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The article conceptualizes Agamben’s inoperativity from a historicized perspective, discussing how inoperative or “falling” works of art can reveal the limits of neoliberal capitalism. It discusses contemporary works by Guy Ben-Ner and Ragnar Kjartansson as paradigmatic examples of the ways art reveals the limits and exhaustion or falling of late neoliberalism, particularly in relation to its fusion of work, affective labour, and performance. Relying on Sianne Ngai’s aesthetic categories of the zany and the interesting and Alenka Zupančič’s notions of the comic, the article examines how said categories, as they function in a comic manner in the artists’ works, suspend (rather than negate) the neoliberal order. The essay has two purposes: first, they illustrate the waning ideological influence of neoliberalism, signalling its “passing away,” and discuss how art can “tell time” and engage with historicity. Second, this essay demonstrates how art can encapsulate a frozen-dialectical process of “falling down” or Giorgio Agamben’s Inoperativity – representing its own arrival at its formal limit, its exhaustion albeit without its negation. However, unlike Agamben’s accepted use of the concept, here Inoperativity and the potential it opens is historicized – and appears as a response to late neoliberalism, suspending its forms without negating them.

This article deals with Giorgio Agamben's late work, arguing that Agamben's trans secular critique of capitalist political theology is incepted from the historical conditions of late neoliberalism – with its focus on the personal "self" as its anchor. It suggests that to understand Agamben's trans secular reaction to late neoliberalism we need historicized his thought. As historicized, it can reveal the dialectical limits of neoliberalism. To do so, the article reads late Agamben texts next to contemporary Marxist thinkers Alenka Zupančič and her theory of comedy, Todd McGowan and his analysis of Capitalism and desire and Sianne Ngai and her conceptualization of zaniness as the aesthetic representation of neoliberal precariousness. Moving on, the article focuses on Agamben's late book Pulcinella. It argues that the book not only expresses the limits of neoliberalism but also uncovers hope and promises for comic theological renewal beyond neoliberalism and its cult of the self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Improvements in animal husbandry environment have resulted in major benefits to dairy farming in tropical regions. The aim was to evaluate the effect of changes in sun/shade regimes—restricted shade (RSR), moderate shading (MSR), and intense shading (ISR)—on the behavior of crossbred dairy cows. Massai grass with eucalyptus trees were used in the system. The experiment was conducted at Brazil from 2017 to 2018. Eight dairy cows were observed in each regime over three days by seasons every 30 min from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The behavioral variables considered were localization, posture, and activity. Microclimatic variables were studied and hourly averages were calculated for seasons. The experiment was conducted in randomized complete blocks with split-plots; evaluation times were allocated to subplots and sequential days of analysis were considered replications in time. Multivariate analysis (principal component analysis) was performed using Excel. The results showed that the RSR had a higher proportion of idle cows, which was associated with a higher intensity of radiation (1.2 MJ m−2 h−1). The MSR and ISR differed in radiation levels by 17% and 58%, respectively. The opposite was true when shade was available, as cows performed activities such as grazing more frequently, mainly in the morning shift (difference of 20.7% in the RSR for the shade regime). The behavior of crossbred dairy cows subjected to climatic stress environments was benefitted from microclimatic conditions provided by trees. The provision at least moderate shade around the paddocks, alleviates the stress and regulates the vital activities of the animals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay argues that idleness as play and leisure would be recognised as an ideal over game playing in Bernard Suits' Utopia. Idleness is unaccountably overlooked as an ideal by Suits, as is the problem that his description of game playing is an anachronism, pushing his Utopians into a pre-Utopian condition. There is room for playing games in an idle Utopia but in a less prominent and more restricted role. Idleness as play and leisure is not defended as the sole ideal of Utopian existence though it is possibly that. Rather, it is presented as a compelling and preferable ideal for Suits' Utopians, thus refuting his claim that game playing is 'the only possible' ideal of human existence in Utopia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the so-called institutional