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This chapter explores the dynamic between truth and deceit in twenty-first-century transnational capitalism, emerging neo-fascist movements, and post-truth media landscapes marked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the anthropogenic bioinformational challenge. It establishes the centrality of the concept of truth in revolutionary critical pedagogy and underscores the importance of linking true words with true actions in the formation of critical praxis. Revolutionary praxis consists of the dialectical process of self and social formation, while critical educators are situated as protagonistic agents who work in and through history. Truth is therefore not about a timeless or objective state we name history. Action creates history, humans are historical beings, and truth is firmly situated within the dialectic of history. Using the work of Walter Benjamin, we show that aesthetic entertainment provided by fascist national leaders such as Donald Trump distracts the oppressed from the economic and social forms of oppression, supporting asymmetrical relations of power and privilege that repurposes the dominion of the ruling class. In response, we develop the concept of scallywag pedagogy: postdigital, ontological, epistemological, historical, and revolutionary praxis aimed at ambushing oppressive power relations and transforming the world in the interests of social justice through speaking a true word. ; https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/education_books/1139/thumbnail.jpg

Phoebe Apperson Hearst měla velmi úspěšného vlastního syna Williama, který byl ale více jako jeho otec: tvrdý obchodník. Našla však jemnou, uměleckou duši v malíři Orrinu Peckovi (1860–1921), který byl údajně gay a který ji, ještě za života své vlastní matky, začal oslovovat „má druhá mámo.“ Na základě podrobného výzkumu jejich vzájemné korespondence v Peckově pozůstalosti se můžeme ptát, jak moc si byla progresivní, bohatá žena 19. století, jakou byla Phoebe Hearst, vědoma Peckovy sexuality a pokud ano, jestli s tím neměla problém, nebo šlo o nevyřčené tajemství mezi nimi? Jejich příběh představí historik umění Ladislav Zikmund-Lender. Phoebe Apperson Hearst had a very successful son of William, but he was more like his father: a tough businessman. However, she found a delicate, artistic soul in the painter Orrin Peck (1860–1921), who was allegedly gay and who, while still his own mother's life, began to address her as “my second mother.” Based on a detailed study of their correspondence in Peck's estate, we may ask how much a progressive, rich 19th-century woman like Phoebe Hearst was aware of Peck's sexuality, and if so, if she had no problem with it, or was it an unspoken secret between them? Their story will be presented by art historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender.

Published in New Orleans in 1845 by a group of free men of color, Les Cenelles: Choix de poésies indigènes is now commonly recognized as the first collection of African American poetry. As a testament to and expression of the intellectual prowess of New Orleans's francophone free Black community, Les Cenelles deserves to be read as a formally integrated volume, a collection of poetry that was assembled with purpose and organized with a keen eye for the complexity and precariousness of the free Black experience in the 1840s. This essay reads Les Cenelles in conjunction with one specific aspect of this experience, namely, free Black efforts to gain access to formal education and institutions of learning. Examining Les Cenelles alongside debates surrounding the establishment of the Institution Catholique des Orphelins Indigents (Catholic Institution for Indigent Orphans), New Orleans's first school run by and for free people of color, this essay traces the emergence of a poetics of education, a theory of free Black community engagement that relied on the persuasive and instructive powers of poetry. In the absence of formal curricula or instruction manuals, I analyze Les Cenelles as a textbook of sorts, an exercise in writing and reading, designed to train both its contributors and its readers in the form, function, and tradition of French letters while simultaneously educating them about the very real threats the free Black community faced in New Orleans during the 1840s. By reading Les Cenelles as a collective, deliberate, and cohesive work rather than a collection of individual poems compiled at random, this essay reveals not only how the contributors and their editor created webs of meaning through intertextual reference and by communicating to each other through their poems, but also how they engaged in a collective effort to consolidate, protect, and invigorate the free Black community through education.

