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Biodiversity loss is a threat to human survival and more explicitly to populations that are closely dependent of various natural resources. Particular agricultural practices have irreversibly simplified ecosystems, affecting global biodiversity. Likewise, the compelling necessity to conciliate biodiversity and agriculture has led to the production of valuable scientific knowledge, such as the land sparing versus land sharing debate. The land sparing approach promotes the intensification of agriculture and the creation of biodiversity conservation areas, while the land sharing approach tends to value functional biodiversity into agricultural systems. The impact of this debate in the elaboration of policies needs to be considered with caution. For example, land sparing can lead to measures that either enable actors that practice substantial intensive agriculture or disadvantage smaller farmers with limited resources. The duality on which the land sparing vs. land sharing debate is articulated tends to limit the attention given to more nuanced arguments. Out of ethical consideration for the less affluent and represented populations in this specific research display, we suggest to overcome the state of debate in order to avoid imposing one approach over the other. For future research prospects, it seems to be preferable to study socio-economical contexts in which agriculture is practiced, as well as the specific relationships between farmers and biodiversity.

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The Circular Economy (CE) is frequently touted as important for building sustainability. Despite growing interest in CE, few theories have provided effective on the-ground tools for building circularity. This case study of an agricultural organization in Western Canada illustrates how the logic of complexity helps frame and sustain a CE. Interviewees embraced complexity to manage the messy, unpredictable work of CE. Although preliminary, this suggests the possibility that circular economy-like behaviour may be more complex than currently understood. Interviewees represented complex systems thinkers in the wild and could help others seeking to build their own CE initiatives.

Visual poetry is a hybrid genre that, by combining images of different natures and texts, triggers a psychic reaction of involvement or estrangement. Typically multimodal, the genre evolves around matter and language. The repositioning in the digital world of many visual poets has introduced an additional, "augmented", dynamic and performative dimension. The paper describes works with an anglosaxon cultural background attesting to the transition to the digital and the appearance of a further "semantic charge". In particular The Last Vispo Anthology of Visual Poetry 1998-2008 (Seattle, 2012), thingsithought.today by Lauren Holden and Enigma2022 by Jim Andrews.

Background: Traditional evaluation methods suffer from some reductionism in dealing with complex interventions. To cope with this issue, researchers advocate for a more participatory approach to better understand how an intervention interacts with other factors within a broader system. Objectives: Given the limited research incorporating Participatory Systems Mapping (PSM) into the evaluation process, this systematic review offers insights into how the PSM method can be applied to assess complex interventions. Method: We conducted a systematic review of the PSM method’s application in the evaluation field. This review examined scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals dealing with the PSM and its use in evaluation. Results: The research demonstrated that PSM has been a helpful tool for generating a comprehensive and profound understanding of how interventions function in complex settings. The findings indicate that PSM primarily utilises network analysis, integrated with stakeholders’ insights. However, several challenges have been identified: (1) PSM may fail to incorporate all stakeholders, resulting in an incomplete comprehension, (2) Addressing diverse stakeholder perceptions presents a significant hurdle and (3) Combining PSM with other methods is necessary to foster a more comprehensive approach. Conclusion: This article provides insights into the application of PSM for evaluation purposes. It achieves this by summarising and analysing previous works, shedding light on the potential and limitations of its meaningful usage. Contribution: This article addresses the lack of research employing PSM within the evaluation field, providing evaluators with valuable insights to leverage the use of this method in evaluating complex interventions.

Remote support training for newly recruited university teachers has been adopted by the supervisory authority in Algeria during the post-pandemic period. This system represents an invitation to teachers to renew their modes of action and redefine their practice. This training approach also represents a real online learning platform that encourages exchanges between teachers and students, as well as collaboration and mutual support between students. The substance of our contribution aims to highlight our experience, in this context, to create an online course entitled "Observation of Pedagogical Practices" on the Moodle platform, with new learning strategies. Positive feedback from testers confirms the success of this new educational approach. Via this device, we were able to improve our technical skills by exploiting a variety of media available to us. This support was an experience of educational assistance and a real situation of using the platforms. It allowed us to combine collaborative activities with more individualized learning, customizing learning paths to student needs. Moreover, it helped us to develop our spirit of synthesis, thus allowing the students to learn without being constrained to go frequently to the university.

