Disruption

La doctrine s’est déjà penchée à de nombreuses reprises sur les assurtechs, la menace concurrentielle qu’elles pourraient représenter pour les acteurs traditionnels de l’assurance ou encore sur les technologies dont elles font usage. Elle semble en revanche s’être moins intéressée à l’étude des relations que ces assurtechs nourrissent avec les acteurs du marché qu’elles viennent disrupter.
Cette recherche a donc pour objectif de déterminer différentes catégories d’assurtech. De qualifier les relations de partenariat, de dépendance ou de compétition qu’elles développeront entre elles et avec les acteurs traditionnels du marché. La nature de ces relations sera fonction de leurs caractéristiques et des besoins des acteurs traditionnels dans leur effort de transformation digitale. Des data primaires et secondaires, qualitatives et quantitatives sont employés afin de déterminer un schéma des relations inter-organisationnelles du marché de l’assurance enrichi de ces nouveaux acteurs.
Ces recherches ont conduit à conclure que les stratégies le plus performantes conduiront à voir naitre des écosystèmes composés d’assurtech conceptrices de produit d’assurance et d’assurtech de soutien à la digitalisation entourant des groupes d’assurance traditionnels. Viendront s’ajouter à cet écosystème des prestataires de services liés directement ou indirectement au service d’assurance proposé. Cette nouvelle logique d’écosystème élargira donc la fonction d’assurance de ces acteurs à celle de protection.
Ce model emportera des conséquences majeures sur le marché de l’assurance, sa dynamique, ses facteurs clefs de succès et bouleversera sa logique financière. C’est par des observations et recommandations managériales basées sur cette analyse et les pronostics qui en découlent que se conclura cette recherche

Through three sciences: Positivism, critical rationalism and social constructivism I found my field of research; Hjem-IS and the socials constructions in young people, that makes barriers for sale. How can we re-position Hjem-IS in the eyes of young people Danish people between 18 and 26 years of age. What social conventions exists in the mind of young people, that hinders sale ice-cream? The purpose of this thesis is create knowledge about the nature and conventions about Hjem-IS existing in the heads of young consumers. The conventions will be disrupted. This disruption, will ultimately be deduced to recommendations for a product of communication, that will change the view of Hjem-IS amongst the youth.

Microneedles are a modestly invasive technique that gained mass popularity, and is utilized to break the top skin layer into tiny holes which self regenerate and rejuvenate the skin and facilitate the delivery of certain nutrients, proteins, drugs, antiageing, products and vitamins on the skin surface and underneath in the form of mesotherapy, being a form of controlled intradermal (transdermal drug absorption) applications. It has been an extensively researched topic in the
field of cosmetology and aesthetic dermatology and has grabbed great attention all over the world. It stimulates elastin and collagen production through a controlled cascade of inflammation initiation, and then followed by production and remodeling of collagen and elastin the skin
dermis. Eventually it helps in thickening of the skin, improving its texture and appearance and by combating skin aging process.

Fuelled by accelerating digitization, increased global interconnectivity, and transparency (coupled with shifting overarching political agendas, altered user expectations, and technological advances), the legal industry faces unprecedented change across its entire value chain. Within this quadriga, the following two forces are the chief drivers of the chariot of change: The frst driver is the emergence of stable technological solution-ecosystems which will string together
the current impressive but isolated technological breakthroughs. These
ecosystems offers both vertical, purpose-built applications and horizontal platform solutions. What initially had appeal only for an early-adopter niche audience will become acceptable for those commanding signi􀂿cant market share. The second driver is the manifestation of future needs and expectations of the demand-side which as we have observed once before with the initial rise of General Counsels may lead to dramatic re-drawing of lines and re-shaping of the industry.
But is it really disruption we will see or evolution? The importance of the
advent of new technological solutions, especially as we enter the age of exponential technologies with their prospect of hyper-acceleration of change supports the mantra that the legal industry will face disruption. This would eventually mean the passing on of dominance from established players to the successful promoters of new technology-based dominant designs as heralded by many LegalTech advocates. To try to determine the answer in an informed way, it is useful to first revisit the underlying key concepts of invention, innovation, diffusion, and disruption. Therefore, the frst three sections in this chapter provide a summary of the essential research and theory by leaders in the field including Joseph Schumpeter, James Utterback, Everett Rogers and
Michael Porter. Utilizing their theories on the trajectory of innovation, the last two sections then provide some predictions about how the law marketplace will have to adapt and evolve in the future. This chapter concludes on a positive note. Although legal professionals may need to put on «new suits», the future represents an enormous opportunity to reinvent what it means to be a lawyer and how we add value for our clients.

