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The Memory of Ruins and the Ruins of Memory
2012Fragments of Communal Memory When the significance of “ruins” emerged into human consciousness during the Renaissance, they were considered “objects of knowledge” (Makarius 2004: 7), a link to a lost world and a revelation of a past wisdom. Just as the “ruins” of ancient books were slowly being assembled, translated and interpreted, fragments of build -
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Ruins in Context: Context in Ruins
2020Murray proposes an elastic set of parameters to situate ruin and ruination. He traces key writers and thinkers on ruins, provoked initially by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 which generated reflective accounts from writers such as Kant, Rousseau and Voltaire.
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2001
We consider a natural generalization of the classical ruin problem to more than two parties. Our "ruin" problem, which we will call the (k, I)-game, starts with k players each having I units as its initial capital. At each round of the game, all remaining k′ players pay 1/k′th unit as game fee, play the game, and one of the players wins and receives ...
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We consider a natural generalization of the classical ruin problem to more than two parties. Our "ruin" problem, which we will call the (k, I)-game, starts with k players each having I units as its initial capital. At each round of the game, all remaining k′ players pay 1/k′th unit as game fee, play the game, and one of the players wins and receives ...
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The Values of Ruins and Depictions of Ruins
2019What exactly is a ruin? Why do we value some ruins so highly and protect them either against further damage or against efforts at restoration? What is it to appreciate them as ruins? Sometimes ruined buildings are left as ruins, but sometimes they are repaired or reconstructed. What constraints operate on such choices?
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On ruin for the Erlang(n) risk process
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2004José Garrido, Shuanming Li
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