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Happy Birthday to the sister that stole the show at the Royal Wedding. No, not Elton John, we're talking about PMiddy herself Pippa Middleton. The butt seen round the world turns 28 today. Happy Birthday Pippa. Hope the day finds you happy, healthy and partying half-naked on a private yacht under the watchful lens of a million paparazzi.
Now, on to more pressing issues, like when the hell is the United States going to get on board the royalty bandwagon? The United States needs kings, queens and monarchs to fawn over. In fact, let's make it a reality show competition. America's First Royals. There are singing shows, weight loss shows, talent shows, dance shows and hundreds of other competitions for the talentless so why not a show to find America's first king and queen? Pippa can hop over the pond as a guest judge. Eh, screw it, just fast forward right to the swimsuit competition then just make Pippa the queen. All in favor say nice arse!
We love Pippa for her wild ways and her "who gives a crap if in a round about way I'm related to royalty" attitude. Oh and her butt. Did we mention her butt? We like that too.


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Lights for a wedding is like the icing on a cake. With the right eye and touch lighting makes your wedding ceremony or reception stand out from one that doesn't.
Just like in movies and TV, lights are the key essential to set the environment for what they want you to see and feel, lighting professionals can do the same with your wedding highlighting specific items, changing the colors of a room, making a dark area light. We can set the mood of the room and the people who are there. We make sure that you have enough usable light without blinding people with lights that are to bright for the room.
There are many different types of lighting that can be used singularity or mixed to bring you the wedding you have always dreamed of.
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Use our outdoor string lights for an instant Cafe Bistro look! Commonly referred to as "Bistro" or "Patio" lights, these glass globe string lights work well for outdoor parties, at restaurants and cafes, and even in gardens. We also have a large selection of outdoor globe party string lights that can be used with paper lanterns. Seen in outdoor French Bistros and Cafés, and sometimes referred to as market string lights, these outdoor string lights create a romantic atmosphere.
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Gobos are used to project a design in light. Think of a gobo as a stencil. The projection can be an individual color or multi-colored. Place a gobo in the gobo slot of an ellipsoidal (leko) or in the gobo wheel of many moving lights. You can also add motion to your gobo by putting it in a gobo rotator. The gobo rotator generally fits in the iris slot. Gobos are a magnificent way of projecting scenery, information or simply texturing the area that you are lighting.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What ID / Passport / Visa do I need to travel to/from Ireland?
A. All passengers, including children, intending to travel with Fastnet Line must have in their possession valid photo identification, ie. Passport or Drivers Licence. A birth certificate will provide adequate proof of identity for your child if a passport is not available. Passengers arriving at Cork/Swansea Ports without valid identification may be refused entry. Please note that all nationalities (except Irish or British) require passports. Non-EU nationals should check with the British or Irish embassy before travelling as they may also require a Visa.
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A. Passengers may check-in two and a half hours in advance of departure. Check-in closes 45 minutes before departure. Please allow extra time if you need to collect tickets at the port.
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A. You can pay by credit card online or if you want to pay by Laser Card (Ireland) you can ring the Irish reservation office telephone number.
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A. If return passengers differ from outward passengers please call our offices to make your booking and we will be happy to help you.
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A. Yes - the Julia has a number of spacious, secure, kennel runs - each of which can accommodate one or more dogs or cats. Pet owners can visit their pets during the crossing at specific visiting times.There is a small charge for this - (€20 / £18 per trip) - don't forget to book your pet's kennel accommodation when making your booking. Only domestic pets such as cats/dogs are allowed occupy the kennels. *New* From October 2011 Dog Owners can visit their pets in the kennels area at any time. You can also leave your pet in your car during the sailing if you prefer however there is no access to the car decks during the sailing. If you intend travelling with horses or other livestock you must make your booking with our freight department on +353 87 178 4293.
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8 Reasons Why We Love Shailene Woodley's Style
In the grand tradition of YA leading ladies, Divergent star Shailene Woodley has perfected the art of heroine chic. But instead of bowing to trends, the outspoken, nature-loving actress chooses class over convention. That means she's not afraid to flaunt trousers and a heel on a red carpet or eschew overt sexiness for a flowy printed dress—and the results are impressive. Here are some of our favorite looks and how you can steal Woodley's confident style.
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For a New York screening of her new film, Divergent, Woodley opted for an Elie Saab Pre-Fall 13 Jumpsuit with sheer bodice detailing. She paired the jumpsuit with gold Rupert Sanderson pumps and a bright orange pout.
Takeaway tip: Minimal accessories and sleek hair add a youthful spin to a bold cocktail outfit.
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At an after party for the New York screening of Divergent, Woodley changed into a pair of Citizens of Humanity Rocket High Rise Skinny Jeans ($188) and a camouflage t-shirt.
Takeaway tip: Style is confidence. Wear what makes you feel comfortable, and you'll be totally Dauntless.
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At the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, Woodley wore a crop top and floor length skirt by Lyn Devon (212.431.3777 for stores). Rather than teetering down the carpet in stilettos, Woodley opted to pair her outfit with Casadei Plaque Detail Flat Sandals ($568).
Takeaway tip: You don't have to rock a heel to rule a red carpet. Pair a column skirt with flats for casual polish.
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At the 51st Annual Publicists Luncheon in Los Angeles, Woodley donned a chic jacquard shift dress from Jonathan Saunders' Resort 2014 collection. The punchy neon color—which she echoes with her rose gold Gianvito Rossi Metallic Leather Sandals ($982)—keeps the traditional silhouette from feeling matronly.
Takeaway tip: Opt for bright hues when wearing classic pieces. A pop of color can make even the most subdued silhouette stand out.
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For the Toronto premiere of Divergent, Woodley wore a nubby sweater, pinstriped shirt, and pailette-embellished pants from No. 21 and Kurt Geiger London Ellen Pumps ($300).
Takeaway tip: Menswear separates are cocktail appropriate when one item is in an evening fabric. Being bold is the true definition of heroine chic.
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At the 23rd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, Woodley eschewed jewelry and a bag in favor of sleek Calvin Klein Collection platforms, allowing this fringed halter dress from the brand's S/S 14 collection to take center stage.
Takeaway tip: When the embellishment on your dress is the ultimate accessory, feel free to forgo jewelry and let your frock flag fly.
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Woodley wore this outfit to the Video Music Awards in 2013. A mini skirt and crop top combination can quickly read cheesy, but the high neckline and sleek black pumps keep the look sophisticated.
Takeaway tip: Keep the extras sedate when exposing your midriff. Subdued and sexy aren't mutually exclusive.
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Red carpet glamour doesn't have to mean excessive displays of skin. Woodley's Elie Saab Couture dress from the F/W 10 collection, which she wore to the Los Angeles premiere of Divergent, shows just hint of leg.
Takeaway tip: Choose a dress that draws attention to your favorite feature. The classiest women can shine in the most demure way possible.