This article explores the issue of preparing trainee teachers for the challenges of how to face their students’ ‘disruptive behaviour’ which sometimes marks the beginning and sets the tone for the remainder of sessions. In this paper I explore my work mentoring two trainee teachers, looking at the options available to them on entering classrooms where students displayed disruptive behaviour. There is a context of Ofsted criteria, whereby disruptive behaviour is no longer acceptable and ‘failure’ is allocated as an observation grade where ‘disruptive behaviour’ occurs. This piece offers an exploration of classroom management strategies for preparing trainee teachers who face challenging situations in Further Education (FE) environments and suggests strategies for dealing with the difficulties of disruptive classes. The reason why this is vitally important is because trainee teachers in Cert Ed classes wish to discuss this issue more than any other topic. It affects their self-esteem, confidence and class interaction in delivering the curriculum.

This paper describes an integrated framework for handling disruptions in supply chains. The integrated framework incorporates two main views on managing disruptions, namely pre- and post-disruption views, which are usually treated as separate issues in existing frameworks described in literature. The proposed integrated framework is used to structure literature review on the supply chain risk and disruption management. The literature review gives an overview of key aspects and specific methods which can be used for each step in the framework. Finally, two main observations in the existing literature on supply chain risk/disruption management are discussed. The first observation is that the literature has not uniformly discussed different parts of the framework. In general, the post-disruption process for managing supply chain disruptions has received relatively less attention than pre-disruption activities. The second observation which can be regarded as a direction for future research is lack of quantitative studies involving modeling and simulation to support the decision makers in better handling supply chain disruption.

This paper offers insights into production of vernacular architectural heritage that result from disruption caused by disaster such as a flood in a city. To understand the complexities surrounding vernacular heritage, this paper proposes a conceptual approach derived from Lefebvre's theory of production of space constituting the triad of spatial practice, representation of spaces and representa-tional space. The strength of this approach in explaining resilience and vernacular architectural heritage is illustrated by examining rehabilitation settlements that evolved after the devastating floods of 1961 in Pune (a city with a population of 4.5 million). The paper focuses on the rehabilitation process that was undertaken in response to the floods and relies on secondary data and primary field observations in the rehabilitated settlements. It was found that these settlements had twofold characteristics; externally, they directed the trajectory of growth and expansion of the city owing to their strategic location in the periphery around the old core, and internally within, they contributed to reshaping of urban form and vernacular architecture as the affected people reconstructed their houses and everyday lives. A significant contribution to the making of these rehabilitation spaces was the state's provision of land for rehabilitation and encouragement to the mechanism of Cooperative Housing as a representation of space incorporating contemporary planning ideologies. These settlements comprised the 'architecture of the dispossessed' where material culture and imagery informed different and hybrid forms of houses but these were a departure from the past as they needed to accommodate rebuilding and expansion while serving aspirations of those affected.

Since the 1970s, autonomist feminists have critiqued Karl Marx for failing to appreciate the sphere of reproduction as a key driver of capitalism. They have shown how unpaid reproductive work contributes to the production of surplus-value-something orthodox Marxism has refused to reckon with. This is in part because of a fetishisation of categories such as productive and unproductive labour as the theoretical building blocks of Marxism. However, if we understand Marx's critique of political economy as a method for understanding capitalism in terms of process, we are forced to rethink our understanding of categories such as surplus-value. Within current debates around the production of value under capitalism, it is useful to make an explicit conceptual distinction between where surplus-value is produced and where it is extracted. In doing so, we are foregrounding the sphere of reproduction and the key role it plays in upholding capitalist social relations.

This contrast, then, can inform the struggle against capitalism in the following ways. Firstly, it advocates for social movement unionism that transcend boundaries of production and reproduction. Secondly, it provides theoretical justification for withdrawing and disrupting reproductive labour, supporting a decentred politics of resistance outside the factory. Finally, it speaks to the importance of building autonomous movements for the production of "the commons". This paper uses examples from recent struggles in South Africa and South America to theoretically valorise the diversity of struggles that have emerged since the 1960s.

Since the microcomputing revolution in the 1970s we live in the age of permanent technological disruptions, but institutional and educational practices remain unchanged. As noted by Flavin, " technologies come and go but the university remains, in a recognizable and largely unchanged form " (Flavin, 2017). Disruptive technologies, such as distributed consensus systems (blockchains, DLTs) challenge the role of the university as gatekeeper to knowledge and question the structure and organisational architecture of institutions. The only chance for traditional institutions is to find interfaces to informal and technology-driven " production cultures " (Tarasiewicz, 2011) to be able to radically reinvent the university. If the universities don't react to technological and societal change, they will be forked, replaced, and decentralized.

