Studies of the resistance of Arizona ash (Fraxinus toumeyi) to the root-rot fungus (Phymatotrichum omnivorum)

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Salvage Media: A Materialist Inquiry into the Limits of Visual, Aural, and Textual Clarity

Salvage Media, reads the oeuvre of the Afrofuturist graffiti writer RAMM:∑LL:Z∑∑ as a theoretical framework for resisting normativizing, authorized, and white-washed forms of communication. It salvages an archive of creators who appropriate technologies to transgress the formal and legal boundaries used to control aural and visual landscapes. Popular culture artists, such as graffiti writers, hip hop groups, such as De La Soul, and comics creators, including Rob Liefeld, expose and undermine the typically unspoken demand to be clear for white audiences. In so doing, they demonstrate the powerful role that ubiquitous commercial objects play in manufacturing our political imaginaries. Further, the demand for clear and direct communication is hardwired into the design and manufacturing of the production technologies that these “techno rebels,” to borrow a term from the futurist Alvin Toffler, tactically misuse. These techno rebels resist the legacy of cybernetics discourse and its influence over technological innovation into the present day. The study of cybernetics was premised on the promise of a communicative utopia in which humans, machines, and animals could freely communicate without latency, feedback, or lag. Over time, this dream transformed into the utopian promise of the total control of information and communication that defines the Information Age and the Information Society. By the mid-1970s, the field was declared dead, and cybernetic discourse has largely been written off as dated research and a failed project. However, the legacy of cybernetics is alive and well in the dream of total control of information. Central to the technocractic desire for such control is the demand for clarity, because the more legible, understandable, and digestible information is, the easier it is to control. This project concludes by connecting the importance of collective action with a discussion of the of the tactical, which grasps hold of momentary opportunities within shifting political, cultural, and social terrains. To the extent that the constellation of techno rebels who are the focus of this dissertation can serve as models for future acts of resistance, it remains necessary to better understand the means and the ways by which they were able to produce such resistance

Emalin käyttö korujen sarjatuotannossa : Emali ja sen soveltavuus Suomen nykyisiin markkinoihin

Tässä opinnäytetyössä tutustutaan emalointiin eri näkökulmista ja pohditaan, miksi ja miten emalin voisi tuoda järkevästi Suomen markkinoille ottaen huomioon viime vuosisadan muutokset valmistustavoissa ja kuluttajien käyttäytymisessä sekä emaloinnin omat edellytykset. Tässä teoksessa esitellään tavallisemmat emalointitekniikat ja tutustutaan lyhyesti emaloinnin historiaan. Työssä esitellään erilaisia faktoja, haasteita ja ratkaisuja aiheeseen liittyen SWOT-analyysia mukaillen. Tähän opinnäytetyöhön liittyy myös käytännöllinen osuus, jossa suunnitellaan ja toteutetaan erilaisia emalikorumallistoja teollisiin tuotantomenetelmiin. Lopputuloksena syntyy useita hopeisia emalikoruja. Käytännöllisen osuuden tarkoitus on tarkistaa dynaamisesti tämän opinnäytetyön teoriaosuuden paikkansapitävyyttä ja kehittää tekijän omaa osaamista. Tässä työssä pyritään käyttämään alan yrittäjän näkökulmaa.In this thesis enameling is explored from different points of view and it is reflected on how and why vitreous enamel could be brought back to the Finnish jewelry market, considering the changes of the last century in production and consumer habits, and the specifics of enameling. In this thesis, the most common enameling techniques as well as a short history of enameling are introduced. Facts, challenges and solutions related to the subject using SWOT-analysis as a model are presented. This thesis also includes a practical part, where different collections of enamel jewelry are designed and produced with industrial production method. As an end result several enameled jewels made of silver are produced. The meaning of the practical part is to dynamically verify the relevancy of the theoretical part of the thesis and develop the author’s own know-how. In this thesis he entrepreneur’s point of view is emphasized