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Alan Moore Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel
No full textEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Formal Considerations on Alan Moore's Writing -- CHAPTER 2. Chronotopes: Outer Space, the Cityscape, and the Space of Comics -- CHAPTER 3. Moore and the Crisis of English Identity -- CHAPTER 4. Finding a Way into Lost Girls -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZEclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel , Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works-- Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea , and Lost Girls . The study also highlights Moore?s lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz , and Big Numbers , and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Experimental Evaluation of a Partitioning Algorithm for the Steiner Tree Problem in R² and R³
No full textWe experimentally evaluate sequential and distributed implementations of an approximation partitioning algorithm by Kalpakis and Sherman for the Geometric Steiner Minimum Tree Problem (GSMT) in R d for d = 2; 3. Our implementations incorporate an improved method for combining the subproblems, and single and double edge-reduction techniques to eliminate unnecessary Steiner points created by the partitioning process. Results show that these refinements are crucial in practice to produce high-quality results. Moreover, with these refinements, the partitioning algorithm is an effective practical heuristic, which in less time finds solutions roughly comparable with those computed by Smith's Algorithm. The partitioning algorithm depends on a parameter t through which the user can trade off time for solution quality. To solve each of the subproblems of size at most t, we apply Smith's Algorithm, the only other Steiner tree algorithm known for R³ under the Euclidean norm. Using uniformly ..
Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
Get PDFThis study is about British working-class fiction in the post-war period.
It covers various authors such as Robert Tressell, George Orwell, Walter Greenwood, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and DH Lawrence from the early twentieth century; writers traditionally classified as 'Angry Young Men' like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and
Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s.
Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, self/identity/autobiography, sexuality and relationship with bourgeois art. The major argument centres on two questions: representation of working-class life, and the
relationship between working-class literary tradition and dominant ideologies.
We will be arguing that while working-class fiction succeeded in challenging and rupturing bourgeois literary tradition, on the level of language and linguistic medium of expression for example, it utterly failed to break away from dominant, bourgeois modes of literary production in relation to form, for instance.
Our argument is situated within Marxist approaches to literature, a political and aesthetic position from which we attempt an analysis and an evaluation of this working-class literary tradition. These critical approaches provide us also with the theoretical tool to define the political perspective of this tradition, and to judge whether it was confined to a descriptive mode of representation or
located in a radical, political outlook
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Understanding Issues in Cloud Forensics: Two Hypothetical Case Studies
No full textAnnual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law.The inevitable vulnerabilities and criminal targeting of cloud environments demand an understanding of how digital forensic investigations of the cloud can be accomplished. We present two hypothetical case studies of cloud crimes; child pornography being hosted in the cloud, and a compromised cloud based website. Our cases highlight shortcomings of current forensic practices and laws. We describe significant challenges with cloud forensics, including forensic acquisition, evidence preservation and chain of custody, and open problems for continued research.We thank Simson Garfinkel and George Steele for helpful comments on early drafts. Sherman is
supported in part by the Department of Defense under IASP Grant H98230-10-1-0359.https://commons.erau.edu/adfsl/2011/wednesday/10
General Equilibrium Measures of Agricultural Policy Bias in Fifteen Developing Countries
Get PDFA comparative analysis of 15 developing countries shows that, during the 1990s, indirect taxes, tariffs, and exchange rates significantly discriminated against agriculture in only one country (Malawi), was largely neutral in five (Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe), provided a moderate subsidy to agriculture in four (Mexico, Tanzania, Venezuela, and Zambia), and strongly favored agriculture in five (Egypt, Korea, Morocco, Mozambique, and Tunisia). In contrast to earlier partial equilibrium results, our general equilibrium analysis indicates that exchange rate changes can lead to anything between strongly increasing and strongly decreasing relative agriculture/non-agriculture incentives, depending on relative trade shares and relative tradability of agricultural and non-agricultural commodities. Country-specific circumstances greatly affect the relative impact of trade policies on agriculture and the rest of the economy in a general equilibrium setting. Earlier partial equilibrium measures of policy bias could not adequately incorporate country heterogeneity and are therefore likely to have overstated the bias. In any case, from the empirical results with our sample of countries, we conclude that any incentive bias against agriculture in the 1980s had mostly disappeared by the 1990s.urban bias, food and agricultural policy; general equilibrium modelling
Lo que aprendí de Alan: Un caso de cambio en la formación inicial del profesorado.
No full textThis is a Spanish translation of the article, 'What I learned from Alan: a case of change in an initial teacher training course', first published in Music Education Research, 7(1).Este artículo examina un cambio en los procedimientos para desarrollar el conocimiento musical de los estudiantes en un programa de formación inicial del profesorado de música. El cambio, provocado por la respuesta de un estudiante extraordinario, lleva al autor a preguntar “¿hasta qué punto los cambios en las prácticas docentes están provocados por alumnos extraordinarios?” y “¿cómo se podría investigar esos procesos?”This article examines a change in the procedures for developing trainees’ subject knowledge on a music Professional Graduate Certificate in Education course. The change, provoked by the response of an extraordinary trainee, prompts the author to ask “to what extent are changes in teachers’ practice provoked by extraordinary learners?” and “how might such processes be researched?
