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Sallis, John. Shades--of painting at the limit. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press, 1998.
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Hora, Akihito. The Limit Shape Problem for Ensembles of Young Diagrams. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56487-4.
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Golub, Edward S. The limits of medicine: How science shapes our hope for the cure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Mason, Nick. At the limit: Twenty-one classic cars that shaped a century of motor sport. Osceola, WI: MBI Pub. Co., 1998.
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Billé, Franck, Sanjyot Mehendale, and James W. Lankton. The Maritime Silk Road. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463722247.
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The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which has emerged in the last two decades in the form of archaeological findings, as well as new techniques such as GIS modeling, the authors collectively demonstrate the existence of a very early global maritime trade. From architecture to cuisine, and language to clothing, evidence points to early connections both within Asia and between Asia and other continents—well before European explorations of the Global South. The human stories presented here offer insights into both the extent and limits of this global exchange, showing how goods and people traveled vast distances, how they were embedded in regional networks, and how local cultures were shaped as a result.
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Sallis, John. Shades--Of Painting at the Limit. Indiana University Press, 2017.
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Sallis, John. Shades - Of Painting at the Limit. Indiana University Press, 2017.
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Sallis, John. Shades - Of Painting at the Limit. Indiana University Press, 1998.
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Lagerkvist, Amanda. Existential Media. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190925567.001.0001.
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This book offers a reappreciation and revisiting of existential philosophy—and in particular of Karl Jaspers’s philosophy—for media theory in order to remedy the existential deficit in the field. The book thereby also offers an introduction to the young field of existential media studies. Jaspers’s concept of the limit situation is chosen as a privileged reality which allows for bringing limits, in all their shapes and forms, onto the radar when interrogating digital existence. Despite their all-pervasiveness the book argues that media speak to and about limits and limitations in a variety of ways. The book furthermore argues that the present age of deep technocultural saturation—and of escalating multifaceted and interrelated global crises—is a digital limit situation, in which there are both existential and politico-ethical stakes of media. To enter into these terrains, the book places the margin of mourners and the meek—the coexisters—at the center of media studies. The book provides an alternative mapping for approaching digital cultures in contexts of both the mundane and the extraordinary, and on scales traversing the individual and the global. Empirically Existental Media attends to mourning, commemorating, and speaking to the dead online as well as to the digital afterlife. It interrogates four cases that center on the voices from the field of online bereavement, and provides an arc of media instantiations of the digital limit situation: chapter 5: Metric Media; chapter 6: Caring Media, chapter 7: Transcendent Media and chapter 8: Anticipatory media.
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Hora, Akihito. Limit Shape Problem for Ensembles of Young Diagrams. Springer, 2016.
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Britain, Great. Credit Unions (Limit on Shares) Order (Northern Ireland) 1993. Stationery Office, The, 1993.
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Ireland, Northern. Credit Unions (Limit on Shares) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006. Stationery Office, The, 2006.
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The Limit Shape Problem for Ensembles of Young Diagrams. Ingramcontent, 2016.
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Mercati, Flavio. A derivation of Shape Dynamics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789475.003.0009.
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By applying the principles of relational field theory to the gravitational field, and using 3D diffeomorphism invariance as our symmetry principle for best matching, it is feasible to reduce the working possibilities to just a few cases. One is a field-theory version of (GR), which is the limit of General Relativity in which the speed of light goes to infinity and the light cones open up to provide a notion of absolute simultaneity. Another is the opposite limit, dubbed ‘Carrollian Relativity’ by Levy–Leblond, in which the speed of light goes to zero and each point is causally isolated from the other. This limit is related to the so-called ‘BKL’ behaviour that appears to be universal near singularities. The penultimate possibility is (GR), while the last one is SD, which emerges as the unique generalization of the theory that allows for an arbitrary value of the one free coefficient in the supermetric.
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Zehfuss, Maja. War and the Politics of Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807995.001.0001.
