Resistance in public disputes: Third-turn blocking to suspend progressivity

From the Linguistic Turn to the Pictorial Turn — Hermeneutics Facing the ‘Third Copernican Revolution’

In this article, I will deal with the role of pictures within discussions on the crisis of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. Firstly, I will argue that some of the aporias this debate runs up against can be overcome by a reconsideration of the traditional dualism of word and image. In this regard my reference point is Paul Ricoeur’s theory of metaphor. His model of the living metaphor ov...

Optimal Progressivity

To this point, we have assumed that all individuals are the same. To consider the distributional impact of the tax system, we will have to alter that assumption. We have seen that di¤erential lump sum transfers can move the economy along the Pareto frontier. However, the fact that a point like A (Figure 11) is Pareto e¢ cient does not necessarily imply that it is better than point B. As Samuels...

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

EMA recommendation to suspend HES is hazardous.

Internet Suspend/Resume

We identify a new capability for mobile computing that mimics the opening and closing of a laptop, but avoids physical transport of hardware. Through rapid and easy personalization and depersonalization of anonymous hardware, a user is able to suspend work at one machine and to resume it at another. Our key insight is that this capability can be achieved by layering virtual machine technology o...