Sunday, June 07, 2020

Reebok slams CrossFit in outrage over CEO's tweet

AFP/File / TIMOTHY A. CLARYReebok said it would end its partnership with CrossFit Inc. once it fulfils its current contract obligation as the title sponsor for the 2020 CrossFit Games
Sports footwear giant Reebok has decided to end its partnership with CrossFit Inc. later this year following an insensitive comment by the fitness organization's chief executive concerning protests against racial injustice roiling the US.
Reebok said Sunday it would make the move once it fulfils its current contract obligation as the title sponsor for the 2020 CrossFit Games.
"Recently, we have been in discussions regarding a new agreement, however, in light of recent events, we have made the decision to end our partnership with CrossFit HQ," Reebok said in a statement Sunday.
CrossFit chief executive Greg Glassman tweeted, "It's FLOYD-19" on Saturday after the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation classified racism and discrimination as a public health issue.
Human rights groups expressed outrage at the tweet, calling it insensitive to the current events and the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody on May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Floyd was killed when officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter, while three other officers have been charged with abetting murder and manslaughter.
Reebok and CrossFit previously signed a deal that named the athletic footwear company as the title sponsor for the CrossFit Games.
Other affiliates like CrossFit Magnus also decided to cut ties with the Washington, DC-based global fitness organization.
"After eight years as a CrossFit affiliate we are ending our affiliation," CrossFit Magnus spokesman Nick Hurndon wrote in a social media post.
"We will no longer continue to 'carry your water,' as it is antithetical to anything we stand for and only serves the continuation of systemic racism."
CrossFit has over 13,000 gyms in more than 120 countries and generates some US$4 billion in annual revenues.
Minneapolis council vows police dismantling as protests continue
AFP / Kerem YucelA man raises his fist during a memorial for George Floyd after a day of demonstrations on June 7, 2020 in Minneapolis
Councilors in the US city of Minneapolis pledged late Sunday to dismantle and rebuild the police department, after the death in custody of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests about racism in law enforcement, pushing the issue onto the national political agenda.
Floyd was killed on May 25 when white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on the unarmed black man's neck for nearly nine minutes. Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder and is to appear in court Monday.
"We committed to dismantling policing as we know it in the city of Minneapolis and to rebuild with our community a new model of public safety that actually keeps our community safe," Council President Lisa Bender told CNN, after a majority of councilors committed to the effort.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, however, is against getting rid of the department, and the head of the city's powerful police union, Bob Kroll, appeared on stage last year with President Donald Trump.
The vow by the majority of councilors came a day after Frey was booed at and asked to leave a "Defund the Police" rally. He later told AFP he supported "massive structural reform to revise this structurally racist system" but not "abolishing the entire police department."
AFP / Jose Luis MaganaHundreds of demonstrators walk down 16th Street NW during a rally north of Lafayette Square near the White House to protest police brutality and racism, on June 7, 2020
Bystander video of the incident -- which captured Floyd calling for his mother and saying he could not breathe -- has sparked two weeks of mostly peaceful demonstrations across the country.
On Sunday, protesters in cities including Washington, New York and Winter Park, Florida, began focusing their outrage over the death of the unarmed Floyd into demands for police reform and social justice.
Mitt Romney, a Republican senator from Utah, joined a group of Christian protesters marching toward the White House. He tweeted photos of himself in the procession, along with the simple caption, "Black Lives Matter."
Although Romney has been a rare Republican voice of opposition to Trump, he was joined last week by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, who said criticism of Trump was overdue.
Trump's tough approach to putting down protests continued to draw exceptional rebukes from top retired military officers, a group normally loath to criticize a civilian leader.
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell joined them Sunday, saying Trump had "drifted away" from the Constitution. Powell, a Republican moderate, said Trump had weakened America's position around the world and that in November's presidential election he would support Democrat Joe Biden.
- 'This isn't a battlefield' -
AFP / Kerem YucelA woman cries in front of an installation created by Anna Barber and Connor Wright called 'Say Their Names' to honor victims of police brutality on June 7, 2020 in Minneapolis
Condoleezza Rice, who succeeded Powell as secretary of state under President George W. Bush, told CBS she would "absolutely" oppose using the military against peaceful protesters, adding, "This isn't a battlefield."
The president has ordered National Guard troops to begin withdrawing from the nation's capital, whose Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat who jousted with Trump over the use of force in her city, told Fox News there had been no arrests on Saturday despite the protests which saw thousands moving through the capital's streets.
A week earlier, however, there were fires and vandalism.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told ABC that Washington had been "a city out of control" and denied a problem of systemic racism among police.
The Trump administration has proposed no specific policy changes in response to the widespread outrage over Floyd's death.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) said they would introduce legislation in the House of Representatives on Monday to make policing more accountable.
The legislation is expected to make it easier to sue police officers over deadly incidents, to ban the sort of choke holds that led to Floyd's death, and to establish a national database to record police misconduct.
- 'A lot of work to do' -
One member of the caucus, Representative Val Demings of Florida, a former police chief in the city of Orlando, told ABC that "systemic racism is always the ghost in the room."
AFP / Gal ROMAExample of the "use of force continuum", a recommended series of actions that guide US police in handling situations at hand, according to the National Institute of Justice (US Department of Justice)
"What we have to do as a nation is hold police accountable," said Demings, who has been mentioned as a possible running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
It is unclear what support the proposed reforms might find in the Republican-controlled Senate -- or whether Trump might sign such legislation into law.
Some jurisdictions have moved already to embrace reforms -- starting with bans on the use of tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters Sunday that he would cut the city's police budget and shift some funds to youth and social services, local media reported.
Trump seized on the call by some protesters to slash police funding to attack Biden, tweeting without evidence that "not only will Sleepy Joe Biden DEFUND THE POLICE, but he will DEFUND OUR MILITARY!"
The president is scheduled to host a roundtable with law enforcement on Monday.
Biden, who has accused Trump of fanning "the flames of hate," plans to travel to Houston on Monday to visit Floyd's family. He will also record a message to be read at Floyd's funeral on Tuesday.
 Armenians – Aryans. The “Blood Myth”, the Race Laws of 1938 and the Armenians in Italy

