The Gallery as Memory Palace: M. C. Escher, Gainsborough, Tommy Simmons and Ignatius Sancho

The Gallery as Memory Palace: M. C. Escher, Gainsborough, Tommy Simmons and Ignatius Sancho,
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The National Gallery of Canada gradually became morphed into my memory palace, a mnemonic device where social histories began to reveal themselves as one perspective merged into another. Renaissance perspective was too linear, too Hegelian for the way in which I wanted to revisit communal memories. I began to see the gallery spaces through an Escherian perspective where each art work opened into a panorama, a vista of social histories.

Cartography of Memory: Tracing Stories Using Google Maps

Watermind by M M Burkner 2008-11

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The map traces place names in the novel but fiction and reality overlap at times. In The Economist. 2012-06-23. “Blooming horrible: Nutrient pollution is a growing problem all along the Mississippi.”

“On its long journey south the water has scooped up nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, mainly from the fields of the Midwest. So much so that agriculture’s gift to the gulf is a “dead zone”. The excess nutrients cause algae to bloom, consuming all the available oxygen in the sea, making it hostile to other forms of marine life. Creatures that can swim away, such as shrimp and fish, do so; those that cannot, die. In the four decades since the dead zone was discovered it has grown steadily. Today it covers 6,700 square miles, an area larger than Connecticut (The Economist 2012-06-23).”

See wikipedia article on dead zones currently being updated.

Chicago and the Mississippi River Delta.

Wikipedia codes: a personal cheat sheet: code is poetry

This is a personal research tool to help me in writing and editing wikipedia articles. Wikipedia provides in-depth information that is more useful, up-to-date and accurate than information on this blog post. For example, for information on citing books, see here. These are the templates I use most and have provided them here in one easy to find page.

I am entranced by wiki tools.

Wiki codes are improving constantly in pace with wiki content. Much of wikipedia is produced, maintained, created and edited through the work of countless volunteers.

When I find a tiny chunk of data that is not tied to an index I sometimes feel compelled to link it hoping that it will help someone else or even my future self. It might save time later.

Wikipedia lets me do that.

I can correct someone else’s minor error. They can correct mine.

I can make a major change to an article and someone else can make a major change to mine.

When I want to learn better practices in codes I can look up a {{Good article}} for examples.

There are always more experienced wikipedia editors who check for errors, inconsistencies, weaknesses, oversights (especially in the use of referenced material, too close paraphrasing etc).

Most recent finds:

* References
==References==
{{reflist|colwidth=30em}}

*Further Reading
===Further Reading===
*{{cite book
}}

*Notes
===Notes===
{{Reflist|group=notes}}

*Categories:
*Countries
Contents [hide]
1 Themed lists
1.1 Demographics
1.2 Economy
1.2.1 Gross domestic product
1.2.2 Industrial Output
1.2.3 Agriculture
1.3 Environment
1.4 Geography
1.5 Military
1.6 Names
1.7 Politics
1.8 Sports
1.9 Tourism
1.10 Transport
1.11 Miscellaneous
2 References

*Citation template that shows how to add page numbers for distinct inline references without having page number show up in list of references. So simple!

{{cite news
|title= A Magnitsky law for Europe
|author=
|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e18677dc-54d8-11e2-a628-00144feab49a.html
|newspaper= ”[[The Financial Times]]”
|date= January 3, 2013 (paper edition)
|accessdate=5 January 2013
}} p. 8.

*Multiple authors
|first1=George
|last1=Monbiot
|authorlink=George Monbiot
|first2=
|last2=

*Linking offsite urls Firestone Duncan[http://www.firestone-duncan.com/]

*Some articles are much more developed and can be used as models for a variety of templates. I try to use the more recent articles for the more recent templates. The wiki article on Steve Jobs is one of those.

References and sources:

Reliability

“Social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace), blogs etc. are NOT reliable, while newspaper articles, magazines (Time Magazine), books etc. ARE reliable (wikipedia editing page re: Steve Jobs’ article.”

Wikipedia Template for References

Generating the full bibliography and webliography at the end of the article

At the end of the article the following code generates the complete bibliographic reference list in wikipedia’s perferred bibliographic style. I prefer to fill in the templates manually to ensure all relevant data is included. It takes longer but may prevent the loss of a reference if an url becomes a dead end.

