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Interstices 11 Call for Papers The Traction of Drawing December 3, 2009 Manus Occulata in Andrea Alciato (1546) Emblematum libellus (inverted) Why raise the issue of drawing again? With the proliferation and maturation of digital technologies, what is the use of the hand and the traces it makes on clay, stone, wood or paper? This symposium seeks to examine the technologies of drawing – their marks, lines, scratches, furrows, incisions, touches, dots and dashes, inscriptions, string lines, stains and blotches; pencilled, inked, chalked, brushed, illuminated or erased on diverse grounds. What is made in the acts of drawing comes into being through the sapience of a facture, not through any Cartesian process of mathème. Conceived thus, drawing is wholly based on an intimate knowledge of material manifestations, within which tangible lines become carriers of fluid and invisible links that guide intangible thought. Pulling in pieces of geometry, geology, alchemy, philosophy, politics, biography, biology, mythology, and philology from alien territories, one should write and draw with hesitation, discovering the multiple aspects of graphesis, a generative graphic process understood in its slow making. The fruitful vagueness of graphesis comes from the ambiguity embodied in the Latin spell: nullo dies sine linea, where linea (line), a heuristic device, must be understood as a line of writing, as a line in a drawing, or as the pulling of a line on a construction site. Architecture results from their miscegenation: images are written and words are drafted; cultural events and material expressions cross. Graphesis is a course of actions, the factures which actualize future and past. The quality and selection of the ink's luminosity, graphite's fatness, watercolour's lightness, tempera's density, the screen's pixellation, the flexibility or rigidity of supports … readers of the drawings indirectly see and savour them all. They foster "inferences from facture", an extremely productive procedure. To consider an artefact in terms of its facture is to consider it as a record of its own having been made. Drawings' signifying power is in the liturgy of their making, which generates an aura that can be intuited by maker and reader simply by casting a glance. Drawing as tool, technique and technology exteriorises the mind and emotions; it makes present the invisible. Drawing as a forecasting, predictive medium aims at a destination; it has a scope and end, it designates. Projecting, throwing forward orthogonal or oblique lines, it can sever, as in sections and plans. In draughting, as an act of thought, drawing seeks enactment: the making of lines which instruct further making in implementation. Or it translates: from drawing to building and building to drawing. In sketches, outlines, and studies we may pursue an allusive idea through the traction of lines. The formative force of an idea, emanating from the body as from the mind, seeks ever greater precision, often in successive drafts or erasures. Conversely, gestures, traces or tracks of the line can be eventful, punctuate flows like notation in music, or regulate flows like a programme or grammé. Issue 11 of Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts will be devoted to the exploration of these issues for which we invite you to submit a paper for consideration. Submissions: Please submit your paper by 28 February 2010 to The Co-ordinating Editor, Interstices 11, Rafik Patel Refereed papers must not exceed 5000 words (including endnotes; excluding bibliography), non-refereed full papers 2500 words, and reviews 1000 words (longer papers are only accepted in special circumstances and with prior negotiation). Please check the Notes for Contributors (http://www.interstices.ac.nz/previousfiles/NotesForContributors2009.pdf) for details regarding style, formatting, spelling, etc. We also invite submission of drawings, which are normally published in the non-refereed part of the journal. However, for this issue we are considering an alternative review process that would allow us to referee visual submissions. Negotiations about this process have just only started and Notes for Contributors are not yet available. We will inform you about progress if you register your interest. RafikPatelSchool of Art & DesignAUTUniversity, City CampusWE Building, 27 St Paul StAuckland 1010T: +64 9 9219999 extn: 8073 Why raise the issue of drawing again? With the proliferation and maturation of digital technologies, what is the use of the hand and the traces it makes on clay, stone, wood or paper? This symposium seeks to examine the technologies of drawing – their marks, lines, scratches, furrows, incisions, touches, dots and dashes, inscriptions, string lines, stains and blotches; pencilled, inked, chalked, brushed, illuminated or erased on diverse grounds.What is made in the acts of drawing comes into being through the sapience of a facture, not through any Cartesian process of mathème. Conceived thus, drawing is wholly based on an intimate knowledge of material manifestations, within which tangible lines become carriers of fluid and invisible links that guide intangible thought. Pulling in pieces of geometry, geology, alchemy, philosophy, politics, biography, biology, mythology, and philology from alien territories, one should write and draw with hesitation, discovering the mul-tiple aspects of graphesis, a generative graphic process understood in its slow making. The fruitful vagueness of graphesis comes from the ambiguity embodied in the Latin spell: nullo dies sine linea, where linea (line), a heuristic device, must be understood as a line of writing, as a line in a drawing, or as the pulling of a line on a construction site. Architecture results from their miscegenation: images are written and words are drafted; cultural events and material expressions cross. Graphesis is a course of actions, the factures which actualize future and past. The quality and selection of the ink's luminosity, graphite's fatness, watercolour's lightness, tempera's density, the screen's pixellation, the flexibility or rigidity of supports … readers of the drawings indirectly see and savour them all. They foster "inferences from facture", an extremely productive procedure. To consider an artefact in terms of its facture is to consider it as a record of its own having been made. Drawings' signifying power is in the liturgy of their making, which generates an aura that can be intuited by maker and reader simply by casting a glance. Drawing as tool, technique and technology exteriorises the mind and emotions; it makes present the invisible. Drawing as a forecasting, predictive medium aims at a destination; it has a scope and end, it designates. Projecting, throwing forward orthogonal or oblique lines, it can sever, as in sections and plans. In draughting, as an act of thought, drawing seeks enactment: the making of lines which instruct further making in implementation. Or it translates: from drawing to building and building to drawing. In sketches, outlines, and studies we may pursue an allusive idea through the traction of lines. The formative force of an idea, emanating from the body as from the mind, seeks ever greater precision, often in successive drafts or erasures. Conversely, gestures, traces or tracks of the line can be eventful, punctuate flows like notation in music, or regulate flows like a programme or grammé. Issue 11 of Interstices 11: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts will be devoted to the exploration of these issues in which we invite you to submit a paper for consideration. Submissions Please submit your paper by 28 February 2010 to The Co-ordinating Editor, Interstices 11, Rafik Patel rafik.patel@aut.ac.nz Refereed papers must not exceed 5000 words (including endnotes; excluding bibliography), non-refereed full papers 2500 words, and reviews 1000 words (longer papers are only accepted in special circumstances and with prior negotiation). Please check the Notes for Contributors (http://www.interstices.ac.nz/previousfiles/NotesForContributors2009.pdf) for details regarding style, formatting, spelling, etc. We also invite submission of drawings, which are normally published in the non-refereed part of the journal. However, for this issue we are considering an alternative review process that would allow us to referee visual submissions. Negotiations about this process have just only started and Notes for Contributors are not yet available. We will inform you about progress if you register your interest.

