facility:university of california

De la nécessité d’articuler #Féminisme et anti-racisme - intersectionnalité
http://www.alsacelibertaire.net/spip/spip.php?article108

Ce sont les militantes du courant Black Feminism, puis du féminisme chicano, qui ont fait émerger cette problématique en remettant en cause la domination blanche sur le mouvement des femmes. En effet, les années 60 aux Etats-Unis ont été le théâtre de mouvements de femmes chicanas et noires, qui ont dénoncé les tendances racistes dans le mouvement féministe et l’invisibilisation de revendications spécifiques des femmes non-blanches. Elles ont mis en avant des différences entre le vécu des femmes (...) (...)

#Analyses #Intersectionnalité #Antifa #Autocritique #islamophobie
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Williams_Crenshaw
http://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-du-genre-2005-2-page-51.htm
►http://lmsi.net/Antisexisme-ou-antiracisme-Un-faux
http://www.cairn.info/de-la-question-sociale-a-la-question-raciale--9782707158512-page-230.htm
http://remi.revues.org/2359
http://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-du-genre-2005-2-page-83.htm

Le moment #mooc et la fin de la réforme – The New Inquiry
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzungu/the-mooc-moment-and-the-end-of-reform

Pour Aaron Bady, la moocification de l’enseignement supérieur n’est ni une très bonne chose ni une très mauvaise. Les moocs sont plus une fin qu’un commencement. Certes, ils ne coutent pas cher, parce qu’on enregistre une fois les cours et qu’on peut les réutiliser... Leur risque est de solidifier les hiérarchies et le panthéon académique, réifier la connaissance en marchandise. La méthode scientifique est tout l’inverse. Tags : internetactu (...)

#Éducation

Lipstick study opens up concerns about carcinogen
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/02/toxic-chemicals-lipstick/2125325

Testing of 32 commonly sold lipsticks and lip glosses found they contain lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminum and five other metals — some at potentially toxic levels, according to researchers at the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Public Health.

#santé #maquillage #chimie #cancer

Pétition | Nous sommes toutes des femmes voilées !

https://www.change.org/fr/p%C3%A9titions/nous-sommes-toutes-des-femmes-voil%C3%A9es

Contre un projet de loi qui vise d’abord des femmes et aboutira à les exclure du monde du travail.

 Nous sommes toutes des femmes voilées

Lors de son entretien télévisé du 28 mars dernier, François Hollande a déclaré prévoir une refonte législative en vue du vote d’une loi étendant le champ de l’interdiction des signes religieux dans certains lieux de travail « dès lors qu’il y a contact avec les enfants » notamment « les crèches associatives avec des financements publics ».

Une telle loi, il faut le rappeler, serait contraire à l’esprit comme à la lettre de la loi de 1905 que les prétendus défenseurs de la laïcité ne cessent de bafouer. Elle constituerait une restriction des libertés religieuses que cette loi garantit. Elle ouvre de fait la voie à l’interdiction du port du foulard musulman dans tous les établissements privés gérant un service public et peut-être même, comme on l’entend déjà évoquer, dans les universités.

A Million Smartphones Will Drive Biggest Heart Health Study in History | Singularity Hub
http://singularityhub.com/2013/04/03/a-million-smartphones-will-drive-biggest-heart-health-study-in-histo

Participants will download apps and wear sensors to track vital statistics like blood pressure and heartbeat. The smartphone will act as nerve center, recording and sending data taken by external sensors like a Bluetooth enabled blood pressure cuff or an AliveCor iPhone-compatible heart monitor.

Though skeptics worry the technology isn’t up to the task just yet, the researchers are banking on sheer volume and continuity of data to make up the difference.

