Stuart Hall: An Exemplary Socialist Public Intellectual?

Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies: Decoding Cultural Oppression

Public sphere and intellectual discourses in Iran

An Exemplary Interaction with SmartKom

The different instantiations of the SmartKom demonstration system offer a broad range of application functions and sophisticated dialogue capabilities. We provide a first look at the final SmartKom prototype from the point of view of the end user. In particular, a typical interaction sequence will be presented in order to illustrate the functionality of the integrated multimodal dialogue system.

ET Craig: proto-socialist, phrenologist and public health engineer.

ET Craig’s long life spanned almost all of the 19th century. Coming from a working class background, his political sympathies lay on the left and he immersed himself in the leftist political movements which were popular in the British Isles at the time: from the early Labour Movement, (he was present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819), to Owenite Communities, the Co-operative Movement, and the b...

Relaxing benevolence: public choice, socialist calculation, and planner self-interest

The Austrian calculation argument suggests that inability to engage in economic calculation worsened outcomes in socialist states. We suggest that this is hardly the case. When Austrian assumptions of benevolence are relaxed, inability to engage in economic calculation prevents the non-benevolent planner from fully extracting all available surplus from the citizenry. Consequently, when planners...