Through its arrangement of projections, figures, light, colors, sound, and spoken text, Sudden Rise (2019) by Wu Tsang and the collective Moved by the Motion creates a posthuman world, transgressing the boundaries of representation and presence to rethink our civilization in relation to the rest of nature.

The postsubjective theatre of Sudden Rise (2019) by Wu Tsang and the collective Moved by the Motion denies human agency, suggesting instead a posthuman world, and brings the theatrical paradox of action and subjectivity to light. Sudden Rise’s hyperaffective timelessness heralds a posthuman world, both in reality and in theatre. Characterized by collectivity, entanglement, and synesthesia, the working mode of Tsang’s team of artists frames and codetermines the theatrical experience.

We report a new relative sea level curve from Inglefield Land, northwest Greenland, to investigate the transition from maximum to minimum loading across Nares Strait. We sampled marine bivalves and terrestrial macrofossils for radiocarbon dating from raised marine terraces in Rensselaer Valley, Inglefield Land (78.58°N, 70.71°W) to constrain relative sea level through the Holocene. The oldest terrestrial macrofossil of 9010–8650 cal yr BP provides a minimum-limiting constraint for the deglaciation. Sea level fell rapidly from the marine limit at 85 ± 4 m to 37.5 ± 4 m above sea level (m asl) between 9010–8650 and 7970–7790 cal yr BP at a rate of 49 m/ka. The rate of sea -level fall decreased to 11 m/ka between 7970–7790 and 5320–5060 cal yr BP, when it fell from 37.5 ± 4 to 9 ± 4 m asl. After 5,320–5,060 cal yr BP, we estimate sea level fell at a lower rate of 2 m/ka to modern sea level. The period of fastest emergence in Inglefield Land is earlier in time than in Hall Land, reflecting earlier deglaciation, and is steeper than in Hall Land and Washington Land. This sea-level history captures the transition from the style of emergence from Pituffik to Hall Land.

The success (or failure) of ‘borrowed’ or ‘transplanted’ laws is largely attributed to the extent of compatibility between them and the contexts of their host countries. This paper draws upon legal philosophy, legal transplant, and new institutional economics literature to argue that while compatibility is both relevant and important, legitimacy is equally – if not more –critical for shaping the extent, quality and direction of enforcement of legal transplants in their adoptive contexts. This is especially true for the more technical economic transplants that are often considered to be context independent. To establish this argument, the paper explores the concept of legitimacy and its relevance for legal transplants; why it may be mistaken for compatibility; and why it is distinct from it. It also compares the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi experience of transplanting modern competition laws to demonstrate how the legitimacy quotient of these economic transplants has impacted their subsequent enforcement.

We investigated radiocarbon dates of human bone samples from several medieval sites in Trondheim, central Norway. Stable isotope data was used to estimate marine correction for the radiocarbon dates, which is necessary to correct the radiocarbon ages and establish age models for the archaeological layers. We observed that a marine correction without ΔR does not lead to a well-defined model for all sites. Allowing a variable ΔR improves the model, which indicates that food sources and trade routes have changed over time, influencing the mobility of food resources as well as of people. However, this does not work for all sites, indicating that variation of reservoir ages could also be the result of individual preferences for the food and that fish with different ΔR, and thus different geographical origin, was consumed during the same periods. Many radiocarbon and stable isotope (δ13C, δ15N) measurements have been carried out for the project. We calculated %marine consumption from the isotope values and found that it varies greatly, between 7% and 51%, and apparently independent of period, social status, churchyard location or other factors. Based on these data, we determined average reservoir ages for the marine food consumed in Trondheim during different phases, varying between ΔR = –150 and 280 years.

This thesis presents my contributions to various aspects of the theory of universally Baire sets. One of these aspects is the smallest inner model containing all reals whose all sets of reals are universally Baire (viz., $L(\mathbb {R})$) and its relation to its inner model $\mathsf {HOD}$. We verify here that $\mathsf {HOD}^{L(\mathbb {R})}$ enjoys a form of local definability inside $L(\mathbb {R})$, further justifying its characterization as a “core model” in $L(\mathbb {R})$. We then study a “bottom-up” construction of more complicated universally Baire sets (more generally, determined sets). This construction allows us to give an “L-like” description of the minimum model of $\mathsf {AD}_{\mathbb {R}} + \mathsf {Cof}(\Theta ) = \Theta $. A consequence of this description is that this minimum model is contained in the Chang-plus model. Our construction, together with Woodin’s work on the Chang-plus model, shows that a proper class of Woodin cardinals which are limits of Woodin cardinals implies the existence of a hod mouse with a measurable limit of Woodin cardinals whose strategy is universally Baire.

Another aspect of the theory of universally Baire sets is the generic absoluteness and maximality associated with them. We include some results concerning generic $\Sigma _1^{H(\omega _2)}$-absoluteness with universally Baire sets as predicates or parameters, as well as generic $\Pi _2^{H(\omega _2)}$-maximality with universally Baire sets as predicates. In the second case, we are led to consider the general question of when a model of an infinitary propositional formula can be added by a stationary-set-preserving poset. We characterize when this happens in terms of a game which is a variant of the Model Existence Game. We then give a sufficient condition for this in terms of generic embeddings.

Abstract taken directly from the thesis

E-mail: obrad@math.ucla.edu

URL: https://hal.science/view/index/docid/5273407

Adam Smith seeks to explain in the Wealth of Nations and Lectures on Jurisprudence the persistence of slavery as an institution. In order to accomplish this, he also draws on arguments he had developed in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The result is a sophisticated explanation that bridges economic, psychological, and moral considerations. After presenting Smith’s explanation, I will consider a discussion of the moral wrong of slavery in the work of Ottobah Cugoano, author of the incisive criticism of the slave trade Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery. I will suggest that Cugoano’s account of what is morally wrong in slavery shows an important lacuna in Smith’s views.

This special issue, “On Their Own Terms: Experts in Imperial China,” examines various kinds of expertise from Han times into the twentieth century from the angle of practitioners themselves, and sometimes even on their own terms.

When two black male directors produce university productions of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview in different parts of the country at the same time, they bond over their shared understanding of the white gaze, and how black people are created and viewed in the white imagination, both in the play and in their own lives.