“As Old as War Itself”? Historicizing the Universal Mercenary

PP2A as a mercenary for warring kinases in the egg.

I mmature oocytes of most vertebrates, including humans, arrest at prophase of meiosis I. Upon hormonal stimulation, the oocytes undergo maturation and complete meiosis I. The mature eggs are then arrested at metaphase of meiosis II until fertilization. In the early 1970s, Yoshio Masui and coworkers (1) identified two biochemical activities in the mature frog egg: the maturation-promoting facto...

Historicizing Floridi

1 Anthony F. Beavers " A philosophy that is not timely but timeless is not a philosophia perennis, which unreasonably claims unbounded validity over past and future intellectual positions, but a stagnant philosophy, unable to contribute, keep track of, and interact with, the cultural evolution that philosophical reflection itself has helped to bring about, and hence to flourish. " There once wa...

When the City Itself Becomes a Technology of War

The essay is framed by the proposition that cities are the frontier spaces for much of what is usually referred to as global governance challenges. It uses the case of asymmetric war to explore the contradictions that arise from this urbanizing – most significantly, the limits of superior military power when war moves to cities and the ways in which this makes powerlessness complex rather than ...

War as a Commitment Problem

Although formal work on war generally sees war as a kind of bargaining breakdown resulting from asymmetric information, bargaining indivisibilities, or commitment problems, most analyses have focused on informational issues+ But informational explanations and the models underlying them have at least two major limitations: they often provide a poor account of prolonged conflict, and they give an...

Stammering as It Occurred in the War