Biopower refers to the practice of modern nation-states through an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugation of bodies and the control of populations. Foucault used the term to refer specifically to public health practices, among other regulatory mechanisms.
Biopolitics is a concept that takes into account the management of the life and populations of a governed region. Biopolitics produces a generalized disciplinary society and regulatory controls through population biopolitics.
Giorgio Agamben states that what is manifesting in this pandemic is the growing tendency to use the state of emergency as a normal paradigm of government.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29380.04488
The viruses coexist for approx. 300 million years with the humans. Sometimes viruses can infect people on a large scale. But how was the current pandemic possible?
Global warming is causing extreme weather events that have led to an increase in infectious diseases. The new climate can support epidemiological vectors for longer periods of time, creating more favorable conditions for replication and the emergence of new vectors.
In the case of emerging infectious diseases, it is considered that there is a border that has already been crossed. Viruses normally have a native area (their "reservoir") from which they should not be pushed out. This creates a dangerous intimacy, with "hotspots" that include locations such as markets, which become real hotbeds of epidemics.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26974.87364
Populism and Climate Change in the Era of Post-TruthAntal Attila
Post-truth (PT) and post-factual politics (PFP) has increasingly been core pillars of our public and media sphere. This can be analyzed in the broader context of the politics, which shows that the core nature of politics has changed: emotions, enemies, political personalities have been moved in to the center of the politics. Facts, institutions, experts, law- and right-based approach begin to lose their importance. On the one hand, populist forces felt this political shift; on the other hand, they have begun to force and push these tendencies. I will put forward here a hypothesis concerning the relationship between the populist turn of politics and the climate change. Climate skepticism and climate change denial were existing and flourishing phenomena before the populist era of PT and PFP, but the law- and expert-based neoliberal politics tried to handle this situation with transnational agreements (most recently with the Paris Agreement). Unfortunately, populist (mainly on the political right) forces are attempting to use PT and PFP techniques to attack environmental measures and self-evident facts concerning the climate change. According to my hypothesis this combat can not only be seen as result of a political strategy to support industry donors, but also the massive anti-climate policy based on the concept of political sovereignty. The nationalist populist right (from Donald Trump to Viktor Orbán) recognized that the adaptation and mitigation in the context of the Anthropocene and climate change need to have a new concept of sovereignty. I will investigate here the roots of PT/PFP and fake news politics and I am elaborating the concept of biopopulism concerning the climate change. After all I will conclude some assumptions how to protect the climate against the populist post-truth regimes.
A brief retrospective of the COVID-19 virus that caused the current pandemic, its life cycle and its history. Reactions, measures and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. A presentation of various philosophical approaches, with an emphasis on the philosophy of death, eco-psychoanalysis, and appeal to the philosophies of Sigmund Freud and Albert Camus.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14848.25608
Virus Ontology: Thing, Being, Process, or Information?Nicolae Sfetcu
The study of viruses raises pressing conceptual and philosophical questions about their nature, their classification, and their place in the biological world. A major set of problems concerns the individuality and diachronic identity of a virus: what is the virus, the viral particle (virion) or the entire viral cycle? The correct identification of the virus has significant ontological consequences, also related to the place and time when biological entities begin and end.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35874.66241
In recent years populism has not only become some kind of Zeitgeist, but it has redesigned our beliefs and assumptions concerning liberal democracy. Is seems to be that radical right populism is more successful than leftist populism. According to my hypothesis we have entered the era of populist democracy and there is a fierce competition between the left and right to define and maintain the core nature of this populist democracy. I will apply the well know theory of Empire and Multitude by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2000) to understand our current populist tendencies. It will be argued in my paper that right-wing nationalist populism can be seen as a manifestation of the Empire. According to my understanding the populist parties and movements on the political right belong to the realist conception of the Empire: these actors are seeking the political power and would like to conquer the institutions of global capitalism. Right-wing nationalist populism is neither anti-capitalist, nor anti-elitist. It means that a new political elite has been created (for instance this is Donald Trump and alt-right in the USA, Viktor Orbán and his regime in Hungary) and seeks to gain political power with populist political communication and style. That’s why I call this new phenomenon elitist populism or Empire Populism. These actors are acting like populist in that sense they understand and solve the people’s problems, in fact they serve elitist purposes. On the other hand, the (radical) left populism has been called here a utopian or Multitude Populism. This form of populism tries to concern the multitudes of the people. Occupy movement, Indignados) and DiEM25 have emerged as left populist promises. I will analyse in my paper the political theoretical backgrounds of Empire and Multitude Populism. It has been stated here that the populist right has been inspired by the concepts of Carl Schmitt (the concept of the Political; the nature of neoliberalism; state of exception), Max Weber (leader democracy), and populist constitutionalism. On the left side, the Multitude Populism seems to be frozen from ideological point of view and suffering from ideological emptiness, but transnational populism could fill this theoretical gap. That is why I will put forward my thought on this crisis and argue that populist left needs to reformulate its bases as transnational political communities based on multitude.
The viruses coexist for approx. 300 million years with the humans. Sometimes viruses can infect people on a large scale. But how was the current pandemic possible?
Global warming is causing extreme weather events that have led to an increase in infectious diseases. The new climate can support epidemiological vectors for longer periods of time, creating more favorable conditions for replication and the emergence of new vectors.
In the case of emerging infectious diseases, it is considered that there is a border that has already been crossed. Viruses normally have a native area (their "reservoir") from which they should not be pushed out. This creates a dangerous intimacy, with "hotspots" that include locations such as markets, which become real hotbeds of epidemics.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26974.87364
Populism and Climate Change in the Era of Post-TruthAntal Attila
Post-truth (PT) and post-factual politics (PFP) has increasingly been core pillars of our public and media sphere. This can be analyzed in the broader context of the politics, which shows that the core nature of politics has changed: emotions, enemies, political personalities have been moved in to the center of the politics. Facts, institutions, experts, law- and right-based approach begin to lose their importance. On the one hand, populist forces felt this political shift; on the other hand, they have begun to force and push these tendencies. I will put forward here a hypothesis concerning the relationship between the populist turn of politics and the climate change. Climate skepticism and climate change denial were existing and flourishing phenomena before the populist era of PT and PFP, but the law- and expert-based neoliberal politics tried to handle this situation with transnational agreements (most recently with the Paris Agreement). Unfortunately, populist (mainly on the political right) forces are attempting to use PT and PFP techniques to attack environmental measures and self-evident facts concerning the climate change. According to my hypothesis this combat can not only be seen as result of a political strategy to support industry donors, but also the massive anti-climate policy based on the concept of political sovereignty. The nationalist populist right (from Donald Trump to Viktor Orbán) recognized that the adaptation and mitigation in the context of the Anthropocene and climate change need to have a new concept of sovereignty. I will investigate here the roots of PT/PFP and fake news politics and I am elaborating the concept of biopopulism concerning the climate change. After all I will conclude some assumptions how to protect the climate against the populist post-truth regimes.
