A partir da reconstrução de aspectos teoria social Theodor Adorno, o objetivo deste artigo é uma interpretação sua crítica à mecânica sedução fascista em democracias. Se elementos continuidade entre nazifascismo e imediato pós-guerra nos países centrais já foram ressaltados Dialética do esclarecimento, Adorno aprofunda suas reflexões sobre condições objetivas os pressupostos subjetivos que mant...

Was there a linguistic turn in Frankfurt School Critical Theory before Habermas's communications-theoretic one? Might later Wittgenstein and the early have adopted similar pictures of language? I propose that both questions should be answered affirmatively, focusing on Horkheimer's Eclipse Reason. argue that, thanks to picture language Horkheimer Adorno share with (later) Wittgenstein, we can r...

Geophonography is a practice of sonifying the geological record, of tracing what Friedrich Kittler referred to as "signatures of the real". The aesthetic efficacy of techniques for audifying and visualising data derived from geological materials is discussed within the context of Ur-writings, a piece by the author first exhibited in 2013. Tracing a line through the work of Freud, Adorno, Kittle...

AGAINST THE BACKGROUND of the debate on quality assurance in nonprofit organizations (Chaffee and Sherr, 1993) and growing economic constraints on nonprofit professional opera companies (Coe, 1994), the issue of measuring artistic performance in opera companies comes to the fore. The management literature has explicitly discussed quality and quality management since the end of the 1980s (Hackma...

The Short Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability is a structured judgement tool used to inform risk estimation for multiple adverse outcomes. In research, risk estimates outperform the tool's strength and vulnerability scales for violence prediction. Little is known about what its'component parts contribute to the assignment of risk estimates and how those estimates fare in prediction of non-...

OBJECTIVE The link between both bullying and victimisation and psychopathology has been well established. Forgiveness has been associated with better mental health. However, few studies have examined the relationship between adolescent forgiveness, psychopathology and bullying/victimisation. This study investigated forgiveness as a mediator of the adverse mental health problems experienced by b...