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- Reply by Gregory Dal Piaz, Aug 25, 2009.
I am a big fan of the Lagrein Rose from Alto-Adige in Northern Italy. They mimic the mineral laced cherry notes of the red bottlings but are summer weight and delightfully fresh. Besides that the best Rose I've had this summer was a Sangiovese from California of all places. A bit of a fruit bomb but really pure sangiovese fruit.
And at $12.25 it is priced for everyday drinking!
- Reply by Stephanie516, Aug 26, 2009.
What should a rose wine be paired with? I may drink it just because I love that color.
- Reply by Grand Wine, Aug 26, 2009.
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- Reply by Gregory Dal Piaz, Aug 26, 2009.
Great Rose recommendations there Grand Wine, way to contribute tot he conversation.
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- Reply by penguinoid, Aug 26, 2009.
Getting back on topic, rosés are a wine that I haven't really tasted that many of. What sort of things should you look for in a good rosé? I'll probably start thinking about trying a few as the weather warms up here.
At the moment, the Guigal Côtes du Rhone Rosé looks like it might be a good bet: some nice mineral and herbal notes,along with raspberry and strawberry according to the tasting notes.
Any other suggestions for regions or (maybe) producers to look out for? I know Provence is said to make some good rosés but I rarely see wines from there here.
- Reply by po54, Aug 26, 2009.
I'll recommend the INES rosé from Cave cooperative de Fronton.
see : http://www.vins-fronton.com/
It has been awarded Best world Rosé at the World rosé contest in Cannes last year.
I drank 3 days ago with friends a magnum bottle with some charcoal BBQ lamb grillades and it was really, really on the top.
Little dry, crushed strawberries smell, long in mouth, need to be cooled to 11° c.
Made of 100% pure Négrette, Fronton local varietal.
But I don't know if you can find it in the US...
I recently try also organic rosé wine from Cotes du Frontonnais area.(=Fronton)
The Chateau Plaisance rosé : http://www.chateau-plaisance.fr/
Nice deep rose colour, white flowers nose, light spicy touch, very aromatic, deep and long in mouth.
The difference between organic and non organic rosé wine is, in that case, really great !
The organic is far better....
salut :-)
- Reply by njwineguy, Aug 26, 2009.
It's hard to go wrong with a classic Provence rosé. Producers like St. Tropez, Mas Sainte Barthe, and Coeur Esterelle all make flavorful, clean, dry rosés that are perfect for summer. The other region that has given me lots of rosé pleasure of late is Spain. Great Garnacha (Grenache to Francophiles) from producers like Las Rocas or Vega Sindoa hit the spot.
- Reply by lolagirl, Aug 26, 2009.
I would highly recommend Monte's Cherub 2005 Rose' or Coppolas Sophia 2005 Rose' . Love them both and they are reasonably priced!
- Reply by penguinoid, Aug 27, 2009.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I've been keeping an eye out for Provence wines in general, as the one example of a wine from there I've tried I really liked. No luck so far, though.
I'll certainly look out for the INES rosé, and the Château Plaisancer rosé. There are some good organic wines out there, but of course it's not a simple rule of organic = good. I'm hoping to try a few more as I get a chance. I'll also look out for the Monte's Cherub and the Coppolas Sophia too.
- Reply by po54, Aug 27, 2009.
You're right !
Organic is sure not automatically good !
I recently taste some really awfull.
But, organic winemakers are doing better and better !
In june, I've been at the Organic wine expo in Bordeaux (at the same time than Vinexpo, but not at the same place) and I've bee impressed by the top quality of some, not especially the big Domains. Try some Chapoutier Cotes du Rhône http://www.chapoutier.com/gb/index.cfm, you'll have really extra stuff ! (Tavel rosé...)
- Reply by Stephanie516, Aug 27, 2009.
po54 - could you add some organic wines in my new forum that's focused on it? I'm trying to buy more organic and wine is certainly on my list!
- Reply by po54, Aug 27, 2009.
OK Stephanie,
I go to your topic !
salut !
- Reply by ranmanvino, Aug 28, 2009.
Two I really like come from California - "Panky" from the Santa Ynez Valley and "Pink Fiddle" from Fiddlehead Cellars in Lompoc.
- Reply by penguinoid, Aug 29, 2009.
I've heard about one or two organic wines that I've been told aren't so good. I've not hit any I haven't liked myself yet. I'd imagine providing their attention to detail in the rest of the grape growing & wine making process were good, going organic would have to help. It's going to be beneficial for the vineyard in the long run.
I'm in Australia at the moment, and don't often see US wines in the stores here. Interestingly, the wine store I went to today had about half a dozen US wines. All were over AU$50, so I'll just look at the bottles for now :-(
- Reply by dmcker, Aug 29, 2009.
Yeah, I've noticed that about Australia. Lots of European wines in the shops, but very few Californian. On the supply end of things I believe California only exports about $1bil worth of wine, while little New Zealand exports well more than half that much, and is aiming for $1bil within a very few years...
- Reply by penguinoid, Aug 29, 2009.
Yes, I've read it's at least partly because the US wine producers don't feel the need to export much. I've read so much about US wines from different regions recently though that I'm left wanting to try some.
Interestingly, I've also seen little in the way of wines from South Africa and South America. Some wine shops have a reasonable selection, though at the moment neither of my local wine shops seem to. There's generally a fair amount of NZ wines to choose from too.
- Reply by dmcker, Aug 29, 2009.
I have noticed more South African wines there than in, say, North America or Japan. Likely because of their shared Commonwealth history. Wonder what percentage of that 1/2 to 3/4 billion dollar export load goes from Kiwiland to Oz, and of course to Britain...
- Reply by penguinoid, Aug 29, 2009.
I remember seeing South African wines in the UK frequently too -- again, probably the shared Commonwealth heritage. The wines you see the most of in Australia are Australian wines. I've been to some wine shops which sell only Australian wines.
This is good, I guess, in that it's good to see people supporting their local wine industry. On the other hand, my palette is more suited to old world style wines, so I generally end up looking in the corner with a couple of cupboards of imported wines. I've been visiting some friends lately who are not so enamoured with old world style wines, so this gives me an impetus to try out some more fruit-driven new world wines. Not so much to my taste, but it's interesting to try wines that you wouldn't normally taste.
Not certain what percentage of New Zealand wines end up in Australia and the UK. Probably a fair percentage. The amount of luck I've had in finding a bottle of Milton's Vineyards/Domaine Clos de Ste Anne wines (i.e., none) shows that even for NZ wines, smaller producers can still be hard to track down here.
- Reply by chadrich, Sep 2, 2009.
Swinging back to the rose question....I prefer a bolder spicier version. That usually means mouvedre, cab sauv or malbec in the mix, not as much the strawberry aspects of many pinot noir roses. To that end, 3 of my favorites:
Kamen (CS) from Washinton State
Miguel Torres Santa Digna (CS) from Chile
Susan Balboa Crios (Malbec) from Argentina
- Reply by dmcker, Nov 18, 2009.
Some more figures on California wine exports:
" California is the nation's largest farming state with more than $36.6 billion in agricultural production and $10.9 billion in exports. On average, California farmers export an estimated 28 percent of the products they produce. Leading export markets for California include: Canada ($2.2 billion); the European Union ($2.1 billion); Japan ($957 million); and China/Hong Kong ($638 million).
"Top export products in 2007 were: almonds ($ 1.8 billion); dairy and products ($963 million); wine ($815 million); table grapes ($553 million); and cotton ($505 million)."
The quote is from this article:
Seems like California winemakers could pass dairy products pretty easily if they thought in more export-oriented ways. Sure seems like almonds are popular, though...


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Just so you're assured that YRG didn't actually flub the month himself, this is how Dawn reported it.
