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October 10, 2020

Antillean crested hummingbird: Shayan Lallani - "Caribbean Cultural Encounters in Early-to-Mid-Twentieth Century Cruise Ship Tourism" UC Berkeley TSWG 9 Oct 2020 * * Semester at Sea? * * Modernity, Postmodernity, Internetity, regarding history and social t

Shayan Lallani Caribbean Cultural Encounters UC Berkeley TSWG 9 Oct 2020

The Tourism Studies Working Group

is pleased to present

"Caribbean Cultural Encounters

in Early-to-Mid-Twentieth Century Cruise Ship Tourism"

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Thanks, Shayan, for your edifying UC Berkeley TSWG talk. Am curious now about Semester at Sea food menus (since 1963), as well as Tall Ships' menus, & postmodern historical approaches to complement what I think of as your modernist approach to tourism food history, & re Tourism Studies' theory, and regarding:
Gazing at the Box: Tourism in the Context of the Internet and Globalization (Internetity)
http://scottmacleod.com/anth250v.htm
As a history of cruise ship menus, to the Caribbean, in a sense, and regarding a tourism studies’ approach vis-a-vis cruise passengers where ’tourism can be defined as visiting marked sites, often involving travel, or more specifically, following off site markers to onsite markers’ (a definition of tourism by Dean MacCannell), in what ways could postmodern approaches to history offer complementary analysis to what I think of as your modernist approach to history. (And in these regards, I'm exploring developing 'internetity' - a word, comparable with modernity and postmodernity, as conditions, I coined in a 2001 paper in Nelson Graburn's course - approaches to tourism history). (And also, for example, has Semester at Sea's cooks prepared menus of the food of the countries they are coming to next - in the Caribbeans - for college students on board?)

And here are my questions from the Zoom text chat:

"Did you come across, by any chance, menus from individual cruising boats with smaller parties than large cruise lines - eg sailing and power boats - that might offer helpful contrasts and comparisons re approaches to your interpretation of tourist mediation in the Caribbean (eg Bohemian type cruising in the 20th century, hippy Greenpeace type sailing craft in the 1960s and 1970s - who may have also lived long-term in the Caribbean)?"

"Thank you, Shayan, for your interesting talk! (Am wondering further regarding my above questions, is the role of other kinds of cruise ship menus from ships which are schools - e.g. some Tall Ships - and with an educational mission, or Semester at Sea, or even historical reenactments (if these exist) … re teaching the mediation of touristic cultural encounters - and even as critical approaches to large cruise lines? (e.g. 'alternative cruising’ with paying passengers). (And in what ways, regarding my own research, could one reconstruct such large cruise line experiences in virtual reality eg here - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForOceans?src=hashtag_click ?) Thanks. (And following on Nelson's question, what role, for example, might rum play on the menu of such alternative ships - and similar - re mediating cultural encounters even?)"

Here are the 2 current Tourism Studies' wiki subject pages for open teaching and learning (not yet in the ~200 countries in the world's main languages)https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Tourism_Studies
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospitality_and_Tourism
(https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects)

... and not yet with CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare for credit for WUaS's online students.
Thanks again for your edifying talk, Shayan!
Regards, Scott http://www.scottmacleod.com/SAS2005/SAS2005index.htm
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Semester%20at%20Sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semester_at_Sea

I found too these Tall Ships' cruises (but which aren't historical enactments) -
https://www.seafarercruises.com/cruises/tall-ships/https://www.seafarercruises.com/cruises/tall-ships/caribbean-royal-clipper/

https://www.sailingshipadventures.com/index.cfm?event=tall_ship_cruises

Searched on too: 'Tall Ships' cruises which are historical reenactments'
and found this from Australia (which ship was made in The Netherlands) -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway_Lass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fleet_Re-enactment_Voyage
(don't know about the menus on them:)

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https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/3892
http://shayanlallani.mystrikingly.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shayanlallani/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shayan_Lallani
https://uottawa.academia.edu/ShayanLallani

(Oxford Ph.D. student Zhan Huang, online too:

https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/zhan-huang

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhan-huang-6a6095109/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhan_Huang9)

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notes:

Cunard Line's Queen Elizabeth, 1950s.

Shayan Lallani, PhD Candidate

History, University of Ottawa

Friday, October 9, 4PM-6PM PDT

Zoom Link [click here]

Abstract:

Cruises were a means for wealthy Americans to encounter Caribbean societies in mediated ways. The ship, though traversing foreign waters, remained a luxurious and thus familiar atmosphere, complete with many home comforts and rendered an elite experience through the French-influenced fare on offer. Yet, cruise ship tourists also explored Caribbean ports of call wherein contact with sociocultural Others was much more conspicuous. This paper uses cruise menus to explore how the ship was rendered a luxurious space, as well as cruise travel guides and accounts to study how cruise passengers were asked to view foreign societies before their voyages, and how they encountered those cultures once they debarked the ship. It explores how cruise tourists toured foreign lands in ways that were ultimately sanitized. The familiarization of Caribbean cultures was accomplished by augmenting references to exoticism with references to American or European cultures, and especially through colonial symbolism. Thus, an otherwise foreign experience was rendered safe and palatable for American cruise tourists.

Speaker Bio:

Shayan Lallani is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Ottawa. His research explores how mass-market cruise lines in the American market produced cultural encounters through dining experiences in the late twentieth century. His articles have appeared in Food, Culture & Society, and the Journal of Tourism History.

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October 9, 2020

orange elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes): Regarding your S-V-O (Subject Verb Object in computational legal linguistics) observation, that 'syllogistic legal systems' would "require far more metadata to understand the semantic ambiguities latent in th

[codex_group_meetings] TODAY! CodeX Mtg (10/8 @1.30p PT): Deconstructing Legal Text; Candle (via Zoom)

Hi Everyone,

Our next CodeX group meeting is today (Oct 8), from 1:30p to 2:30p PT, via Zoom - please use link and password below. All speakers will present remotely.

Our guests will be:

Megan Ma, PhD Candidate in Law, Sciences Po Law School, and Dmitriy Podkopaev, Sr Legal Data Scientist, Simmons Wavelength, will discuss their project, "Deconstructing Legal Text: Object-Oriented Design in Legal Adjudication," which intends to build an expert system predicated on rules of legal reasoning, applying both linguistic modelling and NLP to parse legal judgments.
Landon Stinson, Co-founder, Candle. Candle creates enterprise software that aims to improve law firm efficiency and timely access to justice. Candle’s first product, Candle Request, integrates with Clio to automate the historically tedious processes of retrieving medical records and tracking liens for legal matters, including bulk requests and recordkeeping.

See you then!
Roland

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>Thu, Oct 8, 3:17 PM (1 day ago)

to core.svo, landon, Roland

Landon, Megan, Dmitriy, and Roland,
Thanks for your great Stanford Law CodeX presentations. Some follow up questions and related:
Landon, MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School's planned online medical schools with online teaching hospitals for online clinical care seeks to facilitate the coding of avatar bot electronic medical records - and, brainstorming-wise, for all 7.8 billion people (anticipating, for example, tele-robotic surgery). Am curious about some of your thoughts about this regarding Candle Request's future planning regarding closing the medical record vortex. How might we explore your great project, further, and even in all ~200 countries' official languages (where World Univ & Sch seeks to create online medical & law schools in each, and with AI, and an universal translator)? Thank you!

Megan, Dmitriy, As a follow on to Roland's questions, how would or might "Deconstructing Legal Text: Object-Oriented Design in Legal Adjudication" work with Google's NLP approaches? ... And how could you then (re Google Translate) build further models that would increase understanding of legal texts in other languages?
How might we explore your great project, further, and even in all ~200 countries' official languages (where World Univ & Sch seeks to create online law schools in each, and with AI, and an universal translator)?

Best regards, Scott
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School -

Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Hospital
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Medical_School

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
Languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages

Landon, Thanks for your great Stanford CodeX presentation, Regards, Scott worlduniversityandschool.org scottmacleod.com & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School) Plans or 7.8 billion https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click ~

Dmitriy, Thanks for your great Stanford CodeX talk, Regards, Scott worlduniversityandschool.org scottmacleod.com & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School /Artificial_Intelligence) Plans for Universal Translator and for Academic Press too beyond legal meanings ~

Megan, Thanks for your great Stanford CodeX talk, Regards, Scott worlduniversityandschool.org scottmacleod.com & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School /Artificial_Intelligence) Plans too for Universal Translator and for Academic Press too beyond legal meanings ~

build an expert system predicated on rules of legal reasoning, applying both linguistic modelling and NLP to parse legal judgments.

and, as a follow on to Roland's questions, perhaps with Google's NLP approaches? ... And how could you then (re Google Translate) build further models that would increase understanding of legal texts in other languages?

