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Although negative advertising and negative news coverage of candidates is not a new phenomenon there is a perception among the news media that the number of negative ads has increased in the past decade (1984-1992), especially in the past five years. This perception has led reporters to increase their coverage and scrutiny of such ads, while at the same time showing them repeatedly on news casts. There are many reasons given as to why the number of negative ads and negative election reports may have increased, including more consulting companies, changes in election process in the 1960s, independent political groups spending more money on ads and simply because they may actually work.

The objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) believes that these targets cannot be reached through conventional mitigation measures alone. The IPCC assumes that in addition to reducing emissions, technologies for removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will become indispensable. The preferred technology option combines increased use of bio-energy with the capture and storage of carbon dioxide. To date, climate policy has largely ignored the necessity for "negative emissions" to achieve the temperature targets set out in the Paris Agreement. Discussions on the underlying model assumptions, potentials and risks of imaginable technological options, as well as their political implications, are only just beginning. It would be wise for the EU and Germany to proactively shape this debate and increase funding for research and development. If the Paris climate objectives are upheld, climate policy pioneers will soon be facing calls to set emission-reduction targets of much more than 100 percent - a notion that today seems paradoxical, but may soon become reality. (author's abstract)

Abstract
The most recent exhibited work of photographer Del LaGrace Volcano is a triptych from the series Herm Body (2011–), which presents Volcano's front and back torso conspicuously pared down, headless, and nude. Whereas in conventional film photography, negatives are used in the darkroom to make positive images (photographic prints), in the outmoded medium Polaroid 665, which Volcano employs, the positive image is used to make a (unique) negative. The generativity of the Polaroid 665 negative in Volcano's hands is not purely photographic; it is also affective. My essay explores the questions, what are the stakes and what are the consequences in a (photographic) negative generating and reflecting the artist's self-image? I attend to the vulnerabilities of the technical process as well as the strong formal and conceptual references to intersex bodies in medical photography and to aging bodies in images from John Coplans. In short, I propose that the Herm Body series shows how negative affect is productive and political, even when it appears to suspend agency.

Set of 191 assorted color and black and white negatives. Sizes vary. Subjects include mayflies; outdoor recreation including fishing, canoeing, soccer; family life; river barge traffic, historical and contemporary Mississippi River maps; aerials of Mississippi River, locks and dams, Weaver Bottoms (some original, some reprints of government aerial imaging). Some aerial images are photographs and composites of previously-taken photographs. Dates unknown. Part of the Cal R. Fremling collection. 35 mm (3 x 4 cm) - 25 color negatives (encased in plastic sheet protector) - 43 color negatives, aerials (encased in plastic strip protectors) - 57 black and white negatives, loose in envelope - 51 black and white negatives, mayflies (paper separators) 6 x 6.5 cm - 2 negatives, aerials 9.5 x 12.5 cm - 9 black and white negatives, aerials, landscapes, maps, presentation slide 12 x 17 cm - 4 black and white negatives, aerials, maps ; https://openriver.winona.edu/calfremlingphotographs/1002/thumbnail.jpg

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