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H-Diplo Roundtable XX-20 on Matthew J. Ambrose. The Control Agenda: A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
No full textA set of reviews of Matthew J. Ambrose\u27s The Control Agenda: A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, with a response from the author
Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety – A Tercentenary Celebration
No full textThe summer of 2014 marked the tercentenary of the death of Matthew Henry (1662–1714), a leading figure among early eighteenth-century Dissenters and author of the six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (1707–1714/25). This monumental work, which by 1855 had already been published in twenty-five different editions, attempted a peculiarly practical approach to the biblical text and continues to be widely used and readily accessible even today in both print and online versions. The theme of foreign (or ‘strange’) wives and Israelite intermarriage is one which occurs throughout the Hebrew Bible and, accordingly, throughout Matthew Henry’s commentary upon it. Where it appears, the practice of intermarriage is characterized by Henry as (at best) unwise and (at worst) a very real threat to both social and religious cohesion. This essay explores how Henry deals with the issue of ‘strange wives’, why he believes they continue to pose a threat, and (in view of the overall intention of his commentary) what ‘practical observations’ he offers to his reader as a result. In doing so it is argued that Henry’s commentary traces a thematic thread from the ante-diluvian age to the post-exilic period of calamities resulting from mixed marriages between ‘professors of religion’ and their ‘strange wives’
Citation expectations: are they realized? Study of the Matthew index for Russian papers published abroad
No full textWe consider the "Matthew effect" in the citation process which leads to reallocation (or misallocation) of the citations received by scientific papers within the same journals. The case when such reallocation correlates with a country where an author works is investigated. Russian papers in chemistry and physics published abroad were examined. We found that in both disciplines in about 60% of journals Russian papers are cited less than average ones. However, if we consider each discipline as a whole, citedness of a Russian paper in physics will be on the average level, while chemistry publications receive about 16% citations less than one may expect from the citedness of the journals where they appear. Moreover, Russian chemistry papers mostly become undercited in the leading journals of the field. Characteristics of a "Matthew index" indicator and its significance for scientometric studies are also discussed
Ambrose
No full text“Ambrose” was composed over the course of three very cold months in the winter of 2016, in response to Barth’s short fiction collection, “Lost in the Funhouse”. Many texts played some role in the influence and inspiration of this novella, though, it is Barth’s protagonist who is borrowed, and represented in the post-adolescent form. Likewise, it is Barth’s exploration of the funhouse, Barth’s complications of the journey, from which this project sought its
‘foundations’.
The foundations being something of loose irony here, in terms of the work’s architecture and design. Often, it is the very foundation, tradition, of narrative and Authority that this work seeks to question. “Ambrose” is fraught with internal contradictions: so much so, the implied speaker continually, and brazenly contradicts the logical consistency of the narrative-truth. These contradictions often arise in the form of imperatives, for example, that demand opposing actions from Ambrose, but also Reader. The result of this, or so I intended, is something akin to a ‘split’ from Authority to Narrator, from “Ambrose” to “You”. A space becomes presented to the Reader, by which the Reader may question the operation of Perspective and Authority itself. The Implied Speaker imposes queues and double-binds, demands, and pseudo-neutral positions upon the Reader, so that Reader may become privy to irony at hand, and possibly, resist against it.
About the second person perspective, Carlos Fuentes once wrote: “It’s a voice that admits it doesn’t know everything”. There’s something about this assertion that haunted me while working on this project, which I do not have entirely wrestled out today. It was partly my intention to explore the consequence of second perspective which does not admit, but openly flaunts, how little it knows of Truth, and of itself
Ambrose
No full text“Ambrose” was composed over the course of three very cold months in the winter of 2016, in response to Barth’s short fiction collection, “Lost in the Funhouse”. Many texts played some role in the influence and inspiration of this novella, though, it is Barth’s protagonist who is borrowed, and represented in the post-adolescent form. Likewise, it is Barth’s exploration of the funhouse, Barth’s complications of the journey, from which this project sought its
‘foundations’.
The foundations being something of loose irony here, in terms of the work’s architecture and design. Often, it is the very foundation, tradition, of narrative and Authority that this work seeks to question. “Ambrose” is fraught with internal contradictions: so much so, the implied speaker continually, and brazenly contradicts the logical consistency of the narrative-truth. These contradictions often arise in the form of imperatives, for example, that demand opposing actions from Ambrose, but also Reader. The result of this, or so I intended, is something akin to a ‘split’ from Authority to Narrator, from “Ambrose” to “You”. A space becomes presented to the Reader, by which the Reader may question the operation of Perspective and Authority itself. The Implied Speaker imposes queues and double-binds, demands, and pseudo-neutral positions upon the Reader, so that Reader may become privy to irony at hand, and possibly, resist against it.
About the second person perspective, Carlos Fuentes once wrote: “It’s a voice that admits it doesn’t know everything”. There’s something about this assertion that haunted me while working on this project, which I do not have entirely wrestled out today. It was partly my intention to explore the consequence of second perspective which does not admit, but openly flaunts, how little it knows of Truth, and of itself
An Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play
No full textAn Interview with Matthew Kaiser on Competition and Play, by Sean Scanlan. Matthew Kaiser, the author of The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford UP, 2012) says that “[c]ompetition is the disease from which modern life suffers,” and that “[c]ompetition is the only cure” for this suffering. This contradictory pairing seems to get at the heart of his thesis: play, as a totalizing, umbrella-like concept, emanates from a host of philosophical, political, and scientific work produced by Victorians who posed many of their ideas of play in sports metaphors, competitive logics, and narratives of struggle. Kaiser goes beyond the dichotomy of competition and play/competition or play, by stating “I’m interested in the totalizing potential of both concepts, the way that play, or competition for that matter, swallows the world whole, becomes in the minds of so many people, the organizing principle of reality, whether of culture or nature or consciousness, or of all three.
Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series: Matthew Goldman, Class of 2022
No full textThe Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series seeks to give our readers further insight into the Articles and Notes published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. In this interview, Matthew Goldman discusses his Note, Fragmented Music Copyright Protection: A Better Arrangement, which was published in Volume 40, Issue 3.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on November 7, 2023. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above
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Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series: Matthew Goldman, Class of 2022
No full textThe Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series seeks to give our readers further insight into the Articles and Notes published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. In this interview, Matthew Goldman discusses his Note, Fragmented Music Copyright Protection: A Better Arrangement, which was published in Volume 40, Issue 3.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on November 7, 2023. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above
Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series: Matthew Goldman, Class of 2022
No full textThe Cardozo AELJ Author Interview Series seeks to give our readers further insight into the Articles and Notes published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. In this interview, Matthew Goldman discusses his Note, Fragmented Music Copyright Protection: A Better Arrangement, which was published in Volume 40, Issue 3.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on November 7, 2023. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above
Matthew and Mark
No full textThe author of the Gospel of Matthew was arguably the very first Christian seeking to rejudaize Jesus of Nazareth. Throughout two millennia, and undeniably most intensively during the last half-century, many students of the Bible have followed in his footsteps. Although he was successful in many respects, we must not forget who paid the price for his endeavour: the Pharisees, the proto-Rabbis and the Founding Fathers of those we know as the Jewish people, those whom Jesus knew as his own
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