I hypothesize that tragedy is the genre best suited to represent climate catastrophe. Tragedy, contend, committed diagnosing ideological and material conditions make for mass, undeserved suffering—conditions of colonization racialization, instance, in Greek modern drama tragic fiction. Not only does reveal injurious forms power, it stages or incites rebellious collective action against them. Th...

Fifty years before Aristotle wrote his Poetics, Aristophanes had devoted two comedies, Thesmophoriazusae (411) and Frogs (405), to the subject of tragedy. In both plays the plot shows the education of the main character in the nature of tragedy. Euripides learns in Thesmophoriazusae that he must present noble and not base women in his dramas. His depiction of perverse women in the theatre had m...

We present a proof of principle for the phenomenon of the tragedy of the commons that is at the center of many theories on the evolution of cooperation. Whereas the tragedy is commonly set in a game theoretical context, and attributed to an underlying Prisoner's Dilemma, we take an alternative approach based on basic mechanistic principles of species growth that does not rely on the specificati...

II. INNOVATION-ENHANCING AND INNOVATION-INHIBITING EFFECTS OF PATENTS IN NORMAL SCIENCE...................................................... 669 A. Traditional Justifications for Patent Law .................................... 669 B. Rebuttals to Traditional Patent Theory: Scientific Communism and the Tragedy of the Anticommons ...... 671 1. Norms of Communal Sharing and Implications for Paten...