Eyes Wide Open: The Look of Obstinacy, the Gaze of the Camera, and the 24/7 Economy in Antja Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Labour in a Single Shot (2011-2015)

Moving beyond Jonathan Crary\u27s ontologically framed subject in his essay 24/7, the following essay calls on Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge\u27s political economy of labor power in order to query the persistence of obstinacy within the neoliberal economy of 24/7. Tested against Harun Farocki\u27s final film project co-produced with his wife Antje Ehmann, Labour in a Single Shot, the essay argues that neoliberalism has in fact generated both tools and forms of collective agency that together call Crary\u27s cultural pessimism into question

Marxist and Formless: Uncanny Materialism in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance

Peter Weiss made no secret of the importance of form for his magnum opus The Aesthetics of Resistance. “Again and again [I’ve made] new attempts at finding a form for the book,” he wrote early on in its conception. This authorial search is, in fact, far more complicated than the long blocks of prose Weiss settled on for the novel. Exemplified in volume 2’s opening confrontation with Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa, this search within the narrative vacillates between constituting erect forms and leveling them altogether. With the aid of Georges Bataille, the following essay illuminates not only how reading and writing embody these oppositions between form and formless but also how this tension culminates in Weiss’s poetic regeneration of a Marxism uncanny in nature despite what he perceived as dialectical materialism’s bureaucratic exhaustion in the Eastern bloc

Searching for the Young Soul Rebels: On Writing, New Wave, and the Ends of Cultural Studies

Starting with the surprising role the soul assumed in the West German music essay from the early 1980s, this article interrogates a peculiar, misunderstood middle passage in dominant historiographies of German pop literature-the new wave music essay-that transformed itself at the dawn of the 1990s-shortly before the literary phenomenon labeled Popliteratur emerged-by embracing then emergent Anglo-American Cultural Studies. The importance of new wave music for the essay's regard for soul were lost on both pop literature and its attendant literary histories. The "studies model" has, at least in this one instance, smoothed over historical ruptures with unfortunate repercussions for our understanding of the precarious writerly mediation of life and music shortly before the value of poetics for life vanished altogether

Landscapes of Ice, Snow and Wind: Alexander Kluge’s Aesthetics of Coldness

Discusses the German author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge's exploration of the theme of coldness in film and other works. The authors report on the theorist Theodor Adorno's discussion of the subject in an essay written in 1967, note that Kluge focused on coldness in works in different media created after 2010, and study his approach to the theme in the film 'Landschaften mit eis und schnee' (2010; illus.) noting his treatment of ice in the work. They assess the relationship of Kluge's film to the work of various theorists including Peter Wollen, comment on Kluge's focus on the wind in his films 'The patriot' (1979; illus.), 'Gelegenheitsarbeit einer sklavin' (1973; illus.) and other works, and report on Kluge's use of photographs of snow taken by Gerhard Richter in the book 'December' (2010; illus.) also examining the work's relationship to the films 'Landschaften mit eis und schnee' and 'Zitraffer mit schneetreiben vor meinem balkon, Elizabethstrasse 38(2010; illus.). They refer to Kluge's incorporation of footage from his films into talks given in 2010, and contrast his approach to the theme of coldness with that of Adorno

Receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE) deficiency protects against MPTP toxicity

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Long-term annual and monthly changes in mysids and caridean decapods in a macrotidal estuarine environment in relation to climate change and pollution

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. A 26-year time series of monthly samples from the water intake of a power station has been used to analyse the trends exhibited by number of species, total abundance, and composition of the mysids and caridean decapods in the inner Bristol Channel. During this period, annual water temperatures, salinities and the North Atlantic Oscillation Index (NAOI) in winter did not change significantly, whereas annual NAOI declined. Annual mean monthly values for the number of species and total abundance both increased over the 26 years, but these changes were not correlated with any of the measured physico-chemical/climatic factors. As previous studies demonstrated that, during a similar period, metal concentrations in the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel (into which that estuary discharges) declined and water quality increased, it is proposed that the above changes are due to an improved environment. The fauna was dominated by the mysids Mesopodopsis slabberi and Schistomysis spiritus, which collectively contributed 94% to total abundance. Both species, which were represented by juveniles, males, non-brooding females and brooding females, underwent statistically-indistinguishable patterns of change in abundance over the 26 years. When analysis was based on the abundances of the various species, the overall species composition differed significantly among years and changed serially with year. When abundances were converted to percentage compositions, this pattern of seriation broke down, demonstrating that changes in abundance and not percentage composition were responsible for the seriation. As with the number and abundance of species, changes in composition over the 26 years were not related to any of the physico-chemical/climatic factors tested. Species composition changed monthly in a pronounced cyclical manner throughout the year, due to statistically different time-staggered changes in the abundance of each species. This cyclicity was related most strongly to salinity

Rethinking Measures of Democracy and Welfare State Universalism: Lessons from Subnational Research

Democracy and the welfare state are two of the most extensively studied concepts and themes in the field of comparative politics. Debate about how to best measure the two concepts has failed to contemplate the extent to which political and social rights are uniformly present across distinct regions of the national territory, despite the presence of substantial subnational research that underscores wide variation inside countries. We argue that this omission hampers our understanding of the two phenomena and we propose a new measure of democracy and healthcare unversalism, which we call the Adjusted Measures of Democracy and Welfare Universalism. The new measures integrate territorial inequality into existing national-level indicators, providing a more accurate picture of country performance and opening the door to new, multi-level theory building