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"Evolutionary" political theory is a dynamic process of scholarship that collides disparate ideas into each other to form new, symbiogenetic concepts that were previously unthinkable. As evolutionary political theory, "Species Evolution and Cultural Freedom" enacts the dynamics of species evolution the essay examines, colliding theories of freedom into theories of evolution to offer new ways of imagining the self. Yet I argue that the essay's evolutionary argument moves beyond the "self" to untether freedom from the human and to redefine the human as the symbiogenetic effect of colliding force fields: both human and nonhuman, cultural and environmental, genetic and evolutionary.

Auswirkungen der wissenschaftlich-technischen Revolution auf die
Arbeitsbedingungen Jugendlicher in der sozialistischen
Landwirtschaft.

Themen: Zufriedenheit mit der Arbeit; Interesse für
wissenschaftlich-technischen Fortschritt und seine Auswirkungen
auf die Arbeit; Bewertung der Veränderung der
Arbeitsanforderungen durch den Einsatz von Wissenschaft und
Technik (Skala); Bewertung des fördernden Einflusses des
wissenschaftlich-technischen Fortschritts auf die Arbeit in
nächsten Jahren (Skala); Bewertung der Veränderungen in
Arbeitsinhalten, Arbeitsbedingungen nach Einführung neuer Technik
und neuer Verfahren (Skala); Erwartungen zu Veränderungen der
eigenen Arbeit durch wissenschaftlich-technische Maßnahmen in den
nächsten Jahren; Bereitschaft, Veränderungen der
Arbeitsbedingungen und Anforderung durch neue Technik zu
akzeptieren (Skala); Teilnahme an Arbeitsinitiativen; Arbeit in
einem Jugendforscherkollektiv bzw. in einer Arbeitsgruppe
Wissenschaft und Technik; Arbeit in einer Jugendbrigade;
Tätigkeitsbereich; Mitgliedschaft in VdgB; gesellschaftliche
Funktionen; Mitgliedschaft in LPG, FDJ, SED.

In the wake of the news industry's digitization, novel organizations that differ considerably from traditional media firms in terms of their functional roles and organizational practices of media work are emerging. One new type is the field repair organization, which is characterized by supporting high-quality media work to compensate for the deficits (such as those which come from cost savings and layoffs) which have become apparent in legacy media today. From a practice-theoretical research perspective and based on semi-structured interviews, virtual field observations, and document analysis, we have conducted a single case study on Science Media Center Germany (SMC), a unique non-profit news start-up launched in 2016 in Cologne, Germany. Our findings show that, in addition to field repair activities, SMC aims to facilitate progress and innovation in the field, which we refer to as field advancement. This helps to uncover emerging needs and anticipates problems before they intensify or even occur, proactively providing products and tools for future journalism. This article contributes to our understanding of novel media organizations with distinct functions in the news industry, allowing for advancements in theory on media work and the organization of journalism in times of digital upheaval.

Historically, the Supreme Court has offered scant attention to or analysis of the Elections Clause, resulting in similarly limited scholarship on the Clause's original meaning and public understanding over time. The Clause directs states to make regulations for the time, place, and manner of congressional elections, and grants Congress superseding authority to make or alter those rules. But the 2020 elections forced the Elections Clause into the spotlight, with Republican litigants relying on the Clause to ask the Supreme Court to limit which state actors can regulate federal elections. This new focus comes on the heels of the Clause serving as the primary constitutional basis for democracy reform legislation that passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 2019 and was reintroduced in 2021. Increased interest heightens the need for a deeper understanding of the intent and meaning of the Elections Clause. This Article fills a gap in the literature by providing a first-of-its-kind comprehensive analysis of the purpose, meaning, and interpretation of the Elections Clause by the Framers, early Congresses, and federal courts.

The View from Two Fields: History and Archaeology of Historical Sex Work / Angela J. Smith, Anna M. Munns, and Kristen R. Fellows -- Section I. Law and Spatial Order -- Landscapes of Power and Desire: A Geographical Analysis of Washington, DC's Nineteenth-Century Brothel District / Jennifer A. Lupu -- The Legal Language of Sex: Interpreting a Prostitution Hierarchy Using the Terminology of Criminal Charges / Anna M. Munns -- "Alleged Crusades" and "Self-Fooled Reformers": The Rise and Fall of White Slavery Hysteria in the 1910s / Ashley Baggett and Carol A. Bentley -- Sex Workers in the City: Brothels, Working Women, and the Urban Landscape of Nineteenth-Century Boston's North End Neighborhood / Alexander D. Keim -- Section II. Illuminating Brothel Diversity: Children and Women of Color -- Ghosts in the Archives: Using Archaeology to Discuss Brothel Childhoods / Jade Luiz -- Using Racial Stereotypes as a Business Strategy: Ida Dorsey in Minneapolis / Penny A. Petersen -- Melvina Massey: Fargo's Most Famous Madam / Angela J. Smith -- Section III. On the Flip Side: Men and Masculinities -- Homosocial Bonding in the Brothel: Feminine Spaces and Masculine Identities / Kristen R. Fellows -- The Enterprising Career of Tom Savage in Los Angeles' Red-Light District, 1870-1909 / AnneMarie Kooistra -- "A WEAK MAN can now cure himself": Brothels as Alternative Venues for Treatment of "Private -- Diseases of Men?" and Other Afflictions / Mark S. Warner -- Final Thoughts: Points of Intersection and Future Directions / Kristen R. Fellows and Angela J. Smith

The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire, colony, and national liberation movements can be addressed in a European continental as much as in Asian, Latin American, or African contexts. There is a further benefit from a within-Europe comparison: It calls into question the tendency to assume fundamental differences between "western" and "eastern" Europe, including the now largely abandoned distinction between a "western" nationalism, defined as a civil nationalism, and an "eastern" one, defined as ethnic. It also answers the question whether intra-European comparison of this kind is possible, in a context where post-Soviet scholarship is often invisible in Anglo-American scholarship. As Norman Davies reminds us, low public awareness of Europe's smaller and, in west-European minds, "more distant" nations, underlies the persistence of false generalizations about them, including assumptions like "that the whole of the west was advanced while the whole of the east was backward."--

Ian Glasper is a writer, the founder of the now-defunct Blackfish Records, which released 20 punk, hardcore, and metalcore albums, and a member of many DIY punk bands. He is the author of Armed with Anger and Trapped in a Scene: UK Hardcore 1985-1989