Abstract This text introduces the symposium on Fredric Jameson’s Allegory and Ideology (2019), second volume in his six-part The Poetics of Social Forms . It frames debate with a brief exploration some figures problems allegory that appear across œuvre , surveys Marxist conceptualisations have shaped approach, as it straddles allegories commodity utopia. musical investigation nexus affect, pres...

The paper characterizes how material practice becomes a form of critique. Based on a comparison of two presumably distant objects, it delineates how engagement with materiality opposes established forms of knowledge production and representation. One object is a robotic hand, which is made of silicon, and the other object is a media art installation that transforms signals of the Earth’s magnet...

Stone duality generalizes to an equivalence between the categories StoneR of spaces and closed relations BAS boolean algebras subordination relations. Splitting equivalences in yields a category that is equivalent KHausR compact Hausdorff Similarly, splitting DeVS de Vries compatible Applying machinery allegories then DeVS, thus resolving problem recently raised literature. The further restrict...

Inquiries into adverse events make a significant contribution to the way risk is understood in modern society. Reports produced by panels of inquiry represent an important textual development, yet some aspects of such texts remain relatively underresearched. In particular, it is the manifest functions of inquiry reports that receive attention rather than their latent symbolic functions. This pa...

We present a framework for the representation and resolution of first-order unification problems and their abstract syntax in a variable-free relational formalism which is an executable variant of the Tarski-Givant relation algebra and of Freyd’s allegories restricted to the fragment necessary to compile and run logic programs. We develop a decision procedure for validity of relational terms, w...