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Everyday resistance (also, by James C. Scott, called infrapolitics) is a dispersed, quiet, seemingly invisible and disguised form of resistance [1] seemingly aiming at redistribution of control over property. [2] The acts of everyday resistance are considered to be relatively safe and they require either little or no formal coordination. [2]
Examples include: sunrise ... Decomposition – by which organic substances are broken down into a much simpler form of matter; Fermentation – converts sugar ...
Sandrail at Dumont Dunes CA 2011. A sandrail, also called a sand rail, rail, or sand car, is a lightweight off-road motor vehicle specifically built for traveling in sandy terrain. Synonymously referred to as dune buggies, a sandrail is a type of speciality vehicle. [1] They are popularly operated on actual sand dunes. Sandrails can be driven ...
Everyday Aesthetics is a recent subfield of philosophical aesthetics focusing on everyday events, settings and activities in which the faculty of sensibility is saliently at stake. Alexander Baumgarten established Aesthetics as a discipline and defined it as scientia cognitionis sensitivae , the science of sensory knowledge, in his foundational ...
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Everyday life is a key concept in cultural studies and is a specialized subject in the field of sociology.Some argue that, motivated by capitalism and industrialism's degrading effects on human existence and perception, writers and artists of the 19th century turned more towards self-reflection and the portrayal of everyday life represented in their ...
A sandrail is a lightweight vehicle similar to a dune buggy, but designed specifically for operation on open sand. Sandrails are usually built as a spaceframe by welding steel tubes together. [8] [9] The name sandrail is due to the frame "rails" present. The advantage of this method is that the fabricator can change fundamental parts of the ...
Gerard Jagers' operator theory proposes that life is a general term for the presence of the typical closures found in organisms; the typical closures are a membrane and an autocatalytic set in the cell [26] and that an organism is any system with an organisation that complies with an operator type that is at least as complex as the cell.
A definition of "matter" based on its physical and chemical structure is: matter is made up of atoms. [17] Such atomic matter is also sometimes termed ordinary matter. As an example, deoxyribonucleic acid molecules (DNA) are matter under this definition because they are made of atoms.