AbstractThe venerable science of pedology, initiated in the 19thcentury as the study of the natural factors of soil formation, is adapting to the demands of the Anthropocene, the geologic time during which planet Earth and its soils are transitioning from natural to human‐natural systems. With vast areas of soils intensively managed, the future of pedology lies with a renewed science that can be called anthropedology that builds on the pedology of the past but proceeds from “human as outsider” to “human as insider.” In other words, the human in pedology must shift from being a soil‐disturbing to soil‐forming agent. Pedology is well prepared to respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene, given the decades of research on human‐soil relations throughout human history and throughout the period of the Great Acceleration (Steffenet al., [76]). However, quantitative understanding of soil responses to the diversity of human forcings remains elementary and needs remedy.

This article focuses on the little-known periodical Tabare: revista mensual por el Club Social Uruguayo de Melbourne, the Uruguayan Social Club of Melbourne’s newsletter, published between 1978 and 1983. Spanish creative writing in Australia has been closely tied to Spanish-language periodicals as well as the literary competitions of cultural clubs. While the Spanish Club of Sydney and the Spanish-language press have received some scholarly attention, Tabare, printed through low-cost roneo duplication, hand-stapled and distributed to club members, has been almost forgotten. This ephemeral production is an important archival resource in tracing South-South connections and, in particular, the Latin American contributions to Australia’s Spanish-language writing. Latin American ephemera collections in both northern and southern hemisphere institutions tend to concentrate on materials relating to political and social justice movements. In Australia, literary ephemera such as the poetry, short stories and essays appearing in migrant community newsletters like Tabare remain neglected. This article, then, is a work of literary retrieval, bringing to light a publication that provided opportunity for Latin American migrants, predominantly from Uruguay, to engage in a form of literary production that contributed to the recognition and negotiation of complex differences within this Spanish-speaking community.

In times of anomie and crisis, intellectuals search for shared ties capable of knitting the torn social order back together. Kaius Tuori’s book argues that the efforts of twentieth-century German legal scholars to derive a common European identity from a millennia-old European legal tradition expresses just such a quest for unity after the catastrophe of National Socialism. Seared by war and dictatorship, they altered their research to emphasize a shared “common legal heritage that could form a foundation for [Europe’s] future integration” (2). Because the cradle of this heritage was Roman law, Tuori’s focus is on German scholars who championed Roman Law as the genesis of a European legal and political identity. Moreover, these figures offered cosmopolitan Roman Law as an alternative to the totalitarianisms of the right and the left. Tuori’s study rests on two groups of German Roman Law scholars active between 1933 and 1964. The first consists of figures who were either exiled or marginalized during the Third Reich: Fritz Schulz, Fritz Pringsheim, and Paul Koschaker. Figures in the second group, by contrast, remained in Germany during the Third Reich as either collaborators or bystanders: Franz Wieacker and Helmut Coing. Each one of Tuori’s five chapters is devoted to one of these scholars as he reevaluates the Western legal tradition, seeking within it the traces of a humane, rights-centered jurisprudence as a response to the crisis of Nazism and communism. The author’s analysis throughout seeks to answer two questions: how the theory of a shared European legal heritage emerged and was affected by totalitarianism and the experience of exile; and second, how the theory became dominant, buoyed by legal, political, and cultural factors.

Abstract Indoor place recognition is a challenging problem because of the hard representation to complicated intra-class variations and inter-class similarities.This paper presents a new indoor place recognition scheme using deep neural network. Traditional representations of indoor place almost utilize image feature to retain the spatial structure without considering the object’s semantic characteristics. However, we argue that the attributes, state and relationships of objects are much more helpful in indoor place recognition. In particular, we improve the recognition framework by utilizing Place Descriptors (PDs) in text from to connect different types of place information with their categories. Meanwhile, we analyse the ability of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for classification in natural language, for which we use them to process the indoor place descriptions. In addition, we improve the robustness of the designed deep neural network by combining a number of effective strategies, i.e. L2-regularization, data normalization, and proper calibration of key parameters. Compared with existing state of the art, the proposed approach achieves well performance of 70.73%, 70.08% and 70.16% of accuracy, precision and recall on Visual Genome database respectively. Meanwhile, the accuracy becomes 98.6% after adding voting mechanics.