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The Wsfa Journal Tb , ;,;T He W S F a J 0 U R N a L
THE WSFA JOURNAL TB , ;,;T HE W S F A J 0 U R N A L (The Official Organ of the Washington S. F. Association) Issue Number 76: April-May '71 1971 DISCLAVE SPECIAL n X Copyright \,c) 1971 by Donald-L. Miller. All rights reserved for contributors. The JOURNAL Staff Managing Editor & Publisher — Don Miller, 12315 Judson Rd., Wheaton, MD, USA, 20 906. Associate Editors — Art Editor: Alexis Gilliland, 2126 Penna. Ave., N.W., Washington, DC, 20037. Fiction Editors: Doll St Alexis Gilliland (address above). SOTWJ Editor: OPEN (Acting Editor: Don Miller). Overseas Agents — Australia: Michael O'Brien, 15>8 Liverpool St., Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 7000 Benelux: Michel Feron, Grand-Place 7, B—I4.28O HANNUT, Belgium. Japan:. Takumi Shibano, I-II4-IO, 0-0kayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Scandinavia: Per Insulander, Midsommarv.. 33> 126 35 HMgersten, Sweden. South Africa: A.B. Ackerman, POBox 25U5> Pretoria, Transvaal, Rep. of So.Africa. United Kingdom: Peter Singleton, 60W4, Broadmoor Hospital, Block I4, Crowthorne, Berks. RG11 7EG, England. Still needed for France, Germany, Italy, South Timerica, and Soain. Contributing Editors — Bibliographer: Mark Owings. Film Reviewer: Richard Delap. Book Reviewers: Al Gechter, Alexis Music Columnist: Harry Warner, Jr. Gilliland, Dave Halterman, James News Reporters: ALL OPEN (Club, Con R. Newton, Fred Patten, Ted Pauls, vention, Fan, Pro, Publishing). Mike Shoemaker. (More welcome.) Pollster: Mike Shoemaker. Book Review Indexer: Hal Hall. Prozine Reviewers: Richard Delap, Comics Reviewer: Kim Weston. Mike Shoemaker (serials only). Fanzine Reviewers: Doll Gilliland, Pulps: Bob Jones. Mike Shoemaker. Special mention to Jay Kay Klein and Feature Writer: Alexis Gilliland. -
False Dilemma Wikipedia Contents
False dilemma Wikipedia Contents 1 False dilemma 1 1.1 Examples ............................................... 1 1.1.1 Morton's fork ......................................... 1 1.1.2 False choice .......................................... 2 1.1.3 Black-and-white thinking ................................... 2 1.2 See also ................................................ 2 1.3 References ............................................... 3 1.4 External links ............................................. 3 2 Affirmative action 4 2.1 Origins ................................................. 4 2.2 Women ................................................ 4 2.3 Quotas ................................................. 5 2.4 National approaches .......................................... 5 2.4.1 Africa ............................................ 5 2.4.2 Asia .............................................. 7 2.4.3 Europe ............................................ 8 2.4.4 North America ........................................ 10 2.4.5 Oceania ............................................ 11 2.4.6 South America ........................................ 11 2.5 International organizations ...................................... 11 2.5.1 United Nations ........................................ 12 2.6 Support ................................................ 12 2.6.1 Polls .............................................. 12 2.7 Criticism ............................................... 12 2.7.1 Mismatching ......................................... 13 2.8 See also -
Forensic Pattern Recognition Evidence an Educational Module
Forensic Pattern Recognition Evidence An Educational Module Prepared by Simon A. Cole Professor, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society Director, Newkirk Center for Science and Society University of California, Irvine Alyse Berthental PhD Candidate, Department of Criminology, Law, and Society University of California, Irvine Jaclyn Seelagy Scholar, PULSE (Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence) University of California, Los Angeles School of Law For Committee on Preparing the Next Generation of Policy Makers for Science-Based Decisions Committee on Science, Technology, and Law June 2016 The copyright in this module is owned by the authors of the module, and may be used subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. By using or further adapting the educational module, you agree to comply with the terms of the license. The educational module is solely the product of the authors and others that have added modifications and is not necessarily endorsed or adopted by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine or the sponsors of this activity. Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 1 Goals and Methods ..................................................................................................................... 1 Audience ..................................................................................................................................... -
Yesterday's Algorithm: Penrose on the Gödel Argument
