254 research outputs found
An Introduction to Design Commons
No full textThe reasons for a dedicated edition on “design and commoning” are twofold. First, the recent surge of renewed interest in the social conditions of design remains atheoretical. A deeper theoretical and philosophical foundation will help problematize the link between commoning and design, and in doing so define the operative theories, concepts and frameworks that influence design thinking across a series of design contexts and conditions. And secondly, design has become more ubiquitous, expanding both its domain of influence and conditions of praxis. With this expansion, design touches a variety of contested areas. Designers are continuously challenged by conflicts and edge conditions, having to mitigate between both scales of conflict and the vested interests of individuals. In the global climate of population increase and the prevalent reduction of financial resources the question and theorization of shared capacities will remain part and parcel of future of design thinking. The four thematic clusters contained here exploit the theoretical and philosophical themes related to the large commoning “problematique,” providing designers better grounding in the networked context of the twenty-first century. The explicit theorization of design and the commons will explore the implicit relations through each of the collected contributions to show how this philosophical construct can be explicated in the context of network collectives and transdisciplinary approaches that currently inform design practices.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Theory, Territories & Transition
Pings and Hups
No full textEtymologically unattested yet artistically long praised, there is a profound relation between life and light; next to both, the almost self-evident (and scientifically undisputed) relation between light and flow, lux and flux. Would it be correct then to understand life as an issue of perception and manipulation of flows? Surprisingly, this is a question that can only be answered by addressing death. As any lensmaker would claim (and philosophy has always had an affinity with this profession), perception is not a synthesis but an ascesis: it does not connect, it disconnects; or, better said, in order to connect, it needs to disconnect. However, following the radical empiricist dictum, one should never speak of perception alone; ever since William James, perception equals action. In other words, perception is not something that happens to us, it is something we do.5 Strange as it may seem therefore, to live one needs to practice death. This book will examine how styling life means styling death and how architecture (in the broadest possible sense) is involved in this continuous process of stylisation. To do so, architecture and perception, duration and individuation, will all converge in practising how one can die without dying in order to enunciate a life.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Theory, Territories & Transition
Un nouveau manuscrit grec illustré du Physiologus : au sujet d'une récente étude sur ce texte
No full textThe author draws the attention on a Physiologus' manuscript actually in the Ivan Dujčev Center, Sofia, which has not been taken into account in a recent study.REB 58 2000 France p. 277-281
St. Lazaris, Un nouveau manuscrit grec illustré du Physiologus : au sujet d'une étude récente sur ce texte. — L'auteur signale la présence d'un manuscrit du Physiologus conservé au Centre Ivan Dujčev à Sofia et qui n'a pas été pris en considération dans une récente étude de ce texte.Lazaris Stavros. Un nouveau manuscrit grec illustré du Physiologus : au sujet d'une récente étude sur ce texte. In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 58, 2000. pp. 279-281
Topics in minimax shrinkage estimation
No full textThe dissertation considers three different topics which pertain to minimax shrinkage estimation:
1) Minimax estimation of a mean vector with variable selection for classes of spherically symmetric distributions: The results of Zhou and Hwang [31] and Maruyama [22] are extended from the normal case with known scale, to scale mixtures of normals and more generally to spherically symmetric distributions with a residual vector. Slight extensions to the class of estimators to which the results pertain are also given.
2) Minimax shrinkage estimators of a location vector under concave loss: In particular it is shown for a wide class of concave loss functions, James-Stein and Baranchik-type estimators which dominate the usual" estimator for quadratic loss also dominate for these concave losses. The distributions studied include multivariate normal distributions with covariance equal to a known multiple of the identity, normal distributions with an unknown scale times the identity, and general scale mixtures of multivariate normal distributions with an unknown scale.
3) Combining unbiased and possibly biased correlated estimators of a mean vector under general quadratic loss: The general approach is to use a shrinkage-type estimator which shrinks an unbiased estimator toward a biased estimator. Conditions under which the combined estimator dominates the original unbiased estimator are given. Models studied include normal models with a known covariance structure, scale mixtures of normals, and more generally elliptically symmetric models with a known covariance structure. Elliptically symmetric models with a covariance structure known up to a multiple are also considered.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Stavros Zinono
A Diagrammatic Cartography of Discourses on Architectures of Life and/or Death
No full textThe built environment exerts an essential effect on life. Over the past decades, it has been greatly reconceptualised through various posthuman, ecosystemic, new materialist, material-discursive approaches, which explored the socio-spatial, technological, cognitive, relational, and affective relations that material arrangements, such as architectural ones, shape. As technē, architecture is intricately intertwined not only with processes of easing and facilitating (human) life, but also the management of dynamic processes involving both living and non-living matters. In view of the latter, architecture is ‘life by means other than life’ (Stiegler), shaping living matters by means of non-living matters. The chapter respectively surveys several streams of recent theoretical discourse that developed from Deleuze and Guattari’s as well as Foucault’s thoroughgoing reframing of the agency of matter on life-constituting processes. In the aim of reconsidering and repositioning architecture as a posthuman technique of existence, this cartography charts – with the help of a central navigational diagram – these co-evolving discursive streams in their differing topical-conceptual starting points, and their various converging and bifurcating lines of thinking, in the aim to elaborate on the novel conceptions they have helped distil in the pursuit of a fuller understanding of those material-discursive practices within the relational ecologies of architecture.Accepted Author ManuscriptSituated Architectur
Achilles and the improba virgo. Ovid, Ars am. 1.681-704 and Statius, "Ach." 1.491-552
No full textAnalysis of the modelling influence of Ovid's apostrophai to Achilles in cross-dress at Scyros (Ars am. 1.681-704) on Statius' Achilleid 1.619-639 (Achilles' dialogue with himself in the night he rapes Deidameia) and 1.514-535 (apostrophai to Thetis and Achilles by Calchas, who is asked by the Greeks at Aulis to divine where Achilles is hidden).