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The French edition
|Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
|Original title
Capitalisme et schizophrénie.
Robert Hurley
Mark Seem
Helen R. Lane
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494 (French edition)
400 (University of Minnesota Press edition)
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|Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature (1975)
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: L'anti-Oedipe) is a 1972 book by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. It is the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the second being A Thousand Plateaus (1980).
Deleuze and Guattari analyse the relationship of desire to reality and to capitalist society in particular; they address questions of human psychology, economics, society, and history.[1] Anti-Oedipus is divided into four sections. In the first, Deleuze and Guattari outline a "materialist psychiatry" modeled on the unconscious in its relationship with society and its productive processes. They introduce their concept of "desiring-production" (which inter-relates "desiring machines" and a "body without organs"). In the second section, Deleuze and Guattari offer a critique of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis that focuses on its theory of the Oedipus complex. In the third section, Deleuze and Guattari re-write Karl Marx's materialist account of the history of society's modes of production as a development through "primitive," "despotic," and "capitalist" societies and details their different organisations of production, "inscription" (which corresponds to Marx's "distribution" and "exchange"), and consumption. In the final section, they develop a critical practice that they call "schizoanalysis."
The authors draw on and criticize the ideas of many thinkers; in addition to Marx and Freud, these include Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Wilhelm Reich, R. D. Laing, David Cooper, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Jean Oury, Georges Bataille, Karl Jaspers, Louis Hjelmslev, Charles Sanders Peirce, Gregory Bateson, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Klossowski, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Monod, Lewis Mumford, Victor Turner, Karl August Wittfogel, Charles Fourier, Immanuel Kant, and Baruch Spinoza.[2] They also draw on creative writers and artists such as Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, Georg Büchner, Samuel Butler, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Heinrich von Kleist, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Marcel Proust, Daniel Paul Schreber, and J. M. W. Turner.[2] Foremost among the influences on Deleuze and Guattari stands Friedrich Nietzsche—Anti-Oedipus may be considered a kind of sequel to The Antichrist.[3]
Some of Guattari's diary entries, correspondence with Deleuze, and notes on the development of the book were published posthumously as The Anti-Oedipus Papers (2004).[4]
- 1 Schizoanalysis
- 2 Fascism, the family, and the desire for oppression
- 3 Capitalism and the political economy of desire
- 4 Terminology borrowed from science
- 5 Influence
- 6 See also
- 7 Notes
- 8 Sources
- 9 Further reading
- 10 External links
Deleuze and Guattari's "schizoanalysis" is a militant social and political analysis that responds to what they see as the reactionary tendencies of psychoanalysis.[6] It proposes a functional evaluation of the direct investments of desire—whether revolutionary or reactionary—in a field that is social, biological, historical, and geographical.[7]
Deleuze and Guattari develop four theses of schizoanalysis:
- Every unconscious libidinal investment is social and bears upon a socio-historical field.
- Unconscious libidinal investments of group or desire are distinct from preconscious investments of class or interest.
- Non-familial libidinal investments of the social field are primary in relation to familial investments.
- Social libidinal investments are distinguished according to two poles: a paranoiac, reactionary, fascisizing pole and a schizoid revolutionary pole.[8]
In contrast to the psychoanalytic conception, schizoanalysis assumes that the libido does not need to be de-sexualised, sublimated, or to go by way of metamorphoses in order to invest economic or political factors. "The truth is," Deleuze and Guattari explain, "sexuality is everywhere: the way a bureaucrat fondles his records, a judge administers justice, a businessman causes money to circulate; the way the bourgeoisie fucks the proletariat; and so on. [...] Flags, nations, armies, banks get a lot of people aroused."[9] In the terms of classical Marxism, desire is part of the economic, infrastructural "base" of society, they argue, not an ideological, subjective "superstructure."[10]
Unconscious libidinal investments of desire coexist without necessarily coinciding with preconscious investments made according to the needs or ideological interests of the subject (individual or collective) who desires.[11]
A form of social production and reproduction, along with its economic and financial mechanisms, its political formations, and so on, can be desired as such, in whole or in part, independently of the interests of the desiring-subject. It was not by means of a metaphor, even a paternal metaphor, that Hitler was able to sexually arouse the fascists. It is not by means of a metaphor that a banking or stock-market transaction, a claim, a coupon, a credit, is able to arouse people who are not necessarily bankers. And what about the effects of money that grows, money that produces more money? There are socioeconomic "complexes" that are also veritable complexes of the unconscious, and that communicate a voluptuous wave from the top to the bottom of their hierarchy (the military–industrial complex). And ideology, Oedipus, and the phallus have nothing to do with this, because they depend on it rather than being its impetus.[12]
Schizoanalysis seeks to show how "in the subject who desires, desire can be made to desire its own repression—whence the role of the death instinct in the circuit connecting desire to the social sphere."[13] Desire produces "even the most repressive and the most deadly forms of social reproduction."[14]
The traditional understanding of desire assumes an exclusive distinction between "production" and "acquisition."[15] This line of thought—which has dominated Western philosophy throughout its history and stretches from Plato to Freud and Lacan—understands desire through the concept of acquisition, insofar as desire seeks to acquire something that it lacks. This dominant conception, Deleuze and Guattari argue, is a form of philosophical idealism; the importance that it gives to the notion of "lack," Foucault explains, places desire under the category of the Negative.[16] Alternative conceptions, which treat desire as a positive, productive force, have received far less attention; the ideas of the small number of philosophers who have developed them, however, are of crucial importance to Deleuze and Guattari's project: principally Nietzsche's will to power and Spinoza's conatus.[17]
Deleuze and Guattari argue that desire is a positive process of production that produces reality.[18] On the basis of three "passive syntheses" (partly modelled on Kant's syntheses of apperception from his Critique of Pure Reason), desire engineers "partial objects, flows, and bodies" in the service of the autopoiesis of the unconscious.[19] In this model, desire does not "lack" its object; instead, desire "is a machine, and the object of desire is another machine connected to it."[18] On this basis, Deleuze and Guattari develop their notion of desiring-production.[20] Since desire produces reality, social production, with its forces and relations, is "purely and simply desiring-production itself under determinate conditions."[14]
Like their contemporary, R. D. Laing, and like Reich before them, Deleuze and Guattari make a connection between psychological repression and social oppression. By means of their concept of desiring-production, however, their manner of doing so is radically different. They describe a universe composed of desiring-machines, all of which are connected to one another: "There are no desiring-machines that exist outside the social machines that they form on a large scale; and no social machines without the desiring machines that inhabit them on a small scale."[21] When they insist that a social field may be invested by desire directly, they oppose Freud's concept of sublimation, which posits an inherent dualism between desiring-machines and social production. This dualism, they argue, limited and trapped the revolutionary potential of the theories of Laing and Reich. Anti-Oedipus develops a critique of Freud and Lacan's psychoanalysis, anti-psychiatry, and Freudo-Marxism (with its insistence on a necessary mediation between the two realms of desire and the social).[citation needed]
Deleuze and Guattari's concept of sexuality is not limited to the interaction of male and female gender roles, but instead posits a multiplicity of flows that a "hundred thousand" desiring-machines create within their connected universe; Deleuze and Guattari contrast this "non-human, molecular sexuality" to "molar" binary sexuality: "making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand," they write, adding that "we always make love with worlds."[22]
Reframing the Oedipal complex
The "anti-" part of their critique of the Freudian Oedipal complex begins with that original model's articulation of society[clarification needed] based on the family triangle of father, mother and child.[page needed] Criticizing psychoanalysis "familialism", they want to show that the oedipal model of the family is a kind of organization that must colonize its members, repress their desires, and give them complexes if it is to function as an organizing principle of society.[page needed] Instead of conceiving the "family" as a sphere contained by a larger "social" sphere, and giving a logical preeminence to the family triangle, Deleuze and Guattari argue that the family should be opened onto the social, as in Bergson's conception of the Open, and that underneath the pseudo-opposition between family (composed of personal subjects) and social, lies the relationship between pre-individual desire and social production.