I guess the Jang Group was too focused on the Geo-spearheaded 'Get Zardari' campaign to get their months correct. A sample of this campaign is reproduced below, this one invoking Muslim history to shame Zardari about the concept of justice (it ran on the front page of the Jang Group publications yesterday, thanks to Muhammad Shahid Khan for sending it to us). Other 'public service messages' on Geo question the constitutional immunity granted to the president, as if that immunity is something Zardari drafted himself.
As you may have heard, the governmental spokesperson Fauzia Wahab has announced that the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will from now on boycott Geo and Jang (what's the soft corner for The News all about?) because of their "partisanship." Fair enough, as long as that boycott means simply that PPP leaders will not appear on Geo's programmes or give interviews to Jang (it's their prerogrative) and does not mean stopping government advertising to them. Government advertising is state-controlled advertising and should have nothing to do with a particular party's stances.
But here's my problem with the government... Ms Wahab also goes on to state that:
"the Jang group was a defaulter of Rs8 billion and evader of taxes amounting to Rs1.68 billion."
So why don't you arrest its owners and put them on trial? What's with brandishing this as a smear tactic? If it's true (and it better be for you to say it Ms. Wahab), what stops you from taking action against the group? Or are tax laws only for the less powerful? Also, while you're at it, you may want to get those 25 ministers and countless rich parliamentarians (on an average worth over 8 crores each) who pay either no or incredibly little taxes to cough up their dues too.


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Interview by Richard Marshall.
'Gadamer conceives of the so-called hermeneutic circle of whole and part as an interpretive check that allows us to reject certain understandings. The circle describes the way we understand the parts of a text in terms of our anticipation of the meaning of the whole and the way we project the meaning of the whole in terms of our understanding of the parts. Where we cannot integrate parts and whole, we have to admit that either that which we are trying to understand is unintelligible or our attempt to understand has failed and we must begin again.'
'For Gadamer prejudices are interpretive resources. They are historically effected anticipations of meaning that we inherit as part of our participation in historical traditions and that give us a preliminary purchase on our world without which we could not understand it at all. For this reason, he thinks what he calls the Enlightenment's prejudice against prejudice is misguided.'
'In a series of conversations with Riccardo Dottori, he also suggests that we ought not talk solely to those who are so like us that their views and positions will only reinforce whatever "fancies and popular conceptions" we already possess. Rather, we should seek out encounters and conversation with those who are not like us at all.'
'In Legitimate Differences I tried to argue for viewing our political debates as the sort of interpretive debates we have in the humanities. Here we expect and even value our interpretive differences and see them as differences from which we can learn. We do not accept just any interpretation but we can clearly find more than one plausible and illuminating.'
'I understand both sex and gender as interpretations, as ways we have of understanding people. Human bodies differ from one another in various ways. Some have outie belly buttons and some have innie ones; some are tall and some are short; some are pigeon toes and some are duck footed and finally, some have vaginas and some do not. Gender, then, may be a further way of framing the latter.'
'The status of "Driving while Black" is jarring precisely because it reflects a failure to integrate part and whole. Racial identities are not a coherent part of the context of driving. Nor can we be always or only women.'
'Can we plausibly integrate an understanding of police activity as the explicit effort to incarcerate African Americans and Latinos as an intelligible part of our understanding of the U.S. political history, the state and the U.S. Constitution? '
'We may never agree, but if we regard our political differences as differences less of principle than interpretation, our debates will be less strident and our polarization less unforgiving. We may even learn to compromise.'
'White non-trans faculty are not meant to study issues of race or transgender – witness the controversy over Rebecca Tuvel's article, "In Defense of Transracialism" – and non-white faculty are meant to study nothing but issues of race and the consequences of racialization. For the most part we find LatinX scholars, for example, in Hispanic Studies and Ethnics Studies departments, rather than, say, Philosophy ones. We are all, then, to study ourselves. This outcome seems to me to be both a travesty of the promise of diversity and a dogmatic account of identity.'
Georgia Warnke's research interests include critical theory, hermeneutics, democratic theory and issues of race, sex and gender. Recently she has written articles on Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty and Clifford Geertz. Recent graduate courses have focused on Habermas, the third generation of the Frankfurt School, Hans-Georg Gadamer and issues of identity. Here she discusses hermeneutics, Gadamer's Truth and Method, Gadamer's hermeneutics, Gadamer's response to Heidegger, whether Gadamer's approach is a break with the hermeneutical tradition, perspectivism and opportunistic interpretation of texts, feminism and deliberative democracy, approaching questions of women's identities from a Gadamerian perspective, contrasting traditions within feminism, whether all identities are a matter of interpretation, what legal and policy consequences follow from her views, whether liberal theories of justice can go far enough, whether gadamer was interested in ethical and political issues, and what can be done about the toxicity about identity politics.
3:AM: What made you become a philosopher?
Georgia Warnke: As an undergraduate, I went to Reed College where the smartest students seemed to be philosophy majors most of whom were going on to graduate school in philosophy. Although I was not a philosophy major, I wanted to be smart, so I thought I'd go to graduate school in philosophy too.
3:AM: Hermeneutics is a key tradition for you and Gadamer an important figure in that tradition. Before coming to Gadamer could you perhaps introduce us to this tradition in philosophy – sketch for us the conventional 'Romantic' history and the key questions that it raises and tries to answer generally – in particular the distinction between explanation and understanding – so that we can see what it is that Gadamer is challenging?
GW: Hermeneutics concerns the interpretation of textual, spoken and artistic expression. Its modern form is often said to begin with F.D.E. Schleiermacher who generalized hermeneutics from what he called a "collection of observations" specific to particular fields of discourse into a systematic set of procedures applicable to any field. Schleiermacher also distinguished between a "laxer" and stricter hermeneutic practice. While the former assumes that we usually understand one another immediately and only occasionally need to follow explicit interpretive strategies, the latter assumes that misunderstanding is pervasive and that understanding stems from rigorous hermeneutic methods. Wilhelm Dilthey then takes up this methodologically oriented hermeneutics as the key both to distinguishing the human sciences from the natural sciences and to securing for the former the same objectivity attributed to the latter. Whereas the method of the natural sciences is explanation that of the Geisteswissenschaften or humanities is understanding. In "The Rise of Hermeneutics" Dilthey describes understanding as the grasp of the psychic or mental reality expressed by a set of fixed external signs. At work is a re-experiencing or re-comprehension of "alien states of mind" that is made possible by the continuity of life encompassing both the subject and the objects of historical knowledge.
In the mid twentieth century positivistically oriented philosophers dismissed this attempt to distinguish the natural and the human sciences. Theodore Abel, for example, saw in what he called the method of Verstehen simply an attempt to by-pass rigorous scientific methods through a kind of empathetic internalization of responses to stimuli. On this analysis, science is science whether applied to human beings or natural processes.
Gadamer's response to this sort of claim is to clarify the aim of understanding. It is not an alternative method of explaining why a piece of human behavior, action, practice or event happens but is an effort to grasp what it is. One of Abel's examples is the decrease of marriage rates in rural areas experiencing crop failures. He thinks those committed to the method of Verstehen try to explain this decrease by imagining the anxiety they would feel about taking on financial commitments under precarious economic conditions. Yet in simply assuming that marriage involves financial commitments, Abel skips over understanding's domain. It is geared not to explaining a decrease in marriage rates but to figuring out what marriage is and, indeed, what any action, event, text or institution is for a given group of people in a particular culture, at a particular time. As such, understanding typically precedes explanation. Unless we know what a certain behavior, action, event or the like is our attempts to locate its causes are likely to be at sea.
3:AM: Gadamer wrote Truth and Method as a response to Positivism but as you are well aware, there are few of those around anymore. Nevertheless it does raise serious issues around whether objective knowledge is possible given the influence of history – does Gadamer give up on objective knowledge or does he try and show that history can enable as well as restrict knowledge? I guess this is really a question about what Gadamer's attitude towards history is – and the possibility of objective knowledge in a post-positivist world?
