614 research outputs found
Alternatives to Semitones and Quartertones: Music-Theoretical Suggestions
No full textThanks to free software synthesisers that support custom tuning files, it is now possible for a massive number of people to experiment with alternatives to semitones and quartertones. Indeed, contemporary musicians are not forced to choose 12-tone equal temperament or 24-tone equal temperament. I begin this article with a critique of 24-tone equal temperament. I then present a variation on the well-known whole-tone scale plus new symmetrical modes inspired by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. Finally, I show how one can map a little-known, non-octave scale by the German physicist Heinz Bohlen to a conventional, Halberstadt keyboard. Since one can only make symmetrical modes (modes à transpositions limitées) with an equal temperament, most of the musical intervals discussed in this article are approximations of frequency-ratios; they are not pure frequency-ratios.No Full Tex
Writers Talk featuring authors Troy Hicks and Elaine Wolf
No full textElaine Wolf, author of Camp, talks to OSU students Erin Reilly-Sanders and Allison Fetzer. Author and teacher Troy Hicks talks to OSU employee Kevin Cordi about the impact of technology on the teaching of writing.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/WritersTalk-Audio/WT_2013-3-18-Hicks_Wolf.mp3Ohio State University. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writin
Digital Identity Wallets and their Semantic Contradictions
No full textIn the fight for individual privacy against online surveillance and personal data breaches, blockchain developers often pitch encrypted wallets as solutions. Five examples from 2021 and 2022 involve Big Tech companies or large European governments. On the private side, Jack Dorsey’s Block company announced the Web5 Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) Service. Meta and Twitter added support for fictional identities – tokenised avatars or profile pictures like Bored Apes and CryptoPunks, registered to Web3 wallets that putatively offer “self-sovereign ownership”. On the public side, the European Commission funded SSI wallet trials for digital diploma credentials. Germany’s federal government launched a mobile driving licence (mDL), stored in a SSI wallet. This one term, “SSI”, is associated with varying sets of technologies and ethical principles. Following complaints that “SSI” generates confusion, I offer a typology that highlights four semantic contradictions as well as a concept map to guide future research
Persevere: Musical Harmony after Lacan’s Panthéon Period
No full textComposition, music-mathematical theory and the surnames of major European figures are not often deemed important in the so-called post-historical, post-modern or post-patriarchal era. In spite of this, I persevere with two things: a slow-paced, philological study of the doctrine of Jacques Lacan and the composition of non-octave music. As a young man, Lacan received a Catholic education that was hostile to Enlightenment philosophies. As an elderly man, Lacan declared himself an anti-philosopher and a non-progressive. He never let go of the Trinity or philological notions of the Letter qua mystery material or severe threat to common understanding. Unlike the tragedian Sigmund Freud, Lacan considered his work comic-pathetic, hence the incessant parade of insults and mockery. This is frequently overlooked by Anglophone academics. To correct this, I place an emphasis on the comic-pathetic Father figures that Lacan composed at the Panthéon from 1972 to 1980. Of secondary interest are Lacan’s four discourse-schemas from 1969 and his schema of capitalism from 1972.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Queensland ConservatoriumArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Digital Identity Wallets and their Semantic Contradictions
No full textpeer reviewedIn the fight for individual privacy against online surveillance and personal data breaches, blockchain developers often pitch encrypted wallets as solutions. Five examples from 2021 and 2022 involve Big Tech companies or large European governments. On the private side, Jack Dorsey’s Block company announced the Web5 Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) Service. Meta and Twitter added support for fictional identities – tokenised avatars or profile pictures like Bored Apes and CryptoPunks, registered to Web3 wallets that putatively offer “self-sovereign ownership”. On the public side, the European Commission funded SSI wallet trials for digital diploma credentials. Germany’s federal government launched a mobile driving licence (mDL), stored in a SSI wallet. This one term, “SSI”, is associated with varying sets of technologies and ethical principles. Following complaints that “SSI” generates confusion, I offer a typology that highlights four semantic contradictions as well as a concept map to guide future research
Another Wild West Web for Critical Information Systems Research: A Sceptical-Empirical Approach to the Ethereum Mainnet
No full textThe early twenty-first century is marked by the 2007 Global Financial Crisis and the 2013 Snowden revelations about online surveillance. This period cursed many, yet it smiled upon developers of financial technologies and blockchain networks. Led by Bitcoin in 2009 and Ethereum in 2015, blockchain networks are treated as potential panaceas for a range of societal ills. For the problem of crisis-riven financial institutions, blockchain developers propose Decentralised Finance. For the problem of online surveillance, they propose Self-Sovereign Identity. In response to Big Tech companies’ exploitation of content creators, they propose NFTs. In response to everyday mundanity and the limits of the physical world, they propose avatar-based role-play and simulated environments – the metaverse. Meanwhile, critics deride blockchain solutions as potentially worse than the status quo – a passage from the World Wide Web, dominated by Big Tech companies, to a new Wild West Web of pseudonymity, hyper-volatility, and “degens” (degenerates). Critical Information Systems researchers are spoilt for choice.
This cumulative thesis consists of a dissertation plus six publications. The dissertation conceives the Ethereum Mainnet as an actor-network rather than a cause of empowerment and emancipation. The six publications use sceptical-empirical methods to investigate Ethereum’s close ties with Decentralised Finance, Self-Sovereign Identity, the OpenSea NFT marketplace, and the metaverse. A prescriptive or normative dimension – a moral Cause – is absent from the six publications. The dissertation defends this absence, and it encourages critical Information Systems researchers to set aside ideologies that posit Ethereum as a Cause of individual empowerment or world improvement. Critical researchers should instead follow the network’s transactions and powerful actors
Creighton University Window Fall 1991
No full textTHE WAR THAT CHANGED CREIGHTON: "WE WILL NEVER BE HAPPY LIKE THIS AGAIN" / REMEMBERING THE 'BIG WAR' 50 YEARS LATER; WWII CHANGED CREIGHTON FOREVER
Author Robert Reilly, long a denizen of the Creighton campus, recalls the days of World War II - preceding, during, and following ~ and the many changes it brought to the Hilltop and its people. Page 4.