A brief retrospective of the COVID-19 virus that caused the current pandemic, its life cycle and its history. Reactions, measures and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. A presentation of various philosophical approaches, with an emphasis on the philosophy of death, eco-psychoanalysis, and appeal to the philosophies of Sigmund Freud and Albert Camus.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14848.25608
Virus Ontology: Thing, Being, Process, or Information?Nicolae Sfetcu
The study of viruses raises pressing conceptual and philosophical questions about their nature, their classification, and their place in the biological world. A major set of problems concerns the individuality and diachronic identity of a virus: what is the virus, the viral particle (virion) or the entire viral cycle? The correct identification of the virus has significant ontological consequences, also related to the place and time when biological entities begin and end.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35874.66241
In recent years populism has not only become some kind of Zeitgeist, but it has redesigned our beliefs and assumptions concerning liberal democracy. Is seems to be that radical right populism is more successful than leftist populism. According to my hypothesis we have entered the era of populist democracy and there is a fierce competition between the left and right to define and maintain the core nature of this populist democracy. I will apply the well know theory of Empire and Multitude by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2000) to understand our current populist tendencies. It will be argued in my paper that right-wing nationalist populism can be seen as a manifestation of the Empire. According to my understanding the populist parties and movements on the political right belong to the realist conception of the Empire: these actors are seeking the political power and would like to conquer the institutions of global capitalism. Right-wing nationalist populism is neither anti-capitalist, nor anti-elitist. It means that a new political elite has been created (for instance this is Donald Trump and alt-right in the USA, Viktor Orbán and his regime in Hungary) and seeks to gain political power with populist political communication and style. That’s why I call this new phenomenon elitist populism or Empire Populism. These actors are acting like populist in that sense they understand and solve the people’s problems, in fact they serve elitist purposes. On the other hand, the (radical) left populism has been called here a utopian or Multitude Populism. This form of populism tries to concern the multitudes of the people. Occupy movement, Indignados) and DiEM25 have emerged as left populist promises. I will analyse in my paper the political theoretical backgrounds of Empire and Multitude Populism. It has been stated here that the populist right has been inspired by the concepts of Carl Schmitt (the concept of the Political; the nature of neoliberalism; state of exception), Max Weber (leader democracy), and populist constitutionalism. On the left side, the Multitude Populism seems to be frozen from ideological point of view and suffering from ideological emptiness, but transnational populism could fill this theoretical gap. That is why I will put forward my thought on this crisis and argue that populist left needs to reformulate its bases as transnational political communities based on multitude.
Bioterrorism
Introduction
Bioterrorism is the intentional or threatened use of viruses, bacteria, fungi, or toxins from living organisms to produce death or disease in humans, animals or plants to accomplish political or social objectives. Agents of bioterrorism can be altered or mutated in such a way soas to increase their virulence and ability to cause disease. They can be engineered to resist current medications. They can be spread through air, food, water, fomites, or through infected hosts (including humans, animals, insects, and other reservoirs)
The Burden of Proof: Nurturing Public Reason in Response to Climate ChangeTom Moritz
An invited lecture given for the International Studies Institute, University of New Mexico, October 13, 2014. A video / audio recording of this talk (unfortunately not coordinated with the PPT...) is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4YzaYw3ewU
Zoonoses pandemics and the Urgency of a “Zooimmunocament”ijtsrd
The recurrence of animal to man pathologies and its lethality has motivated our inquiry into a rethink of our relationship with fauna species. Mindful of the lethality of zoonoses, the duration to develop vaccines for the prevention of zoonoses, the inevitable interaction of fauna and humans, the fragile nature of the human immune system to fight zoonoses, this paper proposes a “zooimmunocament” which humanity needs to borrow the genetic and immunologic ingredients from the fauna species where they don’t develop a malady and used for his therapy. This therapy is far from vaccines. Humanity thanks to his evolutionary advancement in intelligence can control and make use of the fauna immune system for the fight against zoonotic zoonoses pathologies. Since those pathogens in fauna species do not cause harm, humanity can exploit the set up of their defense system for a possible therapy thus the appellation zooimmunocament. Ezekiel Kikoh | Ngai Roland Yinkfu "Zoonoses-pandemics and the Urgency of a “Zooimmunocament”" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-2 , February 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38457.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/philosophy/38457/zoonosespandemics-and-the-urgency-of-a-“zooimmunocament”/ezekiel-kikoh
This resource pack supports the Spanish Flu simulator at http://resources.modelling4all.org/spanish-flu/teacher-guide-to-spanish-flu-simulation.
More people died from the 1918-1920 Spanish Influenza pandemic than there were casulties as a result of the First World War. This world-wide epidemic caused by influenza viruses led to between 50 and 100 million deaths in 1918 and 1919 (as much as 1 of every 18 people).
Many researchers have suggested that the conditions of the war significantly aided the spread of the disease. And others have argued that the course of the war (and subsequent peace treaty) was influenced by the pandemic.
Bioterrorism
Introduction
Bioterrorism is the intentional or threatened use of viruses, bacteria, fungi, or toxins from living organisms to produce death or disease in humans, animals or plants to accomplish political or social objectives. Agents of bioterrorism can be altered or mutated in such a way soas to increase their virulence and ability to cause disease. They can be engineered to resist current medications. They can be spread through air, food, water, fomites, or through infected hosts (including humans, animals, insects, and other reservoirs)
The Burden of Proof: Nurturing Public Reason in Response to Climate ChangeTom Moritz
An invited lecture given for the International Studies Institute, University of New Mexico, October 13, 2014. A video / audio recording of this talk (unfortunately not coordinated with the PPT...) is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4YzaYw3ewU
Zoonoses pandemics and the Urgency of a “Zooimmunocament”ijtsrd
The recurrence of animal to man pathologies and its lethality has motivated our inquiry into a rethink of our relationship with fauna species. Mindful of the lethality of zoonoses, the duration to develop vaccines for the prevention of zoonoses, the inevitable interaction of fauna and humans, the fragile nature of the human immune system to fight zoonoses, this paper proposes a “zooimmunocament” which humanity needs to borrow the genetic and immunologic ingredients from the fauna species where they don’t develop a malady and used for his therapy. This therapy is far from vaccines. Humanity thanks to his evolutionary advancement in intelligence can control and make use of the fauna immune system for the fight against zoonotic zoonoses pathologies. Since those pathogens in fauna species do not cause harm, humanity can exploit the set up of their defense system for a possible therapy thus the appellation zooimmunocament. Ezekiel Kikoh | Ngai Roland Yinkfu "Zoonoses-pandemics and the Urgency of a “Zooimmunocament”" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-2 , February 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38457.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/philosophy/38457/zoonosespandemics-and-the-urgency-of-a-“zooimmunocament”/ezekiel-kikoh
This resource pack supports the Spanish Flu simulator at http://resources.modelling4all.org/spanish-flu/teacher-guide-to-spanish-flu-simulation.
More people died from the 1918-1920 Spanish Influenza pandemic than there were casulties as a result of the First World War. This world-wide epidemic caused by influenza viruses led to between 50 and 100 million deaths in 1918 and 1919 (as much as 1 of every 18 people).
Many researchers have suggested that the conditions of the war significantly aided the spread of the disease. And others have argued that the course of the war (and subsequent peace treaty) was influenced by the pandemic.
Social isolation (desocialization) implies a complete or almost complete lack of contact between an individual and society. This can be a problem for people of any age, although the symptoms may differ depending on the age group. Social isolation can include staying home for long periods of time, and lack of face-to-face communication with family, acquaintances, friends, or co-workers. Social isolation can lead to feelings of loneliness, fear of others or negative self-esteem.
We cannot exist independently of our relationships with others. One's own humanity is reduced when others are treated without dignity and respect. At the same time, provoking harm to another person can also affect perceptions of oneself. It turns out that a person's humanity depends on the humanity of those around him.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.35832.06405
The largest medical institutions and various ethicists advocate a utilitarian approach in times of public health crises, to maximize benefits for society, in direct conflict with our usual (Kantian) view of respect for people as individuals. A central problem with utilitarianism is that there is no clear way to evaluate moral choices, including in medical decisions. In general, in medicine is respected the Kantian medical ethics. But in a pandemic, when resources are poor, deep choices of life and death must be made. In these situations, the principles of utilitarianism offer the best answer, moving from a patient-centered thinking model to a society-centered thinking model.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36811.82728
Health, Medicine and Surveillance in the 21st Centurylukewillsonwill
By the beginning of the 21st Century, Surveillance Studies are highlighting how contemporary
surveillance is neither limited, nor specific, in either scope or design (Lyon 2002).
