Fences and profanations: Questioning the sacredness of urban design

Adopting an impure and contingent conception of urban design as a biopolitical apparatus, along the theme of urban informal squatter-occupied spatialities, this paper searches for an alternative narrative of urban design. It presents a theoretical and analytical framework developed around Michel Foucault's and Giorgio Agamben's spatial ontology and political aesthetics as an aggregate source toward recalibrating the approach to urban design research, pedagogy and practice, integrating the debate around the dispositif and its profanation. Critically engaging with the complexity and contradictions of the current neoliberal urban design practice—articulated as a complex urban apparatus instrumental to regimes of security and control—the paper explores the conceptual tool of profanation as a potential antidote to the sacred production of the neoliberal city. The act of profaning the urban realm, of ‘returning it to the free use of men’, is approached through the lens of a design research initiative in a squatter-occupied space in Rome, Italy. The narrative that emerges from this theoretically inspired action research points to an alternative practice that can be read as a site of resistance in reclaiming the intellectual productivity of urban design theory and research

The Phenomenology of Animal Life

This paper presents a bi-constructivist approach to the study of animal life, which is opposed tothe realist-Cartesian paradigm in which most ethology operates. The method is elaborated through the examples of a knot-tying orangutan in a Paris zoo and chile-eating cats in a New York apartment. We show that, when grounded in the operational framework of the phenomenological approach, the interpretation of animal life acquires a much more robust character than is usually supposed

Entering theriomorphic worlds

This interview ranges across a number of topics relevant to Roberto Marchesini’s thought: the history and philosophy of ethology and entomology; zooanthropology and animal culture; philosophical ethology and philosophical anthropology; animal studies; and animals in laboratories, in the field, on farms, and in household/urban settings. It touches on thinkers including Margherita Hack, Giorgio Celli, Donna Haraway, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Charles Darwin, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Calificación del proceso de fabricación de lingotes y barrotes de Zry-4 empleando 100% de material de reciclo

Los discos separadores utilizados en los elementos combustibles de Atucha I, son producidos por el sector Fundición de Conuar Fae S. A. y fabricados a partir de lingotes de Zry-4 empleando 100% de material de reciclo desde 1998. El presente trabajo muestra las medidas tomadas para el desarrollo y adaptación de los métodos productivos y de control y que culminaron con la calificación del proceso de fabricación. Se destaca el trabajo conjunto entre Conuar Fae S. A. como ejecutor del proyecto y CNEA/IEC como ente calificador, en el logro de este importante objetivo que se mantiene desde hace 5 años.Fil: Bunte, C.. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina. Conuar S.a.; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto Sabato; ArgentinaFil: Bussolini, A. A.. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; ArgentinaFil: Ciarrocchi, A.. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; ArgentinaFil: Reale, H.. Conuar S.a.; ArgentinaFil: Rubiolo, Gerardo Hector. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Gerencia del Área de Energía Nuclear. Unidad de Actividad de Materiales (CAC); Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Instituto Sabato; ArgentinaFil: Valesi, J.. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica; Argentina18º Congreso Internacional de Metalurgia y Materiales SAM-CONAMET 2018San Carlos de BarilocheArgentinaAsociación Argentina de Materiale

Demenzfreundliche Kommunen in Deutschland und England – ein Blick auf mögliche Perspektiven

Der folgende Beitrag diskutiert die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer zivilgesellschaftlichen Alternative zum herkömmlichen medikalen Blick auf Menschen mit Demenz (MmD). Konkret geht es um die demenzfreundlichen Kommunen (DfK). Ziel des Beitrags ist es, vor dem Hintergrund der britischen Erfahrungen mit DfK auf eine Gefahr hinzuweisen: die Instrumentalisierung der DfK durch die Regierung und einer damit verbundenen Institutionalisierung als Teil des Versorgungssystems. Damit wird der alternative Zugang der DfK zum etablierten Versorgungssystem ad absurdum geführt. Mit diesem Aufzeigen von Kontingenzen wird ein konstruktives Anliegen verfolgt, nämlich mögliche Optionen für die DfK in Deutschland zu eröffnen.   Dementia-friendly Communities in Germany and England – a Look at Possible Perspectives This article discusses the possibilities and limitations of a civil-societal alternative to common medicalised views of people with dementia (pwd). Against the backdrop of the British experiences with dementia-friendly communities (dfc), the aim of this paper is to point out the risk of dfc being exploited by the government and institutionalised as a part of the care system. By demonstrating contingencies, possible options for dfc in Germany are explored. The alternative approach to dfc in Germany is based on the critique of medicalisation, accentuation of the perspective of the persons affected, and a critical understanding of inclusion of pwd. A recent governmentality study explored the conception of dfc in England. The findings show that dementia is problematised as a disease, pwd are constructed as objects and subjects of knowledge, dfc are exploited by governmental strategies, and ultimately institutionalised as a part of the care system. Conclusively, this misappropriation of the original idea of dfc is confronted with the possibilities of a new view of pwd and a new quality of dementia policy

Feminist discursive institutionalism - a poststructural alternative

This paper joins the ongoing conversation about the desirability, or undesirability, of feminists becoming “new institutionalists”, which is linked to broader concerns about feminists seeking legitimacy as political “scientists”. With “feminist discursive institutionalism” as exemplar, it introduces the argument that paradigms, and hence methodologies, matter politically because they create different realities. To illustrate this proposition it examines the political implications of the different meanings of discourse, and related concepts of power, ideas, and “agency”/subjectivity, in Habermasian-influenced discursive institutionalism and in Foucauldian-inspired poststructuralist analysis. A key issue, it contends, is the extent to which institutions (and other political categories) are conceptualized as discrete entities or as more open-ended “assemblages”. This analysis, we suggest, solicits feminist researchers to reflect on the political implications of their theoretical investments.Carol Bacchi and Malin Rönnblo