GW: Gadamer would actually support Abel's view that understanding cannot involve re-experiencing or re-comprehending states of mind; for Gadamer it cannot because of the researcher's or inquirer's own participation in history. On the one hand, this participation means that we always already understand in one way or another because we are always already involved in particular cultural and historical worlds that are heirs to particular interpretive traditions and take certain ways of being and acting for granted. On the other hand, we can never understand actions, texts, events, institutions and the like the way our ancestors did because we are privy to what came next. Terence Hawkes says of Shakespeare's Hamlet. ''At one time this must obviously have been an interesting play written by a promising Elizabethan playwright. However, equally obviously, that is no longer the case.'' Although Hawkes and Gadamer differ on other points, Gadmer would agree with this claim. What we inherit when we inherit the understandings and assumptions of our predecessors is their after-history, or what Gadamer calls their effective history.
To answer your question about objectivity, this conclusion means that understanding changes but it does not mean that anything goes. We have access to many different interpretations of Hamlet both because the text acquires relations to different texts, events and the like and because changing interests and concerns expose different aspects of it. Nevertheless, Gadamer conceives of the so-called hermeneutic circle of whole and part as an interpretive check that allows us to reject certain understandings. The circle describes the way we understand the parts of a text in terms of our anticipation of the meaning of the whole and the way we project the meaning of the whole in terms of our understanding of the parts. Where we cannot integrate parts and whole, we have to admit that either that which we are trying to understand is unintelligible or our attempt to understand has failed and we must begin again.
3:AM: Gadamer questions the account of the development of hermeneutics as a process of overcoming dogmatic assumptions and prejudices. What are his two accounts of understanding and how do they help him critique the approaches of Schleiermacher, the Historical School and Dilthey?
GW: For Gadamer prejudices are interpretive resources. They are historically effected anticipations of meaning that we inherit as part of our participation in historical traditions and that give us a preliminary purchase on our world without which we could not understand it at all. For this reason, he thinks what he calls the Enlightenment's prejudice against prejudice is misguided. His critics sometimes take this claim to be a skeptical one: despite the methods and procedures Schleiermacher and others develop, we cannot rise above our own historical and cultural situation to understand the past or texts or works of art in any "objective way." Yet Gadamer's point is somewhat different. Rather than posing a difficulty for understanding the "actual meaning" of the past or texts or works of art, the vantage point or horizon provided by our cultural and historical situation makes understanding possible. This is so even or especially where our attempts to integrate part and whole reveal problems with our understanding. Prejudices serve as our initial take on that which we are trying to understand and therefore as the foil against which problems with that understanding can become clear.
3:AM: Heidegger writes: '"Our first, last and constant task is never to allow our fore-having, fore-sight and fore-conception to be presented to us by fancies and popular conceptions, but rather to make the scientific theme secure by working out these fore-structures in terms of the things themselves." How does Gadamer respond to Heidegger's (and Husserl's) phenomenological approaches, and why do you think that Gadamer takes the Heideggerian question more seriously than Heidegger does? How does he answer it?
GW: Both Heidegger and Gadamer stress the extent to which understanding is part of our practical immersion in our world. For Heidegger, fore-having, fore-sight and fore-conception constitute fore-structures of understanding that reflect an engagement with and pre-understanding of "the things themselves." The question then is how we can work these fore-structures out in terms of "the things themselves." Heidegger seems to rely exclusively on the hermeneutic circle insofar as it asks us to modify our understanding where we cannot integrate part and whole. Nevertheless, although such experiences may allow us to reject certain understandings as inadequate, examples such as conspiracy theories and paranoid fantasies indicate the possibility of understandings that manage to integrate parts and whole but that we would still reject as off base.
I think Gadamer's attention to the dialogic aspects of understanding reflects his awareness of this problem. In reading texts we engage in a dialogue with other perspectives and views and put our own assumptions and claims in play in the process. Instead of relying solely on the capacity of the hermeneutic circle to reveal glitches in our understanding, we engage in an activity more like that which Socrates practiced in order to question even those understandings that appear glitch-free. In considering a topic with others, we are interested in a satisfactory disposition of the subject matter we are discussing and we therefore follow out the logic of a position with one another until we reach agreement on it. In the course of this engagement, we are reciprocally pushed to reveal our assumptions to both others and ourselves and to consider challenges and alternatives to them.
3:AM: Is Gadamer's approach actually a break rather than a continuation of the hermeneutical tradition (as well as science) in that he's less interested in the truth and focuses more on the intentions behind a claim?
GW: Actually, it's the opposite. Schleiermacher breaks with the hermeneutic tradition that precedes him by focusing on the risk of misunderstanding. As long as we assume that we generally understand the claims that other people are making we can devote ourselves to engaging with them in an inquiry into a subject matter. We can consider with them the content of a particular law or policy, for example, or where we should meet for coffee. In contrast, if we assume that we generally misunderstand one another, as Schleiermacher does, then we must devote ourselves to ensuring that we correctly understand. Two consequences follow. First, we will need to discover the methods that can ensure this sort of precise understanding – Schleiermacher looks to grammatical and what he calls psychological or technical interpretation. Second, those methods will focus primarily on trying to figure out the intention or thought behind authors' and speakers' expressions: what exactly they intended with a law or policy or just which coffee shop they have in mind. Following Schleiermacher, Dilthey then sees understanding as a recreation of the original creative act. One of Gadamer's efforts is to reverse this move in hermeneutics, away from the question of intentions and back to the question of content or subject matter. To be sure, we do sometimes have to try to decipher an author's or speaker's intentions. Yet in the main we are focused on the content of what they say. Moreover, even where we are interested in the intentions behind their speech or text, our access to those intentions relies on text, speech and evidence the meaning of which we still need to interpret.
3:AM: If understanding is always perspectival then does this apply to textual understanding and avoid practically motivated misinterpretation of history that was Dilthey's fear?
GW: This question raises the issue of opportunistic interpretations of texts or events. In a speech Gadamer gave on Herder in France in 1941, he claims that Herder gives the concept of folk a new power and depth remote from "the political slogans of democracy" and that it "demonstrates the force for a new political and social order." He subsequently leaves this claim off the re-publication of the speech in his collected works. But I do not think we need draw from this incident the conclusion that Gadamer's hermeneutics is nothing but an excuse for opportunism. Instead, there are many points in his writing where he points to the desire need to preserve the integrity of a text or discourse and its difference from our own views.
Of course, this desire does not guarantee that his hermeneutics allows us to do so. Yet he thinks the Socratic dialogue to which he appeals has self-critiquing and self-reflective capacities. In a series of conversations with Riccardo Dottori, he also suggests that we ought not talk solely to those who are so like us that their views and positions will only reinforce whatever "fancies and popular conceptions" we already possess. Rather, we should seek out encounters and conversation with those who are not like us at all. Gadamer also alludes to such diversity conditions in one of his responses to Jacques Derrida, asking that conversation "seek its partner everywhere, just because this partner is other, and especially if the other is completely different."
3:AM: Clearly this is all important when you apply it to your work on feminism and democracy. You've asked whether what stymies democratic justification is not the failure to offer or accept public reasons but rather that its not acknowledging that different groups will understand them in different but equally compelling ways that causes problems? Have I got that right – can you say something about this issue.
