Adorno avec Sade…

Music Criticism and Adorno

Résumé When thinking of Adorno and music criticism, two strategies suggest themselves. The one is to look at the kind of criticism, cultural criticism in general and music criticism in particular, propagated by Adorno. It is, after all, difficult to overestimate the degree of his influence on musical thought in the twentieth century (whether one agrees with his views or not) and of the intellec...

Readings of Adorno with Tarkovsky and Haneke

The Marquis de Sade and induced abortion.

In 1795 the Marquis de Sade published his La Philosophic dans le boudoir, in which he proposed the use of induced abortion for social reasons and as a means of population control. It is from this time that medical and social acceptance of abortion can be dated, although previously the subject had not been discussed in public in modern times. It is suggested that it was largely due to de Sade's ...

Gill and Sade • Paying for Kidneys: the Case against Prohibition

We argue that healthy people should be allowed to sell one of their kidneys while they are alive—that the current prohibition on payment for kidneys ought to be overturned. Our argument has three parts. First, we argue that the moral basis for the current policy on live kidney donations and on the sale of other kinds of tissue implies that we ought to legalize the sale of kidneys. Second, we ad...

Exploration d’arbres avec oracle

Résumé. Nous étudions la quantité de connaissance nécessaire sur le réseau pour résoudre efficacement une tâche sur celui-ci. L’impact de l’information disponible sur l’efficacité de la résolution des problèmes, comme la communication ou l’exploration, a déjà été étudié auparavant mais les hypothèses concernaient la disponibilité d’informations particulières sur le réseau, comme sa taille, son ...