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Creativity is a cornerstone of human innovation, influencing numerous disciplines and captivating both academics and practitioners. Despite extensive research, the connection between creativity and disability has been relatively unexplored. This paper seeks to bridge this gap by investigating the interplay between creativity, disability, and difference through the lens of "mental foraging." This conceptual framework compares cognitive exploration to how animals forage for food, suggesting that disabilities and differences can act as catalysts rather than barriers to creative thought and breakthroughs. By combining qualitative case studies with a thorough literature review, the study delves into the complex interactions between mental health conditions such as schizophrenia and ADHD, and physical disabilities like deafness and blindness, with creativity. It aims to provide new insights into the experiences and challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in their creative endeavors, highlighting how these unique cognitive landscapes can foster novel problem-solving approaches and innovation. Through understanding how disabilities influence creative processes, the paper underscores the importance of embracing cognitive and experiential diversity to enrich the creative landscape.

The article discusses Iris Marion Young's influential work "Justice and the Politics of Difference," which critiques universalism and master narratives in liberal political philosophy. Young's focus on difference and recognition challenges traditional notions of justice and impartiality. While Young's analysis is respected, the article suggests that she could have delved deeper into systemic injustices beyond respectability and orderliness. The text highlights the importance of recognizing asymmetrical power relations in colonial societies and the need for accurate and ethical recognition for marginalized populations. [Extracted from the article]

This paper gives an account of Gilles Deleuze's and Jean-Paul Sartre's respective conceptions of "the Other" as this concept evolves in relation to Sartre's earliest insights into self/Other dynamics in his 1937 essay, The Transcendence of the Ego. By reading Deleuze through his early interlocutor—the philosopher and author Michel Tournier—I argue that the account of Otherness presented in Deleuze's early (and later disavowed) "Sartrean" works represents a critique of Sartre's own revisions to the concept of Otherness in his 1943 magnum opus, Being and Nothingness. Thus, we can read Sartre and Deleuze as offering competing views of how (and indeed if it is possible) to inherit Sartre's own early insights into the value of existential phenomenology for a "positive" account of interpersonal relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The critical studies on Dostoevsky's 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man' have never diverged to a very great extent from the two interpretative lines developed many years ago by Mikhail Bakhtin and Nikolai Berdyaev, which concern, on the one hand, the Menippean satirical structure of this short story and, on the other, its general motif of 'utopia vs. anti-utopia.' Although these two views are unquestionably enlightening, mainly because they reflect Dostoevsky's poetics from the 1870s, they still do not seem to have fully considered the central problem the ridiculous man raises throughout his monologue. This problem concerns the main character's fundamental quest for truth. This article offers a reading of Dostoevsky's story, with a new interpretation of it that does not exclude but, in fact, extends Bakhtin's and Berdyaev's views. While the purpose of the Menippean satire is, as Bakhtin suggested, to test an idea, in 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man' Dostoevsky examines three different ideas of 'truth' each of which correspond to the protagonist's various stages of awareness that occur in the three main parts of the narrative: before, during, and after the dream. These ideas are: a nihilistic solipsism of a higher consciousness; the natural perfection of a pantheistic universe; and the primacy of life over thought. The result of this analysis leads to the philosophical problem of 'difference,' understood as a 'transcendent difference' à la Fichte, which offers a new insight into Dostoevsky's 'higher realism.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How are terror threats and counterterrorism measures experienced in everyday urban spaces? We argue that thinking atmospherically about the spaces of urban encounters with (counter)terrorism is important, firstly, to identify and question feelings and dispositions shaped by discourses, practices, and infrastructures of (counter)terrorism; secondly, to contribute spatial perspectives of felt experience to literatures on security and (counter)terrorism in geography and beyond; thirdly, to connect official understandings of (counter)terrorism with its everyday felt experiences and materialities. We highlight two conceptual and empirical arenas – the crowd and the question of difference – where atmospheric approaches to urban (counter)terrorism can be developed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Around 