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Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West’s ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time, however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox: Western war risks killing those it proposes to protect. This book examines how we have responded to this dilemma and challenges the vision of ethical war itself. That is, it explores how the commitment to ethics shapes the practice of war and indeed how practices come, in turn, to shape what is considered ethical in war. The book closely examines particular practices of warfare, such as targeting, the use of cultural knowledge, and ethics training for soldiers. What emerges is that instead of constraining violence, the commitment to ethics enables and enhances it. The book argues that the production of ethical war relies on an impossible but obscured separation between ethics and politics, that is, a problematic politics of ethics, and reflects on the need to make decisions at the limit of ethics.
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Groomed: Overcoming the Messages That Shaped Our Past and Limit Our Future. Nelson Incorporated, Thomas, 2020.
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Jusino, Beth, and Elizabeth Melendez Fisher Good. Groomed: Overcoming the Messages That Shaped Our Past and Limit Our Future. Nelson Incorporated, Thomas, 2020.
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Jusino, Beth, and Elizabeth Melendez Fisher Good. Groomed: Overcoming the Messages That Shaped Our Past and Limit Our Future. Thomas Nelson on Brilliance Audio, 2020.
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Contingency and the Limits of History: How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning. Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Carlson, Liane. Contingency and the Limits of History: How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning. Columbia University Press, 2019.
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The limits of medicine: How science shapes our hope for the cure. New York: Times Books, 1994.
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Hardin, Garrett. Living within Limits. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195078114.001.0001.
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We fail to mandate economic sanity, writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the neglected problem of overpopulation, making a forceful case for dramatically changing the way we live in and manage our world. Our world itself, he writes, is in the dilemma of the lifeboat: it can only hold a certain number of people before it sinks--not everyone can be saved. The old idea of progress and limitless growth misses the point that the earth (and each part of it) has a limited carrying capacity; sentimentality should not cloud our ability to take necessary steps to limit population. But Hardin refutes the notion that goodwill and voluntary restraints will be enough. Instead, nations where population is growing must suffer the consequences alone. Too often, he writes, we operate on the faulty principle of shared costs matched with private profits. In Hardin's famous essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons," he showed how a village common pasture suffers from overgrazing because each villager puts as many cattle on it as possible--since the costs of grazing are shared by everyone, but the profits go to the individual. The metaphor applies to global ecology, he argues, making a powerful case for closed borders and an end to immigration from poor nations to rich ones. "The production of human beings is the result of very localized human actions; corrective action must be local....Globalizing the 'population problem' would only ensure that it would never be solved." Hardin does not shrink from the startling implications of his argument, as he criticizes the shipment of food to overpopulated regions and asserts that coercion in population control is inevitable. But he also proposes a free flow of information across boundaries, to allow each state to help itself. "The time-honored practice of pollute and move on is no longer acceptable," Hardin tells us. We now fill the globe, and we have no where else to go. In this powerful book, one of our leading ecological philosophers points out the hard choices we must make--and the solutions we have been afraid to consider.
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Bolt, Paul J., and Sharyl N. Cross. Historical Foundations, Strategic Visions, and World Order. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198719519.003.0001.
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Chapter 1 explores perspectives on world order, including power relationships and the rules that shape state behavior and perceptions of legitimacy. After outlining a brief history of the relationship between Russia and China that ranged from cooperation to military clashes, the chapter details Chinese and Russian perspectives on the contemporary international order as shaped by their histories and current political situation. Chinese and Russian views largely coincide on security issues, the desirability of a more multipolar order, and institutions that would enhance their standing in the world. While the Chinese–Russian partnership has accelerated considerably, particularly since the crisis in Ukraine in 2014, there are still some areas of competition that limit the extent of the relationship.
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Aljunied, Khairudin. Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514412.001.0001.
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Abstract One of the largest Muslim populations in the world today resides in Southeast Asia. The region has also produced its own pedigree of reformers who have critiqued the limits of Islamic thought and propounded new lines of thinking on the road to constructing a better ummah. Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia captures the progressive and pluralistic nature of Islamic reformism in Southeast Asia from the mid-twentieth century onward, a period that can now be regarded as the age of networked Islam. Offering a fresh conceptualization that could be well applied in other parts of the Islamic world, the book shows how several influential Muslim intellectuals have given rise to an “Islamic reformist mosaic” in Southeast Asia. Representing different strands of reformist thinking, these shapers of Islam form a unified and coherent frame of thought that distinguishes itself from the ultra-traditionalist and ultra-secularist leanings. This fascinating study is indispensable to anyone interested in understanding the challenges facing Islam and other religions in the modern world.