Calchas' speech may be read as a more dignified, epic retelling of Ovid's narrative, which had presented the didactic author (mockingly, of course) as the positive influence that ensured Achilles would adhere to his twin destiny as martial hero & great lover. Statius‘ Calchas has the same tone of indignation over the destiny of the character Achilles as Ovid did in the Ars. Like the Ovidian narrator, he also serves as the catalyst that advances the plot towards Achilles' definitive liberation from cross-dressing, in that he provides Odysseus and Diomedes with the necessary information to summon the hidden hero to the war. Calchas‘ assuming this role is well within the limits of the poetics of epic, since his Iliadic alter ego had similarly compelled Agamemnon to radically change his attitude toward Chryseis and thus redirected the story of the war of Troy. Later in my paper, we will see how Statius' re-dignified Achilles follows, in a way, in Calchas‘ and Ovid's footsteps by showing the same indignation and addressing comparable apostrophai to himself (1.619-639) as he himself acknowledges the necessity of stopping his transvestism even before Calchas‘ stand-in Odysseus compelled him to give it up.
The paper concludes with an Ovidian interpretation of the expression improba virgo, with which Statius’ Calchas labels Deidameia (1.535)
Correction to: Developing a Framework for Public Involvement in Mathematical and Economic Modelling: Bringing New Dynamism to Vaccination Policy Recommendations
No full textThe article “Developing a Framework for Public Involvement in Mathematical and Economic Modelling: Bringing New Dynamism to Vaccination Policy Recommendations”, written by Sophie Staniszewska, Edward M. Hill, Richard Grant, Peter Grove, Jarina Porter, Tinevimbo Shiri, Sue Tulip3, Jane Whitehurst, Claire Wright, Samik Datta, Stavros Petrou, Matt Keeling was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal on 21 October 2020 without open access.With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 28 January 2021 to © The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International Licens
An Athens yet to Come
No full textThe massive and ongoing influx of refugees to Athens that started in the beginning of the century would meet a radical change that occurred after the Olympic Games of 2004, producing the germ that would transform the Athenian urban ecologies: an absolute retreat to the private, understood not in financial or market terms but in terms of stratification and rigidification. Examined from that point of view, the urban unrests of the past decade can be approached as the gradual formation of a black hole: before the formation of molar fascist assemblages in the Athenian urban ecologies, there is the formation of infinite micro-fascists. The immense proliferation of micro-fascist subjectivities is no other than the emergence of infinite reactive subjects out of the Athenian urban ecologies and their technicities themselves. Precisely for this reason, any attempt to speak of an Athens yet-to-come should not involve the production of yet another narrative (of urban change, social justice or political emancipation) but rather the affirmative production of a futurity through the actual and virtual potentials of an environmental manipulation that occurs here-and-now while aiming at a not-here-and-not-yet.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Theory, Territories & Transition
Message from the Chairs
No full textIt is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop (Erlang’22), co-located as usual with the annual International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The workshop continues to be a forum for presenting research and experience reports on all aspects of theory, implementation, and applications of the Erlang language and BEAM-related technologies, covering topics in functional programming, distribution, and reliability.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Software Engineerin
Ananke's Sway: Architectures of Synaptic Passages
No full textPhilosopher Gilbert Simondon claims that what one perceives is neither outlines nor shapes, but thresholds of intensity. Therefore, Simondon points out that sensation is nothing but intensive and differential; it is the ‘seizure of a direction, not of an object.’ However, the issue is how one can examine the sensation of a direction that does not address the present but rather that which is yet to come. To do so, one can approach it as an issue of synapses. A synapse is a junction, an almost imperceptible gap through which an impulse of intensity passes by. As such, synapses manage to capture both the passage of an intensity (as a synaptic moment) and the formation of an extensity (as a synaptic location). In other words, synapses can be understood as constraints and for this reason, as information; after all, information is nothing but the reduction of potentials.In this paper, I will examine how architecture, in its technicities, operates as a synapse: how it allows for both the formation of an extensive space as well as for the very possibility of intuiting a space yet to come, and consequently, a subject yet to individuate. To do so, I will focus on how architectural technicities allow for a certain degree of indeterminacy due to their metastability and auto-normativity. With the help of goddess Ananke and her spindle, architecture will be understood as an intensive exercise on the indeterminate, on a figure that is not yet figured out, but does so on the basis of synaptic passages. Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Theory, Territories & Transition
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