"Esta antología recoge más de una veintena de textos que recuperan los hitos de la obra del renombrado historiador uruguayo Gerardo Caetano. Repasar su trayectoria supone un recorrido por la historia uruguaya más reciente entre dos siglos, en particular los años finales de la dictadura, la recuperación de las libertades públicas y el desarrollo democrático. Los textos se organizan en cinco secciones que identifican los ejes fundamentales de un trabajo de más de cuatro décadas: la historia política uruguaya; la preocupación por las tensiones que nutren las identidades y la cuestión de los derechos; los avatares de la integración y del regionalismo en América Latina; la visión sobre personalidades de distintos ámbitos y épocas; y la dialéctica entre democracia y política en América Latina. Con aportes que dan cuenta de la calidad y el lenguaje preciso en sus formulaciones, el respaldo profuso de documentación y datos estadísticos, y la agudeza predominante en sus puntos de vista, Caetano ha delineado el nítido perfil de una personalidad multifacética, de notoriedad gravitante en el marco de un valioso plantel de historiadores, politólogos y científicos sociales contemporáneos con los que interactúa apostando en forma permanente a la exploración interpretativa conjunta del Uruguay, la región y el mundo que nos rodea." --

Through their approximately $2.5 billion in donations each year to Israel, American Jews have profoundly impacted the direction of Israeli society. Checkbook Zionismuncovers how tensions over potential influence have been mediated and offers a new paradigm for evaluating philanthropic power sharing today