ENRICO FERRI


Armenians – Aryans. The “Blood Myth”, the Race Laws of 1938 and the Armenians in Italy
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Enrico Ferri
University “Niccolò Cusano” (UNICUSANO) – Rome, Italy

Series: Focus on Civilizations and Cultures
BISAC: HIS003000

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Publication Date: October 2016
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Several laws “in defense of the race” were readily enacted in Germany (1935) and successively applied further in Italy (1938). The hypothetical existence of a primeval Indo-European language was assumed to be associated with a similar ancestral Aryan race. Its psycho-physical traits and characteristic vision of the world were typical of the warrior race; a sense of honor, penchant for risk, willingness to emerge and respect for hierarchy were highly valued. These were the traits that identified with the race’s primacy. While the Aryan race split up into various ethnic groups, its constituent characteristics continue to be visible in most European populations today. In the 1930s these somewhat frail bases, besides a number of pseudo-sciences, such as phrenology, physiognomy and other ill-conceived theories on race, contributed to establishing the criteria according to which peoples were considered Aryans or Semites. These doctrines formed the ideological background for the discrimination, segregation and persecution of entire populations and communities, like the Jews and the Roma people. The following study traces the complex framework within which the Armenian community developed in Italy and Europe, highlighting the various arguments that emerged in favor of or against the inclusion of the Armenian people in the Aryan family and the historical milieu in which the debate took place. (Imprint: Nova)
Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and the Urbanization of Chicago

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Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser, an influential and at times infamous author of literary naturalism, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871. The eleventh of thirteen children, he had an unhappy childhood shaped by poverty. At age fifteen, he left home. After several years of menial labor and some college, in 1892 he started as a journalist at the Chicago Globe. Interested in the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, Dreiser began writing fiction that explored ideas of social determinism and the “survival of the fittest,” particularly during a period of intense urbanization across the country.

Sister Carrie (1900) was Dreiser’s first novel, and it reflects the ideas of literary naturalism through its attitude of scientific objectivity toward human behavior. The novel centers on Carrie Meeber, a young woman from rural Wisconsin who moves to Chicago to earn money. First seduced by a traveling salesman on her train ride into the city, Carrie quickly adapts to her new environment, where she learns to make use of other men and the opportunities she encounters. The novel shows the attractions and dangers of big city life in the late nineteenth century, with its glittering department stores, theaters, dance halls, and other opportunities to mingle with the opposite sex without supervision. The novel ends with Carrie becoming a successful stage actress in New York City, while one of her lovers spirals downward and commits suicide.

