Building on William Morris' News from Nowhere

Sustainable Socialism: William Morris on Waste

While William Morris has long been recognized for his radical approach to the problem of labor, which built on the ideas of John Ruskin and informed his contributions to the Arts and Crafts philosophy, his ideas about waste have received much less attention. This article suggests that the Kelmscott Press, which Morris founded in 1891, was designed to embody the values of durability and sustaina...

The Green Borders of William Morris

/ n the recent exhibition of Kelmscott Press books held by the University of Melbourne Library, we were treated to many examples of borders designed by William Morris. Some of these borders are repeats, but all draw on Morris's extensive repertoire of 'conventionalised' organic forms. Having spent some time studying the concept of nature in the work of Morris, it was these 'green' borders which...

The path from nowhere?

Framing the Problem The major intellectual framing of Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage is implicit in its title. The report concerns fairness and efficiency 'on the path' to universal coverage. In other words, the approach is to think about securing universal coverage as a journey in which the task is to guide and steer the process in some directions rather than othe...

Surgery on Piecewise Linear Manifolds and Applications by William Browder and Morris

On nowhere dense graphs

A set A of vertices of a graph G is called d-scattered in G if no two d-neighborhoods of (distinct) vertices of A intersect. In other words, A is d-scattered if no two distinct vertices of A have distance at most 2d. This notion was isolated in the context of finite model theory by Gurevich and recently it played a prominent role in the study of homomorphism preservation theorems for special cl...