One of the first pioneers to try to reconcile the Catholic doctrine of creation, salvation and redemption with the idea of evolution was the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He believed that humanity has an important role to play in the further development of the universe, since human consciousness or thought represents the highest stage of the evolution of the universe. This evolution was to be completed by reaching the Omega Point, which draws the universe and humanity towards the perfect complex interconnectedness. This is a distinctly teleological, finalistic view of the evolution of the universe and of life in it, and the Omega Point is associated with Christ, as depicted in some of the writings of the New Testament. In this paper, two hypotheses are put forward on the basis of Teilhard’s philosophy and proved by scientific facts. The first is that in the evolution of nature, that is, of the material universe (cosmogenesis), of life (abiogenesis) and of thought or spirit (noogenesis), we can see the solution of the original theological problem, namely, the evil of disconnectedness, by means of the integration of simple parts into a complex whole. The second hypothesis argues that modern technology is one of the phenomena of evolution, specifically of noogenesis, because by facilitating the flow of information and transdisciplinary learning, research and collaboration, it can foster the interweaving of simple thoughts and thinking persons into a complex whole. This is not to overlook the pressing problem where technology is not only connective but also disruptive, not because it is inherently bad, but because of the unhealthy spirit of a society that is immature to the new gains of humanity due to a weak moral consciousness. In this article we suggest that guidelines for the ethical use of technology should also be developed from the perspective of the Omega Point, namely from the ultimate full complex interconnectedness of creation, and that the motivation for following them should be found in the meaningful and realizes identity of the persons who use them.

What is the rationality of our inter-temporal choices? We need to refine the analysis of our anticipatory emotions, on the one hand by recognizing that they react to the differentials that a situation presents in relation to our expectations, and on the other hand by taking into account the secondary emotions triggered by the comparative exploration processes of the choice situation. They tend to make us prefer choices which, by taking into account the complexities of the choice situation but also those introduced by these exploration processes, minimize the combination of these two complexities. This focuses us mainly on the period when our preparation to deal with this mixed complexity must already be activated, that of our “agenda”, where other commitments and projects are already included. Retrospective emotions, on the other hand, lead us to favor the type of emotional expectations that have passed the test of these complexity minimizations in different situations.

The present article studies the structure of the resultative stream (a part of the verbal system that hosts grams diachronically evolving along and synchronically modelled by means of the resultative path: resultative > perfect > perfective/past and resultative > stative > present) in the Fanakalo pidgin as compared to the lexifier Nguni languages (Zulu/Xhosa). The evidence indicates that the organization of the resultative stream in Fanakalo is different from that found in Nguni, attesting to both simplification and complexification, as well as the acceleration of the movement along the resultative path and the cline of structural grammaticalization. This corroborates the views concerning the increase in complexity of stabilized and expanded pidgins and the observation suggesting the acceleration of grammaticalization processes in a situation of contact.

The literature on there-existential construction (e.g. ‘there are no graves, son’) is extensive, especially those showing the complexity involved in its internal structure, meaning and interpretation. Whereas very little is known about its internal structure variability, and how that might provide important contributions to the question of complexity. The present study takes on this task by providing a corpus-based structural variability account of the internal structure of English there-existential construction, showing that the complexity involved in the processing of meaning of there-existential construction is related to the variability of its internal structure. Drawing on empirical evidence from a lesser known variety of English representing Indian variety of English, the study shows that the complexity underlying the meaning and interpretation of there-existential is related to its internal structure. With a focus on the varying degree of its noun phrase (NP), the study finds that the structural complexity of the NP is related to the semantic complexity of the overall clause structure. Also, it is shown that quite a number of linguistic factors interact in influencing the internal structure and meaning of there-existential construction.

