Milton's gods and the matter of creation

In Paradise lost Milton creates two Gods who are also one, placing a doubleness of identity at the source of being. Scholars have recognized that Milton identifies God with prime matter in the poem, but the relationship between the omniscient, omnipotent being in heaven and the inanimate matter of chaos has not yet been adequately explored. In this essay I argue that the two divine identities are constructed in terms of hierarchical oppositions that privilege God’s heavenly persona over his base material potency. The divine persona is male, where prime matter is female; the Creator is free, whereas matter is contained; and God describes his persona as “self,” implying that the matter of chaos is other. The binary structures that distinguish God’s self from prime matter support a masculinist ideology by ensuring the ascendency of traditionally masculine terms such as action, volition, freedom, and spirit. However, Milton’s identification of God with both terms of the binary oppositions projected in the poem partially subverts these traditional hegemonies by conflating the antithesis on which such relationships are based

Privacy

Privacy is a rapidly developing area of law, both in Australia and more generally in the Western world. After the Commonwealth passed the Privacy Act in 1988, New South Wales was the first Australian state to introduce comprehensive privacy legislation with the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1988 (NSW) creating enforceable privacy rights against public sector agencies in New South Wales. Victoria subsequently enacted privacy legislation in 2000, and the Northern Territory introduced privacy legislation in 2002, which commenced in 2004. South Australia, Queensland and Tasmania have non-legislative privacy schemes, the Commonwealth Privacy Act applies to the Australian Capital Territory, and Western Australia does not yet have any comprehensive privacy legislation

Relationship debt and the aged : welfare vs commerce in the law of guarantees

Older people who guarantee the loans of younger relatives form a special instance of 'relationship debt' which has not received adequate recognition. Recently, welcome attention has been directed to the problems associated with 'sexually-transmitted debt,' debt acquired by a spouse or partner (usually a woman) which remains even after a partnership breaks up. Following a series of articles and books on sexually-transmitted debt in the 1990s, the High Court decided to recognise a controversial 'special rule' protecting women who guarantee their husbands' debts, and indicated that it may extend this rule 'to long term and publicly declared relationships short of marriage between members of the same or of opposite sex'. In doing so, the Court passed over an opportunity to respond to the needs of all guarantors 'with an emotional dependence on the borrower, such as parents of adult borrowers. Older guarantors remain a vulnerable group with special needs which are, at present, given inadequate legal protection

Matter and apocalyptic transformations in Paradise lost

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The ecology of paradise lost

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Introduction : "those thoughts that wander through eternity"

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Science, literature and rhetoric in early modern England

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding. Analyzing the ways in which the works of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn related to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the emergence of modern Western thought

The Impact of the Oregon Cultural Trust on the Statewide Cultural Policy Institutional Infrastructure

152 pagesParallel to a similar study commissioned by the Oregon Cultural Trust in 2017-2018, the University of Oregon (UO) Arts and Administration program partnered with senior staff of the Oregon Cultural Trust and the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies on a research project investigating the impact of the Oregon Cultural Trust on the statewide cultural policy institutional infrastructure. These studies were designed to be complementary. Whereas the commissioned study was intended to be advocacy research, the UO research initiative planned a rigorous year-long academic applied research project conducted by a faculty-led team of nine graduate students. Throughout the academic year, the team investigated two main research questions supported by multiple sub-research questions. Research methods included literature review, document analysis, key informant interviews, and surveys. The main research questions were the following: 1. What is the role of the Oregon Cultural Trust within the statewide cultural ecology? 2. How does the Oregon Cultural Trust compare with other state-level cultural funding mechanisms that exist across the United States? Research findings from collective and individual research conducted throughout 2017-2018 were integrated into the full research report. The Professional Project team’s analysis led to structuring the final report in two sections: first, an introduction to the cultural policy infrastructure within the state of Oregon and the evolution of the Oregon Cultural Trust, and second, analysis of the impact of the OCT on the statewide cultural policy institutional infrastructure. The discussion of impact focuses on three areas: (1) impact on the internal infrastructure-development activities taking place within the OCT; (2) impact on select issues pertaining to cultural development across the state; and (3) economic impact