Absurd Avatars, Transcultural Relations: Elia Suleiman, Franco-Palestinian Filmmaking and Beyond

Differentiated origins: trajectories of transcultural knowledge in Laos and beyond.

Ethnicity belongs to the most important types of differentiation in Laos. Among the means to establish such differences is the ascription of bodies of knowledge to various ethnicities. Ritual healing knowledge is often associated with the foreign and the culturally different. The attribution of differentiated categories of foreignness thus supports the emergence and reproduction of ethnic diffe...

Israeli-Palestinian Economic Relations: Past Experience and Future Prospects

Beyond kinetic relations

We introduce the concept of kinetic or rate equations for moving defects representing a natural extension of the more conventional notion of a kinetic relation. Algebraic kinetic relations, widely used to model dynamics of dislocations, cracks and phase boundaries, link the instantaneous value of the velocity of a defect with an instantaneous value of the driving force. The new approach general...

Beyond kinetic relations

In this paper we discuss a new concept of a constitutive kinetic equation which represents a quasicontinuum analog of the conventional continuum mechanical concept of a kinetic relation. Kinetic relations link the velocity of the defect with the driving force and are widely used to model dynamical response of dislocations, cracks and phase boundaries. To illustrate the difference between kineti...

Bosonization and Iterative Relations Beyond Field Theories

Solitons can be well described by the Lagrange formalism of effective field theories. But usually mass and coupling constants constitute phenomenological dimensions without any relation to the topological processes. This paper starts with a two-spinor Dirac equation in radial symmetry including vector Coulomb and scalar Lorentz potentials, and arrives after bosonization at the sine-Gordon equat...