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The contested convergence of precarity and immaterial labour

, 2010
Labour has tended to be a relatively neglected subject in critical scholarship on communication and culture. One pathway for working against this tendency is a current of analysis and activism confronting the problematic of precarity. Circulated at the start of the 21st century by autonomous activists in Europe, the concept of precarity is defined in ...
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Empty Gesture: Artists' Labour inSocially Engaged Art [PDF]

, 2018
Utilising a practice-based research approach, this thesis interrogates the contingent nature of immaterial labour between artist, institution and audience to better understand the transformative potential of socially engaged art.
Sarah Rodigari (20166648)
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Towards a theory of presence

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract The present paper presents a new (formal) theory of presence according to which, roughly, to be present at a place is to have a delegate located at that place. One crucial feature of the theory is that something can be present at a place without thereby being located there.
Claudio Calosi
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A critical prospect into working spaces for immaterial labour

, 2019
Offices, the workplace of immaterial labour, have evolved in various ways sincethe early 1900s. As a result of mobility that emerged with globalization, people startedto use not only offices but also various places such as cafes and airports as workspacesand the concept of office has become more flexible.In the changing world, labour was no longer ...
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Aggregation and the Structure of Value

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roughly, the view I call “Additivism” sums up value across time and people. Given some standard assumptions, I show that Additivism follows from two principles. The first says that how lives align in time cannot, in itself, matter. The second says, roughly, that a world cannot be better unless it is better within some period or another.
Weng Kin San
wiley   +1 more source

Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw: Realist Ideology Critique and Animals

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Pablo Magaña
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The Concept of Categoricity

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
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Dreams and Paintings: Descartes, Dream Skepticism, and the Constitution of Mental States

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary epistemologists typically read Descartes’ dream argument as an argument for external world skepticism. This paper argues that Descartes’ own development of the issues suggests otherwise and enquires into the reasons for this divergence.
Mario Schärli
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Romantic Domination

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Romantic relationships between professors and students, between employers and employees, and between other partners at different points on an institutional hierarchy are widely regarded as morally troubling. Popular explanations as to why have appealed variously to violations of institutional duties, to the impossibility of sexual consent ...
Lucy McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Problems concerning product quality enhancement

Production Engineering Archives, 2016
In the article analysis of the discrepancies in the production process for selected products in a company producing candles was carried out. Using the Pareto-Lorenzdiagram and the FMEA method the most essential areas having influence on the production of
Marek Krynke, Krzysztof Mielczarek
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