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Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us. Lexigraphic Publishing, 2020.
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Hrynyshyn, Derek. The Limits of the Digital Revolution. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400679636.
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This academic analysis explores social media, specifically examining its influence on the cultural, political, and economic organization of our society and the role capitalism plays within its domain. In this examination of society and technology, author and educator Derek Hrynyshyn explores the ways in which social media shapes popular culture and how social power is expressed within it. He debunks the misperception of the medium as a social equalizer-a theory drawn from the fact that content is created by its users-and compares it to mass media, identifying the capitalist-driven mechanisms that drive both social media and mass media. The work captures his assessment that social media legitimizes the inequities among the social classes rather than challenging them. The book scrutinizes the difference between social media and mass media, the relationship between technologies and social change, and the role of popular culture in the structure of political and economic power. A careful look at social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google suggests that these tools are systems of surveillance, monitoring everyday activities for the benefit of advertisers and the networks themselves. Topics covered within the book's 10 detailed chapters include privacy online, freedom of expression, piracy, the digital divide, fragmentation, and social cohesion.
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Obeng-Odoom, Franklin. Global Migration beyond Limits. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867180.001.0001.
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Global Migration beyond Limits carefully considers but ultimately rejects the idea that migration is driven by the choices of individual migrants, and instead starts from the idea that institutions shape all forms, forces, and functions of migration. Of these institutions, however, land is central, whether in internal migration, international migration, or global migration. Historically or currently, the evidence also clearly shows that migration and migrants transform both the sites where migrants are resident and the places from which migrants travelled. The change is more transformational than previous accounts have established, sometimes involving turning around dead cities and towns into vibrant local economies and reconstructing food networks for entire regions and nations. This book also raises serious analytical questions about three bodies of literature: mainstream economic accounts of migration, environment, and inequality; mainstream sustainability science and alternatives to it (e.g. ecological economics); and conservative and nativist claims about population problems and alternatives to them centred only on the freedom that a borderless world could create. Obeng-Odoom argues that much of the crisis of migration and sustainability can be understood as a reflection of global long-term inequalities and cumulative stratification, reflected at different scales in the global system, though the form of migration is conditioned by more than economic forces. The so-called migration crisis, therefore, seems quite routine and familiar. It is an outward expression of the political-economic system in which socially created value is privately appropriated as rents by a privileged few who use institutions such land and property rights, race, ethnicity, class, and gender to keep others in their place in the global economic and stratification ladder.
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Emery, Nina. Naturalism Beyond the Limits of Science: How Scientific Methodology Can and Should Shape Philosophical Theorizing. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023.
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Rubin, Avshalom. Limits of the Land: How the Struggle for the West Bank Shaped the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Indiana University Press, 2017.
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Rubin, Avshalom. Limits of the Land: How the Struggle for the West Bank Shaped the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Indiana University Press, 2017.
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Limits of the Land: How the Struggle for the West Bank Shaped the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Indiana University Press, 2017.
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Colesworthy, Rebecca. Virginia Woolf and the Limits of Feminine Hospitality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778585.003.0003.
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Woolf scholars have been at the forefront of bringing economic and especially Keynesian perspectives to bear on modernist literature. This chapter makes the case instead for a sociological approach. Whereas Keynes promoted a separation of egoism and altruism, Marcel Mauss called for a “new morality” that would be a mixture of egoism and altruism. For her part, Woolf, too, conceptualized the modern mind as a mix of contradictory feelings both in her nonfiction and in Mrs. Dalloway, published the same year as Mauss’s The Gift. Drawing historical and conceptual connections between the novel’s representation of feminine consciousness and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s structural re-reading of Mauss, the chapter argues that, in Mrs. Dalloway, everyday metropolitan experience is an experience of gift exchange and, more specifically, of hospitality—of being at once open and closed to the thought of other people in ways that are shaped by gender, class, and nationality.
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Shawar, Yusra Ribhi, and Jennifer Prah Ruger. The World Bank. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190672676.003.0017.
