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Journal articles on the topic "Invisible speculation":
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Hillier, Bill, and Alan Penn. "Visible Colleges: Structure and Randomness in the Place of Discovery." Science in Context 4, no. 1 (1991): 23–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700000144.
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The ArgumentVisible colleges, in contrast to the “invisible colleges” familiar to historians of science, are the collective places of science, the places where the “creation of phenomena” and theoretical speculation proceed side by side. To understand their spatial form, we must understand first how buildings can structure space to both conserve and generate social forms, depending on how they relate structure in space to randomness. Randomness is shown to play a crucial role in morphogenetic models of many kinds, especially in spatial forms and in social networks. We argue here that it can also play a crucial role in the advance of science.
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Baym, Geoffrey. "‘Think of Him as The President’: Tabloid Trump and the Political Imaginary, 1980–1999." Journal of Communication 69, no. 4 (July 4, 2019): 396–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqz022.
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Abstract Years before Twitter, Fox News, or reality TV, Donald Trump became a public figure through his presence in tabloid media. Much of that focused on sex and spectacle, but early tabloid coverage of Trump was also surprisingly political, with speculation about a possible presidential campaign beginning as early as 1987. Although that coverage has been largely overlooked, this study reveals that tabloid media played a central role in building the foundations of Trump’s political identity. It tracks the early articulation of the Trump character and its simultaneous politicization within a media space outside the ostensibly legitimate arena of institutional public-affairs journalism. In so doing, it reveals the deeper contours of an imagined political world in which a Trump presidency could be conceivable in the first instance—a political imaginary adjacent to the deep assumptions of liberal Democracy, and therefore long invisible to most serious observers of presidential politics.
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Nicholls, Christine. "Online Humour, Cartoons, Videos, Memes, Jokes and Laughter in the Epoch of the Coronavirus." Text Matters, no. 10 (November 24, 2020): 274–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.10.17.
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From the onset of the indefinite deferral of our previously taken-for-granted lives, an abundance of humorous online cartoons, jokes, memes, videos and other satirical material relating to the COVID-19 outbreak—and its consequences—has emerged. Humorous responses to this dire global pandemic proliferate irrespective of location, nationality, ethnicity, age, gender and/or socio-political affiliations. Against a background of enforced lockdowns, quarantine, and sometimes gross political ineptitude, with a mounting daily global death toll, humour referencing this scourge continues to blossom. This may seem counterintuitive or inappropriate at a time of heightened anxiety and fear apropos of an invisible killer-virus, known only in diagrammatic—and, ironically, aesthetically pleasing—visual form. Online humour evoking the COVID-19 crisis is expressed recursively via intertextuality referencing literary, visual, written, oral or other “texts.” Interpictoriality is evident with memes that reconfigure renowned visual artworks. The internet enables copious discourse related to the COVID-19 eruption/disruption.
Embedded in this article are examples to support the article’s theoretical basis, with intertextuality its major focus. Discussion follows, with speculation as to why humour, absurdity and wit are able to prosper in an environment of radical uncertainty and why joking about our parlous global predicament acts as a vital coping mechanism.
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Ekanem, Samuel Asuquo, Edobor Peter Kenneth Imarenezor, and Chinenye Precious Okolisah. "An Essencist Evaluation of Socio-Economic Impacts of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic in Nigeria." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 11, no. 5 (September 23, 2020): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/mjss-2020-0057.
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There is a tripartite global crises of social, economic and health unlike any in the past almost eight decades history of the United Nations that is fast killing people, increasing and spreading human woes and sufferings with an unending existential calamities. This is indeed, beyond health, economic and social crises. It is evidently human existential crises that have the potency and potential to bring about existential eclipse of the human race. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is wreaking havoc on societies at their core. With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reassessment of the prospect for growth for 2020 and 2021, and the declaration that there is a global recession that is as bad as or even worse than the 2009 situation, Nigeria socio-economic survival is at risk. The only hope of any recovery in 2021 is if the country succeeds in containing the pandemic and take sound and necessary economic decisions and measures. The only roadmap for the socio-economic survival of the country will depend on the proactive management approaches, health policy framework and leadership that will comprehensively address the several social conditions that have to do with health education and literacy level, both nationally and internationally in the areas of economic stimulus that will demand both government and citizens partnerships and the constitution of National Technical Committee on Coronavirus (NTCC) that will relate with a global technical body. The efficient execution of these policy and ideas will certainly demand the total cooperation of all strata of the society, which will include governmental agencies, information experts, civil societies, health experts, educationists and the citizens. What the paper therefore advocates is a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches anchored on a sound philosophy through the educational process towards overcoming this 21st century invisible monster. Our approach in this paper will be a combination of analysis and philosophical evidential speculation, which will inspire creativity that will match the novel nature of the crisis.
