Handke, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
In this visionary novel, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing; he ...
Continue Reading →Hester, Xenofeminism
In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in ...
Continue Reading →Ledoux, L’Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l’art, des moeurs, et de la législation
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (21 March 1736 – 18 November 1806) was one of the earliest exponents of French Neoclassical architecture. He used his knowledge of architectural ...
Continue Reading →Moivre, The Doctrine of Chance
he Doctrine of Chances was the first textbook on probability theory, written by 18th-century French mathematician Abraham de Moivre and first published in 1718.[1] De ...
Continue Reading →Zafiris, Natural Communication: The Obstacle-Embracing Art of Abstract Gnomonics
New paths in complexity science In Natural Communication, the author criticizes the current paradigm of specific goal orientation in the complexity sciences and proposes an ...
Continue Reading →Bayes, An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances
An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances is a work on the mathematical theory of probability by Thomas Bayes, published in ...
Continue Reading →Palmer, Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing Mattering Making Strange
Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation, or making-strange, from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and ...
Continue Reading →Bernoulli，The Art of Conjecturing
Jacob Bernoulli’s Ars Conjectandi, published posthumously in Latin in 1713 by the Thurneysen Brothers Press in Basel, is the founding document of mathematical probability. Here, ...
Continue Reading →Grassmann, Extension Theory
The Ausdehnungslehre of 1862 is Grassmann’s most mature presentation of his “extension theory”. The work was unique in capturing the full sweep of his mathematical ...
Continue Reading →Cacciari, The Unpolitical
Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today’s Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times ...
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