Marx conceives of labor as form-giving activity. This is criticized for presupposing a “productivist” model of labor which regards work that creates a material product — craft or industrial work — as the paradigm for all work (Habermas, Benton, Arendt). Many traditional kinds of work do not seem to fit this picture, and new “immaterial” forms of labor (computer work, service work, etc.) have de...

OBJECTIVE To review our experience with late Marx stage III osteoradionecrosis (ORN) of the mandible in patients who present with pathologic fracture. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Tertiary care center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Thirty-seven patients were identified from June 1998 to August 2010 who underwent treatment of Marx grade III osteoradionecrosis with pathologic ...

Humour will be a necessity in future interfaces, especially in the area at the crossroads of entertainment and education, the so called edutainment. Some considerations on the state of the art in natural langauge processing and on computational humour prospects are presented, as well as some ideas for the introduction of certain types of computational humour in seductive interfaces. In doing th...

This paper argues that, in Chapters XXIX and XXX of Volume III of Capital, Marx develops an incisive conceptual framework in which excessive credit creation, indebtedness, and speculation play a critical and growing role in the reproduction of social capital on an extended basis; however, given the decentralized and anarchic nature of capitalist production, it does so in a highly erratic and co...