Grenzen strukturieren nicht nur die Ordnung von Landschaft und Herrschaft, sondern auch von Gesellschaft. Als soziale Konstrukte vereindeutigen sie Zustände, öffnen aber auch Räume für Aushandlungen und Überschreitungen. In der Moderne dienten praktische und metaphorische "Grenzgänge" dazu, Beziehungen, die Verhältnisse gesellschaftlicher Teilsysteme und die Reichweite von Normen zu klären. Die Beiträger*innen schauen auf die Denkfigur des "Grenzgangs", die es ermöglicht, zentrale Fragen moderner Gesellschaften zusammenzudenken: Gewaltvolle Identitätskämpfe, der Umgang mit funktionaler Differenzierung und mit der Fragilität von Werten und Wissen offenbaren sich als Praktiken, mit denen Grenzen gezogen, überquert oder ausgehandelt wurden.

Wer das Berliner Olympiagelände besucht, stolpert unweigerlich über das Fortwirkungen der NS-Monumentalität des Geländes – und auch über ihre bis heute weitgehend ungebrochene Tradierung von völkischer und antisemitischer Monumentalität. Die Kritik daran ist vielfältig, aber bisher eher lose verwoben: Wo steht die Debatte – oder: wo stehen die Debatten? Welche Perspektiven gibt es, aus historischer, musealer, künstlerischer, politischer, sportlicher oder denkmalschützender Perspektive? Wo lassen sich Brücken der Kritik schlagen, wo sind unterschiedliche Perspektiven widersprüchlich, an welchen Stellen bedarf es grundlegender Neuorientierung oder Neujustierung der Debatte? Der Sammelband versucht, diese Fragen anzureißen, Wege der Auseinandersetzung zu skizzieren oder zu initiieren, aber auch grundlegende Probleme zu benennen.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I – War, Expanding Chaos & Failed State-Building Across the Middle East -- Chapter 2. Afghanistan since 2001: US Geostrategic Ambitions, a Failed State, and the Return of the Taliban -- Chapter 3. Iraq 2003-2007, Geopolitics of an Imperial Democratization -- Chapter 4. Rebel Governance of Oil: The Case of the Houthis in Yemen -- Chapter 5. Wars on Terror in Arab Oil Lands, Russian Interventions, and Chinese Energy Policies: The Case of Northern Iraq and Syria -- Part II – Indirect Consequences of the War on Terror and Legacy -- Chapter 6. Political Instabilities and large-scale migrations in the MENA region: Libyan, Syrian, and Yemeni cases in regional perspective -- Chapter 7. Overcoming Jihadism in Arabia: Tight Counter-Terrorism Policies in the Gulf Monarchies -- Chapter 8. Trump and Netanyahu's Failed Palestine Sell-out: 'A hate plan, not a peace plan' -- Chapter 9. Natural Gas and Regional Energy Dis-integration in the Middle East -- Chapter 10. Conclusions. .

The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on Spanish and Latin American actors, Pamela Voekel argues that at the heart of this nineteenth-century transformation in Spanish America was a transatlantic Catholic civil war. Voekel demonstrates Reform Catholicism'ssignificance to the thought and action of the rebel literati who led decolonization efforts in Mexico and Central America, showing how each side of this religious divide operated from within a self-conscious intercontinental network of like-minded Catholics. For its central protagonists, the era'scrisis of sovereignty provided a political stage for a religious struggle. Drawing on ecclesiastical archives, pamphlets, sermons, and tracts, For God and Liberty reveals how the violent struggles of decolonization and the period before and after Independence are more legible in light of the fault lines within the Church

Strukturwandlungen der Öffentlichkeit. Herausforderungen für die Demokratie -- Wann ist Öffentlichkeit demokratisch(er)? -- Working Class, Frauen, Minderheiten: Angemessene mediale Repräsentation als demokratischer Auftrag -- Wer macht Medien? Zum Zustand der Diversität in den Medienhäusern -- Die Finanzierung von Journalismus heute und morgen: Vor- und Nachteile verschiedener Finanzierungsmodelle -- Wer beherrscht die Medien? Wie Eigentumskonzentration, Medienvielfalt und Demokratie zusammenhängen -- Interoperabilität, Plattform-Kooperativismus oder Kontrolle der Algorithmen: Wie technische Infrastruktur die Demokratisierung der Medienlandschaft fördern könnte -- Demokratisierungsmöglichkeiten des Öffentlich-Rechtlichen Rundfunks -- Medienvertrauen und welches Verhältnis Medien zu ihrem Publikum einnehmen (sollten) -- Die Bedeutung von Medienkompetenz für den demokratischen Diskurs -- Europas Krisen und das Versagen der Medien - die überfällige Europäisierung des Journalismus -- Europas Krisen und das Versagen der Medien - die überfällige Europäisierung des Journalismus.