Dreiser’s frank treatment of sex and materialism, and his refusal to punish characters for their behavior, shocked readers. Sister Carrie was attacked by censors for its immorality, and the book was banned in New York City and Cincinnati in 1916. Dreiser continued to court controversy throughout his career. In 1929 he was subject to an obscenity trial for his bestselling novel An American Tragedy (1925). He was increasingly drawn to social justice efforts in the 1930s, including letter-writing campaigns as an anti-war activist, supporting the American Communist Party, and fighting racial injustice in the Scottsboro Boys case.
Pioneers in Criminology XV--Enrico Ferri (1856-1929) 

Thorsten Sellin (1958)
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4636&context=jclc

THE JOURNAL OF  CRIMINAL LAW, CRIMINOLOGY, AND POLICE SCIENCE

VOL. 48 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1958 NO. 5

PIONEERS IN CRIMINOLOGY

XV-ENRICO FERRI (1856-1929)

THORSTEN SELLIN

Professor Sellin is chairman of the Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; editor of

the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (since 1929); and president of

the International Society of Criminology. From time to time, during the last thirty years he has pub-

]ished articles in the Journal on a variety of subjects of interest to criminologists.

The accompanying photograph by Giacomo Brogi, Florence, is reproduced from "The Italy of

the Italians", published by Charles Scribners and Sons. It represents Ferri in middle thirties.

-EDITOR.


ENRICO FERRI

When Enrico Ferri died, April 12, 1929, one of

the most colorful and influential figures in the

history of criminology disappeared. Born at San

Benedetto Po in the province of Mantua, February

25, 1856, his active life spanned more than half a

century, beginning with the publication of his

dissertation in 1878 and ending with the fifth

edition of his "Criminal Sociology," which was

being printed when he died. During the intervening

five decades he became the acknowledged leader of

the so-called positive school of criminal science,

a highly successful trial lawyer and Italy's perhaps

greatest contemporary forensic orator, member of

Parliament, editor of the Socialist newspaper,

"Avanti," indefatigable public lecturer, university

professor, author of highly esteemed scholarly

works, founder of a great legal journal, and a

tireless polemicist in defense of his ideas. His was a

rich and varied life, to which no brief article can

do justice.

In the book, which Ferri published in 1928 on

the "Principles of Criminal Law,"' a work which

contained the systematic presentation of the legal

principles of the positive school, he listed what he

himself regarded as his most important contributions.

They were the demonstration that the concept of freedom

of will has no place in criminal

law; that social defense is the purpose of criminal

justice; the three types of factors in crime causation;

the classification of criminals in five classes;

penal substitutes as means of indirect social defense;

motivation, rather than the objective nature

of the crime, as the basis for sanctions; the demand

that farm colonies be substituted for cellular

isolation of prisoners by day; the indeterminate

sentence instead of the dosage by fixed terms o

institutionalization; the demand that hospitals


1 PRINCIPI IIDI DIRITTO CRIMINALE. xvi, 848 pp.

Torino: UTET, 1928.


SOCIOLOGY THEORIES OF CRIME AND DEVIANCE
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/theories-of-crime-and-deviance/
by G Nicotri - ‎1929 - ‎Cited by 3 - ‎Related articles
The recent death of Enrico Ferri brings to a close a period of struggle and partial though continuous conquests for the science that seeks to combat the for-.

Modernity and Technology 
edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.477.723&rep=rep1&type=pdf

The volume draws on an international workshop held at the University of Twente in the Netherlands in November 1999, which brought together a diverse group of scholars from the communities of modernity studies (philosophy, cultural studies, and social theory) and technology studies (history, sociology, anthropology); see www.iit.edu/~misa/ twente/ . This workshop was made possible by financial support from the U.S. National Science Foundation (grant SES-9900894), the University of Twente, and the Dutch Graduate School for Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC). Our collective efforts to understand technology and modernity go back to a seminar series that Pieter Tijmes, Johan Schot, and Tom Misa organized at Twente in the spring of 1997. At Twente we would especially like to thank Gerdien Linde-de Ruiter for a thousand small acts of kindness and assistance in planning and preparing the workshop, as well as the friendly and expert assistance of Femke Merkx in conducting the workshop. Many workshop participants freely shared their own ongoing research and reflections, giving our authors invaluable insights.

