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This article identifies a mode of intellectual influence and popular celebrity that has emerged alongside American computer science and collaborative engineering: "network celebrity." By tracking the tactics and impact of three key intellectual entrepreneurs — Norbert Wiener, Stewart Brand, and Tim O'Reilly — the article traces the rise of this mode of celebrity. It outlines both the new shape of network- driven intellectual fame and the dangers inherent in networked modes of power.

The Gresham's Law is among the most known laws of economic science. In its popular version, the law is telling that when a government overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money disappears while the overvalued money floods into circulation. Named after Thomas Gresham, a financier of Tudor dynasty, this law was stated by Nicole Oresme and Nicolaus Copernicus. Here we discuss it and follow its long history.

This article surveys some arguments brought forward in defense of the theory of perfect competition. While some critics propose that the theory of perfect competition, and thus also the theory of the firm, are logically flawed, (mainstream) economists defend their most popular textbook model by a series of apparently different arguments. Here it is examined whether these arguments are comparable, consistent and convincing from the point of view of philosophy of science.

Introduction -- Family, parenting, and influencing factors -- Fathering versus mothering -- western (individualistic) parenting styles -- Eastern (collectivistic) parenting styles -- Other relevant parenting styles -- Comparing parenting styles -- Role of significant others -- Assessing your parenting style -- Overview of parenting.

This must-have handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the field. It reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, and considers the extent to which these are being implemented and with what effect. The most recent iteration of language education policies of each of the countries is described and the impact and potential consequence of any change is critically considered. Each country chapter provides a historical overview of the languages in use and language education policies, examines the ideologies underpinning the language choices, and includes an account of the debates and controversies surrounding language and language education policies, before concluding with some predictions for the future.

This article on Manent's Cours familier de philosophie politique (2001) focuses on Manent's relationship with sociologist Max Weber. Manent considered the social/human sciences of critical importance, & he viewed Weber's thinking as a powerful form of both academic & popular consciousness. Manent's critique of Weber's arguments in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904/05) are examined, along with his more recent thoughts on Weber's famous 1918 lecture, "Science as a Vocation," & his arguments against Weber's notions of values & modern society. Special attention is given to Manent's devotion to recovering the "intrinsic heterogeneity of human experiences," which involves recognition of the core role of political philosophy & statesmanship in interpreting & mediating human experiences, as opposed to a world that reduces the goods & motives of human life to an inadequate set of "values." Manent's view of the impact on democracy of the debate over moral realism is discussed. J. Lindroth

Human capabilities and gender equality : what do higher education students have reason to value? / Melanie Walker and Sonja Loots -- Well-being freedoms to construct one's educational career : narratives from Tanzania and South Africa / Mari-Anne Okkolin and Bhavani Ramamoorthi -- A capability approach to participatory research platforms for young black women in South African higher education / Talita Calitz -- Young academics, gender, and chairs at universities in Russia / Natalia Karmaeva -- Capitals and capabilities : social reproduction of inequalities in Sripuram / Laksh Venkataraman -- Ciudad comuna : re-signifying territory based on communitarian communication / Angela Garces Montoya and Leonardo Jimenez Garcia -- If you can see me, then I am here : using participatory video in researching young people's aspirations / Aurora Lopez-Fogues, Alejandra Boni Aristizabal, Gynna Millan Franco and Sergio Belda-Miquel -- Gender, subjective well-being and capabilities : an application to the Moroccan youth / El Mahdi Khouaja, Noémie Olympio and Gwendoline Promsopha -- Agency, forced migration and social capital : the case of young Syrian refugee women in Turkey / Zeynep Balcioglu -- Scrutinising the motivation of women : stories of resistance to the 2016 coup d'état attempt in Turkey / Pinar Uyan-Semerci and Firdevs Melis Cin.

Brings together a breadth of perspectives addressing media materialities, and their significance to the study of media, culture, and society. Offers new thinking and perspectives on media materialities, including work that explores media materiality, and the past, physical and digital tensions and media materialities in digital games. 32 b&w illus

Infrastructure comprises a combination of sociotechnical, political, and cultural arrangements that provide resources and services. The contributors to this volume show, in their respective fields, how infrastructures are both generative forces and the materialized products of "idian practices that affect and guide people's lives. Organized via shared conceptual foci, this volume demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities

What role can the humanities play in shaping our common future? What are the values that guide us in the 21st century? How can we unleash the potential the humanities offer in a time of multiple crises? This volume tackles some of these fundamental questions, acknowledging and developing the changing role of academic discourse in a turbulent world. This timely book argues that the humanities engender conceptual tools that are capable of reconciling theory and practice. In a bold move, we call for the humanities to reach beyond the confines of universities and engage in the most urgent debates facing humanity today - in a multidisciplinary, transformative, and constructive way. This is a blueprint for how societal change can be inclusive and equitable for the good of humans and non-humans alike

Introduction: The closing of the frontier -- The Four Horsemen. Stagnation ; Sterility ; Sclerosis ; Repetition -- Sustainable decadence. Comfortably numb ; A kindly despotism ; Waiting for the barbarians ; Giving decadence its due -- The deaths of decadence. Catastrophe ; Renaissance ; Providence.

"This volume, taking an international perspective, reconstructs the main interpretative models developed for the analysis of subcultures and lifestyles, and then proposes a new analytical model based on an intersection between these two research traditions"--