idleness observed taking place in Kibera, one of the largest informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. The study analyses the notion of idling – a stigmatic term that is internalised by the residents and follows the inhabitants’ reaction to the stigmatisation. Among the internalisation, another form of reaction to the stigmatisation has been identified, characterised by the involvement of the idleness in organisations formed by the residents. Such behaviour has been observed as being accompanied by a certain level of playfulness and irony resulting in what I term institutionalised idleness – a form of non-violent subversive resistance to the authoritative and disciplinary narratives of official institutions of the post-colonial state in Africa. Moreover, the study presents a spatial dimension of institutionalised idleness, allowing the residents of Kibera to secure their informal leisure spaces in the public space of the city, and to therefore challenge the normative thinking about urban living and perceptions of free time. The institutionalised idleness thus represents a strategy providing the inhabitants of informal settlements with wider recognition, however, without losing their safe space within the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Jakob Fabian, the protagonist of Erich Kästner’s 2013 novel Der Gang vor die Hunde [Fabian. Die Geschichte eines Moralisten, 1931], is examined in this article as a pessimistic idler, a flâneur experiencing a crisis. Fabian’s position in the society of the late Weimar Republic is understood as a reaction to the completely rationalized, economized character of the depicted world—especially Berlin—and to the experiences of an entire generation. It becomes clear that a fulfilling existence as a ‘good-for-nothing’ is no longer possible in the contemporary context. Moreover, the examination of the impressions Fabian gained on his forays through Berlin and his hometown not only allows us to grasp his perception of the crisis-ridden nature of the times, but also contributes to outlining the literary type of the unemployed white-collar worker.

This paper extends upon Costica Bradatan's analysis of Emil Cioran in his book, In Praise of Failure. It provides a defence of Cioran's lifestyle - his refusal to engage in traditional concepts of work and his ideal of 'doing nothing'. I defend Cioran in three ways. First, I argue that Cioran's mantra of doing nothing enabled him to contemplate, to come closer to the absolute, and to contribute to the cultivation of civilisation through his thought. Second, I argue that Cioran's lifestyle enabled him to extricate himself from the damaging cycle of success and failure. By settling for failure from the very beginning, Cioran was able to live without the distractions and damages caused by fear of failure and desire for recognition or success. Third, I argue that Cioran's lifestyle is a radical expression of authenticity and freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay argues that the essay is written under the sign of occasion. The allegorical figure of Occasio, known in Greek as Kairos, figured the moment of opportunity which must be seized for success in rhetoric, politics, and life; failure to grasp the occasion leads to Metanoia, or regret. The first sections show how the early essayists Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and Robert Boyle shaped the essay as an occasional genre. The final sections turn to the contemporary writer and photographer Teju Cole, to show how photography engages with the decisive moment of Occasio, and how Cole's 'lyric essay' Blind Spot, composed of texts and photographs, reinscribes the themes of occasion, seizure, and regret which animated the early essay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research was to determine the ingestive behavior, volatile fatty acids, and blood biochemical and hormonal variables of goats consuming a diet with 15% glycerin. Feed efficiency (FE) and rumination (ER) of dry matter intake (DMI) and neutral detergent fiber (NDFI) of dairy goats supplemented with glycerin (0 and 15%) were not influenced by treatments (p > 0.05). The specific activities of defecation, urination and drinking had a significant effect (p < 0.05) in relation to the treatments with glycerin in the diet of dairy goats. The occasional activities (defecation, urinating and drinking water) decreased with the addition of 15% of glycerin in the goats’ diet. Lactic acid had a significant effect (p < 0.001) with the addition of 15% glycerin. Diets for dairy goats with 15% glycerin did not change the consumption of dry material, neutral detergent fiber, nor did they change the ingestive behavior of these animals. The levels of globulin, protein, albumin/globulin, glucose, cholesterol, urea, triglycerides, cortisol, and T4 variables were significantly influenced (p < 0.05) by the addition of glycerin in the diet.