Understanding the Covid-19 Pandemic through FoucaultAkashSharma618775
Due to the severity of the pandemic, countries across the world had to accept a lot of sophisticated new
technological solutions to keep the pandemic under its grip, which included embracing digital surveillance tools as
quick fixes and as policy responses to the crisis. However, the use of ICTs have made it much harder to distinguish
between what is considered public and private. Thus, the use of such technologies have raised serious concerns
related to mass digital surveillance practices, the outsourcing of expertise or sensitive personal data to private
companies, and the potential infringement of citizens’ fundamental rights. States of emergencies, like the
coronavirus crisis, tend to warrant an extension of discretionary governmental powers. This can become
problematic when they are used as a rationale, or as a pretext to suspend and undermine democratic principles
and rights. This paper seeks to investigate the heightened correlation between the emergence of sensory power and
surveillance as a means to regulate/control disease, ushering in an era of normalized surveillance, and the slippery
slope that it presents.
THE COLLAPSES THAT THREATEN HUMANITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND HOW TO AVOID THE...Faga1939
This article aims to demonstrate that the world is evolving towards the collapses of capitalism, globalization, environmental, social, humanitarian and of everything in the 21st century that impose the need for the existence of a global democratic government that is capable of avoiding its harmful consequences. Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein and economist Michael Roberts predicted the collapse of capitalism and globalization in the 21st century. José Eustáquio Diniz Alves stated that the Earth could evolve towards environmental and social collapse. John Casti predicted the collapse of everything and Edgar Morin predicted the inevitability of disaster in the face of human inability to formulate a policy of civilization and humanity. A new society will have to emerge and it will only be viable if it is led by a democratic world government that is capable of planning and controlling existing chaotic systems to avoid the harmful consequences for humanity of the collapse of everything, as predicted by Immanuel Wallerstein, Michael Roberts, José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, John Casti and Edgar Morin. There is an urgent need to build a new society centered on real economic, political, social and environmental progress. The intellectual crisis of thought in the contemporary era is what makes the world in which we live operate in a chaotic way like a ship adrift towards disaster. We need a new Enlightenment for the 21st century. At the heart of new thinking must be the protection of all forms of life and the planet.
Debate on disease Prevention, prolong Life and promote Health (from Theory to...AJHSSR Journal
Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has put all health systems worldwide to the test and is accelerating the shift
from the information and knowledge society to the digital society. It isa great challenge to understand the
theoretical foundations, conception and legal frameworks of social protection that have provided the constitution
of the health system, socialprotection, and the right to health.
This article aims to present a reflection and debate onhow to prevent, prolong people's lives and their social
well-being, aswell aspromote health. Part ofthe origins and dtheevolution of the world's health-disease
system, taking intoaccount the milestones of social protection and the right to health, characterizing the
theoretical frameworks and concepts thatunderpintedthe healthreforms that gave origin to the different Health
System,as wellas, to discuss its principlesandguidelines, based on the design of the extension of the right to
health, with the purpose of providing reading, learning, debate and reflection on concepts and reality,as well as
the necessary human, social, economic, financial, technological transformations policies, and what is the impact
of these changes.
Real World JusticeAuthor(s) Thomas PoggeReviewed work(s).docxcatheryncouper
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THOMAS POGGE
REAL WORLD JUSTICE
(Received 14 May 2004; accepted in revised form 3 June 2004)
ABSTRACT. Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of
human beings are still condemned to lifelong severe poverty with all its attendant
evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and
effective enslavement. We citizens of the rich countries are conditioned to think of
this problem as an occasion for assistance. Thanks in part to the rationalizations
dispensed by our economists, most of us do not realize how deeply we are implicated,
through the new global economic order our states have imposed, in this ongoing
catastrophe. My sketch of how we are so implicated follows the argument of my
book, World Poverty and Human Rights, but takes the form of a response to the
book's critics.
KEY WORDS: causal explanation, development economics, global resources
dividend, harm, human rights, inequality, justice, negative duties, world poverty,
WTO
Can normative theories about global justice benefit from empirical
theories? This is a rhetorical question
- no one seriously argues that
we should think about global justice in ignorance of the facts. And
the question is also a bit tendentious, prodding us philosophers
(heads in the clouds or buried in sand) to pay more attention to the
real world as presented, most relevantly, by development econo
mists.
I agree that many philosophers working on global justice know
too little about the real world, but I also believe that we should
absorb the theories delivered by economists with a great deal of
caution. A prominent concept in economics is that of homo eco
nomicus, an individual who, single-mindedly and rationally, seeks
optimally to satisfy his preferences. Such imaginary creatures are
not good approximations of persons in the real world. But, as
var ...
Child and Family Impacts of the Coronavirus Syndemic: Developmental, Family, ...Université de Montréal
My presentation is part of the WASP-WPA Interorganizational Symposium for the WPA 21st Virtual World Congress of Psychiatry, Catragena, Colombia, October 16-21, 2021
Session Description
At this time, the death toll from COVID-19 is approaching 3 million people worldwide. The full toll of COVID-19 far exceeds
even this sobering number. Beyond the direct biological impacts of an infectious disease, the global impact of COVID-19 is
revealing and magnifying pre-existing fractures in our social structures. COVID-19 has led to significant differential impacts
among groups across age, health and socio-cultural variables, whether through increased direct illness morbidity and
mortality in the elderly or those with mental illness, or through indirect impacts associated with widespread societal and
health system changes, including youth impacted by confinement and social isolation impinging on development of prosocial
skills, increased caregiver and family stresses ranging from financial distress to violence, and further disenfranchisement of
already marginalized and vulnerable groups. At the same time, heightened public awareness and outcry about such
disparities has the potential to fuel new alliances, challenging and perhaps dismantling some historical stereotypes of race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability and illness. Rather than a pandemic, the global impacts reveal a
syndemic – multiple pandemics along different lines, both the viral/biological pandemic, plus a social pandemic superimposed
on pre-existing fault lines of inequity, poverty, mental illness, racism, sexism, ableism, ageism and other forms of stigma and
discrimination. This session will include discussion of the varied impacts of COVID-19 and exploration of their root causes
from a social psychiatry perspective.
Alternative mental health therapies in prolonged lockdowns: narratives from C...Petar Radanliev
This article identifies and reviews alternative (home-based) therapies for prolonged lockdowns. Interdisciplinary study using multi-method approach – case study, action research, grounded theory. Only secondary data has been used in this study. Epistemological framework based on a set of digital humanities tools. The set of tools are based on publicly available, open access techno- logical solutions, enabling generalisability of the findings. Alternative therapies can be integrated in healthcare systems as home-based solutions operating on low-cost technologies.
19Th Century Essays. Webinar essays on 19th century indiaJennifer Castro
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Over the last decades, globalisation has led to a new class of global citizens. While the access to this global citizenship is still not spread evenly, many have enjoyed the freedom to move, work, and travel with no limits. However, this cosmopolitan globalisation rhetoric of a borderless world has been drastically slowed down by Covid-19. This pandemic has introduced a new level of uncertainty in global affairs and led many to question whether citizens will be able to continue enjoying the freedom of movement once the crisis is over. To share this article: https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/will-covid-19-be-the-end-of-the-global-citizen To cite this article: Calzada, I. (2020), Will Covid-19 be the end of the global citizen? Apolitical. Retrieved from: https://apolitical.co/en/solution_article/will-covid-19-be-the-end-of-the-global-citizen DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11942.27208/1.
Riscuri și provocări în inteligența artificială: Cutii negre și actorii de am...Nicolae Sfetcu
Inteligența artificială a creat oportunități fără precedent, dar și noi riscuri. Creșterea exponențială a capabilităților modelelor de inteligența artificială permite atingerea unor niveluri de valoare și generalizare neatinse până acum. Cu toate acestea, opacitatea acestor modele a crescut, de asemenea, iar natura lor de cutie neagră face dificilă, chiar și pentru experți, explicarea justificării concluziilor lor. Acest lucru poate reprezenta un punct critic din punct de vedere tehnologic și social, deoarece riscul este real, după cum demonstrează episoadele recente, ale sistemelor de antrenament care sunt compromise de părtiniri și prejudecăți de discriminare, care au învățat din datele de instruire. Prin urmare, este posibil ca învățarea din urmele digitale ale deciziilor trecute să poată duce la încorporarea prejudecăților invizibile existente în modelele rezultate, perpetuându-le.
