Consent, Legitimation, and Dysphoria

Mind-wandering and dysphoria

Mind-wandering shares a number of important similarities with thinking in depression. This experiment examines whether mind-wandering provides a useful marker of cognition in dysphoria during a word learning task. Dysphoria was associated with more accessible mind-wandering when attempting to encode verbal items. In addition, in the dysphoric population, periods when the mind wandered led to gr...

Secure offline legitimation systems

rganizing the interdependencies within and between communities is one of the ongoing challenges of mankind. Once organizations are formed, companies run their businesses, and a legal system is in place, there is an urgent need for procedures to perform legally binding transactions. This in turn brings up the need for unforgeable documents or tokens of legitimation. Traditional examples are lett...

Capitalism and Contradiction in Legitimation Crisis

My ultimate aim in the first sections of this book is to present Habermas’ mature social theory, his two-tiered theory of society as system and lifeworld, and to show how this theory, after the pattern of classical critical theory, serves to point out and articulate the interests of groups who embody a potential for protest or resistance within the societal formation of advanced capitalism. On ...

Gender Variance (Dysphoria)

THE 17th CENT. GTSANG RULERS AND THEIR STRATEGIES OF LEGITIMATION

The relationship between the Tibetan prelate Tāranātha (1575-1634) and his major patrons, the various sDe pa of gTsang is a most complex one. In studying it I am increasingly aware that the wealth of detail to be gleaned from the various relevant texts is not just limited to the narrow study of the lives of just a few people, in this case those of Tāranātha and the various rulers of gTsang. Ind...