81 research outputs found
Grammalepsy
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Collecting and recontextualizing writings from the last twenty years of John Cayley's research-based practice of electronic literature, Grammalepsy introduces a theory of aesthetic linguistic practice developed specifically for the making and critical appreciation of language art in digital media. As he examines the cultural shift away from traditional print literature and the changes in our culture of reading, Cayley coins the term âgrammalepsyâ to inform those processes by which we make, understand, and appreciate language. Framing his previous writings within the overall context of this theory, Cayley eschews the tendency of literary critics and writers to reduce aesthetic linguistic making-even when it has multimedia affordances-to âwriting.â Instead, Cayley argues that electronic literature and digital language art allow aesthetic language makers to embrace a compositional practice inextricably involved with digital media, which cannot be reduced to print-dependent textuality
Reading, writing, resisting: literary appropriation in the readers project.
The Readers Project is an aesthetically-oriented system of software entities designed to explore the culture of human reading. These entities, or 'readers', enact specific reading strategies and function as autonomous text generators, networked writing machines visible beyond the texts they 'read'. As the structures on which they operate are culturally implicated, the project's readers shed light on a range of institutional practices surrounding the digital literary and the aggregation of the linguistic commons by corporate interests. In this paper, we present the practical and theoretical considerations guiding the project's development, and consider various strategies to resist the commodification and enclosure of literary culture within the corporate 'cloud'
WEAPONS OF THE DECONSTRUCTIVE MASSES (WDM): WHATEVER ELETRONIC LITERATURE MAY OR MAY NOT MEAN
An attempt to hasten the death of the âelectronicâ in âelectronic literature â â to re-cognize it as a dead metaphor â becomes an agonistic meditation on my generationâs anticipation of the death of literature itself, with âthe literary,â potentially, waiting in the wings
Toward a Distributed Gallery in the scholarly network
How can we persuade universities to own their responsibilities to the practice-based research that they patronize â while bringing new, fully-accredited methodologies and infrastructures to Humanities and Arts scholarship?
Link to Keynote video: https://youtu.be/BNlmGD8yJhc
Why Delannoy numbers?
This article is not a research paper, but a little note on the history of
combinatorics: We present here a tentative short biography of Henri Delannoy,
and a survey of his most notable works. This answers to the question raised in
the title, as these works are related to lattice paths enumeration, to the
so-called Delannoy numbers, and were the first general way to solve Ballot-like
problems. These numbers appear in probabilistic game theory, alignments of DNA
sequences, tiling problems, temporal representation models, analysis of
algorithms and combinatorial structures.Comment: Presented to the conference "Lattice Paths Combinatorics and Discrete
Distributions" (Athens, June 5-7, 2002) and to appear in the Journal of
Statistical Planning and Inference
Some exact non-vacuum Bianchi VI0 and VII0 instantons
We report some new exact instantons in general relativity. These solutions
are K\"ahler and fall into the symmetry classes of Bianchi types VI0 and VII0,
with matter content of a stiff fluid. The qualitative behaviour of the
solutions is presented, and we compare it to the known results of the
corresponding self-dual Bianchi solutions. We also give axisymmetric Bianchi
VII0 solutions with an electromagnetic field.Comment: latex, 15 pages with 3 eps figure
An analytic toy model for relativistic accretion in Kerr spacetime
We present a relativistic model for the stationary axisymmetric accretion
flow of a rotating cloud of non-interacting particles falling onto a Kerr black
hole. Based on a ballistic approximation, streamlines are described
analytically in terms of timelike geodesics, while a simple numerical scheme is
introduced for calculating the density field. A novel approach is presented for
describing all of the possible types of orbit by means of a single analytic
expression. This model is a useful tool for highlighting purely relativistic
signatures in the accretion flow dynamics coming from a strong gravitational
field with frame-dragging. In particular, we explore the coupling due to this
between the spin of the black hole and the angular momentum of the infalling
matter. Moreover, we demonstrate how this analytic solution may be used for
benchmarking general relativistic numerical hydrodynamics codes by comparing it
against results of smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations for a
collapsar-like setup. These simulations are performed first for a ballistic
flow (with zero pressure) and then for a hydrodynamical one where we measure
the effects of pressure gradients on the infall, thus exploring the extent of
applicability of the ballistic approximation.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, references and minor changes added to match
version accepted for publication in MNRA
Evolutionary tradeoffs in cellular composition across diverse bacteria
One of the most important classic and contemporary interests in biology is the connection between cellular composition and physiological function. Decades of research have allowed us to understand the detailed relationship between various cellular components and processes for individual species, and have uncovered common functionality across diverse species. However, there still remains the need for frameworks that can mechanistically predict the tradeoffs between cellular functions and elucidate and interpret average trends across species. Here we provide a comprehensive analysis of how cellular composition changes across the diversity of bacteria as connected with physiological function and metabolism, spanning five orders of magnitude in body size. We present an analysis of the trends with cell volume that covers shifts in genomic, protein, cellular envelope, RNA and ribosomal content. We show that trends in protein content are more complex than a simple proportionality with the overall genome size, and that the number of ribosomes is simply explained by cross-species shifts in biosynthesis requirements. Furthermore, we show that the largest and smallest bacteria are limited by physical space requirements. At the lower end of size, cell volume is dominated by DNA and protein contentâthe requirement for which predicts a lower limit on cell size that is in good agreement with the smallest observed bacteria. At the upper end of bacterial size, we have identified a point at which the number of ribosomes required for biosynthesis exceeds available cell volume. Between these limits we are able to discuss systematic and dramatic shifts in cellular composition. Much of our analysis is connected with the basic energetics of cells where we show that the scaling of metabolic rate is surprisingly superlinear with all cellular components
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