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Customers have since long received service from various machines, and this development is expected to accelerate when AI‐powered synthetic agents—such as chatbots and embodied service robots—become more common. Existing research on customers' interactions with service machines is typically focused on perceptions of machine attributes when the machine is busy. However, many machines are idle for a considerable time (i.e., they are not used), and little is known about consumer perceptions of machine idleness—despite the fact that idle machine behavior can contribute to the user experience, too. In the present study, it is assumed that (a) idleness and busyness represent differently valenced states in a human‐to‐human context (i.e., idleness is more negatively charged than busyness for most humans). It is also assumed that (b) anthropomorphism can occur in relation to a service machine, and that (c) beliefs about idleness and busyness from a human‐to‐human context can carry over and inform views of machines' minds. Three experiments were conducted to explore these assumptions, and they show that an idle service machine is attributed less positively charged mind states than a busy service machine. The results also show that such attribution activities affect the overall evaluation of the service machine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the transformation of the author's film study approach, shifting from narrative criticism to a formalist one centered on dissecting individual film frames. Topics include the impact of Hannah Frank's book, "Frame by Frame," which advocates for frame-by-frame analysis; emphasizing the hidden labor and materiality within each frame; and how this method enhances the understanding and appreciation of films beyond their motion.

Using Brian O'Connor's Idleness: A Philosophical Essay as a point of departure, the author defends a conception of idleness as an expression of play and leisure. The author agrees with O'Connor that idleness constitutes an important and unduly denigrated human good, but not that it is best understood as a distinctive sphere of human freedom. Instead, he argues, idleness would be better considered a form of play and leisure, which he claims both offers further support for the value of idleness and recognizes a neglected sphere of play and leisure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses Ricardo Talesnik's play and film (directed by Fernando Ayala) La fiaca [Idleness] and its critique of the notion of work. Talesnik denounces how modern disciplinary institutions form the workforce and a way-of-life-to-work. He questions the work-system by critiquing the commodity-form, standardised time represented in the money-form, worker subjectivity as a national citizen, and Schuld (debt/guilt). Talesnik's critique is developed when the play's main character performs a "Duchamp-like" strike by refusing to go to work. When analysed with Marx's and Foucault's theories of production and power, La fiaca could be read as a play that supports the abolition of work to question modern life under late capitalism. Therefore, what this play effectively critiques is the commodification of everyday life, which leaves no option but to create another way of life by interrupting the process of capitalist production of value and questioning the primacy of labour. Talesnik's play shows the coercive forces of the capitalist mode of production, but also the institutional framework built to correct anyone who dares to challenge it. This makes La fiaca a crucial intervention that helps us understand current post-work criticism and the present tension between work and social reproduction in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While also valuing useful citizenship, Rousseau offers what is perhaps the most substantive modern account and defense of idleness. According to Rousseau, idleness' attraction lies in its relation to human nature and its capacity for producing our highest happiness. However, Rousseau is also careful to show that most existing forms of idleness are false, and true idleness is a difficult achievement. The happiness available in idleness can only be attained when free from vanity, obligation, and foresight. This specific form of idleness is also the only form that is morally and politically defensible. Though Rousseau argues, in the First Discourse, that the useless are pernicious, this is only true of the falsely idle that seek to undermine common morality and political attachment. True idleness, while still useless, satisfies Rousseau's core moral principle to not harm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

“To Autumn” is not often associated with the Radical politics played out in and around Manchester in 1819. John Keats’s last published poem has been alternately praised for its artistic perfection or its cleverly-coded historical references, but this paper brings these apparently disparate readings together. Following Keats’s own conviction that “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” it will be argued that what the poem (linguistically) performs is a far-seeing and radical vision of the nature and function of work.

