The Psychosis of Whiteness: The celluloid hallucinations of Amazing Grace and Belle

Critical Whiteness studies has emerged as an academic discipline that has produced a lot of work and garnered attention in the last two decades. Central to this project is the idea that if the processes of Whiteness can be uncovered, then they can be reasoned with and overcome, through rationale dialogue. This article will argue, however, that Whiteness is a process rooted in the social structure, one that induces a form of psychosis framed by its irrationality, which is beyond any rational engagement. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis of the two only British big budget movies about transatlantic slavery, Amazing Grace and Belle, the article argues that such films serve as the celluloid hallucinations that reinforce the psychosis of Whiteness. The features of this discourse that arose from the analysis included the lack of Black agency, distancing Britain from the horrors of slavery, and downplaying the role of racism

Analysis of the suitability of analytical, semi-analytical, and numerical approaches for important orbit propagation tasks

Astrodynamies encompasses phenomena on diverse and disparate time scales. That solar electromagnetic atmospheric density proxies are developed every few hours demonstrates phenomena on that scale. In the most simple two body Newtonian formulation that includes only inverse square gravitation, there are equilibrium solutions that persist forever. Tidal effects are diurnal. Collisions last only milliseconds. Explosion debris migrates over weeks or months. The equations of astrodynamies initial value problem in the analytical, semi-analytical, and numerical formulation of astrodynamies exhibit stiffness. We emphasize the well-known mathematical fact that explicit numerical methods can create numerical stiffness where there was no physical stiffness and can produce reasonable but erroneous outcomes. Implicit methods should always be used even though more computational operations might be required

Brookhaven National Laboratory Report BNL-7292

Since the discovery of the Straub and Feuer as well as Laki et al. that ATP bound to G-actin is transformed to ADP and inorganic phosphate during polymerization of actin (1, 2), it has become increasingly clear that the chemical changes in the nucleotide are related to the change in the physical state of the protein. Barany, Biro, Molnar and Straub have shown that highly purified actin preparation free of any enzyme which would use ATP, ADP or AMP as a substrate still catalyze the breakdown of ATP (3) thus supporting the original idea that the ATP to ADP transformation is related to the globular to fibrous transformation of the actin protein itself. Mommaerts was the first to show that the ADP formed during polymerization remains bound to F-actin and Ulbrecht et al. while extending Mommaert's finding on exhaustively purified actin preparations have shown that the P1 formed during polymerization is not bound to F-actin. The stoichiometry of the splitting and the tightness of binding of the ADP lead inevitably to questions in regard to the position of bond breaking during the hydrolysis and to the nature of the forces involved in the tight binding of ADP to F-actin. To aid in the clarification of these problems, this study using O18 isotope was initiated