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Why Marx Was a Bad Driver: Alienation to Sensuality in the Anthropology of Automobility

Contemporary automobilities research is characterised by a fundamental paradox-recognition of driving as a sensate experience alongside a tendency to emphasise the driver’s sensory disengagement from, rather than engagement with the bodily, social and environmental contexts with which s/he interacts. In this article, which builds on previous empirical work I have published, only now in a more t...

Why was Relativity Accepted?

Historians of science have published many studies of the reception of Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity. Based on a review of these studies, and my own research on the role of the light-bending prediction in the reception of general relativity, I discuss the role of three kinds of reasons for accepting relativity: (1) empirical predictions and explanations; (2) social-psycho...

Was Einstein 100% Right ? *

The confrontation between General Relativity and experimental results, notably binary pulsar data, is summarized and its significance discussed. The agreement between experiment and theory is numerically very impressive. However, some recent theoretical findings (existence of non-perturbative strong-field effects, natural cosmological attraction toward zero scalar couplings) suggest that the pr...

Fisher Was Right

Was Sierpinski Right? IV

We prove for any μ = μ < θ < λ, λ large enough (just strongly inaccessible Mahlo) the consistency of 2 = λ → [θ]23 and even 2 μ = λ → [θ]2σ,2 for σ < μ. The new point is that possibly θ > μ. Typed 5/92 (20 , k 2 -Mahlo,λ → [א2]23; some on models) I thank Alice Leonhardt for the beautiful typing. Latest Revision 2012/Oct/24 Revised and Expanded 5/94 based on lectures, Summer ’94, Jerusalem. Part...