How We Became Authentic

This is a postprint (accepted manuscript) version of the article published in Ethos 37(1):148-53. The final version of the article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1352.2009.01034_1.x (login required to access content). The version made available in Digital Common was supplied by the author.Accepted Manuscriptye

No Exit (April 24-26, 1969)

Program for No Exit (April 24-26, 1969)

Quiver Gauge Theories: Finitude and Trichotomoty

D-brane probes, Hanany-Witten setups and geometrical engineering stand as a trichotomy of standard techniques of constructing gauge theories from string theory. Meanwhile, asymptotic freedom, conformality and IR freedom pose as a trichotomy of the beta-function behaviour in quantum field theories. Parallel thereto is a trichotomy in set theory of finite, tame and wild representation types. At the intersection of the above lies the theory of quivers. We briefly review some of the terminology standard to the physics and to the mathematics. Then, we utilise certain results from graph theory and axiomatic representation theory of path algebras to address physical issues such as the implication of graph additivity to finiteness of gauge theories, the impossibility of constructing completely IR free string orbifold theories and the unclassifiability of N < 2 Yang-Mills theories in four dimensions

Agency and social construction: practice of the self in art and design

Learning in the arts has the potential to be a co-constructive means of inquiry for students, which enables experience of the self in relation to practice. This research explores a practice-based investigation of agency as self-definition, amid normative social constructions of the subject. The focus for data analysis is a project taught to BTEC Level 2 Art and Design students in a deprived area of North London (2010-12). A dialogue is presented between the implications for Sartre’s theory of free-will and a Foucauldian critique of social construction. Applications for this comparative theory are discussed here as a form of resistance to the compression of learning identities in Art and Design, and across the curriculum. This is an approach which encourages emancipated self- representation, acknowledging cultural diversity, for a discursive environment viable at all levels of study. In exploring the data, a positioning of free-will with social responsibility is identified as an inclusive forum for creative understanding, and the tolerance of difference

Flies; Fragments

Little Theatre Productions, The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre was directed by Michael Woods, and Fragments by Murray Shisgal was directed by George D. Yezbak in March and April of 1979. The Carroll News reviewed this on page 4 or the March 30, 1979 issue.https://collected.jcu.edu/plays/1084/thumbnail.jp

It's OK not to be OK: Shared Reflections from two PhD Parents in a Time of Pandemic

Adopting an intersectional feminist lens, we explore our identities as single and co‐parents thrust into the new reality of the UK COVID‐19 lockdown. As two PhD students, we present shared reflections on our intersectional and divergent experiences of parenting and our attempts to protect our work and families during a pandemic. We reflect on the social constructions of ‘masculinities’ and ‘emphasized femininities’ as complicated influence on our roles as parents. Finally, we highlight the importance of time and self‐care as ways of managing our shared realities during this uncertain period. Through sharing reflections, we became closer friends in mutual appreciation and solidarity as we learned about each other’s struggles and vulnerabilities

Sartre's Postcartesian Ontology: On Negation and Existence

This article maintains that Jean-Paul Sartre’s early masterwork, Being and Nothingness, is primarily concerned with developing an original approach to the being of consciousness. Sartre’s ontology resituates the Cartesian cogito in a complete system that provides a new understanding of negation and a dynamic interpretation of human existence. The article examines the role of consciousness, temporality and the relationship between self and others in the light of Sartre’s arguments against “classical” rationalism. The conclusion suggests that Sartre’s departure from modern foundationalism has “postmodern” implications that emerge in the areas of ontology, existential analytics and the ethics of human freedom

Notables en conflit dans le monde grec sous le Haut-Empire

La Pax Romana n'empêche pas que de nombreuses cités de la partie grecque de l'Empire romain ne connaissent de graves troubles intérieurs. Dans quelques cas, on devine que s'affrontent non pas les classes aisées et les pauvres, mais les notables entre eux. Bien que les sources soient rares et imprécises, il semble que ces conflits soient le résultat de luttes d'influence. La nécessité pour tous de maintenir ou de reconstituer leur fortune, afin de conserver un rang social digne de celui de leurs ancêtres, et à la hauteur de leurs ambitions, était sans doute l'un des terrains propices à l'affrontement entre notables.In spite of the Pax Romana, many cities of the Roman East are victims of some internal strife. Sometimes, it is possible to understand that these civic troubles do not bring into conflict the well-to-do and the poor classes, but the richmen among themselves. The ancient sources are often defective, but it seem that the civil wars are the outcome of struggle for power. The necessity for all of them to maintain or to reconstitute their fortune, in order to keep a high social rank like that of their ancestors and consistent with theirs ambitions, is certainly one of their field of confrontation