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Abstract: Crime and Punishment 's epilogue has troubled readers since the novel's publication. Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that the epilogue deserves reexamination — that it sheds important light on many of the formal, generic and interpretive problems central to the novel proper. This paper proposes that Raskoĺnikov's conspicuously unrepentant attitude to the very end can be read as calling into question the reality of his guilt. Specifically, I examine his third interview with Porfirii in which, I suggest, Porfirii performs a kind of surrogate confession, thus unsettling our sense of Raskoĺnikov's 'crime' as straightforwardly a crime. Drawing on Kierkegaard's exploration of Abrahamic faith in Fear and Trembling — his suggestion that the ethical and religious interpretations of Abraham's terrifying act necessarily clash — I argue that Raskoĺnikov occupies this knife edge between murderer and man of faith.

This article aims to temper the myth of the sound and scale of Arsenii Avraamov's city-wide mass spectacle the "Symphony of Sirens"—a myth that has been largely unquestioned in English-language sound and urban studies scholarship on the symphony. Instead of focusing solely on the symphony's dreaded noise, I pay attention to the symphony's silence—to the limits of what can be known about its sounds. Drawing on Avraamov's untranslated writings and personal correspondences, I investigate how the symphony's ideal of proletarian unity collides with the geographic, social, and sonic reality of the cities it sought to compose. I then investigate the roots of this ideal in Avraamov's personal aesthetic philosophy, as well as his idiosyncratic views on mechanical reproduction. This article will be of interest to those who wish to explore the connections between urbanism, colonialism, sound technology, the mass spectacle, and mass media in the Soviet musical avant-garde.

AbstractThis article examines whether discovery could, contrary to common philosophical opinion, be taken seriously as a ground of territorial rights. I focus on the discovery of uninhabitable lands such as found in the Arctic. After surveying the role of discovery in Roman private law and modern international law, I turn to Locke's well-known theory or original acquisition. I argue that many of the justifications that do the work in Locke's theory also apply to discovery. I then discuss some of the many reasons why discovery may seem unpromising as a ground of original acquisition. I close by arguing that if there is a bridge mechanism by which property can legitimately transform into territory and if, at least in some circumstances, discovery can produce property rights, then it would follow that in some circumstances discovery could also produce territorial rights.