#mobile #recherche #santé #cardiaque

Energy policy: Has ‘ #peak_oil ’ gone the way of the Flat Earth Society? — 03/22/2013 — www.eenews.net
http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2013/03/22/1

The theory was straightforward and seemed to hold with common sense: One day soon, the Earth would hit its halfway point of global oil production — its “peak” — and thereafter, it would see a steady decline. Those behind the concept called it “peak oil.”

http://www.eenews.net/assets/2013/03/22/photo_ew_01.png

(...) There’s one big problem: Those behind the theory appear to have been dead wrong, at least in terms of when the peak would hit, having not anticipated the rapid shift in technology that led to exploding oil and natural gas production in new plays and areas long since dismissed as dried up.

#énergie #pétrole

Daniel Ellsberg : In Hearing Bradley Manning Act Out of Conscience, Secret Tape Refutes Media Slander | Democracy Now !
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/12/daniel_ellsberg_in_hearing_bradley_manning

To discuss Bradley Manning’s recorded court statement that was recently leaked to the press, we’re joined by perhaps the country’s most famous whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. “What we’ve heard are people like The New York Times who have consistently slandered him ... that he was vague and couldn’t think of specific instances that had led him to inform the American people of injustices,” Ellsberg says. “The American people can now, for the first time, hear Bradley in his own words, emotionally and in the greatest specific detail, tell what it was that he felt that needed revelation.”

#wikileaks #Bradley_Manning

Lire dans les pensées, un début de réalité - Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hear #sciences #medecine
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/01/31/scientists-decode-brain-waves-to-eavesdrop-on-what-we-hear

Researchers use computer program to reconstruct ancient languages
http://www.slashgear.com/researchers-use-computer-program-to-reconstruct-ancient-languages-1226897

Languages have evolved over the years, and some have ended up dying off completely. However, these extinct languages are still around today thanks to documentation, and researchers are now trying to reconstruct these ancient languages using a modified version Rosetta Stone, a computer program that teaches users how to speak a different language …

Source: SlashGear - Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions - Craig Lloyd

Eric George in Addendum # 11 to Suspicious Financial Machinations Surrounding University of California Regent Richard Blum — Husband of Dianne Feinstein : UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies aka “IGS” [TLR Note: 1- Eric George part of IGS; 2- California Supreme Court Historical Society (“CSCHS”) headed by Ronald George, PG&E’s Ophelia Basgal of CaliforniaALL, and Kay Werdegar forward money to IGS 3- In 2007 , CSCHS transfers the unusually high amount of $ 51, 720 to IGS — which YR is in the process of analyzing — may have been used to bribe Joseph Grodin in matter involving PG&E, Jerry Brown, Bill Lockyer, Howard Rice’s Jerome Falk and Amy Margolin 5. CSCHS also transfers funds to “University of California Board of Regents” 6- Separately, according to YR, CSCHS can’t treat expenses for services as “grants” or “donations” 7- Eric George remains under scrutiny in matters involving Toyota, In Re Girardi, Ocean Liners, Winnie the Pooh, Bet Tzedek, 1st. Century Bank,
etc...]

Please see story :

http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/eric-george-in-addendum-11-to-suspicious-financial-machinati

Eric George of Browne George Ross — son of deposed Ronald George — hereby asked disclose reason necessary to solicit money from private parties (i.e. law firms, lawyers) during time surplus funds of non-profit “California Supreme Court Historical Society” were invested at brokerage-house Smith Barney

Please see @:

http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/eric-george-of-browne-george-ross-son-of-deposed-ronald-geor

San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster Identified as Suspect in Ongoing Attempts to Sabotage The Leslie Brodie Network In Matters Dealing with Exposure of Corruption In Re California Energy Crisis, Money Laundering, UC System; “No Longer Just SEO”

The Leslie Brodie Report’s technical team is looking into possibility that elements operating out San Francisco-based Morrison & Foerster are also responsible for the actual damage sustained by various platforms.

According to a knowledgeable source familiar with the situation, the recent attempts to compromise TLR “go far and beyond mere Search Engine Optimization.”

The source stated the unlawful conduct “requires advanced capabilities and are indicative of a high level of technical sophistication.”

