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The article presents the discussion on vision of an actual or imagined higher authority or power. Topics include Archism refers to those power systems that are based on imagined ends, on perfect futures, teleological destinations and secularized forms of political theology; and associating their desires with higher causes, the archons effectively superimpose their will by speaking for these higher truths.

Scientific communication among peers evolved over time to become a key propeller of paradigm shifts as regards scientific practice and institutionalization. Spurred by the importance of registration and conservation of their texts, sciences developed an archival order of their own where certain agents became the field's archons, and scientific publishing turned into an increasingly concentrated market. While the digital revolution and the possibilities brought about by information technologies strengthened this model, new publishing and archiving practices (which can be considered as opposing the hegemonic, commercial model) were also inaugurated. In this paper we seek to account for the evolution of scientific archives in order to identify some of the traits associated to different modalities of archontic power in the field of scientific-academic knowledge production and circulation. We then reflect on the nature and potentialities of virtual archives, the diversity of open access models, and the emergence of practices with counterhegemonic traits, capable of introducing alterations, breaking with dominant models, and even suggesting a new order of knowledge archive, accessibility, and archontic power [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today the clinical return of research into psychedelic medicine has been accompanied by a model of religious experience that stresses the healing effects of unitive, immanent experiences. This paper instead unearths a counter-narrative of psychedelic religiosity: a more suspicious and critical sense of spiritual encounter that I illuminate through the classic gnostic mythology of the archons. In a number of movement texts from the 1960s through the 2000s, I trace the appearance of archon-like figures—both explicitly linked to gnostic traditions and not—and how their appearance motivates social critique and a more engaged politics of consciousness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the reception of the ancient Gnostic archons, or rulers, in contemporary conspiracy theories. In the classical Gnostic myth these nefarious beings rule the cosmos, mold primordial matter into a prison for Adam and Eve, and blind the Elect to their divine nature. These archons send cataclysms to earth and serve as celestial gatekeepers that keep the divine light trapped in their creation. Contemporary conspiracy theorists such as John Lamb Lash, David Icke, and Carol Reimer read the archons not as allegories or metaphors, but as real beings at work in contemporary politics, media and religion. Utilizing Michael Barkun's concept of "superconspiracies," this article examines how conspiracists Lash, Icke, and Reimer weave disparate conspiratorial discourses together through the classical Gnostic myth. The article concludes that the vast gulf between the anticosmic and anthropic dualism of the classical myth and the generally pro-cosmic and humanist thrust of modern esoterica leads these authors into paradoxical understands of cosmos, mind and eschatology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the discrepancies related to queer studies state in France. Topics discussed include argument on the book of rival archon Francois Cusset "Queer critics," identification of historical erasure by rival archon Marie-Helene Bourcier by explaining violence back and collateral effects related to archiviolithic strategy.

The article focuses on a neglected passage in Cyril of Jerusalem's Catechesis VI in which he speaks of the curious Manichaean 'ceremony of the fig'. After providing the Greek text and a fresh translation of Cat. VI,33, an analysis is given of its contents. Noting that Cyril seems to have been well acquainted with those books of the Manichaeans (in all likelihood Mani's Treasure) in which the myth of the Seduction of the Archons was told, I provide an overview and analysis of his description of the Manichaean 'ceremony of the fig'. Cyril's account seems to be corroborated by one or, perhaps, even two of the miniatures from Central Asia in which figs appear to be central in Manichaean sacred meals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the iambic challenge seen in the work of poet Archilochus, particularly in his questioning of the authority of politician Kerykides in his "Epode 185W." It claims that Archilochus' disdain for Kerykides was due to their rivalry for the office of public herald and/or archon. The works of several individuals like S. West, Gert-Jan van Dijk, and Douglas Gerber on the subject are also presented.

Paysandisia archon (Burmeister, 1980) (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) is an accidentally introduced pest that damages palm trees in the northern Mediterranean area. To our knowledge, there are no experimental studies on its mating behaviour, and little is known about its biology and ecology. In the present study, we used outdoor experiments to investigate several characteristics of the reproductive behaviour of P. archon: sexual maturity, diel periodicity of mating, occurrence of polyandry and delay between mating and laying eggs. The results indicate that 73% of the individuals studied were sexually mature three hours after adult emergence. Mating peaked between 14:00 h and 15:00 h and 87% of the females were fertilized and started laying eggs 1.25 (± 1.14) days after mating. Females were generally monandrous, but nevertheless remained attractive after mating. The results of this study provide the necessary background knowledge for studying several aspects of P. archon reproductive biology, in particular oviposition, sex pheromones and their role in mediating mating behaviour in this pest. These results are the first step in developing tools for monitoring populations of this pest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Apartheid Archives project collects narratives of Apartheid experiences, which are archived and provide source material for academic research. Using selected writings of the philosophers, Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas with which to buttress its arguments, this article maintains that a particular ethical responsibility accrues, fundamentally, to the researcher of the post-Apartheid archive. Indeed, it is argued that this researcher, as an archon, does not guard or collect a past as much as it offers a future, and is oriented towards a messianic justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the study which examined the evidence relating to the name of musician Chaeris and argued that there were two separate personas. The author argues that Chaeris comprised two separate individuals including one that was a professional citharode routinely mocked for his poor singing ability while the other was an official aulete of the Athenian council or from the archons who was routinely mocked as a parasite figure at sacrifices.

