Telco-Ads: Double Fetishism and Commodification of Values

Paraphilia and Fetishism

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...

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...

Big Data in Telco

As businesses in every area face intense competition, advanced analytics will help improving their profitability and gain a competitive advantage by enhancing customer experience. Traditionally the analysis process has been done in off-line mode, by using Data Warehouse Technologies combined with BI tools. That is not enough anymore. Today, big data is becoming a business imperative. The benefi...

Punitive Damages and Private Ordering Fetishism

Let me begin with some words of warm thanks, first to Professors Michael Krauss and David Owen for engaging my work with attention and interest and, second, to the editors at PENNumbra, for soliciting my reactions. This Reply’s principal goal is to clarify some areas in which I think Professors Krauss and Owen misunderstood some aspects of my proposed framework for restructuring punitive damage...