This article rereads Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni’s short film Brutality in Stone (1961) light of more contemporary scholarly interest the architectural ruin. leads to an analysis that challenges, or recasts cinematic assumptions about past. I begin my through attention Stone’s radical strategies montage, marriage archival stills newly-shot documentary moving images, merging real imagined...

Motivated by ideas from the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics, we examine a simple model of hydrodynamic coarse graining for a scalar field. It consists in averaging the field over spatial regions of size L and constructing the evolution equations for the coarse grained quantities, identifying dissipation and noise.

We use a λΦ4 scalar quantum field theory to illustrate a new approach to the study of quantum to classical transition. In this approach, the decoherence functional is employed to assign probabilities to consistent histories defined in terms of correlations among the fields at separate points, rather than the field itself. We present expressions for the quantum amplitudes associated with such hi...

Building on a new definition and characterization of probabilistic event structures, a general definition of distributed probabilistic strategies is proposed. Probabilistic strategies are shown to compose, with probabilistic copy-cat strategies as identities. A higher-order probabilistic process language reminiscent of Milner’s CCS is interpreted within probabilistic strategies. W.r.t. a new de...