Review of Marius Turda's and Aaron Gillette, Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Marius Turda and Aaron Gillette. Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective.London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. 306 pp

Review of Marius Turda's and Aaron Gillette, Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective

Marius Turda and Aaron Gillette. Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective.London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. 306 pp

Bringing Care and Maintenance Under the Same Skin: Deep Brain Stimulation and Temporalities of Care

By following a posthumanist and Science, Technology and Society approach, this study analyzes technological care in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease. The results are based on a survey of implanted patients with PD in Greece. I stress that, in implantation, the issue of functionality is paramount, but it also involves a “dance of agency”, an interplay of actors and actants, while the “liveliness” of the technological parts imposes temporal and spatial constraints. I distinguish and analyze three modes of technological care that I encountered in the field, related to tuning, maintaining and disentangling the cyborg bodymind. I argue, finally, that these practices expand the territory of care, blurring its boundaries with maintenance.En suivant une approche posthumaniste et ancrée en Science, Technologie, Société, cet article analyse le soin technologique dans la stimulation cérébrale profonde pour la maladie de Parkinson. Il est basé sur une enquête menée en Grèce auprès de personnes implantées atteintes de la maladie de Parkinson. Je souligne que, dans l’implantation, la question de la fonctionnalité est primordiale, mais qu’elle implique également une « danse de l’agentivité », un jeu d’acteurs et d’actants, ou la « vivacité » des éléments technologiques impose des contraintes temporelles et spatiales. Je distingue et analyse trois modes du soin technologique que j’ai rencontrés sur le terrain, et qui sont liés au réglage, à l'entretien et au démêlage du corps-esprit cyborg. Je soutiens, enfin, que ces pratiques élargissent le territoire du soin, en brouillant les frontières avec l'entretien

Excavation at Sissi IV

Following a first 5-year programme between 2007 and 2011 and three earlier preliminary reports published as Aegis 1, 4 and 6, the Belgian School at Athens returned to Sissi in 2015. This volume describes the results of the 2015 and 2016 campaigns, in part concentrating on the remains of a large, Neopalatial monumental complex with Central Court, which was initially recognised in 2011. There are also reports on the continuing exploration of the Cemetery and on tests conducted around/in the immediate vicinity of Postpalatial Building CD. In addition, chapters dealing with the geophysical exploration and geomorphologv of the hill and region are presented, as is a presentation on how architectural remains are recorded. Preliminary studies of ceramic assemblages of the Prepalatial and Neopalatial periods are also included