Michael Blum's work - photography, video, installation, text aims at deconstructing and questioning major contemporary myths like free trade, globalization, media and networks.
This PDF can be downloaded for free from http://martenscentre.eu/publications/rethinking-bomb-europe-and-nuclear-weapons-twenty-first-century The question of what Europe's nuclear strategy should be is rarely discussed. While Europe continues to play a crucial role on issues relating to non-proliferation, particularly in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, nuclear strategy is generally considered to be within remit of Russia, the United States and NATO. The paper identifies possible scenarios where the deployment of nuclear weapons may be justified. It also examines the use of tactical nuclear weapons, traditional means of arms control and the implications of a nuclear Iran. The author establishes a compelling case for the immediate development of a coherent European nuclear strategy. This strategy should take into account the role of nuclear weapons in maintaining peace and security in modern Europe. While conceding that during periods of financial and political crisis dialogue may not be considered a priority, the author maintains that it is essential in order to limit the risk of proliferation or the use of nuclear weapons.
Master's Thesis from the year 1997 in the subject Law - Miscellaneous, grade: Distinction, Lancaster University (Law Department), language: English, abstract: Aviation terrorism is viewed as a serious problem that has spread drastically for the past three decades. The international community keeps observing that the frequency and intensity of terrorist attacks has increased. These alarming tendencies have induced the Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to adopt and ratify several international conventions, such as the Tokyo, The Hague and the Montreal Conventions, that will be analysed as well as the question of liability of the air carrier pursuant to Art. 17 WA for personal damages resulting from such hijacking attacks.
The classical theory of computation has its origins in the work of Goedel, Turing, Church, and Kleene and has been an extraordinarily successful framework for theoretical computer science. The thesis of this book, however, is that it provides an inadequate foundation for modern scientific computation where most of the algorithms are real number algorithms. The goal of this book is to develop a formal theory of computation which integrates major themes of the classical theory and which is more directly applicable to problems in mathematics, numerical analysis, and scientific computing. Along the way, the authors consider such fundamental problems as: * Is the Mandelbrot set decidable? * For simple quadratic maps, is the Julia set a halting set? * What is the real complexity of Newton's method? * Is there an algorithm for deciding the knapsack problem in a ploynomial number of steps? * Is the Hilbert Nullstellensatz intractable? * Is the problem of locating a real zero of a degree four polynomial intractable? * Is linear programming tractable over the reals? The book is divided into three parts: The first part provides an extensive introduction and then proves the fundamental NP-completeness theorems of Cook-Karp and their extensions to more general number fields as the real and complex numbers. The later parts of the book develop a formal theory of computation which integrates major themes of the classical theory and which is more directly applicable to problems in mathematics, numerical analysis, and scientific computing.
Essay from the year 1996 in the subject Law - European and International Law, Intellectual Properties, grade: 68/100 P., Lancaster University (Law Department), course: LLM 205: International Law, language: English, abstract: This essay describes the scope of offences set forth in Arts. 2-5 of the Yugoslavia Statute and the development of penalisation of international humanitarian law. It further argues that customary international law contains a major part of the modern criminalisation of international humanitarian law.
Here I’m Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective. Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an interdisciplinary exploration, Here I’m Alive shows how music is fundamental to becoming human, establishing our embodied sense of membership and participation in a shared world through the fabric of culture. With one authorial voice, these pages resonate with the musical forms of living that make possible any individual style of conduct or shape of desire and without which we are forever lost in the noise.
In this follow-up to the highly successful Ethnography Unbound, Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociology, to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In contrast to the lofty debates between radical theorists, these nine studies excavate the dynamics and histories of globalization by extending out from the concrete, everyday world. The authors were participant observers in diverse struggles over extending citizenship, medicalizing breast cancer, dumping toxic waste, privatizing nursing homes, the degradation of work, the withdrawal of welfare rights, and the elaboration of body politics. From their insider vantage points, they show how groups negotiate, circumvent, challenge, and even re-create the complex global web that entangles them. Traversing continents and extending over three years, this collaborative research developed its own distinctive method of "grounded globalization" to grasp the evaporation of traditional workplaces, the dissolution of enclaved communities, and the fluidity of identities. Forged between the local and global, these compelling essays make a powerful case for ethnography's insight into global dynamics.