1800, German philosophy and literature frequently discussed the topic of history. This study examines, from a philosophical perspective, the structure of history as presented by Heinrich von Kleist in his short story "On the Puppet Theatre" (1810). Since Kleist's story is situated between literature and philosophy, it is essential to supplement his position with concepts from philosophy of his time. The interpretation will provide a model of falling away from the original unity grasped as indifference, the emergence of difference, and a backward movement towards the original unity grasped as identity. This process is the acquisition of self-consciousness, knowledge, and history. We interpret the return to the initial starting point as a circular movement, as a historical fulfilment of the difference, and as the gain of ultimate knowledge of the whole of reality. By making the subject and object of knowledge identical at the end, the difference between them ceases and the original unity is re-established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper gives an account of Gilles Deleuze's and Jean-Paul Sartre's respective conceptions of "the Other" as this concept evolves in relation to Sartre's earliest insights into self/Other dynamics in his 1937 essay, The Transcendence of the Ego. By reading Deleuze through his early interlocutor—the philosopher and author Michel Tournier—I argue that the account of Otherness presented in Deleuze's early (and later disavowed) "Sartrean" works represents a critique of Sartre's own revisions to the concept of Otherness in his 1943 magnum opus, Being and Nothingness. Thus, we can read Sartre and Deleuze as offering competing views of how (and indeed if it is possible) to inherit Sartre's own early insights into the value of existential phenomenology for a "positive" account of interpersonal relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Like many western dance and somatic practices, contact improvisation (CI) has long centred a concept of 'the body' that ignores culture, identity, privilege and power. However, for many dancers, identity-based power dynamics do affect how they interact, what risks CI poses to them and how accessible the practice is. This article examines consent practices as one response to identity-based risks in CI. It determines that, to most effectively limit the effects of identity-based power dynamics, the responsibility for consent practices must be shared amongst dancers of all levels of privilege in a CI space. Such distributed consent practices have the potential to address power differences without reifying them, as they allow dancers to modulate risk without naming specific identities. Although increasing consent practices in CI poses a number of challenges, this investigation indicates future potential for consent practice as a strategy to acknowledge and address identity in CI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a new economic form, digital economy will have a profound impact on economic activities, including energy consumption and FDI. This paper is intended to explore the differences in the impact of digital economy on urban energy efficiency in China, and whether there is a mediation effect of FDI in this impact process. Therefore, based on the data of 279 prefecture level and above cities in China from 2006 to 2019, the evaluation index system of urban digital economy is constructed, and the entropy method is used to measure its comprehensive development level. Use fixed-effects panel models and intermediary effects models to test the impact of digital economy development on urban energy efficiency. The results show that the digital economy can significantly improve urban energy efficiency. In terms of differential analysis, the role of digital economy development in urban energy efficiency has obvious heterogeneity characteristics in urban scale, geographical region, level of urban economic development, and economic region. In terms of mechanism test, FDI plays an effective mediating role in the process of digital economy affecting urban energy efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introduction to the special issue on the phenomenologies of aging explores the relative philosophical neglect of aging as a distinct topic. It critiques the naturalistic reduction of aging, which frames it primarily as decline, and examines the ethico-political implications of this perspective. In order to contextualize the possibilities of forming a new sustained philosophical debate on aging, we describe the earlier advances made in the field by notably Simone de Beauvoir's work and the developments in critical gerontology, aging studies and the anthropology of aging and the life course. The introduction then programmatically states the need for a revitalized philosophical discourse on aging, suggesting that phenomenological inquiry can reveal the ontological complexities of intergenerational relationships and shared existence. Finally, we briefly introduce the contributions to this special issue by drawing forward the themes of corporeal temporality, generationality and the problem of sharing the world across generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BACKGROUND: The number of cesarean sections performed is increasing every year, and obstetric anesthesia is of great interest to physicians and research scholars because of its specificity, high risk, and high complication rate. