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In the wake of the era of Trump and Brexit, legacies and values of European Enlightenment seem under threat as never before. Cosmopolitanism in particular, generally understood as an Enlightenment virtue, has come to be associated with a sort of rootlessness, and has not, as generally understood, valued local affiliation. For David Goodhart, writing in 2017, this characteristic has resulted in a polarisation between \"anywheres\" (liberal middle-class cosmopolitans) and \"somewheres\" (broadly speaking, conservative working-class voters who have strong attachments to their nation and places of origin). An Irish Tory monarchist who sought in his poem The Deserted Village (1770) to defend rural communities from the ravages of economic modernity, Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) was also in other key works a cosmopolitan commentator who compared countries in order to warn Britain against the dangers of economic liberalism, as he did in The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society (1764). Thus, he could be thought of as a more conservative cosmopolitan than many of his British and French peers; as such his particular enlightenment legacy is his example of a middle ground between the \"anywheres\" and \"somewheres\" of Goodhart's thesis. Key Words. Goldsmith, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, liberalism, localism. Tras la era de Trump y el Brexit, los legados y valores de la Ilustracion europea parecen mas amenazados que nunca. El cosmopolitismo en particular, generalmente entendido como una virtud de la Ilustracion, ha llegado a asociarse con una suerte de desarraigo y no ha valorado, como generalmente se entiende, la afiliacion local. Segun David Goodhart (2017), esta caracteristica ha dado lugar a una polarizacion entre \"anywheres\" (cosmopolitas liberales de clase media) y \"somewheres\" (en terminos generales, votantes conservadores de clase trabajadora que tienen un fuerte apego a su nacion y lugares de origen). Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), un monarquico tory irlandes que en su poema The Deserted Village (1770) trataba de defender a las comunidades rurales de los estragos de la modernidad economica, fue tambien un comentarista cosmopolita que comparaba paises para advertir a Gran Bretana de los peligros del liberalismo economico, tal y como hizo en The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society (1764). Asi pues, Goldsmith podria considerarse un cosmopolita mas conservador que muchos de sus colegas britanicos y franceses. Como tal, su particular legado ilustrado ejemplifica un termino medio entre los \"anywheres\" y \"somewheres\" de la tesis de Goodhart. Palabras clave. Goldsmith, cosmopolitismo, nacionalismo, liberalismo, localismo.

President George W. Bush has tapped an aerospace engineer with an undergraduate physics degree to lead the National Aeronautics & Space Administration. His choice of Michael Griffin, announced on 11 Mar, won immediate plaudits from both Democrats and Republicans, signaling a likely swift confirmation by the Senate. Griffin's chief asset is his technical expertise.

Declaring that NASA \"can't afford to do everything on its plate,\" the agency's new chief laid out sweeping changes to the US civilian space program--including the $5.5 billion science program. Michael Griffin says he plans to scale back space station research, defer work on a future Mars robotic mission, inject more cash into NASA's struggling earth science effort and servicing and safe deorbiting of the Hubble Space Telescope, and back a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa using a conventional rather than nuclear system. He also pledged to protect the science budget from the cost of sending humans to the moon and Mars.