Megan Ma
Dmitry
core.svo@gmail.com

Deconstructing Legal Text_Object Oriented Design in Legal Adjudication
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06054

Landon Stanson

seeking medical records
authorisation
cover letter

closing the medical record vortex

landon@candlerequest.com
850 777 9504

In closing the medical record vortex, and as an example, do you have to ever reach out to EPIC (which with related companies may support ~50% of US hospitals), and how would Candle Request work, an another example, with Kaiser Permanente Health records, in its 8 US states?

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- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
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Megan and Dmitriy, Landon and Roland,

Thanks for your message this morning in LI, Megan, and re S-V-O metadata for other languages, and other legal systems. What a great opportunity to build a realistic virtual earth for law - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw?src=hashtag_click - and legal meanings. Seems like a fascinating opportunity too especially for building a realistic virtual earth for languages - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages&src=typeahead_click - and regarding requiring "far more metadata to understand the semantic ambiguities latent in the phrasing of these general overarching principles." Since CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is seeking to develop online free-to-students' degrees (Bachelor, Ph.D. Law, MD and IB high school in all ~200 countries and their official main languages), and since MIT doesn't have a law (or a medical school), WUaS is seeking to explore collaboration with Stanford Law for online law schools in all ~200 countries' official languages in these regards.
Scott:as a follow on to Roland's questions, how would or might "Deconstructing Legal Text: Object-Oriented Design in Legal Adjudication" work with Google's NLP approaches? ... And how could you then (re Google Translate) build further models that would increase understanding of legal texts in other languages?
How might we explore your great project, further, and even in all ~200 countries' official languages (where World Univ & Sch seeks to create online law schools in each, and with AI, and an universal translator)?

Megan:Hi Scott, sorry for the late response! Yes, we’re looking into that at a (sadly) later stage, provided that not only are legal judgments expressed in a different language, they’re equally bound by different legal systems. The civil law system (like in continental Europe), for example, has a different method of reasoning relying more prominently in deductive reasoning. Since they do not explicitly follow precedent, and instead use syllogisms, the fundamental breakdown of sentences to the Subject-Verb-Object structure will largely remain the same, but would require far more metadata to understand the semantic ambiguities latent in the phrasing of these general overarching principles as opposed to facts.

Scott:Understood

Megan:I do think it’d be great to tackle more languages! We were thinking of moving into French next actually

Scott: Thanks for your reply, Megan! And great that you speak Cantonese too! Are you familiar with the Stanford Law China Guiding Cases Project CGCP - https://cgc.law.stanford.edu ? The Stanford CGCP project has involved, as I understand this, translating the Beijing Supreme Court's rulings into English (87 rulings 3 or 4 years ago) and then back into Mandarin, thus perhaps helping to give China law a whole new basis - and in a time of legal reform in China. Regarding your SVO observation, that 'syllogistic legal systems' would "require far more metadata to understand the semantic ambiguities latent in the phrasing of these general overarching principles as opposed to facts," am curious, brainstorming-wise, what the role of a realistic virtual earth for languages - https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages&src=typeahead_click in ONE single realistic virtual earth for such metadata could be - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click. Am thinking again, per my questions of the Google ecosystem, and Google Street View / Maps / Earth / TensorFlow / Translate ... and also especially with realistic 'artificial humans,' aka Samsung Neons.

Scott:Megan, here are the beginning China Law School at WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS , China World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China - both planned in Mandarin (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) ), Cantonese, and other main languages in China for free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric online degrees, as well as in all languages in China as wiki schools for open teaching and learning. And here's France World Univ & Sch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/France - planned in the French language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/French_language ... and the beginnings of an Universal Translator for all 7,117 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator (building on Google Translate, in about 100 main languages + Wikidata in Wikipedia's ~300 languages). I'd think Dmitriy would have fascinating knowledge to facilitate a first step in French and beyond! Best regards, Scott

Megan, your message also suggests to me a further approach to build a single realistic virtual earth with a key S-V-O language focus, and in designing it for everything, like, Landon, and Megan a #realistic virtual earth for surgery - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery?src=hashtag_click - and:
'Even with #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.8 billion people (emerging from Duke / Stanford / Google's Project Baseline) @califf001 @researchmatters @PCORnetwork @texhern and potentially too in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSurgery part of a single #RealisticVirtualEarth?'

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1306325041055899648?s=20

Thank you!
Best regards, Scott

Megan:
Yes, wow this is incredible! I’m actually meeting up with the team tomorrow to discuss legal texts from jurisdictions written in non-English languages given the feedback we’ve received since yesterday. There’s definitely much more we could work with. I think your ideas regarding the “virtual earth” may be interesting from the perspective of how cultural surroundings may have an impact on the formation of legal norms...

All is to say, this is super stimulating and would love to dive even deeper!

Scott: Thanks, Megan ... Appreciating your text-centricity regarding S-V-O and legal meanings thanks to computational linguistics (I'll call what you're developing) ... am curious about the role, regarding a single realistic virtual earth, of a Film-to-3D App - https://twitter.com/hashtag/FilmTo3D?... - and for text and regarding context and meta-data especially ... Brainstorming-wise, could the actual writing of calligraphy of Chinese characters on a tablet or syllogistic legal reasoning brought in (to 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages) with video inform legal meanings in new ways, compared with the writing of legal reasoning in the country (US?) you're focusing on so far? What non-English languages will you be talking about? It would seem too that a #FilmTo3D application could both document the meanings intended by legal writers orally (and in the form of realistic avatar bots) that might eventually move the law in many countries beyond text and regarding your S-V-O focus. S-V-O focus could also be used to parse what Supreme Court Justice say, for example, thus extending legal reasoning through documenting spoken language for posterity (and re 'stare decisis' computationally re US, and however this emerges in many other countries). Please keep me posted. How the information technology age is already changing norms is a related interesting question - and even re the Stanford Law CGCP ... Cheers, Scott

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October 8, 2020

Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips (Plectorhinchus vittatus): Harvard Anthropology - "The University as an Ethnographic Question (Part 1) ... " * * * * Van Halen: Panama ~ You Really Got Me ~ Runnin' with the Devil ~ Dance the Night Away ~ They started in '7

Fascinating opening Harvard conversation (but which wasn't recorded we were told) between Stefano Harney & Fred Moten on "The University as an Ethnographic Question (Part 1)" with much relevance for World University and School (planned as major online "Harvards" in all ~200 countries and in their official / main languages for free-to-students' online degrees ...)

(and congratulations to Fred Moten who was awarded a MacArthur Grant the next day I think ... )
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1067/ ...
Fred MotenCultural Theorist and Poet |

Please join us for:

The University as an Ethnographic Question (Part 1)

a conversation with Fred Moten & Stefano Harney

For those unfamiliar with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's work, please see the following:

The Undercommons: Fugitive Study and Black Planning [Link]
The University: Last Words [Link]

The University as an Ethnographic Question

The American university as a financialized institution within late capitalism and the American university as a site for scholarship have long been at odds, and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought many of these tensions into stark relief. Faculty have been asked to reimagine the pedagogical mission of the university, while contending with a changed landscape for both research and resources -- libraries closed, offices locked, laboratories diminished, travel restricted, immigration statuses threatened, and fieldwork halted. Staff and contract laborers are facing layoffs, furloughs, and pay reductions and in many universities hiring is at a halt. Graduate students, caught between the push to graduate and pandemic related interruptions to research, as well as postdoctoral fellows and untenured faculty face heightened precarities, most obviously in the form of a devastated job market. As abrupt as many of these changes may seem, they in fact are unfolding in keeping with a set of deeper and more longstanding dynamics that define the contemporary American university, including the changing value of academic labor; the flexibilization and ballooning administration of academic work; the deep institutional racism structuring the university and the role of “diversity” talk in its whitewashing; and the opaque yet spectacular financialization of the university.

The 2020-2021 seminar series is anchored in these critical themes: participants are encouraged to engage creatively with the conditions of our scholarly labor and turn ethnographic attention towards the university itself. The series will be conducted online, moving away from the traditional lecture followed by Q&A and towards more dynamic event formats that can encourage virtual participation. This year's theme is a necessarily interdisciplinary conversation, and we invite attendees from across academic fields to join us.

Unless otherwise stated, all events take place at 3pm EST.

