merely apparent, because humanity is not given the possibility of postmetaphiysical thought under the epochal-historical dominance of technology. Weak thought, by sistematically refusing the ontological itself, incurs in metaphysics par excellence, which effectively corresponds to the nexuses of thought in our times. It consists in a weak metaphysics because its nihilism, aiming to avoid metaphysical violences, acknowledges neither the strenght of a more originary access to Being, nor the necessity of to be oriented by the being?s ground, as in the strong traditional metaphysics

Collateral circulation in the obstruction of the superior vena cava flow

Abstract in proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of CiiEM: Health, Well-Being and Ageing in the 21st Century, held at Egas Moniz’ University Campus in Monte de Caparica, Almada, from 3–5 June 2019.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Origin of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee

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Qualifikationskonflikte in Dreiecksachverhalten am Beispiel von grenzüberschreitender Mitunternehmerschaft

Der allgemeine Einflussfaktor für die Entstehung der Qualifikationskonflikte bei Personalgesellschaften ist die unterschiedliche Einordnung von ausländischen Personalgesellschaften durch einen Staat (auf Grundlage des Rechtstypenvergleichs). Wenn an einem Steuerfall drei Staaten beteiligt sind, deren nationale Zurechnungsvorschriften nicht übereinstimmen, kann es zu einer Mehrfachbelastung kommen. In manchen Fällen wird keine Möglichkeit zur Vermeidung dieser Mehrfachbesteuerung gesehen, wenngleich zwischen allen drei beteiligten Staaten ein Abkommen besteht.In these times of the integration of international markets, capital flow is a permanently increasing process. Cross-border investments can be implemented via various entities, for example via partnerships structures and take place in more than two countries, so called triangular cases. Since there is no uniform tax treatment of partnerships among domestic tax regimes, conflicts of qualification of these entities can easily occur. As a consequence of such conflicts are often double taxation or double no taxation

Herderin ajattelu ja sen vaikutus

Kirja-arvostelu: Pertti Karkama: Kadonnutta ihmisyyttä etsimässä. Johdatusta Johann Gottfried Herderin ajatteluun ja herderiläisyyteen Suomessa. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura 2007