The Don de langue and the archival pledge: Dado's Les Oiseaux d’Irène and Némirovsky's Suite française

© Edinburgh University Press. Accepted manuscript version deposited in accordance with SHERPA RoMEO guidelines. The definitive version is available at http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/nfs.2012.0031.This article considers the underlying archival poetics of the collaboration between the artist Dado (Miodrag Djuric) and the author Claude Louis-Combet. In particular I consider the collaborative work Les Oiseaux d'Irène (2007), in which a specific archival encounter is documented: Dado appeals to the imaginary figure of Irène Némirovsky while simultaneously engaging with the unique history of the manuscript of Némirovsky's Suite française. Dado's illustrations of Némirovsky's manuscript folios point to a deep ethical engagement with the archive which recalls the function of the manuscript as pledge and legacy in Némirovsky's biography. The archival function is related, via Derrida's account of the archive, to the late phase of Dado's work in which the creation of an internet archive, L'Anti-musée virtuel, is accompanied by the creation of a second Dado archive, at IMEC

Néomorts et faux vivants: communautés dépeuplées chez Beckett et Agamben

Post print version deposited in accordance with SHERPA RoMEO guidelines. The definitive version is available at http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=BECKETT+17.This article reworks and recontextualises the problematic of the unspeakable in Beckett’s Le Dépeupleur by reference to the recent work of Giorgio Agamben, and in particular the analysis of the figure of the Muselmann in Ce qui reste d’Auschwitz. As well as producing textual parallels with the ‘vaincu’ in Le Dépeupleur, the association of the Muselmann with unspeakability, exclusion and exception in Agamben’s work allows new light to be shed on the elusive project of Beckett’s text. In both cases, representation is avowedly impossible: while the narrative structure of Le Dépeupleur turns on a series of internal ‘errors’, Agamben’s theory in Ce qui reste d’Auschwitz is based on the impossible testimony of the Muselmann, a figure who by definition cannot bear witness

The inadequate archive: ethical remaking in Silvia Kolbowski’s After Hiroshima mon amour

© The Author(s) 2013. Accepted version deposited in accordance with SHERPA RoMEO guidelines. The definitive version is available at http://frc.sagepub.com/content/24/4/417.abstract.This article considers Silvia Kolbowski’s video installation After Hiroshima mon amour as an instance of ethical remaking. In remaking Duras and Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour (1959) in the shadow of the Iraq war, Kolbowski taps into an existing repetition dynamic: Kolbowski foregrounds the impossibility of an end to the conflict in Iraq by reference to a film concerned with the memorial persistence of Hiroshima. Kolbowski’s practice further recalls the concern with remaking in Derrida’s account of archive fever. In Derrida, to archive is both to record and to erase: repetition compulsion is bound up with the death drive. Kolbowski contests Derrida’s conception of the archive by reshaping the memory and amnesia of Hiroshima mon amour through two interrelated strategies: first, an iterative process focusing on a film which is itself concerned with repetition; and, second, by problematising the classification and archiving of her own work

Overview of Acoustic and Sonic Boom Advancements During Development of NASA Launch Vehicles

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T2Candida assay: diagnostic performance and impact on antifungal prescribing

Objectives: To assess the performance of T2Candida for the diagnosis of invasive candidiasis (IC) against gold standards of candidaemia or consensus IC definitions, and to evaluate the impact of T2Candida on antifungal drug prescribing. Methods: A retrospective review was undertaken of all T2Candida (T2MR technology, T2 Biosystems) performed from October 2020 to February 2022. T2Candida performance was evaluated against confirmed candidaemia or against proven/probable IC within 48 hours of T2Candida, and its impact on antifungal drug prescriptions. Results: T2Candida was performed in 61 patients, with 6 (9.8%) positive results. Diagnostic performance of T2Candida against candidaemia had a specificity of 85.7% and negative predictive value (NPV) of 96.8%. When comparing T2Candida results with consensus definitions of IC, the specificity and NPV of T2Candida was respectively 90% (54/60) and 98.2% (54/55) for proven IC, and 91.4% (53/58) and 96.4% (53/55) for proven/probable IC. Antifungals were initiated in three of six patients (50%) with a positive T2Candida result. Thirty-three patients were receiving empirical antifungals at the time of T2Candida testing, and a negative result prompted cessation of antifungals in 11 (33%) patients, compared with 6 (25%) antifungal prescriptions stopped following negative beta-D-glucan (BDG) testing in a control population (n = 24). Conclusions: T2Candida shows high specificity and NPV compared with evidence of Candida bloodstream infection or consensus definitions for invasive Candida infection, and may play an adjunctive role as a stewardship tool to limit unnecessary antifungal prescriptions

Sociology of Enterprise. Department for Business Innovation & Skills Research Rport

There are more than five million small businesses in the UK. These businesses employ 12.1 million people and account for 33% of the total private sector turnover (BIS, 2014). Although a buoyant small business sector is vital to the success of the UK economy, it is well established that most small businesses never grow or, at best, achieve only modest growth. Accordingly, understanding the factors that drive and shape small business performance is a key concern for both academics and policymakers. By increasing our understanding of these factors, this innovative project can make a major contribution to entrepreneurship research and to the evidence base underpinning enterprise policy

Book Reviews

Book reviews of: Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the U.S. South. By Jodi Skipper (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2022. Foreword, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Epilogue, Appendix A, Appendix B, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Pp. ix, 218. 27.50 paper. ISBN: 9781609388171.) Gin, Jesus, & Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South. By Brendan J. J. Payne. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. Pp. 304. 45 hardcover. ISBN: 0807171486.) The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation. By Thavolia Glymph. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Acknowledgments, figures, notes, bibliography, index of names, index of subjects. Pp. 379. $37.50 cloth,$27.95 paper. ISBN: 9781469653631.) Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America. By Keisha N. Blain. (Boston: Beacon Press, 2021, Acknowledgements, notes, index, image credits, about the author. Pp ix, 181. $12.97 cloth,$24.95 paper. ISBN-13:9780807061503 Land of Milk and Money: The Creation of the Southern Dairy Industry. By Alan I. Marcus. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021. Acknowledgements, illustrations, notes, index. Pp. ix, 317. $50 cloth. ISBN: 0807176052.) Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer. By Davis W. Houck. (University Press of Mississippi, 2022. Preface, notes, index. Pp. ix, 153.$99 cloth, $25.00 paper. ISBN: 9781496840790.) Mississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865–1915. By Evan Howard Ashford. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. Acknowledgements, illustrations, notes, index. Pp. ix, 233.$99 cloth, $25 paper. ISBN: 9781496839732

Social Exchange Theory

In this chapter we will begin with the basics of social exchange theory as they were developed from an application of principles drawn from economics, psychology, and sociology particularly as related to small groups. We will then turn our attention to how this theory has been specifically applied to communication and personal relationships

Rewriting Modernity

This article rereads Paul Virilio, drawing on the distinctionbetween topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life in “Re-writing Modernity” and “Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis,” it enlists topology as a horizontal spatial structure that enables us to rethink space, time,and modernity outside the limits of the “squared horizon,” where the“squared horizon” is viewed as a spatial and textual metaphor for framing perspectives on the past, present, and future. The analysis deconstructs the topography of the “squared horizon” as a relationality in an unfolding continuum, where spaces exist ontologically and where the immaterial forces of the dromospheric and the atmospheric generate a relational and historical connectedness