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https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/sass

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten - Faculty Interview - 2019-08-07
https://youtu.be/BAhsylkrbs4
https://egs.edu/biography/stefano-harney/

https://independent.academia.edu/FrederickMoten
'The university: last words' by Fred Moten & Stefano Harney
file:///Users/RedLotus/Downloads/The_...
https://ubc.academia.edu/StefanoHarney
https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/14063/stefano-harney

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/fred-motens-radical-critique-of-the-present

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten - Faculty Interview - 2019-08-07

https://youtu.be/BAhsylkrbs4

And after their conversation, and in the Q&A, I asked the following ..

Hand raising -

am reminded of:

"Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others." Michel De Certeau

and regarding ...

The University as an Ethnographic Question (Part 1) ...

WOW! I went to this Onsen https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI on #Pixel3a phone & I see now how best to create a #virtualHarbin experience in #GoogleCardboard & in a bath tub for de facto #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking What else :)? @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~

WOW! I went to this Onsen https://t.co/PxnvNGjDrk on #Pixel3a phone & I see now how best to create a #virtualHarbin experience in #GoogleCardboard & in a bath tub for de facto #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking What else :)? @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) October 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1312869351070949376?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1312869905151062016?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1312870100689510400?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1312870331481124864?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1312870492601081856?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1312870666517970944?s=20

How to bring these questions (demand, the managerial with the practical) into a realistic virtual earth for Anthropology - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology?src=hashtag_click -

Map of #FieldSites 1901-2001 for

Anthropology dissertations in the #UCBerkeleyAnthroLibrary How to move these into #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology for ongoing research even & via http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?m=0 ? & re My

@HarbinBook in library's collection -

Map of #FieldSites 1901-2001 for
Anthropology dissertations in the #UCBerkeleyAnthroLibrary How to move these into #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForAnthropology for ongoing research even & via https://t.co/Zju4211PXw ? & re My @HarbinBook in library's collection pic.twitter.com/SUKvVYpp4G
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) September 25, 2019

- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1176985961848135680?s=20 -

re the University as ethnographic field site ... ?

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WUaS News and Q&A M 10/5/20 10a PT https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live i) FURTHER Partnering with edX Online Campus! ii) 9/19/20 MINUTES https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html iii)

edX's RESEARCH - & in MIT McGovern Brain Institute

https://edx.org/about/research-pedagogy < > WUaS's https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Research -

@WUaSPress -

WUaS News and Q&A M 10/5/20 10a PT https://t.co/RDDLrvNGDw i) FURTHER Partnering with edX Online Campus! ii) 9/19/20 MINUTES https://t.co/is1ZF4kkQ2 iii)
edX's RESEARCH - & in MIT McGovern Brain Institute https://t.co/P16V5sV0Lc < > WUaS's https://t.co/l8EcbrTdCF -@WUaSPress -
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https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1312964787156910082?s=20

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Van Halen's

Eddie Van Halen passes away ...

Van Halen: Panama https://youtu.be/fuKDBPw8wQA

You Really Got Me https://youtu.be/9X6e7uctAww

Runnin' with the Devil https://youtu.be/i5txwFv-zYM

Dance the Night Away https://youtu.be/llfjDUB66Z4

They started in '72 too - Did they ever make it to Harbin? RIP EDDIE ~ https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll … ~

Van Halen: Panama https://t.co/AchcmAo9U6
You Really Got Me https://t.co/zWx4ZqIwUy
Runnin' with the Devil https://t.co/DVPAYuiDXm
Dance the Night Away https://t.co/xQtuXdJQzD
They started in '72 too - Did they ever make it to Harbin? RIP EDDIE

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Published on October 08, 2020 15:10

October 7, 2020

Red kite: Interesting that Harbin Hot Springs says it's open now - . . . Yet the stay-at-home California directive due to Covid-19 quarantine is still in effect ... * * * Is Live View in Google Maps on the Google Pixel 3a smartphone a kind of ethno-wiki-v

Interesting that Harbin Hot Springs says it's open now -
Welcome back to this sacred land and water...We Are Currently Open

Our hearts and prayers are with our friends, neighbors and first responders in Sonoma and Napa Counties during this tragic fire event and recovery. Harbin is currently open. Before planning your visit, please read the information below regarding road closures and air quality. (10/6/20)

See details below.

https://harbin.org
. . .
Yet the stay-at-home California directive due to Covid-19 quarantine is still in effect ...

All individuals living in the State of California are currently ordered to stay home or at their place of residence, except for permitted work, local shopping or other permitted errands, or as otherwise authorized (including in the Questions & Answers below).

On March 19, 2020, an Executive Order (PDF) and Public Health Order (PDF) directed all Californians to stay home except to go to an essential job or to shop for essential needs.

https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/

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Is Live View in Google Maps on the Google Pixel 3a smartphone a kind of ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?
When I open Maps, and click on the little compass rose Live View icon, I first see:

"Allow Maps to take pictures and record video?""While using this app""Only this time""Deny"

then: "Point your camera at buildings and signs across the street"

And Live View will start sending photos and data (and possibly video) back to Google Maps, potentially adding such images to Google Earth from all of us using this application. This is partly what I have in mind by ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as method, and as social theory too.

*This is just a beginning 'how to' to using Live View, I think ...

How to use Live View in Google Maps | Pixel
https://youtu.be/GL29sA9w5M0

*More here ...
Android 11 Pixel Feature Drop brings AR location sharing in Google Maps Live ViewAbner Li - Sep. 8th 2020 10:16 am PT @technacity
https://9to5google.com/2020/09/08/android-11-pixel-feature-drop/

AND
Google Maps can use Live View AR to calibrate your current location, orientationAbner Li - Jul. 14th 2020 9:37 am PT @technacityhttps://9to5google.com/2020/07/14/google-maps-live-view-calibrate/

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Google Cardboard wouldn't work very well around bath tubs and water for inserting one's smartphone and visiting virtual Harbin Hot Springs, or other hot springs virtually, because the cardboard could 'melt' easily, and regarding - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/spicebush-swallowtail.html!
Glad to have seen other choices besides Cardboard as I visited this Onsen on my Pixel Smartphone -
竹取亭円山有馬温泉湯めぐりVR https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI
Check this video out on a Pixela smartphone or similar, and you'll be able to see how to get Google Cardboard or other similar digital masks.

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One thing that seems missing from the Covid-19 epidemic news' and medicine conversation (with very little genes' testing focus in the US, and re the threat of a SARS, for exmple) of the past 6 months or so, is how a pandemic can be politicized - from an academic conversation analysis (ie Berkeley, Michigan, Harvard, MIT, Stanford from the 1960s' forward). Perhaps academics and intellectuals learned how to politicize this Covid-19 pandemic from this academic discourse of the past 50 years or so.

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How to riffingly characterize a new covid-19 culture we're living through ?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_kite
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October 6, 2020

Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus): Just posted earlier today - Minutes for 19 Sep 2020 open Monthly Business Meeting at World Univ & Sch AND the WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press Board Meeting to the main WUaS blog here - https://worlduniversityandschool.blo

Merci beaucoup, Yvain,

And thanks to MOOC it France for your helpful startup kit.
CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is now in the process of partnering with edX (edX Online Campus) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html - I'm glad to write.
Although WUaS still doesn't have any money to speak of whatsoever, let's stay in touch about WUaS Open edX.
Thanks to you, Hanna, Nicolas and All at MOOCit France (and in these regards, see - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/saxifraga-mertensiana-offer-to-build.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/07/green-pheasant-congratulations-rifai.html).
Meilleurs vœux, Scott
PSI'm glad to write, in these regards too, that I just posted earlier today
Minutes for 19 Sep 2020 open
Monthly Business Meeting at World Univ & Sch
AND
the WUaS Corporation / WUaS Press Board Meeting
to the main WUaS blog here - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/10/minutes-for-19-sep-2020-open-monthly.html (and see, too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risso%27s_dolphin

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October 5, 2020

Sea buckthorn berries (Hippophae): WUaS News Q&A 10/5/20 - FURTHER Partnering with edX, RESEARCH & an Online Campus in a virtual earth ~

10.5.20 WUaS Livestream

WUaS News Q&A 10/5/20 - FURTHER Partnering with edX, RESEARCH & an Online Campus in a virtual earth

https://youtu.be/_BXM39mS4H8

Dear Universitians,

WUaS News, Q&A Livestream meets in 1.5 hours at 10 am PT (via Jitsi):

WUaS News and Q&A M 10/5/20 10a PT https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch/live

i) FURTHER Partnering with edX Online Campus!

ii) 9/19/20 MINUTES https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html

iii) edX's RESEARCH - & in MIT McGovern Brain Institute

re https://edx.org/about/research-pedagogy < > WUaS's https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Research - @WUaSPress -

WUaS News and Q&A M 10/5/20 10a PT https://t.co/RDDLrvNGDw i) FURTHER Partnering with edX Online Campus! ii) 9/19/20 MINUTES https://t.co/is1ZF4kkQ2 iii)
edX's RESEARCH - & in MIT McGovern Brain Institute https://t.co/P16V5sV0Lc < > WUaS's https://t.co/l8EcbrTdCF -@WUaSPress -
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1312964166823501824?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1312964338936766465?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1312964787156910082?s=20

Re further Partnering with edX Online Campus, SEE this correspondence:

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/oncosperma-tigillarium-world-univ-sch.html

Today's WUaS News and Q&A will also focus, brainstorming-wise, on WUaS developing a

realistic virtual Harbin / earth - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualHarbin?src=hashtag_click -

FOR

design

entrepreneurialism

ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy

machine learning

Research - eg evolutionary biology, genetics, CRISPR, telerobotic surgery, history, etc.

https://www.edx.org/about/research-pedagogy

and much more academically, and Harbin-wise too !