Yesterday’s Algorithm: Penrose and the Gödel Argument §1. The Gödel Argument. Roger Penrose is justly famous for his work in physics and mathematics but he is notorious for his endorsement of the Gödel argument (see his 1989, 1994, 1997). This argument, first advanced by J. R. Lucas (in 1961), attempts to show that Gödel’s (first) incompleteness theorem can be seen to reveal that the human mind transcends all algorithmic models of it1. Penrose's version of the argument has been seen to fall victim to the original objections raised against Lucas (see Boolos (1990) and for a particularly intemperate review, Putnam (1994)). Yet I believe that more can and should be said about the argument. Only a brief review is necessary here although I wish to present the argument in a somewhat peculiar form. Let us suppose that the human cognitive abilities that underlie our propensities to acquire mathematical beliefs on the basis of what we call proofs can be given a classical cognitive psychological or computational explanation (henceforth I will often use ‘belief’ as short for ‘belief on the basis of proof’). These propensities are of at least two types: the ability to appreciate chains of logical reasoning but also the ability to recognise ‘elementary proofs’ or, it would perhaps be better to say, elementary truths, such as if a = b and b = c then a = c, without any need or, often, any possibility of proof in the first sense. On this supposition, these propensities are the realization of a certain definite algorithm or program somehow implemented by the neural hardware of the brain. -
A Book Lover's Journey: Literary Archaeology and Bibliophilia in Tim
Verbeia Número 1 ISSN 2444-1333 Leonor María Martínez Serrano A Book Lover’s Journey: Literary Archaeology and Bibliophilia in Tim Bowling’s In the Suicide’s Library Leonor María Martínez Serrano Universidad de Córdoba [email protected] Resumen Nativo de la costa occidental de Canadá, Tim Bowling es uno de los autores canadienses más aclamados. Su obra In the Suicide’s Library. A Book Lover’s Journey (2010) explora cómo un solo objeto —un ejemplar gastado ya por el tiempo de Ideas of Order de Wallace Stevens que se encuentra en una biblioteca universitaria— es capaz de hacer el pasado visible y tangible en su pura materialidad. En la solapa delantera del libro de Stevens, Bowling descubre la elegante firma de su anterior dueño, Weldon Kees, un oscuro poeta norteamericano que puso fin a su vida saltando al vacío desde el Golden Gate Bridge. El hallazgo de este ejemplar autografiado de la obra maestra de Stevens marca el comienzo de una meditación lírica por parte de Bowling sobre los libros como objetos de arte, sobre el suicidio, la relación entre padres e hijas, la historia de la imprenta y la bibliofilia, a la par que lleva a cabo una suerte de arqueología del pasado literario de los Estados Unidos con una gran pericia literaria y poética vehemencia. Palabras clave: Tim Bowling, bibliofilia, narrativa, arqueología del saber, vestigio. Abstract A native of the Canadian West Coast, Tim Bowling is widely acclaimed as one of the best living Canadian authors. His creative work entitled In the Suicide’s Library. A Book Lover’s Journey (2010) explores how a single object —a tattered copy of Wallace Stevens’s Ideas of Order that he finds in a university library— can render the past visible and tangible in its pure materiality. -
“Copies Without Originals”: Manipulation, Mediation, and Mediatization in Performance and Recording Practices
\Copies Without Originals": Manipulation, Mediation, and Mediatization in Performance and Recording Practices by Alyssa Michaud Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the M.A. degree in Musicology School of Music Faculty of Arts University of Ottawa c Alyssa Michaud, Ottawa, Canada, 2012 Abstract This thesis examines case studies and historical accounts taken from different periods of the history of recording technology, and addresses questions concerning the impact of mediatization, manipulation, and mediation on listeners' and performers' approaches to music. The project considers the development of the idea of \copies without orig- inals," and of the ideological frameworks that have been used to describe and classify recorded sound. The first case study covers the early days of the phonograph and its de- velopment in Victorian society, then contrasts the values and motivations of those early years with modern-day rock performance and its own value systems. Moving into the mid-twentieth-century, a chapter of this thesis is devoted to the work of Glenn Gould, and the possibilities for tape manipulation that the Canadian pianist explored during the period of his career that was focused on the recording studio. Lastly, this project examines the innovative, user-driven methods of music-making that are gaining momen- tum today, including Bj¨ork's Biophilia app album, and the emergence of a new genre of popular music in Asia that uses vocal synthesizers in place of live performers. By exploring these case studies alongside the works of scholars in musicology, media studies, sound theory, film and television, and popular music studies, this thesis demonstrates how cultural need, individual innovation, and social involvement interact to direct the development and application of emerging media technologies. -
