A Foucault pendulum is supposed to precess in a direction opposite to the earth’s rotation, but nonlinear terms in the equations of motion can also produce precession. The goal of this paper is to study the motion of a nonlinear, spherical pendulum on a rotating planet. It turns out that the problem on a fixed energy level reduces to the study of a monotone twist map of an annulus. For certain ...

When I began to study the rules, duties, and prohibitions of sexuality, the interdictions and restrictions associated with it, I was concerned not simply with the acts that were permitted and forbidden but with the feelings represented, the thoughts, the desires one might experience, the drives to seek within the self any hidden feeling, any movement of the soul, any desire disguised under illu...

The cross-couplings between focus and radial tracking servos in compact disc players are important, but the optical cross couplings are not well described in the literature. In this paper an optical model of a compact disc player based on the three beam single foucault detector principle is found. The general principle of the three beam focus and radial detector system is first described, follo...

Shaking the order of things Foucault’s first reference to the concept of heterotopia appeared in 1966 within his preface to Les Mots et les choses, later translated into English as The Order of Things (1970). According to Foucault, the starting point for his book was the reading of a passage by Jorge Luis Borges in which he recounts the baffling classification of animals found in an imaginary C...

1. THE PHEONOMENA The aim of the research is to explore the relationship/s between members of two discourse communities/communities of practice (academic researchers in performance studies and theatre professionals) and the works of a culturally iconic author (William Shakespeare). In doing so, it aims to further our understanding of a variety of phenomena relating to relating to collective sen...

The year is 1961. Michel Foucault has just published what would later become one of the most influential books of the postwar era, Histoire de la folie a I'age classique (Madness and Ciuilization). Foucault was accompanied by several contemporary thinkers many of whom are now household namesDeleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Kristeva, Harraway, Debord, Jameson and others. In thei...

In this article we draw upon the social theory of Michel Foucault to explore the neglected tension between normalization and differentiation in corporate branding. The mainstream response within the corporate marketing literature to addressing this tension is exemplified by Deephouse who argues for the identification of a ‘strategic balance point’35 which would lead managers to strive for the s...