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Certain TV series, such as The Leftovers (2014–17) and Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), encourage their fandoms to solve puzzles, search for clues, and comb the internet for answers to questions. As a result of this work, fans can consider their readings of the series legitimate, even canonical, regardless of the producers' intent. Just as queer readings can be as valid as mainstream interpretations, these fan viewers use the language and strategies of alternative viewers to legitimize their own readings.

Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Politecnico Approach -- 1 Manifesto of Design of Unfinished -- 1.1 Leftovers -- 1.2 Urban Leftovers -- 1.3 Neo-Nomads -- 1.4 Inhabiting the World -- 1.5 Transdisciplinarity -- 1.6 Works -- 1.7 Teaching Experiments -- 1.8 Design Experiments -- 1.9 Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- 2 The State of the Art Between Needs and Desires. Design of the Unfinished as a New Perspective of Intervention on Existing Building -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Seven Hints -- 2.3 Is the Design of the Unfinished a Desire? -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 3 Regenerate Urban Leftovers -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 A Collaborative Experimentation Between Public and Private -- 3.3 A Multicentric Peripherality: Art and Creativity as Drivers of Adaptive Reuse -- 3.3.1 For an "Emerging" Periphery -- 3.3.2 Towards Cultural and Creative Hubs -- 3.4 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Reusing Leftovers: Corporeity and Empathy of Places -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Obsolescence and Soil Consumption -- 4.3 Space Fascination -- 4.4 Places and Corporeity -- 4.4.1 Empathy and Synaesthesia -- 4.4.2 Atmosphere -- 4.5 Reusing Leftovers -- 4.5.1 Historical Places -- 4.6 Conclusions -- References -- 5 Leftovers at the Start. From the Analysis of the Theme to the Development of Design Strategies -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Dynamics of Experiences -- 5.2.1 Aesthetic Experiences -- 5.2.2 Entertainment Experiences -- 5.2.3 Educational Experiences -- 5.2.4 Escape Experiences -- 5.3 Some Considerations on Leftovers -- 5.3.1 Leftover as Time -- 5.3.2 Leftovers as Meaning -- 5.3.3 Leftovers as Opportunities -- 5.3.4 The Role of the Designer -- 5.3.5 A Luggage of Strategies -- 5.3.6 Long Time Strategy -- 5.3.7 And Yet It Moves -- 5.3.8 I Need to Find a Sense -- 5.3.9 Neo-Synesthesia -- 5.3.10 Oxymoronic Landscapes.

AbstractFood waste is an important topic of environmental and societal concern. One method of reducing food waste is for patrons to take their restaurant leftovers home for future consumption. The current research applies impression management to determine the factors behind consumers' willingness to do so. Study 1 manipulated social situation (the identity of one's dining companions) and initiating behavior (whether the server established taking leftovers as a normative behavior based on proactively offering to wrap them). When people envisioned dining with others who they wanted to impress, perceived likelihood of taking home leftovers was greater when the server proactively offered to wrap the leftovers (vs. when the customer had to initiate the request). This difference did not hold true when considering dining companions with whom they were comfortable. Greater concern for the environment also increased willingness to take home leftovers. A second study investigated the process behind this result. Participants rated the social desirability of taking restaurant leftovers in various scenarios related to social situation and initiating behavior. Among dining companions who people wanted to impress, taking home leftovers was considered more embarrassing and a greater violation of social norms when the customer (vs. the server) initiated the discussion of taking leftovers. This difference did not occur for dining companions with whom they were comfortable. Concern for the environment did not affect this perception. The server offering to wrap leftovers was perceived as a positive indicator for customer service. Implications for consumer behavior, marketing strategy, and public policy are discussed.

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In this article, I focus on digital scientific archives which are made up of the leftovers of science, such as drafts, obsolete instruments, photographs, documentation, etc. The artifacts exhibited in such collections were neither meant to be representations, nor objects of gaze, but means used to achieve scientific results. As they lose functionality, they acquire aesthetic and historical value and emerge as clues, traces of past scientific practices and institutional histories. Therefore, the ways in which institutions situate these objects within the archive, the vocabularies and metadata they use, bear testimony on the manner they present and depict their past. How do the digital archives of the scientific institutions represent their histories? To address this question, I analyse the subject metadata of twenty-five institutional archives, turning them into objects of distant reading. Quantitative methods offer a way to discern the discursive frameworks that scientific institutions tend to adopt: Do they frame their collections as cultural heritage? represent them as corporate histories? emphasise technical specifications? scientific value? big names? A closer look at the metadata sets reveals that, in fact, these very different perspectives intermingle and clash with each other within the archive structures: the logic of heritage is juxtaposed with scientific classifications, institutional categories stand side by side with natural objects, and minority histories with celebrity narratives. Discussing this interplay of discourses, the article frames the digital archive of science as a specific mode of historical representation, which gives rise to a new (and still political) order of things.

