The feminist adage “the personal is political” not ahistorical. It being operationalized in a time when the relationship between private and public undergoing historic transformation. Making privatized violence under current conditions often involves channeling most authoritarian tendencies of state into relationships made increasingly desperate by contemporary capitalism. ethnographic focus es...

We propose a method of using clustering techniques to partition a set of orders. We define the term order as a sequence of objects that are sorted according to some property, such as size, preference, or price. These orders are useful for, say, carrying out a sensory survey. We propose a method called the ko’means method, which is a modified version of a k-means method, adjusted to handle order...