Why do people and their organizations seek out knowledge? Most of the recurrent explanations emphasise the instrumental use of knowledge: in order to solve problems, to gain competitive advantages, to exploit innovation commercially, or to contribute to the well-being of future generations. But besides the rationality and purposiveness of knowledge-gathering, there is another aspect that may be...

Although myths of the beginning and the end are ostensibly placed on a temporal continuum, referring to the past and the future respectively, the significance of these myths is focused on the present (van der Leeuw; Pettazzoni: 29; Westermann, 1972). In other words, these myths are about the present values and conditions of the people who generated them rather than the obscure past or the unkno...

Abstract The COVID -19 pandemic has created new opportunities and challenges for populist regimes. A growing body of work explored the formation nationalist political reactions in wake a global health crisis. This article explores myth-making Covid 19 Hungary. We identify ‘mythogenic’ narratives that reconfigure replay older ethno-nationalist myths, those ‘polluting’ alien Other , Hungarian exc...

Because of the design of LOLITA, the code implementing the four MUC tasks is almost trivial, since i t is built using complex facilities provided by a `core' system . Hence, after some background to the LOLITA project, the `core ' of LOLITA is described without much reference to the MUC tasks . Then, the analysis of the walk-through article is presented and the implementation of each task discu...