GW: In its classic form deliberative democracy asks citizens and policy makers to justify their proposals, preferences and programs before all those affected and to come to an agreement with them on the basis of reasons and considerations they can all accept. I have used the issue of abortion as an example of the problem I think the view confronts. Considerations appealed to as support for a ban on abortion include respect for the sanctity of life. But this is also a consideration that might support abortion's continued legality. At issue here is not only whose life is at issue – the mother's or the fetus's – but also what we mean by respect for the sanctity of life. Is our respect directed at human biological life or at the lives human beings create for themselves? If the former, we will likely insist on the inviolability of human life from its embryonic state on and therefore condemn abortion. If the latter, we will be concerned with capacities for flourishing and self-development and we will wonder if we should require a twelve year-old to take a pregnancy to term or a mother knowingly to bear a child with a disease that will make its life unrelentingly painful. Reasons and considerations need to be interpreted. If we can interpret them in different plausible ways, then agreement on them fails to secure agreement on the policies or programs they are meant to underwrite. In Legitimate Differences I tried to argue for viewing our political debates as the sort of interpretive debates we have in the humanities. Here we expect and even value our interpretive differences and see them as differences from which we can learn. We do not accept just any interpretation but we can clearly find more than one plausible and illuminating. Moreover, we are interested in these alternative interpretations because we think they can help us expand our own understanding. If we take our norms and principles as texts in need of interpretation and if we allow for multiple plausible interpretations of texts, then we can allow for multiple plausible interpretations of norms and principles we share. We might, then, look towards possibilities for compromise and accommodation. At the very least, we might eschew the kind of dogmatism, entrenched partisanship and hysteria that currently attend debates not only over abortion but a series of other controversies.
3:AM: You have written about how thinking about women's identity after Simone de Beauvoir's influential work on this can be fruitfully approached via Gadamer's hermeneutics. Can you say what your approach is and why it is an important alternative to other continental feminists here such as Iris Marion Young's Sartrean approach and the work of Irigarary and Spelman?
GW: Simone de Beauvoir's famous claim, "One is not born but rather becomes a woman" can be seen as signaling a distinction between sex and gender. One may be born with a certain bodily configuration, a sex, but the use of this configuration to assume and inculcate certain behaviors, attitudes and aspirations constructs a gender. In 1988 Elizabeth Spelman pointed to what are now termed intersectional issues attending this distinction. On the one hand, de Beauvoir seems to recognize that one does not become simply a woman but a woman of color or a white woman, a rich or poor woman and so on. On the other hand, she contrasts women in general to proletarians, aborigines, blacks and Jews, making it unclear where working class, aboriginal, black and Jewish women stand. This tension raises the question of what oppression women are meant to have in common that would serve solidaristic struggles. Young tries to respond to this question by defining women in terms of Satre's distinction between a series and a group. Women comprise a series, analogous to people waiting for a bus – they do not identify with one another and have no common aims or experiences but are related to one another only indirectly – in the case of women via heterosexual norms. Women can become a group, however, to the extent that they take up certain common aims.
My hermeneutic view is not unrelated to these views. One is not born but becomes many things, among them a sex and a gender. That is, I understand both sex and gender as interpretations, as ways we have of understanding people. Human bodies differ from one another in various ways. Some have outie belly buttons and some have innie ones; some are tall and some are short; some are pigeon toes and some are duck footed and finally, some have vaginas and some do not. Gender, then, may be a further way of framing the latter. To call people men or women is to focus on certain aspects of their bodies and behaviors and not on others. There may be reasons for doing so but seeing sex and gender as interpretations allows us to discuss these reasons. We have already rejected some of them – as qualifications for certain careers, for example and we are in the process of questioning others – as criteria, for instance, for entry into certain bathrooms. This account makes some sense out of the tensions in de Beauvoir's account and provides a basis for solidaristic struggles. Some of the contexts in which we live and act may furnish reasons to distinguish between women of color and white women while others might supply reasons to talk of women as a whole. In neither case, I would add, can we take sex or gender as a foundational identity. Within certain contexts we may be intelligible as men and women and in others as white women and women of color; in still others we may be young people and the elderly.
3:AM: How would you characterise the approaches to feminist issues by analytic and continental philosophy? You're a continental: is there anything you find converging with the likes of Nussbaum in the analytic camp?
GW: Much of what differs between continental and analytic feminists are the theoretical resources to which they appeal: analytic feminists typically take their starting point from the English speaking philosophical world and the philosophy of language while continental feminists typically take theirs either from Germany – Hegel, Marx, the Frankfurt School etc. or from France – Lacan, Kristeva, Saussure, Derrida etc. While there may be some overlaps, there is probably more of a distinction between the German and French groups of continental philosophers than there is between the German group and analytic feminism. Nancy Fraser for instance, is as critical of Lacanian feminism as any analytic feminist. And while analytic feminists sometimes try to claim as their own the pursuit of clarity and precision in argument, many feminists in the broadly speaking Hegelian-Marxist tradition would be surprised. The same holds for the attempt to cut notions of rationality, justice and the good off from their androcentric interpretations. Indeed, Fraser and Nussbaum are equally focused on issues of social justice and economic equality even though one works in the tradition of Frankfurt School critical theory and the other in the Rawlsian liberal tradition. If there are characteristics that mark feminists in the Hegelian-Marxist tradition off from analytic feminists they might be the formers' interest in social theory (Weber, Habermas), attention to social movements and recognition of history. Because of its own concern for history and focuson the strength of interpretations, a hermeneutic feminism belongs in this camp as well.
3:AM: It might seem strange that there is a need to interpret whether someone is black or not but for you all identities are a question of interpretation aren't they, not just gender but race and sex identities too. Can you first say how some who might object to your position?
GW: An interpretive approach to identity may not seem to deal adequately with power even though identities, particularly racial, gender and sexual identities, seem to have almost everything to do with power. What we need according to this criticism is not interpretation but genealogies that uncover the contingency of the social identities we possess and the state and juridical actions that have created and enforced them.
3:AM: So how do you answer these objections and make the case for a hermeneutical approach?
GW: We can inquire into the history and contingency of existing social identities. But we can also ask what they are. I think they are interpretations the validity of which depends on their integration with the context of which they are a part. The possibly controversial part of this view is not the idea that identities are ways of understanding who we are but rather the attempt to secure criteria for rejecting certain the intelligibility of certain identities in certain contexts. Here I make use of the hermeneutic circle. We participate in broad historical, social, and cultural contexts, and these determine the range of the identities we can possess or, in other words they ways we are legible. We cannot be medieval serfs outside the context of European feudalism, for example, with its hierarchies, laws, religious conceptions, and social practices. In hermeneutic terms the identity is part of a medieval whole and cannot be what it is within, say, the United States in the twenty-first century. Efforts to give our contemporaries or ourselves identities as medieval serfs will fail because they will be unable to integrate these understandings of who we are within an understanding of a modern democracy or contemporary capitalist economy.
The same holds of the narrower contexts in which we participate. We are active in schools, religious organizations, market places, families and so on and insofar as the identities we have are ways of understanding who we are, their intelligibility depends upon the wholes of which they are part. We are students or teachers in the context of education, Muslims or non-Muslims in the context of religion, buyers or sellers in the context of economic activity. The status of "Driving while Black" is jarring precisely because it reflects a failure to integrate part and whole. Racial identities are not coherent part of the context of driving. Nor can we be always or only women.
To be sure, the integration of parts and wholes or identities and contexts does not guarantee adequate understanding. Nevertheless, where we cannot integrate parts and wholes, we have reasons to suspect our understanding. So I think we need to be suspicious of our tendency to insert social identities such as race and gender in all contexts. It is akin to supposing that one could lift Captain Ahab out of Moby Dick and put him in The Importance of Being Earnest. Specific characters are who they are because of the texts to which they belong. The same holds of identities.
3:AM: What legal and policy implications does this have – and what advantages does your Gadamerean approach have over other non-essentialist approaches to power and identity?
GW: From the sort of hermeneutic viewpoint I try to develop, discrimination against African-Americans LGBTQ#, women, ethnic minorities, and the like reflects a failure to understand. It takes certain identities to be parts of wholes into which they cannot be intelligibly integrated. Conversely, we can see anti-discrimination law and anti-racism and anti-sexism struggles as commitments to stripping workplaces, organizations and the like of those interpretations of people, including interpretations or identities as white, male, able-bodied and so on, that have nothing to do with what the institutions and organizations are. In the context of driving, we are drivers; in the context of work we are workers. If identity as a white male constitutes an identity that is therefore illegible within most institutions and organizations, then it is not clear that white males can retain an exclusive hold on their traditional prerogatives, such as higher pay and release from most care-giving duties.