Operating under the auspices of Diversity while hiding behind Asians and Africans, Morrison & Foerster and partner James Brosnahan were identified as potential wrongdoers in matters dealing with California Energy Crisis, Voice of OC, CaliforniaALL, as well as events surrounding various outfits maintained by the University of California.

For further reading about Morrison & Forester and James Brosnahan, please see @:

http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/category/james-brosnahan

AND @:

http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/2012/07/26/amid-concerns-of-cover-up-by-doj-s-lanny-breuer-yr-submit-narra

Does Technology Make Us Smarter or Dumber ? | TIME.com
http://ideas.time.com/2012/11/29/how-to-use-technology-to-make-you-smarter/?iid=op-main-lead

Can a calculator make you smarter? The QAMA calculator can. You use it just like a regular calculator, plugging in the numbers of the problem you want to solve — but QAMA won’t give you the answer until you provide an accurate estimate of what that answer will be. If your estimate is way off, you’ll have to go back to the problem and see where you went wrong. If your estimate is close, QAMA (developed by Ilan Samson, an “inventor-in-residence” at the University of California, San Diego) will serve up the precise solution, and you can compare it to your own guess. Either way, you’ll learn a lot more than if you simply copied the answer that a calculator spit out.

Ça me rappelle un test d’embauche que j’ai passé, où la seule calculatrice autorisée était dans l’ordinateur et rendait de mauvaises réponses. J’ai donc refait les calculs à la main, il paraît que les jeunes ingénieurs qui ont fait le test le même jour n’ont pas réagi. :)

L’impact nul de la «Guerre contre la #drogue», en gif animé
http://i.imgur.com/FZpbb.gif

#visualisation

Bay Area breast cancer clusters seen - SFGate
http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Bay-Area-breast-cancer-clusters-seen-4068698.php

New research released Tuesday identified four areas of the state that have rates of the disease 10 to 20 percent higher than the state average.

Présentation par le San Francisco Chronicle du rapport du California Breast Cancer Mapping Project. Le rapport, très détaillé, se trouve là :
http://cehtp.org/resources/breast_cancer_mapping

L’analyse utilise les données du registre des cancers de la #Californie et est menée au niveau des districts du recensement, ce qui permet de croiser avec des données socio-démographiques. Elle est effectuée à l’aide d’un logiciel spécialisé (et gratuit…) #SaTScan.
http://www.satscan.org

On remarquera que le mot cluster, utilisé intensivement par le SFC est explicitement évité par le projet.

Because these connotations do not apply to the project results, the group decided to use the term area of concern to describe the collection of census tracts that had elevated breast cancer rates and to avoid the term *cluster* when at all possible.

Entre autres très nombreux graphiques (par zone), celui-ci qui présente l’incidence du #cancer_du_sein dans les 4 « zones concernées » et dans chacun des comtés de l’état.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/wyr1hr3339fig7h/CBCMP.jpg

URGENT- BREAKING NEWS: CleanTECH San Diego Removes Name of Deposed UC Scripps’s Tony Haymet From Website Amid Exposure on The Leslie Brodie Report; Red Flags Over Latham & Watkins, Lucas, Africa, Brosnahan;YR:Remain Calm - I’m on the Case

DEVELOPING STORY......

Following on the heels of exposure on The Leslie Brodie Report, San Diego-based CleanTECH quicly moved to redact the name of deposed Tony Haymet from its web-site.

Yesterday, The Leslie Brodie Report published a profile of CleanTECH, including the names of Leadership / Board of Directors See@:

http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/profile-of-cleantech-non-profit-launched-by-deposed-ucs-scri

MISSION

Our mission is to stimulate innovation and advance the adoption of clean technologies and sustainable industry practices for the economic, environmental and social benefit of the greater San Diego region. We accomplish this through a series of programs including education and outreach, policy advocacy and leadership opportunities. Our membership includes business and financial leaders, academic and research institutes, and government and non-profit organizations.