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Silva, Nilo. "O desdobramento da alma em direção ao belo: preleções no Livro sexto do diálogo Sobre a Música de Agostinho de Hipona." Civitas Augustiniana 8, no. 1 (2019): 43–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/civitas/8a3.
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Our investigation aims to propose a brief reflection on Book VI of De musica(387-391) by Agostinho de Hipona. In the light of philosophy, it is intendedto submit the main lines of arguments on the unfolding of the soul in its itinerary to God, in analogy to the rhythms and harmonies of musical art. Evidently, the meeting betweenHellenistic philosophy and Christianity in the early days of Patristics took place through many resources, but with some acquiescence on the part of Latin Patrology. In this context, the thought of Augustine of Hippo mustbe considered a reference for thesynthesis of Hellenistic philosophy in the Latin tradition. There is no doubt that the Neoplatonic reference was singularly present in Augustine's philosophy, not only as an ingredient of his intellectual and spiritual evolution, culminating in his conversion, but it was also the instrument by which, and exclusively through it, his thought has formed. In fact, it is clear that Augustine's thought is a synthesis of Hellenistic culture incorporated in Latin times, although this characteristic is not duly explicit in some of his works and in the course of his history, requiring a closer and more accurate examination of our interpretations. In the course of reading book VI of De musicawe can identify three important aspects: i) At first, Augustine proposes theunfolding of the soul based on the sensations. The path of reflection runs through the education of the senses in order to achieve the perceptual-sensorial transcendentalization,so that, Augustine intends to demonstrate that the movements and rhythms of music are in analogy to the rhythms of the soul driven by a natural desire to contemplate God; ii) In order to carry out this path of soul ascension, Augustine identifies in Neoplatonism the notion of spiritualization as an essential activity of the soul'sintimate life, in such a way that the dialogue is impregnated with the Plotinian speculation about the concept of unity, order and being, always related to the notion of God as ineffable; iii) The Augustinian assumption in discovering bodily harmonies in the soul through sensations, sounds and words in analogy to eternal harmony, supports, in a way, his notion of invisible perfection of God as the one who reveals himself to us in created things.
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Castree, Noel. "Invisible Leviathan: Speculations on Marx, Spivak, and the Question of Value." Rethinking Marxism 9, no. 2 (June 1996): 45–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935699608685487.
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Elbert, Paul. "Genesis 1 and the Spirit: A Narrative-Rhetorical Ancient Near Eastern Reading in Light of Modern Science." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 15, no. 1 (2006): 23–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966736906069256.