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of combined spinal epidural anesthesia (CSEA) with different intervertebral spaces during cesarean section on anesthesia effect, anesthesia onset time, anesthesia recovery time, maternal adverse reactions, and neonates. METHODS: Ninety-two women who underwent cesarean section in our hospital from September 2022 to February 2023 were selected as the study subjects and randomly divided them into two groups (group A and group B), 46 women in each group. Group A underwent CSEA via an L2-3 gap and group B underwent CSEA via an L3-4 gap puncture. The anesthesia effect, anesthesia onset time, sensory recovery time, adverse effects, and neonatal Apgar score were compared between the two groups. RESULTS: When CSEA was performed from L2-3, the anesthesia efficiency was higher, but the difference was not statistically significant. When anesthesia was performed by puncture from L2-3, the onset of anesthesia and recovery time was shorter, and the incidence of intraoperative maternal nausea and vomiting, hypotension, respiratory depression, and other adverse reactions was low with a statistically significant difference. However, the Apgar scores of the neonates in the two groups have no difference. CONCLUSIONS: When CSEA is induced via L2-3 interspace, anesthesia has a rapid onset of action, shorter recovery time, and few maternal adverse effects, without affecting the final anesthetic outcome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is a study of an issue related to the causes and motivations behind doctrinal differences. It is titled: "The Causes of Doctrinal Differences: Greek Philosophy and Heritage as a Model." It is an attempt to identify some of the causes of these differences and the emergence of various sects among Muslims, and to try to explain many of the logical questions about the motivations and reasons that led to doctrinal differences and the influence of Greek philosophy on this. This study aims to identify the most important causes of doctrinal differences and the underlying reasons behind these differences, as well as the extent of the influence of Greek philosophy and heritage in directing these differences. The study reached at a number of results, Greek philosophy entered the Muslim world in general through the translation of ancient sciences into the Arabic language. The causes of disagreement and the occurrence of differences and divisions are many, some of which are due to malice, the extreme exaggeration in belief, the following one's desires, the spread of innovations, the interpretation of texts, the use of common and ambiguous terms, the malice of the enemies of Islam, as well as the influence of foreign cultures as a result of the translation of the sciences of other nations, such as the sciences of the Greeks, Indians, Persians, and others, which had a great impact on the emergence of a number of sects affiliated with Islam.. The speakers benefited from the methods and approaches of philosophy and used them in debate and in stating their views. Imam Fakhr al-Din al-Razi tried to establish a kind of coexistence between philosophy and Kalam, and Imam Ibn Hazm is considered one of those who defended Aristotelian logic and one of those who said that it is necessary to adopt it. The influence of philosophy (the Greek heritage) appeared in the disagreement on some issues through the logical or philosophical rational premises that were used by those who said something contrary to what the people of the Sunnah and the Jama'ah had stated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Of Grammatology Derrida called upon Charles Sanders Peirce as a partial ally in his 'deconstruction of the transcendental signifier'. Here Derridean thought and biodeconstruction are brought into a comparative relation with contemporary Peircean biosemiotic theory. The discussion examines an intertwining of philosophical currents and trajectories that run through both Peirce and the philosophical hinterland of biosemiotics. What can be seen to emerge here is an evolution or transformation from idealism (the legacies of Hegel and Kant in Peirce and biosemiotic thought, respectively) to a novel configuration of relational realism. This configuration is, in turn, thought alongside Derridean notions of différance, arche-writing and generalized textuality. A productive dialogue is opened up between biodeconstruction and biosemiotics. The latter can be shown to complement the former, offering a realist, post-metaphysical theoretical framework and methodology for biology that has the potential to inform the activity and research of working biologists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inheritance is both an unsettled and structuring concept of contemporary life. This paper argues that inheritance is an analytic through which difference comes to matter. Following Casarino's (2002) discussion of 'last' and 'other' limits, I show that inheritance both serves as a mechanism through which difference is captured and domesticated into systems of technoscience and law, and