This paper addresses representations of idleness in the fiction of Hanokh Bartov while describing the historical privatization process that Israel went through as its idea of freedom radically changed. Following recent Marxist critiques of modern Hebrew literature, it shows that in Bartov's prose, idleness functions as the image of unattainable freedom – an image that changes as Israel moves on from the statist decades of the 1950s to the neoliberal era beginning around the 1980s. Accordingly, the article demonstrates how the image of idleness reveals contradictions inhabiting each era's ideological structure. It does so by engaging "idleness" not as ahistorical and abject nonwork, but as an ahistorical, ideological concept that both derives from social relations and reflects them. Starting with Sesh knafayim le-ehad [Each Had Six Wings] (1954), this article will show how the Israeli prose of each period of time dealt with the disappearance of a utopic imagination of freedom in favor of the project of a heteronomous political making of capitalist forms of production. Here, Idleness functions as the image of the inevitable future of capitalism without a national project. Moving onto the almost unexplored "Tikuney Itzhak" [Isaac's Corrections] (1980), the article will explore the culmination of this process and the total privatization and moralization of the once-political Zionist subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT The consumption of saline water in semiarid regions is a recurrent situation that can affect the ingestive behavior of small ruminants. This study evaluated the ingestive behavior of Santa Inês sheep maintained in a climatic chamber under two air temperatures -25 °C within the thermal comfort zone (TCZ) and 32 °C above the TCZ - and consuming water with three levels of salinity - 2.0, 4.0, and 8.0 dS m-1. The experimental design was completely randomized in 2 × 3 factorial schemes, comprising two air temperatures and drinking water with three levels of salinity, in six replicates (animals). Regardless of air temperature, the consumption of saline water did not affect feed and water intake by the sheep; however, there was a decrease in feed intake and an increase in water intake as air temperature increased. Feed and water intake; feeding, rumination, and idle times; defecation frequency; and fecal production were not affected (P > 0.05) by the water salinity levels, whereas reduction in feed intake, feeding time, and rumination time and an increase in water intake and idle time were observed as air temperature increased. In summary, increasing air temperature negatively affected the ingestive behavior of the animals; however, water with salinity up to 8.0 dS m-1 did not affect their ingestive behavior and hence could be used for drinking.

• This paper uses a randomized control trial that evaluates a cash transfer (CT) program in Ecuador. • The CT reduces the probability that a household would choose child labor and increases the likelihood of combining child labor with schooling. • The effects of the program are heterogeneous for boys and girls. • The impact of the CT on a child's time allocation is mainly explained by its effect at the extensive margin rather than at the intensive margin. • The paper develops a stylized model that qualitatively explains the results, unravels potential mechanisms, and shows how different transfer designs affect welfare. This paper investigates the impact of a government cash transfer on household decisions regarding different activities that a child may perform (schooling, work, leisure). Using data from a randomized evaluation of a cash transfer program in Ecuador, I estimate a choice model to quantify the effect of this policy. The empirical results suggest that the most common behavioral change caused by the program was a reduction in the probability that the household would send the child to work and an increase in the likelihood that a household would choose to combine child labor with schooling. On the other hand, the transfer reduced the allocation of time to certain child working activities, but these results are mainly driven by the effect of the transfer at the extensive margin rather than at the intensive margin. To explain these findings and provide recommendations on how to improve the design of cash transfers, I develop a theoretical model of parental decision-making regarding child activities. Depending on the endowment of skills, a cash transfer attenuates the likelihood of parents choosing market work for their child and increases the likelihood that they may send the child to school or combine child labor with schooling. By modeling the cash transfer as a subsidy of the human capital input and as lump-sum transfer, this study also contributes to the rising evidence that the design of welfare programs strongly matters in terms of achieving program goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper conceptualises tourist idleness as a temporary engagement in slow, slothful and entirely unstructured holiday activities. We aim to extend the studies that prioritise the modalities of holidays in nature that encourage simplified, slower, immersive experiences, and which celebrate mindfulness, slowness and stillness as part of a tourist journey. In framing idleness as a relaxing, creative and recuperative holiday practice, we suggest that creating places of otium which encourage 'doing nothing' can in many ways enhance tourist wellbeing. To this end, we discuss the significance of spatial, temporal and existential elements of tourist idleness, whilst arguing that this 'practice' should be more celebrated in our modern, high-speed societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we examine what does determine children’s decisions regarding schooling, work, and idleness in rural areas of Pakistan. In particular, we are interested in looking at the effect of children’s illness/disability on parental time allocation decisions with regard to their children. While using Pakistan Rural Households Panel Survey [PRHPS (2012)], we employ the Multinomial Logit Model in order to find the determinants of children’s activities. We find that child health is an important determinant of child time allocation. Children’s previous education and age, parental education, land ownership enhances child schooling and discourages child work/idleness. About child work, especially of girls, is significantly lower in households having educated mothers. Likewise, child disability and illness result in a decline in the likelihood for children to go to school or work. Alternatively, child disability and illness result in an increase in the likelihood of children idleness. In this regard, girls are more affected.

