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Alfred Schütz, who joined the Austrian army at 17 years old as a lieutenant in 1917, faced traumatic experiences during the First World War that deeply influenced his later intellectual pursuits. This article examines how Schütz's wartime and postwar experiences shaped his intellectual and political contribution to sociology. The trauma Schütz faced during and after the war profoundly influenced his views on the ethical competence and integrative capacities of common sense, particularly in his applied theory essays of the 1940s. Highlighting the modern crisis of alienation, Schütz's works such as "The Stranger" and "The Homecomer" reflect his commitment to understanding and overcoming the estrangement and confusion that arise from social and spatial displacement and the ideology of irreconcilable alienness. Rather than treat what is missing from the biographical archive as an irretrievable loss or absence, the article reads parts of Schütz's later writings for traces they bear of his unrepresented wartime and postwar experiences, and argues that his applied theory essays partly serve as a delayed response to his youthful traumas. Ultimately, Schütz's insights into foreignness offer profound reflections on the interplay between historical events, personal experiences, and social theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic pluralism and its relevance from the point of view of the current intercultural debate, the article aims to elaborate a pluralistic model in which we recognize the need for a hermeneutic virtue, the phronesis as a prerequisite for understanding that each person can only see parts of truth 'sideways' and that it is not possible to compare one's beliefs with those of others by looking at them from the outside, from a sort of superior view from above. Intercultural dialogue can only start from an awareness of the inadequacy and historical-cultural determinacy of different perspectives, avoiding the twin pitfalls of absolutizing singular points of view and falling into naïve relativism. In this way, the article aims to discuss Ricoeur's conception of a situated and 'lateral' truth and, therefore, his original application of a phronetic-hermeneutic model in the dialogue between cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Helikon Publishing House has published (2006--2018) Sándor Márai's (1900--1989) diaries in eighteen volumes of eight thousand pages under the title The Complete Diary. After Márai left the country for good in 1948 and went into exile, the communist regime eliminated him from the history of Hungarian literature, and generations grew up without reading his books or hearing about him in their literary studies. The diary is a testament to the existential vulnerability of the writer in exile. This major piece of work has four layers: the first is made up of notes on regular readings, the second is about recent Hungarian history, the third is personal memory, and the fourth is the material for the absorption of the host country's culture. The Complete Diary changes our view of Márai, whose vision of Hungarian history is disturbing. He sees Hungary as a failed attempt to create a modern bourgeois nation. What is unique about Márai's diary is the way it fuses memories of the personal past with reflections on the present. The recording of daily events goes beyond the genre of the diary: on the one hand towards the essay, on the other towards the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an academic reflection on the experiencing and familiarising of strangeness. A theatrical performance for children, Yemaya - Queen of the Seas, is the base for a consideration of dealing with strangeness and the social changes generating such contact. The proposed analysis and interpretation of the play is based on selected philosophical views of Bernhard Waldenfels, Paul Tillich, Roman Ingarden and Zygmunt Bauman. Strangeness and change are topics rarely seen as appropriate for children. However, children experience these issues participating in them in different areas. Importantly - although these processes are taking place here and now, they are directed towards the future. It is today's children who will be living in a different world, in new situations and among people we consider strangers today. So how should we talk to children about familiarising strangeness and the changes that follow? Could art be an effective tool in this communication? From the interpretation of the content of the play, the conclusion about the primacy of ethical issues in dealing with strangeness emerges. It generate the need to draw the children's attention to this important aspect of social coexistence.