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AbstractThe creation narrative in Genesis 1 has historically presented a number of interpretive difficulties to Torah and Old Testament scholars. That this ancient account might correlate in a harmonious manner with physical reality seemed difficult to believe. It has been considered to be a myth, while some have adopted it to ideology. But these interpretive perspectives have proved to be insufficient and premature. When confirmation of a cosmic beginning was found in 1963, Gen. 1.1 and the ensuing account of the Spirit's role in Earth history became a topic of serious investigation. With the ongoing discoveries of many anthropic-looking aspects of cosmic history, giving the cumulative and substantial impression that the universe had been designed for humankind, a divine role in optimizing Earth for life became an attractive consideration. The ensuing abrupt appearance of diverse life-forms, eventually including humankind, as sequentially described in this creation narrative, now appears to be heuristically compatible and consistent with experimental scientific findings. These findings are increasingly unharmonious with the speculation of the non-existence of God and with the impossibility of divine action, from the cosmic to life's biochemical realm. The present study argues, against the background of ancient Near Eastern literary texts, that the Genesis creation narrative was specifically designed by the Spirit and composed by a firmly guided littérateur so as to be understood from within its contextual literary setting, and that it is a unique written prophecy, originating in a distinctive Sabbath-keeping culture. On this hypothesis the text serves originally to remind attentive like-minded readers of the cultural significance of Sabbath observance, while detailing a series of unobservable creative events. However, the text appears also designed to be read, still within the original cultural perception of literary-minded Sabbath-keepers, from a perspective that is aware of the Spirit's intentional transparent design of the universe for the benefit of humankind. Using the narrative techniques of point of view, resumptive repetition, and rhetorical or communicative intention, techniques found in ancient literature, the present study suggests that previous interpretive difficulties yield to a literary solution, which offers an explanation for the potentially mysterious features of this prophetic composition. In divine foreknowledge the current modern witness of this remarkable narrative to the Spirit's past creative deeds now becomes more visible as a testimony to the invisible God.
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Rusu, Doina-Cristina. "Francis Bacon: Constructing Natural Histories of the Invisible." Early Science and Medicine 17, no. 1-2 (2012): 112–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338212x631800.
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AbstractThe natural histories contained in Francis Bacon's Historia naturalis et experimentalis seem to differ from the model presented in De augmentis scientiarum and the Descriptio globi intellectualis in that they are focused on the defining properties of matter, its primary schematisms and the spirits. In this respect, they are highly speculative. In this paper I aim to describe the Historia naturalis et experimentalis as a text about matter theory, the histories of which are ascending from what is most evident to the senses to what is least accessible to them. Moreover, the Latin natural histories are parts of a methodological procedure in which the provisional rules and axioms obtained in one history can be used as theoretical assumptions for another history, thereby permitting one to delve ever more profoundly into the structure of nature.
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Walton, Benjamin. "Quirk Shame." Representations 132, no. 1 (2015): 121–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2015.132.1.121.
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Although music historians have begun to consider some of the broad implications of large-scale digitization, the shift from traditional library- or archive-based methods of research to speculative Internet text searching remains largely invisible within an unchanged scholarly apparatus of footnotes and bibliographies. As a result, quirky details become easier to find, yet that ease is itself concealed, perhaps, this article argues, because to admit it might occasion a variety of academic shame.
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Hollanek, Tomasz. "Non-user-friendly." A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 8, no. 1 (August 15, 2019): 184–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v8i1.115424.
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User-friendly design makes our use of emerging technologies intuitive and seamless, but it also conceals the new solutions’ influence over how we act, think and plan. In this paper, I analyze the logic of our newly developed ‘touchscreen sensibilities’ to speculate on alternative, ‘non-user-friendly’ design practices that, by invading intuitive interfaces, could make the users aware of their reliance on invisible algorithmic operations to learn and to feel. I revisit Žižek and Pfaller’s conception of ‘interpassivity’ to explore its potential as a means of resisting interactivity and inciting consciousness in contemporary speculative design. The critical interface I envision must defamiliarize consumption, prevent participation, and de-frame perception — make the user experience what lack of control feels like, and do so to encourage resistance.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Invisible speculation":
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Borg, Isak. "Speculative Interference: A Modern Spectre Attack." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-450199.
