🎉 Breaking news:
#Aging is now "cool," because who doesn't want to spend billions on becoming the most
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#biotech company on the block? 🤓
#Companies are tripping over themselves to redefine "aging" as anything from wrinkles to existential dread, proving that the only thing truly
#aging is the definition of aging itself. 🧓💸
https://www.librariesforthefuture.bio/p/is-this-aging #Coolness #Redefining #HackerNews #ngated
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Republicans Release Top Bill Priorities In Rules Package. #1 Priority? Trans People.
The rules package released by Speaker Johnson shows that transgender people are likely to be a top priority for Republicans in 2025.
Private Gender Affirming Care Ban Fails To Advance In England After "Ferret Filibuster"
A bill banning puberty blockers for trans youth and defining sex to exclude trans people was blocked from being heard after Labour MPs spoke at length on pet names and ferrets.
Trans Women CEOs Are Redefining What It Means To Be A Leader
Elle Moxley of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute and Michaela Mendelsohn of TransCanWork reflect on being trans women CEOs.
Redefining Multimodality
https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.758993/full
"A major advance...over the past 60 years is the inclusion of visual expression in our thinking about language...With this advance came the notion of “multimodality” to describe human language, but the term is ambiguous" -A thoughtful review ....
#Multimodality #Redefining
Redefining Multimodality
The term “multimodality” incorporates visible gestures as part of language, a goal first put forward by Adam Kendon, and this idea revolutionized the scope of linguistic inquiry. But here I show that the term “multimodality” itself is rife with ambiguity, sometimes referring to different physical channels of transmission (auditory vs. visual), and sometimes referring to the integration of linguistic structures with more imagistic, less conventionalized expressions (see David McNeill's work), regardless of the physical channel. In sign languages, both modes are conveyed in a single, visual channel, revealed here in the signing of actors in a sign language theatre. In spoken languages, contrary to expectations raised by defining “modality” in terms of the physical channel, we see that the channel of transmission is orthogonal to linguistic and gestural modes of expression: Some visual signals are part and parcel of linguistic structure, while some auditory (intonational) signals have characteristics of the gestural mode. In this empirical, qualitative study, I adopt the term “mode” to refer solely to specific characteristics of communicative expression, and not to the physical channel. “Multimodal” refers to the coexistence of linguistic and gestural modes, regardless of the physical channel of transmission—straightforwardly encompassing the two natural language systems, spoken and signed.
#62: Support, Healing, and Redefining Resistance—2017 in Review, Part II
Anarchists on their roles on the front lines of struggles over the past year.
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