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Edited by Jamie Allen, Paul Boshears, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei,
A. Staley Groves, and Nico Jenkins. continent. journal http:
//continentcontinent.cc/index.php/continent/index] maps a topology
of unstable confluences and ranges across new thinking traversing
interstices and alternate directions in culture, theory, politics
and art. continent. Year 1 comprises a selection of issues 1.1-1.4
collects a variety of thoughts and tropes from the 2011 issues of
continent., ranging from work on Greek poetry to deep brain
recordings, from speculative realism to the fragments as a unit of
prose, and from queer theory to mass murder. This collection
presents the fruits of an intense collaboration throughout the
different zones of the Academy. With contributions by Jamie Allen,
Alain Badiou, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, A. Staley Groves, Graham
Harman, Nikos Karouzos, Evan Lavender-Smith, Renata Lemos-Morais,
Feliz Molina, Timothy Morton, Gregory Kirk Murray, Maggie Nelson,
Michael O'Rourke, Gilson Schwartz, Ben Segal, Nick Skiadopoulos,
Karen Spaceinvaders, Phillip Stearns, John van Houdt, and Ben
Woodard.
We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great
changes owing to developments in financing policies and research
priorities, as well as changes in the society in which this system
is embedded. This change toward a more market-oriented university,
which also has immediate effects in academic peripheries such as
the Balkans, the Middle East, or South-East Asia, is of great
influence for the pedagogical practice of "less profitable"
academic areas such as the Humanities: philosophy, languages,
sociology, anthropology, history. This volume (presented in a
dual-language English-Albanian edition) comprises papers culled
from continent. journal's Pedagogies of Disaster conference held in
Tirana, Albania, hosted by The Department of Eagles (Departamenti i
Shqiponjave) in June 2013, and organized to address the fate of
relation and the future of pedagogical practice in the University,
and especially as it concerns the humanities. The papers gathered
here seek to address the infrastructural or interpersonal changes
in the modes of production as it relates to current academia,
examining the elements and spaces of the rifts opening up in the
polis of the University-its students, professors and
administrators. The volume further addresses the pedagogical
horizon at a critical limit, asking: for whom or for what are we
teaching and from whom or from what are we learning? Vincent W.J.
van Gerven Oei . Opening // Christopher Fynsk . A Pedagogy on the
Verge of Disaster // Oliver Feltham . Desocializing the School:
Education and the Action-Zone // Adam Staley Groves . Sandy Hook
University: Poetic Violence, Scope, and Style of Imagination //
Julia Holzl . A Call for Thinking (The Disaster) // John Van Houdt
. The Rhetoric of Disaster: Surviving the End of the Humanities //
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei . A Passion for Yes: Coming Out and
Affirmation // Edith Doron . Welcoming the Stranger: From Social
Inclusion to Exilic Education // Urok Shirhan . Occupy Baghdad: On
the Occupation of Images // Jonas Staal . Art After Democratism:
The Pedagogy of the New World Summit // Katharina Stadler .
"Reading on Disaster" Intervention: Imaginaries in Participatory
Artistic Practice // Manifesto for Education in Albania // Andreas
Vrahimis . Philosophy and Humanistic Education: J.S. Mill's
Catastrophic Pedagogy // Matthew Charles . Walter Benjamin and the
Inhumanities: Towards a Pedagogical Anti-Nietzscheanism // Nico
Jenkins . Philosophy beyond the Peras: Thinking with/in the
Periphery // Justin Joque . Cyber-Catastrophe: Towards a New
Pedagogy of Entropy // Tijana Stevanovic . Faculty in Withdrawal:
Not To Know and the Uncertainties of Self-Institutionalization //
Denisa Kera . On Prototypes: Should We Eat Mao's Pear, Sail
Saint-Exupery's Boat, Drink with Heidegger's Pitcher, or Use
Nietzsche's Hammer to Respond to the Crisis? // Sina Badiei . The
Necessity of Education: Or How Can One Still Be an Althusserian in
the Wake of Badiou? // Nick Skiadopoulos . The University Must Be
Transcended // Judith Balso . Compter sur l'impossible inexistant /
To Rely on the Inexistent Impossible Constitution of Happiness //
Jonida Gashi . Translator's Note
Medicinal fungi have a long history, especially in the East. Four
species in particular (Ganoderma lucidum, Polyporus umbellatus,
Wolfiporia cocos and the insect pathogen Cordyceps sinensis) are
still considered to belong to the highest class of medicines,
promoting all-round good health. In terms of Western medicine,
penicillin obtained from a fungus in 1928 has been one of the most
influential botanical of this century, used to produce life- saving
anti-biotics. Polypore mushrooms have been used medicinally by
native people for millennia. Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) is the most
studied of all the polypores, the medicinal claims for this fungus
are so extensive that it has been dubbed the 'panacea polypore'.
Recent research indicates that certain polypores contain a number
of properties that inhibit tumor growth and stimulate immune
function. This review compiles the most recent research into the
bio active properties of certain polypore fungi, many of which are
found in the woodlands of North West Wales. Implications are
discussed in terms of a market for medicinal mushrooms in Wales and
woodland and fungi conservation issues.
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