Turning to Animals Between Love and Law

Publisher has granted permission for the published version of this article to be archived. Publisher's website: http://www.lwbooks.co.ukAs an alternative to Utilitarianism, animal ethics turned to the Continental philosophies of Levinas and Derrida that welcome and revere Otherness. While Utilitarianism relies on a ‘closed’ system of ethical calculations, the Levinasian model remains open-ended. This essay argues for a revised approach to animal ethics that combines Levinasian immeasurability, what Matthew Calarco called ‘ethical agnosticism’, with a closed approach that sees ethics as issuing from particular modes of practice. Highlighting some of the problems inherent in the Levinasian ethics of love as well as Agamben’s biopolitical critique of law, I propose a corrective, ‘between love and law’, that avoids predetermining the limits of moral consideration yet insists on the social and normative dimensions of ethical responsiveness. I take the practice of veganism - broadly conceived beyond the strictly dietary - as the heart of animal ethics and consider some of the philosophical and theological dimensions of veganism as neither naïve nor as utopian but on the contrary, as a worldly mode of engagement that acknowledges the realities of violence

Some Small Discrepancy: Jean-Christophe-Bailly's Creaturely Ontology

From Journal of Animal Ethics. Copyright 2013 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press. This material cannot be reprinted, photocopied, posted online or distributed in any way without the written permission of the copyright holder.The final version of this text will be available (as pdf.) by September-October 2013.The final version of this text will be available (as pdf.) on 20 September, 2013.The final version of this text will be available (as pdf.) on 20 September, 2013.The final version of this text will be available (as pdf.) on 20 September, 2013.The final version of this text will be available (as pdf.) on 20 September, 2013.This extended review essay on Bailly's first major work in English translation, The Animal Side, situates Bailly in the continuum of Continental philosophy on the topics of animality and animal ontology, from Rilke to Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze. Exploring Bailly's linking of thought and vision and his insistence on the pivotal role of animals in the emergence of European art and image-making, the essay argues that the political dimension, implicit in Bailly's text, nevertheless remains underdeveloped. This points to a broader concern within Continental theory: the need to connect new human and animal ontologies with ethical and political normative models for the effective articulation of post-anthropocentric collectivities

Impact of e^+ and e^- Beam Polarization on Chargino and Neutralino Production at a Linear Collider

We study the production processes e^+ e^- -> chi^+_i chi^-_j, i,j=1,2, and e^+ e^- -> chi^0_m chi^0_n, m,n=1,...,4, working out the advantages of polarizing both beams. For e^+ e^- -> chi^+_1 chi^-_1 with chi^-_1 -> chi^0_1 e^- nu and e^+ e^- -> chi^0_1 chi^0_2 with chi^0_2 -> chi^0_1 e^+ e^- we perform a detailed analysis, including the complete spin correlations between production and decay. We analyze the forward--backward asymmetry of the decay electron for various beam polarizations. We also study polarization asymmetries in e^+ e^- -> chi^0_1 chi^0_2. These asymmetries strongly constrain the gaugino parameter M_1 and the masses m_{\tilde{e}_L}, m_{\tilde{e}_R}, m_{\tilde{nu}} also if m_{\tilde{e}_{L,R}}, m_{\tilde{nu}} > sqrt{s}/2. We give numerical predictions for three scenarios for a linear collider with sqrt{s}=500-1000 GeV.Comment: 26 pages, 26 postscript figures, latex using epsfi

Exploiting Spin Correlations in Neutralino Production and Decay with Polarized e^- and e^+ Beams

We study the production process e^+ e^- -> chi^0_1 chi^0_2 and the subsequent decay chi^0_2 -> chi^0_1 l^+ l^- with polarized e^+ and e^- beams, including the spin correlations between production and decay. We work out the advantages of polarizing both beams. We study in detail the angular distribution and the forward--backward asymmetry of the decay lepton as well as the opening angle distribution between the decay leptons. We investigate the dependence on the masses of tilde{e}_L and tilde{e}_R and on the mixing character of the neutralinos. In particular we study the dependence on the gaugino mass parameter M_1.Comment: 17 pages, 14 postscript figures, latex using epsfi

Photon collimator system for the ILC Positron Source

High energy e+e- linear colliders are the next large scale project in particle physics. They need intense sources to achieve the required luminosity. In particular, the positron source must provide about 10E+14 positrons per second. The positron source for the International Linear Collider (ILC) is based on a helical undulator passed by the electron beam to create an intense circularly polarized photon beam. With these photons a longitudinally polarized positron beam is generated; the degree of polarization can be enhanced by collimating the photon beam. However, the high photon beam intensity causes huge thermal load in the collimator material. In this paper the thermal load in the photon collimator is discussed and a flexible design solution is presented.Comment: 22 pages, 19 figures, 8 tables, cross-reference to table 4 fixe

LHC/ILC Interplay in SUSY Searches

Combined analyses at the Large Hadron Collider and at the International Linear Collider are important to reveal precisely the new physics model as, for instance, supersymmetry. Examples are presented where ILC results as input for LHC analyses could be crucial for the identification of signals as well as of the underlying model. The synergy of both colliders leads also to rather accurate SUSY parameter determination and powerful mass constraints even if the scalar particles have masses in the multi-TeV range.Comment: 5 pages, contribution to the proceedings of EPS0

Beam Polarization and Spin Correlation Effects in Chargino Production and Decay

We study chargino production e^+ e^- -> chi^+_1 chi^-_1 and the subsequent leptonic decay chi^-_1\to chi^0_1 e^- nu_e including the complete spin correlations between production and decay. We work out the advantages of polarizing the e^+ and e^- beams. We study in detail the polarized cross sections, the angular distribution and the forward--backward asymmetry of the decay electron. They can be used to determine the sneutrino mass m_{\tilde{\nu}_e}.Comment: 14 pages, 17 postscript figures, latex using epsfi

EVALUATION OF EXPORT PROMOTION PROGRAMS ON TRADE OF HIGH-VALUED AND PROCESSED FOOD PRODUCTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR NORTH CAROLINA AGRIBUSINESS

International Relations/Trade,