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Since the Spectre family of attacks were made public knowledge in January of 2018, researchers, manufacturers and interested individuals have experimented a lot with creating defences against it. But there have also been a lot of research aimed at circumventing these defences and finding alternative side-channels and mechanisms for performing Spectre-type attacks. This thesis implements and demonstrates a proof of concept of one of these newfound attacks known as a Speculative interference attack. This is done in a simulated environment, which to our knowledge has not been done before at the time of writing this report. After the 'basic' version of a Spectre attack has been explained, the thesis will explain how the more advanced interference attack works and how it is implemented in the simulated environment. In the end the results gained with the attack will be presented, which should convince the reader of the relevance and possibilities of the attack.Efter att säkerhetsattackerna kända som Spectre offentliggjordes i Januari 2018 har bådeforskare, utvecklare och intresserade individer experimenterat med att ta fram försvar mot dem. Det har också spenderats mycket resurser och tid på att finna sätt att kringgå dessa försvar och att hitta alternativa sido-kanaler och mekanismer som kan utnyttjas för att genomföra en Spectre-attack. Den här uppsatsen demonstrerar en fungerande implementation av en av dessa nyfunna attacker, känd som en ’Speculative interference attack’. Detta görs i en simulerad miljö, vilken enligt vår kännedom inte tidigare har gjorts vid genomförandet av detta arbete. Efter att en mer grundläggande version av en Spectre-attack har förklarats kommer uppsatsen att gå igenom hur den mer avancerade ’interference’ attacken fungerar och hur den är implementerad. I slutändan kommer de resultat attacken tagit fram att redogöras, vilket bör övertyga läsaren om attackens relevans och möjligheter.
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Holm, Cyril. "F. A. Hayek's Critique of Legislation." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-236890.
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The dissertation concerns F. A. Hayek’s (1899–1992) critique of legislation. The purpose of the investigation is to clarify and assess that critique. I argue that there is in Hayek’s work a critique of legislation that is distinct from his well-known critique of social planning. Further that the main claim of this critique is what I refer to as Hayek’s legislation tenet, namely that legislation that aims to achieve specific aggregate results in complex orders of society will decrease the welfare level. The legislation tenet gains support; (i) from the welfare claim – according to which there is a positive correlation between the utilization of knowledge and the welfare level in society; (ii) from the dispersal of knowledge thesis – according to which the total knowledge of society is dispersed and not available to any one agency; and (iii) from the cultural evolution thesis – according to which evolutionary rules are more favorable to the utilization of knowledge in social cooperation than are legislative rules. More specifically, I argue that these form two lines of argument in support of the legislation tenet. One line of argument is based on the conjunction of the welfare claim and the dispersal of knowledge thesis. I argue that this line of argument is true. The other line of argument is based on the conjunction of the welfare claim and the cultural evolution thesis. I argue that this line of argument is false, mainly because the empirical work of political scientist Elinor Ostrom refutes it. Because the two lines of argument support the legislation tenet independently of each other, I argue that Hayek’s critique of legislation is true. In this dissertation, I further develop a legislative policy tool as based on the welfare claim and Hayek’s conception of coercion. I also consider Hayek’s idea that rules and law are instrumental in forging rational individual action and rational social orders, and turn to review this idea in light of the work of experimental economist Vernon Smith and economic historian Avner Greif. I find that Smith and Greif support this idea of Hayek’s, and I conjecture that it contributes to our understanding of Adam Smith’s notion of the invisible hand: It is rules – not an invisible hand – that prompt subjects to align individual and aggregate rationality in social interaction. Finally, I argue that Hayek’s critique is essentially utilitarian, as it is concerned with the negative welfare consequences of certain forms of legislation. And although it may appear that the dispersal of knowledge thesis will undermine the possibility of carrying out the utilitarian calculus, due to the lack of knowledge of the consequences of one’s actions – and therefore undermine the legislation tenet itself – I argue that the distinction between utilitarianism conceived as a method of deliberation and utilitarianism conceived as a criterion of correctness may be used to save Hayek’s critique from this objection.
Books on the topic "Invisible speculation":
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Saber, Nasser. Speculative Capital, Vol. 1: The Invisible Hand of Global Finance. Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 1999.
Book chapters on the topic "Invisible speculation":
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"Visible and Invisible Sides of Reproduction." In Speculation, Now, 33–39. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822375906-004.
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Groys, Boris, Iddo Tavory, and Orit Halpern. "Visible and Invisible Sides of Reproduction." In Speculation, Now, 33–39. Duke University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1220gp8.6.
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"Pacific Salmon Environmental and Life History Models: Advancing Science for Sustainable Salmon in the Future." In Pacific Salmon Environmental and Life History Models: Advancing Science for Sustainable Salmon in the Future, edited by Peter W. Lawson. American Fisheries Society, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781934874097.ch3.
