On Becoming Human in Lingít Aaní: Encountering Levinas through Indigenous Inspirations

Calls for taking up wisdom in its place risk re-inscribing coloniality at the level of signification if attempts to resituate intelligibility in the specificity of place are not enacted through a careful translation of experience between victims and perpetrators of colonial violence. At some level, decolonization ought to be conceived as a kind of translation. Emmanuel Levinas' project to "translate" Judaism into Greek is one way of staging such decolonial translation by providing us an internal critique of coloniality while remaining receptive to indigenous inspirations that enrich eco-phenomenological ways of encountering place. In the final instance, however, this paper calls for encountering place through the indigenous languages that make place ethically legible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Ye

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Proof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.The 2015 edition of Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.Dedication -- Editor’s Note -- Mid-Air -- Acknowledgements -- Salmon (Gohan Desu Yo/It’s Dinner Time) -- Xwaayeenák Richard Dauenhauer -- Loon -- Burney Falls -- Richard Dauenhauer -- Egg Carton Fox -- August Afternoon at Helle’s Pool, Vancouver, Washington -- Oak Run -- Buddy Tabor teaches me to filet a halibut -- Icelander -- Home -- Season’s End -- Young Me, Old Me -- The Window Seat -- Wind -- UAS Student Back Study -- Paintbrush Conversations -- Grey River Soulshine -- Across the Universe -- Aurora-Skaters’ Cabin 1 -- Whiskey and Autumn -- Leaf Wolf -- Spring Cleaning the Perennials -- Ode to a Rose -- Final Point -- After Spring Recital -- Olympic Ceiling -- Rodda-Hard going (too little snow) -- Birch Bark Calligraphy No. 2 -- Fishtailing -- Working the Corks -- Modern Alaskan Storyteller: An Interview with Ishmael Hope -- Bailer at the Back of the Boat (Excerpt) -- Close Up -- Bothering the Dauenhauers -- In Memory of Andrew Hope III -- Wolf Brimhat -- I Am From -- Crossing -- Revelations and Realizations -- The Shrinking Girl -- Untitled (Andi in Niki’s Room) -- Afternoon Reading, Rainy Room -- My Grandmother’s House in Metlakatla -- Deacon Charles Rohrbacher, Icon of St. Nicholas -- Honoring Tibet -- Fumi Matsumoto: Finding Art in Culture -- Pathway of Thorns -- Minidoka Interlude -- Mountain Dew Parrots -- Watch Out for Falling Objects -- Loose Change -- An Unkind Demise -- A Place That Holds Names -- Immortality (skull side) -- Opening Again the Box of Wisdom -- Iff’n I Go -- Colorless Blues -- The Heartsdance -- King of Dreams -- Hungering -- Colonialism -- Inside Out -- Rachel Day -- Lying Here -- Note to Wife -- Death -- Round the Clock -- Untitled (trap) -- Seeds of Racism -- Auschwitz Remembrance -- Moab 1 -- Pearl of the Orient -- Moab 3 -- Scars -- Transporting -- In Eliason Harbor -- Poet Passes: Leaves Words Behind -- Tough Guy -- Wolf Helmet -- Biographie

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Does Culture Shape Our Understanding of Others’ Thoughts and Emotions? An Investigation Across 12 Countries

Q2Q2Measures of social cognition have now become central in neuropsychology, being essential for early and differential diagnoses, follow-up, and rehabilitation in a wide range of conditions. With the scientific world becoming increasingly interconnected, international neuropsychological and medical collaborations are burgeoning to tackle the global challenges that are mental health conditions. These initiatives commonly merge data across a diversity of populations and countries, while ignoring their specificity. Objective: In this context, we aimed to estimate the influence of participants’ nationality on social cognition evaluation. This issue is of particular importance as most cognitive tasks are developed in highly specific contexts, not representative of that encountered by the world’s population. Method: Through a large international study across 18 sites, neuropsychologists assessed core aspects of social cognition in 587 participants from 12 countries using traditional and widely used tasks. Results: Age, gender, and education were found to impact measures of mentalizing and emotion recognition. After controlling for these factors, differences between countries accounted for more than 20% of the variance on both measures. Importantly, it was possible to isolate participants’ nationality from potential translation issues, which classically constitute a major limitation. Conclusions: Overall, these findings highlight the need for important methodological shifts to better represent social cognition in both fundamental research and clinical practice, especially within emerging international networks and consortia.https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9422-3579https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-7077Revista Internacional - IndexadaA2N

Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study

Background: The impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on postoperative recovery needs to be understood to inform clinical decision making during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. This study reports 30-day mortality and pulmonary complication rates in patients with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection. Methods: This international, multicentre, cohort study at 235 hospitals in 24 countries included all patients undergoing surgery who had SARS-CoV-2 infection confirmed within 7 days before or 30 days after surgery. The primary outcome measure was 30-day postoperative mortality and was assessed in all enrolled patients. The main secondary outcome measure was pulmonary complications, defined as pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, or unexpected postoperative ventilation. Findings: This analysis includes 1128 patients who had surgery between Jan 1 and March 31, 2020, of whom 835 (74·0%) had emergency surgery and 280 (24·8%) had elective surgery. SARS-CoV-2 infection was confirmed preoperatively in 294 (26·1%) patients. 30-day mortality was 23·8% (268 of 1128). Pulmonary complications occurred in 577 (51·2%) of 1128 patients; 30-day mortality in these patients was 38·0% (219 of 577), accounting for 81·7% (219 of 268) of all deaths. In adjusted analyses, 30-day mortality was associated with male sex (odds ratio 1·75 [95% CI 1·28–2·40], p\textless0·0001), age 70 years or older versus younger than 70 years (2·30 [1·65–3·22], p\textless0·0001), American Society of Anesthesiologists grades 3–5 versus grades 1–2 (2·35 [1·57–3·53], p\textless0·0001), malignant versus benign or obstetric diagnosis (1·55 [1·01–2·39], p=0·046), emergency versus elective surgery (1·67 [1·06–2·63], p=0·026), and major versus minor surgery (1·52 [1·01–2·31], p=0·047). Interpretation: Postoperative pulmonary complications occur in half of patients with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection and are associated with high mortality. Thresholds for surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic should be higher than during normal practice, particularly in men aged 70 years and older. Consideration should be given for postponing non-urgent procedures and promoting non-operative treatment to delay or avoid the need for surgery. Funding: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, Bowel and Cancer Research, Bowel Disease Research Foundation, Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons, British Association of Surgical Oncology, British Gynaecological Cancer Society, European Society of Coloproctology, NIHR Academy, Sarcoma UK, Vascular Society for Great Britain and Ireland, and Yorkshire Cancer Research

Revolutionizing maieutics: Literary, philosophical, and political pedagogies in a time of disaster

In my dissertation, I aim to recover what I call, following the work of Søren Kierkegaard, maieutical traditions of pedagogy, by which I mean the existential traditions that call for a passionate care for one’s self and one’s relations found in the literary and pedagogical insights of what we can identify as “prophetic traditions.” Since Plato and Aristotle, the literary is seen as a moment within philosophy, and the impact of this prioritization is such that Western and European epistemological priorities privilege truth over ethical value and teaching. The consequence of this subversion of the literary within philosophy is a neutralizing of the prophetic possibilities that the literary tends to offer. To recover a priority for the prophetic from the literary is to fundamentally shift the starting point of pedagogy. In this project, I make the case that pedagogy, as the foundation of community, can help restore the possibility of a redemptive healing among communities scored by violence, exile, war, and oppression. I thus work through three pedagogical modalities: the literary, the philosophical, and the political. First, I look to alternative experiences of the literary from certain Judaic and post-Holocaustal perspectives found in the writings of Maurice Blanchot, Edmond Jabès, and Emmanuel Levinas. Second, I work through the existential and postsecular turn in Continental philosophy in order to bring these insights to bear on literary criticism so that we might begin defining a postsecular turn in literary theory and cultural studies. Finally, I turn to the political field to explore ways by which the ethical insights of this postsecular turn in literary theory can help organize greater possibility for liberation struggles around the world. In this latter regard, I turn specifically to the globalized indigenous struggles such as those emerging from the Latin American context as well as those articulated in the poetics of Native American struggle