that it evidences the inability of these systems to capture fully its alterity. Taking a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary approach, the paper develops an analytic that explores and expands biosocial understandings of inheritance through two 'limit cases': first, the search for and reclamation of inheritance dispossessed in the Transatlantic trade in enslaved people; second, questions of queer reproduction and inheritance. The paper concludes by offering an analytic of inheritance not simply as a force of difference but also as a way of orienting political and ethical thought in the Anthropocene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this note, we solve the open problem posted by Tien and Khoi (Monatsh Math 188:183–193, 2019). We prove that when 0 < q < p < ∞ , the difference of two weighted composition operators between Fock spaces W ψ 1 , φ 1 - W ψ 2 , φ 2 : F p → F q is bounded if and only if both W ψ 1 , φ 1 and W ψ 2 , φ 2 are bounded. Furthermore, we prove that the same conclusion holds for the differences of a weighted composition operator and a weighted composition-differential operator on F p . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of the current article is Foucault's analysis of the ontology of the novel. This research provides an interdisciplinary reading indicating that the ontology of the novel is based on the deconstruction of home’s concept: novel characters, unlike the heroic characters of Greek mythology and the Bible, constantly depart from home to discover the unknown realm of existence or a new dimension of humanity. There is a direct relationship between this transcendental homelessness and the novel's ontology. The results of the current research have shown that the conceptualization of home has yielded specific outcomes: 1. The novel has replaced similarity-based ethics with difference-based ethics. 2. Home is not a fixed and unchanging concept, but rather a construct. 3. The novel's adventure is a journey from the known to the unknown realms. 4. The novel is not in pursuit of utopia but rather maps out heterotopias as realms of diversity and abundance. The clear implication of this research is that the difference between the novel and the epic is not merely a genre difference but rather an ontological difference

This research aims to expose the meanings, and the difference in the structure of the present tense in the frequent Qur’anic readings with an explanation of the impact of this difference in the noble verse, and it aims to provide correct linguistic models that contribute to building the linguistic ability of the students. The methodology was followed in this research, and this research included an introduction, a methodology section, result and discussion, and the last is conclusion. As for the introduction, it defined the subject of the research, the reasons for its selection, its objectives, the method used, the basic rule, previous studies, and the study plan. It focuses on linguistic analogy, meaning of harf jarr, linguistic skills, its definition and methods of obtaining. The present tense verb is preceded by harf lām and atf that considering the lām as a reasoning. It is not a condition for the present tense to be in the accusative case that the lam be clear in its reasoning. The lam and atf has function in the present tense verb “to be made” was read with the kasra of the lam and the accusative, and with the sukun of the lam and the jazm in the context of al-fi’l al-mudhari’, and it is clear that the reading of the kasra of the lam and the accusative was directed by considering the lam for the reasoning and the accusative of “to be made” with (that) is implicitly permissible.

Abstract ER+/HER2- breast cancer is a common subtype of breast cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of ER-to-PR difference (EPD) in ER+/HER2- early breast cancer (EBC). A retrospective cohort study was conducted, including 3,340 ER+/HER2- EBC patients, divided into a training cohort of 2,873 patients and a validation cohort of 467 patients. The optimal EPD cutoff value for stratifying patients was determined using X-tile. Additionally, the prognostic value of EPD, when combined with other clinicopathological factors, was assessed using the Cox proportional hazards model and five traditional machine learning methods. The optimal cutoff value for EPD was determined as 10%, categorizing patients into EPD-low (ER-PR ≤ 10%) and EPD-high (ER-PR > 10%) expression groups. Patients with EPD-high tumors exhibited a poorer prognosis compared to those with EPD-low tumors. In the multivariate Cox model, EPD was identified as an independent prognostic factor for disease-free survival (DFS) (HR: 1.496, P = 0.004). Integrating EPD with clinicopathological parameters into a predictive model effectively predicts DFS in ER+/HER2- EBC patients. In the most effective CoxPH model, the area under the curve (AUC) values for predicting 3-year, 5-year, and 7-year DFS were 0.718, 0.702, and 0.701, respectively, in the WCH cohort, and 0.770, 0.739, and 0.743, respectively, in the FUSCC cohort. EPD may serve as a novel prognostic marker, allowing for the identification of a population with a poor prognosis in ER+/HER2- EBC, thereby aiding clinical decision-making.

