We develop a model describing how certain American men, those men who have been described as emasculated by recent socioeconomic changes, construct themselves as masculine through their everyday consumption. We find that American mass culture idealizes the man-of-action hero—an idealized model of manhood that resolves the inherent weaknesses in two other prominent models (the breadwinner and th...

Apres ses precedents travaux sur l’histoire du shi’isme, et notamment zaydisme, Najam Haider propose dans cet ouvrage une theorie generale de l’historiographie musulmane methode lecture renouvelee celle-ci. Il se place ainsi la continuite des recentes recherches critiques ce sujet, tout en y apportant son expertise certains corpus shi’ites jusqu’ici sous-exploites. L’ouvrage est compose d’une i...

This paper considers the kinds of AI systems we want involved in art and art practice. We explore this relationship from three perspectives: as artists interested in expanding and developing our own creative practice; as AI researchers interested in building new AI systems that contribute to the understanding and development of art and art practice; and as audience members interested in experie...

We describe the fundamentals of vanilla and exotic microlens-ing. Deviations from the standard form of an achromatic, time-symmetric lightcurve can be caused by the parallax and xallarap effects, finite source sized effects and binarity. Three applications of microlensing from the First Heroic Decade are reviewed in detail – namely (i) searches for compact dark objects in the Galactic halo, (ii...