The research deals with the analytical study of the intellectual and aesthetic approaches to structural constructivism in the works of the Australian artist "John Morris", who gained international fame due to his artistic success, which is due to his creative ideas that are characterized by strangeness and innovation and his artistic vision that distinguishes him from other artists, and which distinguishes his artwork and woodwork from others. Because of its various plastic and technical features and innovative and unconventional vocabulary, Morris relied, in formulating his artwork, on the method of dissection and fragmentation of the mechanics of the human body organs, such as skeletons, muscular anatomy and prosthetic limbs, especially in the mirror, depending on the element of excitement, and also the expression of winged characters that She took a surreal aspect by adding some wings of butterflies and birds to the various human figures by disintegrating, disassembling, reassembling and reassembling the disassembled elements with an updated vision and conscious thought. The first approaches: Wooden crafts dealing with the characters - Figures  The second approaches: Wooden crafts dealing with winged figures - Winged Figures. The third approaches: Wooden artifacts that dealt with faces and heads - Heads and Faces. The Fourth approaches: For the Fourth Entrance: Wooden artifacts that dealt with birds and animals - Birds and Animals . The Fifth approaches: Wooden artifacts that dealt with drawing, painting and collage - Drawing and Painting and Collage.The researcher extracted the most important intellectual and aesthetic approaches to structural constructivism in the works of the artist “John Morris” and benefited from them in teaching the woodworks course to students of the fourth year at the Department of Art Education at Fayoum University by drawing inspiration from them and reaching artistic formulations and plastic and technical solutions that can help enrich the woodwork and include it with strangeness and innovation. Thus enriching the field of woodworking arts.

Assuming an autoethnographic orientation and a shifting performative lettering style, I write posthumously to my mother in response to her question, what do professors do? The letter is a reflexive contribution to contemporary decolonial debates about unrelenting forms of colonizing knowledge, ways of overturning exclusionary credentialing systems, and liberatory modes of knowledge creation. Engaging with the epistemology of the heart, I write to Ma about the fecundity of silence and being a stranger; the (re)making of critical compassionate space in academia; the tenuous movements between different epistemologies; the slipperiness of language and the ambiguities inherent to connecting diverse socio-epistemic worlds; as well as her legacy of socio-epistemic agency. Perhaps communities of insurgent scholars and activists and those who hold humanizing imaginaries in their bosoms may read my letter as an invitation to embrace the heart as the catalytic organ of, and for discernment, comprehension, contemplation, radical agency, and epistemic love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the issue of multilingualism in contemporary literary texts, which contain examples of code-switching or words and expressions in different languages, which contribute to placing emphasis on the foreignness and strangeness of the characters or narrators of the stories. This study stems from the edition of a compilation of short narrative and dramatic texts translated into Spanish by authors who build up stories from a position of in-betweenness, rejection, or displacement. In this context, the presence of different languages contributes to revealing the multilingual and multicultural reality that provides the background for the different stories. They are all concerned about manifesting their vital experiences of (un)belonging to a certain labelled culture or identifiable group, often from a diasporic point of view. Some real examples of translation processes will be provided to show the strategies employed to preserve an effect of strangeness on readers, to reveal feelings of (un)belonging, to manifest a variety of identities, or to make explicit culturally marked terms. Translation is then approached from the perspectives of cosmopolitism, diversity, and postcolonial studies, which rely on multilingualism as a signal of a diversified and multicultural identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article opens a conversation around what constitutes a 'migration experience' by identifying and examining various analytical frameworks that constitute an 'experience' as migration. Unlike previous approaches to describing young people's 'migrant experiences', I do not take the notion as self-explanatory; rather, what we come to know as the 'migrant experience' hides various epistemological and political processes. I begin with an analysis of different conceptualisations of experience such as mediated, unmediated and experience as strangeness. The discussion then moves onto how these inform the spatial/temporal, critical and phenomenological accounts of an event known as the migration experience. The second part of the article demonstrates what empirical analysis may entail when we examine the idea of the migration experience as an analytical category. By drawing on my students' self-reflective papers on their migration experience, specifically their stories on being Othered in the host and 'home' country and their experience of hybrid identities, we open an analytical space that reveals constructive tensions and synergies among the analytical frameworks. In so doing, the article illuminates and contributes to conceptualising the 'migrant experience' as both a category of analysis and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the connection between strangeness and tradition in the context of René Guénon's traditionalist thought. Currently, academic literature lacks the exploration of the discourse of strangeness present in Guénon's works--hence my research proposal. Guénon, a French thinker, idealized tradition (primordial tradition) and drew inspiration from Eastern wisdom. In this essay, I argue that strangeness is created by tradition, which sets norms and names what is one's own and what is strange. The definition of what is strange and hostile is therefore determined by tradition. This phenomenon serves to reinforce the significance of communities in cultural contexts where tradition holds sway, and is universal in scope. Drawing inspiration from tradition, contemporary society continues to define strangeness in a similar manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The AMADEUS Collaboration conducts research aimed to experimentally investigate the low-energy K− hadronic interactions with light nuclei like hydrogen, helium, and carbon, in order to provide new constraints to the antikaon-nucleon strong interaction studies in the non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics regime. K− nuclear absorption, both at-rest and in-flight, are explored using the unique low-momentum and monochromatic kaon beam from the DAΦNE collider interacting with the KLOE detector components, a detector characterized by high acceptance and excellent position and momentum resolutions. This paper presents an overview of the AMADEUS results.