This article explores the significant implications of Robert Venturi’s “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture” on architectural discourse. By delving into Venturi’s theoretical foundation, we gain an understanding of the evolution of discursive paradigms that have shaped architectural projects in recent years. The distinction between modern and postmodern architecture primarily hinges on the argument for the necessity of architectural inclusivity advocated by Venturi. This revision challenges the entire paradigm of modern architectural exclusivity. Venturi’s concept of complexity holds a crucial place in postmodern philosophical discourse, as exemplified by Lyotard. The incommensurability of language games, which Lyotard considers as an argument for the impossibility of reducing them to a single universal judgment, parallels the incommensurability of architectural elements. Venturi emphasizes that architectural elements should not be excluded from a universal architectural premise. This complexity introduces a nuanced situation, necessitating, according to Lyotard, a new kind of sensibility to appreciate their incommensurability. Meanwhile, in Venturi’s perspective, this situation reflects the complexity that must be realized in achieving a delicate balance between inclusion and the potential avoidance of an abusive unity of exclusion. The schemata used by Lyotard to describe the transformation and liberation of various linguistic contents are generally applicable in Venturi’s context, offering insights into the liberation of architectural content. Author(s): Astrit Salihu Title (English): Venturi Philosophically Revisited (Robert Venturi and the revival of modernism) Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023). Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje Page Range: 104-115 Page Count: 12 Citation (English): Astrit Salihu, "Venturi Philosophically Revisited (Robert Venturi and the revival of modernism),” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023): 104-115.

This article is the result of bibliographic research conducted during the specialization course in Early Childhood Education at the Universidade Federal do Norte do Tocantins, Tocantinópolis Center, whose goal was to reflect on the insertion of the culture of writing in early childhood education. The study was justified by the need for theoretical support on the process of insertion of the culture of writing, especially in the lives of children in the early stages of schooling. The theme in question is necessary and relevant for all those involved in education, especially educators who work with children aged 4, 5, and 6, in early childhood education and in the early years of elementary school, since it enables the understanding of fundamental concepts for the insertion of the child in this culture. The results obtained in the research consider that children's learning, development, and knowledge related to writing in Early Childhood Education must be understood and carried out as a process, in constant evolution. More than ever, it is necessary to overcome the conception of a ready-made, finished, only transmitted knowledge, and to establish the commitment to form people who are competent for life, able to solve problems; that is, to understand, to intervene, to transform, to modify, to respect, to seek and to act in reality, by means of their potentialities and countless languages.

Noting that humans are affecting the Earth’s envelopes, with geosciences becoming inseparable from social sciences and humanities, and acknowledging the increasing use of the word Anthropocene, the authors of this paper explore the possibility of a scientific paradigm shift. (1) Since the 17th century, modern science has developed in a context of naturalist worlding that favors its hegemony over other modes of existence and its paradigm of a quest to define the laws of nature. (2) Various manifestations attest to the emergence of a paradigm of knowledge diversity and the unravelling of the naturalist worlding. (3) The current boom in participatory science is a sign of this paradigm shift: through the fundamental changes to the Earth System that refer to it, the Anthropocene forces science to move towards action and interact with a society involved in adapting to changes and concerned with the threats to its territory’s habitability.

This article focuses upon young people’s negative stress and anxiety in an educationsetting through a metamodern lens. The driving question of this project is the recurring issue: given the many factors that stress young people these days, how can we address those stressors? The aim is to shed some light on what educators can do to help young persons who live with anxiety. We also aim to create a short publication of received responses to forward to education authorities worldwide. In discussing the issue, we are drawing upon our personal experiences, creative processes, and recognized research from multicultural practitioners in the disciplines of medicine, education, art, sociology, and philosophy. The focus will not be on theoretical solutions, but on practical, creative ones. Metamodern attitudes propose that past texts can hold ever renewed relevance for the present. Accordingly, this narrative is told in an epistolary format complemented by a questionnaire and contemporary responses to an essay written in the middle of modernity some 80 years ago by New Zealand born kinetic artist Len Lye in collaboration with British writer Robert Graves, “Individual Happiness Now: A Definition of Common Purpose”. Responding to Lye’s essay “in the now of immediate action” calls for a focus upon “timing” our “position” in the world and an ethics of care, as well as endeavours to “stimulate [the] dormant intensity” of the present.

