Punk Scholars Network

‘Post-punk’ has been defined in a variety of ways. Some commentators view it primarily as a reaction to punk, with distinct musical features. Others debate whether its organizing principle can even be found in a stylistic unity. Ryan Moore has described how punk responded to a ‘condition of postmodernity.’ In his view, post-modernism represented an ‘exhaustion of totalizing metanarratives.’ Within this context punk used bricolage to ‘turn signs and spectacles against themselves, as a means of waging war on society.’ For the purposes of this piece post-punk is considered a response to punk’s response to postmodernism. This article addresses how manifestos came to be used in post-punk. Using as a starting point Julia Downes’ description of musical manifestos in riot grrl as a ‘key way to define…ideological, aesthetic and political goals.’ A series of chronological case studies investigate the key components and aesthetics of the post-punk manifesto, which include the use of lists, itemisation and direct, second-person address.

2019

Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, Alastair Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds.): The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global, published by Intellect Books and The University of Chicago Press, August 2019. Edited by Bestley, Dines, Gordon and Guerra, designed by Russ Bestley. A first edition of this book was originally produced as a very short run proof print via the University of Porto, Portugal, in conjunction with KISMIF and the Punk Scholars Network. At that stage, the original named editors were Dines, Gordon and Guerra and Russ Bestley worked as graphic designer to pull the project together and create a final book layout. Bestley was also heavily involved in editing and proofing the various stages of the book through to printing. played a major part in not just the visual outcome of that content but also the editing (arranging and selecting material, text editing and visual editing), acting as more than simply someone who makes a graphic ‘product’ and in more of a c...

Punk and Post-Punk Journal, 2018

Conference Review: Fourth Punk Scholars Network Conference and Postgraduate Symposium, University of Bolton, Bolton, UK, 12–13 December 2017

As a visible entity punk was galvanized into being under its own name in New York and London in the middle seventies during the Cold War. On the one hand it is seen as a manifestation of postmodernism, on the other hand it is about an underground youth culture that expressed its revolutionary attitude mainly through music (the punk rock genre) and an outrageous, collage-like clothing style rebelling against conformity, authority, the establishment, class hierarchy and celebrating the collapse of traditional forms of meaning. However, Birmingham scholars argued that culture industries destroyed the authenticity of the subculture without adequately considering either the ideological underpinnings of the subcultures in question (i.e. punk), nor the concept of authentic identity. Hence, this paper attempts to unmask these ideological underpinnings and their authenticity in relation to punk, its signifying practices and intractably subversive features that can also be linked to its predecessor counterculture movements. This will shed new light on punk as a complex historical and cultural phenomenon and on the evolution and refashioning of the " anarchic " discourse. Besides tracing the punk ideology and aesthetics back to the movers and shakers of the art and literary world of the 20 th century (Dada, Situationists, Beat movement, Andy Warhol), I will also consider how the original punk movement, short-lived and nihilistic, marked the beginning of a phase of ideological struggle within popular music itself. Its broad cultural influence started with the postpunk (1979-1984) trying to built an authentic alternative culture with its own independent infrastructure of labels, distribution and records stores and releasing small magazines and fanzines taking on the role of an alternative media. This do-it-yourself concept i.e. punk ethos proliferated like a virus with the global expansion of electronic music nevertheless finding always new ways to remain detached from the dominant culture. In conclusion, the paper discusses that the punk´s appeal doesn´t lie in Hebdige´s semiotic flux but rather the punk´s formal stability with its clear ideological and formal elements. Perhaps only fragmented, these ideological and formal elements of punk resonate unchanged in current alternative lifestyles permeating the music, theory and art either produced or consumed. These discourses form part of the unconstrained self-expression of punk and it´s oppositional point of view in the world.

The post-subcultures reader, 2003

Social Text, 2013

traces to the four corners of the globe, and digital trainspotters are diligently uploading every scrap of footage they can find. Young twenty-first-century radicals immersed in the anarchist and DIY ethos of movements like Occupy may roll their eyes skeptically at historical punk, even while punk as an ongoing, autonomous, international subculture rolls on. 1 But if punk can never quite give up the ghost, perhaps that's because we are still trawling through the political and economic wreckage that prompted its emergence in the first place, whether we locate its much-disputed origins in Detroit in the late 1960s, New York in the early to mid-1970s, or London and a score of British cities in 1975-1977. As the essays in this special issue of Social Text explore, if punk has an afterlife, it is because we are still sorting through the shards of history that cling to its edifice-and its ruins.

MA Thesis, 2011

This thesis examines the lives of nine women who were part of the creation of the punk scene in Vancouver, BC and have continued to identify as punks as they get older. By conducting in-depth interviews that cover specific aspects of their life histories, I gather information on how these women’s participation in punk influenced their choices and goals and how they, in turn, influenced the punk scene. Using theoretical concepts from the works of bell hooks and Pierre Bourdieu, I argue that the women were able to exercise a great deal of creative agency despite the many restrictions to which they were subject because of their gender, class, style and life circumstances. They were able to turn limitations into opportunities that enriched their own lives and the community around them in a way that shows how a marginal cultural movement may contribute to greater social change.

arXiv (Cornell University), 2000

The first positive detection of the X-ray background fluctuations at small angular scales is reported. ROSAT PSPC archive pointed observations are used to measure fluctuations at scales of 0. • 03 − 0. • 4. The pointings have been selected from an area free from galactic contamination. At separations below ∼ 0. • 1 clusters of galaxies become a substantial source of the background fluctuations. The autocorrelation function of the fluctuations in the power law approximation has a slope of ∼ 1 for all the data but is substantially flatter (with slope of ∼ 0.7) when pointings containing bright clusters are removed. At separations 0. • 3 − 0. • 4 where the ACF estimates based on the ROSAT pointings and All-Sky Survey are available, both data sets give consistent results.