This article is about marriage stories collected from Palestinian Muslim families making a new life in Germany while seeking to retain their transnational ties and cultural roots. They belong to the Arab and Muslim diaspora whose disposition to integrate into the fabric of European society has been persistently questioned. Arab and Muslim immigrants and their offspring largely seem to prefer staying amongst themselves, taking spouses from their home countries rather than intermingling with the local population. However, faced with transnational exchange and intercultural crossover in much the same way, those who do intermarry and those who do not may have more in common than often suggested. Combining narrative inquiries with quantitative comparisons, three issues are addressed in this article: the impact of migration histories on marriage preferences and prerogatives, intergenerational dynamics of marriage stories unfolding at the family level, and shifting boundaries of "protection" and "strangeness" evolving in the course of change from below. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We celebrate the legacies of our friend and mentor Professor Lianshou Liu who was one of the pioneers for the phenomenology of multi-particle interactions and initiated the physics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions in China. In this article, we discuss some of the recent exciting experimental observations on the collective phenomena including collectivity, chirality, criticality, strangeness production, and thermal equilibrium in high-energy nuclear collisions. Future directions, especially the physics at high baryon density, will be discussed with a focus on the first-order phase boundary and hyperon–nucleon interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I explore the environmental philosophy of Irish philosopher-poet, John Moriarty, particularly focusing on his use of narrative to convey philosophical principles and ideals relating to a sustainable co-existence. It is through story that Moriarty redirects environmental philosophy from a domain of knowledge in an epistemic objectivist sense to one of imagination, inviting the reader to experientially cultivate categories of perception and identification that supplement and transcend dominant forms of scientific-reductionism. Moriarty's philomythical approach attests to an inherent strangeness, invoking those aspects of reality that lie outside the causal paradigms of human understanding, and problematizing a posture of human hubris in relation to the land. To draw out these characteristics, I locate Moriarty's work in the framework of ontopoetics, suggesting that Moriarty is an environment animateur of sorts, opening up the symbolic and poetic potential of the landscape, and fostering relations of meaningful engagement with the natural world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the German-language literature of the last twenty to thirty years, there has been a tendency to depict strangeness and integration. Through Melinda Nadj Abonji's novel, this paper attempts to point out the phenomena that problematize integration and strangeness, which would be related to the space represented or which can be read from representations through space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A coupled-channel S- and P-wave next-to-leading order chiral-unitary approach for strangeness S = −1 meson-baryon scattering is extended to include the new data from the KLOE and AMADEUS experiments as well as the Λπ mass distribution of the Σ(1385). The positions of the poles on the second Riemann sheet corresponding to the Σ(1385) pole and the Λ(1380) and Λ(1405) poles as well as the couplings of these states to various channels are calculated. We find that the resonance positions and branching ratios are on average determined with about 20% higher precision when including the KLOE and AMADEUS data. Additionally, for the first time, the correlations between the parameters of the poles are investigated and shown to be relevant. We also find that the Σ(1385) has negligible influence on the properties of the Λ states given the available data. Still, we identify isospin-1 cusp structures in the present solution in light of new measurements of π±Λ line-shapes by the Belle collaboration.