(Literary) Special Effect: (Inter)Mediality in the Contemporary US-American Novel and the Digital Age
The (Literary) Special Effect: (Inter)Mediality in the Contemporary US-American Novel and the Digital Age Dissertation zur Erlangung des philosophischen Doktorgrades an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen vorgelegt von Bogna Kazur aus Lodz, Polen Göttingen 2018 Contents 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3 2 The Question of Medium Specificity in the Digital Age .................................................. 29 3 House of Leaves (2000) and the Uncanny Dawn of the Digital........................................ 39 3.1 Digital Paranoia: Arriving on Ash Tree Lane ........................................................... 39 3.2 Writing about House of Leaves ................................................................................. 43 3.3 Intermedial Overabundance: Taming House of Leaves ............................................. 49 3.4 An “Explicit” Approach to the Digital Age ............................................................... 54 3.5 What Kind of Movie is THE NAVIDSON RECORD? ..................................................... 68 4 In the Midst of the Post-Cinematic Age: Marisha Pessl’s Night Film (2013) .................. 88 4.1 Meant for Adaptation: Night Film and the Fallacy of First Impressions ................... 88 4.2 The Post-Cinematic Reception of Film ..................................................................... 96 4.3 The Last Enigma: Cordova’s Underworld .............................................................. -
The Wayward Spectator
The Wayward Spectator by Carlo Comanducci A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of doctor of philosophy Department of English Literature School of English, Drama and American & Canadian Studies College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham, May 2015 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. Abstract Through a heterogeneous set of contributions from film studies, psychoanaly- sis and critical theory, including Leo Bersani and Laura Marks, Jacques Rancière and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, the dissertation confronts spectatorship, film theory, and their relation, on the issue of emancipation and of its discursive regulation. Against the pedagogical forms of film theory and the authoritarian framing of the spectator’s position that can be seen to be integral to the functioning of the cine- matographic apparatus, this work suggests that we consider theory as an internal aspect of film experience, rather than as its external explanation. Arguing for the fundamental emancipation of the spectator together with the heteronomy of the subject and the discursivity of film experience, the dissertation addresses what, in film experience, resists being reduced within intellectual mastery, metapsycho- logical structures, and the logic of interpretation, and rather remains radically incommensurable with the principles of its intelligibility. -
In Defence of a Princess Margaret Premise
Fabrice Pataut: “In Defence of a Princess Margaret Premise,” Introductory chapter to Truth, Objects, Infinity – New Perspectives on the Philosophy of Paul Benacerraf, Fabrice Pataut, editor. Springer International Publishing, Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol. 28, Switzerland, 2016, pp. xvii-xxxviii. ISBN 978-3-319-45978-3 ISSN 2214-9775 ISBN 978-3-319-45980-6 (eBook) ISSN 2214-9783 (electronic) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45980-6 Library of Congress Control Number : 2016950889 © Springer International Publishing Swtizerland 2016 1 IN DEFENCE OF A PRINCESS MARGARET PREMISE Fabrice Pataut 1. Introductory remarks In their introduction to the volume Benacerraf and his Critics, Adam Morton and Stephen Stich remark that “[t]wo bits of methodology will stand out clearly in anyone who has talked philosophy with Paul Benacerraf”: (i) “[i]n philosophy you never prove anything; you just show its price,” and (ii) “[f]ormal arguments yield philosophical conclusions only with the help of hidden philosophical premises” (Morton and Stich 1996b: 5). The first bit will come to some as a disappointment and to others as a welcome display of suitable modesty. Frustration notwithstanding, the second bit suggests that, should one stick to modesty, one might after all prove something just in case one discloses the hidden premises of one’s chosen argument and pleads convincingly in their favor on independent grounds. I would like to argue that a philosophical premise may be uncovered — of the kind that Benacerraf has dubbed “Princess Margaret Premise” (PMP)1 — that helps us reach a philosophical conclusion to be drawn from an argument having a metamathematical result as one of its other premises, viz. -
