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Power, costs, collective action, bargaining, and solidarity

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Some argue that the more costly it would be to exercise one's power over an issue, the less power one inherently has over it. I challenge this thesis with two major objections—one conceptual, the other practical or explanatory—contending that costs influence issue‐power not inherently but contingently in specifically strategic contexts.
Arash Abizadeh
wiley   +1 more source

Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

Empirical Investigations: Reflecting on Turing and Wittgenstein on Thinking Machines [PDF]

, 2017
In the opening paragraph of “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” Alan Turing (1950, 433) famously notes that “if the meaning of the words ‘machine’ and ‘think’ are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the ...
Livengood, Jonathan, Sytsma, Justin
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Blurring Migrant Solidarity: Navigating the Troubled Regime of ‘Helping Others’ From the Urban Ground of Palermo

Area, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores migrant solidarity in the aftermath of the 2015 so‐called ‘migration crisis’ from the ground of the Southern Italian ‘solidarity city’ of Palermo, building on ethnographic material collected across 2022/2023. It argues that migrant solidarity both resists and reproduces racialised borders, as it is never entirely and ...
Francesca Guarino
wiley   +1 more source

THE CORRELATION OF SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF LANGUAGE ABSURD (INTERPRETATION METHODS)

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The article studies the correlation of semantics and pragmatics of utterance absurdization as required to actualize the author's illocution goal. Specific types of language anomalies are specified: semantic contamination, semantic randomness, semantic ...
Stanislav Sidorenko
doaj  

An Analysis of Visual Question Answering Algorithms

, 2017
In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are evaluated on them.
Kafle, Kushal, Kanan, Christopher
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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
wiley   +1 more source

Why Death Is Most in One's Self‐Interest, and Necessarily So

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most of us think that death is usually not in the self‐interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two‐step argument to show why death is most in one's self‐interest, necessarily.
Victor Kriska
wiley   +1 more source

DRAMA EXISTENŢEI ŞI INCOMUNICABILITATEA ÎN TEATRUL ABSURDULUI

Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2012
The article analyses the specific of the Theatre of Absurd, phenomenon in the world dramaturgy from the 2nd half of the 20th century. The main emphasis placed to the concept about existence, to the argumentation of the concept about absurd, to the ...
USM ADMIN
doaj  

Punchline with(out) purpose: Integrating research on instructional humour and seductive details

British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction We integrated research on instructional humour and seductive details to investigate when affiliative course‐related humour is effective or rather ineffective for learning. We assumed that instructional humour without a cognitive function (irrelevant humour) would have detrimental effects on learning performance resembling the ...
Lisa Bender, Alexander Renkl, Tino Endres   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source