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Quixote and the wound of Modernity. Don Quixote, in addition to being a literary masterpiece, is also an inexhaustible epistemic reservoir that we need to draw on in order to understand what the relationship between imaginary and reality is made of and the peculiar way it is articulated in different eras, not only in Modernity. In this essay - from the perspective of Social Theory and the Social Change analysis - I will try to highlight how Cervantes' novel anticipates by many centuries what will be the most important epistemological (and aesthetic) acquisitions of the 20th century. Don Quixote is, from this point of view, a poetic treatise on the epistemology of complexity that reveals, in its folds, the mechanisms of functioning of complex systems and the paradoxes that are produced in them. After mentioning what makes this work unique in the cultural landscape of any age, I will therefore dwell on its great epistemic legacy. In addition to having made it possible to highlight the existence of multiple realities (Schütz, 2008), it consists in having created an immortal mimetic device that ostensibly illustrates the co- essentiality and secret relationships between reality and the imaginary, anticipating the relational and systemic character of social reality and the risks that lurk in the inauspicious treatment of its complexity.

This proposal provides an insight into the role played by Cervantes within McLuhan’s mediology, inspired by the social impact of the literary imaginary and narrative processes. In The Gutenberg Galaxy, McLuhan focuses on Don Quixote along with the communicative shifts engendered by the transition from manuscript to the printed word. The rise of printing leads to individualism, autonomy and new forms of nationalism, as Cervantes outlines in presenting “the case of the feudal man confronted with a newly visually quantified and homogeneous world” (McLuhan, 2011: 242). McLuhan identifies Don Quixote as an outsider and a kind of alienated man whose contemporary complexity stems from the incompatibility between the linear organization of printing culture and electric simultaneity. Don Quixote is the emblem of such a social imaginary engendered by the evolution of communicative patterns. Hence the reference to Riesman’s “inner direction towards remote goals”, thus considering the “print culture and the perspective and vanishing point organization of space that are part of it” (McLuhan, 2011: 244).

As a result of the recently occurred pandemic it has become apparent even for the common people that reality no longer can be seen through the lenses of simplification. Humankind has entered a new age characterized by complexity and lack of transparency. The border between nature and society has disappeared revealing that both of them are ruled by laws of complex systems. The relationships in complex systems are non-linear, categories are bonded to language and understanding is a function of fuzzy logic. There is one chaotic world where changes cannot be predicted. Sudden small changes can lead to major transformations. The human mind has not been equipped by evolution to the challenges of complexity. Human beings living in complexity are driven to escape from insecurity to security. Instead of reducing tension infodemics in social media induce anxiety and a sense of insecurity resulting inadequate response of the users. As a consequence of cognitive inadaptation users of social media tend to develop symptoms of depression, anxiety, paranoia, irrational credulity and resistance to accept evidence-based communications.

In the study, we focused on the adequate use of the term readability, comprehensibility, complexity and difficulty of text in professional communication. We have stated some starting points for the semantic distinction of the terms readability and comprehensibility and the semantic correspondence of the terms complexity and difficulty of didactic text. We proposed to distinguish between readability and comprehensibility based on three focal activities: identifying, cognitive and interpretative. The activities assume a network of relationships, the elements of which are: perception and apperception of text, recognition and understanding, empirical induction and empirical deduction, the semasiological and onomasiological approach, and the "bottom-up" and "top-down" strategy. We understand text comprehensibility as a communication parameter of text, which is defined by apperception at the level of identification activities, understanding at the level of cognitive activities, and deductive processes of reasoning, the onomasiological approach and the "topdown" strategy at the level of interpretation activities. We suggest viewing text readability as a communication parameter of text defined by empirical evidence (perception) at the level of identification activities, recognition and understanding at the level of cognitive activities, and inductive reasoning processes, the semasiological approach and the "bottom-up" strategy at the level of interpretation activities. The reception complexity and difficulty of text is often discursively presented as readability and comprehensibility of text. We interpreted the mutual commutability (interchangeability) of the term complexity and difficulty of text against the background of their mutual contextual substitutability. We have emphasized the fact that, as a result of the implicitly implemented sememe of degree and/or level/measure, the necessary prerequisites are created for the application of quantification, and text is naturally subject to measurements from the point of view of complexity (difficulty). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking Care of Emotions, Taking Care with Emotions. Emotions and care are prejudged terms in the history of western thinking. The Cartesian dualism res cogitans / res extensa (mind / body), direct successor of the ancient philosophy, is the predominant paradigm. This book is an attempt to rebuild the imaginaries of the emotional sphere and care system, giving them a new life and perspective. The philosophical theories and the empirical researches of human and social sciences will show that care is neither gender-oriented, nor only a medical issue or a private affair. Through an inter-disciplinary and complex approach, the different authors will propose caregiving as an inclusive cognitive paradigm, capable of overcoming instrumental rationality. The relevance of the text for Italian academy is undeniable: now emotions have a real space, no longer marginal and secondary, in the Humanities.