Discipline plays an important role in the success of every learner and is considered as a crucial part of the educational process. Undesirable behaviors in the classroom should be interrupted to ensure a smooth flow during the educational process. This study aimed to identify the undesirable pupils’ behaviors in the academic classroom of Oyan Elementary School. This paper, determines best practices of teachers of all content areas and grade levels to address misbehavior among elementary school pupils in the school where the researcher is presently engaged. The results of the study has shown that majority of the intermediate pupils observed were female aged 12-13. The intermediate pupils’ academic performance in communication Arts-English, Mathematics, EPP and HKS were found to below average while they had an average performance in Communication Arts-Filipino. The pupils’ undesirable behaviors were found by the teachers as sometimes manifested due to the ineffective practices used by teachers in meeting pupils with undesirable behavior. On the basis of the findings and conclusions, the school administrators are recommended to update teachers along the lines of meeting pupils with problems, the effective styles used and the possible outcomes so that there could be behavior modification among the pupils exhibiting behavior problem. Teachers may equip themselves with the necessary traits of being a guidance counselor through attending seminars related to guidance and counseling. Home visitations may be done by the teachers to afford a workable atmosphere between teachers and parents regarding pupils’ attitudes. Periodic evaluation on the degree of accomplishment of teachers as to behavior modification implementation may be undertaken.

This paper will give a comprehensive overview of how the political collapse of the Visigothic kingdom after the Muslim conquest of the Iberian and southern Gaulish world changed not only the socio-political and religious, but also the cultural agenda of south-western Europe between the eighth and eleventh centuries. After the Frankish-Carolingian "reconquest" of the north-eastern parts of the Visgothic world, i.e. Septimania and the so-called "Spanish March", a new socio-political constellation of powers between 'Gallia' and 'Hispania' and a new Church organisation, the 'ecclesia Narbonensis', became established. The talk will show how early medieval Catalonia's double-face orientation towards the old Hispano-Visigothic cultural traditions and the new Romano-Frankish knowledge transfer has decisively shaped the political, religious, and cultural physiognomy of this emerging middle ground. My paper will tell the story of a political and cultural interruption which finally led to the political and social disruption on both sides and the formation of a new hybrid society of religious, legal, and political institutions of its own.

"Aufstörung", "Verstörung", "Zerstörung" – damit wurde Jelineks dramatisches Schreiben von Beginn an belegt, ohne jedoch den Begriff der Störung zu definieren oder zu differenzieren. Ging es zunächst um die Zerstörung des bürgerlichen Dramas und Repräsentationstheaters, sucht das Sekundärdrama eine Auf- und Verstörung, ein komplexes Miteinander von Drama und "postdramatischem" Theatertext.
Ausgehend von kommunikations-, medien-, kultur- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen beschreibt Teresa Kovacs erstmals Jelineks Ästhetik der Störung und zeigt, was passiert, wenn Jelineks Sekundärdramen auf ihre "Vorlagen", auf Goethes "Urfaust"  und Lessings "Nathan der Weise"  treffen.

Over centuries innovative methods and new technologies are developed and opened up. paved. And so on and on. In the history of technology, emerging technologies are contemporary advances and innovation in various fields of technology.. Some of these technologies are due to theoretical research, and others from commercial research and development. Technological growth includes incremental developments and disruptive technologies. Find out what and HOW.

"Visualizing Art History: Experimental Animation and Its Mentor, Jules Engel" by Janeann Dill, phd, mfa

A dictionary begins when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their tasks.
--- Georges Bataille

It is most often the case when I refer to my work as experimental animation that I am met with the question, what is experimental animation? I am instantly reminded of a story about Louis Armstrong in conversation with Johnny Carson who asked Armstrong, “What is jazz?” Louis Armstrong enthusiastically responded, “Well if you don’t know what it is, I sure as hell can’t tell you!”

In some ways, Louis Armstrong’s response might be said to be universal for questions having to do with art, in that any attempt to offer definition tends to further confuse, bind, constrict and/or be irrelevant, rather than to clarify meaning. As a scholar and as an artist, I am most interested in the unanswerable. As I understand it, to ask the unanswerable is the beginning of an event … if you will, an event of language, timing and gesture, experimentation and conceptualizing. The more important consideration in a “what is ____?” question is not the answer, but the asking.. How is it we know so little about the art form?

