Indifference as a subversive strategy

The First Supper Postmodern Irony as Subversive Rhetorical Strategy

In this essay, the use of postmodern rhetorical irony as a subversive strategy is explored. In particular, Susan Dorothea White's painting, The First Supper, is analyzed as a subversive, postmodern ironic reading of Leonardo da Vinci's famed work, The Last Supper. This analysis suggests that subversive irony assumes distinctive and complex technical and theoretical characteristics, most relevan...

Teaching Natural Deduction as a Subversive Activity

In this paper we argue that sequent proofs systems are a better deductive apparatus for introducing proofs to students than are natural deduction systems. Natural deduction derivations of superintuitionistic theorems (theorems of classical logic that are not intuitionistically valid) require indirect and often obtuse constructions. Constructing derivations in sequent systems is uniform, driven ...

The strategy approval decision: A Sharpe ratio indifference curve approach

The problem of capital allocation to a set of strategies could be partially avoided or at least greatly simplified with an appropriate strategy approval decision process. This paper proposes such procedure. We begin by splitting the capital allocation problem into two sequential stages: Strategy approval and portfolio optimization. Then we argue that the goal of the second stage is to beat a na...

Strategy-proof social choice with exogenous indifference classes

There are many situations where the indifference classes of the agents’ preferences are exogenously given. We present a framework for dealing with such situations and find that the cardinality of the set S, which consists of alternatives that every agent ranks strictly, is critical to the construction of a strategyproof social choice function; if |S| ≥ 3, then strategy-proofness implies dictato...

Minding Your Own Business? Understanding Indifference as a Virtue