Over the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic process of asylum legalization. Surviving the Sanctuary City follows them through the institutional spaces of asylum offices, law firms, and human rights agencies to document the labor of seeking asylum. As an interpreter and a volunteer at a grassroots community center, anthropologist Tina Shrestha has witnessed how migrants must perform a particular kind of suffering that is legible to immigration judges and asylum officers. She demonstrates the lived contradictions asylum seekers face while producing their "suffering testimonials" and traces their attempts to overcome these contradictions through the Nepali notions of kaagaz banaune (making paper) and dukkha (suffering). Surviving the Sanctuary City asks what everyday survival among migrants and asylum seekers can tell us about the cultural logic of suffering within the confines of US borders. Through rich ethnographic detail and careful nuanced narratives, it puts the lives and perspectives of the Nepali migrant community at the center of the story. In so doing, Shrestha offers a fundamental rethinking of asylum seeking as a form of precarious labor and immigration enforcement in a rapidly changing US society

Atrocity. Genocide. War crime. Crime Against Humanity. Such atrocity labels have been popularized among international lawmakers but with little insight offered into how and when these terms are applied and to what effect. What constitutes an event to be termed a genocide or war crime and what role does this play in the application of legal proceedings? Markus P. Beham, through an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, unpicks these terms to uncover their historical genesis and their implications for international criminal law initiatives concerned with atrocity. The book uniquely compares four specific case studies: Belgian colonial exploitation of the Congo, atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa, the Armenian genocide and the man-made Ukrainian famine of the 1930s. Encompassing international law, legal history, and discourse analysis, the concept of 'atrocity labelling' is used to capture the meaning underlying the work of international lawyers and prosecutors, historians and sociologists, agenda setters and policy makers

Der politische Diskurs verroht, in den sozialen Medien toben Trolle und grenzüberschreitende Witze haben Hochkonjunktur. Rechtspopulist*innen und fragwürdige Influencer*innen nutzen bewusst sprachliche Unschärfen und ironische Zwischentöne, um das Gesagte im Nachhinein relativieren zu können. Der Autor untersucht die besondere Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie und die Konnektivität des Likens und Teilens der sozialen Medien, die die Ausbreitung von politischem und kulturellem Zynismus anfachen. Mit dem Konzept des konnektiven Zynismus zeigt er auf, wie aus randständigem Humor Profit geschlagen und mit antidemokratischen Diskursstrategien Politik gemacht wird.

Die deutschen Gewerkschaften sind massiv von den Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt betroffen. Ihre Organisations- und Durchsetzungsfähigkeit wird ebenso strapaziert wie ihr Anspruch auf eine möglichst umfassende Repräsentation der lohnabhängig Beschäftigten und Arbeitenden. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutieren die Beiträger*innen die theoretischen Möglichkeiten und praktischen Erfahrungen mit der Digitalisierung von Gegenmacht aus gewerkschaftlicher und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Dazu gehören u.a. Formen des Arbeitskampfes im digitalen Sektor und neue, widerständige Praktiken im Internet oder in der digitalen Infrastruktur von Unternehmen und Konzernen.

1 Introduction -- 2 Keeping the faith in enduring economic and political hardship -- 3 Private and public information and communication -- 4 Economic and techno-social basis of mobile phone use -- 5 Sociality and the mobile phone as connector and liar -- 6 Civic (dis)engagement and protest -- 7 The imaginary of ICT4D and civic (dis)engagement -- 8 Conclusions: Political silence and new ICTs in a repressive state -- References -- Appendix 1: Graphs mobile communication logs -- Appendix 2: Questionnaire mobile communication logs

Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021is an examination of specific public sector reforms in three core Public Administration areas in the democratic South Africa: political-administrative relationships, the delegation of authority to senior managers and performance management.