Can We Programme Utopia? The Influence of the Digital Neoliberal Discourse on Utopian Videogames

This article has a dual purpose. The first is to establish the relationship between videogames and utopia in the neoliberal era and clarify the origins of this compromise in the theoretical dimension of game studies. The second is to examine the ways in which there has been an application of the utopian genre throughout videogame history (the style of procedural rhetoric and the subgenre of walking simulator) and the way in which the material dimension of the medium ideologically updates the classical forms of that genre, be it through activation or deactivation. The article concludes with an evaluation of the degree in which the neoliberal discourse interferes with the understanding of utopia on behalf of the medium and with its imaginary capabilities to allow for an effective change in social reality

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Strategic Consensus in Top Management Teams: The Role of Status Hierarchy, Firm Performance, and a Culture of Dissent

Status hierarchies influence all human interactions, including strategic consensus in top management teams. In this conceptual paper, we articulate why strategic consensus in top management teams is likely to be more a reflection of compliance of low-status top managers with high-status top managers’ judgments than a genuine team’s agreement on the firm’s strategic priorities. We theorize how a firm’s performance can restrain and drive change in status hierarchies, thus impacting the persistence and dissolution of strategic consensus. We also articulate how a culture of dissent can minimize the impact of status hierarchies on strategic consensus. Our model has some implications for examining diversity in top management teams. Scholars have long emphasized the importance of diversity in top management teams, arguing that managers with different backgrounds and viewpoints make firms better equipped to face competitive challenges. However, status hierarchies remind us that if top managers’ ideas and contributions are weighed by their status, organizations might not easily realize the potential benefits of having a diverse top management team

Editorial

[EN] In order to respond to the Call of past months, our magazine Vitruvio has on this occasion approached its content in a specific way towards the reuse and sustainable recovery of the built architectural and landscape heritage....Palmero Iglesias, L. (2018). Editorial. VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability. 3(2):VII-VIII. doi:10.4995/vitruvio-ijats.2018.11151SWORDVIIVIII3

Twin lexical collocations in legal late Middle English

The aim of this study is an attempt to examine the occurrence and expansion of lexical clusters (collocations) in legal late Middle English and to determine whether or not these multi-word items are recurrent, cohesive, arbitrary and domain-dependent lexical clusters. The definition and categorisation of collocations are analysed on the basis of the statistical probability of co-occurrence of some vocabulary items (textual perspective). For this purpose non-technical English texts of late Middle English were chosen that provided us with a common corpus that operated as a point of reference. Likewise a smaller body of legal texts of the same period was collected. The WordSmith program was used to create word lists of the two corpora and compute the key words of the legal corpus. This study concentrates on twin lexical collocations (e.g. geue & bequeath) found in the first 100 salient words of the legal corpus as it is assumed here that a significantly frequent lexical word in the legal corpus plays an important role in collocational patterns

Adapting agriculture to climate change

We evaluate the potential impacts and measure the potential limits of adaptation of agriculture to climate change. Pressures on land and water resources are expected to intensify existing risks in low latitude areas – e.g., South-East Asia deltas – and in regions with current water scarcity – e.g. Mediterranean, and create new opportunities in some northern temperate areas – e.g., Northern Russia, Northern Europe. The need to respond to these risks and opportunities is addressed by evaluating the costs and benefits of a number of technical and policy actions. The discussion aims to assist stakeholders facing the adaptation challenge and develop measures to reduce the vulnerability of the sector to climate change.Adaptation, climatic change, global production, mitigation, Agricultural and Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries, Land Economics/Use, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy, C51, C53, Q17, Q18,

Contribución fiscal del partido de Cáceres durante el siglo XVI: alcabalas y tercias

Al analizar el volumen fiscal pagado por el concejo cacereño durante el siglo XVI y su sistema de cobro por parte de la Corona, el encabezamiento, aparece claramente una constante económica dentro del panorama económico de la villa: el arrendamiento de las alcabalas y tercias a particulares por parte de la Hacienda castellana. Esto determina a mi entender un doble proceso que motiva el retraso económico y el escaso nivel de industrialización del partido de Cáceres: — Existencia de una oligarquía financiera. — Desvío de la actividad inversora hacia sectores no productivos de la economía. Alcabalas y tercias constituyen dos impuestos indirectos de gran relieve dentro del panorama fiscal castellano de la Edad Moderna. La alcabala es en esencia el impuesto indirecto que grava la mayoría de los bienes muebles e inmuebles objetos de compra-venta o permuta. Su cuantía oscila entre el 5 y el 10 por ciento de la mercancía