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Unlucky for Some : 13 poems by Roger McGough
No full textInspired by and featuring the poetry of Roger McGough (by permission of the author), Unlucky for Some is a spare, minimalistic work about homelessness, mental illness and class division performed entirely in slow motion.\ud
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This multimedia work also utilised prerecorded and live feed video and music, and experimented with synchronous and asynchonous live and mediatised performance
Distributed data management for large scale applications
No full textImprovements in data storage and network technologies, the emergence of new highresolution scientific instruments, the widespread use of the Internet and the World Wide Web and even globalisation have contributed to the emergence of new large scale dataintensive applications. These applications require new systems that allow users to store, share and process data across computing centres around the world. Worldwide distributed data management is particularly important when there is a lot of data, more than can fit in a single computer or even in a single data centre. Designing systems to cope with the demanding requirements of these applications is the focus of the present work.This thesis presents four contributions. First, it introduces a set of design principles that can be used to create distributed data management systems for data-intensive applications. Second, it describes an architecture and implementation that follows the proposed design principles, and which results in a scalable, fault tolerant and secure system. Third, it presents the system evaluation, which occurred under real operational conditions using close to one hundred computing sites and with more than 14 petabytes of data. Fourth, it proposes novel algorithms to model the behaviour of file transfers on a wide-area network.This work also presents a detailed description of the problem of managing distributed data, ranging from the collection of requirements to the identification of the uncertainty that underlies a large distributed environment. This includes a critique of existing work and the identification of practical limits to the development of transfer algorithms on a shared distributed environment. The motivation for this work has been the ATLAS Experiment for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, where the author was responsible for the development of the data management middleware
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Selling of Charlie\u27S Angels and Alias
No full textThe author analyzes various elements of the promotional campaigns for two recent female-driven action narratives, the film Charlie\u27s Angels and the television series Alias. The analysis suggests that these inconsistent and often regressive campaigns weaken the potentially progressive gender images offered by the film and series
A more comprehensive and commanding delineation: Mary Shelley's narrative strategy in Frankenstein
No full textThis thesis argues that the first edition of Frankenstein challenges conventional reading by employing what Simpson in Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry calls Romantic irony, where the absence of a stable 'metacomment' precludes an authoritative reading. The novel hints at such readings but prevents them. The insights offered by Tropp's Mary Shelley's Monster, Baldick's In Frankenstein's Shadow, Poovey's The Proper Lady and the woman writer and Swingle's, 'Frankenstein's Monster and its Relatives: Problems of Knowledge in English Romanticism' are considered, but none recognises the full implications of the instability deriving from multiple first- person narratives. Clemit's The Godwinian Navel acknowledges the novel's indeterminacy, but reads a specific ideological purpose in it. Paradise Last provides a language to describe the relationship between the monster and Frankenstein, but proves too unstable to fix identity or establish moral value. Similarly, Necessity ultimately fails to provide a stable explanation in terms of cause and effect. The status of nature shifts between foreground and background, never allowing final definition. These uncertainties destabilise knowledge which is compromised by its provisional nature: no authoritative reading is possible, yet the novel has narrative coherence. The reader is encouraged to try to develop a reading the structure prevents. The radical nature of the first edition is highlighted by comparison with the 1831 edition, which removes much of the ambivalence and gives the novel a clearer morality. The novel challenges conventional methods of deriving authority by disturbing the reader's orthodox orientation in the world around him' (Simpson) in order to afford 'a point of view to the imagination for the delineation of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield' (Mary Shelley)
Roger Leenhardt, André Bazin y la pequeña escuela del espectador de cine moderno
No full textAquest article rastreja els vincles entre Roger Leenhardt i André Bazin a finals dels anys 40 i començaments dels anys 50: en aquest període, els articles de tots dos crítics configuren una noció moderna del cineasta com a autor. Aquesta noció d'autor cinematogràfic serà un dels eixos de Cahiers du cinéma, la revista que Bazin creà en 1951 i que es convertirà ràpidament en una de les referències ineludibles en el pensament sobre cinema durant la segona meitat de segle. Tal com ho entenen els nous crítics, el concepte d'autor cinematogràfic redefineix no sols l'activitat del cineasta sinó també la noció d'espectador i d'obra.This article traces the links between Roger Leenhardt and André Bazin in the late 1940s and early 1950s: in that period, the articles published by both critics configure a modern notion of the filmmaker as an author. This notion will be one of the cornerstones of Cahiers du cinéma, the magazine that Bazin founded in 1951 and which would quickly become one of the inescapable references in the reflection on cinema during the second half of the century. As the new critics conceive it, the concept of a cinematographic author redefines not only the activity of the filmmaker but also the notion of work and of spectator.Este artículo rastrea los vínculos entre Roger Leenhardt y André Bazin a fines de los años 40 y comienzos de los años 50: en ese período, los artículos de ambos críticos configuran una noción moderna del cineasta como autor. Esa noción de autor cinematográfico será uno de los ejes de Cahiers du cinéma, la revista que Bazin funda en 1951 y que se convertirá rápidamente en una de las referencias ineludibles en el pensamiento sobre cine durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Tal como lo entienden los nuevos críticos, el concepto de autor cinematográfico redefine no sólo la actividad del cineasta sino también la noción de espectador y de obra
