Informed by the Goddess: Explicating a processual methodology

Goddess across the Taiwan

The said " return of the religious, ". .. is not a simple return, for its globality and its figures (tele-techno-media-scientific, capitalistic and politico-economic) remain original and unprecedented. Jacques Derrida, " Faith and Knowledge " T his essay examines complex interactions among the nation-state, popular religion , media capitalism, and gendered territorialization as these are inflec...

Towards a processual microbial ontology

Standard microbial evolutionary ontology is organized according to a nested hierarchy of entities at various levels of biological organization. It typically detects and defines these entities in relation to the most stable aspects of evolutionary processes, by identifying lineages evolving by a process of vertical inheritance from an ancestral entity. However, recent advances in microbiology in...

Strategic Thinking - Processual Context

On the Way to Theory: A Processual Approach

Debates on theory have focused on the nature of good theories and the process of theorizing, but have failed to engage with the ontology of becoming emphasized by process philosophers such as Heraclitus, Bergson and James, and more recently by Cooper, Shotter and Chia. This paper argues that engaging with reality as becoming implies departing from any claims of ‘essence’ in theories. Theories a...

the archetype of mother: a never-ending story retold by poe

investigation the archetype of mother can help the reader to understand poes works, especially his fiction, better, if not fully. motivated by internal and external drives to get into the universe in its manifold form poe was impelled to art and, from various modes of art, to symbolism. how much was poe successful to produce works of art has been a matter of dispute among critics. however, ther...