Palma Vecchio’s Sea Storm: A Political Allegory

The Political Conscience: Paradise Lost, Political Allegory, and the Origins of Stanley Fishâ•Žs â•œInterpretive Communitiesâ•š

Estimation of storm peak and intra-storm directional-seasonal design conditions in the North Sea

Specification of realistic environmental design conditions for marine structures is of fundamental importance to their reliability over time. Design conditions for extreme waves and storm severities are typically estimated by extreme value analysis of time series of measured or hindcast significant wave height, HS. This analysis is complicated by two effects. Firstly, HS exhibits temporal depen...

Allegory and Ascent in Neoplatonism

In Late Antiquity a series of ideas emerges that adds a kind of buoyancy to allegorism. Readers' impulses toward other regions of knowledge begin to flow more consistently upward, drawn by various metaphysical currents that guide and support them. A whole manner of Platonist-inspired architectures structure the cosmos in the early centuries of the Common Era, among thinkers as diverse as the we...

An Allegory of the Hill

I n his farewell address to the nation, President Eisenhower told Americans that the military–industrial complex offered enormous potential for abuse if not properly constrained. The problem has become much larger than he imagined. We now have a selfsustaining and self-regulating national militaryindustrial-surveillance-politicalmedia-prison-energy-academicreligious-medical-legal-think-tank com...

The Janeway Medal and its allegory.