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<em>Abstract.—</em>We understand our environment through our senses and tend to interpret the behavior of other animals in the context of the world we understand. Butterflies and flowers sometimes show distinctive patterns in ultraviolet light that are important to them but invisible to us. Likewise, the senses of fish and their experience of the world are very different from ours. Many aspects of a salmon’s environment, such as olfactory stimuli, are completely invisible to us. Other factors, like certain aspects of habitat alteration, are visible but unnoticed because they occurred gradually or long ago. Like Poe’s purloined letter they are cryptic—there for us to see if we only knew what to look for. As we build salmon models we base them on what we understand is important to the fish. However, our anthropocentric bias may cause us to overlook or misinterpret factors of importance. In addition, our necessarily simplified models, when applied to management, may result in a pernicious simplification of the salmon populations we wish to preserve. For example, if we model and manage for a dominant (or highly visible or easily monitored) salmon life history we may inadvertently eliminate other life histories of equal importance, or reduce diversity in ways that affect population viability. We should actively seek to identify important factors missing from our models and be aware of critical assumptions. Recognizing that our models are tools used to understand and manage salmon, we should try to understand the broader implications of these models to the future of the salmon we hope to preserve. In this essay, I offer speculation about what we may be missing in freshwater habitat, life history diversity, metapopulation dynamics, ocean survival, and water chemistry. I also consider the question of scale, and the effect our philosophical viewpoint may have on the direction and application of our modeling efforts and the likelihood of successful outcomes.
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Tuinen, Sjoerd van. "Serpentine Life: The Nature of Movement in Gothic, Mannerism and Baroque." In Speculative Art Histories. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421041.003.0010.
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In many ways, movement is a test case for visual art as much as for philosophy: for both, we have to answer the question of whether they create real movement or merely a representation of it. Does the event really take place or is it only an illusion? This is a problem that pertains especially to Mannerism and the baroque, which rely heavily on the vocabulary of force and movement that has invested the field of art since the Renaissance. Although these styles are still dominated by classical figuration, they also introduce all sorts of distortions, deformations, and exaggerations in it. Mannerism and the baroque are attempts, within representation, to present the unrepresentable and to render visible the invisible. As a consequence, stable form is no longer the foundation of the image, but rather the limit of visual evidency. Inseparable from its relation to the formless, extension itself becomes a delimitation of intensity, a participation in the infinite. Yet the question remains: Have these attempts merely produced sensational and metaphorical works of art that are meant to move us by generating an illusion of movement in what is undeniably a stable structure or a framed picture, or are they somehow literally moving in themselves? The second position is held by Gilles Deleuze. In Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, he develops a deep connection between Bacon and Michelangelo, since Mannerist painting discovered the ‘figural’: the point at which abstract movements or forces are rendered visible within classical figuration such that the organic figurability of sensation is enriched with an inhuman becoming. In his The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, Deleuze then goes on to show how the baroque introduces movement in classical art by means of infinite folding, such that forms would emerge from and dissolve into folds: ‘[t]he object is manneristic, not essentializing: it becomes an event’. The first position, by contrast, is taken up by Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design (2011), who contrasts Mannerism and the baroque with the Gothic, arguing that while the former work away from static form to deformation, only the latter directly imitates the vicissitude and variety of living nature and produces movement in its continuous working towards form. For no matter how much we deform the painted figure and render it dynamic, it remains imprisoned within a frame hanging motionless on a wall. And no matter how much we cover a classical structure with lifelike ornament, it remains a lifeless construction. Worse still, each time we produce an image or effect of movement in this way, our experience actually becomes more detached from real movement than attached to it. ‘The Baroque,’ Spuybroek therefore concludes, ‘is merely distorted classicism’. The proposition I put to the test is that, to a certain, to be determined extent, we should differentiate between Mannerism and the baroque in a way analogous to Spuybroek’s distinction between the Gothic and the baroque. For while the Mannerist fine arts certainly do not arrive at the free aggregation of lines of Gothic ornament, as they are based on the (dis)proportional variation of the single human body rather than on configural variation, they also lack, or do not yet succumb to, the continuity and smoothness of the baroque. Whereas the baroque brings all movement back to a spectacular sensuality and physicality, we still find a much more abstract, or inorganic, experience in Mannerism. It is that of the life of the serpentine line, or what William Hogarth would later call the ‘line of grace’.