To evaluate the ingestive behavior of sheep confined and fed with substitution levels of soybean meal (SM) by detoxified castor cake (DCC). We adopted a completely randomized design, with four levels of substitution (0; 33; 67 and 100%) with five replicates (sheep). We estimated the percentages of total times of intake of feed, time of rumination, in ‘other activities’, in idle agreed and in idle sleeping, dividing the day into eight periods (5h00 to 8h00; 8h01 to 11h00; 11h01 to 14h00; 14h01 to 17h00; 17h01 to 20h00; 20h01 to 23h00; 23h01 to 2h00 and 2h01 to 5h00). No interaction was observed between levels of substitution of the SM by DCC and period of the day to go. However, the isolated effect period of the day, there is more time to go from 8h00 to 11h00. The time rumination was not influenced by the levels of substitution of the SM by DCC. As for the variable other activities, the level of 67% DCC was superior to that of 100%. Regarding the variables idle agreed and idle sleeping, were not observed effects of substitution levels of SM by DCC. The DCC provides no changes in the behavior of the sheep, but the period of the day exerts influence on the behavioral pattern of such animals.

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To evaluate the ingestive behavior of sheep confined and fed with substitution levels of soybean meal (SM) by detoxified castor cake (DCC). We adopted a completely randomized design, with four levels of substitution (0; 33; 67 and 100%) with five replicates (sheep). We estimated the percentages of total times of intake of feed, time of rumination, in 'other activities', in idle agreed and in idle sleeping, dividing the day into eight periods (5h00 to 8h00; 8h01 to 11h00; 11h01 to 14h00; 14h01 to 17h00; 17h01 to 20h00; 20h01 to 23h00; 23h01 to 2h00 and 2h01 to 5h00). No interaction was observed between levels of substitution of the SM by DCC and period of the day to go. However, the isolated effect period of the day, there is more time to go from 8h00 to 11h00. The time rumination was not influenced by the levels of substitution of the SM by DCC. As for the variable other activities, the level of 67% DCC was superior to that of 100%. Regarding the variables idle agreed and idle sleeping, were not observed effects of substitution levels of SM by DCC. The DCC provides no changes in the behavior of the sheep, but the period of the day exerts influence on the behavioral pattern of such animals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to Deleuze and Guattari, the central project of capitalism consists in the articulation of economic production with the production of subjectivity. The first part of this paper expands on how capitalism manufactures a particular mode of existence corresponding to its economic flows. Herein, it is argued that the paradigmatic figure of our neoliberal and machinic times is a self-condemning subject, attached simultaneously to the assemblages of capitalism as slave units in the cybernetic sense. The second part revolves around the question of activating a new process of subjectivation towards a new mode of existence. It is argued that the latter requires a voyage to an immanent outside and returning to the present plane of existence with new perspectives to recombine its elements differently. This spiritual voyage presupposes a suspension of the general mobilisation decreed by capital. In this context, idleness – in the form of meditative life – is offered as a micro ethico-political action that may not only allow us to acknowledge our habitually reactive selves but also give access to the outside where hitherto unknown existential refrains and configurations could be discovered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses critical race theory (CRT) to explore institutional racial paralysis (IRP) in organizational culture. Utilizing a CRT lens, the authors identify four stages of IRP: idleness, concealment, evolving modus operandi, and pervasive. The major tenets of CRT are utilized to reveal colorblindness and White hegemony as a justification for remaining idle on issues of race. The authors argue that IRP is not a new phenomenon, but rather a byproduct of institutional racism. This article joins an expanding list of scholarship encouraging discourse that engages CRT as an instrumental theory in contemporary issues of race in public administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article contains a transcription of the manuscript Abusos de comedias y tragedias, arguably the earliest treatise in Spanish on the moral controversy concerning theatrical performances. Authorities used by the treatise’s author to back up his opinions are located in notes. The transcription of the text is preceded by an introduction outlining and assessing the content of the treatise.