Leadership

Tony Haymet, Interim Chairman & Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Kelley Gale, Vice Chairman & Partner, Latham & Watkins
Julian Parra, Vice Chairman & Senior Vice President, Bank of America

However, as of today, the name of Haymet is nowhere to be found.
Leadership

Jim Waring, Executive Chairman
Kelley Gale, Vice Chairman & Partner, Latham & Watkins
Julian Parra, Vice Chairman & Senior Vice President, Bank of America
Clark Crawford, Vice Chaiman & VP Sales & Business Development USA, Soitec

Energy

Jim Avery, San Diego Gas & Electric
Bryan Bjorndal, Assure Controls
Michael Kempa, Honeywell International
Joe Mahler, Synthetic Genomics
Bill Sahnd, GE
Daniel Sullivan, Sullivan Solar Power
Jared Quient, AMSOLAR

Business & Financial

Julia Brown, Forestview Advisors
Mike Elconin, Tech Coast Angels
Peter Fisher, LightSource Renewables, LLC
Josh Lampl, EcoElectron Ventures
Glenn Mosier, UBS Financial Services

Professional Services

Lee Barken, Haskell & White, LLP
Ed Bryant, KPMG
Ben Haddad, California Strategies
Patrick Hanson, Barney & Barney
John Lormon, Procopio
Darren Morgan, Cushman & Wakefield
Doug Regnier, Ernst & Young
Steven Rowles, Morrison & Foerster
Seth Stein, Green Talent Staffing

Non-governmental Organizations

Ruben Barrales, San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce
Timothy Kelley, Imperial Valley EDC
Joe Panetta, BIOCOM
Duane Roth, CONNECT
Lisa Easterly, San Diego Regional EDC
Bill Walton, Sports & Entertainment Innovation

Academic

Scott Anders, University of San Diego
Sandra Brown, UC San Diego
Alan Sweedler, San Diego State University
Stephen Welter, San Diego State University

Government

Eric Engelman, Office of Mayor Sanders, City of San Diego
Gabe Gutierrez, Office of Ron Roberts, County of San Diego
Jim Madaffer, City of San Diego
Scott Peters, Port of San Diego
Craig Ruiz, City of Chula Vista
Rear Admiral Dixon Smith, Commander, Navy Region Southwest

See @: http://www.cleantechsandiego.org/board-of-directors.html

Current List of Regents of the University of California(Note: According to YR Circumstances Surrounding UCI Foundation-Joe Dunn;UC Berkeley Foundation-Freada Kapor;Scripps-Tony Haymet-CleanTECH; If Money is Laundered is with Consent of Regents)

Appointed Regents:

Richard C. Blum
Appointed March 12, 2002 to a term expiring March 1, 2014 (by Davis); B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.B.A, University of California, Berkeley; Chairman of Blum Capital Partners, L.P.; Co-Chairman of Newbridge Capital, LLC.

William De La Peña, M.D.
Appointed August 18, 2006 to a term expiring March 1, 2018 (by Schwarzenegger); Ophthalmologist and medical director of the De La Pena Eye Clinic; B.S., American School Foundation; M.D., Autonomous University of Guadalajara.

Russell Gould
Appointed September 13, 2005 to a term expiring March 1, 2017 (by Schwarzenegger); B.A., University of California, Berkeley.

Eddie Island
Appointed June 6, 2005 to a term expiring March 1, 2017 (by Schwarzenegger); retired attorney and executive; J.D., Harvard Law School.

George Kieffer
Appointed May 6, 2009 (by Schwarzenegger) to term expiring March 1, 2021; Partner and member of the Executive Committee of the national law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP; Bachelor’s degree, University of California, Santa Barbara; J.D. degree from UCLA.