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This paper focuses on food divestment practices surrounding the consumption of food leftovers in a domestic context. It argues that divestment practices of consuming food leftovers are not the last and disconnected point of a linear consumption process; rather they influence previous and subsequent consumption practices. Drawing on research among middle class British families it shows that consuming leftovers implies a set of practices, (classifying, selecting, storing and re‐using) which transform leftovers from polluted to clean food re‐admissible to the table. Leftovers' consumption has analogies with the process of sacrifice. It is an everyday thrift practice through which consumers produce excess value to be designated for extraordinary food consumption wherein the family as a whole entity is celebrated. Consuming leftovers requires a high degree of admission to the family and thus only family members, and some of them more than others, are called to such a sacrifice. Therefore it is not only during extraordinary food consumption that familial bonds are reinforced, rather is also during the everyday practice of consuming leftovers that familial bonds are sustained and perpetuated.

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Open Engineering ; This article describes how to reach an item's threshold, or in other words, the limit time for it to be retrieved from stock and sold for a different use, as well as the remaining foreseen period for this situation to occur. Once a minimum length, or weight, is reached, left quantities are more difficult to sell, as demand often exceeds the remaining parts or leftovers. The number of unfulfilled orders increases, as time goes by, until it becomes further cost effective to dispose the leftover and sell it for a lower price and alternative use. A Monte Carlo simulation model was built in order to consider the randomness of future transactions and quantifying consequences providing this way a simple and effective decision-making framework. ; European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement 690968.

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A growing body of work has investigated the travel of neo-Marxist theorists and theory to state socialist contexts such as Romania and China, but this scholarship has not focused on successful strategies of indigenization. While several explanations for this process have been proposed, this article advances the concept of "ideological fit" to illuminate how a new body of work is successfully popularized and integrated into national conversations. I explore the relationship between the indigenization of Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory in Romania within the context of Cold War ideological conflict. This study compares the popularization strategies of a group of U.S. social scientists (Daniel Chirot and Katherine Verdery) with local attempts (Ilie Bădescu) to promote Wallerstein's theory in Romanian academia. World-systems theory advanced a critique of global capitalism in the United States, whereas in Romania, it was integrated into and discussed as a contribution to anticolonial struggles around the world. As a result, Bădescu's assertion that Romanian national poet Mihai Eminescu was an anticolonial thinker became generative in local sociology. I conclude by discussing how key theoretical elements of Wallerstein's theory, which I call the "leftovers," have been redeployed in new scholarship on decolonization and discuss the risks of such an approach.

The intent of this thesis is to explore why when compared to the former Soviet Republics of Ukraine and Georgia there is a measure of stability in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan has made it a priority to slowly build a sense of its own nationalism after decades of Soviet control. In over 20 years of independence it has only known violence for an 18-month period. The Republic of Kazakhstan has gone from the leftovers from a dissolved empire to a stable regional power. Kazakhstan's hegemony in Asia and peaceful ethnic-governmental relations has made it possible for Kazakhstan to have a multi-faceted foreign policy with Russia, China, and the United States and this paper will try to answer the question of how this has been possible. ; 2017-05-01 ; B.A. ; College of Sciences, Political Science ; Bachelors ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

In order to understand the political sequence just played in France following the failure of the Socialists in the municipal elections — the replacement of Jean-Marc Ayrault by Manuel Valls and the composition of a 'tightened' government, i.e. composed exclusively of socialists and radical-socialists — and then in the European elections — one of the worst scores obtained by the Socialist Party in the European elections but the best achieved by the Front National, against the backdrop of record abstention — must be made a historical detour. This choice gives an indication of how French Socialists, following many European Social Democrats, are now facing the crisis of neoliberalism, which has affected all Western economies for almost five years. Following this historic detour, this article shows that three major dossiers for the left are left behind by the current government: justice in the workplace; the definition of hospitality criteria for foreign populations, based on the experience of associations; management of ecological transition in a non-technocratic form. ; Pour comprendre la séquence politique qui vient de se jouer en France à l'issue de l'échec des socialistes aux élections municipales – le remplacement de Jean-Marc Ayrault par Manuel Valls et la composition d'un gouvernement « resserré », c'est-à-dire composé exclusivement de socialistes et de radicaux-socialistes –, puis aux élections européennes – un des pires scores obtenu par le Parti socialiste aux élections européennes mais le meilleur réalisé par le Front National, sur fond d'abstention record –, il convient de faire un détour historique. Ce choix donne une indication de la façon dont les socialistes français, suivant en cela nombre de sociaux-démocrates européens, font face aujourd'hui à la crise du néolibéralisme, qui affecte l'ensemble des économies occidentales depuis près de cinq ans. A l'issue de ce détour historique, cet article montre que trois dossiers majeurs pour la gauche sont sont délaissés par le gouvernement actuel : la justice ...