Estelle PlatiniJul 5, 2024

Looking for a cure?

#LizCarr has stepped away from acting to advocate against the legalization of assisted suicide. Her latest #documentary, "Better Off Dead?", explores the implications of such laws, focusing on how they endanger disabled individuals.

Travelling to Canada, Carr investigates the effects of permissive assisted suicide laws. There not only the terminally ill can opt for a medically assisted death. This practice is even extended to those facing social deprivation, presenting a grave ethical dilemma.

In Britain, Carr meets with staunch opponents, including Baroness Jane Campbell, who shares a personal story of having a ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order placed on her without consent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U
https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=-G_xF4dvS-U

#disability #eugenism #assistedDeath #assistedSuicide #suicide #Canada #normal #normality #conformance #conformation #ethics #sociology #queer #medecine #activism #militants #choice #euthanasia #depression #mentalHealth #disabilityRights #handicap

Liz Carr’s; Better Off Dead? (ŵ subtitles) First aired 14/05/24 9pm BBC1. Burning Bright Productions

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Show threadEric Maugendre on collectivesJul 5, 2024

Zvi #Mowshowitz on "The Thing and the Symbolic Representation of The Thing":

"[E]veryone involved [is] afraid of being sued (far beyond the statistical danger of actually being sued) every time they deviate from the standard of care."

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-thing-and-the-symbolic-representation-of-the-thing/ #TheZvi cited by Carey Lening

#reputation #norms #conformation #normal #standards #responsibility #health #care #ethics #legal #tech

The Thing and the Symbolic Representation of The Thing

Let’s assume there is a thing that all would agree is, in context, a Good Thing(tm) that someone in your situation would want. Do you want the thing, or do you want the symbolic representatio…

Don't Worry About the Vase
Estelle PlatiniApr 9, 2024

The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently #abnormal or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.

🧶 #longThread @sociology @socialpsych

#EstelleSays #assertive #selfCare #positive #self #selfStudy #bias #reputation #norm #conformation #normal #mentalHealth #sexuality #pervert #moralPanic #morals #EstelleInterprets #sociology #queer #LGBTQ #Deviance

Estelle PlatiniApr 9, 2024

La norme sociale est construite : elle ne se produit pas naturellement mais est créée par la société dans laquelle on la trouve.
Il n'y a donc pas d'actions qui soient intrinsèquement anormales ou universellement condamnées par toutes les sociétés à tout moment. La déviance est donc situationnelle et contextuelle.

🧶#pelote

#réputation #norme #modèle #normalisation #normation #soi #pouvoirDeSoi #biais #conformation #normal #santéMentale #sexualité #perversion #folie #morale #sociologie #psychologie #EstelleRaconte #déviance

Show threadSun21JanJan 21, 2024

@17Jan24

#Rumours Callum's going to die, to get #rid #of Ben (because Max Bowden's #behaviour was... #whatever).

No #conformation about how Ben (and Callum, if so) #will #exit, yet.

#EastEnders #ballum

(#ballum and #robron, #two of the #worst #things #created for #British #TV. #Bloody #awful #ships.)

#lgb #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gay

katch wreckJul 7, 2023

"The #structure reveals rGAT1 in a cytosol-facing #conformation, with a linear density in the primary binding site that accommodates a molecule of #GABA, a displaced ion density proximal to Na site 1 and a bound #chloride ion. A unique insertion in TM10 aids the formation of a compact, closed #extracellular gate. Besides yielding mechanistic insights into #ion and substrate recognition, our study will enable the #rational #design of specific #antiepileptics."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-023-01011-w

Cryo-EM structure of GABA transporter 1 reveals substrate recognition and transport mechanism - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

The GABA transporters (GATs) enforce spatiotemporal control of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA at neural synapses. Nayak et al. report the structure of substrate-bound GAT1 in an ion-bound cytosol-facing conformation, providing mechanistic insights into GABA selection and reuptake.

Nature
CellBioNewsJun 23, 2023

Researcher uses #hydrostatic pressure to understand #RNA dynamics.

#conformation #tRNA

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-hydrostatic-pressure-rna-dynamics.html

Researcher uses hydrostatic pressure to understand RNA dynamics

Just as space holds infinite mysteries, when we zoom in at the level of biomolecules (one trillion times smaller than a meter), there is still so much to learn.

Phys.org
Eric Maugendre about dataApr 4, 2023

"How much effort should we be investing in writing words that symbolically represent data protection, instead of actually protecting people’s privacy and data rights?"

https://knowligence.info/beyond-privacy-theatre-or-why-our-laws-mean-we-cant-have-nice-things/ by Carey #Lening @privacat
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#reputation #compliance #conformation #responsibility #ethics #legal #tech 🌱#dataProtection #dataPrivacy #GDPR #privacy ㊙️​#secrecy #confidentiality 🧐#dataGovernance @dataGovernance 🎯#networkPolitics #governance #dataMining #dataDon 👮🏽#dataCapture

Beyond Privacy Theatre, Or Why Our Laws Mean We Can’t Have Nice Things – Privacat Insights

Show threadEstelle PlatiniJan 19, 2023
"The most important thing we learned from #Foucault is that the living (and therefore mortal) body is the central object of all politics. There is no politics that is not a politics of bodies."
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Paul B. #Preciado #quotes #bioPower #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory
Show threadEstelle PlatiniJan 10, 2023

"Disciplinary #normalisation consists first of all in positing a model, an optimal model that is constructed in terms of a certain result, and the operation of disciplinary normalization consists in trying to get people, movements, and actions to conform to this model, the normal being precisely that which can conform to this norm, and the abnormal that which is incapable of conforming to the norm.
In other words, it is not the normal and the abnormal that is fundamental and primary in disciplinary normalisation, it is the norm.
That is, there is an originally prescriptive character of the norm and the determination and the identification of the #normal and the #abnormal becomes possible in relation to this posited norm."

Michel #Foucault in ’#Safety, Territory, Population’, a lecture given at the Collège de France on 25th January 1978; in French : http://www.guillaumenicaise.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/foucault-le%C3%A7on-du-25-janvier-1978.pdf
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#quotes #mentalHealth #norms #deviance #conformation #sociology #philosophy #FrenchTheory