Furthermore, they argue that schizophrenia is an extreme mental state co-existent with the capitalist system itself[23] and capitalism keeps enforcing neurosis as a way of maintaining normality. However, they oppose a non-clinical concept of "schizophrenia" as deterritorialization to the clinical end-result "schizophrenic" (i.e. they do not intend to romanticize "mental disorders"; instead, they show, as Foucault, that "psychiatric disorders" are always second to something else).
Body without organs
In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari develop their concept of the "body without organs" (often rendered as BwO). Since desire can take on as many forms as there are persons to implement it, it must seek new channels and different combinations to realize itself, forming a BwO for every instance. Desire is not limited to the affections of a subject. In their later work, A Thousand Plateaus (1980), Deleuze and Guattari differentiate between three kinds of BwO: cancerous, empty, and full.[citation needed]
Criticism of psychoanalysts
Deleuze and Guattari address the case of Gérard Mendel, Bela Grunberger and Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, who were prominent members of the most respected psychoanalytic association (the International Psychoanalytical Association). They argue that this case demonstrates that psychoanalysis enthusiastically embraces a police state:[25]
As to those who refuse to be oedipalized in one form or another, at one end or the other in the treatment, the psychoanalyst is there to call the asylum or the police for help. The police on our side!—never did psychoanalysis better display its taste for supporting the movement of social repression, and for participating in it with enthusiasm. [...] notice of the dominant tone in the most respected associations: consider Dr. Mendel and the Drs Stéphane, the state of fury that is theirs, and their literally police-like appeal at the thought that someone might try to escape the Oedipal dragnet. Oedipus is one of those things that becomes all the more dangerous the less people believe in it; then the cops are there to replace the high priests.
Bela Grunberger and Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel were two psychoanalysts from the Paris section of the International Psychoanalytical Association. In November 1968 they disguised themselves under the pseudonym André Stéphane and published L'univers Contestationnaire, in which they argued that the left-wing rioters of May 68 were totalitarian stalinists, and proceeded to psychoanalyze them as suffering from a sordid infantilism caught up in an Oedipal revolt against the Father.[26][27] Jacques Lacan regarded Grunberger and Chasseguet-Smirgel's book with great disdain; while they were still disguised under the pseudonym, Lacan remarked that he was certain that neither author belonged to his school, as none would abase themselves to such low drivel.[28] The IPa analysts responded with an accusation against the Lacan school of "intellectual terrorism."[26] Gérard Mendel published La révolte contre le père (1968) and Pour décoloniser l'enfant (1971).
Fascism, the family, and the desire for oppression
In a preface written for the English-language edition, Michel Foucault describes Anti-Oedipus as a contribution towards the fight against fascism—he suggests that it may be called "an Introduction to the Non-Fascist Life."[29] The book attempts to track down "all varieties of fascism, from the enormous ones that surround and crush us to the petty ones that constitute the tyrannical bitterness of our everyday lives."[30] Thus, it is concerned "not only [with] historical fascism, the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini," he stresses, "but also the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploit us."[31]
Desiring self-repression
Deleuze and Guattari address a fundamental problem of political philosophy: the contradictory phenomenon whereby an individual or a group comes to desire their own oppression.[32] This contradiction had been mentioned briefly by the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza: "Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?"[33] That is, how is it possible that people cry for "More taxes! Less bread!"? Wilhelm Reich discussed the phenomenon in his 1933 book The Mass Psychology of Fascism:[34][35]
the astonishing thing is not that some people steal or that others occasionally go out on strike, but rather that all those who are starving do not steal as a regular practice, and all those who are exploited are not continually out on strike: after centuries of exploitation, why do people still tolerate being humiliated and enslaved, to such a point, indeed, that they actually want humiliation and slavery not only for others but for themselves?"
To address this question, Deleuze and Guattari examine the relationships between social organisation, power, and desire, particularly in relation to the Freudian "Oedipus complex" and its familial mechanisms of subjectivation ("daddy-mommy-me"). They argue that the nuclear family is the most powerful agent of psychological repression, under which the desires of the child and the adolescent are repressed and perverted.[36][37] Such psychological repression forms docile individuals that are easy targets for social repression.[38] By using this powerful mechanism, the dominant class, "making cuts (coupures) and segregations pass over into a social field", can ultimately control individuals or groups, ensuring general submission. This explains the contradictory phenomenon in which people "act manifestly counter to their class interests—when they rally to the interests and ideals of a class that their own objective situation should lead them to combat".[39] Deleuze and Guattari's critique of these mechanisms seeks to promote a revolutionary liberation of desire:
If desire is repressed, it is because every position of desire, no matter how small, is capable of calling into question the established order of a society: not that desire is asocial, on the contrary. But it is explosive; there is no desiring-machine capable of being assembled without demolishing entire social sectors. Despite what some revolutionaries think about this, desire is revolutionary in its essence — desire, not left-wing holidays! — and no society can tolerate a position of real desire without its structures of exploitation, servitude, and hierarchy being compromised.[40]
The family under capitalism as an agent of repression
The family is the agent to which capitalist production delegates the psychological repression of the desires of the child.[41] Psychological repression is distinguished from social oppression insofar as it works unconsciously.[42] Through it, Deleuze and Guattari argue, parents transmit their angst and irrational fears to their child and bind the child's sexual desires to feelings of shame and guilt.[page needed]
Psychological repression is strongly linked with social oppression, which levers on it. It is thanks to psychological repression that individuals are transformed into docile servants of social repression who come to desire self-repression and who accept a miserable life as employees for capitalism.[43] A capitalist society needs a powerful tool to counteract the explosive force of desire, which has the potential to threaten its structures of exploitation, servitude, and hierarchy; the nuclear family is precisely the powerful tool able to counteract those forces.[44]
The action of the family not only performs a psychological repression of desire, but it disfigures it, giving rise to a consequent neurotic desire, the perversion of incestuous drives and desiring self-repression,[44] as also said by Foucault in the preface, loving power and desiring "the very thing that dominates and exploit us."[45] The Oedipus complex arises from this double operation: "It is in one and the same movement that the repressive social production is replaced by the repressing family, and that the latter offers a displaced image of desiring-production that represents the repressed as incestuous familial drives."[42]
Capitalism and the political economy of desire
Territorialisation, deterritorialisation, and reterritorialisation
Although (like most Deleuzo-Guattarian terms) deterritorialization has a purposeful variance in meaning throughout their oeuvre, it can be roughly described as a move away from a rigidly imposed hierarchical, arborescent context, which seeks to package things (concepts, objects, etc.) into discrete categorised units with singular coded meanings or identities, towards a rhizomatic zone of multiplicity and fluctuant identity, where meanings and operations flow freely between said things, resulting in a dynamic, constantly changing set of interconnected entities with fuzzy individual boundaries.
