“W are all doubles... but at night... we meet our sleeper,” wrote Tom Stoppard in his play “Hapgood” (1988). He was approaching a common theme, identity, and how we use disguises to change it. In literature, as in life, we turn the world into a carnival to address personal, social, and cultural objectives. In microbiology carnival de-structuring abounds within the living cells of organisms. And...

A mathematician discussing chaos is featured in the movie "Jurassic Park". James Gleich's book "Chaos" remains on the best seller list for many months. The characters of the celebrated Broadway play "Arcadia" of Tom Stoppard discourse on the meaning of chaos. What is chaos? Chaos is a new science which establishes the omnipresence of unpredictability as a fundamental feature of common experienc...

for example, reveals that Stoppard has contributed to a range of film scripts that includes Schindler's List (1991) and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999), while the " Miscellaneous " chapter includes Stop-pard's role as a judge of the 1972 Times Anthology of Detective Stories, alongside Agatha Christie. Altogether, this book is an amazing work of bibliographic scholarship , and a welcome additi...

I would say that if you are interested in the philosophical, technical underpinnings of knowledge systems and of the Semantic Web and semantic technologies generally, this is a good book to have due to the chapters by Magee. (I found his chapter “On commensurability” to be something of a tour de force summary of some main currents of the past fifty years of both Anglophone and Continental philo...

This paper draws on post-structural feminist theories of emotion to explore the significance of leisure within women’s narratives of recovery from depression. I engage with the stories of 48 women in rural and urban Australia to identify the gendered discourses governing depression and recovery. Leisure figured as a site of identity transformation where women enacted creative, embodied, and con...