Abstract This output is composed of a series of visual notes pertaining to the “Poetics of the Algorithm” conference organized by the ACME group at the University of Liége, Belgium, on June 16-18 2...
Read ItINTRODUCTION Anarchy is an assumed fact within international relations scholarship. While there is disagreement on the precise nature of anarchy, few would dispute the notion that, at the global l...
Read ItWhat do patterns in legal language tell us about power, policy and justice? This question was at the heart of a conference on “The Fabric of Language and Law: Discovering Patterns through Legal Cor...
Read ItOn 9 May 2013, US President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13642-Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government - mandating, wherever legally permissible and possible, that US...
Read ItLee, S. [w], Kirby, J. [a], & Sinnott, J. [i]. The Way it Began..!, Fantastic Four #53, August 1966. New York: Canam Publishers Sales Corp. © Marvel Comics. This post reflects on my open access...
Read ItAbortion is an accepted legal practice, in many countries, (Center for Reproductive Rights 2016), but that does not mean that there are not ethical implications which are being ignored. This articl...
Read ItOn Tuesday I posted a question on Twitter (prompted by a remark by @bowmanthebard). The question involved a version of the trolley problem, in which one has to choose between letting die and active...
Read ItIn After Long Silence, Helen Fremont tells the story of growing up in the Midwest as the daughter of Polish Catholic parents.2 She recounts some of the stories they told of their courtship in easte...
Read ItSome people hope to die in their sleep. Not me. I don’t regret having been oblivious at my birth, but I don’t want to be napping at my death. My birth hasn’t figured much in my life, other than ha...
Read ItChange presupposes a certain position which I take up and from which I see things in procession before me: there are no events without someone to whom they happen and whose finite perspective is th...
Read ItA person can fare well either over an extended period or at a particular moment. We evaluate how well a person fares over an extended period when we speak of him as having a good day, a good year, ...
Read ItDerek Parfit calls it the non-identity problem.2 It’s the problem of how to treat future persons given that any attempt to treat them better may result instead in their never being born. For exampl...
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