The article presents information on a quarantine plant pest called Paysandisia archon (P. archon). All its known plant hosts are palms. The P. archon is a neotropical species indigenous to South America. Its population is limited because of natural enemies. It lives on wild palm trees and not on planted trees.

The article discusses the chronography of Greek history by historians in Hellenistic Greece. The author notes how the lack of synchronization between different local calendars makes determining the sequence of historical events using a list of archons difficult. He notes historical research by the philosopher Aristotle and scholar Timaios of Tauromenion and the use of lyric poetry as a history source by the historian Demeas. The astronomical timing of the Olympic Games is noted.

Among the different religions that have influenced Gnosticism, a special position is held by Judaism. This fact has already been referred to by the 19th-century researchers F. Ch. Baur, H. Grätz and M. Friedländer. The same century also established the hypothesis that the origins of Gnosticism must be sought from sectarian or syncretistic Judaism. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century W. Brandt and W. Bousset, the researchers of Mandeans, discovered that the literature of that sect had strong influences from Judaism. Therefore many of the 20th century researchers on Gnosticism believe that the origins of Mandeans should be sought in the Syrian-Palestinian territory and that the said sect has developed from some Judaistic grouping of Baptists active in that area and later transferred to the territory of the present-day Iraq, as we know them from the first centuries of Christian chronology. When in 1945/46 Gnostic texts were discovered in Nag Hammad, it appeared that these also contained several motives, stories and concepts originating from the Old Testament and Jewish religious literature outside the canon. The Gnostic literature found in Nag Hammad also contains several Mythemes with a Jewish background -- the differentiation between an unknown God and a demiurge, the image about seven Archons who have created the world and rule it, the complex of images usually labelled as "the teaching of God called Man" (the myth of Anthropos) and the image about a heavenly creature called 'Wisdom' and the story of its fate (the myth of Sophia). There are different explanations as to why Gnostic literature contains themes of Jewish origin. It certainly does not prove the theory according to which the origins of Gnosticism can be derived only from Judaism, but the presence of these themes still confirms that the birth of Gnosticism has, among others, been accompanied by people who have been familiar with Jewish traditions and have therefore also been in contact with Judaism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the majority of the fragments of the 5th and 4th century Attic naval inventories discovered in Athenian Agora, Greece. According to the historians, the fragments represent parts of three different documents which belong to the decade of the 350 before Christ (B.C.). The documents are inscribed with the typical mid-4th-century small letters on marble stelai which has no archon years for the documents. In addition, the texts indicate the relationship between the Agora fragments and the known inventories of 350 B.C.

The article presents an attempt to reconstruct the list of the eponymous archons of Athens, Greece from 159/8 to 141/0 B.C. There are nineteen names of archons available for this period namely Andreas, Anthesterios, Archon, Aristaichmos, Aristophantos, Aristophon, Dionysios, Epainetos, Epikrates, Kallistratos, Lysiades, Metrophanes, Mikion, Mnesitheos, Phaidrias, Pyrrhos, Speusippos, Theaitetos, and Zaleukos. It was Phokion from Melite, the thirteenth holder of the office, who has drawn up the list. Phokion listed the names of his twelve predecessors and his own, and was later continued.

The article discusses the reasons behind the selection of the ten archontes of 579/8 at Athens. The change of power from Damasias who has served as an archon for 26 months, to a ten-archontes system, has occurred during Athens' troubled years after the Solonian reforms. The ten men, called archontes or rulers, are made up of five eupatridai, three agroikoi, and two demiourgoi. This leadership has allowed different socio-economic groups to be represented and assigned political power. The Athenian government has shifted from Solon to Periclean democracy. Students of Athenian constitutional history believe that the system has been created by a late fifth century theorist. The system has been short-lived, and the reasons for its formation and its termination are still debated on.

The article focuses on the Athenian Archon of the 3rd century B.C., Hoplon. Hoplon was identified by Eugene Vanderpool in 1971 as an Areopagite member of the Asklepieion commission in 215/4 B.C. and assigned his archonship to 217/6 B.C. The article shows, however, that Hoplon's archonship on the said period was improbable. On the basis of the inscriptions studied, the author argues that assigning Hoplon's archonship to 223/2 allows a more realistic reconstruction of his activities in the Boule of the Areiopagos than does Vanderpool's chronology.

This article uses a case study from the hockey RPF community to explore textual processes in real person(a) fiction, and particularly the intertextual relationship between different facets of the star image and the RPF character. I argue that the crisis in legitimacy faced by the fandom revealed a dense of web of intertextuality between the celebrity's public and official private personas, the imagined real person behind them, and the RPF character, all involved in a side-by-side reading of the similarities and differences between the celebrity fan object and the fan work. I highlight the complex relationship between celebrity persona, RPF character, and other seemingly unrelated elements that may be drawn into an archive by RPF readers and writers and show the collectively created RPF character was overwhelmed by these other elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]