Since the end of its civil war, Lebanon has been ruled by a political elite that maintains a sectarian clientelist hegemony characterised by corruption and public services deterioration. The 2015 protest movement (Harak) was provoked by a waste-management crisis but soon evolved to challenge the totality of this order. This research was motivated by the movement’s failure to impose immediate compromise on the elite. Going beyond the reactionary role of the ruling elite, this analysis focuses on the structural aspects impeding protest movements. Linking Piven’s concepts of disruption and interdependence (2006) to Wright’s understanding of structural power (2000), it investigates how the class composition of the Harak’s leadership impacted the disruptive capacities and therefore limited the potential of the movement. It begins by exploring how the context of post-war neoliberal transformation has weakened the forces of organised labour, which explains the relative absence of working-class representatives from the Harak’s leadership. Based on semi-structured interviews and recent literature, it then analyses the ensuing dominance of ‘middle-class’ actors over the movement, focusing on implications for priorities, dynamics, strategies and disruptive  capacities. By examining the impact of capitalism’s transformation on working class power (chapter 3) and the limited disruptive power of middle-class activism (chapter 4), this study joins the recent academic call for ‘bringing back capitalism’ (Della Porta, 2015) into the analysis of social movements, linking class and the economy to the potential and limitations of protest.

Kebudayaan adalah segala sesuatu yang berkaitan dengan daya dari budi, yang berupa cipta, karsa dan rasa (Sidi Gazalba, 2010). Pemajuan Kebudayaan menurut Undang-Undang No. 5 tahun 2017 adalah tindakan yang dilakukan terhadap objek pemajuan kebudayaan yakni inventarisasi, pengamanan, pemeliharaan, dan penyelamatan. Setiap warga negara dapat berperan aktif dalam pemajuan kebudayaan. Sepuluh objek pemajuan kebudayaan tersebut adalah tradisi lisan, manuskrip, adat istiadat, permainan rakyat, olahraga tradisional, pengetahuan tradisional, teknologi tradisional, seni, bahasa, dan ritus. Dalam Undang-undang Kemajuan Kebudayaan juga ditegaskan bahwa Pemajuan Kebudayaan berasaskan kepada: toleransi, keberagaman, kelokalan, lintas wilayah, partisipatif, manfaat, keberlanjutan, kebebasan berekspresi, keterpaduan, kesederajatan dan gotong royong.
Lebih lanjut dinyatakan bahwa pemajuan Kebudayaan bertujuan untuk: mengembangkan nilai-nilai luhur budaya dan keberagaman bangsa; memperteguh jati diri bangsa; dan lain-lain. Semakin kita disadarkan bahwasanya Indonesia kaya akan keragaman budaya, kearifan arsitektur lokal, hal ini dapat dilihat bahwa kita terdiri dari 300 etnik dan memiliki 1340 suku (BPS, 2015). Disisi lain kehadiran arus globalisasi, modernisasi, disrupsi era, dan revolusi -indusrti 4.0 terus berkembang sangat cepat. Oleh karena itu, sangat penting bagi para seniman, budayawan dan arsitek untuk menjaga kelestarian kearifan lokal di era disrupsi menuju pembangunan berkelanjutan.

By describing the Anthropocene as an 'entropocene', Bernard Stiegler suggests that this geological period corresponds to a massive increase in entropy, that is, an acceleration of the process of dissipation of energy that characterises the future of the universe. Entropy refers to the disorganisation or de-structuring of a system: an entropic system tends to exhaust its dynamic potentials and its ability to preserve and regenerate itself. The destruction of ecosystems and biosphere by unsustainable industrial projects, the disruption of social structures by radical technological innovation, or the exploitation of libidinal energy by digital practices, can thus appear as environmental, social and psychic entropic processes. To face these tendencies, it seems necessary to produce negentropy, which is a local countertendency of entropy, creating difference, novelty and indeterminacy: at a biospherical, biological, or psychic and social level, a negentropic system tends to favour its own preservation, improvement or transformation. This analysis of the Anthropocene age leads Stiegler to look for ways to invert the entropic tendency of the technical system and to intensify its negentropic potentialities, by producing new forms of life and knowledge, to adopt and transform the mnemotechnical milieu, which currently works as a control device through 'algorithmic governmentality' and data economy. Indeed, Stiegler maintains that when they take care of their technical organs by inventing new ways of living, new know-hows and new theoretical knowledges, the technical form of life that we call the humans produce a new kind of psycho-social negentropy. through social organisations, and cultural or noetic diversity. With such practices, psychic individuals become able to orientate the existing facts by projecting collective ends. Under some economic and technological conditions, they have the capacity to introduce a 'neganthropic' bifurcation in the entropic law of the universe, which could defer and differ the 'Anthropocene' through the constitution of a new epoch, the 'Neguantropocene'.

