Stemming from the White Paper Working for Patients (DoH 1989a), the National Health Service (NHS) has undergone major reform over the last decade. Central to this process has been the ethos of a market driven economy, with increasing reliance on 'income-generating' schemes. Voluntary sector funding has been particularly called upon to assist with establishing 'new' nursing services, which are c...

This essay considers the uncannily persistent figure of the Mechanical Turk, a spectre that haunts medieval theology, early modern theatre and modern philosophy alike. In all three cases, it functions as the mechanical, inhuman antitype of a futurity figured as meaningful and human. These attributes are materialized also in the Renaissance ‘mammet’ or mechanical puppet, an object whose name bea...

extended abstract 1. introduction so far, different strategies have been proposed for rural development in different periods of time. based on international experiences and the current conditions in iran, this country needs to use a new approach to rural development. in this regard, rural entrepreneurship development strategy can be pointed out. there is a growing consensus that entrepreneurshi...

This essay argues that Ælfric’s discussion of priestly marriage demonstrates an Anglo-Saxon articulation of the difference between Jews and Christians as sexual difference. Ælfric represents temporally distant Biblical Jews as embodying a kinship-based heterosexuality that has been superseded by and is now opposed by Christian chastity and asexual reproduction. This supersession operates throug...

Photo credit: Fusion Medical Animation. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2019 has precipitated profound social, economic, and political disruptions and, at same time, exacerbating existing geopolitical socio-spatial disparities. In this editorial, we summarise a diverse range works on emergent geographies that have been published Geographical Research are now assembled as virtual spec...

We think of memories as being focused on the past. However, our ability to move freely in the temporal realm of past, present and future is far more complex and sophisticated than commonsense would suggest. In this paper I am concerned with our capacity to produce and extend ourselves into the far future, for example through nuclear power or the genetic modification of food, on the one hand, an...

It is two years since my diagnosis and I am still no closer to finding a reason why have become so ill; an idiopathic medical anomaly. My of chronic pancreatitis occurred in the middle first coronavirus lockdown United Kingdom. was solitary experience as shuffled into distanced hospital waiting rooms, fed various machines that instructed me on when how breathe sent back flat await phone call ap...

In this paper I am concerned with contemporary industrial societies’ ability to extend themselves into the far future by economic, scientific and political means on the one hand and their inability to know the potential, diverse and multiple outcomes of this produced futurity on the other. I focus on this discrepancy between the future extension of action and knowledge in order to consider how ...

ion. By detecting noncongruence of apparent continua of sense awareness, even a system constructed of leasts can form the universal of "in-between" and propose the Eleatic riddles. By projecting universals as expected regularities of all future experiments, it can frame hypotheses in order ultimately to disprove them. It can build bigger and better brains, but what it has are sufficient to guid...