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Popular music and/as event: subjectivity, love and fidelity in the aftermath of rock ânâ roll
This article concerns the usefulness of attaching a philosophy of the event to popular music studies. I am attempting to think about the ways that rock ânâ roll functions as a musical revolution that becomes subjected to a narrative of loss accompanying the belief that the revolution has floundered, or even disappeared completely. In order to think about what this narrative of loss might entail I have found myself going back to the emergence of rock ânâ roll, to what we might term its âeventâ, and then working towards the present to take stock of the current situation. The article is divided into three parts. Part One attempts to think of the emergence of rock ânâ roll and its attendant discourse alongside Alain Badiouâs notion of event, looking at ways in which listening subjects are formed. Part Two continues the discussion of listening subjectivity while shifting the focus to objects associated with phonography. Part Three attends to a number of difficulties encountered in the Badiouian project and asks to what extent rock music might be thought of as a lost cause. All three parts deal with notions of subjectivity, love and fidelit
Reactivity on the Web
Reactivity, the ability to detect simple and composite events and respond in a timely
manner, is an essential requirement in many present-day information systems. With
the emergence of new, dynamic Web applications, reactivity on the Web is receiving
increasing attention. Reactive Web-based systems need to detect and react not only
to simple events but also to complex, real-life situations. This paper introduces
XChange, a language for programming reactive behaviour on the Web, emphasising
the querying of event data and detection of composite events
Complexity of Prioritized Default Logics
In default reasoning, usually not all possible ways of resolving conflicts
between default rules are acceptable. Criteria expressing acceptable ways of
resolving the conflicts may be hardwired in the inference mechanism, for
example specificity in inheritance reasoning can be handled this way, or they
may be given abstractly as an ordering on the default rules. In this article we
investigate formalizations of the latter approach in Reiter's default logic.
Our goal is to analyze and compare the computational properties of three such
formalizations in terms of their computational complexity: the prioritized
default logics of Baader and Hollunder, and Brewka, and a prioritized default
logic that is based on lexicographic comparison. The analysis locates the
propositional variants of these logics on the second and third levels of the
polynomial hierarchy, and identifies the boundary between tractable and
intractable inference for restricted classes of prioritized default theories
The Dark Side of Bank Wholesale Funding
Commercial banks increasingly use short-term wholesale funds to supplement traditional retail deposits. Existing literature mainly points to the "bright side" of wholesale funding: sophisticated financiers can monitor banks, disciplining bad ones but refinancing solvent ones. This paper models a "dark side" of wholesale funding. In an environment with a costless but imperfect signal on bank project quality (e.g., credit ratings, performance of peers), short-term wholesale financiers have lower incentives to conduct costly information acquisition, and instead may withdraw based on negative but noisy public signals, triggering inefficient liquidations. We show that the "dark side" of wholesale funding dominates the "bright side" when bank assets are more arm's length and tradable (leading to more relevant public signals and lower liquidation costs): precisely the attributes of a banking sector with securitizations and risk transfers. The results shed light on the recent financial turmoil, explaining why some wholesale financiers did not provide market discipline ex-ante and exacerbated liquidity risks ex-post.Banks;Crises;Funding;Deposits;Bank Runs;Monitoring;Market Discipline
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Spartan Daily, September 11, 1978
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