On Antonio Gramsci’s hidden concept: Fetishism

Teleoperation based on the hidden robot concept

Overlaying classical teleoperation control schemes based on a bilateral master–slave coupling, a teleoperation architecture designed in a general teleworking context is proposed. In this scheme, the executing machine is perceptually and functionally hidden to the operator by means of an intermediate functional representation between a real remote world and man. As any executing machine, and mor...

Paraphilia and Fetishism

A Contribution to the Study of Fetishism

It is not my intention to deal with the literature of fetishism. It is not very extensive on the analytical side ; and on the non-analytical side, although extensive, it is not very illuminating. Freud has expressed his fundamental contributions to the subject with great lucidity, and there is no doubt to my mind that they provide us with the most important line of approach. But I feel sure tha...

Drakes, seadevils, and similarity fetishism

Homeostatic property clusters (HPCs) are offered as a way of understanding natural kinds, especially biological species. I review the HPC approach and then discuss an objection by Ereshefsky and Matthen, to the effect that an HPC qua cluster seems ill-fitted as a description of a polymorphic species. The standard response by champions of the HPC approach is to say that all members of a polymorp...

Recurring Hidden Contexts in Online Concept Learning

Learning systems in dynamic environments have to be able to process examples that occurred in different hidden contexts. We review several approaches to hidden context aware concept learning systems and question the appropriateness of the Calendar Apprentice domain as a real world benchmark for hidden context aware learning systems. By providing a simple lower error bound for batch learning sys...