Queer Theory, Visual Culture, and Emotional Resistances in Torremolinos (Spain) during the Sixties and Seventies.

This paper proposes an epistemological approximation between the method of visual analysis developed by Aby Warburg in Atlas Mnemosyne, based on concepts such as Nachleben der Antike (the afterlife of Antiquity) and Pathosformel, (the “emotionally charged visual tropes”), and some aspects of the Queer Theory, in particular the concept of "emotional resistances" proposed by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick with the intention of developing "reparative epistemologies".Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Queering Aby Warburg: visual culture and “emotional resistances” in Torremolinos during the sixties and the seventies.

This paper proposes an epistemological approximation between the method of visual analysis developed by Aby Warburg in Atlas Mnemosyne, and the concept of "emotional resistances" proposed by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick with the intention of developing "reparative epistemologies" (Touching Feeling. Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Duke, 2003). The construction of a queer cartography from Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne is a project of great magnitude. This is the reason why we want to start from a g-local conception (global and local), and apply this methodology to the analysis of the traces and practices of personal photography that were developed in the Sixties and Seventies in the LGTBQ+ community of Torremolinos (Spain), as an example of cultural practice that allows to recover the "emotional resistances", especially of the members of this community with which the Francoist “emotional regime” (1939-1975) fattened. We will use a queer counter-methodology: the protagonists of the 1970s preserve experiences, memories and materials in the form of personal collections, which sometimes find themselves in a precarious drift that makes militant archival work indispensable. These photographs show the role that Torremolinos had in the Sixties and Seventies as a destination for the LGTBQ+ community in Europe and the development of activism in Spain. This is the reason why in January 1977 the Democratic Union of Homosexuals (UDH) was created in Málaga, months before the first demonstration for the repeal of the Ley de Peligrosidad y Rehabilitación Social (LPRS) in Barcelona in June 1977. The analysis of these photographs will be carried out taking into account both Aby Warburg's method (mainly the Pathosformel and the assembly concept present in the Atlas Mnemosyne) and Eve Kosofsky's concept of "emotional resistences".Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Size dependent symmetry breaking in models for morphogenesis

A general property of dynamical systems is the appearance of spatial and temporal patterns due to a change of stability of a homogeneous steady state. Such spontaneous symmetry breaking is observed very frequently in all kinds of real systems, including the development of shape in living organisms. Many nonlinear dynamical systems present a wide variety of patterns with different shapes and symmetries. This fact restricts the applicability of these models to morphogenesis, since one often finds a surprisingly small variation in the shapes of living organisms. For instance, all individuals in the Phylum Echinodermata share a persistent radial fivefold symmetry. In this paper, we investigate in detail the symmetry-breaking properties of a Turing reaction–diffusion system confined in a small disk in two dimensions. It is shown that the symmetry of the resulting pattern depends only on the size of the disk, regardless of the boundary conditions and of the differences in the parameters that differentiate the interior of the domain from the outer space. This study suggests that additional regulatory mechanisms to control the size of the system are of crucial importance in morphogenesis

On the Hardware Implementation of Triangle Traversal Algorithms for Graphics Processing

Current GPU architectures provide impressive processing rates in graphical applications because of their specialized graphics pipeline. However, little attention has been paid to the analysis and study of different hardware architectures to implement specific pipeline stages. In this work we have identified one of the key stages in the graphics pipeline, the triangle traversal procedure, and we have implemented three different algorithms in hardware: bounding-box, zig-zag and Hilbert curve-based. The experimental results show that important area-performance trade-offs can be met when implementing key image processing algorithms in hardwar

Finite element approximation of the viscoelastic flow problem: a non-residual based stabilized formulation

In this paper, a three-field finite element stabilized formulation for the incompressible viscoelastic fluid flow problem is tested numerically. Starting from a residual based formulation, a non-residual based one is designed, the benefits of which are highlighted in this work. Both formulations allow one to deal with the convective nature of the problem and to use equal interpolation for the problem unknowns View the MathML sources-u-p (deviatoric stress, velocity and pressure). Additionally, some results from the numerical analysis of the formulation are stated. Numerical examples are presented to show the robustness of the method, which include the classical 4: 1 planar contraction problem and the flow over a confined cylinder case, as well as a two-fluid formulation for the planar jet buckling problem.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Using the HEGY Procedure When Not All Roots Are Present

Empirical studies have shown little evidence to support the presence of all unit roots present in the filter in quarterly seasonal time series. This paper analyses the performance of the Hylleberg, Engle, Granger and Yoo (1990) (HEGY) procedure when the roots under the null are not all present. We exploit the Vector of Quarters representation and cointegration relationship between the quarters when factors 4 (1 L),(1+ L), (1+ L2 ), (1 L2 ) and (1+ L + L2 + L3 ) are a source of nonstationarity in a process in order to obtain the distribution of tests of the HEGY procedure when the underlying processes have a root at the zero, Nyquist frequency, two complex conjugates of frequency / 2 and two combinations of the previous cases. We show both theoretically and through a Monte-Carlo analysis that the t-ratios and and the F-type tests used in the HEGY procedure have the same distribution as under the null of a seasonal random walk when the root(s) is/are present, although this is not the case for the t-ratio tests associated with unit roots at frequency 1 t 2 t / 2 .hegy tests, vector of quarters, unit root tests, seasonality

A discriminant rule under transformation

We present a new rule for discriminating among continuous populations which are not multivariate normal. The basic idea is to construct the sample maximum likelihood discriminant rule after transforming the data by a suitable multivariate transformation to normalit

The Impact of Protest Responses in Choice Experiments

Not much attention has been given to protest responses in choice experiments (CE). Using follow-up statements, we are able to identify protest responses and compute welfare estimates with and without the inclusion of such protest responses. We conclude that protest responses are fairly common in CE, and their analysis affects the statistical performance of the empirical models. In particular, when the sample is corrected by protests, our results come from utility consistent models. Thus, future choice experiments should consider the role of protest responses as contingent valuation studies have done.Protest Responses, Choice Experiments