Tiré du site Internet de Revolver: "The MONUMENT TO THE BIRTH OF THE 20TH CENTURY is not a monument, but an art project initiated by Michael Blum in Linz. It intended to use the idea of a monument to address issues like the construction of history, the relevance of monuments and memorials and the role of memory in daily life, through the uncanny common school year of Wittgenstein and Hitler 100 years ago - and all speculations that might arise from it. The book handles several levels of information and many discourses, their multiplicity and variety constituting its very value. It brings together all material generated by the project - feed-back to the initial call as well as available yet contradictory sources - and render it legible through an almost narrative guideline. In the end, the book itself, with all its focuses and themes triggered, takes the place of the monument itself. It contains contributions by (a.o.) Arahmaiani, Brett Bloom, Erhard Busek, Yves Chaudouët, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Jacques Chirac, Noam Chomsky, Kimberley Cornish, Carola Dertnig, Thomas Duschlbauer, Stephen Feinstein, Robert Fleck, Karl Iro Goldblat, Erich Haider, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Frank Hartmann, Thomas Hirschhorn, Detlef Hoffmann, Nabila Irshaid, Willibald Katzinger, Susan Kelly, Pierre Leguillon, Ken Lum, Thomas Michelon, Simon Morris, Sina Najafi, Marylène Negro, Gregor Neuerer, Jenny Perlin, Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, Wolfgang Preisinger, Franz Prieler, Elsa Prochazka, Josef Pühringer, Paul Rajakovics, Gerald Raunig, Julian Samuel, Christine Schöpf, Wolfgang Schüssel, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Erich Watzl, Lawrence Weiner, Lesley Young (in the original languages: German/English/French). A Campaign. An Exhibition. A Boo k; with an essay by Stella Rollig and an interview with Michael Blum by Steven Nyanga (German/English).
IAS Special Publication 35, Fluvial Sedimentology VII, comprises of a series of peer-reviewed papers that were initially presented at the 7th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, held in Lincoln, Nebraska on August 6-10, 2001. The 29 papers in this volume reflect the topical and geographic diversity of exciting research conducted by fluvial sedimentologists at the beginning of the 21st century. Themes represented in this volume include (a) flow, sediment transport, and bedform dynamics, (b) characteristics of modern fluvial landforms, environments and systems, (c) physical analogue and numerical modeling of fluvial systems, (d) the responses of Quaternary fluvial systems to climate change, active tectonics, and/or sea-level change, and (e) characteristics of pre-Quaternary fluvial deposits and evolution of pre-Quaternary fluvial systems.
Maximize S Corporation advantages and minimize taxes. This quick-reference manual enables you to avoid tax traps, make a QSub election, capitalize on the permissible differences in stock rights to facilitate estate planning and ownership transfers, determine allocation of income, losses, and deductions in the termination year of the S corporation; with full citations to the controlling rules, regulations, and court decisions to save you hours of research. S Corporation Answer Book, Ninth Edition lets you help clients take full advantage of their S corporation status and minimize their taxes. This quick-reference manual leads you directly to authoritative information on every aspect of the S corporation, enabling you to Arm the S corporation against the potential tax traps hidden in the Small Business Tax Protection Act. Maximize the tax benefits of S corporation status. Make a qualified Subchapter S Subsidiary (QSub) election. Identify transactions that will trigger the built-in gains tax. Avoid added tax liability or loss of S corporation status from passive investment income. Capitalize on the permissible differences in stock rights to facilitate estate planning and ownership transfers. Determine allocation of income, losses, and deductions in the termination year of the S corporation. Plus, there are citations to the controlling rules, regulations, and court decisions that will save you hours of research. Note: Online subscriptions are for three-month periods. Previous Edition: S Corporation Answer Book, Eighth Edition 9781454845133
Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I dialogues with the variety of texts recently published to commemorate the Great War. It explores Italian socialist pacifism, the role of women during the conflict and a dominant cultural movement, Futurism, whose leader, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, glorified war and enlisted in the fight. Other soldiers created documents about the war that differ from the heroic and virile endeavor that Marinetti placed at the center of his works on war. Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I pays attention to the representations of the soldiers through an analysis of their letters, dominated by descriptions of the terrible hunger they suffered. In contrast, popular film absorbed the cultural lessons in Marinetti's writings and represented soldiers as modernist heroes in comedies and dramas. However, film did not shy away from representing cowards who could only be baffoons and fools in propaganda films. In another medium, the concern was to publish texts that would serve the fighting soldier and inform readers about ideological and historical motivations for the conflict. The publishing industry supported national propaganda efforts. Only socialism could endanger anti-war publication, but after its initial opposition to the conflict, socialists occupied a neutral position. Italian socialism still remained the only European socialist party that did not renege its pacifism in order to embrace nationalism and the war, but it was also not in favor of actions that would sabotage in the Italian war industry. ltalian socialism is only one feature of Italian culture that was dramatically changed during the war. WWI impacted every aspect of Italian and of European cultures. For instance, as an essay in Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I explores, the war industry needed workers. The solution was to bring Chinese men France to contribute in the war effort. After the war, they moved to other countries and in Milan, Italy, they founded one of the oldest Chinatowns in Europe, dramatically changing the human landscape of Italy as they later moved to other Italian cities. Italy and the Cultural Politics of World War I supplies essential research articles to the construction of an inclusive portrayal of WWI and Italian culture by deepening our understanding of the transformative role it played in 20th century Italy and Europe.
The cottages in Crystal Cove are a popular location for visitors from around the world. Near Laguna Beach on the California coast USA this location has numerous quaint cottages and a magnificent beach. Once the residence of a few lucky individuals and families, it is now open to the public and has undergone extensive renovation which at this time is still a work in progress.The California coastline is one of the most beautiful in the world.
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