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The World Bank, one of the largest global health funders, continues to deny a formal legal obligation for human rights. Internal constraints limit the Bank’s ability to do so, since its Articles of Agreement explicitly forbid it from interfering in a country’s internal political affairs, making it unclear whether human rights risk management is within the institution’s mandate. This stands in contrast to the institution’s commitment to human rights, as reflected in its commitment to helping countries achieve universal health coverage and in its “twin goals” of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, which fundamentally contribute to the realization of social and economic rights. This chapter analyzes the ways in which rights-based discourse has evolved in the Bank’s global health policies and practices and identifies the institutional factors that have shaped its consideration of human rights.
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Schlapbach, Karin. Elusive Dancers and the Limits of Art in Nonnus’ Dionysiaka. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807728.003.0007.
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This chapter argues that the metamorphic dance scenes in Nonnus’ epic on Dionysus encapsulate the very nature of Nonnus’ poetry. It elucidates the metapoetic role of dance with a close reading of the proem of Book 1, which is dominated by the Homeric shape-shifter Proteus. It then turns to the dance contest in Book 19, which juxtaposes representational and acrobatic dances. The latter, nonrepresentational dance, which culminates in the dancer’s transformation into a river, is examined in detail, and the moral and aesthetic implications of this climax are discussed with particular attention to the internal audience’s interpretive response to the dancer’s metamorphosis.
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Krauss, Alexander. Science of Science. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198937401.001.0001.
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Abstract How do we drive new knowledge and science? What are their present boundaries? And how can we improve science? We still do not understand these essential questions about science well, even though science is at the foundation of modern society. The field of science of science can provide answers to these foundational questions. The central challenge of the field is integrating the different empirical and theoretical knowledge across disciplines into a holistic field and uncovering the general mechanism driving science across fields. This is the first book to offer an integrated framework for the science of science and thus aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the foundations and limits of science. The book integrates 14 scientific fields and illustrates how our evolved mind (that enables us to observe, experiment and solve problems) makes doing science possible but also shapes what and how we observe. Our scientific methods and instruments (such as statistics and telescopes) enable us to study a much larger range of phenomena but also have constraints to how we measure them. Institutions and funding shape what knowledge we produce and how we evaluate our evidence, among other influences. By integrating the fields together, we are able to identify the common mechanism that underpins the different factors studied across all these fields: our powerful scientific methods and instruments. The book explains how the sophisticated scientific tools we develop are the main driving force for creating new knowledge and advancing science. This methodological toolbox of ours sets the scope and present limits of what we can know and what is possible in science—while economic, social and historical influences help shape what we study within that scope and those limits. The book offers a unifying theory for the field of science of science—the new-methods-drive-science theory. By better understanding the foundations of science we will also show how we can reduce the constraints and biases that we and our scientific methods and instruments face to advance science and push its present boundaries. This book is written in an easily accessible way for readers interested in understanding how science works.
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Conticelli, Martina, and Thomas Perroud, eds. Procedural Requirements for Administrative Limits to Property Rights. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867586.001.0001.
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Abstract Within the Common Core of European Administrative Law Project (CoCEAL), and within the vast field of adjudication, this volume develops one of the most traditional sets of procedures, namely procedures that interfere with the right to private property. As in the CoCEAL project as a whole, the structure of our questionnaire takes the fundamentals of expropriations in a given legal order as its starting point and examines a number of cases: the main requirements for property rights restrictions are presented briefly through national reports and discussed through hypotheticals, while our search for comparative evidence focuses on procedural propriety and fairness, leaving aside other aspects, such as the right to compensation. Through a comparative survey spanning twelve legal systems and a transnational regime, our research aims to shed light on the core of administrative activity that exemplifies the 'negative state'. Our main conjectures are as follows: first, that a new property paradigm is emerging; secondly, that this paradigm regards both what property is and how it might be protected; and thirdly, that a common core is emerging, whose relevance counts especially at the level of procedural propriety. Our findings support the idea that much of this shift is grounded in the very essence of a shared understanding of procedural requirements protecting private property against any kind of public restrictions.
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Keller, Eileen. Financial Crises and the Limits of Bank Reform. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198870746.001.0001.