A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan.Pdf
A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan Edited by Jennifer Robertson A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Blackwell Companions to Anthropology offers a series of comprehensive syntheses of the traditional subdisciplines, primary subjects, and geographic areas of inquiry for the field. Taken together, the titles in the series represent both a contemporary survey of anthropology and a cutting-edge guide to the emerging research and intellectual trends in the field as a whole. 1 A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology edited by Alessandro Duranti 2 A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics edited by David Nugent and Joan Vincent 3 A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians edited by Thomas Biolsi 4 A Companion to Psychological Anthropology edited by Conerly Casey and Robert B. Edgerton 5 A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan edited by Jennifer Robertson Forthcoming A Companion to Latin American Anthropology edited by Deborah Poole ß 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Jennifer Robertson to be identified as the Author of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. -
JDM Bibliophile 9
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO O OOOOOOOOOOOOO0OOQOO ® THE JDM BIBLIOPHILE No. 9, March 1968. Edited and published by Len & June Moffatt, • • 9826 Paramount Blvd., Downey, California 90240. Associate Editors: Ed Cox and Bill, ° • Clark. This is a non-profit publication devoted to the works of John D. MacDonald. 0 0 U. ..... ... « You may remain on our mailing list by responding in any of thefollowing wayè: 0 o (1) Writing a letter or card after each issue. 0 à : • (2) Sending news or information re JDM, his stories, etc., • 0 o (J) Writing reviews, critiques, articles, etc. re JDM for JDMB, o o (4) Donating stamps or postage money.* ° See back page for your JDMB "status"... ° 00000000000 o' 00 o o 000 o 6 o o o’*"o "000000000.000000000 In This Issue: .. • Page No. Editorial ...••• ............. .... ......... ........... 1 The Seek & Swap Department ............. ....................... .. .. •/ 2 News & Previews • . • ♦ ........................ .....»> > 4 " Please Write For Details • • ... ... • • • ...... ..... 5 Special Reprint Section: : (.'■ Early JD-- by Ed Cox (from JDMB No. 2) • • . • . • • • • < • » 19 Editorial (from JDMB No. 3)- ... • • • • • i i . 22 The Spiralled Myth - by John D. MacDonald (from JDMB No. 3) • • • • • 24 .. Paint The Coffin Fuchsia - by Bob Leman (from THE VINEGAR;WORM II, 10i 26 About The Past: "Early in 1965 Len Moffatt, a sales correspondent for a paper box manufacturer and his wife June, a secretary, obtained a list of the novels of John D. MacDonald from a friend. The Moffatts ran off xerox copies of the list and gave them to others who were interested in the author. Someone suggested Moffatt publish copies for wider distribution, and THE JDM BIBLIOPHILE No. -
Artists on the Rise and Move; Ohio Program Helps Starving Or Not, Artists Are Hooked on Their Careers
museumVIEWS A quarterly newsletter for small and mid-sized art museums Fall 2013 Elie Nadelman, Woman at the Piano. 1920–24. Wood, stained and painted. In “American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe,” Museum of Modern Art, NY 1 museumVIEWS Features Fall 2013 ARTICLES: • Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Fade Away Page 3 • The Complaint Department Located Here Page 4 • FROM THE AAM Page 5 In Search of Magnetic Museums Page 5 What to Do When Your Museum Job is Terminated Page 5 Playing and Learning Page 5 What Is Intellectual Property? Page 6 • Artists on the Rise Page 7 • Woodblock Prints Tell Ancient Tale Page 7 • Briefly Page 8 • autumnVIEWS Page 10 Top: Frohawk Two Feathers, They Already Got Yo Kids (“Tricked my wisdom with the system that imprisoned my son”), 2013. Acrylic, ink, coffee, and tea on paper. In “Frohawk Two Feathers,” Wellin Museum of Art, NY museumVIEWS Center: Adolph Gottlieb, Untitled (Three Discs), 1968. Maquette: acrylic on cardboard. In “Adoph Gottlieb Sculptor,” Editor: Lila Sherman University of Michigan Museum of Art, MI Publisher: Museum Views, Ltd. Left: Chuck Close, Lucas/Woodcut, 1993 2 Peter Cooper Road, New York, NY 10010 Woodcut with pochoir. In “Closer: The Graphic Phone: 212.677.3415 FAX: 212.533.5227 Art of Chuck Close,” Bruce Museum, CT Email: [email protected] On the web: www.museumviews.org MuseumVIEWS is supported by grants from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Bloomberg. MuseumVIEWS is published 4 times a year: Winter (Jan. 1), Spring (April 1), Summer (July1), and Fall (October 1). deadlines for listings and artwork are Nov.