AOT: Anonymization by Oblivious Transfer
No full textWe introduce AOT, an anonymous communication system based on mix network architecture that uses oblivious transfer (OT) to deliver messages. Using OT to deliver messages helps AOT resist blending (n−1) attacks and helps AOT preserve receiver anonymity, even if a covert adversary controls all nodes in AOT. AOT comprises three levels of nodes, where nodes at each level perform a different function and can scale horizontally. The sender encrypts their payload and a tag, derived from a secret shared between the sender and receiver, with the public key of a Level-2 node and sends them to a Level-1 node. On a public bulletin board, Level-3 nodes publish tags associated with messages ready to be retrieved. Each receiver checks the bulletin board, identifies tags, and receives the associated messages using OT. A receiver can receive their messages even if the receiver is offline when messages are ready. Through what we call a "handshake" process, communicants can use the AOT protocol to establish shared secrets anonymously. Users play an active role in contributing to the unlinkability of messages: periodically, users initiate requests to AOT to receive dummy messages, such that an adversary cannot distinguish real and dummy requests.We thank David Chaum and Jonathan Katz for helpful comments. Sherman was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681, and by the
U.S. Department of Defense under CySP grants H98230-19-
1-0308 and H98230-20-1-0384.https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.1079
BVOT: Self-Tallying Boardroom Voting with Oblivious Transfer
No full textA boardroom election is an election with a small number of voters carried out with public communications. We present BVOT, a self-tallying boardroom voting protocol with ballot secrecy, fairness (no tally information is available before the polls close), and dispute-freeness (voters can observe that all voters correctly followed the protocol).
BVOT works by using a multiparty threshold homomorphic encryption system in which each candidate is associated with a masked unique prime. Each voter engages in an oblivious transfer with an untrusted distributor: the voter selects the index of a prime associated with a candidate and receives the selected prime in masked form. The voter then casts their vote by encrypting their masked prime and broadcasting it to everyone. The distributor does not learn the voter's choice, and no one learns the mapping between primes and candidates until the audit phase. By hiding the mapping between primes and candidates, BVOT provides voters with insufficient information to carry out effective cheating. The threshold feature prevents anyone from computing any partial tally---until everyone has voted. Multiplying all votes, their decryption shares, and the unmasking factor yields a product of the primes each raised to the number of votes received.
In contrast to some existing boardroom voting protocols, BVOT does not rely on any zero-knowledge proof; instead, it uses oblivious transfer to assure ballot secrecy and correct vote casting. Also, BVOT can handle multiple candidates in one election. BVOT prevents cheating by hiding crucial information: an attempt to increase the tally of one candidate might increase the tally of another candidate. After all votes are cast, any party can tally the votes.We thank Enka Blanchard, Feng Hao, and Jonathan Katz for helpful comments. Sherman was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681, and by the U.S. Department of Defense under CySP grant H98230-19-1-0308.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19393555.2022.2138798?journalCode=uiss2
Design and implementation of FROST: Digital forensic tools for the OpenStack cloud computing platform
No full textThe Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual DFRWS ConferenceWe describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of FROST|three new forensic tools for the OpenStack
cloud platform. Operated through the management plane, FROST provides the rst dedicated forensics capabilities for
OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform for private and public clouds. Our implementation supports an Infrastructure-
as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud and provides trustworthy forensic acquisition of virtual disks, API logs, and guest rewall logs.
Unlike traditional acquisition tools, FROST works at the cloud management plane rather than interacting with the
operating system inside the guest virtual machines, thereby requiring no trust in the guest machine. We assume trust
in the cloud provider but FROST overcomes non-trivial challenges of remote evidence integrity by storing log data in
hash trees and returning evidence with cryptographic hashes. Our tools are user-driven, allowing customers, forensic
examiners, and law enforcement to conduct investigations without necessitating interaction with the cloud provider. We
demonstrate through examples how forensic investigators can independently use our new features to obtain forensically-
sound data. Our evaluation demonstrates the e ectiveness of our approach to scale in a dynamic cloud environment.
The design supports an extensible set of forensic objectives, including the future addition of other data preservation,
discovery, real-time monitoring, metrics, auditing, and acquisition capabilities.We thank Simson Gar nkel, Ken Zatyko, and Tim
Leschke for helpful comments on early drafts. We also
thank Ron Rivest and Stuart Haber for insights and sug-
gestions related to hash trees. Sherman was supported
in part by the Department of Defense under IASP grant
H98230-11-1-0473 and by the National Science Foundation
under SFS grant 1241576. Dykstra was supported in part
by an AWS in Education grant award.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S174228761300056
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