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This essay develops a preliminary theory for an architecture of the periphery by reflecting on the relationship between peripheral monuments and the peripheral imaginary. It uses architect Aldo Rossi’s The Architecture of the City as a key text of the urban archive but transposes its concepts from a focus on centres to peripheries. A subtext of the essay is to test a writing practice that uses the urban archive—Rossi’s book—and transgresses its ideas, subverting authorship and scholarship. It extends a writing practice I previously called authorship without aura, a critical yet speculative type of writing that is collective rather than individual. I argue that peripheries embody an interstitial quality of entanglement and contain a type of transgressive urbanism, a trans-urbanism, and with it a transgressive practice of writing is needed. It seems close to the disillusion of authored works in the periphery—the suburbs, exurbs, favelas, fields, big boxes, infrastructures, logistic hubs, supermarket cafes—yet all those low typologies are also peripheral monuments that produce the collective knowledge of architecture, cities, their peripheries. This essay presents a suite of interpretive categories for understanding the architecture of the periphery in the time of the Anthropocene.

In everyday use, ghostwriting is when a text is written by an unnamed author. Politicians, public figures, and celebrities come to mind as the primary users of ghostwriting. It is a writing practice generally understood as the way marketing shapes content. Ghostwritten texts aim to be persuasive, celebratory, perhaps deceptive. They are task oriented. They are clear, clean—too clean—and closed. Might there be a different way of practicing ghostwriting? Might ghostwriting be used against its corporate logic? Might there be an alternative open-ended type of ghostwriting, which is a critical and creative material practice? It would be a writing practice that intervenes in the information political economy to liberate knowledge; a type of practice that is material, speculative, and a challenge to the normative organisation of knowledge

Light and electromagnetic radiation possess properties that allow it to interact with matter. By using hyperspectral technology that measures electromagnetic radiation and therefore its interaction with matter, we can infer things about the quality of the matter. This technique can be and is being applied in the field of agriculture. This article provides an introduction to electromagnetic radiation, measuring it with hyperspectral technology and how the technique is used in agriculture for the detection of plant stress and the consequent sustainable management thereof. Importantly, it is intended to be entertaining and easy-to-read, particularly for those who do not have extensive backgrounds in the fields of physics and remote sensing.

In recent years, political theorists have developed readings of the linguistic character of contemporary productive relations and subjectivity, understanding the centrality of language as not only individual and communicative but also a creative force. It is possible to speculate that the categories and tools developed by political theorists can help address and resituate the relationship between architecture and language today, and the agency of architecture toward a new, collective, political and productive possibility.

This article is a study of the many 'colors' of love in Niẓāmī Ganjavī's Haft paykar (The Seven Figures), with special attention paid to the (evidently) dichotomous poles of white (purity) and black (concupiscence). The argument is divided into four sections: after introducing the Haft paykar and summarizing some of the scholarship that has been done to crack the code of its color symbolism, I survey these thematic poles as they occur in several landmark medical, philosophical, and poetic texts of Islamic tradition. This provides the basis for an in-depth discussion of the Stories of the Black and White Domes in the Haft paykar, where I observe how the two episodes, when read from this context, seem to support a linear progression from 'black' love to 'white,' with the latter presumably marking the point of apotheosis. In the final section, however, I consider how the stories resist such a straightforward reading, and indeed recursively feed into each other in such a way to suggest that neither color of love can fully exist or function without the other. I propose that the contrast of white and black in the Haft paykar is not sufficiently read as a static dichotomy of symbols; it rather evokes a dynamic interplay of light and shadow that hints at a reality beyond the sum of its parts, a pre-prismatic totality of which all colors of love are merely those refractions visible to the naked eye.

Introduction to the first full publication of Maria Bruss’ Diary

This second issue of Interfaces: A Journal fo Medieval European Literatures addresses the subject of "The Theory and Phenomenology of Love." It brings together readings of medieval representations and explanations of love as an affection, passion, sentiment, attraction, or tension, with work on the connections between literary discourses of love and the history both of emotions and gender roles. Approaching the subject of the nature of love, and the ways it manifests itself, the authors create links between scientific and poetic discourse and highlight the relationship between the experiences of love, described and treated in literary texts, and the specific historical, cultural, and social environments in which those texts were produced. Not only do the articles reach original results within their fields; taken as a whole, the dossier, ranging as it does from the Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century, and across a Europe situated within a wider Eurasian space, offers deep insights into social history, the history of emotions, and the study of gender and sexuality.

“Politics and the Internet” is a critique of the political potential of the internet from the perspective of Husserl’s discussion of intersubjectivity and objectivity in Cartesian Meditations and Origins of Geometry. Unlike other critiques of the internet from a phenomenological perspective, this paper does not consider the limitations of internet communication from the perspective of the body. Here, rather, the prime concern is with the constitution of objectivity and the ways in which the internet limits this constitution. The paper builds towards a consideration of the essential role of objectivity as a condition of possibility for politics and community. Implicit in the argument is a defence of print and broadcast media.

This discourse-based study investigated semantic and affective aspects of metaphors used by people talking about background risk of terrorism. 96 members of the UK public participated in 12 focus group discussions, organized by gender, religion (Muslim / non-Muslim), and socio-economic status. 12,362 metaphors were identified in transcribed talk, coded for vehicle domain and discourse topic, and subjected to qualitative and some quantitative analyses. In contrast to negative, dominant metaphors found in studies of media and political discourse, 'ordinary' people use an intersecting range of systematic metaphors, including "GAMES OF CHANCE", "NATURAL WORLD" and "THEATER". Affect works across linguistic metaphors with various source domains, and in connection with non-metaphorical language such as reflection on action and explicit expression of empathy. Gender, religion and social class intersect in metaphor preferences.Este estudo baseado no discurso investigou aspectos afetivos e semânticos de metáforas usados por pessoas ao falarem no risco de terrorismo em potencial. 96 informantes do público inglês organizados por sexo, religião (Mulçumanos / não-Mulçumanos), e estatus social participaram de 12 grupos focais de discussão. Foram identificadas e transcritas 12.362, metáforas, codificadas por domínio de veículo e tópico discursivo, as quais foram submetidas a análises qualitativas e quantitativas. Em contraste com metáforas dominantemente negativas encontradas em estudos da media e no discurso político, as pessoas 'comuns' usam uma variedade de metáforas sistemáticas que se interrelacionam e incluem "JOGOS DE AZAR", "MUNDO NATURAL" e "TEATRO". O afeto funciona em metáforas linguísticas com diversos domínios fonte, e em conexão com linguagem não metafórica tal como reflexão sobre ações e expressão explícita de empatia. Gênero, religião e classe social se interrelacionam em preferências quanto à metáfora.

Any set of points in a finite projective space PG(n, q) defines a matroid which is representable over GF(q). The Tutte polynomial of the matroid is a two-variable polynomial which includes a lot of numerical information about the configuration of points. For example, it determines the weight enumerator of the code associated with the point set, and hence the cardinalities of hyperplane sections of the set. Another polynomial used in enumeration is the cycle index of a permutation group, which includes information about the number of orbits of the group on various configurations. This is the subject of a well-developed theory. The aim (not yet realised) of the research reported here is to combine the Tutte polynomial of a matroid with the cycle index of any group acting on the matroid to obtain a more general polynomial which tells us about the number of orbits of the group on configurations counted by the Tutte polynomial. The paper includes an introductory exposition of all these topics.