Of course, this analysis supposes particular interpretations of the context in question. If our understanding of care-giving is already gendered then women will be an intelligible part of it. Or take a context such as police activity. If we understand it not as crime fighting but as the effort to incarcerate African Americans and Latinos, then the latter are identities that are intelligible parts of the activity. Yet our gendered understanding of care-giving and racialized understanding of police activity themselves are understandings of parts in terms of larger wholes. Can we plausibly integrate an understanding of police activity as the explicit effort to incarcerate African Americans and Latinos as an intelligible part of our understanding of the U.S. political history, the state and the U.S. Constitution? A hermeneutic approach is a species of immanent critique. If the entire context of U.S. history and culture is racist and corrupt, then, granted, the approach is fangless. But if the entire context of U.S. history and culture is racist and corrupt, the status of a hermeneutic approach is probably the least of our problems.
3:AM: In terms of political theory why don't Rawls and Habermas extend liberal political theory far enough to instantiate the hermeneutical approach you feel necessary? Can liberal theory ever go far enough and how far is your thinking around politics in line with Gadamer – some might say that he wasn't really interested in political and ethical theories – are they wrong in that?
GW: Darren Walhof's recent book, The Democratic Theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer suggests that those who think Gadamer is not interested in ethics and politics are wrong. Certainly, Gadamer wrote a great deal about the ethical theories of Plato and Aristotle and Walhof makes a very good case for his contributions to political theory, emphasizing his contributions to issues of political truth, democratic deliberation, the place of religion in the democratic political sphere and solidarity. In my work I'm interested in developing the tradition of hermeneutics as a basis for democratic deliberation. Both Rawls and Habermas focus on the justification of norms and principles through the veil of ignorance in Rawls's case and in terms of uncoerced agreement in Habermas's case. Both also consider differences over justified norms and principles to be issues of application. While we might agree on norms and principles, they concede that we may apply them in different ways. I think this division between justification and application overlooks interpretive issues. Take the case of abortion again. Here our differences are not just differences in our views of whom the right to life applies to but what the right to life is. The same issue arises with regard to the principle of equality. If we think equality means equal opportunity, we may be critical of affirmative action policies. If we think equality means equal participation we may be less so. Nor do I think we should assume there is a right answer to these questions of meaning. Rather, as I said, I think democratic politics might take its cue from debates in the humanities where we assume and even value differences in interpretation. We may never agree, but if we regard our political differences as differences less of principle than interpretation, our debates will be less strident and our polarization less unforgiving. We may even learn to compromise.
3:AM: As a final thought, identity politics seems to have become a very toxic issue especially on university campuses. What's happening, and are you optimistic that debate and disagreements can be handled in a more calm way in the future?
GW: I agree that identity politics has become toxic, especially in university humanities, social sciences and arts departments. Here we seem to have developed clear norms about what different "sorts" of scholars can and cannot study, teach and learn. White non-trans faculty are not meant to study issues of race or transgender – witness the controversy over Rebecca Tuvel's article, "In Defense of Transracialism" – and non-white faculty are meant to study nothing but issues of race and the consequences of racialization. For the most part we find LatinX scholars, for example, in Hispanic Studies and Ethnics Studies departments, rather than, say, Philosophy ones. We are all, then, to study ourselves.
This outcome seems to me to be both a travesty of the promise of diversity and a dogmatic account of identity. Diversity enhances scholarship and advances science by including the widest possible range of experiences and perspectives. As currently practiced, it creates silos instead. Moreover, it creates silos based on only the limited identities we have within certain contexts.
The uproar over Dana Schulz's painting of Emmett Till's mutilated body, "Open Casket," at the Whitney Biennial, shows that this issue is not one only on university campuses. Here some of the furor seems to depend on the claim that, given her race, Schulz could not have an experience close to that of Till or his mother. Quite apart from the question of whether Schulz's race is the only aspect of her identity that matters here – what about her identity as an American for whom Till's horrific lynching ought to have meaning? – even if she could not have Till's or Till-Mabley's experience, surely that is the point of diversity – to see and hear (and perhaps criticize) how things appear to those who have not had our experiences. Do we not want to hear from women about men, African Americans about whites and so on? If we were limited to studying only our own gendered selves so that only men studied men how would we know about sexual harassment or mansplaining?
To be sure, if standpoint theory makes sense, people in certain positions will have insights that people from others do not. But standpoint theory does not entail that we stop listening to or being interested in one another or learning from what other people have to say about us. Am I optimistic about the future? Yes, because I do not think younger people will stand for being silo-ed in their interests or pigeon-holed in the identities on which their elders seem to insist.
3:AM: And finally, are there five books you can recommend to the readers here at 3:AM that will take us further into your philosophical world?
GW: James Bohman and William Rehg (eds.) Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method
Jürgen Habermas, Justification and Application
Thomas McCarthy, Race, Empire and the Idea of Human Development
Allison Weir, Identities and Freedom: Feminist Theory between Power and Connection
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The danger of our left-right political divide
Source: Heartland Institute
by David S D'Amato
"[T]he conspicuousness of America's political polarization belies a counterintuitive insight: the belligerents of the nation's social and political war are actually very much alike. Culturally and aesthetically, the groups appear quite different, yet their political philosophies share a common heritage, rooted in the anti-Enlightenment ideas of the first half of the twentieth century. Gripped by reductionist groupthink, a toxin generated by the United States' acrid culture-war politics, left and right are moving — regressing, in fact — toward their most crudely authoritarian incarnations. Their declension recalls the totalitarian communist and fascist ideologies of the early twentieth century. Classical liberalism effectively sidelined, the familiar battles of that period are reborn in the violent confrontations between the MAGA alt-right and black-clad antifascists, both groups equally enthralled by collectivism and intolerance." (05/23/18)
Originally posted at: http://rationalreview.com/archives/297691
Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin hat zuletzt alle überrascht, als er für die umkämpften Gebiete in der Ostukraine eine UN-Friedensmission gefordert hat. Was ist wirklich dran am Putin-Vorschlag? #Russland (engl., piqd)
Data Protection Bill must give #privacy groups right to lodge complaints
Tod, Trennung, Mobbing: Die Gründe für Lebenskrisen sind vielfältig und sie beeinträchtigen immer häufiger die Arbeitswelt. Das geht aus dem AOK-Fehlzeitenreport hervor.
#gesundheit #psychisch #krankenkassen #krankheitstage #erkrankungen #tod #trennung #mobbing #lebenskrisen #arbeitswelt #aok-fehlzeitenreport #aok #fehlzeitenreport #news #bot #rss
Investigate Europe: Die Prekarisierung wurde absichtlich herbeigeführt.
#Arbeit #Europa
#Cambridge University Press and the #censorship of historical truth
changed course only after massive backlash
"Cardiff Metropolitan University banned the use of the word "man" [for] adoption of "gender neutral" language"
Hacker News Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15239593
Source: https://flowingdata.com/2017/09/11/most-female-and-male-occupations-since-1950/
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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/opinion/chelsea-manning-big-data-dystopia.html
Viele Autobiographien bekannter Persönlichkeiten, die zumeist von Ghostwritern geschrieben werden, sind überflüssig; nicht so die 2015 erschienenen Lebenserinnerungen des Schauspielers, Regisseurs und vielfach ausgezeichneten Filmproduzenten Ottokar Runze. Hier berichtet jemand offen und schonungslos über sein Leben, seine Erfahrungen und Einsichten, seine Erfolge und sein Scheitern, unprätentiös, lebensklug aus der Sicht des Neunzigjährigen. "Vom Glück zu trauern" ist ein gutes Buch, lesenswert, zugleich informativ und anrührend. Dass es kein "Seller" geworden ist, was es verdient hätte, liegt ganz offensichtlich an dem nonkonformistischen, gesellschaftliche und kulturpolitische Verhältnisse scharf kritisierenden Ansatz.