Importantly, the concept implies a continuum, not a simple binary - every actual assemblage (a flexible term alluding to the heterogeneous composition of any complex system, individual, social, geological) is marked by simultaneous movements of territorialization (maintenance) and of deterritorialization (dissipation).
Various means of deterritorializing are alluded to by the authors in their chapter "How to Make Yourself A Body Without Organs" in A Thousand Plateaus, including psychoactives such as peyote. Experientially, the effects of such substances can include a loosening (relative deterritorialization) of the worldview of the user (i.e. his/her beliefs, models, etc.), subsequently leading to an antiredeterritorialization (remapping of beliefs, models, etc.) that is not necessarily identical to the prior territory.
Deterritorialization is closely related to Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts such as line of flight, destratification and the body without organs/BwO (a term borrowed from Artaud), and is sometimes defined in such a way as to be partly interchangeable with these terms (most specifically in the second part of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, A Thousand Plateaus).
The authors posit that dramatic reterritorialization often follows relative deterritorialization, while absolute deterritorialization is just that... absolute deterritorialization without any reterritorialization.
Terminology borrowed from science
During the course of their argument, Deleuze and Guattari borrow a number of concepts from different scientific fields. To describe the process of desire, they draw on fluid dynamics, the branch of physics that studies how a fluid flows through space. They describe society in terms of forces acting in a vector field. They also relate processes of their "body without organs" to the embryology of an egg, from which they borrow the concept of an inductor.[46]
Joel Kovel credits Anti-Oedipus with providing a definitive challenge to the mystique of the family, but objects that Deleuze and Guattari did so in the spirit of nihilism, commenting, "Immersion in their world of 'schizoculture' and desiring machines is enough to make a person yearn for the secure madness of the nuclear family."[47] Douglas Kellner describes Anti-Oedipus as its era's publishing sensation, and, along with Jean-François Lyotard's Libidinal Economy (1974), as a key text in "the micropolitics of desire."[48]
David Cooper called Anti-Oedipus, "a magnificent vision of madness as a revolutionary force, the decoding, deterritorializing refusal of fixity and outside definition by schizophrenia (they insist on this term) as opposed to a paranoid-capitalist pole and as a depassment of the oedipian, familial neurotic state of non-existence (paranoid-fascist as opposed to revolutionary schizophrenia - but clearly showing that 'the schizophrenic' is not 'the revolutionary', nor the revolutionary schizoid). These authors effectively used the psychoanalytic language and the discourse of Saussure (and his successors), linguistics against itself in what is already proving to be an historic act of depassment."[49]
Frederick Crews writes that when Deleuze and Guattari "indicted Lacanian psychoanalysis as a capitalist disorder" and "pilloried analysts as the most sinister priest-manipulators of a psychotic society" in Anti-Oedipus, their "demonstration was widely regarded as unanswerable" and "devastated the already shrinking Lacanian camp in Paris."[50]
See also
- Antipsychiatry
- Feminism and the Oedipus complex
- Id, ego, and super-ego
- La Borde clinic
- Objet petit a
- Plane of immanence
- Psychoanalytic conceptions of language
- Psychological repression
- Castration anxiety
- ↑ Foucault (1977, 14).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Deleuze and Guattari (1980, 423-427).
- ↑ Seem (1977, xviii, xx).
- ↑ Guattari (2004).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 8, 51, 392). The painting forms the frontispiece of Anti-Oedipus.
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 54, 108, 127-128, 325-xx). Deleuze and Guattari argue that there was no specific "turning point" in the theoretical development of Freudianism at which it became reactionary; instead, it contained "revolutionary, reformist, and reactionary elements" from the start. "We refuse to play 'take it or leave it'," they write. This politically ambiguous mixture of tendencies in psychoanalysis arises, they argue, from its ambiguous relationship with its discoveries: "As if every great doctrine were not a combined formation, constructed from bits and pieces, various intermingled codes and flux, partial elements and derivatives, that constitute its very life or becoming. As if we could reproach someone for having an ambiguous relationship with psychoanalysis, without first mentioning that psychoanalysis owes its existence to a relationship, theoretically and practically ambiguous, with what it discovers and the forces that it wields" (1972, 128). Despite the militancy of the analyses proposed within Deleuze and Guattari's project, they insist that "no political program will be elaborated within the framework of schizoanalysis" (1972, 415). Guattari developed the implications of their theory for a concrete political project in his book with the Italian autonomist marxist philosopher Antonio Negri, Communists Like Us (1985). For the variable relations between the socius of capital and revolutionary autonomous territorialities, see Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 410).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 93, 115, 322-333, 354, 400).
- ↑ First thesis (1972, 375); second thesis (1972, 377); third thesis (1972, 390); fourth thesis (1972, 401).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 322-333).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 114, 378). In failing to recognise this, Deleuze and Guattari argue, Wilhelm Reich fell short of the materialist psychiatry towards which he aimed and was unable to provide an adequate answer to his question "Why did the masses desire fascism?"
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 114, 322). Deleuze and Guattari qualify this distinction between unconscious desire and preconscious need or interest when they write: "It is doubtless true that interests predispose us to a given libidinal investment"; however, they go on to insist once again that the interests "are not identical with this investment" (1972, 379).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 114-115).
- ↑ Section 2.5 The Conjunctive Synthesis of Consumption-Consummation, pp. 98, 105
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 31).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 26).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 26). In his preface to the English-language translation of Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault describes lack as one of the categories of "the Negative" (alongside law, limit, castration and lacuna) that "Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality" (1977, xv).
- ↑ Kant's analysis of superstitious beliefs, hallucinations, and fantasies in his Critique of Judgment treats desire as a creative, productive force, Deleuze and Guattari explain, although his analysis limits its effects to the production of a psychic reality and thereby retains the validity of desire-as-lack; (1972, 26-27).
