Cassal Lecture in French: University of London. Study of the troubled relation to cities in modern history seen as metaphor of psychical hostility to civilization a la Freud. Rereads Rousseau's 'primitivism' not as longing for it, but as a critique of its myth of goodness.

I argue for a psychoanalytic approach to spatial questions. I then examine whether the topological (philosophical and mathematical) work of Alain Badiou is compatible with such an approach. French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, whom Badiou cites, also deployed topology, but I argue that Lacans use of topology is fundamentally antithetical to Badious. As illustration, I analyze Badious treatment of The Paris Commune (also contrasting it with the work of Walter Benjamin on the same subject). I then draw out the implications for social and spatial thinking of Badious concept of the site (the locus of an Event which is, according to Badiou, the place of the advent of truth). © 2009 Pion Ltd and its Licensors.

Using contemporary fashion (both "high" and "low") as my focus for analysis, I apply Lacan's insight that sexual difference (feminine/masculine) is an effect of divergent psychical and bodily logics that guide a subject's relation to jouissance. I point out Lacan's growing reliance on Freud's 1921 Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (which demonstrated the pressure for group conformity in dress, and overcoming gender distinctions) for his understanding of sexual difference in relation to social order. I point out that Lacan used Freud's vision of an ego-based rather than a subject-based society for his analysis of capitalist/university discourse in his 1969 Seminar XVII; and I argue that Freud's text also inspired Lacan's subsequent exploration of the logic of femininity (a heretofore neglected topic) in Seminar XX 1972-3 and in Télévision in 1975. Late Lacan thus grounds my argument that postmodern/capitalist culture is dominated in its management of enjoyment - its ethos, its economics and its fashions - by only the masculine model for jouissance. I ask that we consider entertaining ideas about what forming our culture on the feminine model of jouissance might be like.

The question of 'the postcolonial' is viewed from the perspective of psychoanalysis, using Lacan, Hannah Arendt and others to consider the way European whites' unconscious psychological reaction (and role of the maternal) to those they encountered as they purveyed their version of "the Good" to those they colonized.

This study takes a socio-cultural theoretical approach to better understanding the career pathways to full-time teaching at the community college. Building on Shulman's (1987) conceptual model of teacher knowledge, this case study explores the formal and practical life experiences that have contributed to the faculty funds of knowledge that have shaped the teaching practice of Arts and Humanities, Behavioral Sciences, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics faculty at a single community college. A survey of 60 academic, full-time faculty and interviews with a subset of 15 of these faculty formed the basis for the data collected. The faculty interviewed reflected a range of disciplinary expertise, teaching experience and ethnicity. The study reveals that there was not one common pathway to becoming a community college professor. Moreover, the pathways differed along social and developmental dimensions; they were characterized by both private and career transitions that occurred throughout the faculty's lifetimes. Although formal experiences contributed to faculty knowledge for teaching, less formal, more pragmatic experiences had a greater influence on practice. The experiential knowledge that faculty accumulated over time influenced their general pedagogical skills and understanding of the context of the community college and the characteristics of its diverse student population. Life experience was also shown to contribute to the pedagogical content knowledge of faculty and their ability to make course content accessible and relevant to their students. Also discussed are the implications for further research, policy, and practice involving the role of life experience in the development of the knowledge for teaching in community college faculty

Characterization of spatial distribution patterns of pests in large-scale agricultural fields is important because these patterns affect the sampling effort needed to accurately detect and estimate their population density. In this study, we conducted experimental releases of alate cabbage aphids (Brevicoryne brassicae L.) into centers of small plots of canola (Brassica napus L.), and their gradual spread over a 7-wk period was characterized. The small-plot experiment demonstrated gradient effects from plot centers and a nonrandom vertical distribution, with initial colonization occurring on the abaxial side of lower canopy leaves and, later, highest numbers of cabbage aphids occurring on racemes. We also conducted large-scale distribution analyses of cabbage aphid infestations in two commercial canola fields, using visual inspection and sweep net sampling. We used canola plant phenological and landscape features as explanatory variables of the spatial distribution of cabbage aphid counts. These large-scale experiments showed strong edge effects with negative associations between cabbage aphid counts and distance to crop edges, including tree lines and contour banks. Cabbage aphid distribution was more effectively displayed using logistic regression than ordinary regression, Spatial Analysis by Distance IndicEs, or both. Based on the study findings, a nonrandom or optimized inspection approach is proposed to focus monitoring efforts on canola plants within 20 m from field edges with particular attention to the abaxial side of lower-canopy leaves. Detection of advanced cabbage aphid infestations should target the racemes within 20 m from field edges.

The majority of crystal structures are determined by the method of molecular replacement (MR). The range of application of MR is limited mainly by the need for an accurate search model. In most cases, pre-existing experimentally determined structures are used as search models. In favorable cases, ab initio predicted structures have yielded search models adequate for molecular replacement. The ORF8 protein of SARS-CoV-2 represents a challenging case for MR using an ab initio prediction because ORF8 has an all β-sheet fold and few orthologs. We previously determined experimentally the structure of ORF8 using the single anomalous dispersion (SAD) phasing method, having been unable to find an MR solution to the crystallographic phase problem. Following a report of an accurate prediction of the ORF8 structure, we assessed whether the predicted model would have succeeded as an MR search model. A phase problem solution was found, and the resulting structure was refined, yielding structural parameters equivalent to the original experimental solution.

The majority of crystal structures are determined by the method of molecular replacement (MR). The range of application of MR is limited mainly by the need for an accurate search model. In most cases, pre-existing experimentally determined structures are used as search models. In favorable cases, ab initio predicted structures have yielded search models adequate for MR. The ORF8 protein of SARS-CoV-2 represents a challenging case for MR using an ab initio prediction because ORF8 has an all β-sheet fold and few orthologs. We previously determined experimentally the structure of ORF8 using the single anomalous dispersion (SAD) phasing method, having been unable to find an MR solution to the crystallographic phase problem. Following a report of an accurate prediction of the ORF8 structure, we assessed whether the predicted model would have succeeded as an MR search model. A phase problem solution was found, and the resulting structure was refined, yielding structural parameters equivalent to the original experimental solution.