Here again are the Minutes from last month's open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting on 9/19/20 (loosely conducted in the manner of Friends / Quakers)

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/09/vaquita-phocoena-sinus-minutes-for-19.html

Glad that the WUaS Daily News is showing the MIT dome yesterday -

The latest The MIT OpenCourseWare Daily! https://t.co/09nwJmx5NM Thanks to @higebu @MrsPstorytime @EvelynLe2019 #pfshare
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) October 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1312929183035797504?s=20 - and that it lists the CC-4 MIT OCW licensing clarifications re WUaS!

Please come join the Monday WUaS conversation at 10 am PT:

World Univ & Sch cheers,

Scott

https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch

Last week's World Univ & Sch News and Q & A - 28 Sept 2020

WUaS News and Q & A i) Partnering with edX Online Campus, ii) 9/19/20 MINUTES, iii) 1/1/21 planning

https://youtu.be/uZXK7ocOYs8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippophae

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October 4, 2020

buttercup (R. fluitans): What I've been reading - 10/4//20 week - Black Lives Matter - Black Books Matter

What I've been reading this week through Sunday, 10/4/20

and also much from Twitter, and see, for example (esp. re-Tweets):

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/

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Coronavirus Su 10/4/20 Black Lives Matter

Germany in dangerhttps://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus217087362/Corona-in-Europa-Deutschland-in-bedrohter-Insellage.html

Research for the preservation of the planethttps://www.welt.de/sponsored/rolex/perpetual-planet/article203628628/Einzigartiger-Planet-Forschen-fuer-den-Erhalt-des-Planeten.html

Aren't the Greens radical enough, Ms. Neubauer?
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus217083766/Luisa-Neubauer-Sind-die-Gruenen-nicht-radikal-genug.html

Coronavirus in Oregon: State reports 360 new cases, 8 new deaths Saturday
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/10/coronavirus-in-oregon-state-reports-360-new-cases-8-new-deaths-saturday.html

Malice for Trump soon ends in remorse
https://www.welt.de/debatte/kommentare/article217133626/Trump-Corona-Haeme-endet-bald-in-Reue.html

Why so many free churches are becoming corona hotspots
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus217119218/Freikirchen-Warum-so-mancher-Gottesdienst-zum-Corona-Hotspot-wird.html

"The best future for Scotland is to become an independent country;” Scottish Government With talks set to continue this coming week between the UK Government and the EU over the Brexit trade deal, Constitution Secretary Michael Russell said: “It is beyond belief that in the middle of a deep recession, Scottish firms still have no idea what their trading arrangements will be with the EU in less than three months’ time
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/world-int/18130-the-best-future-for-scotland-is-to-become-an-independent-country-scottish-government.html

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- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Coronavirus Sa 10/3/20 Black Lives Matter

"The clock is ticking" - Berlin's Senator for Health calls for a ban on alcohol
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article217090390/Corona-Berlin-Gesundheitssenatorin-Kalayci-fordert-Alkoholverbot.html

High or Low Interest? Savers and investors alike face a dilemma
https://www.welt.de/finanzen/plus217062202/Hohe-oder-niedrige-Zinsen-Sparer-und-Anleger-stehen-vor-einem-Dilemma.html

Opening hours of restaurants to be limited to 4am—1am in Finland
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/18121-opening-hours-of-restaurants-to-be-limited-to-4am-1am-in-finland.html

A sharp gap in the number of coronavirus cases between Western Germany and the former communist East has emerged as a new division, three decades after reunification.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-sparks-new-east-west-divide-in-germany30-years-after-reunification-11601717400

Minister Kang Kyung-hwa's husbandgoes to the US to buy a 200 million yachthttps://www.chosun.com/politics/2020/10/03/A43OBAR26ZCHDD2OVOZM7GE63Y/

COLLECTION OF THESESDoes Corona loneliness make us more populist? Not yetLoneliness feeds populism. So far, this has not led to a right-wing wave in the Corona crisis - which does not mean that it cannot come yethttps://www.derstandard.at/story/2000120447772/macht-uns-die-corona-einsamkeit-populistischer-noch-nicht

Lego-like shipping container bringing the future to Harris County
The future of mobile medicine arrived in Harris County this week, focused initially on community-based COVID-19 testing but available for any emergency response or disease care.https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Ebola-SmartPods-bring-future-of-mobile-medicine-15613119.php

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- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Coronavirus F 10/2/20 Black Lives Matter

Photo: Egill Bjarnason / APThe infection is rampant in Iceland - the curve is steep upwards
"It has always been clear that we could not keep the virus out by closing the border."https://www.dn.se/varlden/islands-halsominister-alltid-varit-klart-att-vi-inte-kan-halla-viruset-ute/

Episode 4: Our prostates, ourselvesMark Shanahan’s story is hardly unique. In episode 4 of the Mr. 80 Percent podcast, we meet a couple of guys who’ve been treated for prostate cancer and, now, make it their mission to raise awareness.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/24/magazine/episode-4-our-prostates-ourselves/

Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19 After Months of Downplaying Virus & Mocking Biden for Wearing Mask
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/10/2/trump_covid

Visitors, counselors and family were infected. This is how the coronavirus spread in the White House.
https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/9OmyoE/trump-er-langt-fra-den-foerste-med-korona-i-det-hvite-hus-smittevernet

Read the statement from the White House physician
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/02/nation/read-statement-white-house-trumps-covid-19-test/

The impossible posture of "Yoga", a reading of Emmanuel Carrère's book

The author's book of “The Kingdom” is on the jury list of Goncourt, but a controversy with the author's former companion threatens his crowning achievement. Reading "Yoga" partly explains the strange fate of this text
https://www.letemps.ch/culture/limpossible-posture-yoga-une-lecture-livre-demmanuel-carrere

Books from 1989/90
:
The GDR is still there
Kurt Drawert exposes the wounds of union, other "Wendeomanen" are about influences that continue to have an effect, tragic and funny misunderstandings - from Thomas Brussig to Olivia Wenzel.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/wenderomane-von-thomas-brussig-bis-olivia-wenzel-kurt-drawert-dresden-die-zweite-zeit-die-ddr-ist-immer-noch-da-li.108680

Hope for California’s Schools
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hope-for-californias-schools-11601594802

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- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Coronavirus Th 10/1/20 Black Lives Matter

THL: Coronavirus epidemic is accelerating, masks recommended in all parts of Finland
FINLAND 01 OCTOBER 2020
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/18126-thl-coronavirus-epidemic-is-accelerating-masks-recommended-in-all-parts-of-finland.html

"The seven-year-old demands that we play with him all the time"
https://www.dn.se/insidan/sjuaringen-kraver-att-vi-leker-med-honom-hela-tiden/

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- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

*Coronavirus W 9/30/20 - Black Lives Matter

pandemicA Berlin Corona traffic light on red, 288 new infections
The number of new infections in Berlin has risen sharply. Berlin currently has a total of 1808 active corona cases.
Bank code, 09/30/2020https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/coronavirus-eine-berliner-corona-ampel-auf-rot-neuinfektionen-steigen-stark-li.108636

30 years of reunificationPeter-Michael Diestel: "The State Security was the most capable secret service at that time"
The last GDR interior minister dissolved the Stasi in 1990, now works as a lawyer and calls the exclusion of his compatriots in society “unconstitutional”.
Anja Reich and Sabine Rennefanz, September 30th, 2020https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/peter-michael-diestel-jeder-helle-kopf-wurde-mit-stasi-vorwuerfen-plattgemacht-li.108168

Tegnell about when the threat from the pandemic can be blown off
https://www.dn.se/varlden/tegnell-da-kan-hotet-fran-pandemin-blasas-av/

Turkey introduced injunctions. Two weeks later, the infection flattens out.
https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/OQnxjw/testet-positivt-paa-korona-her-kan-folk-bli-paalagt-aa-bruke-en-brikke-s

