The visual cortex's hierarchical, multi-level organization is captured in many biologically inspired computational vision models, the general idea being that progressively larger scale (spatially/temporally) and more complex visual features are represented in progressively higher areas. However, most earlier models use localist representations (codes) in each representational field (which we eq...

This paper maps the discursive struggles between different versions of nationalization in post 1997 Hong Kong. Once a de-nationalized colony, Hong Kong has been caught up in the cross road where previous de-sinicized discourses of localism, internationalism and cosmopolitism are re-negotiating with the new discourses of nationalism and patriotism. Visible top-down call for patriotism has been m...

Urban joblessness and inner city deprivation are a feature of the late twentieth century throughout the developed world. This paper considers the effectiveness of spatiallytargeted programmes in creating employment in deprived urban areas. It begins by discussing the twin themes of “enterprise” and “localism” which have dominated the UK policy response to urban problems in the 1990s and goes on...

The problem of function localization in the brain is one of the most fundamental in neuroscience. There are two opposite paradigms relating to the problem: “modularism,” also known as “localism,” versus “holism,” which have been discussed for a long time (1, 2). The debate in favor of one or another view can still be traced at all methodological levels – from the cell to the system. In this opi...

After Auschwitz and Hiroshima—using these words as labels and signifiers of many phenomena and issues—I think we all would agree that technoscience (in Bruno Latour's sense of 1987) is not only the contested ground for debates informed by technophobia and technophilia (see, e.g., Hickman, 1985, Part I), but is also the site where personal and public responsibility should be scrutinized under a ...