Form and content in utopia

A critique of Habermas is theory of the three worlds as a foundation for criticism and social philosophy

The Bechdel Test and the Social Form of Character Networks

This essay describes the popular Bechdel Test—a measure of women’s dialogue in films—in terms of social network analysis within fictional narrative. It argues that this form of vernacular criticism arrives at a productive convergence with contemporary academic critical methodologies in surface and postcritical reading practices, on the one hand, and digital humanities, on the other. The data-oriented character of the Bechdel Test, which a text rigidly passes or fails, stands in sharp contrast to identification- or recognition-based evaluations of a text’s feminist orientation, particularly because the former does not prescribe the content, but merely the social form, of women’s agency. This essay connects the Bechdel Test and a lineage of feminist and early queer theory to current work on social network analysis within literary texts, and it argues that the Bechdel Test offers the beginnings of a measured approach to understanding agency within actor networks

Form and Feeling in Photography

In his recent essays on art, philosophy, and the concept of intention in criticism, Walter Benn Michaels suggests that the opacity of a photograph with regard to the photographer’s intention, and photography’s taking up intention and chance as central animating problems, account for the medium’s increasing art-historical importance over the last several decades. In what specific and concrete sense, Michaels asks, is the taking of a photograph an intentional act? This essay responds to Michaels’ essays on art and the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe and shows how, for Michaels, artists in the postwar and contemporary periods overwhelmingly are better and more incisive thinkers on aesthetic questions than philosophers and literary theorists

The electric form factor of the neutron and its chiral content

Considering the nucleon as a system of confined valence quarks surrounded by pions we derive a Galster-like parameterization of the neutron electric form factor $G_E^n$. Furthermore, we show that the proposed parameterization can be linked to properties of the pion cloud. By this, the high quality data for the pion form factor can be used in predictions of $G_E^n$ in the low $Q^2$ region, where the direct double polarization measurements are not available.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure

Content management from scratch : a study of form, function and best practices

The written portion of this project outlines some of the typical considerations one must make in the development of a web content management system, as well as the author's specific experiences with these considerations as they relate to the development of the Historic Muncie website and CMS. Writing software libraries, fixing bugs, and adjusting software functionality to meet shifting client needs are also topics of discussion. Ultimately, the documentation supports the central focus of the project - the 3000 lines of source code and the file hierarchy supplied as digital content with the written overview.Department of TelecommunicationsThesis (M.A.

Flavor content of nucleon form factors in the space- and time-like region

I discuss a two-component model of nucleon form factors in which the external photon couples both to an intrinsic three-quark structure and to a meson cloud via vector-meson dominance, and present a simultaneous analysis of the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon in the space- and time-like regions as well as their strangeness content.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at FB18, Santos, Brazil, August 21-26, 200