The discovery of hot and dense quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter, known as Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP), is an essential milestone in understanding the finite temperature QCD medium. Experimentalists around the world collect an unprecedented amount of data in heavy ion collisions, at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, USA, and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The experimentalists analyze these data to unravel the mystery of this new phase of matter that filled a few microseconds old universe just after the Big Bang. Recent advancements in theory, experimental techniques, and high computing facilities help us to better interpret experimental observations in heavy ion collisions. The exchange of ideas between experimentalists and theorists is crucial for the characterization of QGP. The motivation of this first conference, named Hot QCD Matter 2022 is to bring the community together to have a discourse on this topic. In this paper, there are 36 sections discussing various topics in the field of relativistic heavy ion collisions and related phenomena that cover a snapshot of the current experimental observations and theoretical progress. This paper begins with the theoretical overview of relativistic spin-hydrodynamics in the presence of the external magnetic field, followed by the Lattice QCD results on heavy quarks in QGP. Finally, it concludes with an overview of experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a reflection on a certain variant of broadening the position of "being inside" with some "buts," or through "within but." Drawing on my field experience in the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, I discuss the context-dependent, fluid and labile insiderness and the case of using a researcher's embodied distinctions (senses, ethnicity, class) in the research site created by the fieldwork participants, and not the researcher him/herself. My considerations are embedded with the dialectics (not opposition) of the insider–outsider and point to the contextual "nativeness" and "strangeness" of the researcher. I also discuss the fluidity and contextuality of a researcher's field familiarity, as well as when s/he conducts research in cooperation with "their own people," as well as circumstances and factors that transform this familiarity into strangeness. I argue that the latter, instead of being an obstacle or barrier in the research, is a beneficial and mind-opening ethnographic tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nuclear matter, at sufficiently energy density and high temperature, undergoes a transition to a state of strongly interacting QCD matter in which quarks and gluons are not confined known as the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP). QGP is usually produced in high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei in the laboratory, where an enhancement of strange hadrons' production is observed. Many of the effects which are typical of heavy ion phenomenology have been observed in high-multiplicity proton–proton (pp) collisions. The enhancement of strange particles' production in pp collisions was reported at s = 7 TeV and s = 13 TeV in 2017 and 2020, respectively, and it was found that the integrated yields of strange particles, relative to pions, increase notably with the charged-particle multiplicity of events. Here, we report the multiplicity dependence of strange particles at | y | < 0.5 in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV, 13 TeV, 20 TeV, and 27 TeV from a Monte Carlo simulation using PYTHIA8, EPOS-LHC, and Herwig7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the AMADEUS collaboration is to provide new experimental constraints to the antikaon-nucleon ( K ̄ N) strong interaction in the regime of nonperturbative QCD, investigating the low-energy K − hadronic interactions with light nuclei like H, 4He, 9Be and 1 2 C. The unique low-momentum kaon beam produced at the DA Φ NE collider is ideal to study K − nuclear captures, both at-rest and in-flight. The large acceptance KLOE detector, used as an active target, allows to achieve excellent position and momentum resolutions. In this work, a brief description of recent AMADEUS results is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the issue of multilingualism in contemporary literary texts, which contain examples of code-switching or words and expressions in different languages, which contribute to placing emphasis on the foreignness and strangeness of the characters or narrators of the stories. This study stems from the edition of a compilation of short narrative and dramatic texts translated into Spanish by authors who build up stories from a position of in-betweenness, rejection, or displacement. In this context, the presence of different languages contributes to revealing the multilingual and multicultural reality that provides the background for the different stories. They are all concerned about manifesting their vital experiences of (un)belonging to a certain labelled culture or identifiable group, often from a diasporic point of view. Some real examples of translation processes will be provided to show the strategies employed to preserve an effect of strangeness on readers, to reveal feelings of (un)belonging, to manifest a variety of identities, or to make explicit culturally marked terms. Translation is then approached from the perspectives of cosmopolitism, diversity, and postcolonial studies, which rely on multilingualism as a signal of a diversified and multicultural identity.

