Cases of Note - Commercial Appropriation

Reinforcing sustainable practices by sharing cases of appropriation

Appropriation Infrastructure: Mediating Appropriation and Production Work

End User Development offers technological flexibility to encourage the appropriation of software applications within specific contexts of use. Appropriation needs to be understood as a phenomenon of many collaborative and creative activities. To support appropriation, we propose integrating communication infrastructure into software application that follows an“easy-to-collaborate”-principle. Su...

Note on Two Cases of Cerebral Hæmorrhage

Heidegger's Appropriation of Kant

Being and Time, Heidegger praises Kant as “the first and only person who has gone any stretch of the way towards investigating the dimension of temporality or has even let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves” (SZ: 23). Kant was, before Husserl (and perhaps, in Heidegger's mind, more than him), a true phenomenologist in the sense that the need to curtail the prete...

A Note on Watermark Development from the Commercial Context

The development of watermarking theories seems to have reached something of an impasse in much the same way as many previous attempts to model real situations using mathematical tools. After several reasonable methods were introduced in the early nineties the development followed the usual route of grabbing a few well-acceptedmathematical techniques and attempting to apply them rather than inve...