Neuhoff (in press) has criticized Kubovy’s (1981) Theory of Indispensable Attributes (TIA), which is the one of the building blocks of Kubovy and Van Valkenburg’s (2001) theory of auditory objecthood. Specifically, he claims that (1) “simple frequency separation does not ensure the formation of auditory objects” and that (2) “frequency variation is not a necessary condition for auditory figure-...

This paper suggests that historical ontology, as one form of reflexive critique, is an instructive research design for making sense of the political and historical constitution of the Academic Language and Learning (ALL) educator in Australian higher education. The ALL educator in this paper refers to those practitioners in the field of ALL, whose ethical agency has largely been taken for grant...

Online grooming is an activity that leads to sexual abuse of children. For this reason a number of pieces of legislation governing grooming have been created on international and national levels. The present paper discusses a specific case that has received a lot of public attention and been regarded as a high-profile grooming case in Sweden. This particular case is of special interest for the ...

This paper explores the implications of the incompressibility of complex systems for the analysis and modelling of such systems. In particular, a provisional epistemology (theory of knowledge) will be developed that attempts to remain faithful to the limitations derived from this aspect of complexity science. We will argue that such an investigation of complex systems highlights the relevance o...

the critique of architecture has always followed architects and those involved in this field and is in fact quite indispensable from it. therefore before going around asking why it is so, it seems appropriate to ask ourselves the how. conceding to the fact that the ultimate goal in the critique of architecture is to discover a specific style with which to think about architecture, the main ques...

We present an introduction to the new interdisciplinary area of aesthetic computing and then define this area with examples from each of our own disciplines, practices, and research. While several decades of publication and work have resulted in significant advancements in art, as instrumented with technology, less emphasis has been placed on studying the converse issue of art affecting computi...