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This book is about the nature of crisis responses and the politics of financial sector reform leading to their adoption. Studying both French and German participation in international banking reforms and the responses implemented to the global financial crisis domestically, it shows that they cannot be separated from the institutional and the specific socio-economic context in which they emerged. Whereas France pushed for greater independence from the banks by strengthening financial disintermediation and non-bank intermediation, Germany supported classic bank intermediation. Analysing the reasons for this puzzling difference, the book shows that the main lessons drawn from the crisis were the consequence of differing patterns of social learning, which led to changes in widely shared beliefs of specific aspects of banking. While these related to the conditions of bank lending and the limits of bank intermediation in France, in Germany, they were linked to the risks of financial innovation and financial sector concentration. The book builds on an in-depth analysis of French and German banking with a focus on the decade prior to the crisis, crisis management, and the reforms implemented in response to the crisis. It features extensive interview data with over 70 professionals from the financial industry, regulatory agencies, and senior political decision-makers, complemented by profound document and data analysis. Contrary to other accounts of the post-crisis reforms concentrating on regulatory change only, this book focuses on how evolving financial practices and reform priorities mutually condition each other over time, forming distinctive developmental paths.
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Friedrich, Alexander, Petra Gehring, Christoph Hubig, Andreas Kaminski, and Alfred Nordmann, eds. Autonomie und Unheimlichkeit. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748904861.
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Is technological control taking the place of what appeared uncannily uncontrollable? Or is it itself becoming uncanny? Two seemingly contradictory narratives have shaped the history and theory of technology. The narrative of disenchantment describes how nature, experienced as something foreign and dangerous, was tamed by becoming scientific and mechanised. Secondly, the narrative of (re-)enchantment recounts how artefacts and technological possibilities become uncanny, especially by way of their seeming independence and by confronting us with an ‘autonomous’ logic of their own. In today's debates about self-learning, ubiquitous, invisible and opaque technologies, the uncanny moment resonates of a technology with ‘a life of its own’. Following up on the mechanisation and automation discourses of the 20th century, this contributes to the ‘demonisation’ of technology. On the one hand, technology makes the world familiar and comprehensible, e.g. by equating understanding with technical reconstruction. On the other hand, the technical reproduction of the world – or its radical transformation into an alienated one – is experienced as something disturbing. When artefacts appear to do ‘what they want’ or when large technical systems shape the world according to their ‘own logic’, a limit is reached that was already mentioned by Freud – we become uncertain whether we are still living in the modern world at all.
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Gaukroger, Stephen. Civilization and the Culture of Science. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849070.001.0001.
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How does science, in the period from the end of the eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, come to have such a central place in Western culture? At issue in the consolidation of a scientific culture is the way in which all cognitive values, and subsequently many moral, political, and social ones, come to be modelled around scientific values, and Civilization and the Culture of Science explores how these values were shaped and how they began in turn to shape those of society. The book continues the trajectory of three earlier volumes, which traced key aspects of the legitimation of science and the establishment of a scientific culture up to the early decades of the nineteenth century. The core nineteenth- and twentieth-century development is that in which science comes to take centre stage in shaping ideas of civilization. A central question is the role played by projects to unify the sciences, showing how the motivation for these comes from outside. A crucial part of this process was a fundamental rethinking of the relations between science and ethics, economics, philosophy, and engineering. The developments here are not linear or one-dimensional, and five issues that have underpinned the transition to a scientific modernity are explored: changes in the understanding of civilization; the push to unify the sciences; the rise of the idea of the limits of scientific understanding; the ideas of ‘applied’ and ‘popular’ science; and the way in which the public was shaped in a scientific image.
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Puranam, Phanish. Hierarchies of Authority. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199672363.003.0006.
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Authority hierarchies are ubiquitous, yet we know little about how they arise. I outline a process model of hierarchical growth through sequential delegation. I also consider the consequences of the growth of layers in an authority hierarchy. Control and information losses in multi-layered authority hierarchies may act as a limit on organizational size. However, they may also serve as a valuable source of exploration by the organization as a whole, aiding effective organizational adaptation. I also discuss re-organizations and how they re-shape existing hierarchies. I conclude with some thoughts on the unpopularity of authority hierarchies despite their obvious success as a form of organizing.