This article explores the role of the strange and spectacular in early modern dramatic (re)presentations of the Islamic world by discussing two sixteenth-century tragedies by Thomas Goffe that engage with Turkish dynastic history. No longer employing the fantastical elements used in medieval literature to mark the East as a spectacular space, Goffe presents a vision of Turkish otherness based on a new (mundane) notion of strangeness that relies on the staging of 'unnaturally' excessive behaviour and strangely hyperbolic passions. This strategy emphasises the supposed antagonistic alterity of the Muslim other. However, it also (inadvertently) undermines conventional Ottoman stereotypes by offering points of (emotional) contact and recognition between the audience and the Turkish characters on stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, we learn that a revenger must be 'strange-disposed' or 'strange-composed' (1.1.86/96), and in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy the vengeful Amintor claims 'what a strange thing am I' (2.1.298). In these utterances, the speakers tie their desires for vengeance into their affective state. As both plays progress, however, the evocations of strangeness shift, moving from an association with the revenger to an association with the act of revenge itself. In working to unpack the interrelationships between the revenger, the strangeness of their affective experience and the strangeness of the act of revenge itself, this article considers what questions these plays ask regarding the tension between embodiment and disembodiment in the act of revenge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay draws on a clinical vignette reproduced from a treatment with Philip Bromberg and carried into my clinical work, illuminating his creative use of enactment. The ongoing vitality of his insight carried over three decades and two analytic engagements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The figure of the stranger was central to the ideas of sociologists of the Chicago school. Key among these works is the great tome, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918-1920). After 100 years since the publication, this research is still very actual and challenging. The study investigates the social figure of Polish emigrant, adopting a descriptive system that involves all the stages of the migration trajectory and the social processes that are at its basis. The profile of the immigrant stranger takes shape as an individual divided between two cultures, caught in the balance between two identities that can only be reconciled through a long process. This precarious, yet unwieldy, figure became a central theme of Florian Znaniecki's research. In 1931, in "Przegląd Socjologiczny", the oldest Polish sociological journal, of which he was a founder, he published Studia nad Antagonizmem do Obcych (1930-1931, 1, 2-4: 158-209) [Study on Antagonism towards Strangers]. Having returned to his home country, he seems to have been still immersed in the thinking of the grand project he undertook with W.I. Thomas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'article présente une étude clinique du syndrome de dépersonnalisation. Nous présentons un cas typique de cet état pour interroger les destins du sens interne dans la psychopathologie et les modes de la subjectivation de la vie dans la psychose. L'étude détaillée du cas d'Aurèlie permet de comprendre que le syndrome de dépersonnalisation confronte la patiente avec une expérience de désubjectivation où l'ex-sistence même du sujet psychologique est mise en cause. Ceci nous amène à questionner l'abord clinique de ce phénomène. Car les descriptions qui se satisfont du simple constat du désordre de certaines fonctions psychiques (telles que la sensibilité ou la perception) semblent rater l'essentiel: le fait que ce syndrome décrit un défaut majeur du rapport à la vie. Nous essayons de le démontrer. Il nous paraît nécessaire d'ouvrir une interrogation clinique, qui, en deçà de la sémiologie traditionnelle, pose la question des variations psychopathologiques non plus comme des écarts de la norme, mais comme des modes de la subjectivation de la vie. The article presents a clinical study of depersonalization syndrome. We present a typical case of this state in order to investigate the destinys of the internal sense in psychopathology, as well as the modes of subjectivation of life in psychosis. The detailed study of Aurélie's case allows us to understand that depersonalization syndrome confronts the patient with an experience of desubjectivation where the very existence of the psychological subject is put into question. This leads us to question the clinical aspect of this phenomenon. Indeed, descriptions that do not go beyond a simple observation of the disorder of certain psychic functions (such as sensitivity or perception) seem to miss the point: the fact that this syndrome describes a major defect in the subject's relationship with life. It seems necessary to develop a clinical questioning, which, beyond traditional semiology, would pose the question of psychopathological variations no longer as deviations from the norm, but as modes of the subjectivation of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The figure of the stranger was central to the ideas of sociologists of the Chicago school. Key among these works is the great tome, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918-1920). After 100 years since the publication, this research is still very actual and challenging. The study investigates the social figure of Polish emigrant, adopting a descriptive system that involves all the stages of the migration trajectory and the social processes that are at its