IT & C, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 41-47
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EU Clear English Tips for Translators - eBookNicolae Sfetcu
Here are some tips to help translators avoid copying structure and wording from other languages that would be awkward in English.
They should be useful to non-native speakers, but may serve as handy reminders for native speakers too.
Funcții PHP definite de utilizator în dezvoltarea WordPressNicolae Sfetcu
PHP definește o gamă largă de funcții ca blocuri reutilizabile de instrucțiuni în limbajul de bază, și multe sunt, de asemenea, disponibile în diferite extensii. Aceste funcții sunt bine documentate în documentația online PHP. Funcțiile personalizate pot fi definite de dezvoltator. O funcție nu se va executa automat când se încarcă o pagină, ea poate fi apelată de oriunde și oricând în cadrul programului. PHP acceptă declarații de tip privind parametrii funcției, care sunt aplicate în timpul execuției.
IT & C, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 37-40
ISSN 2821 – 8469, ISSN – L 2821 – 8469, DOI: 10.58679/IT37237
URL: https://www.internetmobile.ro/functii-php-definite-de-utilizator-in-dezvoltarea-wordpress/
Practici comune pentru limbajul de programare în CNicolae Sfetcu
Odată cu utilizarea pe scară largă, o serie de practici și convenții comune au evoluat pentru a ajuta la evitarea erorilor în programele C. Acestea sunt simultan o demonstrație a aplicării bunelor principii de inginerie software într-un limbaj, și o indicație a limitărilor C. Deși puține sunt utilizate universal, iar unele sunt controversate, fiecare dintre acestea se bucură de o utilizare largă.
IT & C, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 30-36
ISSN 2821 – 8469, ISSN – L 2821 – 8469, DOI: 10.58679/IT80750
URL: https://www.internetmobile.ro/practici-comune-pentru-programarea-in-c/
IT & C, Volumul 2, Numărul 3, Septembrie 2023 - RezumateNicolae Sfetcu
Revista IT & C este o publicație trimestrială din domeniile tehnologiei informației și comunicații, și domenii conexe de studiu și practică.
Cuprins:
EDITORIAL
Provocări în inteligența artificială
TEHNOLOGIA INFORMAȚIEI
Blockchain Design and Modelling
TELECOMUNICAȚII
Arhitectura de bază a rețelelor 5G
INTERNET
Big Data Ethics in Education and Research
SOFTWARE
Tableau Software: Vizualizarea și analiza datelor
PROGRAMARE
Rezumarea automată în inteligența artificială prin învățare nesupravegheată: TextRank
DEZVOLTARE WEB
Argumentele funcțiilor PHP – Transmiterea argumentelor prin referință
SECURITATE CIBERNETICĂ
Criptomonede și criptosecurități – Contracte inteligente
ISSN 2821– 8469 ISSN – L 2821 – 8469, DOI: 10.58679/IT55267
EAN , Cod IT23 , ID 32330
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Vizualizarea datelor cu aplicațiile Tableau SoftwareNicolae Sfetcu
Tableau este un instrument de analiză și vizualizare a datelor care se poate conecta cu multe surse de date, creând tablouri de bord interactive. Tableau utilizează inovații de integrare a aplicațiilor, cum ar fi API-urile JavaScript și aplicația de conectare unică, pentru a include în mod constant analiza Tableau în aplicațiile de afaceri de bază. Tableau interoghează baze de date relaționale, cuburi de procesare analitică online, baze de date în cloud și foi de calcul pentru a genera vizualizări de date de tip grafic. De asemenea, software-ul poate extrage, stoca și prelua date dintr-un motor de date în memorie.
IT & C, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 23-29
ISSN 2821 – 8469, ISSN – L 2821 – 8469, DOI: 10.58679/IT10117
URL: https://www.internetmobile.ro/vizualizarea-datelor-cu-aplicatiile-tableau-software/
La revendication de Hooke sur la loi de la gravitéNicolae Sfetcu
Dans une note intitulée « Un état vrai de l'affaire et la controverse entre Sr Isaak Newton et le Dr Robert Hooke comme priorité de cette noble hypothèse du mouvement des planètes autour du Soleil en tant que leurs centres » non publié au cours de sa vie, Hooke a décrit sa théorie de la gravité. Pour soutenir sa « priorité », Hooke cite ses conférences sur les mouvements planétaires du 23 mai 1666, « Une tentative de prouver le mouvement de la Terre à partir d'observations » publiées en 1674 et la correspondance avec Isaac Newton en 1679.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26375.24485
Procesarea Big Data cu instrumente avansateNicolae Sfetcu
Datele trebuie procesate cu instrumente avansate de colectare și analiză, pe baza unor algoritmi prestabiliți, pentru a putea obține informații relevante. Algoritmii trebuie să ia în considerare și aspecte invizibile pentru percepțiile directe. Big Data în procesele guvernamentale cresc eficiența costurilor, productivitatea și inovația. Registrele civile sunt o sursă pentru Big Data. Datele prelucrate ajută în domenii critice de dezvoltare, cum ar fi îngrijirea sănătății, ocuparea forței de muncă, productivitatea economică, criminalitatea, securitatea și gestionarea dezastrelor naturale și a resurselor.
IT & C, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 18-22
ISSN 2821 – 8469, ISSN – L 2821 – 8469, DOI: 10.58679/IT91785
URL: https://www.internetmobile.ro/procesarea-big-data/
Corupţia, Globalizarea și NeocolonialismulNicolae Sfetcu
O introducere în conceptele interdependente despre corupţie, globalizare prin instituţiile financiare internaţionale, şi neocolonialism înţeles ca exploatarea resurselor şi materiilor prime a ţărilor sărace şi în curs de dezvoltare de unele mari corporaţii multinaţionale.
Corupţia este atât o cauză majoră cât şi un rezultat al sărăciei în întreaga lume. Ea apare la toate nivelurile societăţii, de la autorităţile locale şi naţionale, la societatea civilă, sistemul judiciar, întreprinderile mari şi mici, unităţile militare, etc. Corupţie sistemică (sau corupţia endemică) este corupţia, care se datorează în primul rând punctelor slabe ale unei organizaţii sau proces. Aceasta poate fi contrastată la funcţionarii sau agenţii individuali corupţi din cadrul sistemului. Factorii care încurajează corupţia sistemică includ stimulente contradictorii, puteri discreţionare, puteri de monopol, lipsa de transparenţă, salarii mici, şi o cultură a impunităţii. printre actele specifice de corupţie se numără luarea de mită, şantaj, şi deturnarea de fonduri, într-un sistem în care corupţia devine regula mai degrabă decât excepţia.
Neocolonialismului este practica de utilizare a capitalismului, globalizării, şi a forţelor culturale, pentru a controla o ţară, în locul unui control direct militar sau politic. Un astfel de control poate fi economic, cultural, sau lingvistic. Societăţile corporative care aparţin culturii impuse pot pătrunde mult mai uşor pe pieţele din aceste ţări. Astfel, neocolonialismului este rezultatul final al unor interese de afaceri sau geopolitice se obţine prin deformarea culturii ţărilor colonizate.
În urma unei ideologii cunoscut sub numele de neoliberalism, şi răspândită de instituţii financiare similare, cunoscută sub numele de "Consensul de la Washington", au fost impuse politici de ajustare structurală pentru a se asigura de rambursarea datoriilor şi restructurarea economică. Dar, în realitate s-a cerut ţărilor sărace să-şi reducă cheltuielile cu sănătatea, educaţia şi dezvoltarea, făcându-se o prioritate din rambursarea datoriilor şi a altor politici economice favorizante pentru ţările dezvoltate.Practic, FMI şi Banca Mondială au cerut ţărilor sărace să reducă nivelul de trai al populaţiei.