Sherry L. Lansing
Appointed March 11, 1999 to a term expiring March 1, 2010 (by Davis);re-appointed in 2010 (by Schwarzenegger) to a term expiring March 1, 2022. Founder of the Sherry Lansing Foundation and former Chair and CEO of Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group; B.S., Northwestern University. Ms. Lansing is the current Chairman of the Board.

Monica Lozano
Appointed September 21, 2001 to term expiring March 1, 2013 (by Davis); Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of La Opinión Newspaper

Hadi Makarechian
Appointed October 24, 2008 to term expiring March 1, 2020 (by Schwarzenegger); B.S. (Civil Engineering), B.A. (Economics), State University of New York; Chairman of Makar Properties Board of Directors and Banning Lewis Ranch Management Company Board of Directors.

Norman J. Pattiz
Appointed September 21, 2001 to a term expiring March 1, 2004 (by Davis); appointed September 4, 2003 to a term expiring March 1, 2014 (by Davis); Founder and Chairman of the Board of Westwood One.

Bonnie Reiss
Appointed March 27, 2008 to a term expiring March 1, 2020 (by Schwarzenegger); Operating Advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors; BBA, University of Miami; J.D., Antioch Law School.

Fred Ruiz
Appointed July 2, 2004 to a term expiring March 1, 2016 (by Schwarzenegger); Co-founder and Chairman, Ruiz Foods.

Leslie Tang Schilling
Appointed September 13, 2005 to a term expiring March 1, 2013 (by Schwarzenegger); B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A, American Graduate School of International Management; Director of Union Square Investments, Inc.

Jonathan Stein
Student Regent, July 13, 2012- June 30, 2013; B.A., Harvard University (English); UC Berkeley student at Berkeley Law School and Goldman School of Public Policy.

Bruce D. Varner
Appointed August 18, 2006 to a term expiring March 1, 2018 (by Schwarzenegger); Partner in the law firm Varner & Brandt; B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; J.D., Hastings Law School. Mr. Varner is the current Vice Chair of the Board.

Paul Wachter
Appointed July 2, 2004 (by Schwarzenegger) to a term expiring March 1, 2016; Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Columbia School of Law;Founder, President and CEO, Main Street Advisors.

Charlene Zettel
Appointed May 6, 2009 to term expiring March 1, 2021 (by Schwarzenegger); Board member, San Diego Regional Airport Authority; B.S., University of Southern California.

Ex Officio Regents

Jerry Brown
Governor of California and ex-officio Regent, January 3, 2011 – present.

Gavin Newsom
Lieutenant Governor and ex officio Regent, effective January 10, 2011 – present.

John A. Pérez
Speaker of the Assembly and ex officio Regent, effective March 1, 2010 – present; Assemblymember from the 46th district.

Tom Torlakson
State Superintendent of Public Instruction and ex officio Regent, January 3, 2011 – present.

Mark G. Yudof
President of the University and ex officio Regent, effective June 16, 2008; B.A., University of Pennsylvania; LL.B, Law School, University of Pennsylvania.

Alan Mendelson
Alumni Regent from July 1, 2012- June 30, 2013 and Vice President of the Alumni Associations of the University of Calfornia; B.A., University of California, Berkeley; J.D., Harvard University.

Ronald Rubenstein
Alumni Regent from July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013, and President of the Alumni Associations of the University of California; B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara (Economics); J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Regents-Designate

Ken Feingold
Regent-designate, July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013, and Secretary, Alumni Associations of the University of California; B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz (History); J.D., University of San Francisco.

Van Schultz
Regent-designate, July 1, 2012- June 30, 2013 and Treasurer, Alumni Associations of the University of Calfornia; B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., University of California, Los Angeles.

Cinthia Flores
Student Regent-designate, July 1, 2012- June 30, 2013; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles.

Faculty Representatives to The Regents

Robert Powell
Faculty Representative to The Regents, September 1, 2011 – August 31, 2013, and current Chair of the Universitywide Academic Senate of the University of California.

