Another European Crisis? Myth, translation and the apparatus of area

International audienceExamines the current European crisis in the context of the historical creation of the apparatus of area in the wake of imperial/colonial modernity

La traduction comme méthode : L'Université néolibérale, lieu d'élaboration d'un nouveau putonghua (langue commune)

International audienceInspired by the work of Qu Qiubai, former leader of the Chinese Communist Party in its pre-Mao phase, this article proposes a means for reappropriating linguistic being from the domination of capital institutionalized in Global English.S'inspirant de l'ancien chef du parti communiste chinois Qu Qiubai, cet article propose un moyen de s'approprier de la domination du Global English

Saving Population from Governmentality Studies: Translating Between Archaeology and Biopolitics

This article demonstrates how the interest in governmentality studies has diverted attention form the biopolitical significance the term population holds in Foucault's thought, and further elaborates this perspective through an articulation between Foucault's earlier work on Archaeology and his later work on Biopolitics

Review of Lydia H. Liu, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making.

Lydia H. Liu, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 318 pp. ISBN 0674019959

Review of Lydia H. Liu, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making.

Lydia H. Liu, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 318 pp. ISBN 0674019959

Characterizing and Reducing Acoustical Noise Radiation in Small Piezoelectric Blowers

The purpose of this paper is to outline the progress being made in classifying acoustic radiation emitted by piezoelectric blowers and developing methods for reducing said radiation. A description of the function and purpose of a piezoelectric blower is given. The problem of noise generation is outlined and described. Methods to characterize and identify the source of acoustic noise are discussed. A DNS approach to modeling turbulent air flow is presented. The benefits of a valid DNS model are discussed along with the complications inherent in DNS modeling. A DNS model of a piezoelectric blower is described and methods for validating the model are presented

Functional neurological disorder and multiple sclerosis: a systematic review of misdiagnosis and clinical overlap

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and functional neurological disorder (FND) are both diagnostically challenging conditions which can present with similar symptoms. We systematically reviewed the literature to identify patients with MS who were misdiagnosed with FND, patients with FND who were misdiagnosed with MS, and reports of patients with both conditions. In addition to FND, we included studies of patients with other functional and psychiatric disorders where these caused symptoms leading to investigation for or a diagnosis of MS, which in a different context would likely have been labeled as FND. Our review suggests that MS is one of the most common causes of misdiagnosis of FND and vice versa. We discuss the clinical errors that appear to result in misdiagnoses, such as over-reliance on psychiatric comorbidity when making a diagnosis of FND or over-reliance on neuroimaging for the diagnosis of MS, and practical ways to avoid them. Comorbidity between these two conditions is also likely common, has been poorly studied, and adds complexity to diagnosis and treatment in patients with both MS and FND. Misdiagnosis and comorbidity in a landscape of emerging evidence-based treatments for both MS and FND are issues not only of clinical importance to the care of these patients, but also to treatment trials, especially of MS, where FND could be a hidden confounder

諸眾理論：初論未來政治主體的形象決斷與可塑性

This essay, destined for a non-specialist readership, sketches a narrative in which to contextualize the recent continental theories of the multitude. As such, it emphasizes exodus and multiple, trans-disciplinary contextualizations rather than a specialist treatment of ‘decision’ per se. Such contextualizations may allow us to pose questions about the political and social stakes informing the latest new technology, from literature to biology, designed to manipulate or engineer the plasticity of ‘Man’. Can people—not necessarily ‘men’—decide what race and/or culture they are or want to be? To what extent is culture and/or race related to something like a ‘decision’ at all? If it is a question of decision, who is the subject of decision (or again, what are the problems of individuation?) and what meaning does this have for our understanding of the limits inherent in the founding generic categories of colonial/imperial modernity