Newly Desiring and Desired

Desiring Neoliberalism

The paper is based on the premise that neoliberalism is a political rationality that is not only anti-social but also requires an anti-democratic and violent form of statehood. However, neoliberalism is not solely based on coercion and force, but paradoxically also on consensus. This consensus is not least organized through its flexibilized and pluralized sexual politics. By focussing on sexual...

Desiring , Desires , and Desire Ascriptions

Desiring the Painless Urodynamic Study

Advances in technology and gains in modern medicine are intertwined. Development of medicine through comprehensive application of advanced technology is a principal condition for their mutual progress. However, they also serve as an important limiting factor to each other. The clearly established need for improved medicine cannot be satisfied by the limitation in technology. For example, curren...

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

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A computational model for dynamics of desiring and feeling

In this paper a computational model is presented for how a desire triggers responses and feelings. The model shows how these feelings can be biased, for example due to addicting experiences in the past. Both the strength of a response and of the associated feeling result from a converging dynamic pattern modelled by reciprocal causal interactions between the two. The model has been used to cond...