On the Meaning and Measurement of Inequality
Via Acta Sociologica
Abstract
This article offers a defence of the methods and findings of what some critics have referred to as the “Nuffield school of class analysis”. In particular, we respond to the critique mounted by Hellevik [...]
Thinking through Political Subjectivity
Via African Diaspora
Abstract
In the introduction to this special volume the editors focus on the analytical value of “political subjectivities“ in emergent social fields that are characterized by multiple diasporic overlaps. They emphasize [...]
Austin Stoneman: The Birth of a Nation’s American tragic hero
Via Early Popular Visual Culture
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For both artistic and personal reasons, D.W. Griffith was drawn to melodrama, and his most influential work, The Birth of a Nation, is, in almost every way, a fully realized melodramatic work. As is [...]
The Silent Network: The Music of Wandelweiser
Via Contemporary Music Review
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This essay examines Wandelweiser as a unique social and artistic formation while considering the social import of the group’s artistic works. Tracing Wandelweiser’s history and analyzing a selection [...]
Darkness At Noon, by Phineas Upham
By Phineas Upham
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon discusses the dilemma of an “old guard” communist who is captured by a system which, in its present state, he despises as immoral, crude, and the antithesis of its original [...]
Engineered Robot Interacts With Live Fish
Via Science Daily
A bioinspired robot has provided the first experimental evidence that live zebrafish can be influenced by engineered robots.
Results published 8 June in IOP Publishing’s journal Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, provide [...]
“Canniball Negroes,“ Atlantic Creoles, and the Identity of New England’s Charter Generation
From Children & Society
By Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton
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In the early seventeenth century, New England merchants were heavily involved in privateering raids on Spanish and Portuguese shipping in the Caribbean and in capturing [...]
Teenage Drinkers: Reckless Rebellion or Responsible Reproduction?
From Children & Society
By Peter Johnson
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The purpose of this study is to challenge the discourse that underage drinking is inevitably ‘deviant’. Rather than imposing an adultist lens, the article draws upon focus-group interviews [...]
An Evolutionary Strategy for a Computer Team Game
From Computational Intelligence
By Ching-Tsorng Tsai, Chishyan Liaw, Huan-Chen Huang, and Chao-Hui Ko
Abstract
Computer team games have attracted many players in recent years. Most of them are rule-based systems because they are simple and easy [...]
On the contingency of death: a discourse-theoretical perspective on the construction of death
Via American Nineteenth Century History
By Nico Carpentier and Leen Van Brussel
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Death is frequently seen as the ultimate manifestation of materiality. Without denying this materiality, this article will investigate the discursive character [...]