The purpose of this article will be to present the tools we tested to assess English skills developed through informal learning, in particular abroad. The evaluation of language gains due to informal learning is a particularly complex operation but, as Kusyk (2020 : 347) states, it is incumbent upon informal L2 researchers to identify “robust and reliable methods of measuring informal L2 change” that can be replicated in future studies. We are currently conducting a study on the impact of informal learning on the language skills of French-speaking engineering students while abroad. As part of this study, we have had to examine the evaluation methods available to us to find the one that is best suited to our students' learning contexts and to the needs of our study. This article will first present a discussion of "the difficult work of shedding light on informal learning" and the ensuing difficulty in evaluating it (Schugurensky, 2007 : 17). This will be followed by a presentation of the work that has already been conducted in France on informal learning. Afterwards, a brief review of Study Abroad research will be presented. In the final section, we will present the evaluation tools, the Versant English Placement Test (VEPT) and an analysis of oral production conducted using a framework based on complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF), followed by the presentation of the results of our tests. The VEPT showed an overall decrease of 7.59% in oral production, in contrast to the CAF analysis, which revealed significant gains in fluency and accuracy for students who went abroad. After examination of the test results, the analysis of oral production using the CAF framework has shown to be the preferred evaluation method as it enables us to build a more complete and more accurate picture (Kusyk 2017: 108) of the L2 development process.

Abstract Latin America is the most violent region in the world. Yet, decades of political and financial investment by the international community have not had the desired results. Using the work of the European Union in the Northern Triangle of Central America as a case study, this article asks what explains this failure. Utilizing the conceptual framework of Complexity and Human System Dynamics, it argues that current policies actually entrench the pattern of conditions which lead to, and sustain, violence. It shows how, by reconceptualizing this problem using the concepts of Complexity, policies could be made more effective and sustainable.

Works showing the extent to which structural complexity characterizes syntactic structures in contemporary Nigerian Pidgin English are underrepresented in the main literature. For instance no works have shown the extent to which noun phrase (NP), an important syntactic measure of variability and complexity, exhibits variability and complexity, and the extent to which pattern found converges with /diverges from similar linguistic varieties. The present study provides the basic corpus-driven contemporary nature of simple-complex NP structures in NPE, including how factors such as syntactic function and weight explain context where we might find simple or complex NPs. Our results, though tentative, show that NPs in NPE exhibit considerable complexity, which is against simplification hypothesis exemplified in standard Nigerian English.

The aim of this paper is to propose the elements of a new theory of writing and writing systems. It concentrates on the decades-long controversy about whether to consider the highly pictorial communication system present in Aztec, Mixtec and other non-Maya Mesoamerican pictorial codices as writing. After exposing the history of this controversy and the problematic elements in contemporary grammatological and semasiographic visions, I propose to treat Aztec and Mixtec writing as complex systems which depict language through bottom-up strategies (logograms and/or syllabograms, which are signs that try to represent the morphological and phonological levels of language), and top-down strategies (pictography, which is a semantic depiction aided by contextual inferences grounded in pragmatics), strategies that roughly correspond to the bottom-up and top-down language processing operations. Based on this idea, I propose that semiotic writing strategies are possible, and that writing should not be seen as a mere surrogate of phonetics: this vision could solve the long-standing question of why writing systems that developed phoneticism seem to start in a non-phonetic stage that is still treated, in an unclear way, as ‘proto-writing’.