Power and energy consumption are becoming key challenges for the supercomputers’ exascale race. HPC systems’ processors waist active power during communication and synchronization among the MPI processes in large-scale HPC applications. However, due to the time scale at which communication happens, transitioning into low-power states while waiting for the completion of each communication may introduce unacceptable overhead. In this article, we present COUNTDOWN, a run-time library for identifying and automatically reducing the power consumption of the CPUs during communication and synchronization. COUNTDOWN saves energy without penalizing the time-to-completion by lowering CPUs power consumption only during idle times for which power state transition overhead is negligible. This is done transparently to the user, without requiring labor-intensive and error-prone application code modifications, nor requiring recompilation of the application. We test our methodology on a production Tier-1 system. For the NAS benchmarks, COUNTDOWN saves between 6 and 50 percent energy, with a time-to-solution penalty lower than 5 percent. In a complete production—Quantum ESPRESSO—for a 3.5K cores run, COUNTDOWN saves 22.36 percent energy, with a performance penalty below 3 percent. Energy saving increases to 37 percent with a performance penalty of 6.38 percent, if the application is executed without communication tuning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In contemporary society, immediacy imposes the subject the urgency to occupy his time with some productive activity. Due to the possibility of breaking with this automatism, we are encouraged to investigate the power of art as an experience of aesthetic leisure. Thus, we conducted an exploratory theoretical study combined with ethnographic research in the exhibition Hélio Oiticica - structure, body, color, 2016, from the University of Fortaleza. From the result of the participant observation carried out in the exhibit, we highlight two concepts used by the artist, which were vital to our intent: supra sensory and crelazer. From this, we find that Oiticica's art focuses on the experience of the subject's interaction with the work. In this way, it breaks with the work-public dualism by summoning the subject to become a participant. Thus, we infer that the work only becomes work based on this experience of interaction. The supra sensory consists of the subject's process feeling new perceptions, sensations, from his contact with art and the proposal of crelazer, Oiticica invites the participant to dive into a field of recreation of the work and its existence from the presence of the participant, deconditioned. This condition is the basis for the proposal of the term "aesthetic leisure experience", which emerges from the individual relationship with art, summoning him to his reframing in the experience. We consider that such transformative experiences enhance the subject so that he becomes the creator of his time, of his space, when opening himself to the new, because, by incorporating the authorial role of that experience, he can present himself with a singular moment in the fast pace of contemporaneity. From the investigative path, we are led to believe that the art of Oiticica, as an experience provided by the senses, intends to affect the life experience of the participant, opening the chance to break with the acceleration and new autonomies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spontaneous urban beaches are contemporary public spaces where city dwellers behave as if they were on the beach, although these places have not been apparently planned for this purpose. Such urban public spaces, often located along the waterside, reflect the emergence of a new approach to body and idleness in the public realm on the one hand, and the trend of functional diversion and spontaneous appropriation of the city on the other hand. This paper sheds light on the identification of the spatio-temporal, socio-cultural and political conditions of the emergence of a spontaneous beach situation in the urban environment. To do so, we have conducted an in-situ field survey in the city of Nantes in the summer of 2018, followed by a survey work out of beach situations, conducted with city dwellers and public officials of the city in 2019.

Retomando uma leitura política e social da Carta a d’Alembert proposta por Bento Prado Jr. e Luiz Roberto Salinas Fortes, este artigo busca estender e desdobrar algumas importantes implicações desta tradição de leitura: investigar uma reflexão econômica e os desenvolvimentos de uma economia política associada aos espetáculos, conforme apresentada na Carta. Afinal, contestando uma específica concepção de espetáculo defendida pelos enciclopedistas, Rousseau, sublinhando o caráter político presente nos debates sobre a atividade teatral, incessantemente se atenta para o contexto social e econômico no qual uma peça se insere. Neste contexto, considerando-se ainda a oposição que a Carta apresenta contra etnocentrismo dos philosophes, pretendemos analisar como então é desenvolvida uma crítica à ociosidade – ou uma apologia ao trabalho – que tem em vista fortalecer os argumentos dirigidos contra o teatro parisiense. Exploraremos, portanto, os aspectos de economia política que compõem a argumentação de Rousseau ao longo do texto. [Resuming a political and social reading on the Letter to d’Alembert proposed by Bento Prado Jr. and Luiz Roberto Salinas Fortes, this paper aims to further important consequences carried out by this tradition: to analyze an economic reflection and the developments of political economy thoughts associated with the theatre, as presented in Rousseau’s Letter to d’Alembert. Challenging a specific conception of spectacles advocated by the encyclopedists, Rousseau, highlighting the political character present in the discussions on the theatrical activity, draws attention to the social context in which a play takes place. In this context, and considering the opposition that the Letter presents against the philosophes’ ethnocentrism, we aim to analyze how a critique of idleness – or a praise of labor – is developed, with a view to strengthen the arguments pointed against the Parisian theatre. Most of all, we will seek to highlight the political and economic aspects that make up Rousseau’s arguments.]

