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Redeeming Relative Value: Indexicality and Consequentializing Agent‐Centered Norms

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robert Nozick doubted forms of consequentialism that employ so‐called “agent‐relative value” because he found them “gimmicky.” This doubt has been sharpened by Don Regan, Mark Schroeder, and others into the objection that agent‐relative value lacks the practical importance we associate with good simpliciter.
Nathan Robert Howard
wiley   +1 more source

Stability of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Milk from Infected Cows and Virus-Spiked Milk. [PDF]

N Engl J Med
Guan L, Pattinson D, Eisfeld AJ, Wang T, Halfmann PJ, Neumann G, Barnhardt TR, Thompson AC, Swinford AK, Dimitrov KM, Poulsen K, Kawaoka Y.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
wiley   +1 more source

Taboo, safe spaces, and death sociability: A comparative ethnography of two compassionate communities. [PDF]

Palliat Care Soc Pract
Lessard É, Marcoux I, Daneault S, Jean L, Lapointe C, Weil D, Rouly G, Sallnow L, Kellehear A, Boivin A.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Toxic utopia: Unseen ideology and “Le Politique” in China Miéville's The City & The City

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract What if ideology were not just hidden—but aesthetic? This article reads China Miéville's The City & The City not as a metaphor for division, but as a speculative blueprint for how politics operates through enforced invisibility. By threading Derrida's Absolute Other and Rancière's le politique through Miéville's uncanny urban layering, we ...
Bo Kampmann Walther, Rune Graulund
wiley   +1 more source

To be(long) or not to be(long): Literature and community

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Over several decades, the modern world's intensified mobility has prompted a broad interest in community studies in the social sciences, which address in new ways the topics of place, belonging, and identity formation. Such topics being salient to literature and literary studies as well, the overall aim of the article is to extract a selection
Svend Erik Larsen
wiley   +1 more source

Inferring context-specific site variation with evotuned protein language models. [PDF]

NAR Genom Bioinform
Lytras S, Strange A, Ito J, Sato K.
europepmc   +1 more source

AI in Public Decision‐Making: A Philosophical and Practical Framework for Assessing and Weighing Harm and Benefit

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in public decision‐making; yet existing governance tools often lack clear definitions of harm and benefit, practical methods for weighing competing values, and guidance for resolving value conflicts.
Karl de Fine Licht, Anna Folland
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient ocean coastal deposits imaged on Mars. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Li J, Liu H, Meng X, Duan D, Lu H, Zhang J, Zhang F, Elsworth D, Cardenas BT, Manga M, Zhou B, Fang G.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source