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Jackson, Richard J. Addressing the Built Environment and Health. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662677.003.0039.
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Air, water, and food environments profoundly influence health. Yet, many humans spend most of their time in “built environments”: the structures and places designed and built to surround human existence. These environments range from homes, schools, offices, industrial facilities, roadways, sidewalks, parks, and even vehicles. All of these environments can raise or limit risks to injuries; acute illnesses, such as asthma; and long- term disorders, such as obesity and diabetes. These environments shape economic, social, and psychological well-being—and ultimately planetary sustainability. Designing environments to promote physical activity, including walking, stair climbing, bicycling and other forms of active transportation, is a documented tool for public health improvement.
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Mitchell, Claudia A., and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, eds. Girl Culture. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400657207.
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Never before has so much popular culture been produced about what it means to be a girl in today's society. From the first appearance of Nancy Drew in 1930, toSeventeenmagazine in 1944 to the emergence of Bratz dolls in 2001, girl culture has been increasingly linked to popular culture and an escalating of commodities directed towards girls of all ages. Editors Claudia A. Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh investigate the increasingly complex relationships, struggles, obsessions, and idols of American tween and teen girls who are growing up faster today than ever before. From pre-school to high school and beyond,Girl Culturetackles numerous hot-button issues, including the recent barrage of advertising geared toward very young girls emphasizing sexuality and extreme thinness. Nothing is off-limits: body image, peer pressure, cliques, gangs, and plastic surgery are among the over 250 in-depth entries highlighted. Comprehensive in its coverage of the twenty and twenty-first century trendsetters, fashion, literature, film, in-group rituals and hot-button issues that shape—and are shaped by—girl culture, this two-volume resource offers a wealth of information to help students, educators, and interested readers better understand the ongoing interplay between girls and mainstream culture.
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Schjødt, Uffe, and Jeppe Sinding Jensen. Depletion and deprivation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789710.003.0015.
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Religious beliefs represent striking examples of culturally transmitted ideas that guide individual metacognition. This chapter examines how religious practices facilitate the adoption of such beliefs. Beginning with the two simple assumptions that effective metacognition requires (1) considerable attentional and executive resources and (2) access to interpretive frameworks, it is noted that these vary across contexts. Many characteristic features of religious practices appear to limit the cognitive resources required for individual metacognition. It is proposed that such features may in fact be designed to facilitate the adoption of a shared metacognition. Using a predictive coding framework, two pathways for this process are analyzed: depletion and deprivation. Finally, the philosophical implications for social functional accounts of shared metacognition are discussed in light of human evolution.
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Denery II, Dallas G., ed. A Cultural History of Ideas in the Medieval Age. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474206501.
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This volume of A Cultural History of Ideas examines the roughly thousand years, from the end of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Reformation, that make up the Middle Ages. Each chapter investigates the ideas and practices associated with a specific theme— knowledge, the human self, ethics, politics, nature, religion, rhetoric, art, and history—in order to reveal the tangle of social, cultural, and religious factors that shaped, and were shaped by, medieval intellectual life. Central to this project is the need to read against the grain, revealing the limits and suppressions in both the medieval sources themselves and more recent scholarship on the period. Taken together, these nine essays, written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, depict the complexities of medieval life and thought, their unique characteristics, and their influence on subsequent centuries.
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Freedman, Linda. Continuing Visions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813279.003.0011.
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The questions that drove Blake’s American reception, from its earliest moments in the nineteenth century through to the explosion of Blakeanism in the mid-twentieth century, did not disappear. Visions of America continued to be part of Blake’s late twentieth- and early twenty-first century American legacy. This chapter begins with the 1982 film Blade Runner, which was directed by the British Ridley Scott but had an American-authored screenplay and was based on a 1968 American novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? It moves to Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 film, Dead Man and Paul Chan’s twenty-first century social activism as part of a protest group called The Friends of William Blake, exploring common themes of democracy, freedom, limit, nationhood, and poetic shape.
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Fulda, Daniel. Temporalization? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802228.003.0008.