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Proof copy provided by Tidal Echoes.Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.A Note from Chalise Fisk -- A Note from Kaleigh Lambert -- A Note from Emily Wall -- A Note from Katie Spielberger -- The Sacred and the Profane -- Wild Polaroid -- Reflecting on the Old Dock on Auke Lake -- Dating Myself Forwarding John Updike's "Baseball" on The Writer's Almanac, June 22, 2009 -- Thoughts after Working on Salmon Eggs from our Grandson -- Burnt the Tea -- I Was in Love with a Boy Who Loved Dog-Sledding -- The Last Word -- Salmon Woman -- Organ Donor -- At First Sight -- The Dichotomy of Dog Salmon -- Winter in Lingit Aani Brings Magpies and Ravens -- To My Father, After My Last Summer Crewing on the Katrina Louise -- Damp -- Art 105 -- Portrait of a Man -- An Interview with Jane Terzis, Featured Artist -- I Have the Capacity for Patience -- 4-H -- Wildthing at the Glacier -- I Have the Capacity for Honesty -- I Have the Capacity for Obsessive Neatness -- I Have the Capacity for Stubbornness -- I Have the Capacity for Meanness -- I Have the Capacity to Kill -- Zora’s -- Thursdays after dinner -- Nixon’s reelection day -- They Break Not His Legs -- The girl -- How a mother remembers -- Atonement -- Earthbound -- Romance in the Newsprint (strangely devised personal ads) -- Memories of Winter -- Metamorphosis -- Rivers in Washington -- Light at the End of the Tunnel -- Sisters’ Islands -- Distress Signal -- Ice Caves and a Warm Wind -- Coke Train -- My Backyard’s Winter Anatomy -- Sunny With Chance of Feathers | Milky Way -- Tag -- Islands -- Such Great Heights -- The Seaweed Holt -- Sockeye -- Insider/Outsider | Little Bitch -- Pinocchio | Taylor, Home Depot, Tampa, 2001 -- Danielle and Zouzou -- My Father | Nine-Year-Old Kid -- A Little Bit of Everything: Interview with Nick Jans, Featured Writer -- Crossing Sawyer -- Summer’s Drift -- Waterline -- Ghost Meat, from the novel in process Nakolik -- The Giant’s Hand -- Rain Country -- The Stone Kyrielle -- Autograph -- Shards -- In Her Yellow Docs, She Shines -- Claudius Maximus -- Tracing Constellations -- Chasing the Promised Land -- My Favorite Story About Elizabeth -- The Destruction of the Russian Fort at New Archangel -- Jack of Hearts -- Beached -- Autumn Reflection -- JoJo | Guardian | King of the Jungle -- Child in the Woods -- Respite -- Burial at Sea -- Gold -- Geared for Drinking -- First Contact -- Fish Story -- Winter Mornings -- Downpour -- Feather -- Snowbirds -- The Sushi Chef Takes his Break During a Snowstorm on Lincoln Street -- Author and Artist Biographies -- Wash Day in Cobh, Ireland -- Alaska Fisherman’s Building -- Bleed -- Auke Lake Tre

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Tidal Echoes presents an annual showcase of writers and artists who share one thing in common: a life surrounded by the rainforests and waterways of Southeast Alaska.Dedication -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Dear Toi -- Light like coal -- Dream Seed -- Sleepy Monk -- Hymn -- December Like a Photograph -- A Change of Horizons -- Name Please -- Breathe Deep the Leaves of Autumn -- My Father who Art in Heaven -- Does Blue Milk Really Come From Blue Cows -- In the Winter Kitchen -- Trappers' Tailings -- Eulachon on the Chilkoot -- Tulips -- Miracle -- A Message for Those Who Hate -- The Fifth Meaning: An Interview with Christy NaMee Eriksen -- AMERICAN DREAMS -- HOW A ZOMBIE MAKES A PROMISE -- BENT -- THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD -- Walking Around: Translation -- When it's Sunny in Southeast Alaska -- Autumn Binge -- A New Creation Story -- North to Kluane -- An Offering -- Rustic Encounters: An Interview with Rachael Juzeler -- Below the River's Wings -- Objects In Mirror Are Larger Than They Appear -- m -- Gone Friend Leaving -- All I Could Salvage for You -- echo -- New Neighbors -- The Whiskey Woman -- Getting God's Attention -- Shaking Hands with Beethoven -- When You Say Goodbye, Go -- Auschwitz Greening -- All the Ways that I Have Died -- Backward Progression -- Halleluiah Fire at the Wrangell Institute -- Receiving Your Name at Glacier Bay -- Traditions -- Gold Field Dreaming -- Clay Bodies -- The Chemist -- Passing Spades Playing Hearts -- Rewinding Futures -- Untitled -- Mountain 4 -- Gargirl -- Tartarus -- ballerina 1 -- robot 1 -- A Dance for a Quiet Place -- Lost in Thought -- Swiss Army Rhino -- Davy Jones' Locker -- Queen Anne's Revenge Naval Chronometer -- Mother's Ink -- Fish Mongers -- Double Shift -- Hidden Work series {recycled life drawings} -- Friend Fencepost -- Juneau Past & Present Wrenches -- Wrenches -- Axe no. 1 {red line} -- Ball Peen Hammer no. 1 {Chiton frame} -- Bones -- Shovel Chartreuse Detail -- Chisel no. 2 {Chiton frame} -- Pieces of My House no. 1 -- Fish On -- Rainforest Night -- Aurora Over Douglas Harbor -- Challenger -- Splitboarders -- DeHart's -- cow skull -- Stilled Life -- Life 'n' Death -- Writer and Artist Biographie