On Being Intimate with Ruin: Reading Decay in Middlesex

Blanchard argues for an intimate attention to the ruin in Middlesex and Detroit as a means of exploring the geo-bio-politics of decay as a problem of our socio-ecological present

Events and Piecewise Deterministic Dynamics in Event-Enhanced Quantum Theory

We enhance the standard formalism of quantum theory to enable events. The concepts of experiment and of measurement are defined. Dynamics is given by Liouville's equation that couples quantum system to a classical one. It implies a unique Markov process involving quantum jumps, classical events and describing sample histories of individual systems.Comment: to appear in Phys. Lett. A, 12 pages, Latex article.st