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This paper builds on biomedical and anthropological discourses of microbial agency to explore the important opportunities this discourse offers medicine, politics, anthropology, and patients. "Borrelia burgdorferi", often termed "the Great Imitator", is an ideal candidate for this discussion as it reveals how difficult it is to speak about Lyme disease without engaging with microbial agency. Based on 12-months research with Lyme disease patients and clinicians in Scotland, this paper offers a social rendering of the bacteria that reveals epistemologies of illness not available in medical accounts: the impact of social and psychological symptoms such as body dysmorphia, depression, shame, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide-related deaths on patients' illness narratives. Divorcing agency from the bacteria silences these important patient narratives with the consequence of a limited medical and social understanding of the signification of Lyme disease and the holistic methods needed for treatment. This paper furthermore argues that the inclusion of patient worldings of Borrelia acting in the medical renderings offers a democratic determination of what the illness is. Finally, building on Giraldo Herrera and Cadena, I argue for a decolonization of Borrelia, exploring how the pluriverse both takes the epistemologies of patients seriously and reveals medical equivocation.

6 pags., 3 figs. -- IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2019 Color Imaging XXIV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications ; The digital representation of three dimensional objects with different materials has become common not only in the games and movie industry, but also in designer software, e-commerce and other applications. Although the rendered images often seem to be realistic, a closer look reveals that their color accuracy is often insufficient for critical applications. Storage of the angledependent color properties of metallic coatings and other gonioapparent materials demands large amounts of data. Apart from that, also rendering sparkle, gloss and other visual texture phenomena is still a subject of active research. Current approaches are computationally very demanding, and require manual ad-hoc setting of many model parameters. In this paper, we describe a new approach to solve these problems. We combine a multi-spectral physics-based approach to make BRDF representation more efficient. We also account for the common loss in color accuracy due to the varying technical specifications of displays, and we correct for the influence from ambient lighting. The rendering framework presented here is shown to be capable of rendering sparkle and gloss as well, based on objective measurement of these properties. This takes out the subjective phase of manual fine-tuning of model parameters that is characteristic for many current rendering approaches. A feasibility test with the new spectral rendering pipeline shows that is indeed able to produce realistic rendering of color, sparkle, gloss and other texture aspects. The computation time is small enough to make the rendering real-time on an iPad 2017, i.e. with low memory footprint and without high demands on graphic card or data storage. ; This study was also supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under grant no. DPI2011-30090-C02-02 and the European Union. Khalil Huraibat would also like to thank the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for his pre-doctoral fellowship grant (FPI BES- 2016- 077325). The authors are also grateful to EMRP for funding the project "Bidirectional Reflectance Definitions". The EMRP is jointly funded by the EMRP participating countries within EURAMET and the European Union

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In a recent number of the Journal Ian Cesa recognises the importance, for social researchers, of the newly developed Australian Standard Classification of Occupations, but offers an incorrect account based upon a superseded, preliminary draft. In this brief note a concise and correct summary of the classification is given with references to the relevant and current publications which explain the implementation of the classification for various purposes.

Emmanuel Levinas radically decentres ethics to become a responsibility that is no longer willed by the subject but rather unequivocally demanded by the Other. In this system, judgment and reason are secondary to one's responsibility in the Face of the Other, who dispossesses and undoes one's 'self' in making its ethical demand. Despite the intimate relationality in this face-to-face encounter, Levinas acknowledges that the world's multiplicity necessitates a diminishment in what would otherwise be an all-consuming responsibility to the Other; justice must be implemented and a state must be established for the sake of judging individuals when one persecutes another. The only way for this political body to remain ethical is through an acknowledgement of its prior origin in the interhuman order of one's responsibility to the Other. All told, Levinas' political investigations are rather vague. Nonetheless, Judith Butler elucidates key ambiguities and weaknesses in Levinas' account, crucially transforming his basic idea through the incorporation of psychoanalysis. Butler's conception of our embodied selves as fundamentally vulnerable and exposed is ultimately the concretization Levinas' ethics needs in order for it to contain a true possibility of reshaping politics such that responsibility to the Other is inseparable from the actions of the state, imposing an absolute limit on gratuitous suffering.

In 2016, Donald Trump's slogan 'Make America Great Again' (MAGA) – often displayed on a red cap – prompted myriad interpretations and reactions regarding the message itself and the hat it was displayed upon. Despite the hat's polysemy, there has been no shortage of institutional attempts to codify the hat and, by extension, the wearers of the hat as racist or otherwise 'deplorable' (). By tracing the functional lineage of the MAGA hat alongside a case study of the 2019 Covington Catholic incident, this article uses media discourse analysis to investigate dress as a factional sociopolitical player while interrogating how cultural institutions contribute to social meaning-making, which in turn can leverage dress's power and unduly malign constituent wearers. Employing theories of sartorial embodiment, the MAGA hat's enthymematic reading and a critical linguistic frame, this article critiques the pathology of marginal myopia and locates how pejorative ascriptions by proxy of the MAGA hat render Trumpian conservatives, primarily of the White male ilk, as marginal subjects.

In this paper, I analyze the perspectives of the Acceptable Muslim (Kassam, 2018)in two Canadian case studies: (a) Irshad Manji, a Canadian Muslim journalist and activist who has been an active commentator on a variety of issues including those related to Muslims; and (b) the CBC sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007-2012), which was the first Canadian mainstream television series featuring Muslim characters. I suggest that these case studies illuminate the figure of the Acceptable Muslim (Kassam, 2018)who is represented as a "moderate," modern, and assimilable Muslim, and who espouses a privatized faith with few public expressions of religious/cultural belonging. Centrally implicated in Canadian debates about multiculturalism, gender equality, citizenship, and secularism, Acceptable Muslims (re)confirm the racial boundaries of the nation-state, becoming icons of multiculturalism, reanimating the whiteness at the heart of the Canadian nation-state. The Acceptable Muslim sustains the narrative of the Canadian nation-state as liberal, secular, modern, and inclusive even as it relentlessly excludes, punishes, and eliminates the Muslim Other, enabling such policies to be legitimated as "race-neutral." Acceptable Muslims stand as sentries at the (symbolic) borders of the nation, reanimating racialized boundaries of acceptability and signalling that those beyond these boundaries can be legitimately policed by the nation-state. My analysis provides insights into how Canada has re-configured the power and persistence of its white fantasy and, through the strategic use of the Acceptable Muslim, cloaks its deeply racialized coding in more palatable grammars of multiculturalism, gender equality, and secularism.

In the contexts of developing and underdeveloped nations, ecology that is exposed to massive exploitation, is often given a feminist approach. Different ecofeminist thinkers and theorists in these countrieshypothesize the relationship between humans and his surrounding using various gender concepts. The ecofeminists use their social movements as well as theoretical inquiries to resist the formation of domination over certain groups and construct politics for planetary survival and social egalitarianism. They seek to promote the desired society where they oppose such aspects as misuse of certain beings that compromises global sustainability. The ecofeminists, therefore, assume an imperative role in preserving a natural order.