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Aesthetics
No full textSean Scully is a cosmopolitan artist. An Irish-American citizen who grew up in the United Kingdom, and who has spent considerable amounts of time across the world, his work — most often characterised as Abstract Expressionism — can still be said to be American in its aesthetics. There was a recent retrospective of his work at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg. James Dowthwaite and Natalie Erkel, as contributors to this volume and residents of the city, went to the exhibition
Histories of Northern and Regional Australia
No full textNorthern Australia contains most of the nation’s mineral wealth and over half its land mass. Despite this, it remains underdeveloped compared to the southeast and is home to only 5.2 per cent of the national population. This article charts the history and impact of mining capital in northern Australia in the six decades after the conclusion of World War II. It argues that extractive industry dominated by multinational capital has actively perpetuated northern Australia’s underdevelopment rather than driving regional prosperity
Aesthetics
No full textKate Hext and Alex Murray are two of the leading figures in the study of literature and the arts in and around the fin de siècle, the period during which the aesthetic as a value in and of itself was most promoted. In this interview they discuss the concept of “decadence”, America’s relation to this formative period, and reflect on cultural diagnostics
On the Moral Dangers of Celebrity Apologies
No full textAlexander von Humboldt‐StiftungUniversitat de València (Ministerio de Universidades, NextGenerationEU) http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/50110000350
International Tax Law and Profit Repatriation Strategies for Investments in Foreign Subsidiaries
No full textThis study is assigned to international tax law. It elaborates on various innovative strategies for tax-optimized profit repatriation from foreign subsidiaries. As an example, the analysis is carried out against the background of the country constellation USA/European Union. However, the results and strategies can be applied to other country constellations. The elaboration of profit repatriation strategies solves a significant taxation problem for investments in foreign subsidiaries, namely the incurrence of withholding tax in the subsidiary's foreign country of residence. At the same time, a contribution is made to expanding the literature. Tax effective profit repatriation strategies regarding investments in foreign subsidiaries have hardly been derived and discussed in the literature.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.IU Internationale Hochschule GmbH (5072
Exploration of the Mandative Subjunctive in Pakistani English
No full textThe study at hand explores the alternation between the mandative subjunctive and its equivalent construction with the modal verb should in Pakistani English. The study enhances understanding of the alternation both by focusing on Pakistani English as a relatively under‐researched postcolonial variety of English and by complementing the traditional syntactic variables that influence the choice of subjunctive with a sociolinguistic dimension in the form of the language user's gender. Using data from the SAVE and SAVE2020 corpora, we investigate the following research questions: What factors influence the mandative subjunctive/ should alternation, is gender a significant influence on the choice and has the subjunctive choice changed over time? A multifactorial model was fitted on the 504 extracted data points with the following predictors: gender, lexical diversity, linking word, negation, newspaper, primer, range, readability, subject number, subject person, time, trigger lemma, voice and word count . The results show an effect of gender and time in interaction with several other variables. The interactions show significant diachronic adjustments to the constructional preferences of the individual subjunctive triggers and reveals that across these triggers, women are generally more likely to pick the subjunctive over its modal alternant than men.Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/50110000165
by Rochelle Gurstein, and an Interview with the Author
No full textRochelle Gurstein talks to the editors about her latest book, Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art (Yale University Press, 2024), part of which is reprinted here with her permission (Chapter 14: The Future of the Classic). In the book and the interview, the author reflects with astonishment on the many "instances of wildly fluctuating reputations" and "stunning rediscoveries of long forgotten or previously demeaned artists, lost classics, and unstable canons" which, as she writes, "put my original project of establishing the reality of a timeless classic in jeopardy, and forced me to reconsider what turned out to be a number of my own unexamined assumptions"—a book about the ephemeral classic