Acknowledgments vii
Workshop Participants ix
1 The Compelling Tangle of Modernity and Technology 1
Thomas J. Misa
I Modernity Theory and Technology Studies
2 Theorizing Modernity and Technology 33
Philip Brey
3 Modernity Theory and Technology Studies: Reflections on Bridging
the Gap 73
Andrew Feenberg
4 Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Technology Studies 105
Barbara L. Marshall
II Technologies of Modernity
5 Modernity under Construction: Building the Internet in
Trinidad 139
Don Slater
6 Surveillance Technology and Surveillance Society 161
David Lyon
7 Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time, and Social Organization
in the History of Sociotechnical Systems 185
Paul N. Edwards
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8 Creativity of Technology: An Origin of Modernity? 227
Junichi Murata
III Changing Modernist Regimes
9 The Contested Rise of a Modernist Technology Politics 257
Johan Schot
10 Technology, Medicine, and Modernity: The Problem of
Alternatives 279
David Hess
11 The Environmental Transformation of the Modern Order 303
Arthur P. J. Mol
12 Technology, Modernity, and Development: Creating Social
Capabilities in a POLIS 327
Haider A. Khan
13 Modernity and Technology—An Afterword 359
Arie Rip



Occupying War: Representing U.S. Militarism since 1989

Abstract

“Occupying War” is a cultural study of contemporary American militarism that offers one answer to the question, how did Americans get from the 1960s, a period that saw the largest antiwar movement in U.S. history, to our current era, in which many civilians cannot name our wars, let alone challenge them? It reads seminal war films and literary works alongside military reports, government documents, and news media coverage to trace two lines simultaneously: the practices and official discourses that distinguish America’s post-Cold War wars and the political and military actors involved in these campaigns, and the cultural existence of these wars, the aesthetics, narratives, and forms that literary, cinematic, and visual artists have used to represent them. By bringing these two lines into conversation, “Occupying War” argues that occupation—a uniquely incoherent form of warfare—is a driving force behind the tidal recess following the Vietnam War. More specifically, by reading Dispatches, Going After Cacciato, The Short-Timers, Full Metal Jacket, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, Jarhead, Restrepo, Redeployment, and War Porn, among other works, within the context of occupying militarism, this dissertation offers a fuller understanding of why American civilians in the twenty-first century struggle to apprehend and resist our current state of “permanent” war.

Subject Area

British and Irish literature|Film studies|American studies

Recommended Citation

Cawley, Caitlin Marie, "Occupying War: Representing U.S. Militarism since 1989" (2020). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI27540472.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI27540472

In the Valley of the Moon:
Enclosure, Temperance, and the American War
 on John Barleycorn
by
Zita M. Worley
Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate Program in History
University of California, Riverside, June 2015
Dr. Molly McGarry, Chairperson

https://escholarship.org/content/qt3tn7q346/qt3tn7q346.pdf


ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION


The history of temperance and prohibition has long been constructed as either a rural

backlash against modernity or a defining feature of middle-class culture. Early
scholarship inaccurately denounced prohibition as a consequence of rural discontent in an
increasingly urban immigrant America. More recent scholarship has relocated
temperance in middle-class culture and politics, often to the neglect of the agrarian
sector. Using an exploration of the production of space, this dissertation reexamines the
place of temperance in the transition of the North American colonies from a largely
subsistence-oriented society to a modern market-centric nation-state. I contend that as a
middle-class movement, temperance emerged out of the enclosure and improvement
movements and trace the movement’s history as a cultural arm of enclosure through to
the passage of national prohibition. As shown herein, dry crusaders of the early republic
were antagonistic to the subsistence farmers who were viewed as a threat to the national
project. This antagonism was extended to new stock immigrant farmers who arrived in
waves through much of the 1800s. In an attempt to redefine American farms and fields, 
across the nineteenth and early twentieth century, temperance advocates pushed farm
commercialization and the transformation of farming and food systems to meet the needs
of an industrial society. But because temperance ideology failed to address the very real
economic concerns of farmers in their struggles with the transition to commercial
production, agrarian America remained ambivalent to temperance up to and following the
passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. 