basis. The profile of the immigrant stranger takes shape as an individual divided between two cultures, caught in the balance between two identities that can only be reconciled through a long process. This precarious, yet unwieldy, figure became a central theme of Florian Znaniecki's research. In 1931, in "Przegląd Socjologiczny", the oldest Polish sociological journal, of which he was a founder, he published Studia nad Antagonizmem do Obcych (1930-1931, 1, 2-4: 158-209) [Study on Antagonism towards Strangers]. Having returned to his home country, he seems to have been still immersed in the thinking of the grand project he undertook with W.I. Thomas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay I attempt to draw some crucial theoretical parallelisms between ancient Greek cosmology and the Anthropocene. Taking inspiration from Marcel Detienne and Timothy Morton's work, I deploy the figure of Dionysus as a conceptual persona that can help us think of strangeness as a non-human trait that human societies in the Anthropocene must urgently engage with. Events such as the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic, through which non-humans are brought to the forefront of politics and social relations, traditionally result in attempts of sublating strangeness through human modes of knowledge. As I argue, epidemics instead demand the creation of mythic practices, collectives and techniques through which strangeness is not eliminated or understood but rather elevated to a fundamental feature of social relations. In such sense, Greek antiquity presents a critical vector of ethical and ecological intervention to the current state of the Anthropocene, because it showcases a cosmos in which human life and society are constantly embedded and negotiated amid non-human strangeness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hadronic resonances play an important role in the study of the physics of heavy-ion collisions. In these proceedings, we discuss how the resonances can probe the reaction dynamics, the strangeness production and the properties of the hadronic phase in heavy-ion collisions at center-of-mass energies of sNN = 4–11 GeV. The resonance properties predicted by the general-purpose event generators are found to be very sensitive to the properties and space-time evolution of the medium produced in heavy-ion collisions.

HélèneCixous, the renowned contemporary philosopher and feminist, provides such a heretic account of femininity which transcends the feminist social or political movements. She believes that “the female” can create a new identity for itself, when keeps its distance from the masculine symbolic order. Of course, this has nothing to do with the absence of women in the cultural realm, rather the problem is that if the female aspects of human being are not to be eliminated, a new ontology is required to sustain it in a pointlessness situation, so that it can always resist the conventional perceptual patterns. In other words, the female can only make its identity and the nature of rationality dynamic, when it injects the strangeness in the masculine order. This means keeping a position on the margins of history, while also infusing the feminine energies into the symbolic body. In this research, we try to show that for Cixous, emergence of the new is dependent both on some kind of feminine otherness and the marginality. This can be realized by various dismantling tools such as women’s writing and polyphonic identities. Finally we make it clear that through the female otherness or being on the margins, the feminine can provide a way of thinking about those realities which have not been thought up so far in the symbolic rationality, or have always been rejected as the unthinkable.

In spite of numerous studies exploring the attitudes of Polish society towards followers of Islam including Arabs or studies showing how Polish media shapes the image of Muslims and Islam, there are hardly any analyses assessing how these attitudes and images are perceived by the minority group. The purpose of this text is to fill this gap and analyse the perception of transformation of attitudes in contemporary Polish society towards Arabs from the perspective of members of the Arab and Muslim communities. The article’s analytical framework builds upon the conceptions problematizing a group sense of alienation and familiarity in the context of human mobility and immobility. In particular, the text shows the usefulness of the concept of otherness and strangeness developed by Ewa Nowicka in the late 1990s for the analysis of the transformation of attitudes towards Arabs and Muslims in Polish society in the last two decades.

Nuclear matter, at sufficiently energy density and high temperature, undergoes a transition to a state of strongly interacting QCD matter in which quarks and gluons are not confined known as the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP). QGP is usually produced in high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei in the laboratory, where an enhancement of strange hadrons’ production is observed. Many of the effects which are typical of heavy ion phenomenology have been observed in high-multiplicity proton–proton (pp) collisions. The enhancement of strange particles’ production in pp collisions was reported at s=7 TeV and s=13 TeV in 2017 and 2020, respectively, and it was found that the integrated yields of strange particles, relative to pions, increase notably with the charged-particle multiplicity of events. Here, we report the multiplicity dependence of strange particles at |y|<0.5 in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV, 13 TeV, 20 TeV, and 27 TeV from a Monte Carlo simulation using PYTHIA8, EPOS-LHC, and Herwig7.

