i.e. the laws can't be observed directly very easily, but they can be used to explain other phenomena

his name

father-daughter tale

a sense of omnipotence

cf above

I guess that's a euphemism

question about whether it is possible to hold onto happiness in dire circumstances - and for whom

huh, interesting

Last line is coefficient of transmissibility but the values seem surprsingly high. Why didn't he do more wavelengths? Where is the dark band he refers to in this paragraph? Are these data plotted? They don't look anything like Plate 6 Still confused about the above but these are for one night's observations

illusory

a million corrections...

daily calibration of measuring needle deflectin

Wavelength table with corresponding angles of deviation Note orange light = 0.5890

Prelude to the theory of the screen. He really insists that this is inherent to the possibility of observation because the moon's heat is so similar to the emanating radiation from the room, the screen itself, the apartment.

This is quite important. 1. Short focus concave mirror to concentrate light. compared with and without glass gives rough estimate of lunar radiation by subtracting the invisible (I think). Not otherwise differentiated by wavelength. 2. Same mirror - rock salt lenses and prism, to measure heat in different parts of the spectrum. 3. Long focus mirror for a larger image of the moon (30mm) to better measure varying wavelengths (although the measurable heat is more diffuse)

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So this clarifies that signification has primacy over manifestation, which I suppose means that concepts have an inherited durability that antecedes the sage and affects their manifestation. This also calls into question the envelopment of the prior paragraph, because that sentence seems to imply the intentionality of the subject and control over signification. But perhaps I'm missing that that's only partly how it works - the clause 'this dimension also has a role to play.'

...stability (temporary, partial, cannot be assumed) of the signified concept.

then, desires and beliefs articulated in words depend on the primacy of concepts that make them significant. But desires are greater than the simple urgency of needs, and beliefs greater than simple opinions, so the quote points toward the congealment of a manifested [subject], someone formed by concepts (sense-events) that emerge out of prior sayables. But I find this quote does not at all establish the claim of the prior paragraph, which is making an altogether different point about the meaning (development) of words being independent of particular persons. And the tension between the subject who envelops signification and its later de-velopment is sloppy and seems attributed on the part of Bowden. 'signification... may also be developed (unwrapped) independently of any speaking person' - that's a fine point but I'm cautious about attributing it to Deleuze because it concerns the status of the subject which so far is thoroughly ambiguous, 'personal manifestation' - it seems to import much more general implications from a generic post-war continental philosophy.

ok, that's a different direction - conditions of possibility (underlying assumptions?) versus execution of truth. I'm still holding out for a distinction between the truth of sense versus correct facts.

Exactly - so how do we tease this apart? The truth of sense is not the same as denotative correctness. But what is the falseness of sense? A totally senseless comment is absurd, neither true nor false, but some superficially correct statements can be dangerously wrong if they carry along with them particular assumptions

Note also that the proposition itself is body, not event. But it presumably is caused by the event of the sayable.

When a proposition - perhaps a speech act - characterizes an event it is language used in a particular way which composes the event of sense, much in the way Derrida says somewhere that the event of an utterance or of writing is the sentence. Might be interesting to look again at signature event context.

Kimmerer - the being of the bay, the event of the bay

incorporeal event-effect = sayable, the thing that can be said logical dimension = Sinn = sense-events, the extra meaning of any statement is an event constituted in relation to the sayable. Sinn is an event that captures the sayable, itself an event.

tracking Derrida here

remember that paper I wrote I think for Ashley Thompson where I talked about the penumbral quality of things... But also th paper i wrote for Stephania in which the thing that exists is the thing (person) that continually is recreated - three papers now from early grad school I need to try to find!