William Jacob
Faculty Representative to The Regents, September 1, 2012 – August 31, 2014, and current Vice Chair of the Universitywide Academic Senate of the University of California.

Staff Advisors to The Regents

Kathy Barton
Staff Advisor Designate, July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013.

Kevin Smith
Staff Advisor, July 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013.

Source: http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regbios

The Leslie Brodie Report Launched Journalistic Inquiry Into Events Surrounding Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Tony Haymet, CleanTECH, Donna Lucas, Marty Africa

Amid conflicting reports and unanswered questions, The Leslie Brodie Report has launched a journalistic inquiry into events surrounding San Diego-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography (“SIO”), and directors Tony Haymet, Donna Lucas, and Marty Africa.

Haymet, 56, is “the tenth director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Haymet also serves as UC San Diego’s vice chancellor for marine sciences and dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences, and is a professor of oceanography at Scripps. He joined Scripps in 2006,” according to SIO. (Image: courtesy)

According to incomplete and misleading infomation issued by the University of California “Scripps Director Tony Haymet is taking a sabbatical and will continue his research program, accept an excellence award as Visiting Professor of the Petersen Foundation in Kiel, Germany, (http://www.geomar.de/en) and chair the World Economic Forum’s Ocean Council (http://www.weforum.org/content/global-agenda-council-oceans-2012-0). The World Economic Forum, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.”

The Leslie Brodie Report has managed to confirm that Hayment is taking a sabbatical from October 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.

The Leslie Brodie Report also managed to confirm that Haymet is presently employed at Los Angeles-based Phillips & Associates — a financial planning and fundraising counsel for not-for-profit institutions and organizations.

According to Phillips & Associates, “Tony’ principal responsibilities focus on our firm’s assignment in the development of a new non-profit organization at the Port of Los Angeles.”

The Leslie Brodie Report also managed to confirm that Hayment is also employed at Pegasus Capital Advisors — a private equity fund manager that has been providing creative capital and strategic solutions to companies across a variety of industries.

It was not immidietly clear what, if any, are Haymet’s plans as far as CleanTECH — a private, non-profit member organization he launched in 2007.

Please continue @:
http://lesliebrodie.posterous.com/tag/donnalucas

Study: Kids Are All Right With Gay or Straight Parents « MasterAdrian’s Weblog
http://masteradrian.com/2012/10/24/study-kids-are-all-right-with-gay-or-straight-parents

Study: Kids Are All Right With Gay or Straight Parents
A new UCLA study of children adopted after being in foster care further confirms that gay parents are as good for them as straight ones.
BY Trudy Ring
October 22 2012 3:40 PM ET

Children who are adopted after being in foster care do equally well whether the adoptive parents are gay, lesbian, or straight, according to a new study.

Psychologists from the University of California, Los Angeles, evaluated 82 high-risk children adopted from foster care in Los Angeles County, of whom 60 were placed with heterosexual parents and 22 with gay or lesbian parents. The researchers assessed the children at three points after their placement with the families: two months, one year, and two years.

“On average, children in both household types showed significant gains in cognitive development and maintained similar levels of behavior problems over time, despite gay and lesbian parents raising children with higher levels of biological and environmental risks prior to adoptive placement,” the psychologists wrote in the study, published in the October issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. “Results demonstrated that high-risk children show similar patterns of development over time in heterosexual and gay and lesbian adoptive households.” On average, the children’s IQ scores increased by 10 points.

The message of the study, said coauthor Letitia Anne Peplau, is that “there is no scientific basis to discriminate against gay and lesbian parents.” Read more here and here.

Sur ce nouveau #blog de #philosophie, une Interview with Catherine Malabou - Groundwork
http://groundworkphilosophy.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/interview-with-catherine-malabou

So in philosophy a groundwork is never a groundwork, it’s always a re-grounding work.