Corupţia, crimele de stat corporativ, şi crima organizată, sunt oricum considerate atât crime internaţionale cât şi crime de stat la nivel naţional. În cele mai multe cazuri crima de stat este considerată ca aplicabilă atunci când statul se implică direct în secretomania excesivă şi acoperirea unor activităţi ilegale, dezinformarea, şi o evidenţă financiară superficială sau chiar incorectă (care încurajează evaziunea fiscală în cazul unora din oficialii guvernamentali), reflectănd adesea interesele doar a anumitor clase sociale şi interese de grup, şi încălcând astfel drepturile omului.
Corupţia presupune cel puţin o persoană care corupe, una coruptă, şi o masă mare de păgubiţi inerţi. Vina este a tuturor!
Performanța și standardele rețelelor de telecomunicații 5GNicolae Sfetcu
Pentru măsurarea precisă a performanței 5G se utilizează simulatoare și teste specifice. Inițial, termenul a fost asociat cu standardul IMT-2020 al Uniunii Internaționale de Telecomunicații, care necesita o viteză maximă teoretică de descărcare de 20 gigabiți pe secundă și 10 gigabiți pe secundă viteza de încărcare, împreună cu alte cerințe. Apoi, grupul de standarde industriale 3GPP a ales standardul 5G NR (New Radio) împreună cu LTE ca propunere pentru transmitere la standardul IMT-2020.
IT & C, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 13-17
ISSN 2821 – 8469, ISSN – L 2821 – 8469, DOI: 10.58679/IT52354
URL: https://www.internetmobile.ro/performanta-si-standardele-retelelor-de-telecomunicatii-5g/
Intelligence Info, Volumul 2, Numărul 3, Septembrie 2023Nicolae Sfetcu
Revista Intelligence Info este o publicație trimestrială din domeniile intelligence, geopolitică și securitate, și domenii conexe de studiu și practică.
Cuprins:
EDITORIAL
Rolul serviciilor de informații în război, de Nicolae Sfetcu
INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence Analysis, de Nicolae Sfetcu
ISTORIA
Reformele serviciilor secrete de la Mihail Moruzov la Eugen Cristescu, între inovație și decadență, de Rodica Liseanu
Take Ionescu – O biografie vectorială în istoria partidelor politice și în semantica diplomației, de Rodica Liseanu
GEOPOLITICA
Apusul universalismului european, de Lisa-Maria Achimescu
Chinese Hegemony in the Production of Rare Earths, de Emilian M. Dobrescu
România. Între ‘gura de rai’ geografică şi răspântia geopolitică, de Radu Carp
SECURITATE
Schimbarea paradigmelor în mediul internațional de securitate, de Alexandru Cristian
Adevăr și dezinformare în fenomenul OZN, de Dan D. Farcaș
ȘTIINȚA INFORMAȚIEI
Utilizarea analiticii rețelelor sociale în intelligence, de Nicolae Sfetcu
ISSN 2821-8159 ISSN-L 2821-8159, DOI: 10.58679/II30199
EAN , Cod II23 , ID 22330
Intelligence Info (PDF, EPUB, MOBI pentru Kindle) https://www.intelligenceinfo.org/revista/revista-intelligence-info-volumul-2-numarul-3-septembrie-2023/
Ontologii narative în tehnologia blockchainNicolae Sfetcu
Paul Ricoeur a examinat o serie de forme diferite de discurs extins, începând cu discursul metaforic. Discursul narativ este una din formele investigate, configurând concepte eterogene care identifică acțiunile într-un moment în care un lucru se întâmplă nu numai după altceva, ci și din cauza altui lucru dintr-o poveste sau istorie care poate fi urmată. Reformează evenimentele fizice ca evenimente narative, care au sens deoarece spun ceea ce se întâmplă într-o poveste sau într-o istorie. Narațiunile sunt întotdeauna o sinteză a conceptelor eterogene care configurează episoadele povestirii.
IT & C, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 7-12
ISSN 2821 – 8469, ISSN – L 2821 – 8469, DOI: 10.58679/IT70323
URL: https://www.internetmobile.ro/ontologii-narative-in-tehnologia-blockchain/
Philosophy of Blockchain Technology - OntologiesNicolae Sfetcu
About the necessity and usefulness of developing a philosophy specific to the blockchain technology, emphasizing on the ontological aspects. After an Introduction that highlights the main philosophical directions for this emerging technology, in Blockchain Technology I explain the way the blockchain works, discussing ontological development directions of this technology in Designing and Modeling. The next section is dedicated to the main application of blockchain technology, Bitcoin, with the social implications of this cryptocurrency. There follows a section of Philosophy in which I identify the blockchain technology with the concept of heterotopia developed by Michel Foucault and I interpret it in the light of the notational technology developed by Nelson Goodman as a notational system. In the Ontology section, I present two developmental paths that I consider important: Narrative Ontology, based on the idea of order and structure of history transmitted through Paul Ricoeur's narrative history, and the Enterprise Ontology system based on concepts and models of an enterprise, specific to the semantic web, and which I consider to be the most well developed and which will probably become the formal ontological system, at least in terms of the economic and legal aspects of blockchain technology. In Conclusions I am talking about the future directions of developing the blockchain technology philosophy in general as an explanatory and robust theory from a phenomenologically consistent point of view, which allows testability and ontologies in particular, arguing for the need of a global adoption of an ontological system for develop cross-cutting solutions and to make this technology profitable.
Inteligența artificială, o provocare esențialăNicolae Sfetcu
Inteligența artificială a progresat până la punctul în care este o componentă esențială în aproape toate sectoarele economiei moderne actuale, cu un impact semnificativ asupra vieții noastre private, sociale și politice. Ea a fost întemeiată pe presupunerea că inteligența umană poate fi descrisă atât de precis încât să poată fi făcută o mașină să o simuleze. Acest lucru ridică argumente filozofice despre minte și etica creării de ființe artificiale înzestrate cu inteligență asemănătoare omului. Inteligența artificială sunt o sursă a unui set complet nou de probleme de explicabilitate, responsabilitate și încredere.
IT & C, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 3-6
ISSN 2821 – 8469, ISSN – L 2821 – 8469, DOI: 10.58679/IT30677
URL: https://www.internetmobile.ro/inteligenta-artificiala-o-provocare-esentiala/
Ghidul de faţă se bazează în general pe ghidul în limba engleză „How to write clearly”, aducând o serie de recomandări specifi ce redactării textelor în limba română.
https://www.telework.ro/ro/e-books/ghid-ue-pentru-traduceri/
Activitatea de intelligence – Ciclul intelligenceNicolae Sfetcu
David Singer afirmă că, în prezent, amenințarea constituie principalul obiectiv al agențiilor de informații. Activitatea de informații poate fi considerată ca fiind procesul prin care anumite tipuri de informații sunt solicitate, colectate, analizate și diseminate, și modul în care sunt concepute și desfășurate anumite tipuri de acțiuni secrete. Ciclul intelligence reprezintă un set de procese utilizate pentru a furniza informații utile în luarea deciziilor. Ciclul constă din mai multe procese. Domeniul conex al contrainformațiilor este însărcinat cu împiedicarea eforturilor informative ale altora.
INTELLIGENCE INFO, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 34-40
ISSN 2821 – 8159, ISSN – L 2821 – 8159, DOI: 10.58679/II18551
URL: https://www.intelligenceinfo.org/activitatea-de-intelligence-ciclul-intelligence/
Cunoașterea Științifică, Volumul 2, Numărul 3, Septembrie 2023Nicolae Sfetcu
Revista Cunoașterea Științifică este o publicație trimestrială din domeniile științei și filosofiei, și domenii conexe de studiu și practică.
