Communicating Stuff: The Intercultural Rhizome

"A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo. The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance, uniquely alliance. The tree poses the verb 'to be', but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, 'and ... and ... and'." (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "A Thousand Plateaus," 1980

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Letter from Mary Sussex to Senator Langer Regarding the Effects of the Garrison Dam on Fort Berthold Residents, July 15, 1948

This letter, dated July 15, 1948, from Mary Sussex of Hope, North Dakota to United States (US) Senator William Langer expresses concern for the effect the construction of the Garrison Dam will have on the Fort Berthold Reservation. Sussex notes that that the dam construction will force members off their own land and urges Langer to use his role as a member of the US Congress to see that legislation is passed to give Fort Berthold members more adequate compensation. The letter is marked with the handwritten notation, S. J. Res. 209 See also: Letter from Senator Langer to Mary Sussex Regarding the Effects of the Garrison Dam on Fort Berthold Residents, July 22, 1948https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/2062/thumbnail.jp

Metropolitan Chronicles. Georg Hermann’s Berlin Novels 1897 to 1912

An abstract for Metropolitan Chronicles. Georg Hermann’s Berlin Novels 1897 to 1912 (Stuttgart: Heinz, 2001) ( = Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik, Vol. 379

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A study of Georg Hermann's pre-First World War novels with a special reference to the presentation of the city of Berlin.

PhDThe method of analysis employed in this thesis includes the comparative study of Hermann's novels with contemporary aesthetic and sociological writings as well as with works by other contemporary writers and visual artists. This approach places Hermann's pre-First World War novels in a cultural historical context and helps to re-establish Hermann as a writer whose works mirror in a representative way the developments of turn-of-the-century aesthetics and of the contemporary depiction of Berlin. For each novel in turn, I first show how Hermann adapts the formal aspects of his writing to the thematic concern at hand: experimenting with the aesthetic principles of Naturalism in the autobiographical Spielkinder (1897); with Realism in the tradition of Fontane in the Biedermeier `Doppelroman' Jettchen Geberts Geschichte (Jettchen Gebert (1906) and Henriette Jacoby (1908)); and with Impressionism in Kubinke (1910); until, in Die Nacht des Doktor Herzfeld (1912), he largely abandons the presentation of a plot-based narrative in favour of the Modernist concept of the novel as reflecting the hero's consciousness. The second strand of analysis for each novel follows the development of Hermann's representations of the emerging metropolis of Berlin from 1897 to 1912. The detailed description of physical and social reality is, over the years, increasingly complemented by the depiction of atmosphere and by analysis of the new metropolitan society. A critical attitude to the modem aspects of the city is expressed through direct social criticism in Spielkinder and, in a less pronounced form, by the nostalgic mood of the Jettchen novels. However, in the two following novels this makes way for a nonjudgemental depiction of city society, expressed in a detached, aestheticising panorama of the city (Kubinke) and in a psychological analysis of the metropolitan person's mental make-up (Die Nacht des Doktor Herzfeld)

On the Amplitude of Burst Oscillations in 4U 1636-54: Evidence for Nuclear Powered Pulsars

We present a study of 581 Hz oscillations observed during a thermonuclear X-ray burst from the low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 4U 1636-54 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). We argue that the combination of large pulsed amplitudes near burst onset and the spectral evidence for localized emission during the rise strongly supports rotational modulation as the mechanism for the oscillations. We discuss how theoretical interpretation of spin modulation amplitudes, pulse profiles and pulse phase spectroscopy can provide constraints on the masses and radii of neutron stars. We also discuss the implication of these findings for the beat frequency models of kHz X-ray variability in LMXB.Comment: AASTEX Latex, 13 pages including 5 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letter

Near-Optimal Multi-Perturbation Experimental Design for Causal Structure Learning

Causal structure learning is a key problem in many domains. Causal structures can be learnt by performing experiments on the system of interest. We address the largely unexplored problem of designing a batch of experiments that each simultaneously intervene on multiple variables. While potentially more informative than the commonly considered single-variable interventions, selecting such interventions is algorithmically much more challenging, due to the doubly-exponential combinatorial search space over sets of composite interventions. In this paper, we develop efficient algorithms for optimizing different objective functions quantifying the informativeness of a budget-constrained batch of experiments. By establishing novel submodularity properties of these objectives, we provide approximation guarantees for our algorithms. Our algorithms empirically perform superior to both random interventions and algorithms that only select single-variable interventions.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, appendix, to be published in 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), fixed typos and clarified wordin