After the ski party in the Alps, the virus came to Norway and 44 countries. Four people have now been identified as scapegoats.https://www.aftenposten.no/verden/i/bnKA4B/skifesten-brakte-viruset-til-46-land-naa-er-fire-utpekt-som-mistenkte

(Pittsburgh PA connection)Palantir Technologies:The mysterious data sorters
The billion dollar company Palantir goes public. She works with intelligence agencies. And with the Hessian police. A cause for concern?
By Leonie Sontheimer, Berlin, Lisa Hegemann, Frankfurt am Main and Copenhagen, and Gregor Becker, Copenhagenhttps://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2020-09/palantir-technologies-daten-analyse-boersengang-peter-thiel-alex-karp

Palantir Grabs $21 Billion Valuation, but Debut Comes With a Hiccup
https://www.wsj.com/articles/palantir-asana-direct-listing-ipo-11601479305

A stroll through Boston shows a city awakeningThe virus still lurks, but with beautiful fall weather, people are out and about again.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/30/metro/stroll-through-boston-shows-city-awakening/

US elections 2020'How to move to Canada': Americans rush to Google after unwatchable debateGoogle reports peak number of searches for ‘How to apply for Canadian citizenship’ after chaotic Trump-Biden skirmishhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/30/how-to-move-to-canada-google-searches-trump-us-debate

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- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

*Coronavirus Tu 9/29/20 Black Lives Matter

Public money in corona pandemicThe business of vaccinating
The public sector pays for the development and manufacture of corona vaccines, takes on the risks - and has no insight into the contracts. INGO DOCTORhttps://taz.de/Oeffentliche-Gelder-in-Corona-Pandemie/!5716965/

Poll: More Minnesotans acknowledge racial inequality
https://www.startribune.com/poll-more-minnesotans-acknowledge-racial-inequality/572533571/

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

*Coronavirus M 9/28/20 Black Lives Matter

Swedish thought leader calls corona death number "quite small in comparison"
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/live206935325/Corona-Schwedischer-Vordenker-nennt-Todeszahl-im-Vergleich-ziemlich-klein.html

Ein Viertel der Deutschen verlor gefühlt die Kontrolle über das eigene Leben
https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article216698432/Corona-Viertel-der-Deutschen-verlor-gefuehlt-Kontrolle-ueber-eigenes-Leben.html

California’s burning; Americans are dying. I’m safe in Finland. Why would I ever go home?
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/columns/columns/331-david-kirp/18112-california-s-burning-americans-are-dying-i-m-safe-in-finland-why-would-i-ever-go-home.html

Why the virus didn't come from Wuhan after all
https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/plus216745640/Corona-Warum-das-Virus-doch-nicht-aus-Wuhan-kam.html

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org
- 415 480 4577- http://scottmacleod.com
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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buttercup (R. glaberrimus): What I've been reading - 10/11//20 week - Black Lives Matter - Black Books Matter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus_fluitans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ranunculus_species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_genera_of_flowering_plants

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Spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus): Brainstorming, how best to create a #RealisticVirtualHarbin experience in a new place you move to, compared with where you live? With bath tub #VirtualSoaking #RelaxationResponse #Meditation in #DigitalGlasses &? *

竹取亭円山有馬温泉湯めぐりVR https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI Brainstorming, how best to create a #RealisticVirtualHarbin experience in a new place you move to, compared with where you live? With bath tub #VirtualSoaking #RelaxationResponse #Meditation in #DigitalGlasses &?

@HarbinBook~

竹取亭円山有馬温泉湯めぐりVR https://t.co/EG5TqrCZFj Brainstorming, how best to create a #RealisticVirtualHarbin experience in a new place you move to, compared with where you live? With bath tub #VirtualSoaking #RelaxationResponse #Meditation in #DigitalGlasses &?@HarbinBook~
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) October 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1312791186763988992?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1312790508494757889?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1312791000423698433?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1312791654839926785?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1312791987938967553?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1312792194487513090?s=20

Open Band (Berkeley)

@TheOpenBand

Brainstorming-wise, how best to create a #virtualHarbin experience in a new place you move to, compared with where you live? If there's a bath tub for de facto #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking in a #DigitalMask what else :)?

@HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~

Brainstorming-wise, how best to create a #virtualHarbin experience in a new place you move to, compared with where you live? If there's a bath tub for de facto #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking in a #DigitalMask what else :)? @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) October 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1312508419790626816?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1312507933960273920?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1312508334822486018?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1312508151145459712?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1312506428645539841?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1312508272859967488?s=20

Appreciating the entrepreneurial and design (eg

Congrats to our co-director Tom Krummel, who was formally presented today with the Ladd Medal, the highest honor from the American Academy of Pediatrics. #healthtech #innovation #savinglives #pediatrics https://t.co/JjzRFe1mxC pic.twitter.com/RXudFtO34O
— Stanford Biodesign (@SUBiodesign) October 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/SUBiodesign/status/1312510337766223872?s=20) Tweets that popped up in Twitter possibly in response to the above questions :)

.... seeking also to design for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy and STEM and social science research.

WOW! I went to this Onsen https://t.co/PxnvNGjDrk on #Pixel3a phone & I see now how best to create a #virtualHarbin experience in #GoogleCardboard & in a bath tub for de facto #RelaxationResponse #Meditation of #VirtualSoaking What else :)? @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin ~
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) October 4, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1312869351070949376?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1312869905151062016?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1312870100689510400?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1312870331481124864?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1312870492601081856?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1312870666517970944?s=20

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Quakers among Unitarians

Hi Ma,
Nice to talk last night again! And thanks for your support
In the following lines of inquiry, I found UU Rev Paul Sawyer (who was in Pittsburgh, PA, too), and which video you'll find at the end of this email too -
A conversation with Paul Sawyer May 20, 2010
https://youtu.be/jmsWXa5D-As
(Sawyer lived from 1934-2010)
Interesting UU southern California 'Onion church' he was involved with shaping - Sepulveda UU Church

.... And for goodness sake :) I searched on 'Quakers among Unitarians' and found ...
UUA Handout 5: Quaker Fact Sheet
https://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/youth/bridges/workshop17/189721.shtml

No Religion. Always Practicing Quakerism.
https://www.friendsjournal.org/depts-m07-240-julie-wise-on-faith-and-practice/
(... and how would I characterize culturally these two religious organizations - and their interfaces, similarities, differences, and fruitful potentials for communication - post 1960s, not only religiously, but identity-wise anthropologically too? ... as well as Harbin Hot Springs, and Yoga, inspired by Angela & Victor ... maybe later )
... and I may head up to the UU church this morning around 10 (with Friendly Quaker interests ... ) but religious folks can be a bit crazy (and in Berkeley in particular) ... appreciating reasoning too of philosophy (but hippy-wise as well, eg David Chalmers?) ... and of all stripes, but they can also seek to be good, and this Unitarian community dates back to 1891, I've read ... and there may be wisdom 'in the woodwork' and community ... and good thinking ...
How about a Google Smart TV for views, Ma? You mentioned wishing you had a view last night. Am seeing many fascinating views in my Google Smart TV ... as my view of the Google Gate Bridge and SF Bay is totally socked in.
Thanks too for your health-focus on walking near my new Arlington Blvd place ...

In this morning's inquiry, I then searched on - and this is how I learned of Paul Sawyer -
Grateful Dead and Unitarians (and found these pointers to a GD show at Northridge UU church in 1966)
http://uuse.org/what-a-long-strange-trip-its-been/#.X3nUSmllBCU

https://www.dead.net/venue/northridge-unitarian-church

https://www.dead.net/show/february-6-1966

https://jerrygarcia.com/show/1966-02-06-northridge-unitarian-church-los-angeles-ca-usa/

https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/sepulveda-unitarian-universalist-society-onion

http://deadsources.blogspot.com/2017/06/february-6-1966-acid-test-unitarian.html?m=1
...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepulveda_Unitarian_Universalist_Society

. “The Onion” was completed in 1964 and is built of glued laminated timber beams that curve from the foundation to the flat point at the top of the roof. The entire building is covered with composition (originally wood) shingles.[4]

In February 1966 “The Onion’’ became the site of one of the famous Acid Tests put on by the Merry Pranksters. The then-minister of the church, Paul Sawyer, had met Pranksters' leader Ken Kesey at the annual California Unitarian Church conference at Asilomar State Beach. According to Sawyer’s memoir, Prankster Ken Babbs called to ask if they could put on an Acid Test, and Sawyer said they could as long as they didn’t give out acid (LSD) to the audience.[5

Rev. Paul Sawyer https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31366110/the-los-angeles-times/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-jul-11-la-me-paul-sawyer-20100711-story.html%3f_amp=true

A conversation with Paul Sawyer May 20, 2010https://youtu.be/jmsWXa5D-As

Remembering Paul Sawyer (and thinking too about Quakers) in this 'A conversation with Paul Sawyer May 20, 2010' may be one reason I head to the UU Church of Kensington this morning.

