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Geographic Information Science - 8th International Conference, GIScience 2014, Vienna Austria, September 24-26, 2014, Proceedings (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Matt Duckham, Edzer Pebesma, Kathleen Stewart, Andrew U. Frank
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th
International Conference on Geographic Information Science,
GIScience 2014, held in Vienna, Austria in September 2014. The 23
full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from
various submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections
such as information visualization, spatial analysis, user-generated
content, semantic models, wayfinding and navigation, spatial
algorithms, and spatial relations.
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Spatial Information Theory - 9th International Conference, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21-25, 2009, Proceedings (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, Christophe Claramunt, Michel Denis, Gerard Ligozat
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First established in 1993 with a conference in Elba, Italy, COSIT
(the International C- ference on Spatial Information Theory) is
widely acknowledged as one of the most - portant conferences for
the field of spatial information theory. This conference series
brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines for
intensive scientific - changes centered on spatial information
theory. COSIT submissions typically address research questions
drawn from cognitive, perceptual, and environmental psychology,
geography, spatial information science, computer science,
artificial intelligence, cog- tive science, engineering, cognitive
anthropology, linguistics, ontology, architecture, planning, and
environmental design. Some of the topical areas include, for
example, the cognitive structure of spatial knowledge; events and
processes in geographic space; incomplete or imprecise spatial
knowledge; languages of spatial relations; navigation by organisms
and robots; ontology of space; communication of spatial
information; and the social and cultural organization of space to
name a few. This volume contains the papers presented at the 9th
International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2009,
held in Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21-25, 2009. For COSIT 2009,
70 full paper submissions were received. These papers were
carefully reviewed by an international Program Committee based on
relevance to the conference, intellectual quality, scientific
significance, novelty, relation to previously published literature,
and clarity of presentation. After reviewing was completed, 30
papers were selected for presentation at the conference and appear
in this volume. This number of papers reflects the high quality of
submissions to COSIT this year.
Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the
affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that
animates the ordinary. Known for her focus on the poetics and
politics of language and landscape, the anthropologist Kathleen
Stewart ponders how ordinary impacts create the subject as a
capacity to affect and be affected. In a series of brief vignettes
combining storytelling, close ethnographic detail, and critical
analysis, Stewart relates the intensities and banalities of common
experiences and strange encounters, half-spied scenes and the
lingering resonance of passing events. While most of the instances
rendered are from Stewart's own life, she writes in the third
person in order to reflect on how intimate experiences of emotion,
the body, other people, and time inextricably link us to the
outside world.Stewart refrains from positing an overarching
system-whether it's called globalization or neoliberalism or
capitalism-to describe the ways that economic, political, and
social forces shape individual lives. Instead, she begins with the
disparate, fragmented, and seemingly inconsequential experiences of
everyday life to bring attention to the ordinary as an integral
site of cultural politics. Ordinary affect, she insists, is
registered in its particularities, yet it connects people and
creates common experiences that shape public feeling. Through this
anecdotal history-one that poetically ponders the extremes of the
ordinary and portrays the dense network of social and personal
connections that constitute a life-Stewart asserts the necessity of
attending to the fleeting and changeable aspects of existence in
order to recognize the complex personal and social dynamics of the
political world.
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The Hundreds (Paperback)
Lauren Berlant, Kathleen Stewart
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In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on
writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of
world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word
constraint-each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred
words long-amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in
atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social
and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's
seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory
if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in
absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four
indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and
Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional,
conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.
In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on
writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of
world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word
constraint-each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred
words long-amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in
atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social
and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's
seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory
if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in
absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four
indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and
Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional,
conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.
"A Space on the Side of the Road" vividly evokes an "other"
America that survives precariously among the ruins of the West
Virginia coal camps and "hollers." To Kathleen Stewart, this
particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American
narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy.
In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and
Twilight, men and women "just settin'" track a dense social
imaginary through stories of traumas, apparitions, encounters, and
eccentricities. Stewart explores how this rhythmic, dramatic, and
complicated storytelling imbues everyday life in the hills and
forms a cultural poetics. Alternating her own ruminations on
language, culture, and politics with continuous accounts of "just
talk," Stewart propels us into the intensity of this nervous,
surreal "space on the side of the road." It is a space that gives
us a glimpse into a breach in American society itself, where
graveyards of junked cars and piles of other trashed objects endure
along with the memories that haunt those who have been left behind
by "progress."
Like James Agee's portrayal of the poverty-stricken tenant
farmers of the Depression South in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, "
this book uses both language and photographs to help readers
encounter a fragmented and betrayed community, one "occupied" by
schoolteachers, doctors, social workers, and other professionals
representing an "official" America. Holding at bay any attempts at
definitive, social scientific analysis, Stewart has concocted a new
sort of ethnographic writing that conveys the immediacy, density,
texture, and materiality of the coal camps. "A Space on the Side of
the Road" finally bridges the gap between anthropology and cultural
studies and provides us with a brilliant and challenging experiment
in thinking and writing about "America."
Join Kathleen Schramm as she describes her mystical journeys. Her
experiences weave together an enthralling eclectic mix of
spiritual, and religious formulas that are fun and easy to use.
These shamanic techniques are valuable to those seeking guidance
and practical instruction. The insights shared range from
paranormal, cross-dimensional journeying, to attunement to the
dimensions of the Ascended Masters.
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