This article presents an original and critical interrogation of how disabled activists establish claims coordinate activities to progress the independent living agenda. The achieves this by employing Beckett Campbell’s (2015) concept ‘oppositional device’, which is used understand resistance practices technologies power that coalesce around people’s collective action. argues could, similarly, b...

Stochastic variational inference makes it possible to approximate posterior distributions induced by large datasets quickly using stochastic optimization. The algorithm relies on the use of fully factorized variational distributions. However, this “mean-field” independence approximation limits the fidelity of the posterior approximation, and introduces local optima. We show how to relax the mea...

It is shown that the correlations predicted by relativistic quantum field theory in locally normal states between projections in local von Neumann algebras A(V1),A(V2) associated with spacelike separated spacetime regions V1, V2 have a (Reichenbachian) common cause located in the union of the backward light cones of V1 and V2. Further comments on causality and independence in quantum field theo...