Resolving to finish reading a novel, staying true your punk style, or dedicating life an artistic project: these are examples of aesthetic commitments. I develop account the nature such commitments, and argue that they significant insofar as help us manage temporally extended our agency relationships with objects. At same time, focusing on commitments can give better grasp normativity; this is ...

Abstract The paper develops the metaphorical concept of “concertina” career to describe ways in which academic staff, across a diversifying workforce, modulate their interactions with institutional frameworks, tend be unilinear and characterised by detailed progression criteria milestones. In doing this, they are guided Internal scripts, providing an additional dimension dichotomy boundaried bo...