Wie identifizieren Unternehmen potenziell disruptive Technologien? Wie werden diese bewertet? Und wie werden potenziell disruptive Technologien in Unternehmen entwickelt und umgesetzt? Diesen Fragestellungen widmet sich die Praxisstudie Disruption mit dem Ziel, Einblicke in den tatsächlichen Umgang von Unternehmen mit potenziell disruptiven Technologien zu gewähren.

Digitization, new entrants and the disruption of business models prompt concern about the media’s societal mission. The article investigates how media managers conceptualize societal responsibility in an era of turmoil. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with executive managers of private media companies in Norway and Flanders, the study reveals important differences in the definition of the public interest. While Flemish media managers emphasize brand value, Norwegian managers emphasize societal values, such as educating the public. When comparing managers of traditional and newer companies, a third, more straightforward market logic is also elicited, illuminating the vulnerability of traditional values.

Attraverso alcuni elementi del quadro teorico elaborato da Bernard Stiegler, questo lavoro ha lo scopo di descrivere senza pretesa di esaustività in che modo lo sviluppo e la diffusione delle tecnologie digitali istiuisce nell'ordinario delle nostre esistenze uno stato di fatto che prevale empiricamente sullo stato di diritto in grado di mettere in crisi habitus e credenze culturalmente sedimentate.

Purpose ---This article examines the new phenomenon of the convergence of platform and pipeline business models. It examines the potential synergies and challenges for platforms to add pipeline components and vice versa for pipeline businesses. ---Methodology --- This paper uses a conceptual approach that synthesizes and integrates the literature from service, hospitality, and strategy, and supplements them with two illustrative mini-case studies. --- Findings ---While the extant literature typically focuses on the dichotomy between incumbent pipeline businesses that create value by controlling a linear series of activities and network effects-driven platforms, we differentiate between two types of platform business models (i.e. platforms with asset control and platforms with peer-provided assets). Further, we identify three common pathways of convergence; that is, pipelines moving towards (1) platforms with asset control and (2) those with peer-provided assets, and (3) platforms with peer-provided assets adopting defining business characteristics of pipelines. Furthermore, we contrast key characteristics of the three business models and examine potential synergies and challenges for business model convergence. Our findings suggest that convergence from pipelines to platforms with asset control seems to be a natural extension that offers many potential synergies and relatively minor challenges. In contrast, convergence from pipelines to platforms with peer-provided assets is likely to encounter more serious challenges and few synergies. Finally, the synergies and challenges of convergence from platforms with peer-provided assets to pipelines seem to be in between the other two in terms of synergies and challenges. --- Practical implications --- This article helps managers think through key considerations regarding potential synergies to develop and challenges to mitigate for embarking on convergence strategies between pipeline and platform business models. --- Originality --- This article is the first in the service, business model and strategy literature to identify, define, and conceptualize business model convergence between platforms with asset control, those with peer-provided assets and pipeline businesses. It is also the first to examine potential synergies and challenges these different paths of business model convergence may entail.

In this paper I use the example of the Gāyatrī mantra to outline a number of ways in which a religious text can be made resistant to disruption. Towards the end of the Vedic period, the Gāyatrī mantra (Ṛgveda III 62.10, also known as the sāvitrī) was chosen as the primary mantra that inaugurates Vedic studentship in the context of the Upanayana ritual. In the last centuries of the 1st millennium BCE the Upanayana came to occupy the first position in a ritual system that accompanies an initiate throughout his life, and thereby also shapes his religious identity. Due to its position in this rite of passage, the Gāyatrī mantra became one of the most important emblems of Brahmanical orthodoxy. As such, it has followed a remarkably steady trajectory up to the present day. In my talk, I explore how it was possible for this mantra to persist as a religious text over more than two millennia. Drawing above all on the work of Timothy Lubin, I first describe the historical background of Brahminism and discuss how the Gāyatrī mantra became embedded within this ideology. I then identify the various mechanisms that made the mantra almost immune to disruption: its rank as the first and foremost Vedic verse, its regular repetition during the Sandhyā (a ritual performed on a daily basis), its employment as an almost universal means for purification, and its important role in defining and maintaining the initiate’s ritual integrity and social identity.