All men will rise again, though not all have adhered by faith to Christ, or have received His Sacraments. For the Son of God assumed human nature, in order to restore it: the defect of nature then shall be made good in all, inasmuch as all shall return from death to life: but the defect shall not be perfectly made good except in such as have adhered to Christ, either by their own act believing in Him, or at least by the Sacrament of faith Table of Contents About This Book p. ii Title Page p. 1 Preface p. 3 Table of Contents Book I. Of God as He Is in Himself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 32 Chapter I. The Function of the Wise Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 32 Chapter II. Of the Author’s Purpose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33 p. 33 Chapter III. That the Truths which we confess concerning God fall under two Modes or Categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 35 Chapter IV. That it is an advantage for the Truths of God, known by Natural Reason, to be proposed to men to be believed on faith. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 36 Chapter V. That it is an advantage for things that cannot he searched out by Reason to be proposed as Tenets of Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 37 Chapter VI. That there is no light mindedness in assenting to Truths of Faith, although they are above Reason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 38 Chapter VII. That the Truth of reason is not contrary to the Truth of Christian Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 39 Chapter VIII. Of the Relation of Human Reason to the first Truth of Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter IX. The Order and Mode of Procedure in this Work. . . . . . . . . p. 39 p. 40 Chapter X. Of the Opinion of those who say that the Existence of God cannot he proved, being a Self-evident Truth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 41 Chapter XI. Rejection of the aforesaid Opinion, and Solution of the aforesaid Reasons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 42 Chapter XII. Of the Opinion of those who say that the Existence of God is a Tenet of Faith alone and cannot he demonstrated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter XIII. Reasons in Proof of the Existence of God. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 43 p. 45 Chapter XIV. That in order to a Knowledge of God we must use the Method of Negative Differentiation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter XV. That God is Eternal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 46 Chapter XVI. That in God there is no Passive Potentiality. . . . . . . . . . p. 47 Chapter XVIII. That in God there is no Composition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 48 Chapter XX. That God is Incorporeal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 48 Chapter XXI. That God is His own Essence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 49 Chapter XXII. That in God Existence and Essence is the same. . . . . . . p. 49 Chapter XXIII. That in God there Chapter XXIII. That in God there is no Accident. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 50 p. 52 Chapter XXIV. That the Existence of God cannot he characterised by the addition of any Substantial Differentia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter XXV. That God is not in any Genus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 52 p. 53 Chapter XXVI. That God is not the formal or abstract being of all things. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter XXVIII. That God is Universal Perfection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 55 Chapter XXIX. How Likeness to God may be found in Creatures. . . . . . p. 56 Chapter XXX. What Names can be predicated of God. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 56 p. 57 Chapter XXXI. That the Plurality of divine Names is not inconsistent with the Simplicity of the Divine Being predicated of God and of other Beings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 58 Chapter XXXII. That nothing is predicated of God and other beings synonymously. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 58 Chapter XXXIII. That it is not at all true that the application of common Predicates to God and to Creatures involves nothing beyond a mere Identity of Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 59 Chapter XXXIV. That the things that are said God and Creatures are said analogously. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 60 Chapter XXXV. That the several Names predicated of God are not synonymous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 61 Chapter XXXVI. That the Propositions which our Understanding forms of God are not void of meaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter XXXVIII. That God is His own Goodness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 61 Chapter XXXIX. That in God there can be no Evil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 62 Chapter XL. That God is the Good of all Good. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 63 Chapter XLII. That God is One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 63 Chapter XLIII. That God is Infinite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 64 Chapter XLIV. That God has Understanding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 66 Chapter XLV. That in God the Understanding is His very Essence. . . . . p. 68 p. 68 Chapter XLVI. That God understands by nothing else than by His own Essence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter XLVII. That God perfectly understands Himself. . . . . . . . . . . p. 69 p. 69 Chapter XLVIII. That God primarily and essentially knows Himself alone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 70 Chapter L. That God has a particular Knowledge of all things. . . . . . . . p. 70 p. 71 Chapter LI. Some Discussion of the Question how there is in the Divine Understanding a Multitude of Objects. . . . . . . . . . . .71 Chapter LII. Reasons to show how the Multitude of intelligible Ideal Forms has no Existence except in the Divine Understanding. . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 72 There are 512 pages OF CONTENT and Academia doesn't allow huge Abstracts to input this information properly SO IM truly Sorry about that my fellow Students and Teachers and Readers ETC. (For the rest of the TABLE OF CONTENTS SEE PDF DIRECTLY IN The BEGINNING OF THE BOOK FOR FURTHER INFORMATION THANK YOU) ********************************************* About Of God and His Creatures Title: Of God and His Creatures URL: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/gentiles.html Author(s): Aquinas, Thomas, Saint (1225?-1274) Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library Publication History: Burnes & Oates: London (1905) Date Created: 2000-07-09 General Comments: Joseph Ricaby (trs) CCEL Subjects: All; Classic; LC Call no: BS2555 LC Subjects: The Bible New Testament Special parts of the New Testament ******************************************* Of God and His Creatures iiiii OF GOD AND HIS CREATURES An Annotated Translation (With some Abridgement) of the SVMMA CONTRA GENTILES Of Saint Thomas Aquinas By -Joseph RICKABY, S.J.,

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Hebraic Analysis of John 17