This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and In Original Forgiveness, Nicolas de Warren challenges the widespread assumption that forgiveness is always a response to something that has incited it. Rather than considering forgiveness exclusively in terms of an encounter between individuals or groups after injury, he argues that availability for the possibility of forgiveness represents an original...
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and The Bilingual Muse analyzes the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating the parallel versions of self-translated poetic texts by Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Gritsman, Katia Kapovich, Marina Tsvetaeva, Wassily Kandinsky, and Elizaveta Kul’man, Adrian Wanner considers how verbal...
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,... and This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality, sources of being, and the teleology of emerging things. He shows that Aristotle’s distinctive ontological claim—that...
Praktische Philosophie zielt in ihren Reflexionen sozialer und politischer Zusammenhänge meist auf eine ahistorische und universal ausgerichtete Argumentation ab. Es geht dann philo-sophisch u.a. um verallgemeinerbare normative Prinzipien oder eine allgemeingültige Theorie von Demokratie, Recht oder Menschsein. Postkoloniale Theorien machen seit gut 50 Jahren in verschiedensten Spielarten darauf auf-merksam, dass...
Adultismus beschreibt eine Diskriminierungsform, die Menschen dann erfahren, wenn sie we-niger ernst genommen werden, lediglich weil sie Kinder oder sehr jung sind. Damit einher geht ein strukturelles Machtungleichgewicht zwischen Altersgruppen. Der Alltag von Kindern zeich-net sich dadurch aus, dass andere über ihre Angelegenheiten bestimmen. Kinder haben weni-ger Rechte. In politischen...
This course assumes, with Spinoza, that affect is a modality of power. On this basis, it asks: How is affect involved in constituting, modulating and governing subjects? The seminar combines an affect theoretic framework in the tradition of Spinoza and Deleuze, also drawingon Foucault and Butler (among others), with work...
Medien, unsere Kolonialgeschichte und die Kolonialität unserer Gegenwart sind eng verwoben. Zuletzt erinnern Black Lives Matter oder gestürzte Statuen daran, vor welchem Hintergrund die europäischen Metropolen aufgebaut wurden. Aber was bedeutet diese Geschichte für die Medienwissenschaft? Medien waren nicht nur zentral für die Planung und Durchführung kolonisierender Missionen, in der...
ARTICLE 3: TITLE. A phase-shifting anterior-posterior network organizes global phase relations. ABSTRACT. Prior research has identified a variety of task-dependent networks that form through inter-regional phase-locking of oscillatory activity that are neural correlates of specific behaviors. Despite ample knowledge of task-specific functional networks, general rules governing global phase relations have..., ARTICLE 1: TITLE. Probabilistic, entropy-maximizing control of large-scale neural synchronization.
ABSTRACT. Oscillatory neural activity is dynamically controlled to coordinate perceptual, attentional and cognitive processes. On the macroscopic scale, this control is reflected in the U-shaped deviations of EEG spectral-power dynamics from stochastic dynamics, characterized by disproportionately elevated occurrences of the..., and ARTICLE 2: TITLE. Spatiotemporal dynamics of maximal and minimal EEG spectral power.
ABSTRACT. Oscillatory neural activities are prevalent in the brain with their phase realignment contributing to the coordination of neural communication. Phase realignments may have especially strong (or weak) impact when neural activities are strongly synchronized (or desynchronized) within...
Body size is one of the most discernible ways in which animal species vary. The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest animal on earth, can reach up to 30 m in length and weigh up to 200 tonnes. At the other extreme, a species of frog called Paedophryne amauensis is...
Cell-based therapies are an exciting frontier in medicine. This field is built on a simple premise—cells can be engineered to recognize and treat various human diseases. The paradigm of cell-based therapy uses biosensors to interrogate a cell’s environment and distinguish disease from health, intracellular signaling pathways and genetic circuitry to...