#hegel #heidegger #deleuze #raison #fondement #ontologie

Où C. Malabou, ex MC de Nanterre désormais au CRMEP de la Kingston University de Londres http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/crmep, que vient d’ailleurs de rejoindre E. Balibar (encore Nanterre), précise ses rapports avec #Derrida, son concept de #plasticité et ses recherches actuelles, en rapport notamment avec celles de Q. Meillassoux, qui lui est une sorte de star à l’ENS Ulm.

what I’m trying to do has some relation to that, to the extent that a radical approach to philosophy has to precisely put everything between parentheses and say, ‘what is an absolute beginning?’ This is Meillassoux’s question. At the same time, I’m not sure that the problem is finitude. I’m not sure that the problem is the emergence of man into that.

The first thing I can say about plasticity and politics is about abolishing the frontier between symbolic and biological life. So it will be about a kind of awareness, a biological being. Not bodily beings but biological. Producing the subjectivation of biological life. Which is taking into account, really becoming aware of, the epigenetic fashionability of our brain and of our body. This is beyond what we can be aware of, what we hear, listen to and read. We are imprinted by so many other processes and we are trying to be aware of that and understand what it means. Today the conception of our physical bodily existence as only proceeding from a genetic code is absolutely obsolete. We are made of, by epigenetic factors and this I think is very important for us to be aware of. Because what is a political subject? I think here again I agree with Meillassoux that it can’t be the classical finite subject. In too many contexts the political subject is the Kantian subject, a finite subject that is limited. I have nothing against limits but perhaps limits have to be thought of differently.

Petite référence à la querelle #Freud / #Jung et au film A dangerous method à la fin (film pas mal j’ai trouvé, dans sa capacité à mettre en scène des problèmes théoriques importants en #psychanalyse, en gros à raconter une correspondance sans que ce soit chiant)

Quelques noms de designers cités comme références et exemples par Mike Monteiro lors de sa conférence « How designers destroyed the world » à Paris Web 2012, et dans son bouquin « Design is a job » :

– Victor Papanek
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek

– Tibor Kalman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibor_Kalman
http://www.aiga.org/medalist-tiborkalman

– Ray & Charles Eames
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eames
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames

– William Caslon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caslon

– Paula Scher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Scher
http://www.aiga.org/medalist-paulascher

– Zuzana Licko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzana_Licko
http://www.aiga.org/medalist-zuzanalickoandrudyvanderlans
http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/zuzana-licko-text-in-full

– Jeffrey Zeldman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Zeldman
http://www.zeldman.com

TIMELINE — SUMMER 2010 : DLA Piper Which Housed CaliforniaALL Partnered with CaliforniaALL’s Freada Klein Kapor’s Level Playing Field Institute to Provide Internships for Minority Undergraduates in DLA Piper’s San Francisco (TLR Note: Video Dated 2009)

Throughout the summer, we again partnered with the Level Playing Field’s IDEAL Scholars program and the Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholars program to provide summer internships for minority undergraduates in our San Francisco Office.

The Level Playing Field Institute’s IDEAL Scholars program is a six-week internship for low-income, under-represented students of color attending the University of California-Berkeley who are interested in pursuing law school. The Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) provides four-year college scholarships to disadvantaged students of color to ensure their success in college and develop their leadership potential. DLA Piper’s close relationship with the JRF, including our providing office space and resources to JRF’s West Coast operations in Los Angeles, came about through Los Angeles Managing Partner Michael Meyer, who is on the JRF board and is a longtime supporter of its scholarship program.

During their internship with us, the students shadow DLA Piper lawyers and staff; at the culmination of their internship, they deliver a presentation on the functions and synergies of the departments with which they worked. The goal of the internship is to give the students some perspective of what it is like to work in a large law firm and to develop an appreciation for all jobs performed. Hear from past IDEAL scholars in a YouTube presentation provided by the Level Playing Field Institute.

Sources:

http://www.dlapiper.com/files/upload/DLA_Piper_Diversity_and_Inclusion_News_J...

