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This essay offers a sustained critique of Bridgerton as symptomatic of the broader trend toward post-racial or multi-racial historical fantasy. By examining the discrete constructions of sex-gender and race in the TV series, this paper asks what does the consolidation of sex-gender in contradistinction to race reveal about contemporary investments in positioning (white) gender as the foundational, immutable category of violation? The point is not simply to repeat a critique of ahistoricity and the perfidious desire to reparatively re-read imperialism, but rather to argue that Bridgerton reflects the contemporary impetus to avow race through an economy of spectacle that disavows racial terror. That is, just as slavery is bound to appear in Bridgerton, despite all efforts within the text to disavow its ontological structure, so too is this sublated appearance present within our contemporary cultural landscape. And so, we argue that the desire within Bridgerton to disappear what is ontologically overdetermined, the ongoingness of slavery, paradigmatically reflects our contemporary impulse to imagine a temporal disjuncture between slavery’s past and our present. Thus, precisely because Bridgerton effectively elides slavery, the show serves as an opportunity to explore the ways in which the isolation of slavery as past crowds out its contiguous forms of subjection.

La lana nella Cisalpina romana. Economia e società, Padova, Padova University Press, 2012

(with Alexander Ananyev), in: Expeditions in the Long Nineteenth Century. Discovering, Surveying, and Ordering. Ed. by Jörn Happel, Melanie Hussinger and Hajo Raupach., 2024

Several figures who played a key role in the global circumnavigations organized by the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century belong to one German-speaking family from Estonia. These are Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846), his nephews Otto von Kotzebue (1787–1846) and Moritz von Kotzebue (1789–1861), and his son Paul Theodor von Krusenstern (1809–1881). The names of the circumnavigators are inscribed in the accounts of global history, while the toponyms “Krusenstern” and “Kotzebue” remain fixtures on the world map to this day. Encounters with the explorers continue to be part of the cultural memory of several world regions, including Oceania, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands. Despite their indisputable contributions to the history of science as expedition leaders and writers, there has so far been little research on the entanglements between the personal and professional networks of the Krusenstern and Kotzebue families. This chapter illuminates some of their impacts on the circulation of knowledge and the imagination of the global world around 1800 by examining the accounts of the voyages published with the help of writer and publicist August von Kotzebue (1761–1819). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003386643-3

Antonio Creus Instrumentación industrial Alfaomega, 2010

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Digital War

The polarizing tendency of politically leaned social media is usually claimed to be spontaneous, or a by-product of underlying platform algorithms. This contribution revisits both claims by articulating the digital world of social media and rules derived from capitalist accumulation in the post-Fordist age, from a transdisciplinary perspective articulating the human and exact sciences. Behind claims of individual freedom, there is a rigid pyramidal hierarchy of power heavily using military techniques developed in the late years of the cold war, namely Russia Reflexive Control and the Boyd's decision cycle in the USA. This hierarchy is not the old-style "command-and-control" from Fordist times, but an "emergent" one, whereby individual agents respond to informational stimuli, coordinated to move as a swarm. Such a post-Fordist organizational structure resembles guerrilla warfare. In this new world, it is the far right who plays the revolutionaries by deploying avantgarde guerrilla methods, while the so-called left paradoxically appears as conservatives defending the existing structure of exploitation. Although the tactical goal is unclear, the strategic objective of far-right guerrillas is to hold on to power and benefit particular groups to accumulate more capital. We draw examples from the Brazilian far right to support our claims.

In today’s competitive business environment, organizations can no longer afford to waste the potential of their workforce. There are key factors in the employee’s workplace environment that impact greatly on their level of motivation and performance. The workplace environment that is set in place impacts employee morale, productivity and engagement - both positively and negatively. It is not just coincidence that new programs addressing lifestyle changes, work/life balance, health and fitness - previously not considered key benefits - are now primary considerations of potential employees, and common practices among the most admired companies. So the purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of the workplace design factors on employees’ performance. The literature reveals that good office design has a positive effect on employees' productivity and the same assumption is being tested in this study for the private sector corporations in Egypt. The research paper would seek to understand relationship between the employees and their physical work environment, analyze workplace factors affecting the employee’s performance, measure differences on these issues between segments of the working population, such as Baby Boomers vs. Generation Xers, low income vs. high income, male vs. female, and suggest the measures to improve the working conditions for better performance. The private sector corporations of Cairo, Egypt have been chosen as the population for the study,7 corporations in Cairo, Egypt were taken as sample. A total of 206 employees from these corporations were taken as the sample size. Primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire, interviews were conducted with human recourses managers, and observation was also used to collect information about the office interior design. The findings of the study show that most of the corporations give importance to office design, and office design is a vital in terms of increasing employees’ performance. Comfortable and ergonomic office design motivates the employees and increases their performance substantially. The study also revealed that some of engineering corporations is moving toward being environmentally friendly, or green.. As a result, workplace design will influence not only by trends in color, materials, furniture, lighting, and space planning, but also by environmental concerns.