Resumen Este trabajo presenta una valoración del proceso socio-cultural que afecta nuestras sociedades y que está mediado por la presencia de las Gigantes Tecnológicas (GT). El objetivo es de formular una propuesta de acción que permita a la ciudadanía ser participe de la construcción del futuro dentro del contexto caracterizado en el articulo. Se revisan los rasgos fundamentales del cambio tecnológico que involucra la llamada 4ta. Revolución Industrial, la sociedad global del conocimiento y el significado de la convergencia tecnológica NBIC (Nanotecnología, Biotecnología, tecnologías de la Información y Ciencias cognitivas) sobre las plataformas digitales de comunicación. Se evidencia que el foco de la actividad económica más rentable actualmente está en la acumulación de datos y la aplicación de instrumentos basados en Inteligencia Artificial (IA) para hacer predicciones de comportamiento. En este contexto IA es un término que incluye un amplio conjunto de desarrollos tecnológicos orientados a automatizar la capacidad de producir conocimientos propia de los seres humanos. Luego se analiza la localización geopolítica de las organizaciones que son los motores principales del proceso, las Gigantes Tecnológicas (GT), para comprender su estructuración para crecer y expandirse. China y los Estados Unidos de América dominan ampliamente el impulso de estos recursos con una moderada participación de los países europeos, Rusia y algunos países asiáticos, salvo en nichos muy específicos. El resto de la población es predominantemente consumidora pasiva de los cambios que se están produciendo. Seguidamente se hacen consideraciones sobre la repercusión que tiene la desigual distribución de la potencialidad, positiva y negativa, de los modelos de desarrollo construidos sobre estas bases tecnológicas. Del balance entre beneficios y riesgos producidos por los cambios tecnológicos actuales surgen serias advertencias que se deben atender. Ante disyuntivas como ésta la humanidad ha cosechado problemas severos cuando ha dejado que los eventos se desarrollen sin enfrentarlos tempranamente. Es el caso de problemas globales como el manejo de la energía nuclear, el racismo o el cambio climático. Los acuerdos para evitar males mayores en estos tres asuntos, de importancia vital para todos, han probado ser ineficaces para traer paz a las conciencias y a los pueblos. Finalmente se sugiere declarar una situación de Emergencia Digital, similar a la "emergencia climática" que declaró la Unión Europea ante el rezago en revertir el daño ambiental. Las instancias burocráticas nacionales, regionales, internacionales, multilaterales y mundiales que se ocupan actualmente de la promoción y asimilación de los desarrollos tecnológicos recogen principalmente tendencias optimistas con poca o ninguna opción de visibilizar a los cuestionamientos que ya se advierten desde diversos sectores de la sociedad y que recomiendan tomar acciones prontamente. La iniciativa de declarar Emergencia Digital serviría para promover una comprensión más amplia de los recursos basados en IA, despojarlos de ese carácter inexpugnable con el que se presentan. Impulsaría un esquema educativo disruptivo para humanizar la sociedad global del conocimiento a lo largo de la vida.

The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is here. Recent reports have listed some 30 top companies that have already placed machines in key functions, and chatbots are widely moving from basic support roles into mentoring and counselling. To make sure these technologies build better workplaces, we will need leaders with more humanity and less ego.

In order to explore how emotions contribute positively or negatively to understanding the meaning of complex socio-culturally specific phenomena, I argue that we must take into account the habitual dimension of emotions-i.e., the emotion repertoire that a feeling person acquires in the course of their affective biography. This brings to light a certain form of alignment in relation to affective intentionality that is key to comprehending why humans understand situations in the way they do and why it so often is especially hard to understand things differently. A crucial epistemic problem is that subjects often do not even enter a process of understanding, i.e., they do not even start to consider a specific object, theory, circumstance, other being, etc. in different ways than the familiar one. The epistemic problem at issue thus lies in an unquestioned faith in things being right the way they are taken to be. By acknowledging the habitual dimension of affective intentionality, I analyze reasons for this inability and suggest that being affectively disruptable and cultivating a pluralistic emotion repertoire are crucial abilities to overcome this epistemic problem.

Der Begriff der Störung erfährt eine zunehmende Konjunktur in den Geisteswissenschaften und etabliert sich dort als epistemologische Analysekategorie. Diese Studie untersucht die Texte der Shoah-Überlebenden Imre Kertész, Liana Millu und Ruth Klüger systematisch auf ihr Störpotenzial und erweitert das Forschungsfeld um die sprechhand- lungstheoretischen Konzepte «Wissen» und «Erwarten». Ein grundlegend störendes Potenzial entfalten die Erzählungen, weil sie von konkreten historischen Ereignissen zeugen und damit deren Vergessen entgegenarbeiten. Die Untersuchung stellt unter anderem am Beispiel des Muselmanns, der Repräsentation von sexuellem Tauschhandel oder der Kritik an KZ-Gedenkstätten heraus, wie die Texte narrativ verfestigte Kategorien in Bewegung bringen, Wissen infrage stellen und gegen gesellschaftliche Diskurse ihrer Zeit polemisieren.