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Patterson, Christopher B. "Ludophile." In Open World Empire, 77–111. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479802043.003.0003.
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This chapter explores the transnational dimensions of authorship through three types of video game developers: the invisible American developer, the Japanese auteur developer, and the Asian North American game developer. The absence of Western designers in game media and advertisements allows companies to blame players themselves for a game’s violence, sexual transgressions, and virtual racisms. As Western developers gain little recognition for their work, the cults of personality around Japanese designers reinvent “the Orient” as a space of development and playful innovation. Toying with Roland Barthes’s theories of love within an “amorous discourse,” this chapter explores the player as “ludophile,” whose attention to game designers (particularly Asian North American designers) can offer erotic readings of games as objects of attachment, queer intimacy, and obscurity. The “ludophile” does not invest authority into the author so much as call attention to speculative ways of playing routed through ethnic authorship.
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Gurukkal, Rajan. "Science of Uncertainty." In History and Theory of Knowledge Production, 195–252. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199490363.003.0006.
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This chapter virtually illuminates the invisible universe of subatomic dynamics through mathematical formalism and probability theory rather than empiricism based on instrumentation. A series of strange discoveries go into the making of the New Science and a discussion of the process constitutes the core of this chapter. Max Planck’s proposition of the Quanta, Niels Bohr’s discovery of objects’ non-observable and immeasurable complementary properties, Erwin Schrodinger’s interpretation of the object-subject split as a figment of imagination, Werner Karl Heisenberg’s enunciation of the Uncertainty Principle precluding the possibility of precision about certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, Kurt Friedrich Godel’s thesis of Undecidability based on his incompleteness theorems demonstrating certain inherent limits of provability about formal axiomatic theories, Murray Gell-Mann’s theory of Complexity in particle physics, Richard Feynman’s thesis on quantum mechanics, and Einstein’s theories of relativity, literally shook Newtonian physics of certainty with problems of uncertainty and subjectivity. At the end, the chapter makes a review of speculative thoughts and imagination about the dynamics of subatomic micro-universe as well as the mechanics of the galactic macro-universe.
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Marks, Peter. "Visibility." In Imagining Surveillance. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400190.003.0005.
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The next four chapters critically consider key aspects of surveillance represented in literature and film after Nineteen Eighty-Four. Given that surveillance by definition involves seeing things, chapter 4 deals with the question of visibility and the ways in which forms of scrutinising operate and are resisted. An important aspect of this chapter is the possibility of being invisible to surveillance technologies, systems and processes, and about the potential for consciously not seeing, something China Miéville in his speculative novel The City & The City labels making ‘unvisible’. The possibility of not being seen underscores the point Gary T. Marx makes: that all surveillance systems have blindspots or weaknesses that can be exploited. This chapter explores then the various driving forces behind surveillance in different projected works and worlds, foregrounding the ways in which characters manoeuvre successfully or unsuccessfully in these environments. It looks at forms of gendered monitoring (exemplified in Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale), surveillance as visual entertainment in Peter Weir’s The Truman Show, and visualising future crimes in Steven Spielberg’s film of Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report.
Conference papers on the topic "Invisible speculation":
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Behnia, Mohammad, Prateek Sahu, Riccardo Paccagnella, Jiyong Yu, Zirui Neil Zhao, Xiang Zou, Thomas Unterluggauer, et al. "Speculative interference attacks: breaking invisible speculation schemes." In ASPLOS '21: 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3445814.3446708.
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Yan, Mengjia, Jiho Choi, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Adam Morrison, Christopher Fletcher, and Josep Torrellas. "InvisiSpec: Making Speculative Execution Invisible in the Cache Hierarchy." In 2018 51st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/micro.2018.00042.
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Sakalis, Christos, Stefanos Kaxiras, Alberto Ros, Alexandra Jimborean, and Magnus Själander. "Efficient invisible speculative execution through selective delay and value prediction." In ISCA '19: The 46th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3307650.3322216.