The problem of disenchantment: scientific naturalism and esoteric discourse, 1900-1939.

Asprem, E. (2013). 

https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2010817/117215_thesis.pdf

6. Five Schools of Natural Theology: Reconciling Science and Religion................................... 196
The Institutions of Natural Theology .......................................................................204

Five Schools of Natural Theology.........................................................................................................................205
I. Ether Metaphysics .............................................................................................................................................206
II. Psychic Enchantment .....................................................................................................................................224
III. Theologies of Emergence ................................................................................................232
IV. Modern Alchemy ..............................................................................................247
V. Quantum Mysticism.....................................................................................

The Theological Underpinnings of the New Natural Theologies: Panentheism and
Cosmotheism...........................................................................................................282

III. LABORATORIES OF ENCHANTMENT
7. Against Agnosticism: Psychical Research and the Naturalisation of the Supernatural. 292
The Agnosticism Controversy and the Epistemology of Scientific Naturalism ...............................295
Psychical Research as Open-Ended Naturalism............................................................................................302
Strategies of Naturalisation....................................................................................................................................311
Anti-Agnosticism and the Slippery Road to Psychic Enchantments ....................................................319
8. Laboratories of Enchantment: Parapsychology in Search of a Paradigm........................... 322
Three Generations of Psychical Research ........................................................................................................322
William James and the Failure of the First Generation ..............................................................................328
The Fragmentation of Psychical Research: The Second Generation....................................................332
The Statistical Turn: Quantitative Experimentalist Programmes in Psychical Research...........357
Enchantment and the Reign of Quantity...........................................................................................................378
9. Professionals Out of the Ordinary: How Parapsychology Became a University
Discipline...........................................................................................................................................................385
How to Become a Scientist When Your Field Does Not Exist..................................................................385
Against Agnostics, Sceptics, and Spiritualists: The Boundary-Work of a Conservative
Contrarian ......................................................................................................................................................................389
Reactionary Networks: How Psychical Research Can Save Western Civilisation (According
to W. McDougall).........................................................................................................................................................399
Professionals at Last: The Inauguration of the Rhine Era.........................................................................411
Enchantment in Old Dixie........................................................................................................................................422

IV. ESOTERIC EPISTEMOLOGIES
10. Esoteric Epistemologies...................................................................................................................... 428
Esotericism 3.0 and the Problem of Disenchantment.................................................................................428
Rejected Knowledge: Esotericism and Establishment ...............................................................................434
Worldviews: The Disenchantment of Esotericism? .....................................................................................439
Epistemology: Gnosis and the Expansion of Reason...................................................................................446
Esoteric Knowledge between Naturalisation and Disenchantment.....................................................457
11. The Problems of a Gnostic Science: The Case of Theosophy’s Occult Chemistry........... 460
Science and Higher Knowledge in First-Generation Theosophy ...........................................................464
Visions Beyond Sight: Occult Chemistry and the Problem of Representation.................................470
Science contra Gnosis: Conceptual Revolutions and the Stagnation of Theosophical Science.489
Conclusion .....................................................................................................................................................................496

12. Perceiving Higher Worlds: Two Perspectives ............................................................................ 498
A Comparative Approach to Higher Knowledge ...........................................................................................498
Two Careers in Occultism.............................................................................................502
Steiner: Philosopher, Theosophist, Anthroposophist ...........................................................................502
Crowley: Prophet of a New Aeon....................................................................................................................508
Comparative Gnosis: Geheimwissenschaft versus Scientific Illuminism.............................................517
“Occult Science”: Steiner’s Devotional Road to Higher Knowledge ................................................518
Scientific Illuminism: Crowley’s Sceptical Road to Higher Knowledge.........................................532
On Reverence, Scepticism, and Reason Unbound: Concluding Comparisons ..................................546
Conclusion: Disenchantment and Problemgeschichte .................................................................... 555
Bibliography................................................................................................................................................... 583

Summaries (English and Dutch) ............................................................................................................. 626