Cuprins:
EDITORIAL
Știința schimbărilor climatice, de Nicolae Sfetcu
ȘTIINȚE NATURALE
Interactions between the brain, the biofields, and the physical, de Adrian Klein și Robert Neil Boyd
The Psycho-Neural Connectivity, de Adrian Klein
ȘTIINȚE SOCIALE
School dropout rate in Romania, de Alexandra Mocanu
Ipoteza hipercivilizațiilor, de Dan D. Farcas
The Importance of the Rare Earths for the World Economy, de Emilian M. Dobrescu
Puteri emergente şi noile paradigme în mediul internațional de securitate, de Alexandru Cristian
Models of Emotional Intelligence in Research and Education, de Nicolae Sfetcu
Cultura anime în România, de Alexandra Mocanu
ȘTIINȚE FORMALE
Etica în inteligența artificială: provocări și perspective, de Sebastian Bidașcă
FILOSOFIE
Portretul biblic al unicornilor și paranoia fără fundamente privind seria „My Little Pony”, de Valentina-Andrada Minea
Materialism şi realitatea esteticii: Argumente şi contraargumente la scrisorile lui Friedrich Schiller privind educaţia estetică a omului (1/3), de Petru Ababii
Unele aspecte ale filosofiei lui Albert Einstein și Henri Bergson, timpul şi paradoxul lui Zenon în viziune critică nonsofisticată, de Petru Ababii
RECENZII CĂRȚI
Humanism, Becoming and the Demiurge in The Adventures of Pinocchio, de Nicolae Sfetcu
ISSN 2821-8086 ISSN-L 2821-8086, DOI: 10.58679/CS90773
EAN 725657205492, Cod CS23P , ID 12330
Cunoașterea Științifică (PDF, EPUB, MOBI pentru Kindle) https://www.cunoasterea.ro/revista/revista-cunoasterea-stiintifica-volumul-2-numarul-3-septembrie-2023/
Manual pentru începători pentru întreţinerea şi depanarea calculatoarelor, cu o introducere în noţiuni de calculatoare, hardware, software (inclusiv sisteme de operare) şi securitatea pe Internet.
Un calculator de uz general are patru componente principale: unitatea logică aritmetică (ALU), unitatea de control, memoria, şi dispozitive de intrare şi ieşire (denumite colectiv I/O). Aceste piese sunt interconectate prin bus-uri, de multe ori făcut din grupuri de fire.
Caracteristica definitorie a computerelor moderne, care le distinge de toate celelalte maşini, este că acestea pot fi programate. Asta presupune că un anumit tip de instrucţiuni (program) poate fi implementat în calculator, care le va procesa. Calculatoare moderne, bazate pe arhitectura von Neumann, au adesea codul maşină în forma unui limbaj de programare imperativ.
Drobeta Turnu Severin Heavy Water Plant: ConstructionNicolae Sfetcu
The heavy water plant was established under the name of Combinatul Chimic Drobeta, by Decree 400/16.11.1979, under the Inorganic Products Industrial Center (CIPA) Râmnicu Vâlcea. The thermo-electric plant for supplying the heavy water factory with steam was decided to be located in Halânga village, three kilometers from the factory. The process water required for the factory was brought from the Danube, and the hydrogen sulphide used in the process was produced in the plant, through a specific technology, and then compressed, liquefied and stored in special tanks. The works on the heavy water factory at Drobeta Turnu Severin started in 1979, based on a derogatory HCM. The equipment for the heavy water plant was purchased through the Industrial Center for Chemical and Refinery Equipment (CIUTCR). All equipment and facilities that transported hydrogen sulphide had to meet strict quality assurance conditions.
CUNOAȘTEREA ȘTIINȚIFICĂ, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 39-44
ISSN 2821 – 8086, ISSN – L 2821 – 8086, DOI: 10.58679/CS96723
URL: https://www.cunoasterea.ro/drobeta-turnu-severin-heavy-water-plant-construction/
Din punct de vedere metodologic, atât Newton cât și Einstein, și ulterior Dirac, au susținut fără rezerve principiul simplității matematice în descoperirea noilor legi fizice ale naturii. Lor li s-au alăturat și Poincaré și Weyl. Eduard Prugovecki afirmă că gravitația cuantică a impus luarea în considerare a unor întrebări epistemologice fundamentale, care pot fi identificate în filosofie cu problema minții-corp și cu problema liberului arbitru. Aceste întrebări au influențat epistemologia mecanicii cuantice sub forma “paralelismului psiho-fizic” al lui von Neumann și analiza ulterioară a tezei de către Wigner că “colapsul pachetului de unde” are loc în mintea “observatorului”.
CUNOAȘTEREA ȘTIINȚIFICĂ, Volumul 2, Numărul 1, Martie 2023, pp. 20-38
ISSN 2821 – 8086, ISSN – L 2821 – 8086, DOI: 10.58679/CS96800
URL: https://www.cunoasterea.ro/epistemologia-gravitatiei-cuantice/
R3 Stem Cells and Kidney Repair A New Horizon in Nephrology.pptxR3 Stem Cell
R3 Stem Cells and Kidney Repair: A New Horizon in Nephrology" explores groundbreaking advancements in the use of R3 stem cells for kidney disease treatment. This insightful piece delves into the potential of these cells to regenerate damaged kidney tissue, offering new hope for patients and reshaping the future of nephrology.
India Clinical Trials Market: Industry Size and Growth Trends [2030] Analyzed...Kumar Satyam
According to TechSci Research report, "India Clinical Trials Market- By Region, Competition, Forecast & Opportunities, 2030F," the India Clinical Trials Market was valued at USD 2.05 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.64% through 2030. The market is driven by a variety of factors, making India an attractive destination for pharmaceutical companies and researchers. India's vast and diverse patient population, cost-effective operational environment, and a large pool of skilled medical professionals contribute significantly to the market's growth. Additionally, increasing government support in streamlining regulations and the growing prevalence of lifestyle diseases further propel the clinical trials market.
Growing Prevalence of Lifestyle Diseases
The rising incidence of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer is a major trend driving the clinical trials market in India. These conditions necessitate the development and testing of new treatment methods, creating a robust demand for clinical trials. The increasing burden of these diseases highlights the need for innovative therapies and underscores the importance of India as a key player in global clinical research.
Navigating Challenges: Mental Health, Legislation, and the Prison System in B...Guillermo Rivera
This conference will delve into the intricate intersections between mental health, legal frameworks, and the prison system in Bolivia. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current challenges faced by mental health professionals working within the legislative and correctional landscapes. Topics of discussion will include the prevalence and impact of mental health issues among the incarcerated population, the effectiveness of existing mental health policies and legislation, and potential reforms to enhance the mental health support system within prisons.
CHAPTER 1 SEMESTER V - ROLE OF PEADIATRIC NURSE.pdfSachin Sharma
Pediatric nurses play a vital role in the health and well-being of children. Their responsibilities are wide-ranging, and their objectives can be categorized into several key areas:
1. Direct Patient Care:
Objective: Provide comprehensive and compassionate care to infants, children, and adolescents in various healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, etc.).
This includes tasks like:
Monitoring vital signs and physical condition.
Administering medications and treatments.
Performing procedures as directed by doctors.
Assisting with daily living activities (bathing, feeding).
Providing emotional support and pain management.
2. Health Promotion and Education:
Objective: Promote healthy behaviors and educate children, families, and communities about preventive healthcare.
This includes tasks like:
Administering vaccinations.
Providing education on nutrition, hygiene, and development.
Offering breastfeeding and childbirth support.
Counseling families on safety and injury prevention.
3. Collaboration and Advocacy:
Objective: Collaborate effectively with doctors, social workers, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated care for children.
Objective: Advocate for the rights and best interests of their patients, especially when children cannot speak for themselves.
This includes tasks like:
Communicating effectively with healthcare teams.
Identifying and addressing potential risks to child welfare.
Educating families about their child's condition and treatment options.
4. Professional Development and Research:
Objective: Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in pediatric healthcare through continuing education and research.