Abstract Objective This study aims to assess the consistency of various CT-FFR software, to determine the reliability of current CT-FFR software, and to measure relevant influence factors. The goal is to build a solid foundation of enhanced workflow and technical principles that will ultimately improve the accuracy of measurements of coronary blood flow reserve fractions. This improvement is critical for assessing the level of ischemia in patients with coronary heart disease. Methods 103 participants were chosen for a prospective research using coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) assessment. Heart rate, heart rate variability, subjective picture quality, objective image quality, vascular shifting length, and other factors were assessed. CT-FFR software including K software and S software are used for CT-FFR calculations. The consistency of the two software is assessed using paired-sample t-tests and Bland-Altman plots. The error classification effect is used to construct the receiver operating characteristic curve. Results The CT-FFR measurements differed significantly between the K and S software, with a statistical significance of P

Objective: This study aims to assess the consistency of various CT-FFR software, to determine the reliability of current CT-FFR software, and to measure relevant influence factors. The goal is to build a solid foundation of enhanced workflow and technical principles that will ultimately improve the accuracy of measurements of coronary blood flow reserve fractions. This improvement is critical for assessing the level of ischemia in patients with coronary heart disease. Methods: 103 participants were chosen for a prospective research using coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) assessment. Heart rate, heart rate variability, subjective picture quality, objective image quality, vascular shifting length, and other factors were assessed. CT-FFR software including K software and S software are used for CT-FFR calculations. The consistency of the two software is assessed using paired-sample t-tests and Bland-Altman plots. The error classification effect is used to construct the receiver operating characteristic curve. Results: The CT-FFR measurements differed significantly between the K and S software, with a statistical significance of P < 0.05. In the Bland-Altman plot, 6% of the points (14 out of 216) fell outside the 95% consistency level. Single-factor analysis revealed that heart rate variability, vascular dislocation offset distance, subjective image quality, and lumen diameter significantly influenced the discrepancies in CT-FFR measurements between two software programs (P < 0.05). The ROC curve shows the highest AUC for the vessel shifting length, with an optimal cut-off of 0.85 mm. Conclusion: CT-FFR measurements vary among software from different manufacturers, leading to potential misclassification of qualitative diagnostics. Vessel shifting length, subjective image quality score, HRv, and lumen diameter impacted the measurement stability of various software. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ER+/HER2- breast cancer is a common subtype of breast cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of ER-to-PR difference (EPD) in ER+/HER2- early breast cancer (EBC). A retrospective cohort study was conducted, including 3,340 ER+/HER2- EBC patients, divided into a training cohort of 2,873 patients and a validation cohort of 467 patients. The optimal EPD cutoff value for stratifying patients was determined using X-tile. Additionally, the prognostic value of EPD, when combined with other clinicopathological factors, was assessed using the Cox proportional hazards model and five traditional machine learning methods. The optimal cutoff value for EPD was determined as 10%, categorizing patients into EPD-low (ER-PR ≤ 10%) and EPD-high (ER-PR > 10%) expression groups. Patients with EPD-high tumors exhibited a poorer prognosis compared to those with EPD-low tumors. In the multivariate Cox model, EPD was identified as an independent prognostic factor for disease-free survival (DFS) (HR: 1.496, P = 0.004). Integrating EPD with clinicopathological parameters into a predictive model effectively predicts DFS in ER+/HER2- EBC patients. In the most effective CoxPH model, the area under the curve (AUC) values for predicting 3-year, 5-year, and 7-year DFS were 0.718, 0.702, and 0.701, respectively, in the WCH cohort, and 0.770, 0.739, and 0.743, respectively, in the FUSCC cohort. EPD may serve as a novel prognostic marker, allowing for the identification of a population with a poor prognosis in ER+/HER2- EBC, thereby aiding clinical decision-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic had profound impacts worldwide on individuals with mental and behavioral disorders, including disorders due to psychoactive substance use. We investigated how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the trends in these disorders in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Methods: We researched and compared ICD-10 data on mental and behavioral disorders due to substance use in Kazakhstan that were diagnosed in 2018–2019 (pre-pandemic) versus 2020–2021 (the pandemic period). Results: The data for the pandemic period were significantly different from those of the pre-pandemic in that (i) 'other stimulant-related disorders (F15)' and 'other psychoactive substance-related disorders (F19)' were increased in the younger age groups, (ii) the risk of 'opioid-related disorders (F11)' was decreased in the 30-year-old group in both males and females, and (iii) the risk of 'alcohol-related disorders (F10)' was increased in the 30-year-old group and decreased in the 20- and 50-year-old groups. In only the males, (iv) the risk of 'other psychoactive substance-related disorders (F19)' was increased in almost all of the age groups, and (v) the risk of 'cannabis-related disorders (F12)' was increased in the ≥50-year-olds. The pre-pandemic and pandemic periods thus involved changes due to COVID-19 in both males and females that