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The aim of this article is to examine the difficulties faced by any analysis of lexical meaning. This study concerns the French noun journal and the diversity of interpretative effects. Magdalena Perz investigates different approaches adopted by linguists--notion of lexical facets, dense metonymy when analysing semantic complexity of certain words. The problems of word senses and word sense description are vividly discussed, yet there are still many questions, such as relations between linguistics forms and extralinguistic reality to be answered in this field of research. The major problem arising from polysemy is the precise distinction between polysemy, metonymy and various theoretical tools developed in the field of lexical semantics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a proposal by \textcite {WarSch2015}, we provide a simple script in the R programming language for the computation of the topological entropy (TE) from transition matrices created from their ``subscripted element technique'' as a measure of the complexity of artificial grammars. We include a set of conventions for the transcription of grammar directed graphs to transition matrices that should provide for the consistent computation of the TE of artificial grammars.

Rural schools are institutions that primarily serve students residing in rural areas. Therefore, they raise pedagogical practices articulated to the demands of local contexts, without disregarding, however, global demands. Considering these demands, this article aimed to analyze Brazilian publications that discuss rural schools and pedagogical practices articulately and suggest an approach with complexity, transdisciplinarity and ecoformation. Through a bibliographic search centered on the qualitative approach, seven publications were identified between the years 2007 and 2019, including scientific articles and works of conclusion of undergraduate and graduate courses. It was observed that the publications approach the triad when they value the articulation of rural schools to rural life, although the global demands and the three concepts are explicitly and intentionally demarcated only in one of the publications.

What is exactly the emergence relation? In which sense is irreducibility associated with it besides being assumed by definition? Although in many cases the explanatory role of emergent states does not exceed the explanatory role of more basic states, this does not speak against the fact that, for some relevant explanatory contexts, emergent states are irreducible. On this basis, an epistemic concept of the emergence relation that does not depend strictly on irreducibility is here offered.

La première épidémie de maladie à virus Ebola en Guinée, entre 2013 et 2016, a été révélatrice des défaillances organisationnelles des institutions guinéennes dans la gestion de la crise et de la dépendance aux partenaires techniques et financiers internationaux. On a maintes fois accusé les déficits en matière de résilience pour expliquer les difficultés de gestion de la crise. Cet article a pour objectif de s’interroger sur la manière de renforcer la résilience pour améliorer la réponse aux crises sanitaires dans les États fragiles. La collecte de données de cette étude qualitative a été réalisée dans la période post-Ebola en 2017, grâce à des entretiens semi-dirigés, à une observation d’événements liés à la gestion des crises ou au relèvement post-crise, et à une analyse documentaire approfondie. Présentant les bonnes pratiques pour renforcer la gestion des crises sanitaires dans les États fragiles et un modèle tridimensionnel d’analyse de la gestion résiliente des crises sanitaires dans les États fragiles, cette étude permet de noter que la gestion des épidémies repose sur un état initial et un contexte spécifique, mais également sur les dimensions intra-organisationnelle et inter-organisationnelle puisque plusieurs organisations doivent collaborer. La dernière dimension du modèle d’analyse permet d’apprécier la résilience sanitaire selon les 5 caractéristiques de Kruk et al. (2015), soit la conscience, la diversité, l’autorégulation, l’intégration et l’adaptabilité.

Aim of this article is to give answer to the question What can leadership do to support the emergence of innovation in a complex context? After an introduction, and before going into the results of the literature review the next paragraph gives clarity on the concepts used in the research question: complexity, emergence, innovation and leadership.

