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Between light and darkness: Earthsea and the name of utopia
, 2005 In Le Guin's Earthsea Quartet, knowledge of the name of a thing or person guarantees control over their destiny. In a world where light and darkness co-exist and where dragons are an extension of humans, a name is the means with which one can achieve one'
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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On Constructing Finite, Finitely Subadditive Outer Measures, and Submodularity
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2008 Given a nonempty abstract set 𝑋, and a covering class 𝒞, and a finite, finitely subadditive outer measure 𝜈, we construct an outer measure 𝜈 and investigate conditions for 𝜈 to be submodular. We then consider several other set functions associated with 𝜈
Charles Traina
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Communication, 2008 If human communication difficulties can constitute the bedrock of a number of utopias, these utopias develop long before 1942. Moreover, the communicational utopia so minutely an analysed by P.
Éric Dacheux
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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CommoditiesProperty Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs finance energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements to residential and commercial properties with a special tax assessment added to property taxes. This paper surveys the literature and documents the
K. Thomas Liaw
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Dystopia Matters: On the Use of Dystopia and Utopia
, 2006 Invited contribution. It is part of the section "Utopia Matters" – consisting of a testimony by, or an interview with, a distinguished scholar in the field of Utopian ...
BACCOLINI, RAFFAELLA
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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