==My Common Mistakes==

day= is deprecated – use |date= if all three components are available

city vs location

format=PDF not .pdf as I use

|accessdate=

[[capillary action|capillary forces]]  the second one is the one that displays?

==link to main article within an article==
{{Main|Global warming}}

==How to link a phrase to outside sites==

[http://www.cees.iupui.edu/Research/Water_Resources/CIWRP/Algae_Information/Presentations/2010-06-17-Symposium/2010-06-17_Lehman-Whole_Lake_Experiments.pdf |Whole Lake Experiments]

==ref name= / ==
Does the name need “”? No

==creating categories==

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== References ==
{{reflist|25em|refs=

Individual bibliographic/webliographic entries

1. New! editor replaced <ref>Gregory S. Aldrete (2004), ”Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii and Ostia”, p. 78, ISBN 978-0-313-33174-9</ref> with

{{sfn|Aldrete|2004|pp=79f.}} and {{sfn|Aldrete|2004|pp=78-9}} and {{sfn|Aldrete|2004|pp=79 ff.}} for exact page numbers! great, wondered how to do that.

1. This <ref> “Whole Lake Experiment, Ford Lake, Prof Lehman”[ http://www.cees.iupui.edu/Research/Water_Resources/CIWRP/Algae_Information/Presentations/2010-06-17-Symposium/2010-06-17_Lehman-Whole_Lake_Experiments.pdf%5D</ref&gt; replaced with this <ref>[http://www.cees.iupui.edu/Research/Water_Resources/CIWRP/Algae_Information/Presentations/2010-06-17-Symposium/2010-06-17_Lehman-Whole_Lake_Experiments.pdf "Whole Lake Experiment, Ford Lake, Prof Lehman"]</ref>

Each bibliographic entry has a <ref> </ref>to open and close each reference.

It is preferable to use eg <ref name=”Rawls”> when using several citations from the same article.

• {{Cite album-notes}}, {{Cite book}}, {{Cite conference}}, {{Cite DVD-notes}}, {{Cite encyclopedia}}, {{Cite interview}}, {{Cite journal}} Includes magazines, journals, academic papers, {{Cite mailing list}}, {{Cite manual}}, {{Cite music release notes}}, {{Cite map}}, {{Cite news}}, {{Cite newsgroup}}, {{Cite podcast}}, {{Cite press release}}, {{Cite serial}}, {{Cite sign}}, {{cite speech}}, {{cite techreport}},
• {{Cite thesis}}, {{Cite video}}, {{Cite web}},
• See Wikipedia Template:Cite web {{cite web}} horizontal

  • Day Month Year

    {{cite news |title= |first= |last= |url= |newspaper= |date= |accessdate=3 June 2012}}

  Month Day, Year

  {{cite news |title= |first= |last= |url= |newspaper= |date= |accessdate=June 3, 2012}}

• See Wikipedia Template:Cite news {{Cite news}}
• <ref>{{cite web
  |url=
  |title=
  |author=
  |publisher=
  |city=
  |year=
  |month=
  |day=
  |page=
  |accessdate=December 4, 2011
  |}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
  |url=
  |title=
  |author=
  |publisher=
  |city=
  |year=
  |month=
  |day=
  |accessdate=
  |}}</ref>

  • Using authorlink to link to article about the author on Wikipedia

    • <ref>{{cite news | first=George | last=Monbiot | authorlink=George Monbiot | title=From toxic waste to toxic assets, the same people always get dumped on | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/sep/21/global-fly-tipping-toxic-waste | newspaper=The Guardian | location=London | date=22 September 2009 }}</ref>

Examples:

<ref>
{{cite book
|year=2007
|contribution=C. Mitigation in the short and medium term (until 2030).
|title= Summary for Policymakers.
|series=Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
|editor=B. Metz ”et al.”
|publisher=Print version: [[Cambridge University Press]], Cambridge, U.K., and New York, N.Y., U.S.A.. This version: IPCC website
|isbn=9780521880114
|author=IPCC
|url=http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/spmsspm-c.html
|accessdate=May 15 2010
}}
</ref>

