The cell's self-generated “electrome”: The biophysical essence of the immaterial dimension of Life?
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2016 In the classical “mind-body” wording, “body” is usually associated with the “mass aspect” of living entities and “mind” with the “immaterial” one. Thoughts, consciousness and soul are classified as immaterial.
Arnold De Loof
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The Control–Entropy Paradox: Modeling the Thermodynamic Limits of Environmental Governance
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental governance often seeks to reduce disorder, yet the energetic and material costs of control are overlooked. This article presents the Control–Entropy Paradox, developing a formal systems model and a conceptual extension of governance theory.
Sibongiseni B. Hlabisa
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Non- Mental Components in the Immaterial Element of Crime A Critique to the Design of the Main Elements of the Crime [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2018 A delinquent, in a deliberate crime, must have the mental intention and also the knowledge necessary to commit the crime, or in doing a crime, without a definite intention to commit an offense, he/she makes an error that could qualify him/her for ...
Reza Zahravi +2 more
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
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Two Fallacies In Approching The Current Crisis [PDF]
Present study aims to reveal a few of the main perceptions and assumptions concerning economic activity, with implications in the nowadays’ crisis.
Alexandru JIVAN
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The Material and Immaterial Urban Remains of a Railway Heritage – the case of Araraquara/SP (Brazil) [PDF]
, 2017 The Araraquara Railway Station was built in 1885 as a symbol of prosperity. With the passing time it turned to be something indifferent to the city population, being deactivated in 2015.
Lourencetti, Fernanda de Lima
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Psychological wellbeing, satisfaction with life and optimism in sports managers [PDF]
, 2015 In the discourse of its managers, the competitiveness of national sport is increasingly relative, or captive, to the constraints of competitiveness of the respective national economy with an obvious impact on productivity of sports associations and ...
Gonzaga, Luís +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
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The New 'Hidden Abode': Reflections on Value and Labour in the New Economy [PDF]
, 2009 This paper engages with the works of Autonomist Marxists, such as Hardt, Negri and Arvidsson, who have argued that the so-called ‘new economy’, which is characterized by a new importance of immaterial labour, knowledge and processes of consumption, gives
Boehm, Steffen, Land, Christopher
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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