were especially notable in males. Conclusions: These results indicate that further measures designed to prevent mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substances are necessary at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, and personnel in medicine/nursing, the government, private organizations, and the public need to collaborate to devise such measures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that Plato's Sophist can be understood as promoting a rudimentary version of the medieval notion of the "convertibility of the transcendentals," that is, that there are certain properties of being, such as unity and truth, that have the same extension as being but add conceptual content to being. Histories of the doctrine of the transcendentals tend to trace transcendental thought back no earlier than Aristotle and thus ignore the relevance of Plato generally and the Sophist specifically. This article argues that the Eleatic Stranger's discourse on the five "greatest kinds" (megista genē) indicates that Sameness and Otherness fulfill the criteria of transcendentality. The article uses this analysis to provide an avenue for further study of Platonic metaphysics in the hope that the notion of "convertibility of the transcendentals" will aid interpreters in understanding how to bring together Plato's various accounts of what is metaphysically ultimate. This article suggests that, in addition to sameness and otherness, unity, goodness, truth, and beauty are also transcendentals within Platonic metaphysics. The article concludes by implying that difference (i.e., Otherness) must be ontologically good in Platonic thought, contrary to the common criticism that Platonism both denigrates difference and subordinates it to sameness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay takes its point of departure from Mark Solms' contention that Freud's neurological thinking informs his work throughout, and that the RSE renders this more thoroughly than the SE. Starting from this contention I examine and compare the RSE and the SE on the question Freud's theorization of difference from his neurological writings onward. I pay special attention to the subtle distinction in the original German of Freud's uses of Unterschied (difference between) and Differenz (difference). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present article, key conceptual and regulative requirements for quality public democratic talk to be maintained are identified and the linguistic economy of civic conversation about common affairs in the Swedish public sphere gauged; the relationship between public talk, power, and identity is charted; and exposure and response horizons for further quality slippage with Swedens's institutional frameworks visited. A distinction between width and amp difference is introduced to separate democratically acceptable from unviable modes of conversational engagement and provide a new platform for analysing this space. Democratic history and theory is also visited, showing how cognitive moral conversation is a precondition for democratic governance. It is ultimately shown that if democratic politics wishes to remain within its remit, key ideals need safeguarding. It is concluded that the well-known challenges brought out by Levitsky & Ziblatt have not yet affected Swedish politics as they have American politics, but that risks for graver deterioration of struggling conversational and normative formats are visible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Forty years of scholarship in the history of sexuality and gender studies have delivered a considerable amount of knowledge, framed by an encompassing premise: power is paramount. A preferred object of this kind of attention are the erotic cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. The focus on power leads contemporary scholars to adopt binary thinking, namely the attribution to ancient writers and thinkers of dichotomies such as domination versus subjection, or activity versus passivity. This is a fixist view that obliterates the dialectic of desire and, therefore, its fundamental mobility. Desire aims at the other person's desire; roles are exchanged; age and social status can play in surprising ways; hyperactivity can become subjugation. It is time for a change. It is time to look at what mattered for the Ancients themselves: the subjective experience of sensations, bodies and situations; the felicitous, ironic, or tragic reversals of intersubjective games. More importantly: the quest for pleasure, rather than the use of pleasures. The Greeks thought the sexual experience as sensuality. And sensuality inflects what they thought about gender. In poetry, narrations and philosophy, concrete details draw our attention to the felt phenomena of lived bodies – in the plural. When we look for the logic of gender, we discover that bodies can be compared, not as totalities, but as bundles of multiple discreet qualities, ready to be combined and recombined, allotted and exchanged. Qualities can be bits and pieces of anatomy, manners and garments; but also fragments of experience, moments of sensory awareness. The logic of the concrete meets the phenomenal body. For the body is a challenge, to be taken up – as a cinematic life, frame after frame. Sensations can be shared across the boundaries of female and male, which are adjectives, not substances. A granular, corpuscular, pointilliste redistribution of traits, distinctive – or not. Sensuality is queer. Like Plato's pharmacy, erotic materialism can deliver us, beautifully, cathartically, refreshingly from the modern strictures of binary thinking. This is what the Greeks have to tell us. Let us listen! [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article applies Kalpana Seshadri's ideas about race and sexuality to a comparison of two short Canadian films: Dana Inkster's Welcome to Africville and Camille Turner's Afronautic Research Lab: Newfoundland. It contrasts the presence of Newfoundland in Turner's examination of race and enslavement with the absence of