<ref>
{{
|title=The universe in short
|first1=Stephen W.
|last1=Hawking
|publisher=Bantam Books
|year=2001
|isbn=9780553802023
|page=26
|
}}
</ref>

<ref>
{{Citation
|title=The Nobel prize: a history of genius, controversy, and prestige
|first1=Burton
|last1=Feldman
|publisher=Arcade Publishing
|year=2001
|isbn=1-559-70592-2
|page=141
|url=http://books.google.com/?id=xnckeeTICn0C}}, [http://books.google.com/books?id=xnckeeTICn0C&pg=PA141 Page 141]
}}</ref>

In 1901, Einstein had a paper on the [[capillary action|capillary forces]] of a straw published in the prestigious ”[[Annalen der Physik]]”.
<ref>
{{Citation
|last = Galison
|first = Peter
|authorlink = Peter Galison
|title = Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time
|publisher = W.W. Norton
|location = New York
|year = 2003
|isbn = 0393020010 }}
</ref>

Further Reading

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|title=Geo-Engineering Climate Change: Environmental Necessity or Pandora’s Box?|
editor1-first=Brian|editor1-last=[[Brian Launder|Launder]]|editor2-first=J. Michael T. |editor2-last=Thompson|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=December 2009|isbn=978-0-521-198035}}
*{{cite book|author=[[Eli Kintisch]]|year=2010|title=Hack the Planet: Science’s Best Hope, or Worst Nightmare, for Averting Climate Catastrophe|isbn=978-0470524268}}
*{{cite book|author=Jeff Goodell|authorlink=Jeff Goodell|year=2010|title=How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate|isbn=978-0618990610}}
* {{cite journal| journal= [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]| volume= 447| pages= 132–136| date=May 10, 2007 | doi=10.1038/447132a| title=Climate change: Is this what it takes to save the world?| first=Oliver| last= Morton| pmid= 17495899| issue= 7141}} –Abstract only, full article requires payment.
*{{cite book|author=[[James Rodger Fleming]]|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|date=September 15, 2010|title=Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control|isbn=978-0231144124}}
*[http://www.irgc.org/-Granger-Morgan-.html Granger Morgan], Katharine Ricke (2010). ”An Opinion Piece for [http://www.irgc.org IRGC]. Cooling the Earth Through Solar Radiation Management: The need for research and an approach to its governance.” ISBN 978-2-9700672-8-3

For references that are cited several times in the same article use this for subsequent references:

<ref> name=”rawls” <ref />

Translations
({{fr}}:)

(French: ”Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement”, ”’MEDDTL”’)

{{Language icon|en|English}}
{{documentation}}

Duplication Detector

Duplication Detector ”is a tool used to compare any two web pages to identify text which has been copied from one to the other. It can compare two Wikipedia pages to one another, two versions of a Wikipedia page to one another, a Wikipedia page (current or old revision) to an external page, or two external pages to one another. Duplication detector locates passages in which the text on the two pages is the same (wiki article).”

Dead Link

Link Rot, linkrot, link death, link breaking, broken link, dangling link are links that point to a source that is unavailable or do not work. Wikipedia editors are concerned about link rot and encourage the use of services like  WebCite, that provide on-demand web archiving.  WebCite, archives copies of online links that remain available even if the original link is a dead link.  The New York Times and wordpress offers the service of a permalink. para wiki

Wikipedia also recommends the Wayback Machine which takes webpage snapshots.

The following codes etc are from the wikipedia article entitled Faye Wong created and frequently edited by User:Fayenatic london, is administrator on English Wikipedia. Fayenatic london is among the 800 most active editors on Wikipedia.

How to create a quote box:

dead urls can also be archived here

|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050323175527/

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/gwr5/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=54458

|archivedate=23 March 2005

quotation

 

Centered (but not floating any more):

{{Quote box
 |quote  = Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.
 |source = [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', Act III, Scene I.
 |width  = 50%
 |align  = center
}}
{{Lorem ipsum}}

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Linking to other wikipedia articles when the titles are not identical

since [[Mainland Chinese|Mainlanders]] were [[stereotyped]]

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film [[Confucius (2010 film)|''Confucius'']] was released

A Paradigm is a Cognitive Road Map

Under construction

I submitted the online paper entitled “Bridges and Barriers: Perspectives from the Road to Nowhere: Locating the ‘Participatory in Research and ‘Research’ in Participatory‘” in June, 2003.

