Letter to the Editor (Response to the Article The Role of Religion in the War in the Former Yugoslavia )

Response to the article The Role of Religions in the War in the Former Yugoslavi

Naar een handelingsgericht ethiekbeleid voor zorgorganisaties : een normatieve verkenning

From a philosophical perspective this study explores a normative concept of ethics management for Health Care Organizations. Much attention has been paid to care as a form of action. Arendt__s typology of action that stresses qualitative differences between human activities is central in the concept. This action character of professional care needs confirmation in special organizational arrangements. So the concept brings ethics, care and organization together in a specific way. The broadening of an ethics concept for care in the direction of management and organization is the most original part of this study.UBL - phd migration 201

New aesthetic, new anxieties

The New Aesthetic was a design concept and netculture phenomenon launched into the world by London designer James Bridle in 2011. It continues to attract the attention of media art, and throw up associations to a variety of situated practices, including speculative design, net criticism, hacking, free and open source software development, locative media, sustainable hardware and so on. In this book we consider the New Aesthetic: as an opportunity to rethink the relations between these contexts in the emergent episteme of computationality. There is a desperate need to confront the political pressures of neoliberalism manifested in these infrastructures. Indeed, these are risky, dangerous and problematic times; a period when critique should thrive. But here we need to forge new alliances, invent and discover problems of the common that nevertheless do not eliminate the fundamental differences in this ecology of practices. In this book, perhaps provocatively, we believe a great deal could be learned from the development of the New Aesthetic not only as a mood, but as a topic and fix for collective feeling, that temporarily mobilizes networks. Is it possible to sustain and capture these atmospheres of debate and discussion beyond knee-jerk reactions and opportunistic self-promotion? These are crucial questions that the New Aesthetic invites us to consider, if only to keep a critical network culture in place