This article examines the potential of space science technology for water infrastructure (WI) management. It defines space technology in detail, and when South Africa (SA) started using it as a tool. To explain the context, the different types of orbits, altitudes, and functions of satellites are given, as well as the challenges that satellites encounter in orbit, including the quantity and sizes of orbital debris also known as space junk. The article articulates the international and local challenges to WI and further introduces space technology as a tool that can assist to overcome the challenges. Legislation governing the application of space technology in SA is discussed and the different satellites owned by the various space agencies of Africa are outlined. A discussion on how space technology has boosted the economies and employment in Africa and South Africa is provided. How the various applications of the technology, such as remote sensing (RS), Earth observation (Eo), Geo-Information sciences, navigation, communication, safety, and security can assist WI management are discussed. Details about the involvement of various African and SA universities and colleges in space science programmes that benefit the communities are explained. Also outlined are some experiments performed on the International Space Station (ISS) that benefit the Earth and that could be useful to WI management.
What are the possibilities of connection between politics and literature? How have those possibilities been developed? Why should students of politics turn to literature as a source of political understanding? Connections have traditionally been made in terms of literature as illustration or example for politics or as a form of moral education. Other possibilities are a 'political sociology of literature' or literature as a primary source for political studies. Work in the United States suggests further extensions. The case for 'politics and literature' is also strengthened by recent developments in political theory such as the interest in 'identity' or 'narrative'.
Part 1: Institutions of Life -- Chapter 1. Bio-Poetics and the Dynamic Multiplicity of Bios: How Literature Challenges the Politics, Economics and Sciences of Life (Vittoria Borsò) -- Chapter 2. Institution and Life as an Institution: Uterus: Mother's Body, Father's Right (Life and Norm) (Petar Bojanić) -- Chapter 3. Towards a Poetics of Worldlessness: Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Human Action (Roland Végső) -- PART 2: Anthropology, Performativity, And Language -- Chapter 4. Man and Other Political Animals in Aristotle (Attila Simon) -- Chapter 5. Is There an Essential Convergence Between Signification and Animals? On the Truth and Lying of Animal Names in a Nietzschean Sense (Hajnalka Halász) -- Chapter 6. Noble Promises: Performativity and Physiology in Nietzsche (Csongor Lőrincz) -- Chapter 7. Austin's Animals (Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó) -- Chapter 8. Self-interpreting Language Animal: Charles Taylor's Anthropology (Csaba Olay) -- Part 3: Anthrozoology, Ethics, And Language -- Bio-Aesthetics -- Chapter 9. The Theriomorphic Face (Georg Witte) -- Chapter 10. 'Step by step into ever greater decadence': Discourses of Life and Metamorphic Anthropology (Márió Z. Nemes) -- Chapter 11. Bio-Aesthetics: The Production of Life in Contemporary Art (Jessica Ullrich) -- Part 4: Biopoetics, Zoopoetics, Biophilology -- Chapter 12. Io's Writing: Human and Animal in the Prison-House of Fiction (Ábel Tamás) -- Chapter 13. 'Lizard on a sunlit stone': Lőrinc Szabó and the Biopoetical Beginnings of Modern Poetry (Ernő Kulcsár Szabó) -- Chapter 14. Of Mice and Men: Dissolution and Reconstruction of 'Nature's Larger Scheme': Burns, Mészöly, Kertész (Tamás Lénárt) -- Chapter 15. Towards a Literary Entomology: Arthropods and Humans in William H. Gass (Gábor Tamás Molnár) -- Chapter 16. Biophilology and the Metabolism of Literature (Susanne Strätling).
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ÖZETİnsanları diğer canlılardan ayıran en önemli özellikler hayal gücü ve yaratım yeteneğidir. Bu her iki vasıf da insanların hem özel, hem de kamusal hayatları için vazgeçilmezdir. İnsanlar yüzyıllar boyunca yaşam şekillerini, toplulukları, halkları, devletleri ve hükümet sistemlerini tasavvur etmişler ve sonuç olarak kendi tasavvurlarını vücuda getirmişlerdir. İster gerçeğe dönüşsün, ister asla gerçekleştirilemeyecek ütopyalar (hatta distopyalar) olarak kalsın, hayal gücünün dünyanın işleyiş biçimine doğrudan katkısı vardır. Politika, uluslar arası ilişkiler, bilim, sanat ve edebiyatta bu hayal gücünün sonuçlarını ve yansımalarını rahatlıkla görebiliriz. Bununla birlikte, bu yansımanın karşılıklı olduğunu da söyleyebiliriz. Hayal gücü politikayı ve politik sistemleri etkilediği kadar, bu sistemler ve politikadaki değişimler de insanların fikirlerini etkiler, özellikle de sınırsız bir hayal gücüne sahip olanları. Bu bağlamda, bilim kurgu edebiyatının usta kalemleri kendi ütopyan ve distopyan dünyalarını yaratmış ve dünya çapında yankı bularak diğer insanların fikirlerini de etkilemişlerdir. Hayallerle gerçekler arasındaki bu etkileşim en iyi bilim kurgunun başyapıtlarında görülmektedir. Politik ideolojiler (ki bunlar da sonuçta kağıt üzerindeki tasavvurlardır) ve ütopyan / distopyan romanlar arasındaki bağlantılar ve karşılaştırmalar William Morris'in News From Nowhere (Hiçbir Yerden Haberler), Aldous Huxley'nin Brave New World (Cesur Yeni Dünya), Ursula K. Le Guin'in The Dispossessed (Mülksüzler) and William Gibson'ın Neuromancer (Matrix Avcısı) adlı kitaplarında incelenmiştir. Bu romanlar ütopyan ya da distopyan dünyaları resmederek bize alternatif gerçeklikleri gösterirken, bir yandan da geçmişi ve şimdiyi yansıtarak bize geleceğe ilişkin rehberler sunmaktadır.ABSTRACTThe most important elements that separate humans from other living organisms are the power of imagination and the gift of creation. Both abilities are crucial in people's lives, private and public. For centuries humankind imagined their life styles, communities, societies, states, government systems and as a result, they created their own imaginations. Whether they become realities or utopias (maybe dystopias), imagination has a lot to do with how the world works. In politics, international relations, science, art and literature, we can see the outcomes and reflections of human imagination. Besides, we can also say that this reflection works both ways. Just as much as imagination affects politics, political systems and political changes also affect the minds of people, especially those with a boundless imagination. In this context, the masters of science fiction literature have built utopian and dystopian worlds of their own and have affected the minds of other people throughout the world. The interaction between imagination and reality is best seen in these sci-fi masterpieces. The connections and comparisons between political ideologies (which are also imaginations put on paper) and utopian / dystopian novels are examined in William Morris's News From Nowhere, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed and William Gibson's Neuromancer. These novels present us alternative realities by picturing utopian or dystopian worlds and by reflecting our history and present, they offer us guides towards the future.