Do you know of Rev. Paul Sawyer, Ma? The conversation is interesting (UU history, radicalism, poetry, the 1960s, nonviolent social change), with lots of New England and Massachusetts thinking in it :)
Glad I moved out of Canyon 94516 safely ... and thanks to you, Ma ... (and perhaps networking among UUs could help further even change that place's culture somehow) .... stay tuned ...
Am listening now to this Conversation ... up to 23 minutes' mark ... check it out, Ma :)
Love, Scott

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UU Reverend Paul Winslow Sawyer

https://www.uuma.org/blogpost/569858/110769/In-Memory--Paul-W-Sawyer-1934--2010

Some of the poets mentioned in the Rev. Paul Sawyer conversation -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ferrini

https://poets.org/poems/robert-duncan

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-duncan

https://www.dispatchespoetrywars.com/commentary/a-review-of-an-open-map-the-correspondence-of-robert-duncan-and-charles-olson/

Gary Snyder and other Beat poets

Ma,
Ikea was packed with people (but no chair with attached desk did I find) but the Unitarian Church is empty ... Masks required and worn but hand sanitizer not - with Coronavirus pandemic ... Go figure

Oregonian Live newspaper Houston Chronicle rarely show tRump articles first or very many of them, whereas most other US papers I check do ... intl papers are different here
Seeking to bagpipe now earlier than 10:30 pm due to thin ceiling and noise traveling upstairs ... 9-8 ?
Time to send out finally the Minutes (in the manner of Quakers) from last month's Business Meeting
How has your day been? And your weekend? New place here is pretty nice [image error]

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October 3, 2020

Cricket (Ceuthophilus): Sculptural Robotics with #WeDo2 - & re a #HomeRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #WUaSHomeRobotics & Peter Norvig, head of Google AI, has a Lego Institute * * Cricket #LegoEDUSpikePrime with lobster https://twitter.com/LEGO_Educ

Sculptural Robotics with #WeDo2 -

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/29906785015084982/ (as the idea) ?

& re a #HomeRobotics' Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/scottmacleod100/home-robotics/ #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #WUaSHomeRobotics & Peter Norvig, head of Google AI, has a Lego Institute https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/javan-slow-loris-seseorang-menambahkan.html A virtual world for Spike Prime -

Cricket #LegoEDUSpikePrime with lobster https://t.co/NjDYcePQEv is in Scratch too https://t.co/CcV7RjfYr7 so we can program #MachineLearning >https://t.co/h9wHIdmtsj & re a #HomeRobotics https://t.co/Uposh9YPEX #WUaSHomeRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego in #VirtualEarth ? https://t.co/Ded7OnRKPe
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) October 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1312176361503518722?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1312177094562996225?s=20

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https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1312178741733335040?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1312179024915918849?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1312179281426956288?s=20

* *Cricket #LegoEDUSpikePrime with lobster https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/st... is in Scratch too https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/4262... so programming with #MachineLearning & re a #HomeRobotics https://www.pinterest.com/scottmacleo... #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #WUaSHomeRobotics in #VirtualWorld ~

Cricket #LegoEDUSpikePrime with lobster https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1311757863916888065?s=20 is in Scratch too https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/426253313/?sf129753971=1 so we can program #MachineLearning >https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/cricket-ceuthophilus-sculptural.html & re a #HomeRobotics https://www.pinterest.com/scottmacleod100/home-robotics/ #WUaSHomeRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego in #VirtualEarth ?

Cricket #LegoEDUSpikePrime with lobster https://t.co/NjDYcePQEv is in Scratch too https://t.co/CcV7RjfYr7 so we can program #MachineLearning >https://t.co/h9wHIdmtsj & re a #HomeRobotics https://t.co/Uposh9YPEX #WUaSHomeRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego in #VirtualEarth ? https://t.co/Ded7OnRKPe
— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) October 3, 2020

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1312487733336571904?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1312487484991787009?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1312487138231947265?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1312488414818697216?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1312488680645226497?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1312488960208199681?s=20

https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1311757863916888065?s=20

Cricket #LegoEDUSpikePrime with lobster https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/st... is in Scratch too https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/4262... so we can program #MachineLearning >https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... & re a #HomeRobotics https://www.pinterest.com/scottmacleo... #WUaSHomeRobotics in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego in #VirtualEarth ?

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searched on too -

lego robotics machine learning

Machine Learning with Lego Mindstorms EV3

Lina PetersFollowJun 6, 2019

https://medium.com/swlh/machine-learning-on-lego-mindstorms-ev3-2384004702f9

Julie Townsend CS229 12/15/06

Machine Learning with a Lego Mindstorms Robot 1.0 Summary

"In this project, a machine learning algorithm was implemented on a Lego Mindstorms robot. Via supervised learning, a robot was trained to follow a path represented by a black line on a white background. The online perceptron algorithm was implemented such that training inputs supplied by the operator triggered algorithm updates. Testing proved that the robot could be successfully trained to follow either the right or left edge of the black path. ..."

http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2006/Townsend-MachineLearningWithALegoMindstormsRobot.pdf

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Having explored some of these questions too, I also searched on

lego robotics machine learning scott macleod

Monday, February 3, 2020Saturday, June 6, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuthophilus

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ceuthophilus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceuthophilus_californianus

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October 2, 2020

Bechstein's bat: Forward to Lacan - and online psychoanalysis - with avatar bots, and regarding virtual asylum even? Jacques Lacan MD, and in a realistic virtual Harbin ... ? interesting new resources for caring

Forward to Lacan - and online psychoanalysis - with avatar chat bots, and regarding (Friendly-informed?) virtual asylum even? Jacques Lacan MD, and in a realistic virtual Harbin ... ? interesting new resources for caring ...

jacques-lacan.jpg

From - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan ...

Major concepts[edit]Return to Freud[edit]

Lacan's "return to Freud" emphasizes a renewed attention to the original texts of Freud, and included a radical critique of ego psychology, whereas "Lacan's quarrel with Object Relations psychoanalysis"[38] was a more muted affair. Here he attempted "to restore to the notion of the Object Relation... the capital of experience that legitimately belongs to it",[39] building upon what he termed "the hesitant, but controlled work of Melanie Klein... Through her we know the function of the imaginary primordial enclosure formed by the imago of the mother's body",[40] as well as upon "the notion of the transitional object, introduced by D. W. Winnicott... a key-point for the explanation of the genesis of fetishism".[41] Nevertheless, "Lacan systematically questioned those psychoanalytic developments from the 1930s to the 1970s, which were increasingly and almost exclusively focused on the child's early relations with the mother... the pre-Oedipal or Kleinian mother";[42] and Lacan's rereading of Freud—"characteristically, Lacan insists that his return to Freud supplies the only valid model"[43]—formed a basic conceptual starting-point in that oppositional strategy.

Lacan thought that Freud's ideas of "slips of the tongue", jokes, and the interpretation of dreams all emphasized the agency of language in subjective constitution. In "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud," he proposes that "the unconscious is structured like a language." The unconscious is not a primitive or archetypal part of the mind separate from the conscious, linguistic ego, he explained, but rather a formation as complex and structurally sophisticated as consciousness itself. One consequence of his idea that the unconscious is structured like a language is that the self is denied any point of reference to which to be "restored" following trauma or a crisis of identity.

