Une ou deux choses à propos de Baudrillard

Oublier Baudrillard ? Pourquoi devrions-nous oublier un art qui, malgré sa remarquable sérénité et même sa nonchalance ostensible, s'acharne à nous dire quelque chose sur notre condition, un art qui ne craint ni d'investiguer, ni de raconter les terribles paradoxes de l'existence contemporaine et de la civilisation contemporaine, un art qui, aussi rare que cela puisse être, peut engendrer le paradoxe ?A respected commentator on contemporary French intellectual life, tells us that we should, perhaps, "forget Baudrillard" But why should we forget such a subtle art as Baudrillard's ? Why should we forget an art wich, for all its remarkable serenity and, even, ostensible nonchalance, remains impassioned to tell us something about our condition, an art fearing neither to investigate nor to narrate the terrible paradoxes of contemporary existence and contemporary civilization, indeed, an art wich, rare as this is, can bear paradox

SPORTS BETTING AND INDIAN GAMING: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO MARKET ENTRY AND INTEGRATION OF SPORTS BOOKS INTO TRIBAL CASINOS

Abstract Even before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision In Murphy v. NCAA (2018) permitting states to legalize sports wagering, the biggest brand-names in gaming worldwide were positioning themselves to capitalize on the fan base for America’s most recognizable sports leagues. Sports wagering already is up and running in five states; analysts predict that more than half the states will legalize it within five years. Many will be among the 29 states that currently have casinos owned and operated by American Indian tribes in this $32.4 billion market segment. There is no firm sense and little data pointing to how many of the 242 gaming tribes operating some 500 casinos will seek to open sports books, or on what basis they will make a decision. Yet the implications are critical to any tribal government responsible for the welfare of its people. In this paper, we posit that a tribe should carefully evaluate three main barriers to entry into the sports betting market: legality and regulation; feasibility and profitability; and market and competition. We identify each barrier and address threshold strategies for overcoming it. Our analysis is useful for tribes, states, or commercial operators considering whether to get in the game. Impact Full-scale legalized sports wagering at last is coming to the United States. In disrupted industries, first movers have the competitive advantage. Who will take the lead in a post-PASPA world: states, tribes, or commercial operators? How should tribes make the judgment whether to get in the game? And how will the prospects for sports betting impact the$32 billion Indian gaming industry? The answers to these questions are of critical significance in determining the relative successes and failures of the next major wave of legalized gaming in the U.S

Responses of Study Abroad Students in Australia to Experience-Based Pedagogy in Sport Studies

This paper contributes to research on the scholarship of teaching in the physical education/sport studies fields by examining the responses of study abroad students from overseas studying in Australia to a unit of study in sport studies that placed the interpretation of experience as the centre of the learning process. It draws on research conducted at an Australian university over an 18-month period and involving 170 participants. The study focused on the ways in which student motivations, inclinations, expectations and prior experience interacted with experiences of living in Australia and the experience-based nature of the unit of study shaped their responses and perceptions of learning

Experimental setup of continuous ultrasonic monitoring for corrosion assessment

The paper is devoted to the ultrasonic monitoring of accelerated corrosion. In order to achieve non-uniform corrosion (high surface roughness), passivation was applied to the corroding surface. A dedicated electronic multiplexed four channel front end was developed in order to feed the amplified waveforms from several transducers to the recording instrument. The experiment was conducted using two 5 MHz and two 10 MHz ultrasonic transducers all operating in the pulse echo mode. The transducers were excited in turn using gated bursts, and the received echoes were multiplexed and amplified before being digitized by a high accuracy ultrasonic instrument. Application of adaptive cross correlation to the recorded data allowed continuous thickness estimation of the non-uniformly corroded surface whilst cross correlation method gave unsatisfactory results

"Lest We Forget": Sport in the Cultural Memory of Australians

During the Rugby Union World Cup held in Australia in 2003, the nationally circulated Australian newspaper printed a picture of Jonny Wilkinson on the front page of the sports section with the headline: "Is that all you've got?" London's Daily Mirror responded with the same caption and a picture of Kylie Minogue. But this isn't all Australia has got. It has Kylie and sport. Many scholars might argue there is a great deal more to Australia than sport, but at the same time, sport has been a significant force in defining the national consciousness

Football and Culture in the Antipodes: The Rise and Consolidation of Greek Culture and Society

In 2006, Australian sports historian Roy Hay published an article which looked at the reasons why Association Football (football) never became the main code of football in Australia. Hay and others over the last two decades noted a number ofdefinitive reasons why it did not become the national football code. While the above theme dominated sports history scholarship, no scholar has questioned the reasons why football was the main sport for non-British ethnic groups who migrated to Australia. Hay (2006) noted:In Australia the great waves of immigration in the 1880s, the decade before the First World War, the 1920s and the period after the Second World War saw the growth in the popularity of football as a participant sport among migrants… Thesemigrants, arriving in a strange society which welcomed their labour but expected them to become assimilated Australians and to eschew links with their homelands, found very few institutions catering for them. Football clubs became one of theplaces where migrant groups could gather for more than just the sport. Aside from providing them with recreation and entertainment in a sport with which many were familiar, unlike Australian rules or cricket, the football clubs assisted migrantsin a variety of ways (p.173)

Responses of study abroad students in Australia to experience-based pedagogy in sport studies

This paper contributes to research on the scholarship of teaching in the physical education/sport studies fields by examining the responses of study abroad students from overseas studying in Australia to a unit of study in sport studies that placed the interpretation of experience as the centre of the learning process. It draws on research conducted at an Australian university over an 18-month period and involving 170 participants. The study focused on the ways in which student motivations, inclinations, expectations and prior experience interacted with experiences of living in Australia and the experience-based nature of the unit of study shaped their responses and perceptions of learning

National Crystallography Service (NCS) Grid Service

Conference poster about the NCS Grid Service.The EPSRC funded National Crystallography Service (NCS) is a facility available to the entire UK academic Chemistry community. The EPSRC funds a team of experts and 'state of the art' instrumentation, based in Southampton University School of Chemistry, to provide this service. This is an exceptionally important service as crystal structure determination is easily the most information rich method of characterisation of a compound and many research papers cannot be published without confirmation of identity by crystal structure analysis