Sinn could be sense or deeper meaning, meaning of life but also reason (eg senseless) or orientation, direction Bedeutung - dictionary definition, narrow meaning. these bear relevantly on my trying to figure out the meaning of meaning, mean, orientation, direction, intention - the etymology. Glass half full/empty - same bedeutung, very different Sinn. Zeichen = sign

Oxford reference" Sign" - "Gottlob Frege invented a method of investigating the relationships in such a triangle through mathematical modeling. His terms for the three parts of the sign are Zeichen, Sinn, and Bedeutung. His study proceeded through a meticulous and mathematically strict analysis of synonymy and in a novel manner linked the logic of representation to truth relations."

the event is a sayable in the sense that it is a [thing] that can be said. sayable /= the words but das ding.

To what extent is this a concrete situation, as Schmitt likes to say, or a knowable state of affairs? To what extent is it composed?

interesting, not totally sure I follow the ramifications

feels like we're gong to be talking about Zeno pretty soon

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If void is the possibility of inhabiting is place something like inhabitation? See also place and Aion seem to anticipate Kantian categories, perhaps incorporeals could be see as alternatives.

calculus

discussions around pastoral power...

Wisdom as such (i.e. not being wise). A quality such as anger is a body. Bodies composed of matter and logos.

the point here is that it's verb centric. the verb process introduces time, it introduces multiplicity of being and it even makes it possible to say "alice" because the thing designated is apparent or immanent in its continuity across change.

see note ...the names of pauses and rest... interesting passage personal uncertainty is an objective structure of the event itself quote from LS 3. Events convey and essential irreality.

This is very close to what Bowden is saying about the Stoics in Logic and Sense

Related to JW Gibbs the physicist that Rukeyser is so into ? also of New hven

Do people's concerns with EDCs amount to sex panic, anxiety about gender normativity? This is the research question

Questions we may be prompted to ask

Empirical basis of claim

Key claim

link between method and vantage point, "by focusing on..."

Is concern about hormone disruption heteronormative?

cautionary note that adds nuance

bigger picture; brief historical background

Academic background literature discussion - hardly exhaustive, but rather a more curated, minimal discussion of highlights that academics have emphasized that give an unexpected vantage on the issues.

Deft introduction: something is happening, very brief background (1 sentence), position of what matters ('alarming data'... female organs in male fish')

He says that it was an assumption of black mobility (aspatiality) that played into black outmigration, but then he says they were in fact more mobile.

In the same way that many settlers played Indian or adopted a kind of indian repertoire, collecting artifacts etc

Why is this mythic exactly? And how connected to family, e.g. in the coal kin narratives?

Specific to how people's concerns are discounted, e.g. Black women's pain (or other truth claims for that matter)

http://www.coaleducation.org/technology/Underground/images/HighVoltageContinuousMiner.jpg

official praise or approval

Really? I'm trying to imagine this. 'I better not get a ticket because my car insurance will go up.' Not sure I would call that solidarity but I suppose something like responsibility is embedded in the price.

secular scientific materialism is key terrain for this as North American indigenous scholars have insisted

Doesn't really sound like the state to me...

Can't follow - put this in a map!

Finally

One question about the distrust and grudges between yuan - to what extent these are driven by water or somethign else

CS Holling

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I thought they were having major floods every 1.5 years

numbers quite incredible

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Answer seems to be 'no.' What then?

The game is to use your positino - often times your spatial or physical position - to take what you can from anyone you can take it from.

Not the yakuza

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Pests vs valued species

Bovine frontier

Ch 1, 5, 11

Back to Empire (Hardt Negri)

Habitat diversity gradients in nutrients, energy, water, light, humidity, temperature, elevation, timing and amplitude eg seasonality, mechanical factors eg storms

Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism - the question is how do these influence evolution and diversification?

B is a generalist; A is a specialist and will outcompete B in the colder water

Notice

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Uneven, discontinuous nature of these changes; markets as institutions

How to attribute responsibility/agency?

Nice quote

Note this dynamism in this paragraph

Process

Limits of snapshot comparisons

Discuss this example

Discuss pests here going forward - fly, rats, plant diseases, rust...