Objective: Contribute to improving the quality of care for children by participating in research initiatives.
This includes tasks like:
Attending workshops and conferences on pediatric nursing.
Participating in clinical trials related to child health.
Implementing evidence-based practices into their daily routines.
By fulfilling these objectives, pediatric nurses play a crucial role in ensuring the optimal health and well-being of children throughout all stages of their development.
One of the most developed cities of India, the city of Chennai is the capital of Tamilnadu and many people from different parts of India come here to earn their bread and butter. Being a metropolitan, the city is filled with towering building and beaches but the sad part as with almost every Indian city
Deep Leg Vein Thrombosis (DVT): Meaning, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, and Mor...The Lifesciences Magazine
Deep Leg Vein Thrombosis occurs when a blood clot forms in one or more of the deep veins in the legs. These clots can impede blood flow, leading to severe complications.
Global launch of the Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index 2nd wave – alongside...ILC- UK
The Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index is an online tool created by ILC that ranks countries on six metrics including, life span, health span, work span, income, environmental performance, and happiness. The Index helps us understand how well countries have adapted to longevity and inform decision makers on what must be done to maximise the economic benefits that comes with living well for longer.
Alongside the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva on 28 May 2024, we launched the second version of our Index, allowing us to track progress and give new insights into what needs to be done to keep populations healthier for longer.
The speakers included:
Professor Orazio Schillaci, Minister of Health, Italy
Dr Hans Groth, Chairman of the Board, World Demographic & Ageing Forum
Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Founder and Chair, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute and co-chair, World Health Summit Council
Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Director, Country Health Policies and Systems Division, World Health Organisation EURO
Dr Marta Lomazzi, Executive Manager, World Federation of Public Health Associations
Dr Shyam Bishen, Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum
Dr Karin Tegmark Wisell, Director General, Public Health Agency of Sweden
The Importance of Community Nursing Care.pdfAD Healthcare
NDIS and Community 24/7 Nursing Care is a specific type of support that may be provided under the NDIS for individuals with complex medical needs who require ongoing nursing care in a community setting, such as their home or a supported accommodation facility.
1. Biopolitics in the COVID-19 pandemic
Nicolae Sfetcu
28.10.2020
Sfetcu, Nicolae, "Biopolitics in the COVID-19 pandemic", SetThings (October 28, 2020), DOI:
10.13140/RG.2.2.29380.04488, URL = https://www.telework.ro/en/biopolitics-in-the-covid-19-
pandemic/
Email: nicolae@sfetcu.com
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Biopolitics in the COVID-19 pandemic
Biopower is a term coined by Michel Foucault, referring to the practice of modern nation-
states by "an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of
bodies and the control of populations". (Foucault 1990, 140) Foucault used the term to refer
specifically to public health practices, among other regulatory mechanisms. Biopower control
people in large groups, through an anatomo-politics of the human body, and biopolitics of the
population through social institutions of discipline. Power is codified in both social practices and
human behavior, as the human subject gradually accepts subtle regulations and expectations of the
social order. (Policante 2010)
" By this I mean a number of phenomena that seem to me to be quite significant, namely, the set
of mechanisms through which the basic biological features of the human species became
the object of a political strategy, of a general strategy of power, or, in other words, how,
starting from the 18th century, modern Western societies took on board the fundamental
biological fact that human beings are a species. This is what I have called biopower."
(Foucault et al. 2009, 1)
A specific way of applying biopower is what Foucault calls “massifying”, (Foucault et al.
2009, 55–86) which uses scientific apparatus and equipment. This anatomo-politics of the human
body correlates with the new knowledge of science and technology under the guise of a liberal
democracy, where life itself becomes a deliberate political strategy and an economic, political and
scientific problem, to which the nation state is coupled.
Foucault argues that while the stated purpose of biopower is to maximize life, it also has a
dark side: when the stakes are life itself, anything can be justified by the state, thus being able to
easily eliminate groups identified as threatening the life of the nation, or of humanity. (Foucault
1990, 137)
Foucault draws attention to what he calls the major political and social project, namely the
"milieu intérieur" (inner environment), as a support for the truths uttered by the authorities. In the
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modern version, the government is thus presented to the population in the media as a means of
efficiency, fiscal optimization, political responsibility and rigor, forming a public discourse of
government solidarity and social consensus. (Foucault et al. 2009, 283)
Biopolitics is a concept that takes into account the management of the life and populations
of a governed region. According to Foucault, biopolitics is "to ensure, sustain, and multiply life,
to put this life in order." (Foucault 1990) So, the poststructuralist meaning given by Foucault to
the term denotes social and political power over life.
Foucault speaks of a style of government that regulates populations through "biopower" in
all aspects of human life. (Foucault et al. 2009, 1) Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis (Pellam 2015, 43)
considers biopolitics as a conceptual and operational framework for the development of society,
promoting bios as a central theme in all forms of life. (Tolba 2001, 1027)
Biopolitics produces a generalized disciplinary society (Foucault et al. 2009, 377–78) and
regulatory controls through biopolitics of the population. (Foucault et al. 2009, 378,397) Foucault
states that the humanities, especially the medical sciences, have led at the emergence of the
anatomo-politics of the human body, a biopolitics and bio-history of man.
Foucault's biopolitics refers to the intersection between power (political, economic,
judicial, etc.) and the bodily autonomy of the individual. (Schirato, Danaher, and Webb 2012, 90)
In the study of colonialism, biopolitics is the means by which a colonizing force uses political
power to regulate and control the colonized population. (Said 1979, 113) Mercantilism has often
allowed for a biopolitical approach to hunger, with multiple historical examples.
Foucault's concept of biopolitics is derived from his own concept of biopower and the
extension of state power over the physical and political bodies of a population. (Lemke, Casper,
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and Moore 2011) Biopolitics acts as a control apparatus exercised over an entire population.
(Foucault 2003, 242)
Giorgio Agamben is a well-known Italian philosopher who investigates the concepts of the
state of emergency, the way of life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and the homo sacer. The
concept of biopolitics (starting from the work of Michel Foucault) is found in many of his writings.
Agamben says that what is manifesting in this pandemic is the growing tendency to use the
state of emergency as a normal paradigm of government, through a militarization of those areas
where there are people proven to be infected. Such a formula will allow the government to quickly
extend the state of emergency to all regions. He lists a number of serious restrictions on freedom
imposed by pandemic restrictions. These restrictions would be disproportionate to the real threat.
Once terrorism is exhausted as a justification for exceptional measures, "epidemics could provide
the ideal pretext for expanding these measures, beyond any limitation." (Agamben 2020c) Thus,
"in a vicious circle, the restriction of freedom imposed by governments is accepted in the name of
a desire for security, which was created by the same governments that now intervene to satisfy it."
(Agamben 2020)
Agamben notes that
"Faced with the frantic, irrational and completely unfounded emergency measures adopted against
an alleged epidemic ... why the media and the authorities are doing everything possible to
spread a state of panic, thus causing a genuine state of emergency, with serious limitations
to move and suspend daily life in entire regions?” (Agamben 2020c)
Later, Agamben returns with some clarifications (Kotsko 2020a) introducing the concept
of “naked life”: “The first thing that the panic wave, which paralyzed the country, clearly showed,
is that our society believes in nothing but naked life.” People
”… are prepared to sacrifice practically everything – normal living conditions, social relations,
work, even friendships and religious or political beliefs – to avoid the danger of falling ill.
The naked life, and the fear of losing it, is not something that brings men and women
together, but something that blinds and separates them. Other human beings, like those in
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the plague described by Manzoni, are now seen only as potential contaminators to be
avoided at all costs or at least to keep at a distance of at least one metre. The dead – our
dead – have no right to a funeral and it’s not clear what happens to the corpses of our loved
ones. Our fellow humans have been erased and it’s odd that the Churches remain silent on
this point. What will human relations become in a country that will be accustomed to living
in this way for who knows how long? And what is a society with no other value other than
survival?”
