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  1. May 2023
    1. Furthermore,is it easier to govern a camp when it has reached slum-like conditions?

      yes it is. When the Polis is undermined, the public and the private intersect, and the infrastructure rots, subjugation becomes easier.

    1. residents who had come from more than 40 villages

      Residents' regional identity was being diluted in favour of homogenisationm because it is easier to weaken then control one group rather than forty.

    2. strengthened themselves through this kindof organization, and they somehow managed to reconstruct the village life whichthey longed for

      Villagers clung to their bilad

    3. keeping the camp ‘private,’ by making sure no internalorganization among the refugees was permitted

      Keep the camp in a "private" state so as not to allow the creation of a "polis", a public space where organized political movement may be possible (Abreek, 2015).

    4. In addition, maintaining the refugees’ status assuch enabled Jordan to control them, on the other hand, and perpetuated theinternational community’s economic and other responsibilities for them, whichmade their management easier for the relatively poor kingdom

      Easier to control as one entity devoid of a sense of national belonging

    5. UNRWA created a working definition of ‘refugee’ to determineeligibility for relief: ‘a person who has lost his home and means of livelihood as aresult of the hostilities, and who had lived in (what is now) Israel for two yearsbefore 1948.

      Interactionist perspective: UNRWA defined setting a definition for the Palestinian refugee as a "person who has lost his home and means of livelihood" and cited the reason for this loss as "hostilities". UNRWA never clearly defined what these hostilities were and who created them. They were ready to victimize Palestinian refugees but not to criminalize the actions of their Israeli colonizers.

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    1. converting [residents’] economic power towards serving the newly allocated services.

      Removal of old residents, replacement, to fit a new theme. Old residents are deemed lesser, incompatible, and require extermination.

    2. a lack of transparency and community involvement does not only put residents at a disadvantage, but it can also lead to insecurity amid escalating conflicts between residents, developers, and authorities

      Lack of transparency is a weapon used by organized governmental mafias like the Land Reclamation Commission.

  2. Apr 2023
    1. According to the earlier discussion, the physical and social destruction of theArab residents, exclusion from their homes in Palestine, as well as from theneighboring Arab cities – from both ‘public’ spheres – and the emergence of the‘refugee’

      Refugee status equation: exclusion from public sphere(internally and externally)+prohibition of private sphere = delineation and refugee status.

    2. Nihilistic actions not only delineated the creation anddevelopment of the camps, but are themselves processes that led to paradoxicalsituations, veritably positioning the camps on the borderline between the‘private’ and the ‘public’ spheres

      Camps exist in a gray area between private and public spheres

    3. Only then do they become homo sacer inthe sense implied by ancient Roman law: destined to die, with their life defined as‘bare’ (Agamben 1995).

      refugees are the new homo sacer

    4. Hannah Arendt, a ‘refugee’ is a ‘stateless’or ‘non-citizen’ person who threatens the nation-state system

      Definition of refugee instrumental to the development of argument about Palestinian lived experience nexus

    5. The article contends thatthe architecture of the refugee camps acts as a type of unwritten rigid law,outlining the boundary between ‘public’ and ‘private’ realm

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    1. re. During this period, Agamben began to elaborate his primary concerns, although their political bearings were not yet made explicit. In 1974–1975 he was a fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London, due to the courtesy of Frances Yates, whom he met through Italo Calvino. During this fellowship, Agamben began to develop his seco

      leoleoeoleoeoel

  3. Mar 2023
    1. I think children in camps have more effective strategies in solving problems than other children

      Parentification at play: children forced to mature more quickly

    2. deal effectively with daily life stressors and traumatic experiences.

      Self-efficacy does not imply hope: the children believe that they have abilities to adapt to their tough environment, but that does not mean that they have hope to change the system (overthrow apartheid)

    3. UNRWA

      United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Interactionist approach: the meaning behind most governing institutions in Palestine: aid organizations, relief organizations, Palestinians constantly degraded by the plethora of caretaker organizations that cater to the marginalized, the broken, the fleeing, further reinforcing these stereotypes in Palestinians.

    4. Nakba as a forced transfer of their families from the 1948 land to the ‘diaspora’.

      The creation of the diaspora was forced, not a natural extension of the financial or cultural ambitions of a few select Palestinians

    5. Refugee children consider Nakba as a traumatic experience which negatively affected the future of all Palestinians in general

      The Nakba continues to have a prolonged effect on the Palestinian generations that followed, and is not exclusive to one generation

    1. Chatbots don’t have any intrinsic goals they want to accomplish through conversation and aren’t motivated by what others think or how they are reacting

      .

  4. Feb 2023
    1. This Essay addresses this criticism of the literature by focusing on the subjective rationalizations articulated by Serageldin to extend neutralization theory, examining self-deception and fact distortion as a technique of neutralization in the white-collar crime context.

      The purpose of this essay: expand the meaning of neutralization theory using Serageldin's example

    1. Maybe by disentangling the training from the tournament, like in chess and bodybuilding

      To make AI genuinely helpful and nurturing, find a way to make separate its training and teaching abilities from its ability to facilitate the bypassing of responsibilities

    2. l to one’s conscience or ethical principles becomes practically futile

      Takes the shame out of cheating due to the difficulty of detecting AI cheating

    3. But chess players do not compete with their own chess engine against one another

      Outsourcing competition to some bot => eliminates the desire to compete and innovate

    1. It is this process I don’t want today’s college students to miss.

      The iterative writing process will be cut short and even missed by users of writing AI

    2. students for whom writing feels like a transaction or a chore will no longer be motivated to practice it. (Writing is, above all, a practice

      AI will keep poor writers poor

    3. the goal of writing as getting to our point quickly, making a strong argument and concluding carefully, all with perfect grammar and syntax.

      The goal of writing

    1. ChatGPT (or any other AI tools) cannot be used in the work, nor can figures, images, or graphics be the products of such tools

      Why ban ChatGPT output if it is simply an aggregation of data from datasets generated by human beings?

    2. Science journals, the word “original” is enough to signal that text written by ChatGPT is not acceptable: It is, after all, plagiarized from ChatGPT

      The problematic idea of anthropomorphizing ChatGPT

    3. 63% of these fakes

      potential issue with reliability, informed consent to cite papers for the generated abstracted, informed consent of the reader that the text they are reading is AI-generated