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...Jeffrey Kallberg When we view Chopin's later works in the context of his biography, we find a conjunction of real-life machines (trains, the telegraph), mimetic mechanical music (music boxes), and prolific textual variants. Particularly fascinating are several late pieces that feature canons...

... account of anarchy and the state’s emergence, suggests that life without government would be far worse than life with government, leading people to universally choose the latter. To reconcile Scott’s account of the Zomia peoples’ choice with this reasoning, it is necessary to elaborate the mechanisms...

... and sciences, the essay outlines new disciplines: technohumanities , which would study humans as a part of the technosphere; pathohumanities , which would investigate the self-destructive mechanisms of civilization; and scriptorics , which would focus on Homo scriptor , who has survived “the death...

... this essay nor the symposium in which it appears advocates a simple application of conflict-prevention or -resolution mechanisms from particular cultures to other emic contexts. The point, rather, is to seek more general theoretical principles wherever they are to be found, given repeated failures...

...Marina Vanzolini With special reference to the Tupi-speaking Aweti people, this article reconsiders the nature of Xinguan pacifism in an analysis of sorcery and its relation to war in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil. It is argued that the mechanism that keeps violence there under control...

...Jochen Brüning This contribution, by a mathematician, to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” examines some mechanisms that seem essential for the “ratchet effect” that, in Michael Tomasello's use of the term, refers to the ability of human cultures to preserve their achievements even...

... arrangements were not an endorsement of ideals of universal suffrage, representative democracy, and majoritarianism but instead—along with legal agency—mechanisms for the protection of the people from tyranny. This overlooked feature of Leveller political thought may have something to teach us about...

... it was deployed. This untold story, therefore, is not simply about historical instances of use but must also be an analysis and critique of its use. Key points that emerge are that (1) a lottery takes the decision to appoint or elect away from partisan protagonists, so it therefore acts as a mechanism that can...

...Marina Vanzolini; Translated by Julia Sauma; Jeffrey M. Perl With special reference to the Tupi-speaking Aweti people, this article reconsiders the nature of Xinguan pacifism in an analysis of sorcery and its relation to war in the Upper Xingu region of Brazil. It is argued that the mechanism...

... prevention does not turn on food supply per head and the automatic mechanism of the market: there can be plenty of food while large sections of the population lack the means to obtain it. Effective famine prevention thus requires “entitlements.” Economically, governments can and should provide public...

... it is acknowledged and not repressed. Her essay concludes its survey with Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents” and Segal’s own meditation on the cultural implications of failure to acknowledge ambivalence. In their efforts to overcome ambivalence, groups often depend on the most primitive psychotic mechanisms...

... frameworks, mechanisms of direct democracy, the delegation of decisions to artificial intelligence systems, and alternative models (such as sortition and liquid democracy) for the selection of decision‐makers. This speculative discourse yielded no firm new models but did underscore the importance...

... races future a toward steps first “the be well might man” to elements “mechanical of application the involving amputees” with “experiments porary discovery.” pure will, the synthesis of all the laws by which science is about to precipitate this evenof dream able being “to create...

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... in this novel. The organization of discourses is handled by means of two contradictory mechanisms. On the one hand, the fragmentary, numbered division of the conversational sequence yields an atomism supported by the autonomous qualities and utterances of each unit on its own. These are the features...

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... the activity of elected officials and was met with unanimous opposition across the entire political and media spectrum. 2 Although it had long been a feature of both republican and democratic history, it seemed that contemporary political actors had forgotten about the mechanism's potential uses. 3...

... political procedures and institutions, implying that democracy is incapable of neutralizing economic inequality because it is based on a mechanism—elections—that thrives on competition and unequal means of gaining attention, consensus, and majority votes. This premise belongs to the main strands...

... read it, and you should read it too. It is about computer science and quantum mechanics; it is purely math- ematical and yet all about the physical world. It is neither a textbook nor a popu- larization. The nonexpert will enjoy the thrills of the chase, the author...

... are mental mechanisms underlying all human thought, behavior, and culture. and behavior, thought, human all underlying mechanisms mental...