The aim of this paper, especially written for educational therapists, is twofold. First, it is to provide educational therapists a systematic symptomatological-nosological framework to identify or distinguish learning disruptions (LDs) and/or behavioral disruptions (BDs) ranging from their simplicity per se based on their respective triad of key symptoms/impairments up to multiple complexity of LDs and BDs. Second, it is also to help educational therapists as well as other allied professionals in the field of special education to identify and categorize all different LDs and BDs amidst the wide spectrum of diverse types and subtypes with varying degrees of severity. In this way, with a more accurate identification of LD/BD, an appropriate intervention plan can be designed to treat the disability/disorder concerned, instead of just having a name and a list of symptoms associated with a specific LD and/or BD, which is no longer an efficient way of identifying disabilities/disorders. In the current millennium of the 21st century, new research studies, especially with the emerging of the Science of Complexity, are uncovering the complexities as well as multiplexities behind all the challenging issues associated with LDs and/or BDs.

In the fifth century, it would seem as if all heaven breaks loose in controversy and violence.  The Dyophysite versus Monophysite/Miaphysite dispute dominates everything else.  Contrary to popular opinion, we show that Cyril and Monophysitism are correct.  Chalcedon is wrong.

While human rights education (HRE) provides the tools for emancipation, it remains susceptible to appropriation by authoritarian regimes who seek to entrench state power. Classification scholars who typologize approaches to HRE fail to acknowledge that state entities could employ human rights discourse to reinforce state sovereignty. Consequently, this article develops the idea of HRE as sovereignty, to describe states that employ human rights language to reinforce power, and HRE as disruption, to acknowledge the existence of social justice movements that operate outside legally based human rights frameworks to challenge state power. Furthermore, the article argues that HRE as sovereignty and disruption has its genesis in the global South, primarily as a response to the universalizing mission embedded in global human rights discourse.

Als populäres Sujet innerhalb der Künste markiert Blindheit keinen Gegensatz, sondern eine spezifische Ausprägung visueller Wahrnehmung. Vor dem Hintergrund der von den Visual Culture Studies, der Kunst-, Theater-und Kulturwissenschaft vorangetriebenen Beschäftigung mit Formen und Praktiken visueller Wahrnehmung, Sichtbarkeit und Repräsentation widmet sich Paradox Blindheit der grundsätzlichen Verschränkung von Konzepten des Sehens und der Blindheit. Der Band rückt mit dem Ziel, Bedeutungen und Funktionen von Blindheit in den Künsten näher zu bestimmen, eine Auswahl neuerer Arbeiten aus der Literatur, der Fotografie, dem Theater und der szenischen Installationskunst in den Fokus. Nachgewiesen wird, dass diese neueren, im Kontext des westlichen Denkens zu verortenden Auseinandersetzungen mit Blindheit keine Absage an das Paradigma der Visualität darstellen, sondern sich als produktiv für das Aushebeln und Aufbrechen verkürzter, ausgrenzender und normierender Praktiken visueller Wahrnehmung erweisen. Die Einbeziehung kulturhistorischer Deutungsmuster wie Blindheit als Strafe oder männliches Privileg ist dabei unabdingbar, dienen diese kulturellen Deutungsmuster doch bis in die Gegenwart als Matrix für vielschichtige und ambivalente Aushandlungen von Blindheit an der Schwelle zwischen konventionellen Kategorien des Sehens und Nichtsehens, des Wissens und Nichtwissens sowie des Materiellen und Immateriellen.

Traditional approaches to education are evolving in order to improve student engagement in course content and enhance learning outcomes. The image of students passively absorbing information from an educator who is lecturing from behind a podium does not reflect the current scope and dimensions of higher education. In many post-secondary institutions, students are encouraged to participate, engage, and collaborate with educators and peers in the design, development, and delivery of educational content for blended environments. The use and integration of exciting new technology enable educators to disrupt traditional learning experiences by breaking down the status quo that characterizes many teaching and learning spaces and then recreating or (re)constructing teaching approaches that meet the learning needs of today's students. Although this article includes the description of a research project that was conducted in a blended environment as a disruptive strategy, the article is primarily an expository piece around the need for disruptive pedagogies in post-secondary institutions and for construction of new philosophies and practices of teaching from theory, policy, and innovation.

