This chapter focusses on Foucault, Butler, and video-sharing on sexual social networking sites. It argues that the use and prevalence of video-sharing technologies on sexual social networking websites, has a direct impact on our notions of sexual identity. Though sometimes pitted against one another and at times contradictory, the ideas of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler on the nature and exp...

Purpose – Using Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia as a guide, the purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of considering the library as place, and specifically as a place that has the “curious property of being in relation with all the other sites, but in such a way as to suspect, neutralize, or invent the set of relations that they happen to designate, mirror, or reflect” (F...

I examine the debate between Michel Janssen and Harvey Brown over the arrow of explanation in special relativity. Brown argues that the symmetries of the dynamical laws explain the symmetries of space-time, whereas Janssen argues for the converse. Janssen has recently argued against Brown’s position on the grounds that it recommends trying to infer information from the relativistic effects, e.g...

Michel Planat, Peter Levay and Metod Saniga 1 Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS, 32 Avenue de l’Observatoire, F-25044 Besançon, France. 2 Departement of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary 3 Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SK-05960 Tatranskà Lomnica, Slovak Republic. 4 Center for Interdisciplinary Researc...

-In this paper, we investigate some properties of Michel Penot subdifferentials of locally Lipschitz functions and establish Lagrange multiplier rule in terms of Michel-Penot subdifferentials for nonsmooth mathematical programming problem. Key-Words: Nonsmooth optimization; approximate subdifferentials; generalized gradient; Michel Penot subdifferential; Banach space.

We are going to discuss enumeration problems, and how to solve them using a powerful tool: generating functions. What is an enumeration problem? That’s trying to determine the number of objects of size n satisfying a certain definition. For instance, what is the number of permutations of {1, 2, . . . , n}? (answer: n!), or what is the number of binary sequences of length n? (answer: 2n). Ok, no...

Procurement is an important but neglected issue within the social science analysis of technology. Where studies have been conducted, they are typically marked by a schism between rationalist (e.g. economic) forms of analysis, where the assumption is that choice is the outcome of formal assessment, and cultural sociological approaches, which see choice as driven by the micropolitics of the organ...

After a brief description of the framework of the model developed to simulate vegetation dynamics, fire propagation and agents' behaviour, the role-playing game rules are presented and related to the different points they are supposed to deal with: climatic hazard, animal grazing, forest management, grazing duty, financial support. The results of several sets of game sessions are analysed accor...

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