Tell me about this

Unpack some of these effects

Define

What is a weed? Two definitions. Invasive species

note

Localized climatic changes

Burning as practice Mobility versus sedentarism as strategy Property as institution

Prelude to forest ecology

note

Beaver ecology

note

Reliance on markets becomes dependence on markets i.e. expecting fur commodities to bear your whole subsistence

Key changes follow

Ecological shift -> sedentarism

Key passages

Note

Yes

key

Discuss

The discussion starting from here is crucial to the understanding of the book

"Cultural" difference

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Key point

Discuss

Discuss

Discuss abstraction

Discuss land transaction

Discuss ecology

Discuss passage

Discuss following example

Alienation inalienable rights

unpack this

Discuss

This question only looks at administrators' role in that and doesn't ask anything about other factors

This question only makes sense of there is a good reason to expect a contrary course of action to be likely.

Can X help explain Y? How far will that go?

Also, you can imagine reading a newspaper article with your friends and debating why something is the way it is, then treating the most compelling explanation as sth testable

In theory... certainly not so strict in anthropology

Quantitative is often about proving or disproving quite specific or narrow claims whereas qualitative is about explaining and contextualizing at a level of generality. Quant often weak in terms of the underlying assumptions, e.g. how you lose specificity if you have standardized questions, whereas qual is maybe less tight in terms of hammering home whether something is in fact true. Sometimes more circumstantial evidence.

This is related to partial knowledge, i.e. insights that come from the researcher being a particular kind of person, having a certain background, experiences etc.

So in this case the 'theory' is the null hypothesis, the thing people assume to be the case or the accepted story. My research on 19th century atmospheric science

In your research, you will regularly identify specific questions you want to answer or hypotheses to be confirmed or rejected. Cf my Thailand research reports

Maybe not for an MA thesis

Comparatively, many quantitative studies make wild assumptions about the generalizability of their research. Why would a health study on Americans be relevant outside the US? One mistake is to use universal concepts for things that are historical or sociocultural in nature.

So these are separate parts of the study, using narrower datasets to answer specific questions. The overarching study is not one study but a big picture built up from smaller more focused research forays

Far more data than you know what to do with recursive data - it is allowed to change the research approach, assumptions etc. Reflexive data - the ethnographer's positionality and experience matters to the results interpretive - the interpretation is partial and defensible; it has to answer to the questions and skepticism people direct towards it

e.g. a village or community, a development project

Recall that for some people, the problem is opposite. You know what social or political issue you want to work on but struggle to articulate a defined research question

Industry lobbying for classifying natural gas as a renewable energy source

Interesting that this maps Neil Brenner's notionof planetary urbanism quite closely, not as conceptual claim but as a rights-based claim

Very intrigued about the ways legal archives might illuminate coal industry dynamics. Also interested in this kind of shareholder activism, contra Marty Lipton who was defending companies against hostile takeovers (in defense of employees and longer term vision) versus Benjamin Graham. Unsure if those positions are mutually antagonistic.

Unlike economists who are interested in the abstracted balances of trade flows, here Tilford Gaines is specifically interested in volumes of energy available and the investment requirements needed over a 15 year horizon. So it's a kind of applied economics that is concerned with the practicalities of supplying enough in the context of energy shortage (1973 oil embargo)

Panic versus scandal

Precisely the governance that Friedberg is referring to

CF industries where there is a real conflict of interest between firms that have to work together, e.g. contractors and project developers.

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I.e. price competition drives env damage and competition between env goals

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Always this BS - just as if climate scientists were making bank.

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Same guys as above. Also, yet another 'refutation by a single study' argument.

Discuss

Is amazon specialized? Is Facebook specialized? Google? Unilever?

So, with Friedman he needs to insist on a strict separation between economy and politics, and yet it only concerns certain kinds of political issues, i.e. it doesn't include everything involved in making the world safe for capitalism.

Yet this person thinks that absent these social objectives, finance don't wield any political power. As if merely making as much money as possible was apolitical in its means and consequences.

What is higher quality capital? Do you get $100 in your bank account and wonder if it's good quality money? Point: Capital is not just cash. It's $$ with expectations attached.

Anti-Jewish dog whistle anyone?

Is this person really arguing that pumping out GHGs is not political? That it's just neutral economic activity?