1925 in Berlin geboren, nahm Runze noch zwei Jahre am Zweiten Weltkrieg teil, zuletzt 1945 einige Wochen als knapp zwanzigjähriger Leutnant der Infanterie bei der Verteidigung Berlins. "Ich hätte fliehen können von der Fahne, die längst besudelt war", schreibt er. Doch das verinnerlichte Pflichtbewusstsein verbot es ihm, obwohl der Zweifel da war und im Nachhinein die Erkenntnis: "Die Haltung, die mir so viel bedeutete, ist die Haltung meiner Vorfahren, Ich brauche sie nicht. Es geht um eine andere Ehre. Es geht um die höhere Pflicht. Ich habe versagt … Fahnenflucht wäre meine Pflicht gewesen."
Er erinnert sich an seinen Griechisch-Lehrer, der nach der Reichspogromnacht 1938 von den Schülern gefragt wurde, was die Zerstörungen der Synagogen und jüdischen Geschäfte zu bedeuten hätten. Er hatte damals unter Lebensgefahr geantwortet: "Was heute Nacht geschehen ist, wird für alle Zeit eine Schande für unser ganzes Volk sein." Die Schande: "Millionen Juden und Polen sind ermordet worden. Und jeden Tag mussten Tausende sterben im verlorenen Kampf. Noch im April 1945. In sinnlosem Gehorsam sprachen Richter immer noch Todesurteile und immer noch erledigten Henker ihre blutige Arbeit. Immer noch nistete Angst in ihren Herzen. Keiner fand in sich die Kraft, Verurteilte freizulassen, keiner hörte auf sein Gewissen."
Der Neunzigjährige trauert, nicht nur der deutschen Schande wegen. Er wurde verwundet, geriet in Gefangenschaft, arbeitete nach Kriegsende ein Jahr lang in der Landwirtschaft. Im zerbombten Berlin wurde er schließlich Schauspieler und erhielt ein Engagement am Deutschen Theater, wo Bertolt Brecht "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" inszenierte. Aber er kündigte aufgrund eines politischen Konflikts: "Ohne nachzudenken hatte ich eine Entscheidung getroffen, die mein Leben veränderte." Es war nicht das letzte Mal in seinem Leben, dass er einen Weg verließ, der Sicherheit bedeutet hätte, entsprechend seinem Lebensprinzip: Sich treu bleiben, "das war mir wichtiger als Karriere, als Erfolg."
Ottokar Runze arbeitete in der Folgezeit als Regisseur, Theaterleiter und vor allem als Filmproduzent. Er erhielt bedeutende Preise, unter anderem den Deutschen Filmpreis in Silber 1974 für "Der Lord von Barmbeck", den Silbernen Bären der Berlinale 1974 für "Im Namen des Volkes", den Deutschen Kritikerpreis 1974, den Ehrenpreis des Deutschen Filmpreises 2002 für das Lebenswerk. "In meinen Filmen stehen Verlierer im Mittelpunkt", schreibt er, "Außenseiter, denen sich niemand zuwendet. Verbrecher, in denen wir Menschen entdecken. Jeder Film entstand aus einer skeptischen, kritischen Haltung zu unserem politischen System, ein dem Individuum feindlichen System, das aufgebrochen werden müsste, um Kräfte freizusetzen, die wie in einer Zwangsjacke gefangen sind. Sicherheit, nur darum geht es. Kein Risiko. Aber Leben ist Risiko… Jedes System braucht Widerspruch und rebellischen Geist, um sich ständig erneuern zu können, um selbst Kreativität zu entwickeln."
Über das Theater schreibt der ehemalige Schauspieler, Regisseur und Theaterleiter: "Heute wird viel geschrien auf der Bühne. Oft so laut, dass man das Wort nicht erkennt. Es gibt keinen Grund für das Geschrei. Keinen Grund, den Schauspieler zu zwingen, sich schreiend im Dreck zu wälzen, ihm Nacktheit abzuverlangen, die er subtiler, tiefer zeigen könnte, wenn er Haut und Geschlecht nicht entblößen müsste. Er muss nicht nackt sein, um Nacktheit zu spielen. Und warum das Geschrei. Kein Vertrauen in das Wort, Angst vor dem Wort? Wie wohltuend ist ein leise gesprochener Satz, wenn er den Höhepunkt einer Auseinandersetzung markiert. Wenn der Raum den Gedanken aufnimmt und ihn weitergibt. Wort und Raum sind die Welt des Schauspielers. Den Raum braucht der Schauspieler, um durch das Wort den Gedanken leben zu lassen. Er braucht keine Leinwand, die ihn in Großaufnahme zeigt. Auch der Zuschauer braucht nicht Leinwand und Großaufnahme. Beides stört die Beziehung zum Raum. Beides zerreißt für Schauspieler und Zuschauer die Einheit von Raum, Wort und Gedanken."
Runze kritisiert die zur Mode gewordene Missachtung von Werktreue. Regisseure, denen es gelungen sei als prominent zu gelten, pflegten anstatt Bescheidenheit vor dem Werk der Autoren Eitelkeit und Hochmut, "Sie verrenken sich in der Bemühung besonders zu sein und überschätzen sich. Und der Souverän von heute, Staat oder Stadt, honoriert das mit hohen Gehältern." Der Neunzigjährige fragt: "Ist es das Alter, das mir den Zugang verwehrt zu der Art Theater, die als modern, als heutig gilt? Theater, das Mittel des Fernsehens benutzt und Gesetze der Bühne missachtet."
Das Fernsehen diene der Gefälligkeit, erklärt Runze. Es fürchte zu provozieren und verbanne Sendungen, die provozieren könnten oder sollten – falls sie überhaupt entstünden – in die Nachtstunden. Dabei könnte es "Forum tiefgreifender Auseinandersetzungen sein, es könnte zur politischen Bildung der Zuschauer beitragen". Doch es verkomme in seinen Talkshows ("das Wort verrät es") zu flacher Unterhaltung. Moderatoren scheuten die Stille, in der "die Formulierung eines Gedankens gesucht wird. Sie unterbrechen den Gesprächspartner, wenn er nachdenkt. Eitelkeit lässt ihnen die eigene Wirkung bedeutender erscheinen als den Inhalt des Gesprächs".
Ende der 1980er Jahre begann Runze mit der Planung und Vorbereitung, die Tragödie der Armenier, ihren Holocaust im osmanischen Reich, nach dem Roman "Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh" von Franz Werfel zu verfilmen. Fünfzehn Jahre widmete er sich diesem Vorhaben mit großem Enthusiasmus, aber er scheiterte mit hohen finanziellen Verlusten an den Widerständen, die dieses politische Filmprojekt hervorrief. "Was bleibt?", fragt der Neunzigjährige 2015. "Genugtuung, nie aufgegeben zu haben? Immer gegen den Strom geschwommen zu sein?" Seine Antwort: "Es bleibt das Wort Schande. Absurd, dass nach zwölf Jahren Drittes Reich Deutschland heute Europa dominiert und anderen Ländern den Tritt vorgibt. Trotz Einfallslosigkeit der Politik. Wegen wachsender Wirtschaftskraft. Absurd, dass Deutschland heute drittgrößter Waffenlieferant der Welt ist, dass ein deutscher Verteidigungsminister behaupten kann, Deutschlands Freiheit werde am Hindukusch verteidigt…"
Ottokar Runze schreibt von der vergeblichen Hoffnung auf eine gewandelte deutsche Kultur als "Quell gesunder Kreativität", von einem neuen sozialen Gewissen "gegen die Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich, gegen Gier nach immer mehr", und er beklagt einen "tiefen Riss durch die deutsche Kulturgeschichte". Sein Buch enthält wichtige Erkenntnisse, Erfahrungen eines langen Lebens in der Kulturszene. Es könnte wegweisende Anregungen geben, würde es von Kulturschaffenden und -verwaltern wahrgenommen werden, woran jedoch leider zu zweifeln ist. Dem Neunzigjährigen ist beizupflichten: Ignoranz, Eitelkeit und Selbstüberhebung prägen die Szene, die fast nur noch Beliebigkeit hervorbringt. Parallelen in der Politik, woraus sich inzwischen eine existenzielle Bedrohung ergibt, sind unverkennbar.