André Green objected that "when you read Freud, it is obvious that this proposition doesn't work for a minute. Freud very clearly opposes the unconscious (which he says is constituted by thing-presentations and nothing else) to the pre-conscious. What is related to language can only belong to the pre-conscious".[44] Freud certainly contrasted "the presentation of the word and the presentation of the thing... the unconscious presentation is the presentation of the thing alone"[45] in his metapsychology. Dylan Evans, however, in his Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, "... takes issue with those who, like André Green, question the linguistic aspect of the unconscious, emphasizing Lacan's distinction between das Ding and die Sache in Freud's account of thing-presentation".[46] Green's criticism of Lacan also included accusations of intellectual dishonesty, he said, "[He] cheated everybody... the return to Freud was an excuse, it just meant going to Lacan."[47]

Mirror stage[edit]Main article: Mirror stage

Lacan's first official contribution to psychoanalysis was the mirror stage, which he described as "formative of the function of the "I" as revealed in psychoanalytic experience." By the early 1950s, he came to regard the mirror stage as more than a moment in the life of the infant; instead, it formed part of the permanent structure of subjectivity. In "the Imaginary order," the subject's own image permanently catches and captivates the subject. Lacan explains that "the mirror stage is a phenomenon to which I assign a twofold value. In the first place, it has historical value as it marks a decisive turning-point in the mental development of the child. In the second place, it typifies an essential libidinal relationship with the body-image".[48]

As this concept developed further, the stress fell less on its historical value and more on its structural value.[49] In his fourth Seminar, "La relation d'objet," Lacan states that "the mirror stage is far from a mere phenomenon which occurs in the development of the child. It illustrates the conflictual nature of the dual relationship. "

The mirror stage describes the formation of the Ego via the process of objectification, the Ego being the result of a conflict between one's perceived visual appearance and one's emotional experience. This identification is what Lacan called alienation. At six months, the baby still lacks physical co-ordination. The child is able to recognize themselves in a mirror prior to the attainment of control over their bodily movements. The child sees their image as a whole and the synthesis of this image produces a sense of contrast with the lack of co-ordination of the body, which is perceived as a fragmented body. The child experiences this contrast initially as a rivalry with their image, because the wholeness of the image threatens the child with fragmentation—thus the mirror stage gives rise to an aggressive tension between the subject and the image. To resolve this aggressive tension, the child identifies with the image: this primary identification with the counterpart forms the Ego.[49] Lacan understands this moment of identification as a moment of jubilation, since it leads to an imaginary sense of mastery; yet when the child compares their own precarious sense of mastery with the omnipotence of the mother, a depressive reaction may accompany the jubilation.[50]

Lacan calls the specular image "orthopaedic," since it leads the child to anticipate the overcoming of its "real specific prematurity of birth." The vision of the body as integrated and contained, in opposition to the child's actual experience of motor incapacity and the sense of his or her body as fragmented, induces a movement from "insufficiency to anticipation."[51] In other words, the mirror image initiates and then aids, like a crutch, the process of the formation of an integrated sense of self.

In the mirror stage a "misunderstanding" (méconnaissance) constitutes the Ego—the "me" (moi) becomes alienated from itself through the introduction of an imaginarydimension to the subject. The mirror stage also has a significant symbolic dimension, due to the presence of the figure of the adult who carries the infant. Having jubilantly assumed the image as their own, the child turns their head towards this adult, who represents the big Other, as if to call on the adult to ratify this image.[52]

Other/other[edit]

While Freud uses the term "other", referring to der Andere (the other person) and das Andere (otherness), Lacan (influenced by the seminar of Alexandre Kojève) theorizes alterity in a manner more closely resembling Hegel's philosophy.

Lacan often used an algebraic symbology for his concepts: the big Other (l'Autre) is designated A, and the little other (l'autre) is designated a.[53] He asserts that an awareness of this distinction is fundamental to analytic practice: "the analyst must be imbued with the difference between A and a, so he can situate himself in the place of Other, and not the other."[54] Dylan Evans explains that:

The little other is the other who is not really other, but a reflection and projection of the Ego. Evans adds that for this reason the symbol a can represent both the little other and the ego in the Schema L.[55] It is simultaneously the counterpart and the specular image. The little other is thus entirely inscribed in the Imaginary order.The big Other designates radical alterity, an other-ness which transcends the illusory otherness of the imaginary because it cannot be assimilated through identification. Lacan equates this radical alterity with language and the law, and hence the big Other is inscribed in the order of the symbolic. Indeed, the big Other is the symbolic insofar as it is particularized for each subject. The Other is thus both another subject, in his radical alterity and unassimilable uniqueness, and also the symbolic order which mediates the relationship with that other subject."[56]

For Lacan "the Other must first of all be considered a locus in which speech is constituted," so that the Other as another subject is secondary to the Other as symbolic order.[57] We can speak of the Other as a subject in a secondary sense only when a subject occupies this position and thereby embodies the Other for another subject.[58]

In arguing that speech originates in neither the Ego nor in the subject but rather in the Other, Lacan stresses that speech and language are beyond the subject's conscious control. They come from another place, outside of consciousness—"the unconscious is the discourse of the Other."[59] When conceiving the Other as a place, Lacan refers to Freud's concept of psychical locality, in which the unconscious is described as "the other scene".

"It is the mother who first occupies the position of the big Other for the child," Dylan Evans explains, "it is she who receives the child's primitive cries and retroactively sanctions them as a particular message".[49] The castration complex is formed when the child discovers that this Other is not complete because there is a "Lack (manque)" in the Other. This means that there is always a signifier missing from the trove of signifiers constituted by the Other. Lacan illustrates this incomplete Other graphically by striking a bar through the symbol A; hence another name for the castrated, incomplete Other is the "barred Other."[60]

Phallus[edit]

Feminist thinkers have both utilised and criticised Lacan's concepts of castration and the Phallus. Feminists such as Avital Ronell, Jane Gallop,[61] and Elizabeth Grosz,[62] have interpreted Lacan's work as opening up new possibilities for feminist theory.

Some feminists have argued that Lacan's phallocentric analysis provides a useful means of understanding gender biases and imposed roles, while other feminist critics, most notably Luce Irigaray, accuse Lacan of maintaining the sexist tradition in psychoanalysis.[63] For Irigaray, the Phallus does not define a single axis of gender by its presence/absence; instead, gender has two positive poles. Like Irigaray, French philosopher Jacques Derrida, in criticizing Lacan's concept of castration, discusses the phallus in a chiasmus with the hymen, as both one and other.[64][65]

Three orders (plus one)[edit]The Imaginary[edit]Main article: The Imaginary (psychoanalysis)

The Imaginary is the field of images and imagination. The main illusions of this order are synthesis, autonomy, duality, and resemblance. Lacan thought that the relationship created within the mirror stage between the Ego and the reflected image means that the Ego and the Imaginary order itself are places of radical alienation: "alienation is constitutive of the Imaginary order."[66] This relationship is also narcissistic.

In The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Lacan argues that the Symbolic order structures the visual field of the Imaginary, which means that it involves a linguistic dimension. If the signifier is the foundation of the Symbolic, the signified and signification are part of the Imaginary order. Language has Symbolic and Imaginary connotations—in its Imaginary aspect, language is the "wall of language" that inverts and distorts the discourse of the Other. On the other hand, the Imaginary is rooted in the subject's relationship with his or her own body (the image of the body). In Fetishism: the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real, Lacan argues that in the sexual plane the Imaginary appears as sexual display and courtship love.

Insofar as identification with the analyst is the objective of analysis, Lacan accused major psychoanalytic schools of reducing the practice of psychoanalysis to the Imaginary order.[67] Instead, Lacan proposes the use of the Symbolic to dislodge the disabling fixations of the Imaginary—the analyst transforms the images into words. "The use of the Symbolic," he argued, "is the only way for the analytic process to cross the plane of identification."[68]

The Symbolic[edit]Main article: The Symbolic

In his Seminar IV, "La relation d'objet", Lacan argues that the concepts of "Law" and "Structure" are unthinkable without language—thus the Symbolic is a linguistic dimension. This order is not equivalent to language, however, since language involves the Imaginary and the Real as well. The dimension proper to language in the Symbolic is that of the signifier—that is, a dimension in which elements have no positive existence, but which are constituted by virtue of their mutual differences.

The Symbolic is also the field of radical alterity—that is, the Other; the unconscious is the discourse of this Other. It is the realm of the Law that regulates desire in the Oedipus complex. The Symbolic is the domain of culture as opposed to the Imaginary order of nature. As important elements in the Symbolic, the concepts of death and lack (manque) connive to make of the pleasure principle the regulator of the distance from the Thing ("das Ding an sich") and the death drive that goes "beyond the pleasure principle by means of repetition"—"the death drive is only a mask of the Symbolic order."[53]

By working in the Symbolic order, the analyst is able to produce changes in the subjective position of the analysand. These changes will produce imaginary effects because the Imaginary is structured by the Symbolic.[49]

The Real[edit]Main article: The Real

Lacan's concept of the Real dates back to 1936 and his doctoral thesis on psychosis. It was a term that was popular at the time, particularly with Émile Meyerson, who referred to it as "an ontological absolute, a true being-in-itself".[69] Lacan returned to the theme of the Real in 1953 and continued to develop it until his death. The Real, for Lacan, is not synonymous with reality. Not only opposed to the Imaginary, the Real is also exterior to the Symbolic. Unlike the latter, which is constituted in terms of oppositions (i.e. presence/absence), "there is no absence in the Real."[53] Whereas the Symbolic opposition "presence/absence" implies the possibility that something may be missing from the Symbolic, "the Real is always in its place."[68] If the Symbolic is a set of differentiated elements (signifiers), the Real in itself is undifferentiated—it bears no fissure. The Symbolic introduces "a cut in the real" in the process of signification: "it is the world of words that creates the world of things—things originally confused in the "here and now" of the all in the process of coming into being."[70] The Real is that which is outside language and that resists symbolization absolutely. In Seminar XI Lacan defines the Real as "the impossible" because it is impossible to imagine, impossible to integrate into the Symbolic, and impossible to attain. It is this resistance to symbolization that lends the Real its traumatic quality. Finally, the Real is the object of anxiety, insofar as it lacks any possible mediation and is "the essential object which is not an object any longer, but this something faced with which all words cease and all categories fail, the object of anxiety par excellence."[53]

The Sinthome[edit]Main article: Sinthome

The term "sinthome" (French: [sɛ̃tom]) was introduced by Jacques Lacan in his seminar Le sinthome (1975–76). According to Lacan, sinthome is the Latin way (1495 Rabelais, IV,63[71]) of spelling the Greek origin of the French word symptôme, meaning symptom. The seminar is a continuing elaboration of his topology, extending the previous seminar's focus (RSI) on the Borromean Knot and an exploration of the writings of James Joyce. Lacan redefines the psychoanalytic symptom in terms of his topology of the subject.