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Daniel Fulda evaluates Lessing’s Laocoon against the backdrop of contemporary historiography. Fulda explains that Lessing’s prescriptions about painterly ‘space’ and poetic ‘time’ are also shaped by debates on how to write history—discussions that themselves stretch all the way back to Graeco-Roman antiquity. Ultimately, Fulda argues, Lessing’s prescriptions about the proper ‘limits’ of ‘poetry’ and ‘painting’ respond to what was seen as a weakness of German historiography in the eighteenth century: namely, its struggle to reconcile a conflict between the spatial and temporal dimensions of historical writing.
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Popelard, Mickaël. Unlimited Science: The Endless Transformation of Nature in Bacon and Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427814.003.0010.
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Mickaël Popelard provides a different and complementary interpretation of The Tempest. He explores the early modern concept of infinity in relation to the transformation of nature. Doing so, he takes a look at the making of early modern science and provides us with a number of epistemological reflections on Shakespeare’s knowledge and, in particular, on his approach to limits and the unlimited. Taking Macbeth’s idea of an essentially limited human nature as his departure point, Popelard first focuses on Bacon’s both speculative and practical stand, insisting on the fact that, for him, the role of the scientist is to bind together theory and practice so as to achieve “the effecting of all things possible.” While he posits that Bacon’s reform of science and philosophy is marked by its open-endedness and, therefore, by its absence of limits, he shows that, if a similar interest in boundlessness can be noted in Shakespeare’s late plays, characters such as Prospero remain constrained by their obsession with “limits”, “confines” or “boundaries.” Yet, for all his epistemological hesitancy, Shakespeare’s magician and/or natural philosopher shares some of Bacon’s ideas on science, the most important being the belief in an operative rather than a verbally oriented science.
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Stavrakakis, Yannis. Populism and Hegemony. Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, and Pierre Ostiguy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803560.013.26.
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How can theories of hegemony advance our understanding of populism? Against the background of Gramsci’s work, this chapter draws on Laclau, Mouffe, and other theoretical resources in order to illuminate what shapes and animates populist discourse, what overdetermines its hegemonic potential. We focus on populist articulatory practices as political interventions operating within a broader socio-symbolic as well as psycho-social terrain that both facilitates their formation and—at the same time—limits their scope. The chapter highlights thus the need to take into account the broader terrain of populism/anti-populism antagonisms in order to effectively identify and inquire into the political performance and hegemonic effects of populist movements. Finally, a series of empirical examples are used to illustrate the argument.
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Powers, Devon. On Trend. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042874.001.0001.
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What is a trend? What role do trends play in consumer culture? How do trends come into being? And how do trends shape the future? This book explores these and other questions through a focus on the business of trend forecasting, an industry that emerged in the 1970s to anticipate, manage, and influence the future of culture. Galvanized by the rise of futurism and by social scientific research on popular culture and taste, pioneers in trend forecasting turned unease about the future into a business opportunity, using trends to marketize cultural change. Since then, the business of trends has grown into a highly influential (if sometimes overlooked) facet of the wider consulting industry. Trend forecasters advise some of the world’s most prominent companies on how to innovate, disrupt, strategize, and otherwise manage the future. In addition to the early history of trend forecasting, the book examines how current trend professionals do what they do, taking stock of contemporary practices and exposing their built-in assumptions. In sum, On Trend argues that trends have become an important way to sell cultural change, and as such they deeply shape and profoundly limit our ideas about what the future can be.
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Levy, Brian, Robert Cameron, and Vinothan Naidoo. Context and Capability. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824053.003.0007.
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This chapter explores how context influences bureaucracy. Bureaucratic behaviour and performance are interpreted as endogenous, shaped by decisions of political elites as to whether to direct their efforts towards providing public services or towards more narrowly political or private purposes. The chapter distinguishes among three broad contextual differences between the Western Cape and Eastern Cape—socio-economic, political, and institutional. It identifies the causal mechanisms through which these variables exert their influence, distinguishing between demand-side and supply-side influences. In the Eastern Cape, the consequence of an initially weak context is a low-level equilibrium trap in which incentives transmitted from the political to the bureaucratic levels reinforce factionalized loyalty within multiple patronage networks. By contrast, in the Western Cape, both demand-side and supply-side contextual variables support public service provision; however, weaknesses in ‘soft governance’ limit the positive impact.