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This field study provided empirical evidence for the effects of absence culture on individual absenteeism among employees (N = 264) within five clerical units. Absence culture was derived from the aggregation of an individual-level measure of the beliefs about the perceived costs (i.e., deterrent outcomes) and benefits (i.e., encouraging outcomes) of being absent from work. It was hypothesized that these individual beliefs about absence could be aggregated meaningfully to the unit level. In addition, it was hypothesized that absence culture would explain a significant amount of variance in individual absence beyond the effects of demographics and general work attitudes. Paid and unpaid absence data for the 3-month period following collection of the beliefs measures were collected from organizational records. This study demonstrated support for the existence of an absence culture and its impact on individual absence. Implications for managing absence and suggestions for future research are discussed.

Par quelles voies nous est-il possible d'accéder au romantisme ? La pensée contemporaine est marquée par plusieurs tendances qui voient s'opposer la nécessité d'un geste, d'une incitation imaginaire, et la prudence d'une interruption liée à l'histoire politique des fictionnements. Ces tensions héritent en partie de l'expérience surréaliste et de ses dissidences. En revenant sur la querelle entre Breton et Bataille autour de la poésie, ce texte propose de revenir là où la question romantique s'est heurtée à son impossibilité.

Utilizando el género epistolar, una carta a mi madre, reflexiono sobre mi nueva vida e identidad como emigrante en Australia explorando mis percepciones sobre la diferencia cultural y lingüística. Lejos de mis hijas y nietos en México, en esta carta, tardíamente escrita, relato mis recuerdos, nostalgias y vivencias en el nuevo ambiente, y sobre todo, hablo de mis dificultades para manejar emocionalmente mi miedo a la ausencia en los momentos importantes del ciclo de vida, la enfermedad y la muerte.

Using the epistolary genre, a letter to my mother, I reflect on my life and identity as an emigrant in Australia by exploring my perceptions of cultural and linguistic difference. Far from my children and grandchildren in Mexico, in this belatedly written letter I recall my memories, nostalgic feelings and expereinces in the new environment, and above all, I speak of my difficulties in mangaing emotionally my fears of being absent in the important moments of the cycle of life, sickness and death.

An estimated six million European Jews perished during the Second World War. Jews had been implanted right throughout Europe. Whether as integrated citizens, or as significant others, they contributed to the fabric of societies all over Europe in unique and significant ways. At the end of the war, much of Europe lay in waste. Yet almost all over the continent, societies were also forced to re-organize themselves to become places that no longer had a Jewish community. How were European narratives shaped and re-shaped around those great holes in the fabric of daily life? How did surviving Jews experience the absence of families, friends, and former national and ethnic communities? The scholarship of memory has established that the way that nations remember selectively can tell us about their processes of building national mythologies and identities. Presences, too, can be used and abused, calculated to evoke or elide a significant absence. The idea of absence gives us a framework for making sense of those traces. Thinking about the aftermath of the Second World War and the Holocaust in terms of absence offers new insight into the nature of postwar life in Europe and processes of rebuilding, of recasting national stories, and reimagining.

This essay argues for a comparative approach to studying and reading Black Caribbean women's poetry. In particular, it focuses on the works of Cuban Soleida Ríos and Tobagonian Canadian M. NourbeSe Philip in their publications at the close of the 1980s. The essay asks, How does a recuperation of a poetics between Ríos and Philip enhance a study of the body? Through a close reading of two poems, it points to instances of absence and disappearance as generative signals that enable these women to transgress the silences that structure imaginative and lived experiences. In doing so, language, interiority, and grammar become critical spaces for readers to witness the transformative subjectivities that abound when journeying with these women's poetry.

AbstractAbsence of evidence arguments are indispensable to comparative neurobiology. The absence in a given species of a homologous neural architecture strongly correlated with a type of conscious experience in humans should be able to be taken as a prima facie reason for concluding that the species in question does not have the capacity for that conscious experience. Absence of evidence reasoning is, however, widely disparaged for being both logically illicit and unscientific. This paper argues that these concerns are unwarranted. There is no logical barrier to formulating cogent absence of evidence arguments; indeed, accepting such arguments is part of what it is to be committed to falsifiability as a critical aspect of the scientific method. Absence of evidence arguments can always be blocked, however, by assuming that psychological properties are 'multiply realizable'. While we take multiple realizability to be highly likely at some level of analysis, we argue that it is question-begging to assume that it exists at every level of analysis, and thus it should not automatically be thought to undermine absence of evidence reasoning in the animal consciousness debate. Using the example of pain and focusing on homologies at the level of information processing tasks, we show how, in the science of consciousness, an absence of evidence might well serve as evidence of absence.