AND:

http://www.dlapiperdiversity.com/community

AND:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-Qts35c3E

Israel lobby uses discredited anti-Semitism definition to muzzle debate | Ben White
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-lobby-uses-discredited-anti-semitism-definition-muzzle-debate/11716

The story of the EU Monitoring Centre’s 2005 draft working definition of anti-Semitism, a text so enthusiastically pushed by Israel advocates in California and beyond, is not well known — but it is illuminating.

Pepper-spraying campus police won’t face charges - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/pepper-spraying-campus-police-wont-face-charges-032232434.html

DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — The University of California, Davis police officers who doused students and alumni with pepper spray during a campus protest last November won’t face criminal charges, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The chemical crackdown prompted widespread condemnation, campus protests and calls for the resignation of Chancellor Linda Katehi after videos shot by witnesses were widely played online. Images of an officer casually spraying orange pepper-spray in the faces of nonviolent protesters became a rallying point for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

But the Yolo County District Attorney’s office said in a statement that there was insufficient evidence to prove the use of force was illegal.

A task force appointed by the university concluded in April that the Nov. 18 pepper-spraying was “objectively unreasonable” and could have been prevented.

La montée de l’#écoterrorisme, au #Mexique, contre les #recherches en #nanotechnologie | Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/nanotechnology-armed-resistance-1.11287

around 2008, certain groups began to adopt an ’anarcho-primitivist’ perspective. (Locally, they are called primativistas, says Gerardo Herrera Corral.) This philosophy had won little notice until the past few years, but with increasing media reports of looming global climate disaster, some radical green activists have latched on to it. California-based environmental writer Derrick Jensen — whose popular books call for an underground network of ’Deep Green Resistance’ cells — is a highly influential figure in this otherwise leaderless movement, which argues that industrial civilization is responsible for environmental destruction and must be dismantled.

In their writings, anarcho-primitivist groups often express deep anxiety about a range of advanced research subjects, including genetic engineering, cloning, synthetic biology, geoengineering and neurosciences. (...)

“I think we are in just the moment for a social explosion,” says Méndez Rojas.

Taken together, all these developments made Mexican universities, with their burgeoning nanotechnology industry, a target for #violence.

#géoingénierie

Top universities join free online teaching platform | Education | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jul/17/top-universities-free-online-classes

Twelve leading universities in the US and Europe have joined an internet platform created by two Stanford University scientists which provides free online access to classes designed by academics at elite institutions.
The move, announced on Tuesday, marks a significant expansion of online university teaching. Observers say it heralds a shakeup of the classic lecture theatre model.

Hacks of Valor | Yochai Benkler - Foreign Affairs
►http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137382/yochai-benkler/hacks-of-valor

Many of these cases, however, are ambiguous: Last November, for example, #Anonymous activists released the personal details of a police officer who had pepper-sprayed protesters at the University of California, Davis. Similar personal disclosures were a mainstay of the hacks against Arizona law-enforcement officers in 2011. In those cases, there are fewer easy answers to the questions of who is a valid target, what of that target’s information can rightfully be exposed, and who gets to answer these very questions.

We are left, then, with the task of assessing threats in a state of moral ambiguity. In more naïve times, one might naturally prefer a law-bound state deciding which power abuses should be reined in and which information exposed. But these are no longer naïve times. A decade that saw the normalization in U.S. policy of lawless detentions, torture, and targeted assassinations; a persistent refusal to bring those now or formerly in power, in both the public and private sectors, to account for their failures; and a political system that increasingly favors the rich have eroded that certitude. Perhaps that is the greatest challenge that Anonymous poses: It both embodies and expresses a growing doubt that actors with formal authority will make decisions of greater legitimacy than individuals acting collectively in newly powerful networks and guided by their own consciences.

Anonymous demonstrates one of the new core aspects of power in a networked, democratic society: Individuals are vastly more effective and less susceptible to manipulation, control, and suppression by traditional sources of power than they were even a decade ago.