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SUMMARY:Franco "Bifo" Berardi: "Social Morphogenesis: The Historical Transition from Revolution to Disentanglement"
DESCRIPTION:The subject of this lecture comes from the recent experience of the Occupy movement against financial capitalism. It investigates the political and conceptual limits of these movements\, and their inability to put an end to the financial aggression. Focusing on the main actors of the Occupy process – the precarious cognitive workers\, embodying the Marx’s concept of “general intellect” – the lecture will seek to grasp the possibilities that this social force has brought about. \nFranco “Bifo” Berardi is an Italian political theorist and activist. He is the founder of the legendary magazine A/traverso (1975-1981) and was part of the staff of Radio Alice\, the first free radio station in Italy (1976-1978). Involved in the political movement of Autonomia in Italy during the 1970s\, he fled to Paris where he worked with Felix Guattari in the field of schizoanalysis. During the 1980s he contributed to the magazines Semiotext(e) (New York)\, Chimerees (Paris)\, Metropoli (Rome) and Musica 80 (Milan). In the 1990′s he published Mutazione e Ciberpunk (Genoa\, 1993)\, Cibernauti (Rome\, 1994) and was the co-founder of the e-zine rekombinant.org. In the last decade he has published\, among others: The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance (Semiotext(e)\, 2012)\, Félix (Palgrave McMillan\, 2008) and The Soul at Work (Semiotext(e)\, 2010). His forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End will be published by n-1 Publications at the end of 2014. \nThis talk is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures\,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research\, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature\, Sociology\, Anthropology\, and Politics Departments; Stevenson\, Cowell\, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research. \n\n  \nPODCAST: \n \n  \nPHOTOS: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-research-cluster-franco-berardi-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Franco Berardi\, Seminar Discussion: "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization"
DESCRIPTION:Franco “Bifo” Berardi will be leading a seminar discussion based on “Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization\,” an excerpt from his forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End. Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion. \nThe text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ax682ecxgn4jtzi/Franco%20Berardi%2C%20Aesthetic%20Genealogy%20of%20Globalization.pdf?dl=0.\n  \nThis seminar is part of the series “What Is to Be Done? Organizational Forms and Political Futures\,” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster and the Institute for Humanities Research\, with the co-sponsorship of the Literature\, Sociology\, Anthropology\, and Politics Departments; Stevenson\, Cowell\, and Porter Colleges; and the Vice Chancellor for Research. \n  \nPODCAST: \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/franco-berardi-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141211T160000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Abe Stone: "Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?"
DESCRIPTION:At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. \nAll members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. \nCoffee\, tea\, and cookies served.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/abe-stone-why-does-space-have-more-than-one-dimension-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Madeline Lane-McKinley: "Free Love Utopias: A Feminist Spatial Analysis of New Communalism"
DESCRIPTION:Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. \nFridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n  \n\n  \nThis event series is also made possible through the generous support of the departments of Literature\, History of Consciousness. Anthropology\, Feminist Studies\, HAVC\, Philosophy\, Politics\, Psychology and Sociology as well as the GSA and GSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/madeline-lane-mckinley-free-love-utopias-a-feminist-spatial-analysis-of-new-communalism-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Adam Albright: "Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments"
DESCRIPTION:As with most linguistic input\, the data that children receive about phonological patterns is rife with ambiguity. For example\, children hearing voicing alternations in German ([diːp] ~ [diːbə] ‘thief-sg./pl.’\, [maʊs] ~ [mɔɪzɐ] ‘mouse-sg./pl.’) receive no evidence as to whether a single final devoicing process affects all word-final obstruents\, or just the subset of obstruents that German happens to have\, or whether separate processes affect different subsets of segments. Thus\, the data radically underdetermines the analysis (poverty of the stimulus)\, and learners must employ prior biases in order to favor one analysis over another. By observing how speakers extend alternations to novel words\, strings\, and segments\, it is possible to gain insight into these biases—e.g.\, a preference for simpler rules may lead them to generalize devoicing to as broad a class of segments as possible\, while a preference for typologically common rules favor generalization of devoicing to other obstruents\, but not to sonorants.  In this talk\, I present experimental evidence test three types of bias: (1) a bias against alternations\, favoring uniform paradigms (McCarthy 1998); (2) a bias in favor of alternations that target broader classes of segments (Peperkamp et al. 2006); (3) a substantive bias against perceptually salient alternations (Steriade 2001). \nLearners’ biases were probed using Artificial Grammar experiments\, in which adult English speakers were taught singular~plural pairs in a “Martian language”\, and were then asked to produce or rate plural forms. In all of the languages reported here\, obstruent-final stems exhibited voicing or continuancy alternations (dap~dabi\, brup~brufi). A premise of learning biases is that the less data learners have received\, the more their behavior will reflect prior biases. In the first set of experiments\, we manipulated the amount of data that learners received by varying the frequency of alternations across different segments\, in order to test how generalization changes with increasing amounts of data. For example\, if learners are biased to expect non-alternation\, we expect fewer alternating responses for languages with less data about obstruents\, and for rarer segments within a language. If learners expect alternations to apply to broad classes of segments\, we expect processes affecting attested segments to be generalized to unattested or rarer segments. Finally\, if learners are biased to expect certain alternations (e.g.\, voicing) over others (e.g.\, continuancy)\, we expect participants to generalize preferred alternations at higher rates than dispreferred alternations.    In a second set of experiments\, we independently manipulated the evidence that learners received for alternation and also non-alternation\, in order to test whether the preference for non-alternation is purely a prior bias (OO-Faith » Markedness)\, or whether it is learned on the basis of data from non-alternating paradigms.   The results show that increasing the number of training items with alternating paradigms significantly increases the probability of choosing alternations in the test phase\, while increasing the number of items with non-alternating paradigms does not increase the probability of selecting a uniform paradigm.  Thus\, the results are generally support a prior bias for uniform paradigms. \nThese results can be modeled accurately using a maximum entropy (maxent) grammar of weighted constraints. Three properties of maxent models make them well suited to modeling the observed biases. First\, the set of prior/innate constraints is a parameter of the model\, and by including correspondence (faithfulness) constraints in the grammar\, it is possible to model an expectation for non-alternation.  By specifying prior distributions over constraint weights\, we can model an initial bias to obey certain constraints (such as faithfulness) at the expense of others.  Finally\, it is possible to specific different distributions for different constraints\, reflecting the fact that learners demote some constraints more readily than others. This allows us to model the fact that participants favor alternations that target broad classes of segments\, and favor certain alternations over others. \n(Joint work with Youngah Do\, Georgetown University)\n  \nAbout eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world.\n \nUpcoming colloquia: \nWINTER 2015\nJanuary 16th\nClaire Halpert\, University of Minnesota \nJanuary 23rd\nValentine Hacquard\, Maryland \nFebruary 6th\nRachel Walker\, USC \nmid-March: date TBA\nLASC: Linguistics at Santa Cruz Conference \nSPRING 2015\nApril 10th\nDaniel Lassiter\, Stanford \nApril 17th\nKeith Johnson\, UC Berkeley \nMay 1st\nGrant Goodall\, UC San Diego \nMay/June: date TBA\nLURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-research-colloquia-adam-albright-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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