Paradigm, a cognitive road map that encompasses ontology, epistemology and methodology

“The paradigm encompasses ontology (the nature of reality); epistemology (how we know and the relationship between the knower and the known) and the methodology (how we gain knowledge about the world, of which PAR is one approach). A paradigm is socially constructed and depends on a basic set of beliefs that guide action. It is a worldview, a basic set of beliefs that define the nature of the human subject, the relationships between human subject and the world. Paradigmic beliefs depend as much on faith as any philosophical belief. Paradigms can be so inclusive that they encompass worlds within worlds or as narrow as orthodox positivism (Denzin, 1994).”

What is ‘the market’?

under construction

What is being done in the name of ‘the market’ in 2012?

The government of Alberta is currently basing its decisions on energy strategy regarding oil refineries on ‘the market’. “Let ‘the market’ decide.” What is ‘the market’? Can we talk about ‘the market’ in policy making on energy? Or is it highly fragmented yet inextricably linked? Oil with natural gas? Labour market? Bitumen and crude oil? Which crude? Is the market upstream or downstream? Financial market? Is it a futures market, just-in-time, real time or just-too late?

Who are the players in ‘the market’?

The increase the market value of stocks owned by shareholders is the responsibility of the CEO’s of incorporated companies according to North American economists and the business community. In fact under U.S. corporate law a CEO who makes decisions that are not market-based, risks liability for a breach of fiduciary duty (Leibold, Annalisa M., “Aligning Incentives for Development: The World Bank and the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline” (2011). Student Prize Papers. Paper 79. Yale Journal of International Law. Vol.36:167:184).

Leibold referred to the consortium (coventure) formed in 2000 by three energy companies (ExxonMobil:40%, Petronas:35%, Chevron:25%) that became one of the central players in the World Bank’s strategic plan to use oil extraction to reduce poverty in Chad. Leibold argued that it did not work as a development project because the profit-maximizing nature of corporations. The Chadian president signed a contract in 2004 for a much smaller royalty than other African countries received at the time. The Chadian share of profits was low. Loans for the project were provided by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation.

As e-commerce relationships multiply exponentially to whom are the CEOs of mega-companies liable for breach of fiduciary duty?

To what extent is the market a complex interconnected dynamic virtual network?

To what extent is ‘the market’ rational in 2012?

To what extent is the ‘market’ related to the [physical/virtual] exchange of [goods/capital] in [physical] real time/space?

At what scale do rules change? Can there be rules of thumb for large-scale complex international markets?

“It is standard doctrine, at least among American economists and in much of the business community, that firms should maximize the stock market value.” Incorporated companies are ultimately accountable to their shareholders. (Joseph E. Stiglitz, “What is the Role of the State?” in Escaping the Resource Curse, supra note 154, at 3, 28-29) (“It is standard doctrine, at least among American economists and in much of the business community, that firms should maximize the stock market value.”).) Under U.S. corporate law, for example, a corporation’s board of directors must make decisions that reflect the profit motivations of shareholders or risk liability for a breach of fiduciary duty.” (The Yale Journal of International Law. Vol.36:167:184).

“The financial markets are accelerating: transaction volumes are up, latencies are down, complex cross asset trading up, revenue margins down. Recently markets have seen sudden spikes in volumes, and nervous volatility when the old rules of thumb broke down. Technology and global regulators have both changed those rules by increasing transparency, intensifying competition, and multiplying e-commerce relationships exponentially. Reforms such as Reg NMS in the US and MiFID in Europe have further increased the pressure, along with Basel II and the fair value accounting rules of the new International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The IFRS require, for example, firms to mark more of their assets and liabilities to market, while Basel II is much more explicit about risk adjusted capital reserves needed. Now, when markets move, traders need to catch them on-the-fly to cut their losses and go with the flow to ensure compliance with all the rules and customer mandates. The difference between just-in-time and just-too late has just become bigger (Giffords, Bob; Palmer, Mark. “Can Real-Time Profit and Loss Tame the Turbulent Markets?” StreamBase White Paper Real-Time Profit & Loss. StreamBase Systems).”