The rapid developments in digital technologies caused digital disruption for almost all existing businesses. Digital disruption represents high threat for existing business as the new innovated services can partially or completely substitute traditional services. Many researchers agreed that incumbent firms looking to survive in the digital era should proceed with digital transformation strategy. However, many of the digital transformation initiatives fail to meet organizations ambitions. Scholars referred this failure to the ignoring of the development of the capabilities on which the planning and execution of digital transformation depend. The lack of understanding process of digital transformation motivated the researcher to conduct this study aiming to examine the role of organizational capabilities in improving firm’s readiness for a successful digital transformation process. The researcher will empirically validate a proposed model for digital transformation readiness. The 260- sample size will constitute of mid-level employees in telecommunication firms in Yemen who will answer the study questionnaire. The collected data will be analyzed with Structure Equation Modeling (SEM) method. The proposed model that represents new contribution in knowledge body of digital transformation will assist managers to assess their firm’s readiness for the digital transformation and the researcher recommends to conducts further studies to extend this model to incorporate more factors.

During the 1970s and 1980s, emerged a second wave of architectural criticism to Modernism related with the global oil and fiscal crises of the period. This criticism, targeting the issues of the ongoing urbanization, the unlimited spending of resources and the environmental degradation rendered the fragmentation of cities a critical problem for social coherence. In this second period, leftover sites were rediscovered and appeared as a favorite subject in narrative arts. Literature and cinema  explored the lyrical role of such sites as allegories of alternative forms of urban life, romantic forms of unlawfulness, and the re-establishment of the senses or the rediscovery of lost identities. In these cases, leftover sites in cities appear as a more complicated phenomenon, one that had already been established and had evolved in cities for more than four decades. Leftover sites became more internalized and they were used to project the profound psychological concerns of the contemporary inhabitants of the city, such as the experience of a lost identity in the city, the shattering of social coherence of urban life, the overwhelming presence of dominant patterns of use in the city, or the city’s problematic relation with nature. This article examines the ways that various narrative artistic projects from cinema and literature refer to the presence of the leftover sites in cities. It investigates the way that these artistic projects can form a consistent narrative about alternative forms
of urban life, one that exists in parallel to the dominant patterns of use of the city. The article also aims to contribute to the discussion on the role that artistic narratives can play in transcending architectural and urban design stereotypes in acknowledging, and documenting the leftover sites and possibly re-introducing them in the urban environment.

Disruption is a fact of life. It's something we have to learn to cope with or we may become disabled by it. However uncomfortable, painful and difficult somehow we have to come to terms with the disruption - confront the new reality - and find a way to a different life. There is no turning the clock back: once it has happened we can only move on into a life that is different, reflect on our loss and appreciate what we have and any opportunity we have been given.

Learning to cope with, and move on from  a significant disruption is a lifelong challenge that is becoming more common in the Social Age as the speed of technological change forces people to change their career/work pathways more frequently.

We often talk about education enabling people to reach their full potential. But what if that potential is taken away from you during course of your life and replaced by a different potential? Disruption is something rarely considered in the low risk world of academic learning but there is a serious question as to how our education systems might help develop people so that they are better able to cope with such profound and disturbing realities.

Guest Editors Jan Gajeel and Keith Chandler share the results of their work for the Directing Life Change project  www.directlifechange.eu funded within the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme. They provide some practical ideas to address the social issue of forced life change that are relevant to our lifewide learning and education mission.

Aim: An ever-increasing number of people seek asylum in Iceland. The wait for resolution on application for asylum can take up to three years. During this time participation in daily occupations is disrupted. This study was carried out to gain an understanding of the experience of living as an asylum seeker in Iceland. It explored asylum seekers' opportunities for participation in occupations as well as their overall experiences while waiting for the processing of their application. Methods: Eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine participants, of whom six were asylum seekers. A constructivist grounded theory approach was applied to categorize and synthesize data. Results: Four major categories emerged that reflected the participants' difficult living conditions, lack of opportunities for participation, lack of belonging, and feelings of powerlessness. The long processing time of their applications was enormously stressful as well as not being in charge of one's life, living conditions, or income.

Either dealing with products, communication or services, design projects present an increased complexity that calls for the collaboration of multidisciplinary experts. This generates a large pool of creative ideas coming from different perspectives, which have to be stirred towards a concrete outcome. In the same time an important factor that leads to a successful project is the team management and the apprehension of the frictions that could influence the creative flow of the collaboration. After a review of several literatures which have taken into consideration the importance of conflict mitigation and the role of designers as process facilitator in the creative team, the paper intends to address the following question: what if the exercise of power and influence could lead to more innovative solutions, revealing meaningful contributions otherwise discarded in the effort to reach consensus? The main objective of the paper is to propose a different perspective on the creative design management, suggesting that controversy can be seen as an important factor, which has the potential to control the leadership within the team and reveal new alternatives in the design process.