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 28).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 28), Guattari (1992, 15), and Holland (1999, 25).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 1-9).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 373).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 323, 325).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 34-35)
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 21).
- ↑ section 2.4 The disjunctive synthesis of recording p. 89
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Jean-Michel Rabaté (2009) 68 + 1: Lacan's année érotique published in Parrhesia, Number 6 • 2009 pp. 28–45
- ↑ André Stéphane [Bela Grunberger and Janine Chasselet-Smirguel], L'Univers Contestationnaire (Paris: Payot, 1969).
- ↑ Jacques Lacan, The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, Seminar XVI D'un Autre à l'autre, 1968–9, p. 266
- ↑ Foucault (1977, xv). Foucault describes fascism as one of three "adversaries" of Anti-Oedipus (though it is "the major enemy"); the other two are the "bureaucrats of the revolution" (traditional Marxist theorists) and the "poor technicians of desire" (psychoanalysts and semiologists); see (1977, xiv).
- ↑ Foucault (1977, xvi).
- ↑ Foucault (1977, xiv-xv). Guattari, speaking in 1974, stressed the genealogical continuity of contemporary fascism with its historical manifestations and precursors: "Thus, we see that the analysis of the molecular components of fascism can deal with quite a variety of areas. It is the same fascism under different forms which continues to operate in the family, in school, or in a trade union. A struggle against the modern forms of totalitarianism can be organized only if we are prepared to recognize the continuity of this machine" (1995, 234-235).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 31); see also Deleuze and Foucault (1972, 212).
- ↑ In Theologico-Political Treatise, Preface. The original Latin text reads: "ut pro servido, tanquam pro salute pugnent".
- ↑ Anti-Oedipus, section I.4 A Materialist Psychiatry
- ↑ Wilhelm Reich (1946) The Mass Psychology of Fascism, section I.3 The problem of mass psychology, originally published in 1933
- ↑ Section II.7 Social Repression and Psychic repression, pp. 123–32
- ↑ Holland (1999) p. 57
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 396).
- ↑ Anti-Oedipus, section 2.5 The Conjunctive Synthesis of Consumption-Consummation, Desire and the infrastructure, p.104
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 126-127).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 130-131).
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 130).
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 396).
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 pp.115, 119-20
- ↑ Foucault's preface, p.xiii
- ↑ Deleuze and Guattari (1972, 92-93, 100-101). Deleuze and Guattari develop this relation further in the chapter "November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Boydy Without Organs?" in their sequel to Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus (1980, 165-184).
- ↑ Kovel, Joel (1991). History and Spirit: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Liberation. Boston: Beacon Press. pp. 82, 255. ISBN 0-8070-2916-5.
- ↑ Kellner, Douglas (1989). Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond. Cambridge: Polity Press. pp. 127, 223. ISBN 0-7456-0562-1.
- ↑ Cooper, David (1978). The Language of Madness. London: Allen Lane. p. 138. ISBN 0-7139-1118-2.
- ↑ Crews, Frederick (1986). Skeptical Engagements. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 176. ISBN 0-19-503950-5.
- Deleuze, Gilles. 2004. Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953-1974. Trans. Michael Taormina. Ed. David Lapoujade. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents ser. Los Angeles and New York: Semiotext(e). ISBN 1-58435-018-0.
- Deleuze, Gilles and Michel Foucault. 1972. "Intellectuals and Power." In Deleuze (2004, 206-213).
- Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. 1972. Anti-Oedipus. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem and Helen R. Lane. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 1 of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 2 vols. 1972-1980. Trans. of L'Anti-Oedipe. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0-8264-7695-3. Preview available on Google Books
- ---. 1980. A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. London and New York: Continuum, 2004. Vol. 2 of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 2 vols. 1972-1980. Trans. of Mille Plateaux. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0-8264-7694-5.
- Foucault, Michel. 1977. Preface. In Deleuze and Guattari (1972, xiii-xvi).
- Guattari, Félix. 1992. Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm. Trans. Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1995. Trans. of Chaosmose. Paris: Éditions Galilée. ISBN 0-909952-25-6.
- ---. 2004 The Anti-Oedipus Papers. Ed. Stéphane Nadaud. Trans. Kélina Gotman. New York: Semiotext(e), 2006. ISBN 1-58435-031-8.
- Holland, Eugene W. 1999. Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11319-9.
- Seem, Mark. 1977. Introduction. In Deleuze and Guattari (1972, xvii-xxvi.
Further reading
- Abou-Rihan, Fadi. 2008. "Deleuze and Guattari: A Psychoanalytic Itinerary." London/New York: Continuum. ISBN 1-84706-371-3.
- Alliez, Éric. 2004. "Anti-Oedipus – Thirty Years On (Between Art and Politics)." Trans. Alberto Toscano. In Deleuze and the Social. Ed. Martin Fulgsang and Bent Meier Sorenson. Deleuze Connections ser. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2006. 151–68. ISBN 0-7486-2093-1.
- Badiou, Alain. 2004. "The Flux and the Party: In the Margins of Anti-Oedipus." Trans. Laura Balladur and Simon Krysl. Polygraph 15/16: 75–92.
- Buchanan, Ian, ed. 1999. A Deleuzean Century? Durham, NC: Duke UP. ISBN 0-8223-2392-3.
- ---. 2008. Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: A Reader's Guide. London and New York: Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-9149-9.
- Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari 1975. Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature. Trans. Dana Polan. Theory and History of Literature 30. Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 1986. Trans. of Kafka: Pour une literature mineure. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit. ISBN 0-8166-1515-2.
- Flieger, Jerry Aline. 1999. "Overdetermined Oedipus: Mommy, Daddy and Me as Desiring-Machine." In Buchanan (1999, 219–240).
- Guattari, Félix. 1984. Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics. Trans. Rosemary Sheed. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-055160-3.
- ---. 1995. Chaosophy. Ed. Sylvère Lotringer. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Ser. New York: Semiotext(e). ISBN 1-57027-019-8.
- ---. 1996. Soft Subversions. Ed. Sylvère Lotringer. Trans. David L. Sweet and Chet Wiener. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Ser. New York: Semiotext(e). ISBN 1-57027-030-9.
- Hocquenghem, Guy. 1972. Homosexual Desire. Trans. Daniella Dangoor. 2nd ed. Series Q ser. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1993. ISBN 0-8223-1384-7.
- Jameson, Fredric. 1999. "Marxism and Dualism in Deleuze." In Buchanan (1999, 13-36).
- Lambert, Gregg. 2006. Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? London and New York: Continuum.
- Massumi, Brian. 1992. A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari. Swerve editions. Cambridge, United States and London: MIT. ISBN 0-262-63143-1.