In "Psychoanalysis and its Teachings" (Écrits) Lacan views the symptom as inscribed in a writing process, not as ciphered message which was the traditional notion. In his seminar "L'angoisse" (1962–63) he states that the symptom does not call for interpretation: in itself it is not a call to the Other but a pure jouissance addressed to no one. This is a shift from the linguistic definition of the symptom — as a signifier — to his assertion that "the symptom can only be defined as the way in which each subject enjoys (jouit) the unconscious in so far as the unconscious determines the subject." He goes from conceiving the symptom as a message which can be deciphered by reference to the unconscious structured like a language to seeing it as the trace of the particular modality of the subject's jouissance.

Desire[edit]

Lacan's concept of desire is related to Hegel's Begierde, a term that implies a continuous force, and therefore somehow differs from Freud's concept of Wunsch.[72]Lacan's desire refers always to unconscious desire because it is unconscious desire that forms the central concern of psychoanalysis.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to lead the analysand to recognize his/her desire and by doing so to uncover the truth about his/her desire. However this is possible only if desire is articulated in speech:[73] "It is only once it is formulated, named in the presence of the other, that desire appears in the full sense of the term."[74] And again in The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis: "...what is important is to teach the subject to name, to articulate, to bring desire into existence. The subject should come to recognize and to name her/his desire. But it isn't a question of recognizing something that could be entirely given. In naming it, the subject creates, brings forth, a new presence in the world."[75] The truth about desire is somehow present in discourse, although discourse is never able to articulate the entire truth about desire, whenever discourse attempts to articulate desire, there is always a leftover or surplus.[76]

Lacan distinguishes desire from need and from demand. Need is a biological instinct where the subject depends on the Other to satisfy its own needs: in order to get the Other's help "need" must be articulated in "demand." But the presence of the Other not only ensures the satisfaction of the "need", it also represents the Other's love. Consequently, "demand" acquires a double function: on the one hand, it articulates "need", and on the other, acts as a "demand for love." Even after the "need" articulated in demand is satisfied, the "demand for love" remains unsatisfied since the Other cannot provide the unconditional love that the subject seeks. "Desire is neither the appetite for satisfaction, nor the demand for love, but the difference that results from the subtraction of the first from the second."[77] Desire is a surplus, a leftover, produced by the articulation of need in demand: "desire begins to take shape in the margin in which demand becomes separated from need."[77] Unlike need, which can be satisfied, desire can never be satisfied: it is constant in its pressure and eternal. The attainment of desire does not consist in being fulfilled but in its reproduction as such. As Slavoj Žižek puts it, "desire's raison d'être is not to realize its goal, to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire."[78]

Lacan also distinguishes between desire and the drives: desire is one and drives are many. The drives are the partial manifestations of a single force called desire.[79]Lacan's concept of "objet petit a" is the object of desire, although this object is not that towards which desire tends, but rather the cause of desire. Desire is not a relation to an object but a relation to a lack (manque).

In The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis Lacan argues that "man's desire is the desire of the Other." This entails the following:

Desire is the desire of the Other's desire, meaning that desire is the object of another's desire and that desire is also desire for recognition. Here Lacan follows Alexandre Kojève who follows Hegel: for Kojève the subject must risk his own life if he wants to achieve the desired prestige."[80] This desire to be the object of another's desire is best exemplified in the Oedipus complex, when the subject desires to be the phallus of the mother.In "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious",[81] Lacan contends that the subject desires from the point of view of another whereby the object of someone's desire is an object desired by another one: what makes the object desirable is that it is precisely desired by someone else. Again Lacan follows Kojève who follows Hegel. This aspect of desire is present in hysteria for the hysteric is someone who converts another's desire into his/her own (see Sigmund Freud's "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria" in SE VII, where Dora desires Frau K because she identifies with Herr K). What matters then in the analysis of a hysteric is not to find out the object of her desire but to discover the subject with whom she identifies.Désir de l'Autre, which is translated as "desire for the Other" (though could be also "desire of the Other"). The fundamental desire is the incestuous desire for the mother, the primordial Other.[82]Desire is "the desire for something else" since it is impossible to desire what one already has. The object of desire is continually deferred, which is why desire is a metonymy.[83]Desire appears in the field of the Other, that is in the unconscious.

Last but not least for Lacan the first person who occupies the place of the Other is the mother and at first the child is at her mercy. Only when the father articulates desire with the law by castrating the mother, the subject is liberated from the mother's desire.[84]

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Lacan maintains Freud's distinction between drive (Trieb) and instinct (Instinkt). Drives differ from biological needs because they can never be satisfied and do not aim at an object but rather circle perpetually around it. He argues that the purpose of the drive (Triebziel) is not to reach a goal but to follow its aim, meaning "the way itself" instead of "the final destination", that is to circle around the object. The purpose of the drive is to return to its circular path and the true source of jouissance is the repetitive movement of this closed circuit.[85] Lacan posits the drives as both cultural and symbolic constructs—to him, "the drive is not a given, something archaic, primordial."[85] He incorporates the four elements of the drives as defined by Freud (the pressure, the end, the object and the source) to his theory of the drive's circuit: the drive originates in the erogenous zone, circles round the object, and returns to the erogenous zone. Three grammatical voices structure this circuit:

the active voice (to see)the reflexive voice (to see oneself)the passive voice (to be seen)

The active and reflexive voices are autoerotic—they lack a subject. It is only when the drive completes its circuit with the passive voice that a new subject appears, implying that prior to that instance, there was not subject.[85] Despite being the "passive" voice, the drive is essentially active: "to make oneself be seen" rather than "to be seen." The circuit of the drive is the only way for the subject to transgress the pleasure principle.

To Freud sexuality is composed of partial drives (i.e. the oral or the anal drives) each specified by a different erotogenic zone. At first these partial drives function independently (i.e. the polymorphous perversity of children), it is only in puberty that they become organized under the aegis of the genital organs.[86] Lacan accepts the partial nature of drives, but 1) rejects the notion that partial drives can ever attain any complete organization: the primacy of the genital zone, if achieved, is always precarious; and 2) he argues that drives are partial in that they only represent sexuality partially not in the sense that they are a part of the whole. Drives do not represent the reproductive function of sexuality but only the dimension of jouissance.[85]

Lacan identifies four partial drives: the oral drive (the erogenous zones are the lips, the partial object the breast, the verb is "to suck"), the anal drive (the anus and the faeces, "to shit"), the scopic drive (the eyes and the gaze, "to see") and the invocatory drive (the ears and the voice, "to hear"). The first two drives relate to demand and the last two to desire.

The notion of dualism is maintained throughout Freud's various reformulations of the drive-theory. From the initial opposition between sexual drives and ego-drives (self-preservation) to the final one between the life drives (Lebenstriebe) and the death drives (Todestriebe).[87] Lacan retains Freud's dualism but in terms of an opposition between the symbolic and the imaginary and not referred to different kinds of drives. For Lacan all drives are sexual drives, and every drive is a death drive (pulsion de mort) since every drive is excessive, repetitive and destructive.[88]

The drives are closely related to desire since both originate in the field of the subject.[85] But they are not to be confused: drives are the partial aspects in which desire is realized—desire is one and undivided, whereas the drives are its partial manifestations. A drive is a demand that is not caught up in the dialectical mediation of desire; drive is a "mechanical" insistence that is not ensnared in demand's dialectical mediation.[89]

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