Ottokar Runze, "Vom Glück zu trauern. Eine deutsche Geschichte", Klak Verlag, Berlin 2015, 166 Seiten, 12,90 Euro.
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After decades of disappointed expectations, virtual reality has, if the wave of hardware options and burgeoning content libraries is anything to go by, finally entered the mainstream. But, as we march into the brave new world of VR, those same old questions remain: what consumer applications are actually available right now? How much is going to cost? And, will VR ever really live up to the hype?
Somewhere in San Francisco, a lone soldier stands in a desert wasteland surveying her surroundings for movement. You're there too. Over the horizon appears a vehicle, kicking up the dust of the arid landscape, driven by, apparently, some lunatic straight out of Mad Max. He speeds nearer, then slides to a halt next to you. He leers over the steering wheel, menacing the woman, before screeching the tires and disappearing over a nearby rise.
How unsettling.
Luckily, you're not actually in a desert wasteland – you're in a San Franciscan warehouse, and the woman, plus her peculiar friend, were never really there. Not really.
You've just submitted yourself to 8i's stunning virtual reality experience, the crème de la crème of VR experiences. The effect is uncanny, startlingly realistic and exists entirely in the virtual world. Not bad for a startup from Wellington.
Now based in New Zealand, Los Angeles and San Francisco, 8i is currently the best-in-show in the burgeoning virtual reality boom. The company has created a ground-breaking technology that puts the viewer right in the middle of – and face-to-face with – an immersive, 360 degree, virtual environment.
8i has succeeded in creating a trademarked Holographic Virtual Reality (HVR) that 'wraps' the action around the viewer, all based on Oculus' heavy-hitting VR technology.
"What we've developed is absolutely the world's best solution for making virtual reality and augmented reality human," says Toni Moyes, chief operating officer at 8i. "You can actually record people in a format for VR and AR [augmented reality] that makes sense and that hasn't really existed before. We've opened our own studio in Los Angeles, but the next thing we want to do is power-up other studios who want to record in the format, so we can really help fuel the whole content-creation system for virtual reality and augmented reality."
8i's technology, and others like it, has captured the imagination of big-thinkers, techies and investors alike, the latter of which played a significant part in the company's recent $13.5 million Series A funding round.
On examination, those investors make an interesting mix. RRE Ventures, Founders Fund Science, Horizons Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Sound Ventures, Signia Venture Partners, Inevitable Ventures, Freelands and Advancit Capital have all contributed to the company's significant cash injection.
And the money's being put to good use. As far as cutting edge VR goes, 8i is currently the 'it girl', creating a platform that companies big and small can exploit in ways never before seen.
"We've got a huge amount of interest from people wanting to come to 8i studios in LA and record content," says Moyes. "But we've also got people going, 'I want one of these rigs myself, I want to operate it, and I want to use 8i software to help me make content for this new medium'.
"So that's the next big phase of our growth; to roll that out. It's like making everything that we do – our software and our whole system and playbook – into more of a 'product' and getting that out into the wild and into the hands of content creators."
Tilt Brush has profoundly altered the boundaries of art, and unlike so many pie-in-the-sky 'ground-breaking technologies', the technology is available to the consumer now.
And that immediacy is driving investment. Market researcher Strategy Analytics says it expects global virtual reality headset revenues will reach US$895 million in 2016 alone. According to the group, about 77 percent of that value will likely be attributed to developers of the high-spec premium devices currently jostling for hardware dominance: Oculus, HTC and Sony.
If current trends continue, according to Statista, by 2020 the virtual reality hardware market could be hitting US$5.2 billion dollars.
The software? US$24.5 billion.
And that's the magic of VR as it stands today. The applications appear to be endless, and everybody wants a piece.
Among those companies looking to exploit the technology's as-yet-unimagined possibilities is search engine giant Google, which is currently dropping jaws and blowing minds with its 'impossible painting' technology, Tilt Brush. Using HTC Vive hardware and Steam software, plus the Tilt Brush application, Google's new toy lets artists 'paint' in a fully three-dimensional, VR environment.
"These days, digital art has spurred new opportunities for creativity, going well beyond good old pencils and paper," said Andrey Doronichev, group product manager of Google VR. "It's against this canvas that we bring you Tilt Brush – a new virtual reality app that lets you paint from an entirely new perspective."
The technology, which was launched in April, lets designers and artists 'paint' space in real time with the flick of a wrist, using impossible materials to create lucid, interactive 3D constructions. Fashion designers can create full-size sketches using textured materials – silk, denim and leather – in minutes, bridging the gap between sculpture and drawing. Artists can produce room-filling installations populated with 'fire' elements, free floating 'stars', and sophisticated wireframe constructions in real time.
Hopes are high, and driving the optimism are high-profile thought leaders who are encouraging new developments with both financial backing and colourful speculation.
"This is just the start," said Facebook chief/technology oracle, Mark Zuckerberg, back in 2014 when the company acquired Oculus VR for an eye-watering US$2 billion. "After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world, or consulting with a doctor face-to-face – just by putting on goggles in your home.
"These are just some of the potential uses. By working with developers and partners across the industry, together we can build many more. One day, we believe this kind of immersive, augmented reality will become a part of daily life for billions of people."
Two years later, VR is still at the front of Zuckerberg's mind. In January, he outlined his personal plans for the year, included among them, the intention to learn Mandarin, build an AI system to run his home, and to use new technology to help him "visualize data in VR" to improve services and to lead his businesses more effectively
An endorsement from Zuckerburg is enough to give momentum to a whole industry and in April, Facebook unveiled its Surround 360, a 17-lens 3D VR camera. Unlike most VR rigs, the Surround 360 requires almost no post-production work, making 360 video content creation quicker, less expensive, and more accessible to filmographers. And here's the kicker: Facebook won't be selling the Surround 360. Rather, the company will upload its hardware designs and video-stitching algorithms to Github, with interested parties able to buy the necessary construction parts online for an estimated US$30,000.
Though the Zuck's production tools may be beyond the scope of the average consumer, for all intents and purposes, VR has officially gone mainstream, at least if the current offers from retailers like Noel Leeming and JB Hi-Fi are anything to go by.
"For VR, it's very much about the cost," says Jamie Telford, Media Design School game development lecturer and VR researcher.
"The miniaturisation of the technology is the democratisation of the technology. The tech is there, it's at the right price, and all these things have met up at the right time."
"With VR, it's happening now because of the mobile phone revolution," he says. "The fact that you can get these cheap, high-quality screens in combination with the gyroscopes and accelerometers has seen the tech only recently explode."
For the VR curious in this country, the most high-profile low-cost smartphone-based device is likely Samsung's Gear VR, made in partnership with Oculus. Now on its second iteration, Samsung Gear VR retails for just $199 for Galaxy S7 users.
"Previously you'd be spending around $800 and you'd need a fancy computer," says head of product at Samsung NZ, Todd Selwyn. "Traditionally, that hardware has been relatively expensive, but that's changing now. This is the technology going mainstream. The handsets are always getting more powerful so the handsets will continue to improve in the near future."
"The VR headsets – the Oculus and the Vive – they require 90 frames per-second, which is a refresh of the screen every eleven milliseconds, so to do that at full resolution – which is full HD – it requires quite a beefy video card to make that happen," says Telford.
Telford says even though the handset-based experience won't quickly compare to more expensive stand-alone units, the market will still be there.
"When you compare that to a mobile phone and what that is capable of graphically, you can start to see how it's not going to be very comfortable for a VR experience," he says. "What we're trying to do locally is encourage that Kiwi ingenuity and that local 'take on the world' attitude. We feel like we're seeding the market a little bit in terms of what you can do with this stuff."