External links
- Preview of Anti-Oedipus available on Google Books
- Preview of A Thousand Plateaus available on Google Books
- "Reading Notes on Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism and Schizophrenia" by Michael Hardt
- "Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari" by Brian Massumi
- "Schizo's Web" by Harrison Mujica-Jenkins at latephilosophers.com
- "Mapping the Postmodern: Deleuze and Guattari's Social Schizophrenia"
- "Drive and Desire: Zizek and Anti-Oedipus"
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The Obama Administration is reportedly growing anxious as it tries to find creative ways to keep Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations rolling, even if nearly nine months around the table has failed to produce any positive results.
The problem is that the timetable for this round of talks is nearing its end, and the Palestinian leadership has indicated quite clearly that it intends to walk away after receiving its last concessional release of Palestinian prisoners from Israel.
As such, Israel is not keen to fulfill that final concession if doing so is anyway not going to advance the cause of peace (in fact, it will likely result in the opposite as dozens more killers are released into the wild).
Washington knows that if the Palestinians walk away, there is no hope of extending or holding new talks in the near future. And to keep the Palestinians from walking, they need to be appeased. And to appease the Palestinians, Israel must be convinced to carry out more pointless concessions.
So, how to convince Israel to remain in this perpetual and fruitless cycle?
According to some sources, the Americans might be ready to make some pretty dramatic concessions of their own to keep alive the dream of securing a positive foreign policy legacy for President Barack Obama.
US government officials speaking to Israel Radio on condition of anonymity this week said Obama had not ruled out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal that he release long-suffering Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Such a gesture would be more than sufficient incentive for Netanyahu's government to continue making its own unreciprocated concessions a little longer.
Meanwhile, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas last week again forcefully stated for an international community determined not to listen that the peace process is anyway nothing more than a charade. The Palestinians, Abbas was adamant, would never make peace on Israel's terms.
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In the aftermath of Stanford's 31-28 victory against Washington on Saturday night, Huskies coach Steve Sarkisian accused Cardinals players of faking injuries to slow the faster-paced offense that Washington has ridden to a successful start in 2013.
On Tuesday on the Pac-12 Coaches Teleconference, Stanford coach David Shaw vehemently objected and defended his players, coaches and program.
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"I must say that we don't fake injuries, we don't and we never will," Shaw said. "We don't condone it, we don't teach it, we don't allow it. We've never done it, and if we didn't do it against Oregon, why would we do it against Washington?"
Late Saturday night, Sarkisian had told Seattle radio station KJR, "Their defensive-line coach (Randy Hart) was telling them to sit down. I guess that's how we play here at Stanford, so we'll have to prepare for that next time. At some point, we'll get repaid for it. That never serves a purpose for us, and we'll never do that."
On the same teleconference Tuesday, Sarkisian was asked about Shaw's comments, to which he replied: "I don't know exactly what was said (by Shaw today), what I do know is what I said yesterday. We saw what we saw, we'll leave it at that. Two reasonable people can disagree on something and move forward."
Shaw said "there has been communication" with the Pac-12 about the matter. When asked if he has spoken to Sarkisian, Shaw said, "No comment." When asked the same question about Shaw, Sarkisian responded, "No comment."
When asked whether he believes the matter is done with or he expects to discuss it with the Pac-12 office, Sarkisian responded, "I'm done with it."
Dave Hirsch, the Pac-12's vice president for communications, told USA TODAY Sports: "I would foresee no public action taken by the conference at this point."
Hirsch said Shaw spoke Monday with Woodie Dixon, the league's senior vice president of business affairs, who has oversight of football. The conversation was apparently concerning Sarkisian's allegations. Hirsch said he wasn't certain whether Sarkisian had contacted the league, saying only that coaches routinely contact the league office after games to discuss officials' calls or other occurrences.
Shaw was strongly displeased that one of his assistants, defensive line coach Hart, was accused by name of ordering seniors Ben Gardner and Shayne Skov to fake injuries.
"Not to mention it's unprofessional to call out an assistant coach for doing so," Shaw said. "The only assistant coach I've ever known to order players to fake injuries coaches at Washington, and he's admitted to it."
Shaw was referring to Washington assistant Tosh Lupoi, who admitted to doing so in a 2010 game against Oregon when he was an assistant at Cal. Lupoi was suspended one game for the incident.
Shaw then expressed further displeasure about Sarkisian's comment about faking injuries being part of the way Stanford plays. "How we play at Stanford is five penalties per game," Shaw retorted Tuesday. "How we play has led to three BCS bowls and a 100% graduation rate. I'm not going to put that all on the line to beat Washington. We've done it in a way that has been the right way."
Shaw also pointed out that Stanford has beaten Washington in four of the teams' past five meetings, but that after that one loss – by a 17-13 score last season – the Cardinal didn't complain. "We handled it, we congratulated Washington, we took it and we moved on."
Shaw continued, "It's my job to run this program, and I've been given strict guidelines about how this program should be run with integrity. To have that questioned by something that someone thought that they saw is just wrong. I think it's unprofessional to call out an assistant coach on another team by name."
Finally, Shaw said of Gardner and Skov, "Those are two of the hardest working kids in the country, especially in our conference. To say those guys are faking injuries to slow them down is disrespectful to everything we've done here."
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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Dawn Wright, a professor of geosciences at Oregon State University, has been chosen as one of 20 Leopold Leadership Fellows for 2011, a program for environmental scientists to enhance their skills in communicating science to developers of policy, decision makers and the public.
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CHICAGO – Public employees cranked up pressure on lawmakers Wednesday to address Illinois' worst-in-the-nation pension problem, saying they'd be willing to contribute more money toward their retirements and plan to host a pension summit after the new Legislature is sworn in next month.
A coalition of unions released a study blasting two proposed pension overhauls and making recommendations to address the state's approximately $95 billion in unfunded liability.
Their recommendations include closing tax loopholes to bring in an estimated $2 billion in revenue for the state.
The group, called We Are One Illinois, said union employees would be willing to put in 2 percent more of their salaries, which equals about $350 million, toward their retirements, if the state could guarantee that it would fully pay its pension obligations.
"We are here ... to firmly rebut the allegations that public employees and their unions are unwilling to tackle the state's pension problems," Michael Carrigan, president of the Illinois AFL-CIO, said at a news conference in Chicago.
The coalition proposed similar ideas in August, when Gov. Pat Quinn called lawmakers back to Springfield for a special session on pensions, a meeting that didn't produce results. Wednesday marked the first time the group – including unions representing teachers, nurses and state employees – proposed specifics.
The group's proposals for bringing in more revenue include closing tax loopholes, such as reforming corporate tax expenditures and getting rid of some tax credits and incentives.
The group cites several including repealing corporate tax breaks Quinn offered to CME Group Inc. and CBOE Holdings Inc. last year after they threatened to leave the state.
Other proposed ideas include ending the for-profit hospital tax breaks and repealing the state's estate tax exemption increase.
Quinn, speaking at an unrelated event in suburban Chicago, said that the ideas from the union were something to consider, but he didn't agree with their critiques of other plans before lawmakers.