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Although from a medical point of view, melancholy and depression are indistinguishable, I will try to argue that, from a philosophical perspective, there is an important distinction between the two related affective states. Analyzing various philosophical, literary, poetical, psychiatric and musical works, such as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Butler's Characters (1659), Goethe's Werther (1774), Novalis's Hymns to the Night (1800), Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata (1801), Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (1857), Cotard's report on the Hypochondriac Delirium (1880), Kraepelin's Textbook of Psychiatry (1883), I will try to clarify the psychological ambiguity between melancholy and depression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Confinement is an experiment in procrastination. It used to be a vice, close to acedia, but we now take it as irrational. But it's not clearly so. Procrastination is indeed vicious when a philosopher delays permanently explaining what his theses are. Derrida is a case in point. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we examine what does determine children's decisions regarding schooling, work, and idleness in rural areas of Pakistan. In particular, we are interested in looking at the effect of children's illness/disability on parental time allocation decisions with regard to their children. While using Pakistan Rural Households Panel Survey [PRHPS (2012)], we employ the Multi-nomial Logit Model in order to find the determinants of children's activities. We find that child health is an important determinant of child time allocation. Children's previous education and age, parental education, land ownership enhances child schooling and discourages child work/idleness. About child work, especially of girls, is significantly lower in households having educated mothers. Likewise, child disability and illness result in a decline in the likelihood for children to go to school or work. Alternatively, child disability and illness result in an increase in the likelihood of children idleness. In this regard, girls are more affected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to examine the way that the concepts of thought and interest have been described in the three main documents that currently guide Brazilian Child Education - National Education Guidelines and Bases/1996, National Curriculum Guidelines for Child Education/2010, and National Curriculum Basis/2018 for Child Education - and their implications for relations between childhood and thinking. In order to do that, we have relied on studies in the philosophy of difference, considering authors such as Kohan, Larrosa, López and Ribeiro, among others, to problematize thought as linked to individual interest. We notice how much thought has been regarded as a problem-resolution tool in these documents, following a neoliberal logic that has been increasingly displaced from collective to individualized interest. Furthermore, the whole functioning of a disciplinary society is evident in the documents, as the latter moves towards a performance society, with greater emphasis on assessment practices and records of children's "production." We consider, both in the concept of childhood and the concept of experience, the possibility of experiencing other relationships with childhoods and temporalities in schools, and the power of both free time and play as open breathing spaces among routines that are both full of compulsory activities and empty of meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highly developed capitalist societies are populated by self-motivated achievement subjects, who are perpetually purposeful and productive. On the underside of the society of excess positivity are the depressives. However, there are also jubilant and self-congratulatory losers who seem unaffected by the widespread exhaustion in these societies, as epitomised by the subjects of this essay: Japanese internet sensations ARuFa and Marina Fujiwara. Both millennials claim to be inventors of absurd creations, and in contrast to their predecessors Maywa Denki and Kenji Kawakami, their works are distinctively messy and amateurish, and are characterised by a highly idiosyncratic material presence and the complete lack of use value. Their satirical dismissal of usefulness and productive work echoes the stance of Surrealists like André Breton and Louis Aragon, and aligns them with autonomist Marxists. In parading their failures and inventing new ways to waste time, the loser becomes a heroic sovereign and keeps alive the revolt against work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this study was to investigate whether participation in an evangelical theater group contributes to the personal development of the participants. The choice of venue and participants was intentional and the number of participants was determined according to the technique of data saturation. Responses were examined by the constant comparison technique. There were six participants, three of each sex, with a mean age of 18.2 (± 1.8) years, all unmarried and belonging to the same Evangelical Baptist Church in the city of Belo Horizonte, MG. The main results demonstrate that participants understand leisure as an activity, that participation in the theater group in the evangelical context can be understood as a leisure experience and participation, promotes the development of outcomes related to spirituality, creativity, communication and socialization. We conclude that participation in a theater group in the evangelical context enables leisure experiences and personal development.