"Men have become so used to living in conditions of permanent crisis and emergency that they
don’t seem to notice that their lives have been reduced to a purely biological condition, one
that has lost not only any social and political dimension, but even any compassionate and
emotional one. A society that lives in a permanent state of emergency cannot be a free one.
We effectively live in a society that has sacrificed freedom to so-called “security reasons”
and as a consequence has condemned itself to living in a permanent state of fear and
insecurity." (Kotsko 2020)
According to Agamben, we've come to talk about the virus in terms of war. A war against
an invisible enemy. "The enemy isn’t somewhere outside, it’s inside us." (Kotsko 2020)
In A Question, Giorgio Agamben returns with an approach to “social distancing” as the
new principle of organizing society, decreeing that “a norm that affirms that we must renounce the
good to save the good is just as false and contradictory as that which, to protect freedom, orders
us to renounce freedom.” (Kotsko 2020b)
In New Reflections, Agamben, states that, with this forced isolation, we live a new
totalitarianism. It is always dangerous to entrust doctors and scientists with decisions that are
ultimately ethical and political. (Dean 2020)
In Medicine as Religion, Giorgio Agamben: states (Agamben 2020b) that in the modern
West coexist three major belief systems: Christianity, capitalism and science, which sometimes
intersect. The novelty consists in the fact that between science and the other two faiths, without
noticing, an underground and relentless conflict was triggered, with successful results for science.
In science, medicine occupies a special place, being characterized by
• does not need a special dogma, but is limited to borrowing its fundamental concepts from
biology - there is a god or evil principle, namely disease, whose specific agents are bacteria
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and viruses, and a beneficent god or principle that is not health, but recovery, whose cultic
agents are drugs and therapies
• the phenomenon has become permanent and ubiquitous - it is no longer about taking
medication, doctor visits or surgery: all our lives we must worship this cult moment by
moment, because the enemy, the virus, is always present and must be fought constantly
• the practice of worship is no longer free and voluntary - it becomes mandatory from a
normative point of view
• the medical religion has unreservedly taken over the eschatological urgency from
Christianity - the medical religion combines the perpetual crisis of capitalism with the
Christian idea of an end time
• like capitalism and unlike Christianity, the medical religion does not offer the prospect of
salvation and redemption - recovery is only temporary, as the evil God, the virus, cannot
be eliminated once and for all.
"Philosophers must again come into conflict with religion, which is no longer Christianity, but
science, or that part of it which has taken the form of a religion." (Agamben 2020b)
Patrick Zylberman described, in 2013, the process by which health security becomes an
essential part of state and international policy strategies, (Flahault et al. 2016) (Lewis 2020) by
creating a kind of "health terror" as a tool for governance. Zylberman points out that the apparatus
used by the WHO was articulated in three points: 1) the construction, on the basis of a possible
risk, of a fictitious scenario allowing the government of an extreme situation; 2) adopting the logic
of the worst case scenario as a regime of political rationality; 3) the organization of all citizens in
a way that strengthens government institutions, through which the imposed obligations are
presented as evidence of altruism and the citizen no longer has the right to health but is legally
obliged to be healthy (biosecurity).
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Agamben considers, in Biosicurezza, (Agamben 2020a) that the emergency situation can
allow the design of a governance paradigm whose effectiveness will go beyond any normal form
of governance. Thus, biosecurity has already proved capable of causing the absolute cessation of
all political activities and all social relations as the maximum form of civic participation.
"In question is a whole conception of the destinies of human society from a perspective that, in
many respects, seems to have adopted the apocalyptic idea of the end of the world from
the religions that are now at their west. After replacing politics with the economy, now, in
order to ensure governance, even this must be integrated with the new paradigm of
biosecurity, in front of which we will have to sacrifice all other requirements. It is
legitimate to ask whether such a society can still be defined as human or whether the loss
of sensitive relationships, face, friendship, love, can really be compensated by an abstract
and supposedly completely fictitious health security." (Agamben 2020a)
Jean-Luc Nancy, in Excepción viral, (Nancy 2020) states that Agamben fails to observe
that exception really becomes the rule in a world where technical interconnections reach a hitherto
unknown intensity.
Many critics of Agamben consider his statements to be paranoid and exaggerated. (Peters
2020) Thus, J. L. Nancy responds by emphasizing:
"We must be careful not to reach the wrong target: an entire civilization is in question, there is no
doubt about it. There is a kind of viral exception - biological, computer, cultural - that is
pandemic. Governments are nothing more than gloomy executors, and questioning them
seems like a diversionary ploy rather than a political reflection." (Nancy 2020)
Regarding Agamben's statements, Slavoj ŽiŽek wonders (Žižek 2020) why would the state
power be interested in promoting such a panic, which generates distrust of state power and disrupts
the economy? Measures in the event of an epidemic should not be automatically reduced to the
usual paradigm of surveillance and control propagated by thinkers such as Foucault. The problem
is that these measures may not be effective, and the inefficiency may be hidden by the authorities
that will manipulate and hide the real data.
Roberto Esposito, in Curati a oltranza, discusses Nancy's strong opposition to the
paradigm of biopolitics, but there is no denying the constant development of biopolitics. (Esposito
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2020) The state of emergency pushes the policy towards "exceptional procedures that may, in the
long run, undermine the balance of power in favor of the executive branch". But he believes the
risks to democracy are an exaggeration. Politics and medicine have been interconnected for at least
three centuries, which has led to a process of medicalization of politics and a politicization of
medicine.
John Cassidy (Cassidy 2020) states that it is too early to reject Agamben’s theory because
it may prove correct especially as the time of the US elections approaches: it is possible that Trump
will use the “state of emergency” to take exceptional governmental powers to declare a
postponement for a year or two." (Peters 2020)
Shaj Mohan, in What Carries Us On, (Mohan 2020) talks about Gandhi's principles of
hypophysics, according to which nature is good, following Kant's taxonomy of moral thinking.
(Mohan, Dwivedi, and Nancy 2018) Following an analogy-based reasoning, he concludes that the
theory of "biopolitics" is itself a kind of hypophysics, the other part of hypophysics being the
technological determinism. In contrast, biopolitics and other theories make us immobile and
resigned like animals caught in headlights.
Panagiotis Sotiris considers that notions such as "biopolitics", "naked life," or "state of
emergency", developed by Giorgio Agamben and debated by many philosophers, are a clear
example of failure to respond to the challenges of the pandemic. (Sotiris 2020) It proposes a
rethinking of biopolitics, as formulated by Michel Foucault, (Foucault 1990, 139–40) proposing a
democratic biopolitics, “also be based on the democratization of knowledge. The increased access
to knowledge, along with the need for popularization campaigns makes possible collective
decision processes that are based on knowledge and understanding and not just the authority of
experts." (Sotiris 2020)
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Daniele Lorenzini, in Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus, proposes a completely
different understanding of biopolitics from Michel Foucault's notion. (Lorenzini 2020) Inventing
the notion of biopolitics, Foucault wanted first of all to make us aware of the historical passage of
a threshold, of what he calls the "threshold of biological modernity" of a society. (Foucault 1990,
143) Thus, " Our society crossed such a threshold when the biological processes characterizing the
life of human beings as a species became a crucial issue for political decisionmaking," at the same
time remaining faithful to Foucault's idea that power is not good or bad in itself, but that it is
always dangerous.
According to Lorenzini, biopolitics is always a policy of differential vulnerability, which
"structurally relies on the establishment of hierarchies in the value of lives, producing and
multiplying vulnerability as a means of governing people." (Lorenzini 2020) In this regard,
Lorenzini states that the "medical heroes" and "care workers" who "fight the coronavirus" certainly
deserve our appreciation, but are they really the only ones who "taking care" of us? After all, don't
all workers deserve - and not exclusively in these "exceptional" circumstances - to be considered
"heroes"? The virus blatantly reveals that "our society structurally relies on the incessant
production of differential vulnerability and social inequalities."
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