"We always want to look at everything. It's useful to look at everybody's ideas," Quinn, a Chicago Democrat, said.
Lawmakers at the heart of pension talks said the unions' input was encouraging, but it was too early to tell if the willingness to pay more would affect current pension talks. Quinn has set a Jan. 9 deadline – the day the lame-duck session ends and new lawmakers are sworn in – to adopt a plan. Union members said they were aiming for a mid-January pension summit.
"Everything has to be on the table," said state Democratic Rep. Daniel Biss, a sponsor of pension legislation proposed this month.
A spokesman for Senate President John Cullerton, a Democrat, said the ideas were appreciated but wouldn't "produce savings significant enough to solve our pension problem."
Republicans also welcomed the ideas. A spokeswoman for Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno said she was reviewing the proposal.
Union members said the 2 percent figure was a fair offer that represented "shared sacrifice" on the part of public employees to fix the state's pension crisis.
How much employee contribute toward their pensions depend upon which system the employee is in. Teachers currently pay roughly 9 percent of their salaries while university employees pay 8 percent. The 2 percent proposed Wednesday would be in addition.
Illinois has failed to make sufficient payments to pension plans over the years, and the problem gets worse each day, threatening the states already-shaky finances. Last week, Moody's Investors Services revised Illinois' credit outlook from stable to negative, citing the pension funding shortfall and money management practices.
Quinn has said overhauling the state's five pension systems is his top priority, but lawmakers have failed to agree on a plan. The governor, who has vowed to get an overhaul in January, has said the November elections kept lawmakers from making tough decisions on pensions.
Meanwhile some lawmakers have blamed Quinn for not being aggressive enough.
Frustrated by inaction, a group of bipartisan lawmakers introduced a proposal earlier this month that would reduce annual cost-of-living increases for retirees and require workers to contribute more to their retirement. It also would require younger employees to work longer into their careers, and some costs for teacher pensions gradually would shift to some school districts. Specific projections on the plan haven't been released yet. The proposal also includes a guarantee that the state will make sufficient annual payments.
Another plan introduced over the summer deals with two of the five pension systems. The legislation says that instead of 3 percent annual cost-of-living increases, retirees would get the lower of either 3 percent or half the inflation rate, among other things. It was estimated to reduce the unfunded liability by more than $5 billion, according to some estimates.
The union group largely rejected both plans saying that the pension benefit cuts would have drastic effects on retirees who live on limited incomes.
"It has the perverse ingenuity the older you are the more unable you are to care for yourself, the greater your needs, the less you will have," said Dan Montgomery, president of the Illinois Teachers Federation.
Union leaders also questioned the constitutionality of the plans and said if lawmakers passed them they would be challenged in the courts.
The report did commend the bipartisan lawmakers' plan for requiring the state to fully fund its pension, though said the language needs to be tightened.


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Faculty & Staff
Daubenmire, Patrick
Title/s: Associate Professor
Assistant Chair
Office #: FH-415
Phone: 773.508.8248
- Ph. D., The Catholic University of America, Chemical Education, 2004
- B.A., Saint Louis University, Majors: Chemistry and Theology, 1995
Research Interests
The field of chemical education research seeks to identify the processes and approaches of students learning of chemistry. The subsequent focus is then to develop and assess differentiated strategies that align with effective learning approaches and assist in removing the barriers to the parts of the processes that inhibit learning.
Specifically, Dr. Daubenmire's research focuses on engaging students in their learning process by focusing on how chemistry is involved in solving problems in the world, utilizing and assessing guided inquiry and cooperative learning techniques in the chemistry classroom, and assisting chemistry teachers in their development of an inquiry-based instructional repeteroire.
Selected Publications
Wink, D.J., Daubenmire, P.L., Brennan, S.K., and Cunningham, S.A. "Bringing Standards-based Chemistry Instruction to an Urban School District," in Chemistry and the National Science Education Standards, 2nd Ed., Stacey Lowery Bretz, Ed., 2008. American Chemical Society
Daubenmire, P.L. and Bunce, D.M. "What Do Students Experience during POGIL Instruction?" in Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning, Richard S. Moog and James N. Spencer, eds. 2008. American Chemical Society.
Current Funding
Illinois State Board of Education grant for planning and implementing a new M.Ed. program in Science Education focusing on teaching inquiry-based, high school chemistry in urban districts (Co-PI).


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Cruise Trips: Adventure over Relaxation (Part 3)by Paul Motter, CruiseMates Editor
Despite the relaxing image, a cruise trip can be as adventurous as any vacation, depending on the ship and itinerary.
A cruise trip on a European river boat means you spend every day sightseeing, each day in a new location. All shore tours and meals are provided by the cruise line and included in the cruise fare. You only unpack one time, so you never have to worry about finding a train station, hotel or restaurant. (You never have to pay for any of those, either.) Every minute you are sailing, you can sit on deck and watch the countryside go by.
Cruise ships are similar, except that a cruise ship will dock in a different city every day or two and offer a selection of 20 or 30 different tours to choose from. In Naples you might want to see the ancient city of Pompeii, or spend a day on the Isle of Capri. You will pay for the tours, however.
Whether by cruise ship or riverboat, a cruise trip to Europe, Asia, Alaska, South America or anywhere you travel is more than just leisurely days lying in the sun. A cruise trip is a real travel adventure offering incredible convenience and variety in sites and destinations.
You unpack just once. Your meals, transportation to different destinations, accommodations and nightly entertainment are all included in the cruise cost. Since you prepay for almost the entire trip in U.S. dollars, you won�t suffer from currency devaluation vs. the Euro. A cruise is a perfect way to see the world with all the benefits and none of the drawbacks of the usual methods of travel.
Cruise Trip Destinations My river cruise trip through the Russian countryside from Moscow to St. Petersburg is a perfect example. Day after day, we rolled past small towns, people riding on tractors, farmers selling homegrown cabbages and turnips by the roadside, and local residents walking to their orthodox churches in outmoded Sunday dress clothes.
With the onboard lecturers constantly telling us what we were seeing, and frequent stops to explore important sites from the Communist era and the monarchy, it was the cruise trip of a lifetime. It had nothing to do with typical visions of "cruise vacations" as most people perceive them. There were no umbrella drinks, reggae bands, bingo games or shuffleboard.
I understand the charm of living in a French town for two weeks, shopping at the marche and learning to nap every day from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. But I prefer to keep moving and see new things.
I especially love cruise trips to exciting destinations, because the ship does most of the actual travel while I sleep. On a cruise in Europe, you wake up in a new destination every morning. In some cases, you will wish you had more time to explore certain destinations. But there are plenty of places in Europe and elsewhere where one day is more than enough to see everything you need to see. I will give some examples.