Africville in Inkster's examination of sexuality and settler colonialism to illustrate the relationship between racial and sexual difference and the visibility of Black and/or queer bodies. It argues that Afronautic Research Lab: Newfoundland supports Seshadri's view that racial identity is rigid when compared to sexual identity; at the same time, Welcome to Africville supports Seshadri's view that racial difference is no more real than sexual difference, despite having a master signifier ('Whiteness') whose purpose is to justify the domination of Black lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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My aim in this article, simply put, is to put you in the shoes of the Other. It is by definition an impossible exercise, but that is what I am trying to do in any case. Put you in my shoes, and that of another Other, Saima. Our life trajectories are very different but what joins them is our struggle and strife to cross real or metaphorical borders in the hope of overcoming our precarious conditions of existence. In these new lands, we must reconstitute ourselves to fit with norms that do not otherwise recognize our embodied modes of being. I speak of this performative demand to translate ourselves into the dominant language to qualify for recognizability, legitimacy, and intelligibility. A translation that is always susceptible to failure. But I can also make subversive use of my acquired language: I speak it to render you vulnerable to my plea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I propose a model of disability which synthesizes Amos Yong's disability theology with Elizabeth Barnes's "value-neutral model" of disability and then draws Sarah Coakley's account of ante-mortem/post-mortem bodily fluidity in with both. To construct this model, I first outline Yong's thought and then introduce Barnes's work to it as a pivot point around which its eschatological imagery can turn. I then address Coakley's work on bodily fluidity regarding gender and apply it to disability to reveal the model's capacity to hold theological clarity and mystery in tension successfully. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the authors consider the intersections of philosophy and education. Extending the concept of a minor pedagogy first presented by Mazzei and Smithers (2020), the authors reorient thinking toward more equitable and just pedagogy as a cultivation of difference. This paper has three major sections. In the first two, the authors review Deleuze and Guattari's (1986, 1987) concept of the minor, and then connect this to the concept of a minor pedagogy. The final section explores the work of a minor pedagogy as continuous variation with the potential to engender difference. Given that racialized neoliberal efficiency and accountability movements have perpetuated injustice across generations, the work of educational practice that contests this must be practice that slips from these major grips to produce new, more just, worlds. Minor pedagogy produces educational justice through everyday shifts in the conditions of our collective possibility, shifts that manifest difference in ways that reject re-form in the pursuit of the not yet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hate crime is increasingly a familiar term within the domains of scholarship, policy, and activism as the harms associated with acts of targeted hostility continue to pose complex, global challenges. However, an exclusively Western-centric focus has done little to foster transnational conversations or to shape conceptual or legal frameworks in parts of the world where the challenges posed by hate and prejudice remain underexplored despite their devastating consequences. This article considers how the complexities and specificities of the Indian context disrupt the dominant assumptions of conventional hate crime frameworks. In doing so, it highlights the value of extending conventional Westernized models of thinking to different environments with different sets of challenges. Through its analysis of caste crimes and the factors that reinforce a prevailing institutional and cultural backdrop of political indifference, bureaucratic resistance, and public skepticism, the article illustrates why and how key elements of the Western framework remain ill-suited to the Indian context. The authors call instead for a creative translation of the hate crime concept, which accommodates the nature of violence within specific social contexts, and which emphasizes the institutional features that can mitigate the limitations of state capacity and intent. The process of translation has value in harnessing the benefits of the hate crime concept within countries, which lack a common framework to foster shared understanding and prioritization in relation to tackling contemporary expressions of hate. At the same time, this process enriches prevailing thinking, dismantles stereotypes, and challenges scholars of targeted violence to familiarize themselves with the unfamiliar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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I argue that Jīva Gosvāmin's (c. 1517–1608 ad) concept of acintya and Thomas Aquinas's (1225–1274 ad) concept of mystery are similar. To make this case, I examine how each of them characterizes the nature of unity and plurality within the being of God, which is the issue of relations within a single object. I examine contemporary translations of acintya as it is used by Jīva, and I argue that mystery is a best translation because it addresses the ontological and epistemological senses of the word. I examine contemporary accounts of mystery as it is used by Aquinas, arguing that they reflect Jīva's use of the word acintya. This comparative study makes the case for similar approaches in Hindu and Christian scholasticism in regard to the use of reason to address the relational problem of simultaneous oneness and difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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