EMERALD IMAGES / EMERALD IMAGES: FR. DOLL IN IRELAND
Creighton's famed Jesuit photographer, Rev. Don Doll, S.J., was among 75 photographers from around the world invited to capture "A Day in the Life of Ireland." Some of his images from the Emerald Isle appear starting on Page 10.
COLUMBUS QUINCENTENARY: YEAR OF CELEBRATION OR YEAR OF MOURNING / COLUMBUS QUINCENTENARY: IS IT CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION OR MOURNING?
Freelancer Cynthia Furlong Reynolds writes about the Columbus who is no longer "politically correct" and despite a 500th-year commemoration may not be thought of as the hero and discoverer of the New World. Meanwhile, Creighton produces a video play about Columbus. Page 17.
WHAT IS LIFE? / WHAT IS LIFE? A BIOLOGIST'S TEXTBOOK
Dr. Allen Schlesinger, professor of biology and a member of the Window editorial advisory board, shares part of a chapter from his forthcoming book. It examines the science and philosophy of life at its simplest levels. Page 20.
FROM RED TO PINK TO ... COMMUNISM SELF-DESTRUCTS / CHANGE IN THE SOVIET UNION: INSIDE THE RUSSIAN ENIGMA
Pamela Vaughn interviews Dr. Ross Homing, who shares insights on the momentous events occurring in Russia as Communism self-destructs. Page 24.1
Creighton University Window Spring 1991
No full textTHE PLATTE: A TREASURE AT RISK / THE FLAT PLATTE: AN IMPERILED TREASURE OF NEBRASKA, PLAINS
Dr. John Schalles, Creighton biologist, and Don Doll, S.J., photographer, take you on a tour of the Platte River system, a three-state treasure of which everyone wants a piece. Page 4.
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK / TRY A NIGHT OUT... ON THE LAWN ... WITH SHAKESPEARE
Brian Kokensparger and photographers Don Doll, S.J., Tim Fitzgerald of University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Kent Sievers show you how Shakespeare is done on a midsummer's night as you'll like it. Page 14.
SHE SWINGS FOR THE FENCES / COACH HIGGINS SWINGS FOR THE FENCES FOR CREIGHTON, FAMILY
Mary Higgins has brought the Lady Jay softball team to national prominence. For her, family or Creighton are the same — she goes for the home run all the time. Read about this enthusiastic top Lady Jay. Page 18.
THE BLACKROBE IN LITERATURE / THE JESUITS IN LITERATURE: SALVOS FROM WRITERS' PENS
Author Bob Reilly researches the references to Jesuits in literature that trace back to their beginnings. Sometimes it's not flattering, but it's always intriguing. Page 21.3
Creighton University Magazine Winter 1999
No full textCREIGHTON STUDY SHEDS LIGHT ON INTERCHURCH MARRIAGES / INTERCHURCH MARRIAGES:
A Creighton study finds that sharing religious activities and managing religious differences play a vital role in marital success. Page 8.
GAMELAN: THE SOUND MOONLIGHT / THE SOUND OF MOONLIGHT:
Creighton's Lied Education Center for the Arts is home to a 71-piece Javanese gamelan. Page 12.
AT THE END OF A MISSION: MICHAEL G. MORRISON, S.J. / AT THE END OF A MISSION:
The Rev. Michael G. Morrison, S.J., tells writer Bob Reilly that life as Creighton's 22nd president has been more than a job - it's been a mission. Fr. Morrison has announced he will step down as the University's chief executive on or before June 30, 2000. Now in his 19th year, Creighton's longest-serving president will leave behind a legacy of accomplishments. Page 14.
ETCHED IN STONE? TWO TABLETS, 10 COMMANDMENTS, A MULTITUDE OF MEANINGS / EXPLORING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:
Are the Ten Commandments etched in stone? Biblical scholar Leonard Greenspoon, Ph.D., Creighton's Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, provides insights into how changes in cultural, social and historical circumstances have shaped one of the most recognizable of Old Testament doctrines. Page 22.
THE MILLENNIUM IN WESTERN SOCIETY:
History professor Eileen Dugan, Ph.D., investigates how people have viewed the millennium and the end of time. She writes that while millennialism has its roots in the Judeo-Christian anticipation of a Messiah, it has evolved over time to a more secular celebration. Page 30.
SILAS HAS CHARLOTTE BUZZING / HOOP DREAMS:
The NBAs Charlotte Hornets name Creighton alumnus Paul Silas, BSBA64, as the franchises fifth head coach. Page 36.
ORGAN DONORS:
Creighton alumnus Robert Metzger, MD'64, serves on two national committees within the transplant field. Article Not Included.
A VOICE FOR THE HILLS:
CU alumna Janice Marcantonio, BSN'83, works to preserve a unique land formation shaped by the runoff from ancient glaciers. Article Not Included.
LETTERS REVEAL THE OTHER SIDE OF HENRY JAMES / THE OTHER SIDE OF HENRY JAMES:
Usually depicted as an ultra-proper, uptight, reclusive and elitist writer, renowned American author Henry James reveals a warm, tender, informal side in his personal letters. Page 51
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