Monsieur M, 1968 (France, 2011), directed by Laurent Cibien and Isabelle Berteletti, is a documentary that originated from an agenda, dated 1968, found in a house after the death of its owner. Day after day, M, 41, an old boy living with his parents, an office worker at the National Geographical Institute, describes and recounts without passion the meagre events of his life, in a period when everything seems to be out of whack. Thus, the daily functionalism, lived by the strange diarist, transforms into a filmic daydream. But how does the audiovisual mediation create the poetry of daily life capable of making people think about the expression of history on screen? The ordinary daily life appears first of all essential. In addition, history is captured through the psychogeography of everyday life. Finally, the sound editing and the use of videography lead to affirm the disturbing strangeness of the story captured in M’s eye and the modalities of the resistance to May 68.

The idea of a Nordic community, even though it was a reality in the past and is still a quite tangible idea in the present - because all Nordic countries have striking similarities - is often obscured by the more recent idea that the nation always comes first, and for quite some time now the Nordic c ountries have been anxious to set themselves apart from their closest neighbour in particular. In this paper, I will examine a rare - and at that, an unusually bloody and messy - Swedish-Danish theatre collaboration, Stockholms blodbad (Stockholm Bloodbath), which was staged at Malmö City Theatre, in Skåne, the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, in the fall of 2016. Stockholms blodbad seemed to revive the idea of a "pure" Nordic community beneath the final coat of national varnish, but the intent was primarily to subvert and make fun of nationalistic sentiments while re-awakening a well-known, historical event in the intertwined pasts of these nations. When Stockholms blodbad premiered in 2016, the differences between Sweden and Denmark and the sense of Skåne being a border territory had been amplified by recent events and different policies regarding what is now known as "Flyktingkrisen" (The European refugee and migrant crisis) in the spring of 2015. "Flyktingkrisen" reminded us of the fact that we now live in an increasingly globalized world. Stockholms blodbad seemed to deny it. As long as nationalism skews our thoughts and perceptions of the past and the present it is impossible to imagine a future that is habitable and hospitable to all humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, a novel exploration method for centralized training and decentralized execution (CTDE)-based multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is introduced. The method uses the concept of strangeness, which is determined by evaluating (1) the level of the unfamiliarity of the observations an agent encounters and (2) the level of the unfamiliarity of the entire state the agents visit. An exploration bonus, which is derived from the concept of strangeness, is combined with the extrinsic reward obtained from the environment to form a mixed reward, which is then used for training CTDE-based MARL algorithms. Additionally, a separate action-value function is also proposed to prevent the high exploration bonus from overwhelming the sensitivity to extrinsic rewards during MARL training. This separate function is used to design the behavioral policy for generating transitions. The proposed method is not much affected by stochastic transitions commonly observed in MARL tasks and improves the stability of CTDE-based MARL algorithms when used with an exploration method. By providing didactic examples and demonstrating the substantial performance improvement of our proposed exploration method in CTDE-based MARL algorithms, we illustrate the advantages of our approach. These evaluations highlight how our method outperforms state-of-the-art MARL baselines on challenging tasks within the StarCraft II micromanagement benchmark, underscoring its effectiveness in improving MARL. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When reading Extensa (2002) by Jacek Dukaj and acquainting with its communicational and artistic implications, the reader becomes aware of relativization of otherness, as a result of the very essence of what the Other is. Thus Extensa is not exactly a story of otherness, but from the perspective of literary communication it is a story which exists outside of agreed taxonomy and is foreign to the clear, contemporary division into fantasy and mainstream. This means that Dukaj’s Extensa both presents the otherness of the novel (towards the reader’s expectations), as well as it is a story about otherness itself. Entangled in the strangeness of the novel, in the light of its line of communication and previous interpretational schema – created on the basis of previously read science-fiction novels – the reader is bound to feel alienated due to the difference between what is anticipated and what is presented. Paradoxically, the otherness both of the novel (in the context of the genre’s tradition and of the line of communication in which it functions) and its fictional world allows redefinition of the cognising subject who must manage his own, unpredictable “otherness.” This is because the Other remains a symbol of all that undergoes change. Thus, the attitude towards the Other becomes a challenge that requires a confrontation with our own self and, at the same time, it is an “empathy exercise” which rejects mutual dependencies of empathy and stereotypisation, typical for modern literature.