Disarticulated Bones: Abandoned Human Remains and the Work of Reassociation

Cet article porte sur les restes humains en tant que matières résiduelles : quelque chose qui persiste, laissé à l’abandon, en trop ou inadéquat aux besoins immédiats. Selon nous, ces ossements abandonnés, pratiques culturelles de l’Europe contemporaine, ont été désarticulés, dans le sens où les assemblages qu’ils articulaient et auxquels ils étaient articulés ont disparu. Ces os sont donc devenus « muets », non seulement désarticulés, mais aussi inarticulés. Travaillant sur cette notion de voix émergeant d’un processus de (ré)assemblage considéré comme une forme d’herméneutique matérielle, cet article suit une série de procédés par lesquels un crâne abandonné et oublié, trouvé au sein des archives de l’Edimburgh College of Art, est réarticulé, à la fois grâce à un travail d’anthropologie physique et à la création d’une série de tableaux photographiques contenant le crâne.This paper is enquiry into human remains as a form of waste matter : something left-over, neglected, surplus or insufficient to immediate requirements. It is argued that these abandoned bones, which may be found secreted with the public culture of contemporary Europe, have become dis-articulated, in that the assemblages within which they were once articulate and articulated have fallen apart, and so they have become « mute », not only dis-articulated but inarticulate. Elaborating on this notion of voice as emergent from processes of (re-)assemblage considered as a form of material hermeneutics, this paper follows a series of processes by which one abandoned and forgotten skull, found in the collections of the Edinburgh College of Art, is re-articulated and so rendered articulate both with the work of physical anthropology and the creation of a series of photographic tableaux incorporating the skull

Bloody paperwork:Algorithmic governance and control in UK integrated health and social care settings

This article is about paperwork: the work staff in UK integrated health and social care teams did to transform small transactions of everyday care work into big data, which in turn enabled the governance of complex service arrangements. This data-driven approach to governance, algorithmic governance, raises issues of agency and transparency. We address these issues by paying close attention to how care staff articulated their own understandings and apprehensions of the process. The article draws on a study of work roles in UK integrated health and social care teams providing support and follow up for older people and people with mental health problems. Digitised tools were used for the coordination and management of these teams. Staff described how the digitised documentation of care practices produced standardised representations of their work which poorly reflected the complexity of their everyday interactions with colleagues and clients/patients. There was a double-ness to these representations: on the one hand, they were malleable and open to negotiation, on the other they produced tangible consequences hardwired into the system of governance, transforming the work of care into an object outside of itself. In order to bring out the complexities in staff’s accounts about paperwork, the article brings the Marxist analytic of alienation into conversation with Actor Network Theory (ANT) to suggest that overstating the hegemonic power of digital technologies risks itself becoming hegemonic. We advocate a nuanced and situated analysis of what digitised documentary practices consist of and what they do in different circumstances

High-cadence, High-resolution Spectroscopic Observations of Herbig Stars HD 98922 and V1295 Aquila

Recent observational work has indicated that mechanisms for accretion and outflow in Herbig Ae/Be star-disk systems may differ from magnetospheric accretion (MA) as it is thought to occur in T Tauri star-disk systems. In this work, we assess the temporal evolution of spectral lines probing accretion and mass loss in Herbig Ae/Be systems and test for consistency with the MA paradigm. For two Herbig Ae/Be stars, HD 98922 (B9e) and V1295 Aql (A2e), we have gathered multi-epoch (~years) and high-cadence (~minutes) high-resolution optical spectra to probe a wide range of kinematic processes. Employing a line equivalent width evolution correlation metric introduced here, we identify species co-evolving (indicative of common line origin) via novel visualization. We interferometrically constrain often problematically degenerate parameters, inclination and inner disk radius, allowing us to focus on the structure of the wind, magnetosphere, and inner gaseous disk in radiative transfer models. Over all timescales sampled, the strongest variability occurs within the blueshifted absorption components of the Balmer series lines; the strength of variability increases with the cadence of the observations. Finally, high-resolution spectra allow us to probe substructure within the Balmer series' blueshifted absorption components: we observe static, low-velocity features and time-evolving features at higher velocities. Overall, we find the observed line morphologies and variability are inconsistent with a scaled-up T Tauri MA scenario. We suggest that as magnetic field structure and strength change dramatically with increasing stellar mass from T Tauri to Herbig Ae/Be stars, so too may accretion and outflow processes.Comment: 34 pages, 52 figures, published in the Ap

Unfamiliar Edinburgh: Being and Becoming in the City

Unfamiliar Edinburgh: Being and Becoming in the Cit

Disarticulated Bones: Abandoned Human Remains and the Work of Reassociation

Cet article porte sur les restes humains en tant que matières résiduelles : quelque chose qui persiste, laissé à l’abandon, en trop ou inadéquat aux besoins immédiats. Selon nous, ces ossements abandonnés, pratiques culturelles de l’Europe contemporaine, ont été désarticulés, dans le sens où les assemblages qu’ils articulaient et auxquels ils étaient articulés ont disparu. Ces os sont donc devenus « muets », non seulement désarticulés, mais aussi inarticulés. Travaillant sur cette notion de voix émergeant d’un processus de (ré)assemblage considéré comme une forme d’herméneutique matérielle, cet article suit une série de procédés par lesquels un crâne abandonné et oublié, trouvé au sein des archives de l’Edimburgh College of Art, est réarticulé, à la fois grâce à un travail d’anthropologie physique et à la création d’une série de tableaux photographiques contenant le crâne.This paper is enquiry into human remains as a form of waste matter : something left-over, neglected, surplus or insufficient to immediate requirements. It is argued that these abandoned bones, which may be found secreted with the public culture of contemporary Europe, have become dis-articulated, in that the assemblages within which they were once articulate and articulated have fallen apart, and so they have become « mute », not only dis-articulated but inarticulate. Elaborating on this notion of voice as emergent from processes of (re-)assemblage considered as a form of material hermeneutics, this paper follows a series of processes by which one abandoned and forgotten skull, found in the collections of the Edinburgh College of Art, is re-articulated and so rendered articulate both with the work of physical anthropology and the creation of a series of photographic tableaux incorporating the skull

Squelettes désarticulés

Image d’ouverture Crâne © Joan Smith Cet article traite du projet intitulé The Bones Beneath the Face (« Les os sous le visage »)  mené par un collectif d’artistes, d’anthropologues et d’archéologues de l’Université d’Edimbourg. Au cœur de ce projet, une chose abandonnée. Un « déchet ». Quelque chose dont on n’a plus besoin. Cette chose est un crâne humain trouvé dans les réserves du College of Art d’Edimbourg (ECA). L’objectif de notre projet a été de prendre ce crâne afin d’en faire quelqu..