: Travel writing becomes an object of scholarly scrutiny thanks to Edward Said’s Orientalism in which he contends that travel narratives are not the objective portraits Oriental peoples and loci, but collude with justify foster Western Empires. Nonetheless, scholars such as Behdad Blanton disagree view, asserting writers can transcend rigid norms Orientalism. Thus, by employing Behdad’s Blanton...

A much more ambiguous issue revolves around the origins of these regional inequalities and extends to the broader question of how development plans for the region are interpreted and understood. What seems particularly controversial is the diagnosis of the problems of Eastern Poland as a 'natural' function of the link between economic issues and subjective interpretations of contemporary social...

Abstract In 2014 the Chinese State Council announced establishment of a nationwide comprehensive social credit system. Western narratives often describe initiative as technologically enhanced tool autocratic control for scoring people. Yet, paper aims to show, similar accounts are tainted by several misunderstandings which perpetuate orientalist postures towards law. For purpose comparatively a...

Supervised machine learning enables complex many-to-many mappings and control schemes needed in interactive performance systems. One of the persistent problems in these applications is generating, identifying and choosing input output pairings for training. This poses problems of scope (limiting the realm of potential control inputs), effort (requiring significant pre-performance training time)...

China’s relations with the African continent continues to be misrepresented within the Western (North American and European) academe. This is due, in part, to the methodological and epistemological assumptions underpinning many research agendas. These agendas are founded upon a range of histories, theories and frameworks that have been produced in the West, by the West, and for a particular end...