While Samsung accepts that, from an experience/processing power standpoint, mobile handset-based devices can't compete with stand-alone, specialist units, market analysts are predicting the price point alone is likely to attract the majority of users in the first instance. According to Strategy Analytics, Oculus, HTC and Sony will only account for 13 percent of overall VR headset volume, as low-priced smartphone-based devices reach an estimated 12.8 million unit market share.
"Consumers will soon be exposed to an incredible diversity of virtual reality options ranging from ultra-low cost to super premium," Strategy Analytics' director of wearable device ecosystems Cliff Raskind says. "We expect smartphone-based viewers to take the lion's share of VR headset volumes in 2016."
Making high-resolution, fully immersive VR content on the fly is no mean feat. There are still plenty of technical hurdles yet to be overcome, so it stands to reason that content producers are likely to take a 'wait-and-see' position before fully commiting to creating libraries of top-of-the-line VR content.
"Take 360 degree video for example," says Telford. "While it's straightforward to produce 360 degree photos, they're not stereoscopic. To have stereoscopic camera setups producing 360 degree content, things start getting really complicated. How do you put actors in the scene? How do you hide all of the crew involved? It's complicated."
Telford says that it's those challenges faced by video that serve as an opportunity game developers, especially independent and niche developers, can exploit. "Game developers can step up here, because you don't need to tackle any of that complexity. You're creating in a virtual world and you can render that world in any direction, at any time, in stereoscopic, 360 spherical video. The games tech stuff is just such a natural fit for this technology."
Another flourishing area for content creation is sports, especially in spectator involvement. Founder of Dunedin computer graphics design and production company Animation Research Ltd (ARL), Ian Taylor, says that VR is likely to revolutionise the way we experience sports media. ARL's sports division, Virtual Eye was used in the recent America's Cup action and broadcast to a global audience via an app – the Virtual Eye race viewer – in addition to a TV broadcast, and the whole spectacle was produced by Kiwis working in New York.
"The possibilities, the experience, it goes beyond what people imagine," says Taylor. "VR puts you in a truly privileged position, from standing at the tee with the golf players to being like the 12th man on the yacht, that seat you pay tens of thousands of dollars for. You are right there, tasting the action. Exciting stuff lies ahead if you tell a good story and transform the experience."
While first- and second-generation consumer products are available today, discovering just what the possibilities for the technology are, for the consumer at least, is now just a matter of patience.
"The sky's the limit," says Telford. "It's whatever you can think of. The classic is action sports, being somewhere you can't be – sitting courtside at NBA games, being at a concert without being there – all those consumer applications are going to be pretty strong.
"In Australia they're already using it for shop layouts, working out what's best for a supermarket, and they're starting to do that – virtual walk-throughs before they have to
invest in any infrastructure. And the natural extension of that is that you'll be able to be online and do a virtual walk through the supermarket when you're shopping. If you see something you like, you just click on it and add it to your basket. That's not too far away. It's an amazing technology and an amazing opportunity for everybody."
Telford is also excited by the potential of VR and AR in the near future – with some caveats.
"AR and VR devices are going to completely replace the LCD screen in the TV," he says. "You will not need to look at a screen anymore for information. It might even bring about the whole idea of actually 'surfing the internet'. Can you imagine being fully immersed in the internet, as if physically in that space? That could soon be possible.
"The interesting thing is how this will open up the science of how humans cognitively relate to the world, how we actually see the real world and how we relate to it. These sorts of experiences will start to ask the questions that need to be answered about how we actually interact with the world with our brains. For example, if you put on a VR headset and you don't go anywhere, but you 'fly' for seven hours to a different time zone in the virtual experience, would you experience jetlag? In 100 years you're going to be thinking about this a whole lot more. We're going to be in a place where the body ceases to be important anymore."
So if we're facing questions about how we relate to the world cognitively, and the connection between our minds and our bodies, should we be treading carefully? Could we unwittingly be giving rise to The Matrix? Are we at risk of losing what makes us human?
Toni Moyes takes a measured approach.
"There are lots of things about running a start-up that cause you to wake up in the middle of the night," she says, "but not that one. I do believe this technology is inevitable and it will take communication and empathy and the sharing of information forward for humanity.
"With every new technology, there are always bad actors, and people are afraid of the downsides, but my belief is that the upside always tends to be greater. And to be here, in this position at the beginning of the industry, we've got an opportunity to make sure it gets used for good."
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Early learning on fast track in Austin
Early-childhood education has become one of the favored causes in the beginning weeks of the legislative session in Austin, and for good reason.
"The literacy and mathematics skills children learn in pre-kindergarten through third grade form the foundation for their futures, both in school and in life," Gov. Greg Abbott said in the budget he submitted to lawmakers Feb. 17. "Our primary goal should be to ensure all Texas students perform at grade level by the third grade in reading and math."
His points are consistent with his positions in last year's election campaign. Now the Legislature must follow through with the right programs — and enough funding to give them a real chance to work.
Abbott has made early-learning initiatives one of five emergency items for the session, meaning bills can be fast-tracked. This week, Rep. Dan Huberty, R-Houston, responded with HB 4, what could be the session's primary vehicle to improve pre-K education.
Huberty outlined a High Quality Prekindergarten Program, under which school districts can qualify for additional pre-k funding.
The state currently pays for half-day pre-k for students from low-income, English-language-learning, military or foster families.
Huberty said current funding is $3,650 per student. HB 4 would qualify schools for as much as an additional $1,500 per student, he said.
But according to the Texas Tribune, he also said House budget writers intend to put $100 million into the program, which is far from enough to provide $1,500 for each of the 225,000 eligible students. In fact, it would provide less than $450 per student.
Abbott has called for $118 million for high-quality pre-k programs. He also wants another $64 million for "world-class" professional development programs for teachers in pre-k through third grade.
The session ends June 1. There's plenty of time to develop improved early learning programs for Texas children, but it won't be cheap.


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Going Sans Make Up
For a long time I was too unhappy with my skin to go out without make up. Having horrible breakouts that make you want to cry just at the sight of them isn't nice so I used make up to cover it all up and it made me feel so much happier about my complexion. I did this for years, for some reason I just didn't feel like myself without a full face of make up. It's taken me till the age of 24 to be comfortable with my skin and be truly happy leaving the house without make up.
I love beauty and make up, I mean why else would I write about it if I didn't truly love it? But over the past two years my relationship with it has done a complete 180. I no longer feel like I need make up, because in reality none of us do. I used to put so much pressure on myself to be completely put together whenever I went out and if I wasn't then people would think badly of me. As I was so unhappy with my skin make up was my safety net, I didn't want to show my bad skin to the world because I was incredibly self conscious about it. One of the most glorious things about make up is how much confidence it can bring to peoples lives but I never want it to be my only reason to feel confident. Now I wear make up because I want to, not because I feel I have to and I love that. A lot of it came down to when I stopped caring about what other people thought about me, as long as I'm happy that is all that matters and so what if somebody doesn't think my skin is great? Chances are they're never going to say that to my face so why should I care about what they think?
Going without make up more has been making my skin a lot happier, up until recently I had gone 3/4 months without a single breakout. I've found when I'm not wearing anything on it means I'm a lot less prone to touching my face which is something that I'm terrible for when wearing a full face of foundation. Whilst I know that wearing make up was never the cause of my breakouts I don't think it helped matters. The joy of being able to rub my eye during the day without the fear of being left with a black finger never seems to get old. Granted if I have got a spot or my skin just looks a little rubbish than I do still get a little self conscious of going bare faced but I've just learnt to embrace it. I've stopped apologising if I see somebody and I'm not wearing make up because why should I say sorry for how I look without it on? Now I cherish the times that I sit in front of my vanity to apply my favourite products, it's good to feel like it's my choice instead of a requirement.
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