! Actually this has a history, at least w/r/t employee pensions. There was fight over whether pension management should only consider financial returns. Even though pensions are meant to provide for a life in decades to come so if they're destroying the world people will live in it kinda defeats the purpose.

This is basic arbitrage theory

Contrast the very successful efforts by tobacco to eliminate regulation in much of the developing world, where cigarettes cost ~$1.40/pack which is as cheap as possible with a small margin and a strategy to sell as much as possible

Similar to oil. 'How to make money on declining sales'. A business model that sees higher returns per unit, so less volume + higher margin, in which regulatory pressure supports a higher price. Shell has been very clear about this.

What is an activist shareholder? Does it specifically refer to ethical or political demands?

Discuss

Follow through on the link

According to this definition Uber is terrorist

How you measure things is directly and irrevocably related to how you construe value.

Nice definition of capitalism, except capitalism is not just an ideology

I don't like this language

Discuss Also the idea that government should be run like business

EPA writes rules that interpret the law based on executive direction i.e. within a presidential administration. These are frequently challenged in the courts by pro-environment and pro-business groups, and in-coming administrations can rewrite those rules but it is sometimes difficult.

Seems unrealistic in some respects. Conservatives have pushed hard to gain entitlements for hard skills, e.g. big factories in red states, and this seems like a deft political strategy. That doesn't mean soft skills aren't important, but the tendency to deindustrialize the work force also creates a left-liberal vulnerability where privilege is also associated with the risk of being economically superfluous.

Predictability as risk guarantee

This understood as government noninterference in people's choices but also pretending that corporations and private persons were somehow equivalent.

For example, if you don't like the terms of service for Apple, you have exactly one choice. Don't use Apple.

I.e. a major revision of the role of the state in governing the market, i.e. market correction, rejecting state socialism (large scale social planning projects, welfare, 'cradle to the grave') but also revising the way free market would be governed since laissez faire had so many awful consequences e.g. highly predatory of disadvantages people (why are there no banks in poor neighborhoods? bc banks don't make money on small transactions and tiny accounts. So how do poor people manage their money? through predatory lending and services companies with very high fees. The atm with draw fee example.

Note these resources

Note the 'on the record' status - many discussions are Chattam House rules when means you can't attribute anything said to particular people (closed door knowledge sharing) you can look up the details of chattam house rules if you wish.

It does not make sense to invest now in something that produces only a small gain and will need to be transitioned out of in the near future, such as natural gas electricity generation.

Killed by the recent supreme court decision

Some people feel that Cedric Robinson's conceptualization of racial capitalism is not sufficiently nuanced. See also Michael Ralph's 'forensics of capital' - and take his courses in the Social and Cultural Analysis program!

The idea here is that some whites or non-black POC are 'blackened,'

I don't know, this seems kind of weirdly culturalist

Do you find this to be convincing? There seems to be something tautological or incomplete about this explanation - what do you think?

Discuss

Who is this?

Unpack

Here they are arguing that four distinct literatures on environment, government and society are relevant.

Nice definition of political ecology

CF the WWF presentation

What does this mean?

Debate

Polanyi called the dream of a self-regulating market a utopian ideal

We were discussing how labor and environment are treated similarly by capital because they are both key sources of surplus

Polanyi argued that as capitalist production ravaged land and social relations, people would push back against it in all kinds of specific ways. This is part of his argument for why nationalist and fascism arose as a rejection of international finance.

This is an important term, we will need to unpack it

I.e., reaction against the economic orthodoxy 1930-1970, which defined the large social states after WWII with large social protection mandates such as welfare or broad middle-class focused economic policies.

Important list

Locke as key political theorist for early modern capitalism esp second treatise on government

For Lacan, the phallus is a symbol that has no inherent power; its power is simply attributed to it by its worshippers. And its critics are as enraptured by the phallus as its worshippers

What JK Gibson Graham call "distribution of surplus"

sauvage = "wild" salvage, to salvage i.e. to bring to salvation