A typical Eastern Mediterranean cruise usually starts in Venice, Italy, and continues through the Greek Isles and ports along the coast. Among the places you visit that are worth seeing but really do not require more than a day:
Ephesus: This ancient city founded by Alexander the Great is where the apostle Paul spoke in the theater during his earliest days. His famous "Letter to the Ephesians" is based upon a promise he made to them that he would return. One can still sit in the very theater where Paul addressed the crowd, and that is but one attraction of the ancient city. Another is the house alleged to be the former home of Mary, mother of Christ, who was brought to the city by John the apostle -- whose burial place is in nearby St. John's Basilica. All these sites can be seen easily with a one-day stop in Kusadasi, Turkey.
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I suspect that the Republicans nominated Romney partly because he spent so much money acquiring the nomination but also because his personality seemed suitably vague. To be assigned to report on his rallies carried all the thrill of being asked to submit a 10,000-word critical analysis of a church picnic. His speeches were flat at best and goofy at worst. His attire was sensible trousers and shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and the family was so wholesomely large that you sensed they could swing a primary just by registering the grandkids.
Mitt Romney is a paradox. If you saw a photo of him and didn't know who he was, you might assume from the square jaw, trappings of wealth and arcane haircut that he was the perfect country-club Republican.
But that would be too simple, especially in this election.
Romney only looks like an insider. But in many ways, he has remained an outsider.
For one thing, the Romney-Ryan presidential ticket, which lost the election Tuesday to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, was the first in history not to include a Protestant. (Romney would have been the first Mormon president, Rep. Paul Ryan is Catholic.)
He's a Republican who won election in a blue state. The people of Massachusetts may know the former governor as a bipartisan moderate, yet he sold himself on the national stage as "severely conservative." In his own state, he invented what many regard as the prototype for Obamacare, yet he repeatedly vowed to repeal Obama's version of it.
Is he moderate or is he conservative? The same question could be asked of the Republican Party — and the GOP's own lack of ideological clarity is probably the exact reason why it nominated him. Cometh the hour, cometh the multidimensional man.
Today's Republicans find themselves in a dilemma. On the one hand, they have an enormous base of hyped-up voters who passionately subscribe to economic and social conservatism. They needed to energize that base to win. On the other hand, the margin of victory rested with a group of moderates and independents who like their politics a little more practical. The challenge of 2012 was to take the tea party agenda and rebrand it so that it could still appeal to the right but also win converts in the center. That was Romney's job — and he didn't quite pull it off. Yet, if anyone could have, it would have been Mitt.
I suspect that the Republicans nominated Romney partly because he spent so much money acquiring the nomination but also because his personality seemed suitably vague. To be assigned to report on his rallies carried all the thrill of being asked to submit a 10,000-word critical analysis of a church picnic. His speeches were flat at best and goofy at worst. His attire was sensible trousers and shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and the family was so wholesomely large that you sensed they could swing a primary just by registering the grandkids.
But squareness was just what the GOP was looking for. In an era of recession, his business experience seemed like a big plus and his polished-yet-gentle style was a nice contrast to Obama's flashy rhetoric. It was understood that he had been a technocratic governor of Massachusetts, with a record on social issues that at times wandered a bit to the left. As I always explained to my British colleagues bemused at the irresistible rise of Mitt Romney, one of his greatest strengths was that he didn't look crazy. You could trust this man with the nuclear codes, whereas putting the entire arsenal of the free world in the hands of one of his primary challengers, like Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich, felt risky.
But to win the primaries, Romney still needed the votes of that big block of conservatives. So he underwent a rebranding. For the record, the conservative movement never entirely bought Romney's conversion. That's why he lost Iowa to Santorum and South Carolina to Gingrich. Thereafter he was dogged for some weeks by Santorum, whose electoral coalition tended to be poorer, more religious, more conservative and more rural. In these truly competitive primaries, Romney's vote was often rich, moderate and elderly (no wonder Mr. Burns was such a fan).
Mitt was, in fact, the country-club candidate. He won primaries largely thanks to the support of people like him, and he only won because there are so many people like him in the Republican Party. But all the while, his empty pitch to the GOP base moved him rhetorically further and further to the right.
Of course, philosophical conservatism isn't necessarily an electoral negative for the GOP. It worked for Reagan in the 1980s and George W Bush in the 2000s. But whereas Democratic populism is programmatic (health care for all, tax the rich) for the Republicans it has tended to be personal (dress like a cowboy, eat TV dinners). The problem was that Mitt lacked the requisite performance skills — he's no Reagan — which ended up converting his greatest strength into his greatest weakness.
With unemployment running high and debt spiraling out of control, we might have expected Romney's ability to make money to be a plus. Instead, it only emphasized his difference from you and me. He had money nestling in the Cayman Islands. He only paid 14.1% on a fortune that would make King Midas blush. Worst of all, he had worked in private equity, and while he helped save a lot of jobs, he was probably responsible for downsizing a few, too. Romney insisted that he left Bain before it committed its greatest sins, but the image of Mitt cheerfully declaring, "I like being able to fire people" stuck in the minds of many voters.
Romney's broader appeal was buried beneath a wave of scandal and political character assassination. It was the debates that allowed him to regain control of the narrative. In that first debate he was clever, funny, energetic and passionate — and in many ways outclassed Obama. My theory is that Romney flourished because the format was like a corporate job interview: question after question, a little light sparring, an emphasis upon "pep" ("Gee, I'd just love to run your country. When can I start?!"). The inner-intern shone through and Romney behaved like a smart kid out of college who's hungry to get his foot on the corporate ladder.
His performance was so good that it was historic, transforming the election in a way that few have ever done. It worked because Romney did what the GOP was waiting for him to do all year. He appealed to the center by sounding reasonable and moderate but he also fired up the base by saying things to Obama that they wanted to hear said. This was Romney at his very best — and it's difficult to image an alternative candidate who could have done better.
But, ultimately, the contradictions inherent within both Romney and his party simply couldn't be overcome. The need to be both conservative and moderate confused and frustrated the electorate — who were never quite sure what they were voting for. So the advantage fell to the incumbent. The ambivalent American public went with the devil they knew.
What next for Mitt Romney? Don't be surprised if he returns to his church. He's a man of faith with a record of charity and it would be in keeping for him to dedicate himself to others. I hope the conservative movement and the pundits will be just as charitable to him.
Timothy Stanley is a historian at Oxford University and blogs for Britain's The Daily Telegraph. He is the author of "The Crusader: The Life and Times of Pat Buchanan."
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Erice needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
FIAT of Winter Haven
We are a new FIAT dealership in Florida that will be opening a new store the middle of April. FIAT is Italian design, Fun, Unique.
We will be ordering these shirts in large volume to give away for brand awareness.
The shirts will be screen printed. We need the company logo. The main artwork would go on the back of the shirt but would also like to see designs for the front of the shirt as well, even if it's a smaller design on one chest.
You can find vehicle art at media.chrysler.com, we would like the FIAT 500 represented on the shirt.