PAPER PROPOSES A SINGLE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL AND EXPLORES POSSIBLE ADVANTAGES OF SUCH AN ORGANIZATION TO BOTH LABOR AND MANAGEMENT. SUGGESTS THAT A REASON FOR THIS IS THAT THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS HAS BEGUN ROAD TO EXTINCTION AS VIABLE SEGMENT OF LABOR MOVEMENT.
International audience ; This essay looks at the role of drones in contemporary culture, including cinema. It suggests that drones are the latest in a long line of media that involve the physical separation of humans from the world and from each other, a logic of separation that intersects with military and entertainment interests. In this way, the drone signals the simultaneous and interlinked cinematisation (or kinocentrism) and militarisation of society. Looking from a distance and fighting from a distance, as combined in the drone, not only have a militaristic purpose; they also serve to render god-like the unseen and unquestionable operator of the drone (and the viewer of images). This becoming god-like can also be seen in the conquest of time, as the never-ending and real-time demands of permanent surveillance, permanent war and permanent work all relegate other times (for example, peace and leisure) into unreality; the permanent now of media, war and capital is the only perceived "real" time. As humans via separation become media, so, too, do media become more like humans. The essay ends, then, with a "weird" suggestion that drones constitute a "sky-net" that signals an imminent technological singularity.
À partir de la fin du XVIII e siècle, la gestion de la pêche à la morue au Cap-Breton a été dominée par la Charles Robin and Company, une entreprise commerciale de Jersey. Dans les dernières décennies du XIX e siècle, un certain nombre de changements se sont produits, tant en ce qui concerne la propriété de l'entreprise qu'en ce qui a trait aux progrès économiques au Cap-Breton. La période se caractérise à la fois par la persistance de traditions établies depuis longtemps et par l'adaptation à de nouveaux défis et à de nouvelles possibilités. Un examen des dossiers de la compagnie produits en 1891 permet de brosser un tableau des répercussions de cette transition sur les activités quotidiennes de la compagnie.