Financial market

transactions: just-in-time, just-too late
traders:
Labour market
Market for Financial Advice

the market [is] [emerging/performing/balanced/sustainable/stable/nervous/unstable/accelerating/turbulent/crashed] [experiencing] [transaction/latancies/revenue margins] [sudden][spikes] in [demand/supply][side][transaction][volumes][up/down]

competition is [intensified/]
transparency [increased]

[Natural gas] is a [sustainable/unstable/emerging/performing/turbulent] market wherein the [volume/price/value/royalties] of natural [unis][gas][gas futures][gas company stocks] [rose/fell/remained static] [slowly/consistently/dramatically] because of [reduced/increased] [supply/demand][Profit/Loss] [new/failing/controversial] [technology] for [extracting/transporting][regulation/deregulation].

The ‘labour market’ is [flexible] with [increased/stable/decreased] mobility]

‘The market’ is [sustainable/unstable/emerging/performing/turbulent] as the [volume/price/value/royalties] of [futures/stocks/transactions] [rose/fell/remained static] [slowly/consistently/dramatically] because of [reduced/increased] [supply/demand][Profit/Loss] [new/failing/controversial] [technology] for [extracting/transporting][regulation/deregulation].

Callon, Michel. 1998. The Laws of the Markets. Blackwell Publishers/Sociological Review.

With the collapse of the planned economies of Eastern Europe, the market is extending its reach and at the same time claiming its universal applicability. But this is occuring while paradoxically it is becoming more difficult to define ‘the market’. The authors, all outstanding scholars in the booming field of socio-economics, explore how concrete markets are built up and stabilized. They give answers to questions such as the following: How are entities, material or nonmaterial, human or nonhuman, transformed into commodities? How are economic behaviours shaped by institutional arrangements? Is it possible to characterize the role of the social sciences and in particular of economics in performing markets and in enforcing rational behaviours?

Résumé: “Ce recueil regroupe plusieurs articles qui portent leur attention sur l’organisation des marchés. Michel Callon examine la place de la notion d’économie de marché au sein des théories économiques. Viviana A. Zelizer met en lumière une certaine prolifération des monnaies sociales dans la période actuelle. Michel Y. Abolafia considère que l’on doit appréhender les marchés comme autant de cultures spécifiques. Bai Gao s’efforce de mesurer l’influence des facteurs culturels et politiques sur l’évolution du mode de gestion japonais entre 1946 et 1996. David Stark analyse l’organisation de la propriété capitalistique en Europe orientale après l’effondrement du communisme. Mark Granovetter et Patrick McGuire décrivent de quelle manière l’industrie de l’électricité s’est développée aux Etats-Unis dans la première moitié du 20e siècle. Peter Miller étudie l’évolution des pratiques professionnelles dans le domaine de la comptabilité. Franck Cochoy présente le marketing comme une science de la performance et un savoir-faire au service du capitalisme. Hervé Dumez et Alain Jeunemaître examinent l’impact des politiques économiques sur le développement de l’industrie du ciment. Michel Callon pose le problème des limites des modèles mobilisés par les économistes.”

Michel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) of Actor Network Theory, is Professor at the Ecole des mines de Paris and a Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l’innovation there.

English Keywords:Market, Economic organization, Money, Culture, Economical Management, Japan, Capital, Property, Eastern Europe, Post-communism, Electric Power Industry, Economic Development, United States Of America, Marketing, Know How, Performance, Economics, Market Economy ; Economic Model, Accounting, Occupational Practice,
Mots-clés français: Marché ; Organisation économique ; Monnaie ; Culture ; Gestion ; Japon ; Capital ; Propriété ; Europe orientale ; Post-communisme ; Industrie électrique ; Développement économique ; Etats-Unis ; Commercialisation ; Savoir-faire ; Science ; Performance ; Science économique ; Economie de marché ; Modèle ; Comptabilité ; Pratique professionnelle ;