1,144 research outputs found
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from F. L. Meisner to Daniel W. Kempner discussing a broken clock
Political Economy of Postmodernism & the Spirit of Post-Bourgeois Capitalism
No full textIf there still is a hegemony of postmodernism in today’s leftist academia, and if it can be analysed as the spirit of contemporary capitalism, then this poses a problem for nowadays’ leftist academia itself. I start with the premise that the just mentioned hegemony exists and present its analysis in neo-Marxist historical-materialist fashion. The argument runs as follows. Throughout the 20th century, there happened a shift from bourgeois to what I call “post-bourgeois” capitalism. This led into the agony of the radical kernel of modern-bourgeois values, ranging from humanism’s autonomy via enlightenment’s rationality to romanticism’s individuality or non-identity – ending in the 21st century’s “new spirit” of capitalism as the “cultural logic” of post-bourgeois capital. That shift towards the post-bourgeois commenced at the threshold from the 19th to the 20th century as a period which moved from terrestrial imperialism (or exo-colonisation) to the colonisation on the plane of culture (or endo-colonisation). Whereas both exo- and endocolonisation are caused by capital’s logic to further disembed beyond the confines of its differentiated economic sphere in order to accumulate itself, the shift was necessitated by the saturation of exocolonisation in the late 19th century. Yet, for capital to disembed into the cultural dimension, a collapse of the superstructure into the base was enforced, or the collapse of culture into the economy. In this post-dualising process of the economisation of culture and the culturalisation of the economy, culturalised capital-value itself became the prime new cultural meta-value. Now, since the radical kernel of bourgeois-modern values remains of prime relevance to resist and tackle the further colonisations by capital, it needs to be defended against a self-fashioned progressive postmodernism that simply mimics the blind progressions of post-bourgeois capitalism
Die Radikalisierung des politischen Projekts der Moderne: Marcuses emanzipatorische Vernunft für eine rationale Gesellschaft
No full textThe essay delves into the concept of the radicalising project of modernity by spelling out Marcuse's philosophy with a particular stress on his theorisation of emancipatory reason
Future research demands of the United European Gastroenterology (UEG) and its member societies
No full textAims: The purpose of this study was to initiate and stimulate collaborative research efforts to support United European Gastroenterology Federation (UEG) member societies facilitating digestive health research in European on the one hand and, on the other hand, to increase EU-funded digestive health research by providing evidence and advice to funding bodies on priority areas. The UEG Research Committee initiated a survey of the current and future research interests of each individual UEG ordinary member society (specialist societies). Methods: A questionnaire was sent by mail to 17 UEG ordinary member societies asking them to specify research demands related to the most urgent medical need including basic science research, translational research, clinical research, patient management research and research on disease prevention, in an open fashion but with limited word count. Results: The responses from 13 societies were analysed in a semi-quantitative and in a qualitative way, and were clustered into five domains with two aspects each that were consented and shared between three and seven of the responding 13 societies. These clusters resemble topics such as ‘Hot topics’ (e.g. life-style, nutrition, microbial-host interaction), Biomarkers (genetic profiling, gut-brain interaction), Advanced technology (artificial intelligence, personalised medicine), Global research tools (bio-banking, EU trials), and Medical training (education, prevention). Conclusion: The generated topic list allows both collaboration between individual specialist societies as well as initiating and fostering future research calls at the EU level and beyond when approaching stakeholders
Quantum phases and topological properties of interacting fermions in one-dimensional superlattices
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Low-lying zeros in families of elliptic curve L-functions over function fields
No full textWe investigate the low-lying zeros in families of L-functions attached to quadratic and cubic twists of elliptic curves defined over Fq(T). In particular, we present precise expressions for the expected values of traces of high powers of the Frobenius class in these families with a focus on the lower order behavior. As an application we obtain results on one-level densities and we verify that these elliptic curve families have orthogonal symmetry type. In the quadratic twist families our results refine previous work of Comeau-Lapointe. Moreover, in this case we find a lower order term in the one-level density reminiscent of the deviation term found by Rudnick in the hyperelliptic ensemble. On the other hand, our investigation is the first to treat these questions in families of cubic twists of elliptic curves and in this case it turns out to be more complicated to isolate lower order terms due to a larger degree of cancellation among lower order contributions
Ernst Moritz Arndt's Sämmtliche Werke.
No full textSamtliche werke; vol. 9-14: Magdeburg, Magdeburger verlagsanstalt. G.m.b.H.v. 1-2 edited by H. RoÌsch, v. 3-6 by H. Meisner, v. 7, 3. ed., by L. Freytag.Each volume has special t.-p.v. 7 issued in two parts without collective t.-p. On cover: Ernst Moritz Arndt's Werke.Mode of access: Internet
Expected Values of -functions Away from the Central Point
No full textWe compute the expected value of Dirichlet -functions defined over
attached to cubic characters evaluated at an arbitrary . We find a transition term at the point , reminiscent of
the transition at the point of the bound for the size of an
-function implied by the Lindel\"of hypothesis. We show that at
, the expected value matches corresponding statistics of the
group of unitary matrices multiplied by a weight function.Comment: 31 page
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