"Psychomotor Profession" presents the themes that animate my practice as a psychomotor therapist trained in observation according to E. Bick in CAMSP, in 7 points: - a specific, novel, complex place; - in search of capacity; - from a focus on the bodily, the present, the details; - on emotional presence... (doing is not everything); - emphasizing the importance of the written word, of narrativity; - "3 times" (the three); - complexity, uncertainty, capacity for daydreaming, and negative capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generally men and women bind themselves driven by what they call love. Creative and identity renewing exaltation, revolutionary force which suddenly makes the insipidness of one’s life visible, love is a profound emotion. The transition from love to loving, from love as pure emotion to active love in relationship, marks the difference between lovers of yesterday and lovers of today, over time and societies, highlighting the social form of intimacy. What, then, is the “form” of contemporary love? Do the risks that characterize today’s intimate life mean that love has now become emptied of meaning, sucked into the semantic code of a ‘light’ and ‘inconsistent’ love, as Bauman seems to want? Or is there another interpretative possibility, on the line that runs from Luhmann to Giddens to Beck? Paradoxically, is it perhaps that love seems to have no meaning because it has ‘too much’ meaning? In the framework of the relationship between Systems Theory and Intimacy Sociology, the paper addresses these questions, revisiting to this purpose the morphogenesis of love in the transition from solidarity without choice to solidarity without sharing.

This paper investigates the dynamics of complexity and expertise in the context of compensation committees (ccs). Drawing on semi-structured interviews, mostly with cc members and consultants, we bring to light two axes of subordination that impact the mindset of corporate governance participants, and may ultimately undermine directors’ degree of accountability to shareholders. The first axis involves cc members’ subordination to consultant expertise, which tends to be considered as an indispensable ally in dealing appropriately with the webs of complexity that allegedly characterize executive compensation. Nourished partially by the first axis, the second implies subservience to these webs of complexity, which are widely presumed and naturalized by cc members and the consulting experts they employ. One of our main contributory statements is to question the ascendancy of complexity in the boardroom, casting doubt on one of the key assumptions upon which practices and expertise in contemporary corporate governance institutions are built and promoted. We also question the extent of epistemic dependency in many compensation committees, where much of the knowledge necessary to properly operate the repertoire of practices (deemed necessary to address the problem of executive compensation determination) is not primarily in the hands of cc members, but rather in those of consultants.

The goal of this contribution will be to analyze the ways in which gender issues are treated within the fiction Un posto al sole. Specifically, the corpus of analysis will be defined around the narrative development of the character of Carla Parisi, a transgender father, who allows fiction to deal with issues such as transsexualism and homogenitoriality. Through a methodology that integrates semiotics of culture, gender studies and audiovisual studies, the semantic universe introduced by Carla will be highlighted, paying particular attention to stereotypes and clichés that characterize the complexity of this subjectivity.

Artwork as an Object of Fascination. Towards an Understanding of the Semiotic Nature of Artworks --- In the article, the author explores the problematic of the artwork as an object of fascination. Objects of fascinations are things and phenomena in the world that are able to evoke in us significant and intensive experiences. Regarding such moments of intensity, the following question arises, that is also the essential question of art: what fascinates us in the artwork as an object of fascination? In the field of fine arts, the author addresses this issue by observing the differences between everyday (verbal, visual) and poetic (literature, fine arts) language. This is analyzed through several semiotic relations, such as the relation between models and artefacts, allographic and autographic art, semantic and aesthetic information, as well as denotation and exemplification. By thinking through these relations, the author suggests the complexity and in-betweenness as those concepts that most appropriately conceptualize the nature of the artwork as an object of fascination from the semiotic point of view. Namely, the artwork as an object of fascination appears to be characterized as an intriguing semiotic entity being in the in-between of different polarities.

Mapping a Controversy of our Time: The Anthropocene We offer a bibliometric analysis of the literature and authors of the controversial Anthropocene discipline. Thanks to digital tools, we comprehend this complexity by drawing on existing literature and digital networks. In order to appreciate the interdisciplinary character of the controversy, we show clusters of co-cited publications, co-authors, and co-occurring terms in the fields of social science, agricultural and biological science, environmental science, and Earth and planetary science. The multidisciplinary character of Anthropocene research is reflected in the co-citation analysis and the term co-occurrence analysis. We found two clusters of co-occurring terms, representing agreement and disagreement with Anthropocene, and offer a comparison of the emblematic works presented in the network.