“It Has Always Known And We Have Always Been ‘Other’: Knowing Capitalism And The ‘Coming Crisis’ Of Sociology Confront The Concentration System and Mass-Observation,”
No full textVivaldi's Four Seasons and the Globalization of Musical Taste
No full text"Vivaldi's Four Seasons, or at least parts of it, can be recognised by enormous numbers of people on this planet, and its sounds seem to come from almost every elevator shaft, mobile phone, restaurant and television advert in the world. It stands as the very epitome of a globalized artwork, and therefore it would be reasonable to suppose that globalization theories would be a great help in explaining its success. That this may not be the case is one of the main points of this paper -�� but before we get to that, there are two matters that have to be set in place. The first is to define the characteristics of the Four Seasons as a global commodity (note that I refer to it in the singular, since the four individual pieces come as a package); the second is to describe the main tenets of globalization theories and some of their chief generating ideas. Trying to map the characteristics of the work onto the assertions of the theories will be the main business of this paper, and this process is designed not only to illuminate the work, but also to test the theories." (Excerpt, introduction
The Democratic State
No full textRoger Benjamin was president of the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) from 2005 to 2019 and was formerly provost of the University of Minnesota and the University of Pittsburgh. He has authored, coauthored, or co-edited nine books, including The Democratic Purposes of Education and The New Limits of Education Policy: Avoiding a Tragedy of the Commons.
Stephen L. Elkin is professor emeritus of government and politics at the University of Maryland and founding editor of the journal The Good Society. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison.This Kansas Open Books title is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.Edited by Roger Benjamin and Stephen L. Elkin. Contributors include Peter H. Aranson, Roger Benjamin, David Braybrooke, Stephen L. Elkin, Norman Furniss, and Peter C. Ordeshook.One outcome of the declining economic growth and rising political conflict of the 1980s has been a renewed interest in political theory and increased questioning about the durability of the capitalist state. More and more political scientists are critically assessing the prevailing pluralist vision of the relationships between the state and the economy. Is the capitalist state able to adjust to crises and contradictions? What is the role of the state in changing—deteriorating—economic circumstances? How should we understand competing interpretations on the relative autonomy of the state, the nature of property rights, the legitimation crisis?
This collection of five original essays by seven of the best-known political-economy theorists addresses the interconnections between the economy and the polity and embodies the leading theoretical approaches to the political economy of the state
His Majesty's advocate : Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees (1635-1713) and Covenanter resistance theory under the Restoration monarchy
No full textThis thesis is the first to explore the life and political thought of Sir James
Stewart of Goodtrees (1635-1713). The first part reviews the life of his father, Sir
James Stewart of Kirk field (1608-1681) to 1661, and Goodtrees' own life from birth
to his admission to the Scots bar in 1661. This provides the backdrop of history
necessary to appreciate his contributions as both writer and radical activist.
Particular attention focuses on the conflict between Charles I and Charles II, on the
one hand, and the Church of Scotland, on the other; the National Covenant (1638)
and the Solemn League and Covenant of(1643); the British wars of religion; and
the upheavals following the Restoration in the 1660s, culminating in the Pentland
Rising of 1666.
The next part develops Goodtrees' political philosophy from his two most
important writings. Chapter 3 reviews and interprets Naphtali (1667), a defence of
those who rose at Pentland. Chapter 4 reviews Andrew Honyman's Survey of
Naphtali (1668, 1669), a rebuttal of Naphtali and standard Anglican case for royal
absolutism. Chapter 5 reviews and interprets Goodtrees' Jus Populi Vindicatum, or
The People's Right, to defend themselves and their Covenanted Religion, vindicated
(1669), his rejoinder to Honyman. His Calvinist, covenantal constitutionalism is
shown to be an important link between earlier resistance theorists like John Knox
and Samuel Rutherford and the later Whigs, represented preeminently by John
Locke.
The third part (chapters 6-7) reviews Goodtrees' life and minor writings as radical critic of the Restoration monarchy; a participant in plots among British
exiles in Holland to overthrow it; a member briefly of James's Scottish government
before the Revolution; and lord advocate and churchman pursuing political, legal,
and ecclesiastical reforms afterwards
President\u27s Convocation (2002 Program and audio)
No full textOrder of speakers according to the program: Chaplain Dennis Groh; President Minor Myers, jr.; Student Senate President John Rapp, 2003; Associate Provost Roger Schnaitter; Provost and Dean of Faculty Janet McNew; and Nobel Prize Laureate author Isabel Allende. Music performance by School of Music Professors David Vayo and Roger Garrett
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