Utopian agency seeks, to paraphrase Seamus Heaney, the \"rhyming of hope and history\"; that is to say, the politics of utopian agency embody a transformative function against the bad present and toward the better and more just world and life that might be possible.4 But the contemporary experience of agency is vexed, marked by what Felix Guattari and Toni Negri discern as the \"unraveling\" of the \"connecting threads of desire and hope\" in the very \"fabric of human feelings\" itself.5 My core concern in this essay is to explore the dynamics of political agency: specifically, I trace certain reflexive maneuvers that have the potential to reorient subjectivity in politically significant directions to enhance and affirm utopian political agency, thereby making possible the reconnection of the threads of desire and hope, and making palpable the movement of utopian hope within history. Drawing theoretical sustenance from the modern altercanon, in which Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Foucault and Deleuze, among others, are vital, contemporary engagements with the politics of agency have been increasingly concerned to theorize a subject both within the world (and so resisting the abstract rational subject that has been dominant in the liberal tradition), and capable of reshaping an engagement with, and effects upon, that world (thus speaking to a potentially transformative and poststructuralist mode of agency).6 While at some level still committed to a polity shaped by forms of procedural justice, radical liberal theory engages the affective agency of the subject in various ways. In its predominantly post-Foucauldian forms, a (late-)modern subjectivity capable of challenging subtle, menacing, and enveloping forms of modern power is theorized by means of a critique of the political dynamics of ressentiment, a life-denying, ascetic, reactive mode of being in the world.7 In its post-Spinozist forms, \"affective attachment\" to and within the world is theorized as \"a mood with ethical potential\" that can \"lend energy to political struggles\".8 And key post-Nietzschean engagements with the political subject speak to an \"ethos\" of the political that carefully theorizes the subject's affective and \"visceral\" registers in order to lend sustenance to a polity shaped by liberal pluralism where relations between self and other might no longer be seen as oppositional and thus exclusionary.9 The affective is thus deployed as a means of reflexively engaging with political orientations of the subject. 3. Experienced as a disabling, immobilizing disconnection between self and world, blocked consciousness signals a freezing of the keynotes of utopianism (creativity, play, curiosity, exploration); exhaustion, as anti-utopian malaise, enervates, saps ethico-political energies to explore, and to create, alternative futures.16 The central affective symptom of blocked consciousness and exhaustion is a dual loss: loss of agency and of a motivating, energizing alterity (the sense that it can be otherwise).

  The Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Elgin will honor [Michael Griffin Michael Griffin] during a ceremony at 1 p.m. Thursday at 1601 Weld Road. Among the 70 people expected to attend are Carpentersville Village President Ed Ritter and a representative from Rep. Tammy Duckworth's office, according to Doc Sheehan, the VFW post's past commander and the ceremony's organizer. \"It was an act of heroism on his part,\" Sheehan said of Griffin's work in Iraq. \"He's a disabled veteran who's done an awful lot for this country and his community.\" Next month, Griffin will graduate from Governor's State University with a bachelor's degree in social work. He will also pursue a master's degree in social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Once he finishes school, his goal is to work with veterans suffering from the effects of PTSD.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin this week read the riot act to the outside scientists who advise him, accusing them of thinking more of themselves and their research than of the agency's mission.

Additionally, when economic development projects are discussed, one of the first questions many businesses ask is \"Do you have an airport?\" During most of the year, over 80 percent of passenger traffic at our airport is business-related travel.How did you get into this field? I have always loved aircraft and aviation and had obtained my private pilot's license before entering the field of airport management.Education and Credentials: Griffin has a Bachelor of Science in organizational management from John Brown University in Siloam Springs, is a certified member of the American Association of Airport Executives and is serving a second term as president of the Arkansas Airport Operators Association.

Bearing out the adage that one person's trash is another's treasure, through Horsehead Corporation, Horsehead Zinc Powders, INMETCO, and Zochem, Horsehead Holdings turns zinc-containing dust and discarded batteries into value-added zinc and nickel-based products. Key raw materials for the company include dust from the electric-arc furnaces used at steel minimills and residue from the galvanizing of metals. Besides zinc metal, Horsehead's products include zinc oxide, zinc dust (used in corrosion-resistant coatings), and nickel-based metals (used as a feedstock to produce stainless and specialty steels). The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2016.

Calling him \"a rare combination of scientist, engineer, and manager,\" Sen Barbara Mikulski gave voice to the thoughts of colleagues on both sides of the aisle in speeding Michael Griffin through a Senate confirmation process that took all of one day. Sources close to Griffin predict sweeping changes in NASA's senior management, including new chiefs of science, space flight, and legislative and public affairs.