Dark Meshwork. For a Theory of ontological Complexity in the Age of Anthropocene This article will provide a taxonomy of the ontological, anthropological and political positions that describe the need for radical epistemological change in the understanding of phenomena related to climate change and digital revolution (Tanatologism, Accelerationism, Decelerationist Cosmopolitics, Xenofeminism). Then, through the analysis of the works of Timothy Morton, Tim Ingold, Emanuele Coccia, Donna Haraway, Eugene Thacker and James Bride, the concept of “dark meshwork” will be outlined, as an ambivalent figure of darkness and hyper-complexity that emerges from the observation of physical phenomena, biological (symbiogenesis and cooperation), ontological (metaphysics of mixture), ethnographic (anthropology of lines) and iconological (the Pathosformel of the Ninfa fluida).

With the technological development and quick Technical of the printing industry, a new printing technique has emerged, known as 3D Printing, a revolutionary technology that opens the a new industrial revolution. After the manufacture of tools and simple machines required special skill that only a few people have, there are machines that perform certain tasks to make certain objects more efficiently and quickly and on time.With three-dimensional printing, it is impossible to print objects of any complex shape, once you have designed the object you want to print on AutoCAD or any similar program, and then the printer converts it to the desired product.We are now in the process of using three-dimensional printing and adapting it in complex mechanical learning methods to make it easier for students to understand and study different mechanisms.Research problem:-Lack of students' understanding and understanding of some mechanical models while they are explained by traditional means.Search Objective: -The opening of a new field in the methods of producing educational models, which allows accurate understanding of the mechanical models and thus provides an opportunity for creativity and innovation among students.research importance:- The research emphasizes the need to integrate the three-dimensional printing applications into the educational curricula and to use them in the development of teaching methods to simplify the science of complex mechanics.Force search: -If the use of three-dimensional printing is used to produce educational models, it will lead to the improvement of the level of education and the abilities of the students and the opportunity to invest inventive inventory of the student - because the three-dimensional printing allows the student to transform his ideas into a tangible intellectual product that can be implemented and tested and can be applied.search limits:-Time Limits: The limits allowed to complete the search requirements on the full face.Spatial Boundaries: Special bodies to teach the theory of machines to complete the research requirements in full.Research Methodology:-The researchers followed the experimental approach to achieve the desired goal of the research.

This paper argues that it might be more fruitful to consider translation as a complex phenomenon rather than considering it in terms of successive ‘turns’ over a period of time. It argues that even interlingual translation is both process and phenomenon, and semiotic in nature. To this it adds the argument that translation is a complex and therefore an emergent phenomenon. The paper then considers some basic conceptual work, preparing the ground for a translation complex rather than translation turns.

This article considers the important contribution made by Edgar Morin and Henri Atlan – both members of the Groupe des Dix – to the theorisation of life and information. They have both played a major role in challenging the dominant determinist, mechanistic paradigm of molecular biology that emerged in the 1960s, and which has continued to influence thinking on biology up to the present day. The article will show how they explored key concepts, such as the principle of order from noise, in order to reorient thinking on life and information in terms of a new paradigm of complexity that stood as a radical challenge to the determinist paradigm. A key insight in this respect was the relationship between life, information and meaning.

This article deals with what the author owes to systemic thought in geography, at various moments of her career path, through the central question of complexity in geography. During her studies, the author discovers in 1977 the complexity of social and physical interactions in water use systems in the word. Then, studying the insertion of Turks in Alsace, in 1989, she introduces the time factor in the representation of the migratory field, allowing her to conceive a migration system. Finally, when studying the spatial registration of the poverty, in France, in 2008, she tackles the concept of border. The aim is to understand what takes place between the social dominated position of the populations and people in situation of poverty and their position in the space, between objective and subjective processes of their territoriality.

How to study the specificity of television series building evolving, shapeshifting, open, fragmented narratives? Questioning the use of the notion of complexity within and beyond narratology, this article proposes to read television series through an interdisciplinary perspective focused on spatialization. Indeed, beyond textual analysis and in the absence of primary sources on the production side (sources that more often than not prove inaccessible), the television series scholar is bound to explore the intermediate space between representation and reception – a complex space frequently navigated by users, as shown by the circular model of participatory culture (Jenkins, 2013).

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